The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-06

In the North. Some of the stories toId
of this brave woman prove that she GER
talnly was entitled TO a Red Cross badge
CT courage. Do you remember when her
husband was so successful and so popu-
lar that 1t provoked the jealousy Of IT,
berious? DO you remember, too, how her
husband begged her to submit to the in
eVftable? And when her husband was
put to death by Piso, the governor Of
Syria, according to her story, did she
sit down and mourn her husbands
death? You know she didn't, for she
was woman. She had the ashes Of her
late husband placed in an urn and, car
rying them TO Rome, she appeared before
the soldiers who had loved Germanicus
The soldiers learned to love this brave
woman so well that the fact gave Tiberius
long spells of insomnia, but knowing that
she was q woman and that the soldiers
were with her, he did not dare to do
what in all probability he wanted to do
But If he was afraid of her she did not
reciprocate the fear Women seldom do
in such case. Although her husband
had asked her not to provoke Tiberius,
she more than provoked him. She Vexed
him. She made him mad, and a mad
Caesar was a person that even a woman
might be excused for fearing Not 50
Agrippa. She did not hesitate to tell
1iberius who murdered her husband and
at whose instigation.
Look at the imperturbable Napoleon.
Think Of the way he was affected at the
very first sight of Josephine 1t was 1--we
at nrst sight, and it is said that Napoleon
was moved by this woman as he was new
er moved by any other person in the
world. Do you remember how very angry
he was when this beautiful wife tailed
to meet him at the appointed time on his
return from Egypt? Do you remember
Ia tO TO 70 haVs wit hi
Of his expeditions? Do you remember
how she had the world at her feet in her
receptions at the palaces of the LuXem-
bourg and the TuiIeries? 1t Is said that
Napoleon's friends begged him to divorce
Josephine before she was crowned en-
press Of the French at Notre Dame out
that his love for her at this time was
greater even than his ambition, and lie
refused to accede, even when so great a
thing as posterity seemed a closed door
to this Man of Destiny" This was the
power of a woman. To sure, when
afterwards his love grew cold, or, as
many claim, he compelled, for the sake of
his ambition, his love to grow cod, he
divorced his wife. You know the story
of that interview. You know, too how It
is said Napoleon was forced to struggle
with himself as he had never done before,
and that he died loving Josephine OF
course, she, being woman, loved him
always
DO you remember what one woman, Ju.
dtth, did for the army Of Israel? Do ven
remember how this beautiful widow OF
the tribe of Simeon saved her people from
defeat? Every one is familiar with ths
story, and still it always bears repeating.
Holofernes the trusted general ef the AS
syrian king, Nebuchadnezzar, held the
Hebrews in state of siege. The b ssfes-
ed were in sore straits, and there seemed
to be no way but to surrender. Then f.
was that, after the great generals of the
Hebrews had failed, Judith came TO ther1
with an idea Of her own ArravIug her
self in her most beautiful robes ard 90
companied only by her handmade, sha
came to Holofernes and tod him stories
that he believed. The victorious general
proved an easy captive to this beautiful
woman, and when he was asleep. taking
his sword from his side, she severed h.s
head from his body Judith it was. too
who told the Hebrews when the proper
tlme mad come to fall upon their enemy
Her suggestion was carried out, and vic
tory followed
Imnk for a minute what Cleopatra az.
comphshed. As the daughter of Ptolemv
Auletes, she was to be married 10 ber
brother Ptolemy this according to an an
Gent custom of the Egyptians), and to
snare half Of the kingdom of her father
IAAO SOhlI9CI lOIGtuy wanted eVerV-
thing, and so he proceeded to take awav
his sisters portion. And did his sister 90
away and die of a broken heart? Not ac-
eording to the history of the Eeyptians
What she did was to go away quietly and
walt her chance. That was the woman OF
1t. The chance came in the person of
julius Caesar After Caesar. for her
sake, had waged war upon her enemy.
Pompey, and had vanquished and killed
him, she was restored to the kingdom Of
her father. She had accomplished her in,
tenuons-that was more of the woman of
1t. Then when Anthony came along she
proceeded to tie him to the strings Of
her peplum in hard knots that she never
could unite, not to the very last when
she deceived him into the taking of his
own life. She failed at the last with
AuSuStuS-that was the human part OF
1t. But when you remember that her
failure was after she had played the part
Of Isis with Mark Anthony in the most
Wanton profiigacy the world has ever
seen, had betrayed to death her former
lover, it is more than possible that her
erstwhile charms had lost much of their
pristine beauty, or what IS even more
probable, Augustus, knowing that he was
dealing with a woman, was altogether
afraid of her and steeed himself against
whatever attractions she might still have
owned. So 1t was that powerful woman
came to an end at her own hands when