The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-08
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF WOMAN.

| Momentous Events That Would Have
Turned Out Otherwise But For Her.
| Many as the cases are of battles Won
| through the agency of women Of the
| type of Boadicea and Joan of Arc, there
can be no denying the fact that equally
numerous, If not more so, are those of
victories spoiled by the fair sex and of
battles lost owing to feminine machi-
| nations Perhaps some instances in
point may be Of general interest,
There are many who say that the
| failure of the Jameson raid at the out
set was brought about by woman.
President Kruger is in the habit of en-
ploying countless detectives, both male
and female, in the Transvaal as well as
abroad. The barmaids of Johannes
burg, for example, are said to be In the
pay Of Dom Paul. These ladies, by
means of their propensities for extract
ing condolences are alleged to have
wrung from some of the raiders, long
before the raid itself was entered upon,
the fact that it was forthcoming. The
consequence was that when it came
about Cronje was fully prepared.
France can point to number Of
cases in which victories connected
with the republic have been spoiled by
women, and the whole course of events
changed in consequence. For exam
pie, the fall of General Boulanger was
brought about by member of the fair
sex, But for the viscountess de
Bonnemain there is the chance that he
might have become the ruler of France
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it on the night of his election az a men,
Der of the chamber of deputies. when
had he refrained from so doing and in
stead marched upon the Elysee, as his
partisans begged him to do, the history
of the republic might have been en-
tirely altered.
Somewhat similar is the old world
case of Hannibal. whose wife was the
unintentional cause of his fall and the
failure of his once successful armies
The great general was so foolish as to
marry at a time when he should have
been devoting all his time to the con-
duct of military affairs. His troops
became utterly demoralized during
the period of his honeymoon" with
the result that they were rendered
quite unfit for arduous service, and
never regained their former standard
of discipline.
Again, in this connection, there is
the case of James w. of Scotland, who
Is said to have lost the famous battle
of Flodden Field through woman It
is argued that If the king had seized
the opportunity given him of occupying
a favorablee position wherein to meet
the English fCbYcaG ha baf
sued might have had very different
ending from what it did. But James
fingered at the castle of titled lady
whose charms had captivated him. and !
so it was that the southern troops were
allowed an opportunity of choosing a
suitable position, which could never
have been secured had the monarch not /
hesitated. The lady was certain no.
bleman's wife named Heron, and was .
very beautiful
The noted Russian General, Paranoff,
was found guilty of treason and SEN
fenced to death a year or two ago, !
thanks to woman--one of his own
family, in fact She gave evidence
against him and other officers in the
Cars service, and through her the
empire was deprived of some of her
best soldiers. There are many cases
like this. but there are also numerous
ones that come more precisely within
the meaning of this article.
For instance, during the American
war against Spain many Cuban wo-
men rendered valuable service to the
American troops by acting as scouts
md in other respects fighting for the
stronger side. Thus did they frequent
Iy earn defeat for the Spaniards, who
often admitted the natives into their
camps, imagining them to be hostile to
the invaders.
A woman, too, is reported to have
lost Alsace and Lorraine to the French,
and helped to bring about the Franco
Prusssan war, by regularly learning
the results of the French cabinet meet
ngs, while she was entertaining one of
the ministers, the report of these re-
suits being dispatched to Germany
without delay.-London Tit-Bits