The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-04-25

OF England. The great town clock
"grosse horloge," set upon an arch
over the street, dates from 1889. But
most of all a woman will care to
search out with loving pains the places
where Joan of Are, the holy maid Of
Domremy, walked while on this earn,
the grim, gray tower where she was
imprisoned, the sorrowful path she
trod from the tower to the stake.
Rouen Is full Of traces Of gentle,
sanity Jeanne Dare to this day. The
very air seems vibrant with memories
Of her. The principal street is named
for her, Jeanne Dare" 1t was spell
ed as I have written it, with no apOs-
trophe between the d and the a. ROu-
en- still recalls that the maids family
name was plain peasant Dare till the
French government, long after her mar
tyrdom, ennobled it by decreeing that
the aristocratic "de" should be placed
before It, Jeanne Dare had no blue
blooded ancestry, therefore was snuff
ed ont by no fine lady traditions when
she entered on her mission. Had she
been lin society" France might have
been an English possession to this day.
Yet another street Is called "Rue de
La Pucelle d'Orleans," and there is, too,
the place de Ia Pucelle dOrleans."
Her memory is honored by an inscrip-
ton In the market place. In these an
cient French towns the market place is
an important spot. 1t was a lovely
spring day when | went through the
public mart Of Rouen. Old environing
walls, built like almost everything else
in this part Of the world when time was
long, stood all about. The stalls were
bright with flowers and fragrant with
the odors Of delicious northern French
strawberries. New grown peas, like
polished round green pearls, were burst
ing from their fat pods. Clean, white
capped peasant women cried their
wares unsteady - periWinkles, tender
green radishes and succulent rhubarb
stalks.
Past them all, stalls, women and rad
ishes, through the market house | went
and on to the spot where one Of the
worlds most awful tragedies was en-
acted-the burning at the stake by de-
cree Of church and state Of virgin
martyr who had delivered her country
from a foreign power. The very spot
where the fires were kindled is known
and marked. A stone Of the pavement
outside the old market covers the
place. Years after her death, when
the martyr had become a saint in the
minds Of the French nation, old people
yet living who remembered the death
scene and the day pointed out the spot
to those who wished to make record Of
it. The maid was taken to the market
place to be burned that the populace
might see and take warning.
Joan of Arc owed her death to
science, strictly. In writing Of the
extraordinary career of the maid, the
scientist biographer of today tells you
that at the age of Is she believed her
self subject to supernatural vista
TONS" Imagined" that she heard
voices calling to her and giving her di-
rection. Further, she had heard ira
dition that a virgin was to deliver
France from the English invader, and
having imagined she heard the voices
and saw the visions it was very easy
for her, being already slightly touched
in the head, to go in trife stronger
and again Imagine" herself to be that
virgin.
Thus says science today. But it was