The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-11

fortress of Hermaton and suscessfully defied the whole power of Charles
 A considerable body of Burgundian troops were repulsed by Jane Hatchet.
 Queen Phillippa during the absence of her husband in Scotland stationed herself in the castle or BamDorougn and defed the. threats Of Douglas, ar forwards heading an army against Dr. vid King of Scotland, made him pris- oner and shut him up in the flower of London. In 1888 Margaret, Queen of Norway and Sweden, though King AL bert sent her whetstone and advised her to keep Ter scissors and needles sharp Instead of presuming to wield a sceptre, replied by raising an army, and he found to his cost that she was not to be despised. She was victorious and afterwards captured Stockholm. In France during the Reign of Terror Charlotte Corday, when arrested and
 brought before the tribunal, said All
 details are needless, 1t Is that killed
 Marat I killed one man to save a
 hundred thousand, to give repose to my
 countrymen." Madam Roland, at whose
 house the Girondists met, followed her
 shortly to the scaffold.
 Catherine, the Great, of Rusia, in 17S3 effected the subjugation of the Crimea.
 Since the organization of the Daugh- ters of the Revolution and Colonial
 
 votion have been brought to light. We
 are all familiar with Captain Mollie | Pitcher at the battle of Monmouth. | Betty Zane, a girl out of boarding school, saved Fort Henry in West Vir- | ginia by stealing to an outlying cabin.
 under fire of the Indians. to obtain a | keg of powder. They spun and wove
 and learned to use the musket,
 those pioneer women, many of | whom had come from luxurious English homes. In 17S0 Mrs. Esther
 Reed formed an aid society. collected
 money and made garments for the sol diers. Betsy Ross made. with her own | hands. the first flag with thirteen stars. The gifted, the intellectual Margaret
 Fuller during the. Italian revolution
 uuires 1t go. I will try to sustain my
 self In Rome she was occupied day | and night in the hospitals: as the wounded and dying were brought in l looking eagerly to sec whether her hus- | band was among them.
 While the British soldiers were mak- | ing their names famous in the Crimean
 war an English woman. Florence 1 dying with such devotion that men kissed her shadow on the wall as she passed by. Thanks to her eXertions and to those of the kind nurses whom
 she directed many lives were saved. | We have never seen war since in | which women of education and of | genuine devotion have not given them selves up to the task of caring for the wounded. The Geneva convention. and the bearing of the Red Cross are among the results of Florence Nlghtingales ! work in the Crlmea.
 We are all familiar with Clara Bar tons name. During the Cuban war she was at the head of the Red Cross nurses and did grand work.
 Tn Japan all social barriers are thrown down and royalty and nobility are | in urIf with thP common DROnla in | their efforts to alleviate the suffer | ing of the sick and wounded soldiers. Working under the national Red Cross Society as an auxiliary known as | the Ladies, Volunteer Nursing
 of'oT5 of royal iT'i bloood are interested and
 many of the ladies of nobility. Almost any day a dozen princesses dressed | in white dress and cap may be seen
 busily engaged rolling bandages and | scraping lint. They raise considerable amounts of money, by giving garden l partles. concerts, etc. for the assistance ! of the families of soldiers, and the good ! may be imagined when in Tokio alone | the number in an interval of ten days | tumped from four hundred to fourteen l hundred The Russian women too. are coming to the front with deeds of valor l and heroism. It has recently been dis l covered that soldier serving in the | Eussian ranks in Manchuria is a wo- man in disguise. She Is called among
 the men Michael Nicolaievitch but is
 really Helen Smolko, the daughter of a | tradesman. She Is a valuable member of the Russian army as besides her physical bravery she speaks the Chi nese language and also that of Man churia. During the war with China she
 was attached to the ambulance but she
 craved more exciting occupation. When the present war broke out she was , employed as a scout and was presented
 to General Rennenkaupf, who enrolled her in his division as volunteer with out pay. Since then she has worn the uniform of the Cossacks and has talk en part in several engagements.
 Il The Confederate War.
 I come now to the women in our own war. Many of those who are present remember the devotion of our women q Id the lost cause. Nothing was too good, nothing, In those days for our Il soldiers. Women who were ignorant Il of surgery beyond a cut finger set
 bravely to work and with white faces
 washed away the blood. even, when Il nothing else was at hand. tearing of the hems of their whAte petticoats for handages. l req an incident In 1 Richmond in whiclf g. Phebe Pember
 assisted a surgeon dressing poor