The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-03
WOMEN AS SOLDIERS.
Amazons of Many Countries Who Hay

Done NallduL- oOL FlC6s
 There were thousands 0f women soldiers in the French Revolution. After the fall of the Bastile battalion of young women took up arms under the name of Amazons and rendered yeoman service, says the Londln Ex- press. Jeanne Lacombe, eomedienne, forsook the stage for the field. Theresa Figueur saw four horses die under her in battle. Other Amazons We're pen stoned by Napoleon and one was decorated with the Legion of Honor
 The Amazon of the Cossacks' is the daughter of a Vladivostok merchant. A skilled horsewoman and rifle shot, she distinguished herself greatly in the usso-JaDanese war and at the begin ming of the present year she was made a ward of the Czar.
 There died in Florence last March an Italian woman, signora Marie, who fought with Garibaldi, and -Mother Jarrethout," a heroine of the Franco German war, died last year. She fought in uniform on the walls of Chateaudun, and at Ablis she took two prisoners.
 Mother Jarrethout's" end was pathetic. She had made great name for herself as the Florence Nlghtin- gale of the Franco-German war, had received the cross of the Legion of Hnor and numbers of lesser medals, Yet she died forsaken and in poverty,
 An attempt to make amends siSnail- zed her burial in August, 19O5 A plcKet of soldiers followed the coffin to lAe grave and old soldiers who had been her comrades in the field mustered from all parts of France to say farewell.
 The American civil war bred whole corps of women soldiers. Many women served throughout the entire war with out their sex being discovered by off cers or comrades,
 Pauline Cushman, an actress, Wa,l captured in male uniform by the Con federates and was rescued by her companions just as she was about to be hanged as a spy Pauline was so successful in the field that for her faithful services there was conferred upon her the rank of Major,
 Stll more successful was Bridget Danvers, known as Irish Biddy, Bridget performed wonders as nurse, hospital steward, cur5oon, viyandiere and private soldier In one battle she had three h raas killed under her, The war did not give Bridget her fill of fighting, so she afterWard crossed the Rockies and engaged in campaigns against the Indians,
 A women known as Frank Thompson carried messages through shot and shell at Fredericksburg disgusied as an orderly Her name did not transpire till twenty years after, when she ob- tained a pension and was admitted to the Grand Army If the Republic.
 IA faithful spou.e who refused to be parted from her husband was Mrs, Reynolds, wife of Capt. Reynolds Conn pany A, Seventeenth Illinois regiment. She rode at his side in male attire, through almost the entire campaign.
 There was never a time when this heroic and sacrificing little woman tlinched or hesitated in time of battle iir on long marches, On the field after a conflict she would go about minis tering to the sick and dying, and at last she became widely known as the Angel of the Regiment Like Pauline Cushman. she eventually received a commission as Major in the army,
 Mrs. Kady Brownell, a skilful sharp shooter joined the ranks and served as color lharer. Romantic Ellen Goodridge enlisted in her lovers com pany, and rode as a common soldier by his side right through the war. Frank Henderson" of the Nineteenth Illinois was really a young girl who enlisted because she cJuld not bear to be part ed from her brother
 Mary Owens of Danville, Pa, wanted to accompany her husband In the war and share with him its hardships and it's victories. The brave little Wo- man fought at his side until he was Killed In the next battle she was segorels' wounded and had to be sent home, her discharge papers bearing thS tribute: "A moro faithful soldier never fhouldered a musket.'
 The civil war of course, did mt have a monopoly of women soldiers. There have been female warriors in all coun- tries from Boadcea and Joan of Arc to the "Amazon f the Cossaeks,' whl startled the world at Mukden. Among the hundreds of such examples few oi special interest may be cited,
 There was English MoH (Mary Am b.ee,) who in 1884 headed 1000 mer against the Prince of Parma and sus- tained an unequal combat with S,00I spaniards for seven hours, challenging any three spaniards to try theil powers against her single arm
 There was valiant James Gray (Tfanna snel,) hssier's daughter whl n.ught in the war of the spanish sue cession received innumerable wounds was pensioned by Queen Anne and a her death was buried with full military hcnors in the cemetery of Chelse6 Hospital.