The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17

TS HERE are not many of them.
 In France only one great wo-
 man. Joan of Arc. has been
 comn:emora ed in scuiptnres But the French race. full of romance and emotion. thrilling In response to artisHc suggestion of any kind. has punt here and there all over France markable equestrian statue upon tae heroine, the Maid of Domremy.
 One of the most famous is the re- markable equestrian statue upon the street corner near the Tuileries gar dens tp Paris. It Is shown in the pie ture here given. This monument is be? lieved to represent more nearly than any other the Maid as she must have looked leading the French to battle. She undoubtedly wore mans dress and bestrode a war charger To the French she seemed an angel come down from heaven to lead them to victory, and perhaps a divine power and intelligence were there. invisible. inspiring her to such deeds as no man of any time ever yet achieved.
 Statues Of the Maid. in France. rep resent her in every phase of her pure. tragic young life-in prison in the tower at Rouen (that grim old gray tower still stands). on horseback and even as the martyr chained to the stake, with the horrible flames rising around her. her rapt face showing that still she listens to her true voices and that they 4stlll speak to her inner ear.
 At Rouen a stone in the pavement of the market place shows the very spot where Joan of Arc was burned to death for freeing nation. Rouen also has statue of the Maid. erected in the Place de la Pucelle d'Orleans. The inspiration upon it's pedestal de- clares her to have been:
 Tn Sex a Woman. In Arms Man, Tn Fortitude a Hero"
 Tn all Great Britain. apart from serlptured images of England's not overhandsome queens. there are pub lie monuments to only four women. The men take up all the rest of the marble and bronze.
 Of British queens, Victoria was un- doubtedly the comelista In Vest minister Is a sort of effigy of Queen Elizabeth reviewing her troops. Prob ably the great uuens face is there shown at its worst. Compared with it thin Tipped, hawk peaked. cruel--an American declares a "hedge fence" Is a thing of. beauty.
 India has a magnificent memorial statue of Queen Victoria. recently erected There is also an imposing one in Ottawa. Canada. The good queen stands upon a lofty pedestal, at the foo of which. on the statues right, is the British lion on guard. On the left is a female figure with its right arm raised, deposting wreath at the feet of Vic toria.
 Of the four monuments in Great Bri- tain to women not of royal birth. but who were somebody on their own ac- count, two are in Scotland. They are in honor of women made immortal by scotland's two greatest literary men. Robert Burns and Walter Scott The Scott heroine was daring, devoted Fora Mcdonald, the beautiful Jacobite who hid Prince Charlie in the isle of Skye, where she herself died in 170O ! Few Americans are aware that Flora i Mcdonald and her husband, Allen Mo- Donald, lived for time in the United . States. They came here in 1775 and { settled in Fayetteville. N c. There ! they lived till t790, when they returned l to Scotland.
 The monument to Flora Mcdonald | who never allowed one of her family | to speak of George III as king" is at , Inverness. It is of heroic size. A pedestal lifts it high. Flora Mcdonald stands with her right hand shading her eyes, her face bent intently for ward. as if she were scanning the sea to watch for the coming of the ship of Prince Charlie.
 The other Scotchwoman who has a fl monument to her memory is Burns Highland Mary. II The golden. hours on argels' wing
 Flew OCT me and my dearie, For dear to me as life and light
 Was my sweet Highland Mary. Sweet Highland Mary was Mary Campbell, a miikmaid. She and Burns parted for the last time in May. 17s6, and six months later gentle Highland Mary passed from earth. Perhaps that is the reason Burns always loved her --because she died. Her monument Is at Dunoon. on the shore of the Firth of Clyde. The simple peasant dress Y she wore is reproduced in the figure on \ the monument Ii England Dora Patterson. the fa- I nous Sister Dora" of philanthropy and sick nursing, has monument ! erected in her honor at Walsall where vhe lived and labored among tho poor and suffering and taught 50 many