The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
AMAZONS TRAIN
 FOR WAR ID VOTE SufragetteS Answer Argu- mentS of the Men PREPARE TO ENTER ARMY Twenty-Five in a Corps Are Ready to Go Under Fire and ManeuVre
 on Horseback Like
 Troops.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

Paris. July 25.-"We want to vote like i men," say the Suffragettes. Then go ] to war like men" is the mans retort.
 "so let it be; we'll go,' say the Suffra-
 gettes.
 | It has not come yet to the formation of corps of fighting amazons; the womeh are to face fire when need be-not to slay. but to gather up the wounded and the dead The nucleus has been formed Of corps of women stretcher-bearers and field bandagers. They will be more than
 nurses in the field hospitals they will go under fire to tend the wounded. Already | shere are 600 or 700 of these volunteers
 in skirts: they are of the infantry, but
 HOW we are to have a mounted section.
 Twenty-Five young women have learned
 to maneuvre on horse back like trained
 troopers. They have learned to gallop out and find the wounded, to do first-aid ban
 daging and bring them back, lifting them
 with strong arms across the saddle and delivering them to the ambulance Trained to this use in war, they say that
 the last objection to their sharing politi-
 cal life with men has gone.
 | Some trOuDi6 | redoubtable chief of the Paris political police. Years ago there was girl whom
 he loved much. In these last days she
 has come across his path of duty in q
 murder case. Her son, a young man, has
 in a fit of passion killed her second hus-
 band and that mans mother.
 To save her son she has not stopped at
 invoking MT Hamards passion for her or | long ago, but has threatened that if the young man is captured and prosecuted she will give up all her correspondence
 with great parsonage in the state, now
 dead-who died in her presence. The Chief of Police, between his old love LOT
 inc ,assassin's mother and his care for inc memory of the dead parsonage, does not know which way to turn his head. He is tormented; he arrests nobody. Ills smiling face has changed; and woe De - any of his assistants who come Ill ms
 way.
 A guest rose at the corner of the long
 table and cried, his long arm stretcneu towards one of his neighbors: oe- nounce Bernard Shaw for drinking only water. He is disgustingly sober: disgust ingly We are here to get drunk So begins the narrative of love teasI of literary lions in London. It IS pup llshed only in Paris, for the one guest | who had the indiscretion to tell what nap nened is NJ Raymond Recoulay, the war 1 correspondent. who places the picture faithfully before the readers of the 1 Temps.
 | The man who had the Bacchic grievance 1 against Bernard Shaw's tetotalsm was
 Ii. G. Wells, the writer of scientlhc won der stories. Shaw, caressing delicateiy ms 1 frizzy ginger-grey beard with one hand' served himself to some mineral water with the other and swallowed It lh precious mouthfuls. When he had shoWa how exquisitely soda water tasted to ms ' ralate he thus answered Wells cnaHehSe: | ..I know nothing more droll in the world | than an Englishman trying to be funny. | Arc ouehec and Montreal lost forever To France? It Is a question that could be l a sl<ed at Quebec's third centenary. Not that any of us cherish the fond hope ot seeing the Tri-color floating officially over
 the St. Lawrence; but a country can be l retaken by colonization.
 The vast spaces of Canada are tending l to fall apart into two dominions-the west ] becomes every day more American, and the east is even more the hearth or the | French Canadian. And the French at | home are realizing what treasures the col
 ony holds-its great forests, its splendid crops the wide prairies where countess
 cattle are fattened. The dairy industry IS
 very well organized and remunerative.
 The hopes of the French Canadians are encouraged by the Nationalist party and
 even by the government of Sir Wiifrid
 Lauricr There are 15,OOO French emi- grants who cross the ocean each year. and the aim should be to attract them 10 Quebec They would be happiest there
 enjoying the priceless community or ldh- hiCtn i That could not, alas bring the recap
 .ure of the proud citadel of Quebec, but
 it would help on the happy conciliation of | France and Canada.