Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-01
A DAUGHTER OF
 FRANCE.

'
 tKe Legion of Honor in 1878.
 One November day in the pleasant land os Franee girl stood on the porch looking on the falling leaves when were slowly circling from the trees |" the ground. The house before which she stood was the telegraph office, oi which her mother Mime. Dodu, was in charge. the daughter, Juliette, being her assistant. The air was still, and no so,1nd was to be heard except perhaps an occasional strain of song from distance of those making wine, though there was little of this now, for war had been declared by France against Prussia. the Germans were sweeping across the French border and most of the wine vats had been emptied.
 Suddenly there came the clear notes of a distant bugle. The girls attitude changed at once from idle contempa- lion to eager interest She listened and presently heard far up the road faint clatter of horses hoofs. Running into the house, sue cried:
 Mother, the Prussians are comins'
 ''How do you know
 Listen.
 They stood for a moment silent, the sounds growing louder every moment,
 "Come. We must get everything out . of the way that may be of advantage to them"
 They hurriedly gathered all copies of dispatches in the office and pushed them into the stove, where they dis appeared in flame and smoke. They had hardly done so when body of uhlans dashed up to the house and surrounded it. This is customary in war. When a force takes possession of a town before the main body enters a troop of cavalry is sent on the gal lop to seize the telegraph office An officer threw himself from his horse and hurried in, placed Mime. Dodu and her daughter under arrest, then looked for any telegrams that might be in the office. Not finding any. he sent the mother upstairs to her bed room and placed Juliette in her own room on the ground floor.
 Now, Juliette had been accustomed to attend to any telegraph work that must be done at night She had placed machine in her closet and connected 1t with the wires in the office. By leaving the closet door open she could hear call and transmit any message required. Being used to the work, the slightest click would awaken her. She was left alone by her captors, being permitted to close her door, at which guard was stationed. Meanwhile Prussan army under Prince Frederick Charles poured into the town and its vicinity.
 Juliette went to sleep that night ex pecting to get good rest The PruS sians being in possession of the tele graph station and doubtless having their own operators, she would not be called upon to transmit messages. Shn had barely got to sleep when she was awakened by q clicking in the closet
 She recognized it at once as the cal. of Orleans. The office in another par of the house answered. and the opera tor at Orleans began to send q mes sage to which Julicite, who coull read by ear listened. It was atl dressed to Prince Frederick Charles The Prussians had occupied Orleans and they were sending in the message description of the exact position of part of the French army which was marching Oh Glen. There they gave the information necessary to enable { the prince to surround and capture the French
 The fate of that corps of the French army rested with Julette, It might & be possible for her to transmit the dispatch that had been sent the prince N to place the Prussians had not yet entered. But she know that any tam perinS with the wires while thcy WcTo Tn possession of them meant death s She was q French girl and loved her N people, Getting out of bed. she went @ to the closet, succeeded in calling the # subprcfeet of a neiShboring town and # tele@raphed the dispatch with full M Information as to it's being sent to the # iFusslan commander, He in turn sent # It 10 the French commander The S# ffussian movement was anticipated. 9@ ana the French troops were saved # from the trap.
 8 AS Soon as Prince Frederick Charles @ learned that his move had been fore @ stalled he suspected a telegram had ~ been sent tho French commander in Fl iorfnlng him of the Prussian inten- 8 uons. An examination was made of
 wires leading from the telegraph office,
 and connecting wires were found lead Ing to Juiettc's room
 Juliette was marched out and before court martial to be tried for her of 1ense The charge brought against her
 was that of being a spy, which term
 includes giving secret information of
 an army to it's enemy. Juliette, who
 i'ao expected all this, confronted the
 men who tried her with compos>lre. ''stenlng to the formalities without
 paying any attention to them. She
 nad saved thousands of her country $
 oeIenders. What compared with this
 was the life of a little daughter of