The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-08
REWARD FOR FRENCHMAN Officer of Legion of
 Honor. HERO OF ALGIERS BATTLE Deed Was Performed Sixty-six
 Years Ago. AS Bugier, He Was Captured and While in Midst of His Captors He
 Sounded the Charge Turn
 ing Battle ride. I
BY A. w. L.AMouREnx.

Guillaume Roland. has just been made an officer of the Legion of Eonor for a deed of herofsm upon the battlefield which he performed sixty-six years ago. It was In Algiers. Roland was | bugler in the Chasseurs d'Orleans when Ad-del. Nader thinned the French ranks after one of the most desperate battles ip Frances history. His regi- ment was charged. The Arabs rushed | over 1t like cyclone over cornfield.. Only eighty men were left. Again they charged. and left but fifteen standing. l A third charge and Roland with his bugle stood alone.
 Brought before Al-del Kader, he was questioned. There were still some hundred Frenchmen left upon the bat | tlefield, and Ab-del Nader know that they would fight until the bitter end l., | He questioned tne lad. 'Is there no tune you blow" he said, which makes l your countrymen give up the battle?" | "Yes,' said Roland. "Then blow 1t, or | your life Is forfeit answered Alb del Nader. Roland was about to throw down his bugle and bid them take his | life. when a sudden notion, half heroic. half born of the impertinence of the | Parisian street boy, caught him. He smiled stepped out, put the bugle to his lips, and, as loudly as he could, | blew the charge. 1t turned the tide | of battle.
 Later in the day Roland was told by his captofs as they hurried him away with them in their flight. that the French lad. after all, been victors, and eight months later, when he was re- leased from his captivity the Cross of | the Legion was his reward. A few months afterwards he had left the army and become postman in his native village of Lacalm. This week the old man has exchanged his red ribbon for the rosette, and when he dies he will receive full military honors.
 Journalist Turns School Girl. l School girls have been Journalists be- fore now, but it is not known that any journalist ever became school girl until Mile. Laloe of The Matin. played this peculiar part. She is little lady. and though she admits to 25, looks very young indeed in short skirts and | "baby hat" For some time past there have been complaints that the l teachings in the Paris Lycees is en- l tirely above the heads of the pupils. Girls of Is and 16 are treated to lec- lures on Rants and other obscure phil | osophies, which are mere waste or | time, for they do not understand
 them, Mile Laloe attended class for
 several weeks, protested one day that she was a grown woman and jour- lnaIist, and made a short but most l energetic speech. So if she could not I make out the meaning of such ques- tions as 'sWhat do you think of the | regret expressed by Xavier de Maistre 1 that we have no moral mirror to re- l fleet the brilliance of our soul as other mirrors reflect our faces?" she explain ed 1t was unlikely that the children round her could reply to 1t. A policemen was sent for, and took her out of school, but the shout of 1 laughter raised in Paris by her ex- pIoit will do more to simplify Paris school teaching than protests from all the parents put together.
 Three young men who are ushers at school in the Latin quarter, were
 taking a stroll in that neighborhood
 the other evening, when soldier who
 was walking with a friend, noticing
 that they were speaking English, made
 rude remark on the fact. exclaim-
 ing that they were trying to show off,
 and adding that they would see how
 he would treat them. The others. who
 were simply practicing their English
 by way of improving their leisure hour.
 naturally retorted, and at last the sol
 dfer challenged them to have 1t out at
 the back of the Pantheon, whereupon
 they went faster than before on their
 way, one of them calling out "Leave :, ~N I am armed " "Is that so? How
 lucky; we shall get you arrested" the
 soldier exclaimed, and as some police
 men were emerging from a station to
 proceed on their rounds. he presently
 sprang on the owner of the revolver
 from behind and clutched him by the
 throat, to make him fancy that an I agent of the lawfperceived the weapon
 and was arresting him for carrying IL,
 crying as he did so, You have re-
 yolver. Well. you will pass the night
 at the station"
 The yunog usher, seriously alarmed,
 nuIled out his revolver and fired two
 shots, with the result that the soldier
 fell dead on the pavement with pull let through his heart. He was horrlneo | when he heard what he had done. and said that he had believed his life was in danger, so had fired in self-defe1se His colleagues had been just as fright ened, and had run away and left him behind, so that when he found himself alone with the soldier, who had seized him by the throat. he had made use of his weapon. His own explanation was confirmed by one of the policemen. who had seen the soldier throw him self upon him and treat him very roughly, so he had been simply told to hold himself at the disposal of the authorities.
 
 The difficulty which managers of many Paris theatres invariably find in making both ends meet. is due to great extent to the number of free seats which they have to give away. But in addition to the deadheads who have some right to free seats, there is a legion of theatre-loving swindlers who adopt the simple expedient of us- ing the visiting cards of well known men.
 The other afternoon. while M. Mau- rice Ordonneau (the French adapter oe | "Charley's Aunt), was chatting with the manager of the Apollo, his own card was brought in by some one else with a request for a box. The bearer was arrested.
 Not long ago at the Comedie Fran caise a young man asked for two stalls and presented "his card" which l had the name of William Busnach on 1t. William Busnach dramatized num- Der of Zola's novels. but as he happens to be dead. the young man did not get his stalls.
 | Perhaps the funniest adventure Of the kind happened to the late M Sar- dou. He was talking to the manager of tne~Varieties when his card was brought in There were a few lines on 1t warmly recommending the bearer Let me see him." said M. Sardou. The young man came in. He wanted an en- gagement and he took M. Sardou for M Samuel. T toh him." M Sardou used to say when he told the story. "that T Fo, ' afP