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ner. Luckily at this critical moment
she did not lose ker nerve, but
"shOoed" the umbrella right in the
face of the oncoming brute, and this
extraordinary and unexpected appar-
ition so startled the great beast that
instead of continuing his charge and
tossing her aloft, he suddenly veered
away to the left and disappeared
through the bushes in cloud of dust.
Probably this is the first and last
instance on record of a beast of the
jungle being thwarted by a weapon
so eminently of civilization as the
umbrella. Not all the experiences of
the Patterson party were of an out
come so satisfactory. The good horse
Aladdin was killed in course of time
by a rogue" elephant. Fever laid
several hunters low. A Mr.. B., of the
expedition, was killed in his sick bed :.
by the presumably accidental dis
charge of his, own pistol And there
was mutiny of natives which threat
ened the whole outfit with annihila-
ton.
Col Patterson tells the whole story
simply and vividly in his book.
FRENCH HEROINE DIES POOR.
When Juliette Dodu died in Paris
recently another name was added to
the long list of heroes and heroines
who met only with neglect in their
lives. In 1870, when the Germans
were pressing forward on Paris, Mile.
Dodu, then eighteen years old, was
telegraph operator in Pithiviers, not
far from Orleans, on the way to Paris.
When the invaders besieged Orleans
they cut, as they believed, all the
wires leading from the city to the out
side world; but it happened they over
looked the girl and her station in
PitfHders, then only a small village.
Though surrounded by the enemy on
all sides she stuck to her keyboard,
and not only exchanged constant COM
munication with her besieged fellow
countrymen in Orleans, but actually
succeeded in connecting her wire with
the German military lines. This en-
abled her to transmit to the garrison
in Orleans all the orders issued for
attacks on the city, and at the same
time to keep the military authorities
in Paris posted on the larger plans
of the German army. So successfully
did she do this that at the end of
month the invaders realized there was
leak in their lines of communica-
ton, and it finally was traced to Mile.
Dodu and her little station. She was
arrested, condemned by court mar
tial and sentenced to be shot, but her
story reached the ears of Prince Fred
erick Charles of Prussia, the Red
Prince" and at his personal interces-
sion her life was spared. When the
war ended Mile. Dodu was awarded
the medal of the Legion of Honor,
but after that her grateful fellow
countrymen forgot her, and she died
in poverty.
The death of Mile. Dodu occurred
just day after that of Margaret
Hunt, one of the fighting heroines of
England. Mrs. Hunt had just become
the bride of young soldier when the
Crimean War broke out, and, rather
than be separated from her husband,
disguised herself as a man and man i
aged to accompany his regiment to
the front. She served almost to the |
end of the war before her secret was
discovered, and, though she was then
promptly shipped back to England.
she was placed, on the death of her
husband, on the list of pensioners of |
the ROYAL Patriotic Fund. After |
coming through the trenches at Alma,
Balaclava and Sebastopol without a
scratch, she met her death through |
the upsetting of a kerosene lamp in
her little home in Swindon.-New
York Press.h