The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-17
An Alsatian
Quarrel
By DWIGHT NORWOOD

Ever since the Franco Prussian war
] there has been bad blood between the
/ inhabitants Of Alsace and Lorraine and
/ the German soldiers stationed there TO
keep them subseryient to their con-
querors. True. those provinces were
wrested from Germany. and many of
their inhabitants are Germans. 1t Is
the French citizens who are FESTIVE
under German rule
Among those French Alsatians who
returned to their homes after the war
which lost these provinces to France
was young Jules Laurant eighteen
years old His mother was a widow,
not yet forty, and still fair to look
upon. One of the German officers be-
longing to the army of occupation met
her and desired to marry her. But she
was not willing to give her son step
father. and she was too patriotic TO
marry a man whose business Ii was to
keep her country under foreign yoke
Besides these reasons, she had no love
for her admirer.
Captain Won Gottschalk was not es-
pecially pleased at his refusal and
considered Jules Laurant responsible
for il. Consequently he took great
dislike TO the young man But Jules
did not even know the captain had
proposed 10 his mother. Quite likely
had he known II he would have yigor-
ously opposed it; but being ignorant
Of the matter. be had nothing to do
with the refusal
One day when Won Gottschalk was
marching at the head Of his company
some persons standing on the sidewalk
looking at the soldiers jeered. IL hap
pened that Jules Laurant was there.
Captain Won Gottschalk was very
wroth with those who had insuted
him and his command and saw jules 4
standing near them. Jules had not ut /
tered a sound. He had fought the /
Germans. and they had conquered. He /
was not the man TO jeer az them, /
though be burned 90 have another 4
chance 70 oppose them under arms.
Won Gottschalk. feeling this was q
good opportunity to vent his spleen on
Jules and wIthal being very angry,
walked right past those who had given
the insult up 20 Jules and curfed him.
Jules was unarmed. while the captain
held a sword IN his hand Jules could
not retalIate al the time. but he could /.
bis insulter 20 mortal com
bat i,
Jules went home and told his mother
n the circumstance. explaining 10 her
hat Il was not only his wish. but &C.
sording % custom. that be should send
/ challenge 10 Won Gottschalk. She
greed with him. though she saw that
he matter was a misfortune 70 both
n them The captain would he sup
ported by The German government,
ind Jules. n be won in the fght would
,e made 10 suffer. for the captain. 30
ar as was known. bad merely resent
q an Insult 70 himself and bis com
ANY which 10 Officer ~ the German
.rmv could brook and retain bis com I
mission. Tor these reasons Nine Lsu D
ant took the affair deeply % heart
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