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New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
REPATRlATED- BY Nine. Lucie Delarue- -Madrus
Translate b nGam McThnson

live comfortably in the home of her
bereavements, and of the young wife
whom he had married two years before
"a household, alas! without children,
but which spoiled ths old grandmother
just as if she had been little child);
she would have known all the sweet
nesses of declining days, little waxen
lady with lamblike face, if the haz-
ards of war and invasion had not come
to brutalize her last moments, to intro
duce tragedy into them and to make
them f1amboyant with terror.
To-day is for her the last day of
three years of hell on earth.
Repatriated!
Nine. Dumont is going to find out
whether or not her grandson has died
on the field of battle, whether or not
her granddaughter was shot
when she fled from the invaders in
1914, when, innocently remaining be-
hind to put the house in order, in their
little village in the north, the fright
med old grandmother had found her.
self, entrapped, without any hope of see
ing her relatives again or even getting
news OF them.
A train of repatriates! Can one ever
realize what that phrase comprehends
of misery and enthusiasm, of tragedy
and comedy, of small and great emo
tions, mixed with sort of mournful
buffoonery?
AS part Of its human freight Call
classes and all ages jostling one an
other), hustled from car to car, from
station to station, from frontier to
frontier, the Widow Dumont, frail, weak
and timid, observed with her astonshed
lamblike eyes all the varied aspects of
this voyage to freedom
Like the others, she had arrayed her
self, to honor her recovered father
land, in the clothes which she thought
the best and most becoming of the lit
tie wardrobe which she carried along
a poor and almoat ludicrous collection
She wore, then, in spite of the warmth
of the season and of the crowded train
her otter muff a rich antique-the
pride of life devoid Of luxuries-and
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

ERE is vgmette, done h that delicocy of touch
~ and quoty of poetic suggestion Of a0bich Mme Delo
rweMadTus IS MISTRESS The situation is simple in the
ertreeome IN avhich feeling entirely overshados actio
But the effect uerg If the situation had been treated
IN more outright dramatic fashion.
With the French the paho of repatriation goes
for any merely conventional expression Of It, TO back
from death IN life prison house to the free friendly
faces and hannah attachments an experience quic almost
beggor3 a0ords Nine DeormeMadrMs Is sparmg IN emotion
and phrases She lets the return of the Widow Duom speak
for itself IN its unossuming simplicity and pathos.
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show that Britain will never learn
to strike an attitude. She has no
Danton, no Lafayette, no Gambetta.
In this struggle we want the best
out Of Britain, and in tact France
is unexcelled. She knows by grim
experience what strain bears down
a nation which suffers the casualties
that aff1ict the United Kingdom.
France marched first through the
valley of the shadow of death. 1t
is now Rritain's turn. And let me
put this point. The war is older
than it was when France set her
great example, whidh means that
the especial British burden falls on
shoulders which must needs be tired.
will add little more. Many
questions affecting strategy, man
power, secret treaties and diplo-
matte approaches are under discus
sion, and, personally, / believe in
such discussion. But its value de-
pends entirely on the spirit which
we display toward one another.
Some of my English friends think
that | do not sufficiently boost the
British Empire. Among states, as
among individuals, let each think
the other better than himself. 1t is
what we admire. in our friends that
makes US more admirable to them
We have no right to glory selfishly
in an empire which, after all, can
only claim sanction as trust for
mankind. And it would be inele-
CANT to indulge in boasting at 9
time when France is enduring such
crucifxion-France, whose pio
neers contributed some valuable ele
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luminator Of the mediaval regime
Scott was bound to write that novel,
as it were, from France outward.
The People We're
Voiceless Then

Voiceless Then
In the long wars of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries,
which separated England and
France, l am not prepared to say
that England had all the blame. AS
between our kings and theirs fault
must be distributed pretty evenly.
But with the outbreak of the Revo-
luton the folly of British Toryism
was disclosed. Here was a mighty,
a stupendous assertion of human
liberty. And Germany did not like
it. Burke, who understood Amer
lea, only understood royalism in
France. Carlyle and Belloc were
still unborn. The British court and
Parliament and clergy-for the Brit
ish people had neither voice nor vote
in the matter-joincd in the general
hullabaloo against French freedom,
drove Paris to excesses, and forced
the Republic to defend herself with
the sword of Napoleon. It is that
crime against the light which is be-
ing to-day expiated by millions of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Grief Struggled
Hard With Joy

A flood Of tears blinded the big eyes
of the lamb-like face-one poor grief
griefs. And the little wax-like old lady,
with her beautiful otter muff and her
Sunday best hat, didn't know, when
thus inducted, through that curt phrase,
into the mysteries of the last three
years whether she would sob with de-
spair because her son had been killed
in the war or from joy because she had
still some one on earth near whom to
die; because the little voice of child,
still stranger to her, would greet her
at the end Of the lass stage Of repatria-
tion with those three carefully
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Queries and Answers

ern States any period of unusually
quiet, dry and hazy weather, even IL
1t lasts only few days, may be desig-
mated the Indian summer, provided it
occurs at any time between the middle
OF September and the early part of De-,
cember.
The name is due to the fact that the
phenomena OF the Indian summer are
much more distinctly marked in the
region chiefly occupied by the Indians
at the time this term became current
than they are in the more eastern
regions, to which the white population
was chiefly limited prior to the begin.
ming of the nineteenth century.
Sabotage is the wilful obstruction
OF industry on the part of tha en-
ployes with the object of reducing the
profit or impairing the capital of an
employer and thus compelling him to
accede to demands of the employees.
Code Napoleon
T. H.-Will you please explain what
is meant by the Code Napoleon?
=, At the time of the great revolution
,here was a great variety Of particular
laws and customs prevailing in the
different parts of France entailing
great uncertainty and expense in the
@AOii VI JhotiSG, anu DGeVGnC-
ing anything like true solidity and.
union in the nation. 1t was Napoleon's
merit that he realized that the besy
remedy for this lay in the unifcation
Of the law by code which might be
applicable to the whole country
Napoleon accordingly gave direcs
tons for the carrying out of this prof.
ect. and it was executed with aston
lshing celerity. The Code Napoleon, as
we now have it, was published and
promulgated between 1904 and 1910,
The Code Napoleon Cor, as it has been
rechristened under the republic. the
Code CiviD remains in force as the
law Of France at the present day; and
despite many defects in it's original
constitution 1t has beyond doubt
proved great boon to the country.
Napoleon himself is said to have been
prouder of it than of any of his VIC.
tories.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Indian Summer

w. P.-Kindly advise me the origin
Of the term Indian Summer" also of
Sabotage"
Indian summer in the United States.
designates period in autumn charac-
terized by calm and absence Of rain
This condition is especially we'll mani
tested in the upper Mississippi Valley,
where it is in conspicuous contrast
with the climatic phenomena which
precede and follow it. West of the belt
Of the states lying adjacent to the
Mississippi the rainfall is SO small that
the chief characteristic Of the Indian
summer is not exceptional enough to
sippi Valley eastward the autumnai
periods of calm and dryness become
more and more irregular in their oc-
currence, and are, on the whole, of
shorter duration. Hence in tho East
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Child raining at Home
By Mothers Who Have Been kindergarten Teachers

the United
States Bureau Education and the National Kindergarten Association
By PIT training
M her children and nbodies the sdo she has learned #
d this articles helpful them ont and them to
reaching the
country.
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First Zionist Congress-

T, A.-The frst Zionist congress to
acquire Palestine by purchase from
Turkey. with a view to establish fhe
jews in the Holy Land, two hundred
delegates present, Doctor Herr and
Basic on August 20, 1897.
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ion will back draft. No one will
object-least of all the men who have
to go. And this is the only remedy in
sight. Get men to the farmer-1o,v.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
All Nations Are
Leagued for France

can imagine that some French
men, of high spirit and an intense
pride, may chafe under the ordeal
of seeing foreign troops on their
soil. Let them think how many
hundreds of thousands of those
brave men will sleep forever near
the villages and beneath the fields
where God and man will restore the
French people to their heritage. Let
them ask if, in the long story Of the
human race, there has been any ma
ton which has rallied within her
frontiers SO many gallant defenders,
and from lands so distant. Under
no compulsion of treaty, but by an
instinct that has spread universally,
all nations of the world, save our
enemies, are leagued together in the
battle for France.
The pictures by Bairnsfather
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Addressing Spaniards

X. B: (New York;: wants to know
the right way of addressing his fellow
cltlzens and neighbors of the Spanish
tongue according to their respective
rank without offending their Spanish
prlde' and, IN particular, who is to be
"Don." """ ~
In Spain and Spanish America
everybody is addressed by his Chris
tlan name. To address person by his
family name indicates, as it were, that
you want to keep him at a distance,
involves sober politeness, reserve, SOL
emnity. The superior addresses his
subordinate by his family name. An
employe, official, ETC., not belonging to
the household, is generally addressed
sy by ms surname, preceded by the title
Senor The omission of senor NAV
signify, according to the tone in which
the person is spoken to, either con-
tempt or familiarity.
10 show to our superior both our
respect and love for him, he is called
by his Christian name, preceded by
the word Don. Thus reporters when
interviewing the former Spanish Pres
ldent of the Ministry would not ad-
dress him as Senior Canalejas, but
Don Jose. TO say seiior Canaleias
would have been an insult to the
statesman since Senor can only pre-
cede Immediately Christian name
when the person addressed belongs to
the lowest class of society. Less init
mate, but still permissible, is the ad-
dress Senor Don Canalejas, but under
no circumstances should it be Don
Canalejas, because Don can only be
directly connected with Christian
name.
In Spanish poetry we find here and
there Don also jestingly placed before
fantastic names. Thus Cervantes calls
his celebrated hero Don Quixote. and
Quevedo writes:
"Poderoso caballero
es Don Dinero."
The title Don is derived from the
Latin Dominus, and therefore signifies
master, lord. Originally only a few
members of the highest nobility were
allowed to bear this title, but at pres
ent it is applied to every e.s@.ated
person. Berceo lin Lacia, 1868, a
poet Of the thirteenth century, calls
Christ "Don Jesu Christie" which goes
to show that at that time Don was
the highest title of honor: P. Guardi-
ola and other Spanish historians as
sert that till the fifteenth century
only kings, prclates, grand masters
and members of the highest nobility,
had this title. and in the seventeenth
century it became so general that
Philip II issued law (January 8,
1879 to the effect that the title Don
lor Dona for women) was only due to
hldalgos, as we'll as to the children
of knighted persons. For 200 reals
any person could obtain the right of
placing Don" before his name; for
200 reals the right could be trans
mitted to the next generation. and
for 600 reals it was acquired sd per-
petuum.
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Norman Conquest
Made Britain Great

II is a miracle. In temperament
60 are utterly diverse. For thou
ssnd years we have failed to like
oue another. Britain is Saxon and
Danish, with only a dash of the Celt.
II Britain is great it is because the
bulk of her people, rude and unlet-
tered, though vigorous, stopped to
the Norman Conquest and became
sub;ect to French chivalry and the
rigorous discipline of French feudal-
ism 1t was to France that she owed
her incomparable cathedrals, castles
and churches. She clothed the inspi-
ration of St. Louis in native form,
making of Westminster Abbey and
York Minister a truly national
shrine, but her debt is none the less
for that, and, little as people re-
member it, the fabric of the old
Commons House, where Pitt and Fox
we're eloquent, was sister to the
Sainte Chapelle in Paris, and even
today you can compare their
srypts, The official language of our
nerage is still old French. And
there is not a law on our statute
book to which our kings and queens
hsye not given their assent, also in
French. 1t is in French that we or
der dinner, frame our mottos, en-
A broider our standards. 1t is in
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has empire, commerce, shipping, but
all are risked-all are a pledge-for
France. And Of that pledge the
United States of America has added
collateral security. which equals
the original bond.
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Bv P. w. Wilson
,..re,.;can Correspondent Of The
London Dxsily Neavs)

,..,e,-;con Correspondent Of The
London Daily NeaVs)
-TE are on the eve of another
~ battle, and the British
W army, the British nation
.,utes France and Foch. By pushes
I'D nropaganda Germany has tried
:. separate us, but Germany has
failed. After four years of it we
suAt shoulder. to shoulder; our
rr;me ministers understand one an
..,sr our generals understand one
,,o,her and our workers also under
,.snd one another. In our resolu-
.;on we are one; we are one in our
..cas;onal moods Of war-weariness;
. ;s one welcome that we offer to
.sr American comrades. If Ger
,.nv could strike us down we should
d;e together and share one grave.
7. there is a massacre in a French
,hurch it is followed by massacre in
. British hospital. There is
jsaeue of agony, even among our
;ancents.
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Copyright, 1918, by The Tribune Association
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-05-31
HOW TO MAKE A
GOOD HOUSE CHEAPLY
By Geo. o. Fariee, Bowerman.C Colo.

Up here, in the mountains, where
timber is plentiful, a good house can
be built cheaply in the following man.
ner:
For a cottage or a story and half
house, saw two blocks of wood ten
inches long; split the blocks SO that
the sticks will average about two
inches square. II is not necessary
that the sticks should be square, but
they should be as near the same length
a. possible, as the length of the sticks
make the thickness of the walls. A
stone or concrete foundation should be
had TO start the wall on.
In starting the wall, string a coat
of common lime mortar along the out
side and inside the foundation, leav-
ing the center of the wall without
mortar. Now, lay the sticks one-half
inch apart cross-wise the wall, bed
ding them firmly in the mortar. Lay
the out-end of the sticks to line the
same as il you were laying a brick
wall. After the first course of sticks
are laid, string mortar again on the
outer and inner ends of the sticks and
proceed laying one course of sticks
after another. always leaving half an
inch between the sticks. When the
wall is up about nine inches, lay X 3
inch strips about six feet long on each
corner, one on the inside and one on
the outside of the wall, the strips to
lap over each other so as to bind the
corners. Every Is inches. lay the
/ X 3 inch strips the full length of the
wall, the short ones being half way
between vertically.
When the walls are the proper height
for the second floor joists. lay 4
in the center of the wall. Cut gain
in the joists SO that it will set down
over the 2x4 and fill in with short
sticks to the level of the 2x4. For
the rafter plates use 2x4 in the CEN
ter of the wall the same as for the
joists, gainning the ceiling joist down
Oover the 2Ni so as to prevent the
walls from spreading.
When the building is enclosed, plast.
cr the walls outside and inside. using
enough cement in the outside coat to
make IT impervious to the weather.
The outside coat Of mortar may be
cOlored and the wall may be blocked
off with jointer so as to resemble
either gray or brown stone. With
the sticks laid one-half an inch apart
and the mortar spread at each end of
the sticks, space for dead air will
be left between each stick in the CEN
ter of the wall; the dead air will pre-
vent frost from penetrating the wall,
and will also make the house cool in
summer time. In this way, a fine
looking house can be built fairly cheap
as well as one that will be warm in
winter and cool in summer.
The writer helped to build two
houses like this in Michigan, and can
say. that they gave the owners perfect
satisfaction.
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OLD LANDMARK AT PITKIN
TO BIZ TORN DOWN
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COUNTY NEWS IN BRIEF
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Tuesday, May %.
John Evans came up from Grand
Junction on business the first of the
week.
Dr.. W. A. knowles and Dr.. Frank
Knowles were up from Gunnison Tues
day on 4 veterinary call.
Saturday morning at the
Arthur Prosscr home. an eight pound
boy. Mother and son doing well.
We have had continued wind for
some time, and tho range is beginning
to get dry. A good rain would be
more than appreciated.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. d. Stephenson and
sons, Teddy and Frank, started Sun
day morning on a motor trip to Pue-
bio. Mrs. Stephenson will remain in
Pueblo for some time. She has been
feeling poorly for several months. and
hopes to be- benefited by the change.
About 100 people gathered at the
depot Sunday evening to bid the boys
farewell and to wish them well on
their way to their training camps.
Dick Dean and Sam Lewis We're on
the train from Doyleville, and Frank
kelly" McAllister of Delta, who liv-
ed for several years in Doyleville.
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tuesday, May y
Over at Spencer, the mining proper-
ties are forging ahead.
Tom Mcclure left for his home in
Idaho Springs Z few days ago.
Frank Young is again on the road
hauling ore for the VI. G. NJ. & r. Co
The high. dry winds now so pre-
valout are rather hard on the farmers
heroabOUts..
Word has come from Floyd Wilson
that he could not pass, and doubtless
will b. home before long.
Jack Dempsey Is planting his potO-
toes but Is having { hard time owIng
to the scarcity Of help.
Fred Brown nOtored in from SpeH-
Ger this week in the interest of tho
Red Cross. but found II being com
pctru,ly looked after by Mrs. Rice.
John Bruins and family returned or
Saturday from Z tTp to Saguachs
visiting relatives. Frank Bruins, q
brother. was in the contingent VIII ch
left here last week.
Vulcan camp went 100 per cent IN
the Red Cross work last week. NJ
Rice. the Rod Cross solicitor, says tho
contributions came in freely. EvcTj
one did their bit"
The many friends Of o. A. W
deeply nagrrt his passing away, and
extend sInccro sympathy to his fam
Mr.. Wilt resided here several yea
and was very highly respected.
4 F. Walker ha- one Of the neat, -
little ranches in tho country, tuck
away at the head Of Wright creek, auc
a recent visitor there found him har,
at work opening up more acreage. i
docs one good 10 SEQ the care he Civ
his fine stock and the comfortab., ],
housing he has for them.
Raymond Ferguson and wife spcu'
two days with Jess Ferguson and vii
recently. Raymond was in the ca
that left Gunnison Sunday, and Z
large number of his Powderhorn AND
Spencer friends went to Gunnison &c
see him, Fred GOumans, Corb McNeIl
and Roy Rice Off for camp.
Dr. Louis Weiss came in on Sunda y
from the Crccdc country, and will re-
main here most of the summer. HI
is feeling jubiliant over the outlook for
his krautzer-Sonata property in
Creole. as it adjoins the rich proposi,
tion which has attracted so much at.
tcntion lately.
Several members of the NJ. G.. N. &
R. Co., who have been here the past
ten days, left for Denver Sunday
Supt McKenna going with them. A
number Of important changes and i'm
provements are in view, and this fne
property will be worked to full cspa-
city. One of the principal changes
this company has in view is the re
opening of the low-line Vulcan-Iols
road. The grade will be changed and
the rocky survey between Mergelmar
creek and the Smith ranch thrown out
This will make a better grade, and .
road that does not close with drift.
in the winter time, as does the high
line. 4
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Creek mill, which was built some time
ago. The machinery was never used
to any extent however, and the en-
gine and boilers are now practically
new mill, which is to be erected this
summer at the Bon Ton mine.
The old mill will be torn down, work
beginning at once. The lumber is to
be used in the building of the new
mill and an up-to-date concentration
plant installed for the treatment of
ores.
This company is taking the mining
game in the way that will make it a
go. We predict good future for the
Bon Ton.
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News Champion Correspondence.
Wednesday, May %.
Mr. Bait was a visitor in Crystal
last week
Mrs. Lou Randall has gone TO Red
stone for a short visit.
The Magmison Bros. have returned
after several months absence.
Joe Orloska has gone to Redstonc
TO work for the Thodc Lumber Co.
J. F. Larsen is on the sick list this
week, but is some better at this writ
ing.
Jacco Bianchi and John Baroni came
in from Aspen last Monday to look
after their properties here.
Roy Heissy is here from Carbon
dale to look after the cattle recently
brought here by John Bennett.
Frank Muller and James Dowing
returned Wednesday from Lee Creek
where they had very pleasant visit
with Judge Thomson.
Word was received from Ernest
Mazza this week to the effect that he
is now located at Mare Island, Calf,
and that J. l.. Carey is at San Fran
cisco.
VIM. Hodgson, the l6 year-old grand
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Downing,
has enlisted in Uncle Sans army, and
is now located at Fort Logan. He is
in the cavalry.
This week, Mrs. Ida B. Carey re
ceived several donations of gold and
silver treasures which she sent to Dem
yer to the Guardian Trust Co. These
pieces of silverware and jewelry will
be put in the melting pot and melted,
then sold to the mint, and the proceeds
to go toward buying an ambulance
which will be gift from Colorado.
Anybody wishing to give to this cause