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The mirror., 1920-08-19

of history; and likewise the great do
mestic story tellers, who, like Dick
ems, have sacrificed plot and scene to
portrayal character.
We have reserved until the present
a novelist of France who mayNulti-
matedly be counted the greatest mas
ter of modern fiction. He was con-
temporary of Victor Hugo and
Dumas, but he took no part in the ro-
mantle movement. He was despised;
the critics would have nothing to do
with him. In spite of this, and the
unmerciful snobbing of his fellow
citizens, he attained his fame through
tireless energy. He is the last great
classic to come upon the stage; and
the most thoughtful young writers of
today whisper among themselves that
the master is Balzac.
Victor Hugo, Dumas, George
Land, the representatives of the ro-
mantle movement, are fascinating
story tellers, but they are not true to
human nature. Their works abound
in glaripg faults in the grammar of
human life. They have never analysed
the principles of life. What observa-
tion CHANGED to bring them they used
in the most effective way; and as we
read Les Miserables and Consuelo
we are shocked at every point by the
inconsistency of the characters, the
false ring of the speeches they make
and the acts they perform. The color
has been laid so thick and hot, and
flames with overpowering brilliancy;
but the drawing will bear not close
inspection.
But Balzac essayed to write the
whole Comedy of Humanity Che
called his books the Comedie HUI
man). He takes his characters one
after the other, beginning with Paris
ian life, and then taking up the life
of the provinces, political life, mill
tary life, and in each presenting a
series of characters that accurately
represent the historical types of his
own age in France. Not all of Bal
zac's novels will be liked by the Eng
lish reader, and they differ immensely
in subject, character, and interest.
The most popular of his stories, be-
cause it treats of the rotten though
dramatic life of Paris, is Pere Goriot,
next his masterpiece Engenie Gran
det, a story of country life utterly de-
void of the excitement with which the
Partisan story abounds. 1t is a sim
pie story, but told with the hard
exactness of fate and truth, and it is
this profound truth that makes it ap-
peal to us so powerfully.
The thing that made Balzac great,
however, is his profound knowledge
of human nature and the laws of hu-
man life. But much of Balzac's real
ism is distasteful to the English or
American reader. To be appreciated
they must be read intellectually and
not emotionally.
Among the great realists, or novel
lists of character and domestic life, we
must include the women who have
written fiction. Of these the greatest
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The mirror., 1920-08-19
HE pendulum of human interest
swings quickly from one side to
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swings quickly from one side to
the other. Within five years of
the appearance of the last of the Wa
verify novels there appeared in Eng
land a novelist as great as Scott and
in every way his direct antithesis.
Scott was a splendid story-teller.
With a swift brush he painted large
scenes and large characters. His bril-
liant pageantry moved easily and
steadily from the beginning to the
end of more than thirty novels, most
of which were published in three
stately volumes. In 1885 came
Dickens, with his disconnected
sketches of ordinary types of English
men. His first great success, Pick
wick, was written from week to week
as it was published. The author never
knew three chapters ahead what
would happen to his characters, he
had Mr.. Pickwick and Sam Weller
and the rest; what mattered anything
else? AS the story went on something
would happen to them, and that was
enough.
And with Dickens we have an en-
tirely different style of writing. The
Waverly novels are written with more
or less fine language, large words,
sweeping phrases:
Pickwick was a great bubbling mass
of sentiment and emotion, pathos, hu-
NOR, the cold feeling, the hot feeling,
the shaky feeling, the melancholy
feeling, the riotous feeling might
20 on forever. With every turn of
his pen this new magician plays upon
our heart strings, possesses us, fills us,
makes us laugh or cry at will. The
very collocation of his words causes
our flesh to culver and the blood to
leap in our veins, and holds our atten-
ton spellbound. What Jane Austin
did in her fine way, to the despair of
Scott, Dickens did in his big, coarse,
splashing way, and with ten times the
genius.
Pickwick, Dickens first novel, is
undoubtedly also his most humorous.
1t tells of the doings of a farcial club
headed by Mr.. Pickwick. But Pick
wick's servant, Sam Weller, is the
most amusing character in it, and as
a character the most famous in all
Dickens works.
Next to Pickwick in popularity,
and by many liked much better, is
David Copperfeld. This is nothing
less than pathetic and intensely hu-
man autobiography of Dickens him
self, with certain fictitious additions.
David Copperfeld is Charles Dickens
(notice the reversed initials), Micaw-
Der is Dickens own father, and Dora
was Dickens first love. Only pass
ionately sympathetic heart could have
conceived this story, and only man
with an oyerAowing genius for work
could have written it in the spon-
taneous and natural way that Dickens
did.
Third in the list is probably The
Old Curiosity Shop, in which appears
Little Nell, the description of whose
pathetic death is found in every school
reader. Oliver Twist was written
partly as an attack on workhouses in
Dickens day. Barnaby Rudge is a
sort of detective story, telling of a
murder and how it was found out.
BY many his greatest is thought to be
The mirror., 1920-08-19
HOW AND WHAT TO READ
Chapter Nv: Realistic Novels
By Mr.. II. P.

A Tale of Two Cities, an intensely
dramatic historical novel of the
French revolution. Others among
his best arc of Christmas Carol, The
Chimes, and The Cricket on the
Hearth.
When the name of Dickens is men
toned that of Thackeray is also al
ways on the tongue, yet there are large
numbers even of the most refined peo-
pie who do not find Thackeray as good
reading as Dickens. 1t takes quiet
person, with sense for the intellec-
tual, the sarcastic and the ironical as
opposed to the sentimental and hui
morous, person with gentlemanly or
ladyhke instincts, to fall quite into
sympathy with Thackeray. But those
who love him, love him with an in
tensity surprising their feeling for
any other author. Thackeray pene-
trates life with his keen shafts. He
is strong because of his reserves, Dick
ems because of his lack of reserve.
Thackeray has polish and elegance of
style, he is master of the best Eng
lish, and handles it with the ease and
grace of unborn, hereditary skill. He
could not have made such personal
confessions as David Copperfeld or
Little Dorrit, he could not have laid
the color on with the indiscriminate
profusion of Pickwick or the scenes
describing Little Nell. In short, he
was no great emotional artist, for on
ly now and then does he lose himself.
He bites and stings; and unless we
have a fine heart to perserve it we
never become aware that he is Win
ming too, that under his cunical per-
ception of the truth of things in this
world, especially in the aristocratic
society which alone he knew and
of which alone he wrote, he has
great and loving heart, heart tender
and forgiving, sympathetic even when
he ridicules most unmereifully. He
has grave faults he is always preah-
ing; he is seldom very hopeful; he
had no great belief in himself or his
mission in the world. But language
in his hands is almost a living and
breathing entity, a polished, perfect
instrument. And teaches the great
lessons of restraint, of patience and
thoughtful study of life of the little,
nameless compensations which after
all to most of us alone make life really
worth living. Thackeray's Vanity
Fair, A Novel Without Hero, is
not very remarkable. The heroine,
Becky Sharpe, however, was hero and
heroine in one. Others are Pender-
mis-, Henry Esmond, and The Vir-
ginians. Only five novels, but they
are of a kind to do for Thackeray
what Les Miserables did for Victor
Hugo as compared with the popular
and productive Dumas. Thackeray
and Hugo are both most admired, and
rank highest in the literary frma-
ment, in spite of the perennial popu-
larity of Dickens and Dumas.
We have now considered the great
romantic artists, who cared for point
of view, Gothic castles, and the events
The mirror., 1920-08-19

is George Eliot, whose novels rank
below those of Dickens and Thackeray
only because they are lacking in hu-
NOR and fun. They are very serious,
but they give us women as they really
are in heart and soul and emotion.
The best of George Eliot's novels is
Middlemarch, the story of an English
country village and especially of an
interesting educated young woman,
Dorothea Casaubon. More dramatic
in the plot is Adam Bede and Lilas
Mariner is classic.
To many Jane Aasten is greater
even than George Eliot. She wrote
in the early part of the century, even
before the appearance of the Waverley
novels; but her stories are read as
much today as they ever were. They
are fine and exceedingly true por-
trayals of the uneventful but inter-
esting heart life of number of diff
ferent young women in English coun-
try villages. Some consider Emma
her greatest story; but it is less inter-
esting than Sense and Sensibility "a
study of two girls, one representing
sense and the other sensibility) and
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen is
notable in that she has lively thought
quiet sense of humor that runs
through all her work.
Of modern writers in this style,
Mary Wilkins is probably the best,
her short stories being superior to her
novels.
There are two women's novels en-
tirely different from any that had
gone before or that have come after.
They are Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte and Wurthering Heights by
Emily Bronte.
The lives of these girls was sad and
unfortunate. They belonged to re-
spectacle family, and throughout
their respectability shut in by conven-
tionality and suffering from poverty.
Jane Eyre is a girl whose mind and
not her face was her fortune. The
story is in reality the autobiography
of the inner tempestuous life of Char
lotte Bronte herself. Jane is governess
in the family of an eccentric man
named Rochester, who was at one
time the hero of half the women of
England. l. i Jane and asked
her to MARI. ., but at the altar it
is discovered -. has wife liv-
ing, whom h led on as dead
because ST.. So the lovers
are parted United only in
tragedy.
Wurthering Heights is a story of
love and revenge within the conven-
tionalities of English higher-class life,
and extends over two generations.
As study of love and far-reaching
effects of its disappointment, it is
powerful though gloomy story, and
by no means so finely artistic as Jane
Eyre.
Another women's work in a class
by itself is Harriet Beecher Stoves
Uncle Toms Cabin, which to this day
is found in the list of half dozen best
selling books, equaling the sales of the
latest current novel. 1t is wonder
fully humorous, pathetic, and sympaA
thetic picture of Southern life before
the war, and probably as exact as most
historical fiction, though many
Southerners resent its truthfulness.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
NINE TO BE
WORKED THIS SUMMER

The Augusta tunnel on Augusta
mountain above Crested Butte, is to
operate this summer under manage
ment of Pittsburg capitalists who
have taken 4 five-year lease on the
property. Dave Walker went up to
the Buttes Wednesday to secure men
for the mine. He will be mine fore
man and expects to have four or five
at work cleaning up the old machin-
cry and buildings, repairing the cable,
compressor etc. He will add to the
force as soon as the tunnel can be
opened. A. p. McCarver, who was
here last summer, is general superin-
tendent of the Augusta, and will be
on the ground in a day or two.
1t has been long years since the
Augusta was worked. Some seasons
ago q huge snowslide caved in the
power house and tram, so that good
deal of work is in sight to get started.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
NEWS OF Dem.
CONVENTION

If You are interested in what the
big Democratic convention Mt San
Francisco is doing next week, lust
phone the News Champion office, or
read the bulletins we shall receive and
post for your convenience.
THIS is going to be one of the most
exciting conventions in history max
ing. Nothing cut and dried about it.
At present the Democrats are all
at seas for candidate, since McAdoo
firmly refuse to run. Attorney Gen
eral Mitchell Palmer will have several
hundred votes on the first ballot.
Governor Cox of Ohio has sprouted
a mighty husky boom and really looks
like a winner. Vice President Marsh
all has many friends, and Ambassador
Davis is strong candidate. Also,
there are Champ Clark, Bryan, Will
son and various dark horses among
the possibilities.
The platform will stage a tremend-
Gus fight over the wet and dry ques-
ton. 1t seems foregone conclusion
that il will uphold President Wilson's
stand on the League of Nations.
Bryan will be the storm center of the
committee on resolutions with Senator
Glass upholding the Administrations
end.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
TUNNELS
PLANNED

Engineers specifications of the MofT-
at, Monarch and San Juan tunnels as
worked out by l.. d. Blauvelt, chief en-
gineer of the state railroad commission
have been made public.
There will be a pioneer bore, per-
haps 30 feet or more at one side of
the main tunnel, as was found to be
the best engineering practice in the
great tunnels under the Alps. From
this will be constructed short adits to
the main tunnel at various points, so
that boring can go forward simultan-
eously at large number Of headings
in the large tunnel, the size of which
has been set at sixteen feet wide and
tweny-four feet high.
After the railroad tunnel is completa
the pioneer bore will be fitted for auto
mobile traffic, and the two parallel
tunnels will supplement each other and
add to the safety and speed Of travel
thru the range.
The initiated bill provides that the
state shall have control Of minerals
discovered. and it Is not at III improb-
able that some wondegfh1 dsposites Of
silver.lead-xinc ores win - found n
the Monarch tunnel in the vicinity q
White Pine.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
AFTER EIGHT MONTHS THE
CAT REALLY CAME BACK

And the cat came back, at least this
one did.
Judge J. NJ. McDougal of Gunnison
has had for many years a pet cat to
which he is quite attached. In
fact eleven years ago it was a kitten,
the playmate of his small daughter,
Lucille, now in California. Also, tab
by was devoted to home life and would
rarely leave, except that the intelli-
gent animal liked to go fishing with
the Judge, and when he went to the
river near by would go along, almost
like pet dog.
Way last October G. H. Judd blew in
from Gothic to spend the winter with
his old friend Judge McDougal, at
the lodge on the river in West town.
He brot along his big hound, "Jim."
Life was miserable experience for
the old cat that day and come night
time it disappeared entirely. The
Judge put out food, called thru the
woods, and made every effort to get
his pet back, but all winter long never
a hair of his cat did he see, nor did the
neighbors get a glimpse Of her. 1t
was plain that the cat had died or
been killed.
Last Wednesday, Judd left for
summer mining work at Gothic in
West Elk mountains. Also the hound
dog went along. That night, when
Judge McDougal returned, there was
pussy ON the familiar hearthstone, ap-
parently rs pleased to get back ~ the
Judge was to have her. Eight months
Of exile were forgotten and the cat
seemed quite ready to forgive and 30
fishing once more.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
RIVER
RANCH DEAL

One of the largest ranch deals that
has taken place in Gunnison county
for some time, was transacted this
week, when Lang and William Spann
sold their fine 300-acre ranch on East
River to ]. II. and Laurel Spann.
Several other items, such as cattle
and implements went into the sale.
The Spann ranches are among the
finest in this section. Lang and VIM.
Spann are undecided rs to what their
future plans will be, but they may 90
to Missouri where Peyton Spann is
now located.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
OUR MAIL
BY A|RPLANE

Plans are laid for air mail service.
Denver to Gunnison. in an hour and so
minutes The distance is 2Ss miles
and present mail time Is hours and 20
minutes. Distance by air is only 1856
miles and time less than two hours.
ms is no visionary scheme, but gov
eminent specifications, rs already laid
out and examined by officials of the
postoffice department.
Congressman Taylor gives US this
information in letter written orig
inaiiy to the Durango Democrat, but
q copy of which is sent to the News
Champion, so that Gunnison folks NAV
have knowledge of the plans afoot.
Mr.. Taylor writes that this mail
service would have been established
this summer, but the Republican ma
lority of the Postoffice committee de-
Eberately changed the bill to take il
up in 1921. They are so internally
partisan and so blamed sure they can
elect any one who bears the party Ia
bel that they are not willing to give
the Wilson administration credit for
establishing this route, altho they rec
ognize its value and the fact that il
must come as a natural development
of the country.
Our readers will be interested in the
details of this proposed mail service
as outlined in the following letter, and
We should be looking alive for suit
able landing place.
Hon. Rod S. Day,
Editor, The Democrat,
Durango, Colo.
Dear friend Rod:
In pursuance of your letter and the
ones from the Durango Exchange and
Postmaster Frary, as well as reports
Of repeated blockades, washouts, and
general interference of the mail SER
vice into Durango during the past win
ter and spring, / have many times
conferred with the railway Mail Ser
vice of the Post Office Department and
railroad officials here, in very earnest
and vigorous effort to secure some re-
lief for the people of Durango from
the intollerable delays and uncertain
ties in obtaining their mail, and while
the government officials here have re-
peatedly made inspections and obtain
ed reports and are fully advised of the
situation, and thoroughly appreciate
and sympathize with the people of Du-
range in their affiiction in this respect,
and have vigorously lacked up the
railroad managements, nevertheless
there has been no general relief afford
ed, and there is no practical automo-
bile highway that would be feasible
to use in obtaining or furnishing mail
service IN competition with the rail-
roads; and while / trust our efforts
will accomplish something eventually,
nothing definite yet has materialized.
Continued on Last Page)
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
CATTLEMEN'S DAY PRE-
PARATIONS PROGRESS
ING VERY RAPIDLY

The committee is hard at work on
the preliminaries for the big celebra-
tion in Gunnison July l4-l5-16. The
general outline of events is printed on
page two of this issue, and readers
viii note that the usual bucking con-
test is included. 1t was accidently
left out of the copy furnished US last
week.
The committee is arranging a num-
Der of special races with fine prizes
for both men and women of the
county, and the boys and girls are ad-
vised to get all their good horses
ready, for there will be lots doing.
Mrs. b. F. Wright returned home
from Denver Monday morning.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
LARGE NORMAL
ATTENDANCE


The. Normal attendance exceeds 400
for the first time in the history OF
the school. They are gathered from the
four quarters of the state, with many
from outside Colorado. News-Cham-
pion publishes below a complete list
Of the enrolment on Monday of this
week.
A rn, tn Grand Junction
Adams. Refine. Olathe.
Adams. Virginia. Green River. Utah
As BGneb sasa ssns sspssnf sprnss oka ohia
Allen. Grance. Rife. Colo
Allott, Mrs Bertha. Pueblo
Alspaw. Stella, San Luis.
Anderson. Edna. r.. Guunnison.
Anderson. C. H, Paonia
Archer: katherine. Montrose
Aren't. Emma. Gunnison
Austin. Eilma1ine. Palisade
Austin. Ivy. Lazear
Babcock, Iva, Rife
Barton. Edith. Telluride
Bartcher. Fanny. Fruita
Basoni. Mary AsDsSn sSa
bailey. William. Crested Butte
Bailey. W. l., Monte Vista
bailey. Mrs. W l.. Monte Vista
Baich. Mrs w g.. Delta
Rs:hor, Rs.sn; e; Cor. eei,. L. Grand JUNCTION
Bafcheider. Ruth. Monte Vista
Becker Berthe. Apache
hsspej h..;l jEli..S.sh, KsIns1h b;: pelssu. oTI.y
BerrS. Bb bems. | Monfrose
Berry. Nra Ralph. Montrose
Best Jennie Eifen.- -Aamosa
Blackshear. Mary. Fruita
Confined on Page Sevenl
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-06-25
VERY SAD
DEATH OCCURS

Every heart in Gunnison was sad
dened early Saturday morning when
il was learned that Mrs. John F. An
drews had passed away at three o'clock
that morning. Death came as great
shock to this young matron's many
friends; for her illness had been very
brief. Mrs. Andrews was taken sick
very suddenly on Wednesday, and al
tho everything was done to save her,
she was relieved of her terrible suff-
ering on Saturday morning.
Zelma Mckee Andrews was born in
Gunnison q years ago on the 18th day
of June. She lived in Gunnison all her
life, graduating from the high school
here and only three weeks ago grad
uating from the State Normal She
was married on the 21st of last Sep
tember to John F. Andrews of this
city. Zelma was the type Of girl
everybody loves. She took part in
every school or community activity,
and no program seemed complete un-
less Zelma contributed to it with her
beautiful voice.
The funeral took place in the Com
munity Church Sunday afternoon, and
the esteem in which she was held in
Gunnison could only be partly shown
by the large gathering Of friends and
the many beautiful floral offerings.
In the absence of regular minister,
Pres. Quigley preached a very COM
forting sermon to the bereaved rela-
tives, giving the facts of her life very
briefly. Perhaps Mr.. Quigley's words
can best express the feeling everyone
had for Zelma when he said she was
not only the sweetest, most beloved
girl in the school, but she was the most
popular girl in Gunnison. Altho her
life was short it could not possibly be
said that it was lived in vain.
Clarence Adams conducted the fun
eral and hundreds paused for a last
look at the loved features of one of
Gunnison's fairest daughters.
The pallbearers were Paul and Ralph
Wright, Alfred Wilson, Hugh Palmer,
Bud Andrews and Gerald Hazelhurst.
The honorary pallbearers were Zelma's
girl chums, Norma Collins, Elizabeth
Nourse, Eva Leonard and Evelyn Mill
er. Besides host of friends she
leaves, of her immediate relatives, to
mourn, her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. w. Mckee, one brother, Colonel
Mckee and her husband.
1t is impossible to express in words
the gloom which this untimely death
has cast upon our city, or to extend to
the heart broken husband and grief
stricken relatives the sympathy which
we all feel, that one SO young, SO love-
ly and SO talented should thus rudely
be separated from US.