The Republican journal., 1917-02-01

Dana E. Fletcher of Lincolnville has been
appointed an agent for the protection of ami
mails.
A COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA. Messfs. ]. Lee
Patterson, Frank A. Nye, Elbridge S. Pitcher
and Mrs. Clement W. Wescott the executive
committee of the Belfast Philharmonic Soc-
ETY., are endeavoring to arrange for a twenty
five piece orchestra for ensemble work and
orchestral practice to include experienced
players and beginners. particularly the High
school pupils. 1t is hoped to perfect an or
ganization later, but Mr.. Pitcher has already
conducted two general rehearsals in the Bel
fast music hall, when very satisfactory work
was done. The present personnel is as fol-
lows: First violins. Lloyd McKeen. Leslie C.
Folett, Everett Tasker, Miss Hazel Doak;
second violins, Frank A. Nye, Russell M. Car
ter, Wesley Woods and ]. Frank Waterman;
violas, J. Lee Patterson and c. E. White;
'cellos, Miss Edna Curtis and Seldom m
mons; bass viol, Dean Knowlton; horn, Earl
Hammons; clarinets, W. M. Fortier and w S.
Davidson; cornet. Leroy S. Green; trombones,
Herman Cleaner and ]. Fred Sylvester; flute,
Charles H. Crosby; drums, John Parker; piano.
Mrs. Bessie Reyes. Several other instruments
will be added later, as it is hoped to have the
oboes, bassoons. etc., until there is full
orchestration. The ages range from 16 to
70. and thus the experienced musicians can
give the younger ones the benefit of long
years of practice.
THE STORY OF A FAMOUS WOMAN. The Uni
tartan Alliance met Thursday AFTERNOON, Jan.
25th with Mrs. James s. Hartman and a
large number OF members ard several invited
guests were present. Miss Charlotte W.
Colburn presided and read the new code for
the Alliance of Unitarian women, She also
read letters from the Secretary of the New
England Alliance Association, from Mrs. A. W.
Scott of Bangor, acknowledging the contri-
button of Belfast Alliance to the Carolina In
dustrial School, and from Miss Brown Of the
Lend a. Hand Club movement of the Unitarian
Alliances. Miss Colburn also explained the
work the society had undertaken in sewing for
charity and announced that the next meeting
for this purpose will be at the parsonage to.
day, Thursday, with Mrs. Arthur E. Wilson,
burn took exceptions to current statement
that the North Church Guild with its IS MEM
bers was the largest branch society of any
church in Belfast, as the Alliance has MEM
bership Of 81. The paper of the afternoon
was by Mrs. George z. Williamson on "Sonia
Kovalevsky, Lover and Scholar.A True Story"
and was of absorbing interest, bringing out
central thoughts and blending the reality and
romance Of this unusual and interesting life.
Sonia was born in Russia in 1850, a most un.
welcome child in the family of the Russian
General Krukovsky and his worldly wife Mrs.
Williamson described the home life of this
family of wealth and dictinction. giving PROM
inence to Sonia's unusual talent as child and
her wonderful development in her three per-
sonalities-emotional, literary and scientific
To the world she is best known for her remark !:
able work as a mathmatician. In Oct. 1868 she
married Waldemar Kovaevsky, for the sole
| purpose of continuing her studies and against
the expressed wishes of her parents They
went first to St. Petersburg, then to Heidel-
berg, where the young student attracted at
tention by her wonderful mind and ambition to
| develop it. Here she formed friendships with
George Eliot, Darwin, Spencer. Huxley and
others. but was never happy. and her bitterest
complaint was "Nobody has really loves me-"
Her scientific work. successful as it was, never
gave her any real joy. and thought was her
tyrant instead of her servant. 1t was quite
the reverse later in life when, through her
own wilfulness, she was without what her
heart most craved, a love Us strong as she was
capable Of giving and home of her own. To
her reality always seemed far behind her an
ticipations She succeeded nearly as we'll in
her lectures and literary work as she had in
her MATHEMATICAL research. The story of her
later life in Paris was charm,ngly told by Mrs.
Williamson. The last days of her life-with q
morbid fear of the great unknown and her
dearest dreams not yet EsaliFed were spent
among strangers in Stockholm, where she died
in February 1891 aged Il years.