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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11
AMERICAN BOYS WORK
ON ROADS In SIBERIA

AS the result of a resolution intro
duced by Representative William Z.
Mason of Illinois, parents have been
given an opportunity to protest to
the house commietee on foreign af-
fairs against the retention of their
boys in the army to fight for vague
and indefinite causes in Siberia.
Eight thousand of these youths
are being kept by Secretary Baker in
the northern Asiatic waters in an eff
fort to subvert government against
which the United States has not ac-
tually declared war and to fight a
people which was until recently our
ally. Nearly half of these are
from the Sucker State. They are
not ony made to fight, but also used
as common laborers.
Chairman Porter declares that the
drafted men are being held for duty
across the Pacilc absolutely with
out justification in law" at is
time" he added, ''for congress to Sc
riously challenge this extraordinary
use of the army. If our soldiers
can be sent to Siberia without au-
thorization of law, they can be sent
anywhere. These men volunteered
or were drafted for the war against
Germany. Nearly year has elaps-
ed since the armistice was signed,
and now they are being used abso-
lutely against their will to combat a
people we have no cause against.
They have suffered great hardships
and they should be brought home
without delay. An explanation is
due the American people"
1.-THE president received us nicely,
but did not give us any definite
promise as TO when our boys would
be permitted to come home" said
Fred McAver head of Chicago del
egation which called upon him in a
protest. ''He told us that the job
in France was done, but that the job
in Siberia was not done. He, the
president of the United States told
us to go back to our people and he
would consult with the war depart
ment as to what could be done"
The witness, whose son is in Siberia,
was unable to express his emotion
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11
NEW BANKER FOR AUDUBON

The Iowa Savings Bank announc-.
es that Mr. Gay S Thomas, for the
past eleven years cashier of the
Ralston Savings Bank at Ralston,
Iowa, has purchased an interest in
the Iowa Savings Bank and begin
ming October LIST will be actively
associated as vice president. Mr..
Joe III. Ross who has been actively
associated with the bank since it's
beginning will remain vice presi-
dent and director as before, but
finds it necessary to be relieved of
active duty in the bank Mr.
Ross feels that the health Of his
wife, who recently submitted to
very severe operation is such that
an immediate change of climate is
imperative.
Mr.. Thomas is graduate of the.
Audubon public schools, later grad
uated from a law school but since
has been in the banking business.
He has large acquaintance in Au-
dubon county and his many friends
will be delighted to know that he.
has finally decided to return to the
best town on earth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11

as he related the ill fortune of the
troops.
'They are making out of our Am
erican boys just plain section hands
on the railroads" said Mrs. X. Alex
ander, another member of the dele
CATION I'm his last letter my son
says: For Gods sake do some
thing to shake the foundation of
Washington and get us out of this
hell before Christmas. Those boys
ought to be at home raising families
of young Americans. We do not
feel that there is any reason for
their staying there through another
terrible arctic winter"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11

Cares but in addition pay taxes to
make the pa3ses possible"
Then | don't think the govern
ment should, run the railroads"
said Jack
THE government should not run
the roads, Jack. This pass bust
ness and many other things have
shown that it will not work"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11
FARM FOR SALE

225 acres, one mile northwest of
Guthrie Center, Iowa. Well i'm
proved, ITS acres under cultivation
$3.50 per acre. Good terms. Chas.
H. Taylor, owner, Guthrie Center
Iowa. 36-St
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11

the fed he cracked the ball on the
nose in his three times at bat
Shupe pitched nice game Sun
day and had the visitors at his
mercy at al times. He deserved a
shut-out.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-11
Audubon

TOtas ---.--.-.------..-- OF IT. I
%Kellv replaced Ramsey in the
4th.
**Law replaced Slayton in the
9Th
New Britain herald., 1919-07-12

q 0uai nature that had always been 3 trlal to my respectable Norman family, betooh myself to Brussels, where l learned the Belgian, Maeterlinck, lived and l sought his acquaintance. It was hard.
 First, I had to meet some one who knew him. l did-a man. He told me that Maeterlinck was sauvage,' he de tested people and especially the unreal people of the stage. I was an unreal woman of the stage but I was real in the admiration I felt for the writer of that wonderful book.
 Besides said my friend, 'Maeter- linck is not what your imagination pic lures him. He is old he has beard long and grizzly; he has passed into old age I was disappointed, and yet I still wanted to meet him, saying to the man that I should like to love him, even as a daughter loves her father.
 "If I cannot have him as my love I shall meet and adopt him as a father,' I told him.
 "A party was given and 1 was in vtted. l shall never forget that mo
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occurrence, an ideal marriage of two artists. which has been so suddenly shattered by news of tho divorce. Madame Leblanc has told of the court ship, SenSatiOnally romantic in it's un- usual features, of the happy life in the old chateau, which has recently been destroyed by the Germans, and of the delightful manner in which husband and wife together produced unique artistic plays in the picturesque grounds of their home. It is d charm ing story. and while it may now dis tress the TonlanticiSt and give food 10 the hard-hearted pessinist for un- palatable comments, still the pretty tale will bear "ecounting 2 this time.
 The "affaire N1aerernnc!:" followed ir the history of the actress after the "affaire Marsh and many people at the time were skeptical that 1t would ever 20 as far as marriage. Of the .'affaire Marsh,' it is needless to tell now. 1t was like so many ro1nances which center about aCtr esseS. Madame Leblanc was nearly forty years old, and very beautiful. She had become famous in the title role of Sapho at
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the Opera Comique, Paris. Marsh was 3 young English boy. who fell in love with her, giving up his f1ancee at home and being cast off hv his fam lIy Ihen she, strangely enough. fel! in love with him, and when he finally left her to go back to his home she tried 10 stab the messenger who brought her news of his desertion and even went so far as to attempt sui eide by poisoning
 IhlS aI11ir. needless to say, does not appear in her own story. which be- gins later, at the time when she left Parls and the opera. announcing dramatically that she was going to Belgium 10 marry Maurice Maeter. ljnck, whom sie had never met.
 T was singing at the Opera Co1nique, in Paris" she said when telling the incidents of her romantic career in an interview during her stay in this country. T had made suc- cessful debut, and had signed a three years contract. ] csme across a book of Maurice Maetarlinck, philosophy translated from your Emerson. ] read the Preface.' I was enraptured I read and read and it was like talking the things my mind had dreamed about I read once and twice, and one night remained awake all night.
 1T thought of the book and the mind behind the book. He is mine. I shall meet him. l shall love him; he must love me
 Born with an Independent spirit,
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by his personal friends and the world at large. The general reaction among those who cared for him is Fplced ln the following comment, contemporary -,-it1, the announcement of his coming marriage:
 Tn Paris the annOuIl cement tha: inc Belgian dramat;st is to marry Madame C1eorgette Le Blanc is greeted with wonder His friends, even after 1raeter1inck himself mad circulated the ,,evs. declare that such a man, a sym i,,,i9t with wonderful style, phlloso' ,>ber with original thought, a poet en- ,ov-ea with genius, a dranGti6t with TO modern equal--such man should }Yate only with uncommon 2n0 mar veIous attainments.
 .Jf Maeterlinck is to be believed. sha has the delicious Womanly quality or ro+ being oYcrweighted with brains. l,I,a i" not assertive and rot opinion 2ted. She is deferenti2i and easy O. direction. Sine has CaptINated always L1 her charms, never by her bon HotS. In the great philosophers eyes she IS endowed. possibly, with just the com fo,tahle qualities which caused Goethe to fall in love with his cook; with rhe sort of discretion with which Heine's housekeeper won his heart: with the tenderness of Samuel John sons Betsy
 Perchance the friends Of Maeter- Unck and the contemporary writers were too severe in judging his bride, for the marriage, instead of being sl1ort.lived as was prophesied. has lasted for eighteen years. If the two artists have for a long time been un' happy together the world has not known it. for it has been generally be- ]ieved that the marriage turned out 1o be ideal, as Madame Maeteriinck has often pictured it.
 "In my entire life with Maeterlipck VIC have never had a dispute-a guar. rel" she said, after they had been married more than ten years. So strange it has seemed that often hava heard our servants telling others that we were queer and strange.
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A Startling Announcement

We parted, but love still fingered in my heart, Every day for three months I wrote to AIaeterlinck and told him my every thought l never saw him nor would I see him. My let ters told my story to him. He tried to see me. he tried in vain.
 At last, after three months, when I had TO thought of Gught but him, he came to ne ano we have loved for all time. I tell yuu this to show you how woman is the aggressor."
 And how was che announcement of this enga cement received by others? Knowing Maeterlinck and knowing the type of woman whom he was to wed, it is easy 10 fancy the an1aZement with which the startling news was received
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Absorbed in His Art

Mime Maeterlinck is her huspands barometer" is the happy expression or a writer at this time. who knew or their life in the abbey. "Sho feels his moods in advance and responds. If he blows warm. so does she, if hs blows cold, so does she. She veeTs like a weathercock in response to each of his moods. When he is glad, she is glad; when he is sad. she is sad; when he is mad she is mad.
 Suddenly after weeks of calm ccun- try life the poet is impelled to revelry, His wife sets the scene. She writes her gayest friends of the stage to come down from Paris. She turns the beautiful garden into bacchanalian festival The quiet neighbors gossip and shudderingly gaze between the cracks in the fences.
 The contrast to the beautiful, calm days that have preceded this outburst amaze every one but Mime. Maeter' Iinck. For weeks 8 time before this the poet has remained as if entranced with the peace of his garden, miles from the din of Paris Day after day H3 walks III I0Gs IlSlOS dpSOI DCO III bI@O conposition of beautiful verse. In such a mood he breaches the worship of all that is pure and good. His thoughts seem all to be lifted heaven ward. He becomes deeply religious. For days he scarcely speaks to his wife; he seems to have forgotten that she exists. Patiently she waits for him to become once more communica- tive. She sits in the garden beside him reading or sewing.
 Often the neig. DOTS passing, thoss who a few nights before have peeped in upon scenes of revelry, will catch a glimpse of Mime. Maeterlinck quietly alarming stockings for her remarkable husband. Again she is bending over the stove in the kitchen concocting a dish that is calculated to bring him back to the contemplation of earthly pleasures.
 For hours they sit silently side by side in their garden with hollyhocks roses and sweet-smelling honeysuckre vines surrounding them. They are con- tent with peace and isolation ThHY
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understand each uther witEo1t speak ing"
 While Mime Maeterlinck live6 in ac- co,dance with her tempera annentsi husbands moods, he, on his part. was doing al ill h:s powe: to aid her n her artistic career. For she did not ieavts the stage or her marriage. but continued to act and s;ng being esPe c!ally fond or creating the leading roles in her husband plays and operas. and of giving readings of his poetry. with music accompaniment Appar. entIy the mana gers were not so eager as her husband that she should create" in his pays. for there are records of frequent difficulties or this score between dramatist and nt oducef. and in at least ono casG he went to law because another leading woman had been placed in tne part witch hls wife desired.
 Romance Coilapaes With War
 Such are the rather imperfect glimpses given us of this most tn. usual couple and their Land of HaKE PIiGSS. 1u6Il CetLIlC IIlS war and wrecked that beautiful home in the old abbey. H
 Did the German shells wreck also the last fragments of happiness re n1aining in this marriage which had been heralded as "ideal"? The romance between Maeterlinck andehis present wife began eight years ago, according to his friend, Henry Russell. But the public knew nothin: of if. Had the old abbey not been shattered by oomhardment is it not possible that Maeterlinck and his wife might have continued in their old way of lifa concealing f.'om the many adn1irersfof both the domestic tragedy which lay. hidden in the heart of apparent paraa- disc? Up to the end they were evi.s dently keeping up appearances, for it was only at the granting of the di. vorce that Mime, LeBlanc; vvitI,dra,v from the company which is producins Maeterlinck's new play, "A Burxo master cf Belgium"
 C.
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Sometimes they call us cray reSsuseI we never disagree never quarrel llSs married people
 The MaeterJinck home in the ola abbey. so largo that husband ana SF1ts often mado appointments with teacH other if they wished to meet some where within it's 800 1ooE1s. hecarr1s known as "r,le LanG o1 Happiness reaIiza tion of Maetcrlinck's "H!us Bird She is tho other l1af Of my soul" MaeterIinck is quoted as saying regarding his wife, and she played the role of the other half by being. his interpreter on the stage and by meet ing his every mood with slfniiaF mood on her part
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ment when looked upon my Maeter. mex foung, peautiful--a man among men. l shrieked out: I ran wildly a1ter hinn' He was afraid or mo. Re feared me.
 T was dressed most originally. have never dressed in the mode. I de test the mode. l. only accentuates tho stupidity of the majority of women. wore a c!ose.fitting gown Of black with a train. I wore q dia. lnond between my eyes. wore no other jewel, no other color: but my heart was aflame.
 My man, my man; you are mine I said. and I took his hand He was awed, overcome with my audacity, as he thought it to be. He was so won derful, but so shy. so different.
 Finally he became interested in me. He asked me pertinent questions of myself, of my life, and 1 told him the truth of all I told him l mad two na. lures, one of the stage, joyous, indif- ferent to realities, whimsical pleas. ure-loving, and that other self was the housewife self, the woman who would and could make sacrifices and who could and would be loyal and patient and enduring and kind, In both I was honest. In each I could be happy at times, but what I wanted was to have one dominate the other. I wanted the real woman. the serious creature that dwelt with midnight oil over his phil, osophy, and the woman who wanted to live some one real purpose, to dom mate
 "Maeterlinck listened in his queer plrdllke way. He did not know whether it was the truth after all. IT Eas Interesting and new in his expe- Tience. l was sensitive. I am sensitive and have always been sensitive, and said You doubt me. Leave me and l shall make you believe in me
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MIME. GEORCETTE LE BLANC Singer and actress who became Maeterlinck's wife eighteen years ago after a romance in which she played the role of hunter and he
 the hunted
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,ed q walk-around," a Pf planta ton life, and SucceGSt in writing ads" for his company. pr four years before n was told that he Fe a new one ready |earsal. It was a
 y, and as he was
 a window trying
 an idea. a phrase
 ,f the troupe had
 heir tour through
 nter popped into
 ! was in Dixie"
 Rs an inspiration
 song. In 1861 a
 it in a theatre in
 Washington Ar Eade it a part of
 Il lioS DSSH QiS
 Body was an old camp-nleetil7g song. ere used until Julia He her famous Battle song of the Spanish Hot Time in the Old r It was a popular street The war started and the bly took it for their own. so much that some of the Respondents wrote home to Frs that America entered ying their two national an 'he Star SpanAled Bannet" tot Time in the Old Town"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-13
PANTON.

Private Il. Josiah Stagg of Camp Dew
ems was at the home of his parents over
Sunday. He has recently been subjected
to X-ray examinations and pieces of
shrapnel were found located in his left
side. One piece Was extracted which was
the size of a little fnger-nail, and it's
edges We're rough. His wounds are heal
ing nicely and he expects to be home be-
fore MANY weeks. Peter Smith Is con-
fined to the house by illness.-Lake Cham
plain froze over here Tuesday for the first
later than last winter.-The report has
been received that Miss Lucy Warner, a
former resident, is very i'll with pneu-
monia at the home of her nephew, Carl
Warner of Fitchburg, Mass, with whom
she resides.-Mrs. Herbert Sprague and
son, Clarence, have returned from New
Haven, where they have been spending
a few days with her sister Mrs. B. J..
Allen and family.-Mr. and Mrs. William
Stowe of New Haven visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Spaulding recently.-Mrs. Joseph
Rogers is with her husband at Montpelier
this week. Last week she visited her
daughters, Lottie, u teacher at Hunting
ton, and Della, who teaches at Alburg
and they were guests over Sunday of
their son. Arthur and family of Alburg.-
Miss Belle Harris of Nergennes and Miss
Flossie Heustis, nurse, who has been
busy for some time with patients in
Vergennes, spent few days with Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Vanderhoof recently.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-13
ORWELL

Henry Belinger had shock from
which he never rallied and died on Sat-
tuday at one o'clock. The funeral was
held yesterday at St. Paurs Church,
at 10 o'clock. Mr.. Belanger was the best|
mechanic that ever lived in town. his
place along all lines will never be filed
Orwell people are glad to learn that thai
Rev. Benjamin Swift has accepted a|
pastorate in Princeton, Mass.-A Red
Cross worker has finished 81 pairs oil
socks, II sweaters, mufflers and many|
small things, this worker was Mrs. ST.
C. Bull.--Church services were held lastI
Sunday with good attendance after bel
ing closed three weeks.-The schools
opened Monday.-C.. l.. Hammond of
Fair Haven come to town Monday stop-|
complete the sale of his farm to Charles
Patterson of Benson.-Mrs Noble Wissell|
and son seem to be gaining slowly. w. /
b. French has purchased the John|
Lavery place.-The remains of Mrs Mary|
Lilly, who died in Whiting at the home|
of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Lewis,
were inferred Thursday in Chapman 81
Point cemetery.-R. c. Brown has been|
appointed deputy sheriff by George ST.
Farr of Bristol.-Many have filed their
ice houses the past week.-The annual
rooms on Wednesday, February 26-
County Agent. Bartlett. was at II. D..
Branchs Saturday last Anyone in need
of dairy feed should look up the same
with Supt. Bartlette and save SO ton.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-13

Benjamin ComstocK has moved his
family to the Hammond farm on Bris-
toll Flats-Mrs. Sarah Dumas left yester-
day for Rutland, where she will join
Mr.. and Mrs ID. w. Durfee and travel
with them to Nebraska, where she will
visit tives.-Theodore Booska has
moved to his farm in Monkton recently
purchased of f.. A. Ferguson.--William
Palmer has moved his family from the
Ferguson farm to Mr.. Booskas house
on South street, r. Becman sailed
last week from New York for France,
where he will do educational work under
the direction of the v NJ. c. A.-Mr. and
Mrs. Elroy Babcock have returned from
visit to their daughter in Weybridge.
Mrs. r. r.. Thomas is much improved
in health.-Mr. and Mrs. Arthur j. Mott
of Duxbury, Mass, are the parents of
son, born Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mott were formerly of this town.-Miss
Rena Jimmo has returned to the Rut-
land Business College after passing the
weekend at her home here.-Miss Stella
Sherman has returned to the Buring on
Business Colege.-Mrs. n. Il. Shattuck
returned to Burlington Monday.-Miss
Estele Clerkin and Miss Elizabeth
/ O'Brien are away for few days visit
Vernon Pecor went to Burlington Mon
day.-Mrs. j. l.. Selden went to Middle
bury Saturday to attend the initiation
exercises of her college fraternity.
| The Eastern Star social committee for
! February gave a Valentine party in
Masonic hall Tuesday night, which was
a very pleasant affair. Mrs. Earl Church
! had charge of the program, which con-
sisted chiefly of Valentine games The
committee served dainty refreshments
| in, ho in
! decorated for the occasion. During the
refreshment hour music was furnished
by the victrola. After this a social hour
followed with music by the young people
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank King visited Mrs
Kings brothers family in Hancock Sun
| day. Tuesday they were called back
there by sickness in the family.-Miss
| Florence Hanks is at home from her
| school in Fairfax.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-13
MONKTON

Orion T. Barnumn, the son of Phile-
mon and Rebecca Thomas Barnumn, who
died early in the month, was born in
spent his entire life. December %. 1865,
he married Amanda Dean, sister of the
late f. II. Dean. Mrs. Barnumn passed
away on December %, 1916. To this
union two children were born, Mrs.
Mary Barnumn Eddy of this town and
Harry O. Barnumn, who passed away
but two weeks previous. Mr.. Barnumn
had many prominent town offices and
was a member of the Vermont Legisla-
ture in 1876. He is survived by the daug-
ter, and also by Mrs. Vrana S. Barnumn.
daughter-n-law, besides four grandchil-
dren and three decentralization.
He always was kind and generous
giver for all purposes to the good of the
community. In early life he became a
member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. The funeral was held from his
home on Tuesday, February 4. The Rev.
NJ. w. Russell. pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of this town. con-
Quoted the simple service. Burial was
in the family lot in the East Monkton
cemotery.--W. c. Donahue has begun
ice cutting on Cedar Lake.-Guy Bushee
has the repairs on his house so far COM
pleted that he expects to move into it
soon.-It is expected that the Rev. f. NJ,
Hagadorn of North Ferrisburg will oc-
cupy the pulpit in exchange with the
pastor Sunday.