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l was careful not to show that it wakenad-
any interest in me; cautiously and reverentlY
/ perambuated the studio, half choosing and
wholly rejecting, twice paying little Blanca the
insufficient tribute of a transftory cold glance,
before 1 felt dispassonate enough to ask
whether 1 might carry away, as a memento OF
my friend and of his art, the wstfu suflcn
portrait Of this little Murilo face with the
prominent cheek bones and dropping mouth,
the rather broad nose and staring eyes.
Il don't think 1 know that" said Mrs.
Mountjoy, delicatey wrapping her hand in
duster before venturing to draw the grimy can
vas into better light Il suppose that's one of
the studies he did when he stayed with you last
year"
For a wonder, he doesn't seem to have
dated it." l said; and this lapse from candor
was the last sacrifice of truth to friendship that
| was compelled to make IF you don't want
to keep it"
You're most welcome to it." said Mrs.
Mountjoy stepping past to lift the picture
down from the ledge on which 1t was standing.
AS she drew it away from the wall there was
metallic clatter, followed by the sound of some
thing round and light rolling over bare boards
Before 1 could see what had fallen. she had
stopped and picked up a long, slender knife set
in a rough wooden handle. What dangerous
thing to leave about she exclaimed.
This time L had no opportunity of walking
indifferently round the studio to impress her
with my lack of interest but IN calllng tne knlle
dangerous she had given me my cue.
He must have brought that back, too l
said. Its an ordinary gardening knife; you
see them by the thousands in Italy. | believe
they're used, anAlg other things, for pruning
the vines If you're afraid that some
one will cut his fingers with it. :.
OF utility the knife showed little promise;
of beauty or worth none at all. Before | left
the house that afternoon it had been given tn
me: and when returned to Italy week later,
Il accompanied me-with a stout cork over its
dagger point and wad of felt round its muir
derous blade-in the trunk that already con-
tanned the mediocre portrait behind which it
had so appropriately sheltered itself for the
best part of year.
Though Marshall Gaunt was my guest dur
ing the whole time that he painting Blanca,
l never saw him at work on this portrait. One
morning, l remember. he told me IN high jubila-
ton that he had discovered an incompatible
model; but an important collection was being
dispersed in Florence, and, when l returned
making wholly undersigned entry-lt was In
time to see him painting his signature with free
and grandiose sweeps of the brush.
Bianca-I never heard her other name-had
crept down from the dais to inspect and criti-
cize, and was standing at his elbow, munching
with box of chocolates pressed jealousy to her
waist In the studio face to face with the can
J vas and looking from the one to the other with
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an aesthetic Judgment, / felt that Marshall had
painted an indifferent picture of a girl who was
nprepossessing by almost every artistic stand
ard In the framework of her bones. in the
moulding of her flesh and in the coloring of her
hair and eyes poor Blanca was innocent of all
beauty; great artist, seeing her curiosity and
qualification in staring at her own portrait. see
ing, too the tenacity with which she gripped
the chocolate box, and guessing, no doubt the
acouisitvencss with which she had seized it,
might have painted heo symbocally a wolf
in the early stages of domestication by food;
but Marshall Gaunt would have been the first to
admit that he not a great symbolic artist.
"Iiullo, | say, you've missed the time of
your life" he cried he caught sight of me.
This picture. Don't try to think of polite
things to say about it, because l know as well
as YOU do that it's bad But I've had great fun
with this young lady. It's all right; she doesn't
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meager little person, in her efforts to learn Eng
lish and-most of all-in her trick Of follow
ing him with devoted eyes he moved about
the studio, Blanca began timidly to return his
love; and the best excuse that l can make for
my own blindness is that the idea of love be-
tween two such people was so fantastic that |
refused to contemplate it.
might be refusing to this day if / had not
had the proof forced upon my notice. The first
picture had been followed by second, the sec
ond by third-that Indifferent. unfinished por-
trait which had carried back to Campitello
from the studio in Mazda Vale. One afternoon
as it neared completion, observed change in
Marshall Gaunts demeanor; a new elation was
making him restless and the reStlesSness re-
acted Blanca until she, patient sitter made
perfect by her loving desire to please him, moved
and fidgeted about beyond the limit of the most
indugent artists toleratiOn
In my room next 10 the studio heard him
first ask and then tell her to sit STILL her muir
INJURED reply was peevish in tone. and when next
Gaunt spoke there was an unpleaslng snap IN
his voice AS Bianca's English was on the
primitive level of Gaunts Italian, I felt they
were getting at cross purposes and was about to
volunteer my services as peacemaker or at least
as interpreter when the fast crumbling endur-
ance of the artist was blown away by an eXplo-
sion of irrational and disproportionate anger.
"Damnation"' I heard. For the love Of
God sit STILL can't you?" Whatever the words
l caught a pathetic whimper of surprise and
fear. 1t was followed by quick softening OF
Gaunt's voice. Here it's all right, Don't cry.
Blanca. / didn't mean it. It's absolutely all
right I'm not angry with you. but l expect
we're both bit tired. Let's have breather."
When l came into the studio he stand
ing on the dais with round the girls
heaving shoulders, patting her head with his
other hand. drying her eyes, and, at the end,
kissing her cheeks and then her lips At the
scrape of my boots on the tiled floor she shook
him off and turned away until she felt COM
posed enough to face us. while l took Gaunts
arm and made him help me lay out the simple
ingredients of evening meal. 1t my
turn now to become conscious of atmospheric
disturbance, and I cannot define the sensation
any better than by saying that seemed to have
interrupted private emotional scene which the
actors independently decided to suspend long
l was present From distance l should
have judged that it was scene of anger or,
less gloriousy, of petulance, but, at close quar-
ters, l appeared to have interrupted love pas
sage, and for the first time ! felt that they had
reached an understanding from which 1 was
excluded.
Blanca, l felt very sure as looked at her
passionate eyes and hungry mouth. wanted to
be kissed no less than Marshall Gaunt wanted
10 kiss her; it unsatisfed longing more than
fatigue or artistic impatience that made them SO
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neglected wardrobe and packed the clothes in
shapeless bundles for his old schools mission
in Rotherhithe. ]. too, was anxious enough 10
escape from the gray lifelessness and the chill
mists of Mazda Vale in winter
"He wanted you 10 choose something for
Yourself" said Mrs. Mountjoy, pausng, flushed
over the last unfinished parcel of books. ITS
in the will. And even if it weren't. ="
II hoped that perhaps there might be some
SKETCH" l said. Anything he has left in the
studio :"
What l was seeking had far eluded me,
even in the sanctty OF Marshalrs bedroom
perhaps it destroyed, perhaps left behind
unfinished in some uneXpored corner of my
own villa. I believed. nevertheless, that the
faculty of self torture which came to life when
Marshall revealed himself as sensitive" and
emotional" would have preserved, for future
modification, the iron spike which he had bound
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into his flesh a year before.
And it was in the studio that
| lighted upon the object of
my quest; an unfinished
drawing of an Italian peasant
girls head and shoulders, not
turned to the wall, not hid
den, yet equally not thrust
into prominence. but left as a
cripple might leave exposed
the boots and spurs of his
hard riding youth.
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A DAUGHTER OF PAN

Then he went back to his easel, and l saw
his narrow. white face lighting to smile as he
painted in "A Daughter of Pam
That was our first meeting. my own first
warning; and, looking back on it ALL do not
think that. If l had my time over again. should
act differently. Had Gaunt been dssoute boy
of 20 | might have counseled him not to lay up
trouble for himself others; but insofar as
/ knew him, he was detached and rather cold
blooded man of more than 40. with a certain
sense of responsibility and even stronger instinct
for general fitness Of conduct. That he had
any designs on Blanca improbable; that he
would try to carry out any designs on her in
the intermittent presence Of her scowling sweet
heart and through the medium of an interpreter
was inconceivable By day, so far as l could
gather he subordnated all personal interest to
the exigencies of the sitting; and it was only
in the evening, when joined them in their crust
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and glass or wine. that they dropped
the relation of artist ana model for
that one of one human being to
another.
Had l enjoyed greater oppor-
tunities of observation | could not
look back OH those days so compla-
Gently, for can see now that there
were danger signals which l ought
to have regarded. Little by little.
in voice and manner, Gaunt showed
anyone who cared to see that he was
falling in love with Blanca; little by
little, in the new concern for her
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-14
Request Is to Free
Portland F. & A. NJ.
Temple of Mortgage

Portland, Me-, Jan. IA mortgage
for 100000 on the Masonic Temple
is to be redeemed under certain con-
ditions, from the estate of Augustus
G. Sch1otterbeck. according to pro-
visions in his will. filed in probate
court today. He was chairman of the
committee which had charge of the
erection of the temple about ten
years ago. He had been connected
with the drug business here nearly
so years.
The payment will be made from a
trust fund to be established after the
death of his wife on condition that
there are surrendered to the Masonic
Trustees of Portland and cancelled
within five years from the creation OF
the fund, unit certificates in the
building held by the Masonic bodies
to the amount of $500 and not less
than IS per cent. of the unit certifi
Gates bought by Masons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-14
Actors Threaten
to Start Another
Nation Wide Strike

New York. Jan. ia repetition of
the nationwide stage strike of 1919
may result in the breach of relations
between the actors Equity Associa-
ton and the Producing Managers
Association which was precipitated
here today.
The rupture was caused by the de-
mand of the Actors Equity Associa-
ton that Lee and J. J. Shubert be eX-
PEELED from the Producing Managers
Association for the alleged violations
of their agreement with the Equity
and discriminatory treatment against
Equity actors.
The exact status of the dispute,
which created excitement in the the
atrical district will not be publicly
announced until tomorrow when the
Producing Managers Association
meets to consider the complaints
| lodged against the Shuberts.
| Lee Shubert tonight characterized
the complaint against the Shubert in
terests "as silly. and based on six
dinky chorus girls"
Frank Gilmore. executive secretary
of the Actors Equity Association to-
night charged that the alleged viola
tons by the Shuberts was an attempt
to evade the contract made with the
F.; Actors Equity Association govern
ing working conditions and wages.
| The Shubert theatrical interests
employ more than 1000 actors con-
trolling virtually Is per cent. Of the
New York playhouses. and like per-
centage throughout the country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-14
'BASEBALL'S HEAD
ICONSULTS WITH
ADVISORY BOARD

Chicago. Jan. 13-Federal Judge
Lands spent his first day as dictator
of organized baseball in an all day
session today with the new baseball
advisory board consisting of John
Heydier, president of the National
League; 3. B. johnson. president OF
the American League; NJ. H. Sexton,
president Of the National Association
of Professional Baseball Clubs and
John H. Farrell. secretary OF the as
ISOLATION.
Mr.. Heydler announced that the
board had begun the revision of the
drafting rules but that it would be
three or four days before report
was ready.
Most of the four hundred or more
baseball men who hal attended the
sessions here which resulted in new
National agreements and the appoint
ment of Judge Lands had left the
city tonight.
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NO SKY HIGH TARIFF
TO AID PROF|TEERS
STAND OF Nd. REP

Washington, Jan. 13--Certain Amer
lean business interests were rebuked ,
by Representative Young. Republican.
North Dakota, today during consider
alton of tariff revision by the Ways
and means committee for asking du
ties which he charged would amount /
to licensing them to continue prof.
teering. He served notice on his fell
low members that on this ground he
would strenuously oppose the grant
ing of import duties ranging from
100 per cent to 400 per cent above
the Payne Aldrich rates"
Earlier in the day, Senator McCum-
Der, Republican, also from North Da-
kota had annouced his purpose to
seek an increase in the duty on wheat
in the Fordney emergency tariff bill
from 80 cents to so cents q bushel.
The North Dakota Senator declared
the higher rate was necessary to stop
enormous iinportations" Of wheat
from Canada. -
Mr.. Young said he was getting
tired of witnesses coming before the
committee to ask for prohibitiye rates
in the proposed permanent tarin and
relating to the committee details OF
how German competition was cutting.
,, into their trade. Testimony hads
been given on the subject Of impoRta-
ton of needles and while on that point
ed subject, Mr.. Young asserted that
lot of industries were complaining
or the competition when what has
hurt a lot Of these industries Is the
definite decision of the consuming
public to submit no longer to war
prices"
1T is time somebody put on the
brakes" he continued. Here and
now, l serve notice / shall oppose
any such duties as these witnesses
, are asking. They are pleading with
crocodile tears in their eyes for i'm
port duties ranging from 100 to 400
per cent. above the Payne.Aldrich
! rates. I am going to fight with all the
power l have against such penaliza-
| ton of the consumer.
"The war is over and the consuming
public is asking why those prices al
so are not gone. If we grant the
| rates most of these interests are
seeking we will simply be licensing
continuation of profiteering, filling
the pockets of the manufacturer, who
gets the protection, with the inyolun-
tary contributions of the consumer"
The committee was told by repre-
sentatives of zinc and lead interests
that Mexican competition was grow
| ing serious and the suggestion was
made that Congress help an industry
| which has ben practically closed
down. for the last two years.
Quicksilver mining men also ap-
| peared before the committee to seek
protection. Their mines are operating
OF. limited basis, they said, because
4 of vast imports from Europe.
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Over Half People
u. S. Now Living
in Urban Territory

Washington, Jan. l3-For the first
time in the country's history, more
than half the population OF the contin-
entail United States is living In urban
territory. Persons living III cities and
towns Of more than 900 when the 1920
census was taken numbered 54,3fS 0S2.
the census bureau announced today,
| while those living in rural territory
numbered $780, 39.
The population of the cities and towns
in 1920 showed a gain of So per cent.
over that in 1910 and was o1.4 per cent.
Of the total population of the country.
The proportion of urban population is
larger than in 1910 in all but three
states-Colorado, Montana and Wyom-
ing-the largest increase being that for
Michigan-from 47.2 in 1910 to GIL per
, cent. in 1920.
The bureaus statement did not under
take to account for the drift from the
rural to urban territory. but previously
officials there have attributed it largely
to the world war. Large salaries in the
cities attracted many from the country
| while many soldiers who lived on farms
1
the cities after their discharge.
In total urban population, New York
leads the country, while Pennsylvania
stands second, Illinois third, Ohio
fourth, Massachusetts fifth and. New
Jersey sixth. Rhode Island has the
highest percentage of urban population
compared with it's total population
with 97.5 per cent: Massachusetts is
second with 94.S, New York third with
82.7.
The District of Columbia is 100 per
cent. urban inasmuch as the city OF
Washington is cooperative with the
District.
In total rural population Texas leads
while Pennsylvania is second. Missis-
sippi has the highest per cent. of rural
population as compared with it's total
population, it being S6.6 per cent.
The urban ana rural populat ion of
the New England states follows:
Connecticut. 93G.339 and 1922;
Maine, 2s9,5C9 and 46S.445: Massachu-
sets, 3.65O,24s and 202,109: New
Hampshire. 279.761 and 16a,322; Rhode
| Island, 5s9,1S0 and 1921; Vermont.
| 109.975 and 242,452.
| Other of the larger states follow:
| California, 2,331,729 and 1.0s5,132:
| Georgia, 727S59 and 2,167,973; ILL.,
nois. 4,4o5,67s and 2.079.602; Indiana,
1.4s2,S55 and 1,447.535; Michigan, g.
242,56o and 1,426.s52: Minnesota, L.
051 ,5s3 and 1.335.532; Missouri. 1906
/ 900 and I.S17.152; New Jersey, 2.4s2.-
oSs and 673.611: North Carolina. 4s0.-
$40 ard 2.06s,752: Ohio, 3.s77,136 and
2,0S225s; Pennsylvania, 5.607,S15 and
3,112, 202: Texas. 1,512.6S9 and $780,
/ $50: Wisconsin. 1.244,56s and 1887, 4s9.
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TO RUN BLAINE MANSION

The Legislature on Thursday noon
again adjourned over the week-end,
10 assemble at 400 o'clock next Tues
day afternoon. This is occasioned by
the fact that the committees are or
sanizing and that the business so far
presented for consideration is not
sufficient to call for continuous ses-
sions, Just as much progress can be
made by adjourning over, so that
course was taken.
Nothing but routine business was
transacted in either branch on
Thursday morning with two eXcep-
tons, one in the Senate and one in
the House.
The Blaine Mansion Resolution
A resolution was introduced in the
Senate by Senator Sprague of Piscat-
aquis to provide for the maintenance
Of the Blaine Mansion during the
coming two and one half years as
the official residence of the Governor
Of the State. The emergency clause
vas attached and the resolve in both
branches was passed to be engrossed
Final passage Will be in order on
Tuesday.
The resolution and accompanying
statement of facts follow:
Whereas, the State of Maine has
accepted in trust the deed from Har-
liett Blaine Beale of the home of her
father, Hon. James G.. Blaine, and has
pledged it's honor faithfully to fulfill
the trust set forth in said deed and in
the letter accompanying it, and
Whereas, there is no definite and fixed
appropriation or fund available for
The care and maintenance of the
same as the official residence of the
Governor of the State while in office
and Whereas, proper and adequate
provision should be immediately
made for such maintenance in order
that the Governor may take up his
official residence in the Blaine house
as provided and expected, and
Whereas, the facts above, stated con-
stitute an emergency and the passage
OF this resolve is Immediately neces-
sary for the preservation of the pub
Continued on Page 12-CoIumn ~
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Wade Cracks Cold
Blo0ded Joke as He
Hears Death Sentence

Bridgeport, CT, Jan. 13.-Notice of
intention to appeal was filed with the
clerk Of the superior court here late
today by Attorney Frederick f. Nor
gan Of counsel for Elwood b. Wade.
who earlier in tho day was sentenced
to be hanged on May 20 for the murder
OF George L. Mott in Motifs home in
this city on August 20 last. The
grounds for the appeal were not an
nounced, counsel saying that they
would take a good part Of the 20 days
allowed TO decide this point.
The filing of the intention of APP
peal automatically takes the case to
the state supreme court Of errors and
suspends execution of the sentence
until the supreme court has passed
upon t.
Wade was one of the coolest per-
sons in the courtroom today when SEN
fence was pronounced. Before the
court opened he smilingly commented
on the iessened attendance. When
asked ty Judge Human whether he
rad anything to say, he calmly replied,
No, sir" And after the sentence
vas pronounced he said THANK you"
Uen reached for his hat and overcoat.
What did he say" Wade inquired
u deputy sheriff on the way out
rom the courtroom.
May 90, before SUNRISE" was the
answer
Gee. can taste the cider already"
said WADE.
What do You mean, cider?' inquired
Inc deputy.
can feel my Adams apple being
squeezed up replied the prisoner
with a ;1in.
wade vas taken Immediately TO the
Ne'hersfeld prison. where, according
:" the Geputy sheriff who accompanied
."h' he maintained the same calm
'stneaaor while answering questions
'uu being placed in cell. He left
"efe without seeing his young wife.
VINO Is in a hospital suffering from a
NrNous breakdown.
state Attorney Homer $. Cum
,.ihes announced in court TODAY that
I's Mott and John z. Johnston. both
" "hom are indicted for the murder
''F which Wade was convicted, will
paced on trial during the February
Vftn CT the court and served notice
VI Their attorneys that no further de-
''F VIII be allowed in their cases.
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Is Lenine Dead?
Say "Karpof" Is
Old PSeudOnym

London, Jan. ia communica-
ton from Moscow announcing the
death Of M. karpoff, member of the
supreme economic council OF soviet
of Russia, is quoted in q Berlin dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
here received by way of Paris today.
The supreme council in Moscow
contains no person named Karpoff
which is an old pseudonym of Nj
Some of his publications bear that
name.
The Jewish News Bureau, a New
York City news agency on Jan. 9 an
nounced receipt of a dispatch from
its Moscow correspondent telling OF
the dangerous illness of Lenine. The
dispatch received by way of Berlin,
read: Il have just learned authori-
tativeiy that Lenine has been taken
dangerously i'll. Three we'll known
German specialists from Berlin were
sent for and are now on their way to
Moscow for consultation
The news bureau added that its
Berlin correspondent had attempted
to obtain. verification of the dispatch
from Victor Kopp, representative in
Berlin of the soviet government, but
that the latter refused either to con-
firm or deny it.
Officials of the Russian soviet
bureau in New York said today that
NJ. karpoff was unknown to them
They also declared that Premier Lee
nine, to their knowledge. was never
known as N. karpoff. nor had he
written books under that name.
A Berlin dispatch to the Havas
Agency, received in New York today
said that the Russian newspaper Rul
had announced the death of "The
Communist Karpof' in Moscow. The
dispatch added: "Karpoff seems TO be
the former pseudonym of Lenine"