| Show ft 8 Hurly Burly CHARLEY TURNERS TURNER'S life had been a asad asad asad sad one and therefore it was not very unexpected news when I heard one morning that he had committed suicide I had known him well since he came to this country and had corresponded with him up to a few months before his death He hal had not been in our town very long before he fell feU deeply in love lo with witha a young girl of the place You might not have said Alice was beautiful if you judged from your own view but you would have thought her so if you had heard Charley Turner describe her He was infatuated with her Her very features to him symbolized symbolized sym sym- something sublime II She is beautiful Those blue eyes seem to say I thank you Her mouth is forever forever for for- ever ever framing the words I live for the happiness of others Doesn't her dark hair when it blows across her forehead forehead typify Gods God's goodness His gift of freed freedom om II That is the way he once described her to me The girl loved him He worked hard for several years to make enough money to present present her with a anice anice anice nice little home when they should be married But after they were married they did not seem to have any desire to settle down they wanted to travel So Charley sold the place and they went away Soon I heard from him They were in England enjoying the trip immensely Th They y were in Switzerland when I next heard from them They decided to live there for awhile at least so they built a cabin at the foot of one of those large mountains mountains mountains moun moun- and settled down But their happiness was short How these two lives were blighted is best told in ina a letter I received from Charley soon after Here it is isMy is- is My dear friend When Alice Alic and andI I 1 I left civilization and built a humble home out here among among the wild Alps we firmly believed our happiness was com com- And it was was for for a time As I have no doubt told you before before I I am so crazed I hardly remember what I have said said our our cabin was built at the foot of a very steep steep hill w which d sloped back to a high mountain It It was my custom to take rambles over the hills looking for specimens ns hoping to possess a fine cabinet before our return to America One da I left my Alice and took a new rou route e to the summit sumin t of the mountain At length I r reached it and gazed down upon the little home wherein was the only one who could ever make life a joy to me II A A large boulder lay balanced on the side of the mountain There was a cavity beneath it no doubt made by the rains A glittering stony in this cavity attracted my attention I lay lav down and placed my arm arm in in but ut could not reach the stone I then sat down own behind behind behind be be- hind the boulder and without a a thought put all of my strength together and started it rolling down the moun moun- tain I watched it for a moment and marvelled at its wonderful speed but the stone again attracted my attention and I picked it up to examine it with my lens Suddenly a sound below caused me to look down There lay utterly shattered all my hopes The boulder had rolled down the mountain into the back of the cabin and gone through I went down the mountain fast faster r than I had ever gone before Where is Alice Where is Alice That was the question that rang in my head I found her in the midst of the ruin dead Yes she was quite dead Oh my dear ear friend imagine th the agony I experienced when I found her cold in death My heart was too too- full of grief to allow me to weep I thought I could never part with her but as I laid her away in the ground I was consoled with the r I might might- sometime see her again Since then dear friend my life has been a a. wandering one Where I have been 1 I do not know I have seen many women since then but there was no noAlice noAlice noAlice Alice among them But she is dead I know you pity ne me Yet nothing can canever canever canever ever make me the same as before I have lived and known the sorrow of a broken heart 1 I did not hear from him again O One e eay day ay he came b back lck to the old place but buthe buthe buthe he was crazy and recognized none of his old acquaintances The boys called him Hurly Burly He was harmless until recently when he became violent an and they were forced to put him in the thel asylum l Shady S Stringer f i ff J f 1 |
