Show H H tm 1 M hl M HH H H WHO WAS WHO 4 by louise al comstock Corn stock i H H 1 hl ALICE BEN BOLT T T HERES HERBS a slab of 0 the granite so gray in one of those tiny old cemeteries just oft off the main automobile highway two miles cast ot or tazewell lu zewell va under which they s say a v sheet allice alilce lies the same timid brown haired alice of that t familiar an aillar ong iong ben bolt it matter that the name carved on the tipsy old stone is not alice but olivia for olivia wynne vynne a girl who lived in an old brick house just up tip the road from the cemetery and died there garly arly in the nineteenth century tile the countryside has ion long cherished the legend that alice and olivia were the same girt girl the story Is an ac old one of the country girl of sheltered life who fell in love with the stranger with the city ways this time an itinerant music master who was engaged to teach her the not unromantic art of ph placing qa ing the melodeon roel odeon there were plans for a wedding the strangers stranger I 1 S departure to make imade arrangements the girls loving dreams over her trousseau and the fatal letter revealing the perfidious music master to be already married and a man of considerable family olivia died as a true heroine of the period must of broken heart in 1812 dr thomas dunn english of pennsylvania visited hir intimate friend capt willaam edward beery then owner of the old wynne homestead was captivated by the legend and subsequently wrote the words of the familiar ballad 0 ABELARD AND HELOISE N TUE THE paris cemetery of pere I 1 IN lachaise Lac halse alse on summer sundays the sentimental still lay wreaths on the tomb of two lovers who died almost years ago but are hero and heroine of a love story which still lives on in the famous love letters of abelard and Uel olse abelard was a brilliant and handsome young professor who by the time he was twenty five flie was attracting tr thousands to his open air speeches tor for the rights of tile the individual to make his own intellectual investigations in ID time he came to verbal blows ath the venerable st bernard himself who stood for traditional authority in 1117 abelard was hired by the canon of the episcopal school la in paris to tutor his beautiful niece malece beloise Ue loise then just seventeen the pair fell madly in love and fled to gether to brittany where there was a secret marriage the re relatives lathes of liel olse followed the couple found and separated them teem and the canon further hired men to invade abelarda Abe lards rooms and brutally mutilate him bin abelard in despair en the monastery of st denis and Hel heloise olse at his bis instigation became e a nun ten years later II 11 eloise cloise ae learned arned that liis ills retirement had not brought her lover over peace and wrote the f first I 1 of five famous love letters in which Is revealed the tragedy of two noble souls who tried to forget each other but could not abelard died in 1142 helorse twenty years later HARUN as thrilling as aar ALiI or aladdin or any of the fascinating cina ting tales by which ade through a thousand and one nights entertained the caliph 0 of bagdad and sav saved ed her own life is the story of the caliph himself the caliph of the arabian nights was ilarue al ruler of bagdad during its palmy days in the eighth century I 1 ils ills story la Is made mad up of the very stuff of romance harem intrigues pol poi gonings son ings splendid gifts hideous torments with which his highhanded high handed slaughter of many brides after a single night of marriage Is quite compatible though not authenticated by history who won ills his permanent affection by her gifts as story storyteller teller was a lady of high birth harun al was son of 0 the caliph malada and a treed freed slave girl who ordered his own oin concubines to 1 kill 1111 her oldest eldest son the rightful heir beir in order to set her youngest and favorite in the throne of an empire then extending from spain to india at first under the wise a administration d of his bis grand vizier dahla the Barme elde the empire flourished and devoted himself to luxury pleasure and the arts later a quarrel between the caliph and the barme eldes led to the execution of dahla his bis four our sons and all their descendants and the ultimate downfall of the empire in rebellious disorder th the e caliph himself died in a manner quite unworthy of a fairy airy story hero bero of apoplexy I 1 q 1832 1932 western N union |