The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-24
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE;

My parting from you has been terribly
agonizing to me. But it must be! Oh
receive my gratitude for the love you have
for me, and forgive me the sorrow have
caused you. Do not lament US, for we have
been faithful in our love till death.
My dear parents, leave to you all that
I possess, and beg Of you only to give a
soMveniT Of me to each of my true friends.
Give to my brothers something which may
b useful to each Of them. beg you to
to the city Of Wurzburg, the city in which
my dear father passed the most important
years Of his life, and which has always
been dear to me; send with it q few serious
and kindly words. Send my manuscript
to b, and beg him to find some one who
can continue and completeit. fsssa4
In case my father should have a worthy
successor in his clinical chair CDR. Demme,
Senior, is one Of the leading Professors at
Berne in the University l bequea.h my
ga!vano-plastic apparatus to the Univer-
sity; otherwise, let my family keep II.
To my mother, With my hearts farewell,
leave the clock which has measured out
the weariest hours OF my life. You will
understand that at this solemn moment I
trust in the thoughtfulness of my parents
to fulfill all that forget to mention.
II, dear parents aud brothers, you will
protect my memory; If in the steps take
you will see, not an act Of cowardice, but
the determined action OF an incurably
wounded man, shall be satisfied. have
patiently borne all that is most fearful to
bear. Ihave never trembled. My death
now that my innocence has been establish
ed, can give rise TO no sinister interpreta-
tons. Forgive me, then! Would might
have taken the pardon OF all you with me.
This might not be! Dear parents, fare
well! Farewell, beloved brothers! Faithful
friends, farewell! May you find strength
to bear this newc, and not be crushed by it.
brothers, who SO much need you, and re-
member with love your HERMANN.
Nov. IA, 1864, NooN.-1 have just reached
| Bulle, and add few Utmost adieux 10 my
letter. We have judged it best to win this
one day more for happiness ere we part
The spot which shall mark our last step
you will know Of only by the postmark.
the bottom of my heart, farewell! Forgive
forgive the unhappy!
| LAUsANNE-We have reached Lausanne
and are on way to Geneva, our last station.
| We shall leave the world in this way: We
will take walk, and, getting into boat,
will row out upon the lake and cast our
selves in. Perhaps we do this at a partic-
particularly deep, that our bodies may not
be found. This seems to us the best course.
Farewell, all whom love! These shall be
my last words. Keep loving memory Of
us! and forgive us!
On her part the faithful Flora left the fol.
lowing letter:
To nv own dear father-in-law and mother.
in-law:
THANK you, thank you with my whole
| soul Tor all your goodness to me; for all
| the love you have shown to me, poor for
saken child. Probably can never repay
you, for have resolved to leave this world
with Hermann. The happiness have
known with him is worth whole life, and
leaves me nothing to repent Of Forgive
the suffering my poor parents drew down
upon you; forgive them for the love OF me
who would SO gladly have compensated
you for every bitter hour with double
love, and double reverence; now never
can! Farewell, my dear. good parents!
God, the almighty and all mercifnl, in
whom we all believe, will never forget you
and will reward you for all.
The alIusion made in Hermann Demme'i
letter TO their project Of SO drowning them
selves that their bodies might not be found
led the friends of this unfortunate pair fol
q few days TO hope that they might have
really left the country forever, and that the
story of their suicide might have been bu,
q blind to separate them from their crue
and troubled past in Switzerland. Thu
reader Of Lord Byron's letter will remeln
Der somewhat similar incident recorded
by him il connection with this same beau
tifal Lake Of Geneva.
But shortly after the publication of thu
letters above given, the dead bodies of thu
hapless writer's were drawn from the lax
In the immediate neighborhood Of the lit
tie village of Ouchy; and the ghosts o
I Flora and Hermann will wander hence
forth with the spirits of Julie and ST. Preu,
in the solem shadow of the Alps of Savoy
about tie lovely and legendary shores .
Lake Leman.