Connecticut western news., 1872-10-11
Alice Cary.

This beautiful t1rfibate t, the memory of g. gifted woman, whose sweet and tender 'uttefaHces will long lfvein the. hearts of. the'peoples we take from. the Christtdn 'Ui,fon';, *,.,,.;9 ~. ~:'
 '' Considering the multitude of her. literary engagements, and the quantity of verse which she gave to the press dur ing the twenty years of her career; the amount of mental labor which she must have performed was indeed great e.-And yet, busy as was her life, Alice always had a half hour for friend-seeming greatly to- enjoy these breaksi2in her working hours :; 'whMe,' to the applicant for advice. OF assistance, she ever lent 2 willing ear, al a :d., ,;.a ,,...,
 "This readiness of sympathy opened the gates to wide work Of charity, and during the last yearsof jher1 life she be. came, .in a nfdentialwaYs tue dispenser of ald,, encouragement and advice to an extent which even her best friends could hardly realize or measure Was it d woman out of work q Alice'plaeed work in the willing hands. Was it .a sick family in need of food or attepdance !? Alice was the good angel who brought peace into the sad room. Was'it young girl going astray?i Alice, "tlfes gentle, sympathizing sister, won the wandering feet into sober paths. Vas it disap- pointed author who came to tell her story of disappointedlaopest? Alice; fFom~out of the stores of ,hep own. experience, draw lessons, which comfogtcd. .,and. ep
 of Mercy. and when she died, teaftss were .1~ i, ,Ss a lone chamber, where her 'n1effory now is something very aacred and sweet"
 Referring a ta her her death' 1'vs1sf the Y5iter CT
 "In'l life, the sisters we're sfnsepatable: Their love for each ,et ther was very beau tiful to behold. Unlike in many respects they were alike, in afeatiQp,; and when Alice fell sick, with her last lingering and intensely painful illness. Phoebe was almost her sole companion. and .cQm7 forter. She watched carefully through days, weeks, months, of such suffering as, happily, it is not often our lot to witness. The disease at first assumed the form of inhammatory rheumatism
 then developed into sciatica, which grad ually drew the hip socket apart. Relief was obtained, in the moments of acutest agony, only by morphine, injected and her body finally became a mass of punct- ures inflicted by the steel of the inject or. It was Phebe's hand which gave the lesser pain to soothe the greater torture. Brave in her duty. she would press the cruel probe into the shrinking flesh :; and then, when sleep followed, she would steal away to her own room tc sob her own nerves into subjection.
 "Death came at last. How great ( relief it was to the sufferer cannot be expressed in words. To Phoebe it was ( real joy-for her beloved one. after SC long agony, had repose. But who car say what Loneliness was in her heart That beautiful home, so full of associa
 tions of the dead, how inexpressibly sac must have been it's very atmosphere
 Left to herself-courting no companion
 ship even with her most intimate friends -she seemed to dwell with the dead Earth, and life, and friends, were nc longer as they were; and though she seemed to others cheerful and resigned it was only tooevident that Phoebe longet to follow her sister gone before. Sht had not long to wait, for, ere six months she, too, fell asleep" '.,.:'; ''...,. --.~,-