, 1884-08-16
TURNER'S TROUBLES.
The Wise Advice to SamiveI Again
Disregarded.
A Pretty Widow Causes a Number
of Complications.
Why a Sewing Machine Agent
Joined the Departed.

not materially rippled the surface of bust
ness or society, but evidence is not lacking
which shows that he enjoyed the goods
the gods provided as he drifted along
from day to day.
Some weeks ago Turner was called to
Denver by II mysterious message. The
reception of the telegram caused him no
little agitation, and those familiar with
him entertained certain suspicious which
need not be enlarged upon. After his re-
turn he evinced a vague unrcst-a sort of
expectant dread-which still further con-
tributed to the interest that was being felt
in his affairs. Indeed, when it is con-
sidered hat those daily thrown in contact
with him were women, it will not be a
matter of surprise hat curiosity was
quoted at a high figure.
But Turner was not idle.
II must be understood that
he was not engaged in any ar
duous physical exertion. That sort of
thing was repulsive to one of his happy
organization. His excessive activity was
directed in other ways. When not too
busily employed in seductive conversation
with some customer, he toned down excess
OF physical yigor by collecting little bills
for other parties. Such efforts always
weakened him SO that he never recovered
sufficiently to pay the money to those for
whom it was ostensibly obtained.
A certain gentleman who is engaged
in selling some new devise in
the bed spring way, deputized Turner
to collect various small bills. True to his
promise Turner did collect the bills, the
sum total of which was $40. But he
abided by his mental reservation and put
the money in his own little pile. He also
borrowed IS of the same gentleman. which
went the way all bad debts go.
But other matters were drawing around
him meshes which were beginning to
be uncomfortable. Recently he engaged,
in Colorado, a very pleasant lady, whose
name is Mrs, Annie Weston, with the
understanding that she should aid the
management of the business. Turner
rented Mrs. Weston a portion of his
house wherein to do sewing, and as a CON
sideration in their arrangement she was
to show to lady customers the mysteries of
sewing machine manipulation. Now, Mrs.
Weston, although a very charming
woman, could not for a moment deny her
self the perogatives of her sex. She soon
mistrusted that Turner was not strictly
square in business matters, and, to cap
the climax, she one day discovered that
he was one of the principal parties in a
little affair which was not, strictly speak
ing, a matter of business.
Little by little it became known that
Turner was-well, more or less interested
in a certain young widow, whose name
need not be written just now. SUFFICE it
to say that the widow was young and
handsome, and dashing. Now, there
would have been no harm in this had it
not been for the existence of other claims
upon the widow aforesaid.
But there were.
One pleasant afternoon about three
weeks ago, the lady, who belongs to the
class of which ''Samivel' was warned to
beware, drove TO Turner'S place in a car
riage. The act was, in itself, proper
enough, but unfortunately the carriage
was the property of the party previously
mentioned as being the possession of Ger
tain claims. Somehow the tide of afTec-
ton was not running smoothly, and after
the ride Turner was habitually i'll at ease.
He imagined that he was being watched,
that he was suspected of coveting the af-
fection some other man claimed, and that,
perhaps, his life was in danger. Thus
matters stood in exquisite suspense until
one day the lady left this city. Just
where she now is cannot be told with in
fallable accuracy, but it is believed that
she went to a place about forty miles from
Fort Scott, Ks.
The sudden termination of a some
what protracted affair of the character in
question, seemed to react upon Turner
quite seriously. Letters were often ex-
changed but he grew no better quite
steadily. A few days ago he received a
telegram which, so he claimed, n%eeessi-
tated his immediate departure on bust
ness" He babe the others in the house
a hasty goodbye and went to the depot,
leaving his baggage to follow in an ex-
press wagon. Hardly had his personal
property been taken from the premises
when another message came. Mrs. Wes-
ton at nee went to the depot with the
telegram, and when Turner opened it she
saw, by the signature, that it was from
the widow previously mentioned. Since
that time Turner has not been heard
from, but a Yankee could make a guess
at his whereabouts.
The widow in question is well known
here and those who have a faculty fr
solving problems of that class may de-
termine this one to suit their pleasure.
Last night Mr.. Lockhart, the Denver
representative of the Singer Company, ar
rived here for the purpose of investigating
matters. Turner left a memoranda which
shows that his stock is sixteen machines
short but how many he sold or what
number were rented the record fails to ex-
plain. He is under bonds, however, SC
the Singer Company will suffer no loss.
Turner is also known in Greeley where q