Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-24

such grim warriors as Bismarck and Gar
ibaldi; whom wen their most intimate
friends would not lightly have accused
of sentiment. 1t says much also for the
dominion Of love" that both these men,
who never acknowledged defeat in arms,
were v~anquished by a single glance from
a pair Of beautiful eyes.
Gar.baldi's first view of the woman
she was only a very young and very
beautiful girl then-was through a tele-
scope from the deck Of the ~1tanarica. as
he sailed into the laguna of St. Catherine,
in Brazil. There must have been a pow
erful fascination in what he saw, for, put
ting down his glass, he gave orders that
he should be rowed ashore forthwith. He
spent hours in trying to lind the house in
which he had seen this vision of beauty.
but all IN vain. and he was on the point
of returning defeated to his ship, when he
met an acquaintance and accepted his in
v~itation to drink coffee at his house.
Ry some curious freak of cate. the first
person to greet hin was the girl whose
beauty, seen from afar, had conquered
him, and, in his own words: I'VE both
remained in an estate silence, gazing
at each other like two persons who do
not meet for the first time, and who seek
in each others lineaments something
which shall renew remembrance" AT
last he greeted her. as by some overpow-
ering ~compulsion, with the words, as he
afterward often said, Il had tied a knot
which only death could break"
Bismarck's fate was equally sudden and
unexpected. 1t was at a wedding that the
young army student met his future wife,
and he was 50 conquered by her charms
that the very same evening he wrote to
her parents demanding her hand.
The parents knew Ettie of the impul-
sivc young lover, and less to his advan-
/ n Cn tny fhlco 70, IA, ,c rE htr nat
bioodcd youth. but they invited him to
visit them, 50 that they might learn more
Of him. When Bismarck rode up daugh-
ter and parents were awaiting him on the
threshold, prepared (the parents, at
leasD to receive him with cold courtesy.
But Bismarck's plan Of campaign did
not admit of formality. On dismounting
he spranS up the steps. threw his. arms
around the fraule.n's neck, and CAV her
4 series Of hearty kisses. What could the
parents do with such a warm and uncon-
ventional lover but accept him as a SON.
in-law? And this they did, to his lasting
happiness.
There are few more pathetically beau
t.ful. love stories than that Of NJ. Boug-
uereau, the great French artist. Bouguer-
eau had lost his first wife, and was living
with his mother, when he was induced to
take as his pupil a winsome and highly
gifted young American girl. 1t was not
long before the master became the slave,
and the pupil queen of his affections.
Bouguereau's mother, however, was
averse to this second love match, and, as
her consent was necessary to marriage,
the lovers had to bide their time with
what patience they could. Years passed
and the lovers watched each other grow
old, but their love remained always
young. Their studios adjoined each 9TH
er. and every day they met over their
common art. For 20 long years they were
thus kept apart, although so tantalizing-
~ near, and. when at last the mother
died. and they were free to become one,
youth had long gone from them, and
white hair had taken the place Of brown.