The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-04-18
LOVE AND FOOLISH vALoa.
SchlIIer's "Ths Glove" Has Often
Been Exempified in Real Life.

Been Exemplfied in Real Life.
Chicago Chronicles: The jiltng of
Lord Kitchener by one of the prettiest
young women of Britain because of
what she termed cowardice This cruel
| treatment of the I5oer women and chill
dren) calls to mind that ever since the
girl jmmoTtalized by Schiller in his
poem, The Glove" put her lovers
courage to the test by throwing her
glove among the fierce lions growing
in the arena and dared him to rescue
it there have not been wanting maids
who demand proofs of their lovers
proWess before giving heart and hand
into their custody.
1t is a well known fact that the cour-
age of many soldiers in South Africa
has been inspired as much by the hope
of winning a bride as by love Of cOun-
try.
only last spring a young officer OF
fusileers claimed a beautiful bride as
the reward of his valor Many wooerS
had sought her hand. but only two of
them, brother officers in the same regi-
ment, had any chance of winning it
and their claims were so equal that
the young lady laughingly promised it
to the one who came home from the
war with the d. S. O. to prove his
valor. OF the two rivals only one re-
turned, having won the coveted order
by feat of almost mad daring in the
attack on Peters hill. While his I'M
happy fellow officer was shot through
the heart as he braVely led his men up
its bullet-swept sleeps.
Less than two years ago 4 British
aristocrat, the younger son of we'll
known peer, won his bride by his
proWess as big game hunter. He had
wooed her for long time, but the
young lady persistently refused to give
her consent or even to treat his adj
Vances seriously.
IF l marry at ALL" she would say,
" it must be man and not mere
draWingroom 1Gler and club lounger."
Tell me what l can do to prove that
l am man and l will do it, the
lover protested.
WELL" she answere With lush.
you lnign, go out and snoot Jew
lions and then come to me-"
fortnight later the lover was on his
way to Africa fully determined to clear
the continent of lions but at the very
outset Of his destructive career he
came to grief. The very first lion he
killed, but coming to close quarters
with the huntsman mauled him SO
severely that he was taken back to the
coast more dead than alive, and it was
six months before he could handle
gun again.
To prove that. although nearly killed
he was far from being beaten, he re-
turned again to the interior, and with"
in another six months was on his way
home to claim his bride with half a
dozen lion skins to prove that he was
more than a mere club lounger.
A recent fatal duel in Bavaria was
the direct consequence of a Womans
foolish wish to test the valor of her
lover, Herr Copper. The young lady
H., as
Captain Heinrich Scheller, had treated
her with rudeness at ball, and when
during the same evening Herr Copper
asked her to become his wife she de-
clared that she would consent on one
condition-that her lover challenge and
punish him for his affront.
The gallant young wooer sought out
the captain and when he refused to
give satisfaction Struck him violently
in the face, calling him a coward
and a disgrace to the army. This in
suit left the captain no alternatives; a
duel was forthwith arranged for the
following morning, when Copper re-
ceived mortal Mountaineering for his
foolish gallantry with his life.
A very tragic story of this kind is
told OF an Italian lover, Gerolamo BIZ
anco, who sacrificed his life without
moments hesitation to prove his
love Of Margharita Cassnis. The two
lovers were exploring the tower of
Pisa, when as the result Of some fool
ish quarrel the girl passionately de-
clared, You do not love me"
In vain BianGo professed that he did
love her as no man ever yet had loved
a woman.
There Isl nothing. I would not do to
prove my love- he passionately ex-
claimed, as they reached the summit
OF the tower.
IF you really love me-" Margharita
answered, petulantly, you will jump
from the tower"
Bianco looked at her for a moment
as If to see whether or not she was in
earnest, and then, with an "Addio,
carissima," flung himself over the par
apet to certain death. Margharita is
now an inmate Of an asylum near Pisa
and cannot understand why her lover
does not visit her.