Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-27

| carrot defy obstacles is already, il
their minds, "a whipped cur and they
detest him accordingly.
Gladstone was a devoted and per-
sislent sutton, and wooed the woman he
married With undiminished ardor fol
years. Men of ability and distinction
have met with quite as many rebuffs in
(col.rtship as cthe. men, and the course
Of true love runs no more smoothly for
| the man Of genius than for the eiod-
| hopper
| Robert Schlumann was in love with
| Marie Week for years. Her father
was one OF. the most prominent and
| successful ,,iano teachers in Berlin,
! While roor Schumann was a youns
| ;!spirant for luIsical honors as well . 5
for the love of the popular instructor S
| daughter Indeed the studies written
| by Meek are excellent for the devcl--
| clmant Of technique, and that beauti :
iul lcsato style of playing which is 50
| gladly welcomed by the artistic world
Of today Week was eminently praC-
| ticsil. Schumann was as eminently
ideal. lie was a dreamer, and desired
! to- be {; composer, but Week declared
| that his compositions would never
amount TO anything, and with all tbs.
| sternneSs of q parent who felt that he
| was right, forbade the marriage
Poor Marie and Robert, as other low
ers have done before ard after, had
| their clandestine meetings and CORE
| spondence, but the lapsing years failed
| to soften the obdurate fathers heart.
| II shall never give my consent" he re-
| np1tpH 40 I,,t Col
manns love never tagged Marie was
| the only woman he loved. and never
| did his fancy or affection defect to an
other object. He was an ideal lover.
| Fortunately a higher authority than
the unrelenting father interposed.
| When parents in Germany are unreal
sonable concerning love affairs, the
court can grant permission to faithful
lovers, and this permission the old En-
peror William did grant With will
| ingness which was little short of en-
| thusiaSm. and Robert Schumann and
| Marie Weeks We're married. The world
! has decided that Schumanns compost
tons do amount to something
| The court of love records another IN
| stance OF unwayering fidelity.
| Robert browning had an experience
| very similar to the other great Robert.
Mr.. Barrett, the father of Elizabeth
| Barrett, Was even more obstinate, not
| to say pig-headed, than Week He
| was brutal. The poet-lovers We're
| faithful to each other, and to escape
| the prosecutions of her father. went to
| Italy soon after their marriage, but
never did Mr.. Barrett relent. He re-
| fused TO forgive his daughter, or ever
to see her, ana but for the pure and de-
voted love of her lover husband her
| life would have been sad indeed. She
continued to seek reconciliation with
her father, but he persisted in bitter
hostility TO her and her husband to the
| end.
| Keats, poor fellow, was a NEST de-
voted lover, whom no misfortune gould
| turn from the one woman he loved, but
to the shame Of womanhood. the pearl
| of his affection was cast before u
creature incapable of appreeiating it.
| She was It heartless firt, and merited
punishment which unfortunately was
never melted out to her. OF course, he
| like al noble natures. and especially
natures marked with a poetic tempera-
| ment. idealzed her and invested her
F, with 4 thousand charms and virtues
which she never possessed. He died.
| adorin@ her. while she never had the
| heart to care for him.
| Carlyle was an ardent and persistent
wooer. and, but for Mr.. F'roude's add
vice to the world, "to read between the
lines of his letters" might have gotten
| credit for being q better husband than
| the world is won't TO think.
| Eismark wooed in Il way quite con
sistcnt with his character. When he
asked her father for his lady loves
hand. that gentleman fumed and blus-
tered aud threatened to i degree which
might have inundated a weak man.
| Not 50 with Bismarck. he simply re-
| piled TO the fathers TRADE with the ut
most GOODNESS. and when the latter or
dered him to leave the house, he re-
Piled
| Il am sorry to annoy you, sir, but L
must respectfully decline to leave your
house until 1 have your consent"
The answer completely disarmed the
irate parent. who said ungraciously:
well, l suppose you must have your
own way, but l cannot compliment my
daughter on her choice of Il mule for i
husband"
The world perhaps would not have
agreed with him. but it is evident that
Bismarck knew as well how to win in
| love as in war.
Sheridan was equally bold in his pur-
suit of Miss Linley, the daughter of the
composer, who strongly opposed the
suit. His lady-love had many suitors
far more eligible than the penniess
barrister but the barrister won i'll the
end. and his success was due altogether
! 10 his fidelity as a lover.
But surely the courtship of Jacob
Halliday, a man well known in the
north of England. is uneqGaled by few
in ancient or modern times. After his
| first proposal the father Of the lady
| horsewhipped him and ducled him in a
| pond conveniently near. AS Jacob
scrambled out of the water the fire of
his passion was unquenched, ana he
screamed: TN ask her again next
year
And SO it happened that regularly
every year jacob Halliday, attired in
his best raiment, presented himself and
made his prOnosul and the oath fine