The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-12
his BURNING LOVE
IS AKIN TO PAIN
Quality Of His Anguish Changed
Now, for She Sues for Breach
-. of Promise.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service. p ~..A
Pittsburg, May l2-sharp and &c,
o;s;ve we're the clashes today in the
Steiner -Gibney breach or promise SUI
in the United States court, where MISS
Edith Gibney Of St; L Icy Ms Is sung sung
Klaus J. Steiner for $oo,oog. Inc neop pl az
tar reading about 5000 words OF burn
mo love letters from Steiner to MISS
Gibney when he was engaged 10 marry
ne The letters Of Miss Gibney to Stel-
ner will be placed IN eyldence eoihbi
row. Many letters of Steiner, to ms
sweatheart were read today, but not
nineteenth of those in the hands OF the
plaintiff $ attorney. One, dated oept.
Is, 1908, reads: ~ :. -.
He Couldn't Sleep.
It is 2 am, dearest. ! cannot s'eep.
Have gentle compassion on me. Do ~
indpe me i'll. Hear my story. Your let-
ters that come to me each day bringing
with them undisguised proof OF your un-
utterable belief in me and eXhallng the
very incarnation Of love, together WIN
nv thoughts Of you, have brought me 10
a nerfect chaos of emotion and to fierce
conflict in my mind. I am like one pos
sessed and I know neither rest OF oooy
nor spirit Good God, that I should come
| to love a woman with the passion ana
with the depth Of my soul as l love you.
| IF this be love, dearest, it is akin to pain.
Pain finds us revolving against Ill that IS
and the cause thereof indiscriminately.
Would Fly to Her.
| am burning to possess you with a de-
! sire that calm, rational argument cannot
assuage ** Why cannot ny TO
! you and, casting around you the spell OF
| Ito IL tn ySOxy n
! carry YOU off to that castle in Spain ex-
listing now only IN Imagination, but which
some day shall find place in reality and
| that shall prove a very heaven to our
troubled longing and, like a fortress, shall
bristle with. the arms of love, the. very
strength of which shall serve to repeal
aught but the contentment Of perfect
satisfaction. -
1 Oh, adore you. And look to you with
the same eager hope that men look for
salvation. am in agony of Impotence
and angry with the love in my heart that
it can't perform miracles The trouble
and the longing in me are almost more
than can bear. It is not the future
fear, but the present.
Millennium Beaten a Mile.
My love for you is so strong and the
conviction of it so Arm, that know WE
/
ing happy that the millennium of HEAVIER
will not compare, and just as surely as
the sun rises this day and God gives Us
. Hight. The present, however, fear, The
& everlasting present that hangs on witt
the length Of geologic age and torment!
with its hopes and its desires and its as
pirations all borrowed without leave from
that time to come and in the possession
Of which it finds itself uneasy and rest
I Ice zoe h Of hof ioh ic no
his IS
Has the Other Girls Wondering.
The girls here think it is subject g
much wonder that you and I should writ
each other daily. They say to me: .'Wha
! in the world can you ever find to write s
much about7'' tell them you are in
lAterested in the political crisis in Kan
,chatka, and that you love nothing bette
than to argue on the theories of the neb
ular hypothesis and like subjects whic
they, of course, swallow.