The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-10
GARAsALDrS WoOIHG.
magnetic Daring with Which Aoltn
Riberas Was Won and Welded.

Inc whole llI1 or the great ltdlidu
nbrrator Garibaldl. was one Of roman
tic adventure. but nothing else IN II
was more romantic than his wooing.
which Is described in his own nara.
tive. He had been driven from Italy
IN 1896 and lAudcd in South America.
wh,re he joined the struggle then be
Ing carried on by several Small states
against the empire Of Brazil he had
with him many devoted comrades
whom he loved with his whole heart
One day. however. he was shipwreek
ed on the Brazilian coast Of S1sta
catharina. and several Of his deai~st
friends were drowned in getting to
shore The survivors at esee Joined
the local army. led successfm attack
on T.aguna and were hailed rs llbera
tors Caribaldl was made chief Of the
captured Brazilian feet He paced up
and down the deck OF his flagship, but
In no victor's mood The loss Of SO
many friends had filled him with mel.
ancholy aud he began to feel his lone
liness. His mind turned 70 a natural
remedy He determined to seek a
bride among these people who so idol
lied him,
''The loss OF Luigi. Edoardo aud 9th
ers Of my countIymen." he wrote ia
his own story "left me utterly ISOLATED
| felt quite alone 70 the world. / need.
ed a human heart to love me- one that
I could always keep near me. felt
that unless found one at once life
would become lntolerable.
"By chance east my eyes toward
the houses OF the Barra, a hill on the
south side OF the entrance to the Ia,
goon, where a few simple ard pictur.
esque dwellings were visible. Outside
one of these by means of my telescope
I espied young woman. and forth,
with gave orders for my boat to be
got out. as wished to 60 ashore"
This girl was Anita Ribefaa eight
cen years old. young woman OF un-
usual beauty, Of great bodily strength
and endurance and Of an unusually
fine type OF intellect. rs romantic as
Garibaldi and rs untiring as he in her
labors for liberty.
Il landed" snys Garibaldi. "and. max
Ing for the houses where expected
70 find the object Of my excursion. J
had just given up hopes Of seeing her
again when met an inhabltant Of
the place whose acquaintance had
made soon after our arrival. lie in.
vited me 10 take coffee in his house.
I'VE entered, aud the first person
~ho met nv eyes was the damsel who
had attracted me ashore. We both re.
mnined enraptured and silent. gazing
Oh one another like two people who
meet not for the Rrst time and who
seek in each others faces something
that win make II easier TO recall for
Cotton past. At last greeted her with
the words in italian, Thou oughtesi
to be mine
'Aiy insolence was magnetic. had
formed tic, pronounced n decree
which death alone could annul"
The young woman was at that time
betrothed 10y her father 10 wealthy
euitor whom she had refused TO mar
ry As her father and the sutor were
determined however. and she had nc
option the arrival OF Garibaldi musi
hnve been extremely welcome In a
moment she had given her life 10 him
Her father refusing TO change heI
destiny. Garihaldi came ashore with 2
small party few nights later and
carried her of by force with her eli
tire consent--and they were married
at another port
later, when he was fighting fol
uruguayan Independence, she rode
with him through priyation ana siarya
tlon over the prairieo. and on on,
march. while they foor together, b,
carried their three months old son ii
a handkerchief slung round his neck.
Never were man and wife more pas
sionately devoted 70 each other than
these two. and when In the tefribI.
retreat from Rome in 1919 she sue
cumbed to fever and died In hut II
the marshes OF ilse 20 delta It seemed
70 the soldier that not only the light oI
Italy but the Hight Of life itself hat
conc ouf