The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-01-20
GARABALDrS WooIrG.
Magnetic Daring With Which Anits
Riseras Was Won end Welded

Ribcras Was Won end Welded.
The whole life Of the great italian
liherator Garihaldl. was one 9f roman
ne adventure. but nothing else 10 Il
was more romantic than bis wooiug
which is described ia his own nara
tive lie had been driven from italy
iu 1886 and landed in South america.
whsre he joined tLe Struggle then be.
ing carried on hy several small states
against the empire OF Brazil lie had
with him many devoted comrades.
whom he loved with his whole heart
One day. however, se was shlpvvock.
eJ on the Bfazlllan coast OF Santa
catharina. ana several OF his dearest
rienas we're dsuwncd IN getting to
shore The survivors mt once Joined
the local arsly. led a successful attack
on lasuna auG were hailed rs llbera-
tors Garibaldi was made chief of the
captured Brazilian feet lie paced up
and down the deck of his flagship. but
In no vlciors mood. The loss of so
many friends had filed him wiki mel
ancholg. aud he began 70 feel his lone
lincss. His mind turned to n natural
remedy Hc determined TO seek q
bride among these people who so idol,
lied him.
"Ihe loss Of Luigi Edoardo and 9th
ers Of niy counirymen." he wrote in
his own story. left me utterly Isolated.
foff g,Ftta "a T. a.. D.. ti,. ...o,t1 Z ,.,i
cd human heart to love me one that
I could always keen near me. felt
that unless | found one at once life
would become intolerable
BY chance / cast my eyes toward
the houses OF the Barra. n hill on the
south side Of the entrance to the IA.
goon. where a few simple and nichlr.
esque dwellings were visible Outside
one Of these by means Of my telescope
| ospied young woman. aud forth
with ] gave orders for my boat TO be
got out, as / wished to so ashore"
This girl was Anita Riberas. eight
cen years old. a young woman of un.
usual beauty, OF great bodily strength
and endurance and Of an unusually
fine type Of intellect, as romantic as
Garibaldi and as untiriDg as he in her
labors for liberty
Il landed" says Saribaldi, ''and, max
ing for the houses where expected
20 find the object Of my excursion, !
had Just given up hopes of seeing her
again when | met an inhabitant Of
the place whose acquaintance had
made soon after cur arrival. lie In
yited me to take coffee in his house.
"We entered, and the first person
who met my eyes was the damsel who
had attracted me ashore. We both re-
mained enraptured and silent gazing
Oh one another like two people who
meet not for the first time and who
seek in each others faces something
that VIII make ii easier 70 recall a for
gotten past AZ last greeted her with
the words IN Italian, Thou oughtest
to be mine
My insolenee was magnetic. had
formed q tie. pronounced a decree,
which death alone could annuL"
The young woman was at that time
betrothed by her father TO wealthy
suitor whom she had refused to mar
~. As her father and the sultor were
determined, however. and she had no
option the arrival OF Garibald must
have been extremely welcome. In a
moment she had given her life TO him.
Her father refusing 10 change her
destiny Garibaldl came ashore with a
small party few nights later and
carried her of by force-with her en-
tire consent-and they were married
at another port
Later when he was fighting for
Uguguayan independence, she rode
With him through prlvation ana starya-
ton over The prairles. and on one
march while they rode together, he
carried their three months old son in
a handkerchief sung round his neck
Never were man and wife more pas.
slonately devoted TO each other then
these two. and when In the terrible
retreat from Rome in 1919 she sue
cumbe1 to fever and died in a hut in
the marshes Of the Po delta It seemed
20 the soldier that not only the light Of
italy but the light OF life itself had
gone out