The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-05
A seasonable Suggestion.

TO THE EDIrCR OF THE HERALD
Can't you "let upn O little on Livingstone Has
he any relatives ION" the HERALD that expect to
become his heirs Do you really wish to "dis-
covern him Now let me tell you what think
about him and 1t will save you further trouble and
expense.
Old Daddy Livingstone has found an oil well and
is working 1t on shares with the natives In an
chronological, geographical and geological manner,
and it would be pity to disturb him before he gets
certain number or barrels per day, when
sell sell ', out and cor Come 'N home. Either
ten-pn alley on the Shell road, out from Lake Tan
You Skin, has captured him and served him on the
na shell with oyster sauce at any rate d%at pc
Sir J: trahklln-want to be overed-.snppose
would only have to discover them over
rgrn Take my ADVICE let tine doctor alone ION"
come home like Little Bopeep that Is II, taking
another view OF the case, he hasn't gone of on the
Way Race Track; in which case, with its usual en-
terprise, the HERALD will have to establish an OBJ
scrvatory to 'discovcr'' him. Yours. truly, In the
interests Of SCIENCE.
Opinions or the Press ON tho Success Of
the Hcrnld's Expedition i'm Search OF
DIR. Livingstone.
This great African explorer, whose name has
probably been as frequently on mems lips rs that Of
any other man. has seemed almost to court disaster
In all he has undertaken, ana certainly no man was
ever killed by rumOr often he After making
an incursion into Central Africa, getting lost, suE
fering with privation ana fever, and being dozen
different times reported dead, he came home
several years ago, wrote book Of travels, enjoyed
himself in scientific society for time and then
concluded that he had not seen enough
OF Africa had surfet Of swamp fever.
Consequently, in 1885, he started for Africa again,
to see more OF it's unknown lakes, to agonize in
fever among more of its swamps to get a few more
wounds from savage arrows and then to get lost
again for year two and cause dozen other
accounts OF the particular manner of his death at
sundry times and places After sending many
letters home he finally ceased to send Them or, at
least they ceased to come, and month after
month and year after year passed and no tdngs
were received OF or from him conviction began to
settle that he really dead at last and the scien
tihc world was becoming lachrymose over the loss
OF the records he had made or would have made for
its benefit. English pride was appealed to, and
English bounty alike to send other men to share
Livingstone's fate or learn what that fate was.
Nobody In Great Britain seemed to care about him
or to have money to spend In search or him. The
government expressed its solicitude, but did not
open purse. Tlu;Illy IL SOullcsS CdilSu
q corporation composed OF one man, and that man
the proprietor Of the NEW YORK HERALD, who has
succeeded In amassing an immense fortune at the
same time that he has built up one OF the most
gigantic wonders Of modern times in the shape Of
the foremost journal of the age "a journal as mar
veOus in its enterprise in collecting news, and 1t
Ia INSCRIPTIONS in Its way of interpreting its mean
ing) determined to do what the British nation had
failed to do, and to show more soul than all
England, its scientists and its statesmen combined
had been able to manifest and actually planned and
fitted out ut its own expense an expedition to go
into African wilds and find DR.. Livingstone, per-
ish in the attempt. It's only motive journalistic
enterprise and its only reward the fame OF won
deru achievement. Selecting as the chief of the
expedition one OF its European cOrrespondents-Mr.
Stanley-tt gave him q brief order to "fnd Dr..
Livingstone and made no restriction about means
to be employed or expense to be incurred. Accord
ingly last spring Stanley started Last fall we had
a description OF his expedition and an account of his
departure for the interior. Since then nothing has
been heard OF him, except painful rnmOr that he
had died or fever, till Thursday last, when the
HERALD published q brief telegram from Bombay
via London that "Dr. Livingstone Ia safe with
Stanley at Zanzibar"
Here my cOuntrymen, let us pause Point me,
II you are able to q parallel' The cause OF sci
ence British pride and the British Treasury, Afri-
can wilds and jungcs and savage beasts and
scarcely less savage men, fever and famine and
Egyptian darkness have alike Buccumbed before
the invincble prOwess and the peerless enterprise
of the great untamed, untamable, uncOnvinced and
uncomfortable Scotch American OctOgenarian
prince Of journalists Three cheers for the HERALD
and tiger for Bennett.