Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-20

court dress in crimson velvet, embrOi,
,e cred with lions and castles in gold an
=, ~ silver, the blended crests of CASTLE an
:. :. of Aragon.
I, sTANLEY's wELcolrx.
a. An Interview with the Great Africa,
Z Traveller.
- Paris Cores. New York World.
, Illustrious Americans, it would seem
IS are to be always with us, like the poor
{ 1t was Grant yesterday it is Stanley to
!. day. Stanley, for time, at least, passin,
= = as an American, not an English lion. i
n was not at all easy to find him. H.
= seemed to find tets-a-tete in corner o.
= the salon much more agreeable than gen
n eral conversation. "Where is Stanley p
: Everybody was aslking it with eyes O,
4 lips. There; the shortish man tslkins
to the lady" "What, the one with the
white hair? Why, he must be fifty, and
: / thought Stanley was young"
"Wait till you zee his face" And Ger
tainly there was youth enough in that,
and unlimited Ego" in the piercing
glance of the dark eyes, The contrast
between the white hair and the black
moustache is most striking. The traveller
looks like young English barrister in a
horsehair wig, or say one of the powdered
Garde Franchise of the old regime. But
the powder he wears is from Times
t0ilet-table and it will last him to the
day of his death. The story of his
march from sea to sea is told in those
whitened locks. The exploit must have
"taken it out of him" as thor.
'oughly as half lifetime of ordinary
cares. He looks what he is, young
man, in spite of the gray hair; but It
cannot be said that he looks fresh. 1t is
the face of one for the moment utterly
spent with excessive toll of body and
mind. He is weary, and good deal of
his unquestionable taciturnity is due, I
suspect, to the want Of thorough rest.
He slipped away as soon as he decently
could, with his old friend Mr.. King, of
Boston, for one of his companions. He
seemed to have some misgivings about
the night air of the boulevards, talked
little in the street, and used the cape of
his cloak as a respirator, somewhat in
Spanish fashion. He was more commu-
nicative at his hotel. There was of
course but one thing to converse about
Africa; his visitors would hear of no
other. He seemed very anxious to show
that he had never shed blood wantonly, |
never but in self-defense. He had
always said but one thing to the natives:
" ] am not here to do you harm but good. I
But first / want to get through Don't
try to stop me, for if you do, though it
may probably be bad for both of us, it
will certainly be the worse for YOU"
Most of the chiefs saw the force of it.
especially as he was not without the
means of bring it home to them in
retinue amounting at one time to over
couple of thousand men. A few did
not, and hence those tears which that
few had to she'd He told story of an
adventure in one place. really do not
believe you can have consonants enough
in the office to print the name of it, and
therefore | refrain from setting it down
but it was of dusky potentate who
would bar the way at any cost. 1t was an
old story retold, but the manner of telling
it made it good as new. The narrator soon
left his armchair and was moving round
his visitors with eyes of flame and with
arms to initiate the action ,
of circle of bloodthirsty blacks,
with bent bows and uplifted spears, {
sighting himself and a handful of men ,
in their midst. 1t was the beginning of {
the famous river fight. Stanley had !
pulled in-shore for palaver, not mean .
ing to land, because he did not like the I
looks of his new neighbors; but the lat {
ter had decided the matter for him by I
plunging into the water some
hundreds strong and dragging the boat !
with all its living freight fifty yards up
the bank. The spears were poised in {
twinkling, and there was no time to raise :
a rifle, still less to pull trigger. Stan {
ley's first words to his men was that no /
body was to stir or to look as though it
we're not a mode of welcome he had been I
in the habit of receiving every day of /
his life. His hosts, if they had not one !
Observation-Disclosures not wanting ,
in another-frankness; they told him r
that they were going to debate on the /
of putting him Immediately :
10 death. He replied that in that case '
he could afford to wait, and begged them !
IN no account to hurry. They took him 9
1t his word, though in his absence from i
The judicial council, pretty fair trial, :
fOr they kept the party for some hours !
n uncertainty As to it fate. At last they !
'ent woolly usher of the court to init :
nate that on the whole the united wis h
lom thought it would better to cut the T
travellers throats. Stanley tried to look a
Is though this, too,-were thing he had +
grown used to, and in the mean time he =
gave low-toned order to his men to be h
ready when he gave the signal to push q
the boat into the water. Then turning
10 the polished miscreants he asked them
If they would like to look at a few
cloths and beads in momentary stay of
and before they had time to
say no, told a follower to display the |
treasure. No chapman at q fair ever
worked half 20 hard for custom as did . .
this Snowman for life. He held up his
wares, and the guileless and not unamia- :
bic assassins paused to mutter in one of !;
the tongues of Babel: "Oh, the pretty
things!" "Now's your time, men,"
said the leader, and the boat was showed !
of, Stanley standing in the stern with
his elephant rife to cover the retreat of
the fellow with the gewgaws. These, of !.
course, were dropped in a jiffy; the man ,
ran for his life, and he was but yard ::
Or two short of the water, when one of /.
the yelling savages at his back-to hear ;
The fuss they made you might have !!
thought some one had played them 3
trick-raised his spear to let daylight
into the fugitive's frame. But this time
the elephant rife, carrying a two-ounce
ball, was raised, too, and on the crack of
It four trusty spearmen went d0wn-the ! j.
irst and three others who were too nicely I
toeing the line behind him-at one shot. =
Then they manned canoes for a chase-. .
till under the impression that they had =
been northumberland as the fueftlves
aad no paddles but the thwarts or their = =
the regular ones lad been tax !,
IN away from them-tbsy were rapidly =
gaining on their prey. ~hen the rifle was Z
lgain used with eHsct, not to shoot the !,
pursuing rowers out to sink the boats. =
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