The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-28
October Magazines.
IIArDer's.

Harpers.
The October TURNER'S presents an unusually
large and varied table of contents. In fiction
the two serials, by those great masters, Black
and Hardy, hold of course the first place bu
several short stories offer the more hasty read
err II very pleasant diversion, Several shor
sketches, Butter Stores IN Paris, VA japanese
School," with illustrations; and "In u Jewish
Bookstore" are agreeable and instructive
Among the longer illustrated articles, such as
Harpers is famous for, "A New England
Stock and Dairy Farm very copiOusly illus
trated, will attract the attention of farmers and
dairymen; Around the Peconics," also pro
fusely illustrated, will lure the summer tourist
| by its pleasant description ofhaunts along the
| Long Island coast the engineer will find the
st. Gothard Tunnel" u subject of absorb
ing interest; and New York in Summer
will afford general amusement by Its lively
descriptions and racy illustrations. But more
than all Others the interest will center on John
Russell Young's terse and thrilling story of
Stanlcy's journey through "The Dark Cont
nent," with its copous illustrations, No fic-
ton can equal in absorbing interest such mar.
velous details of actual heroism. We give "A
random quotation. In that wonderful march
1t was no uncommon thing to run short of wat
er and food Once they had thus suffered four
days
On the fifth day they came to 4 village, but
the village comprised only four negroes their
wives and little ones and had no food for such
a large command. Stanley learned that there
was another village twentynlne miles away,
named SuHa, and he sent picked band OF
twenty, the strongest and most enduring, to
visit Suna and bring TODD. He secured the
woods for game, but there was no game. A
lions den was found. In this den were two
young lions, which were killed and skinned
But of what avail were two lion cubs to an ex-
petition of starved men? Surely here was
death at last-death, defeat, humiliation; and
tins proud expedition which had set out so
gloriously from Zanzibar, resolved to force the
mystery of continent and fight its way to the
Atlantic, why, all that could happen to it was
to perish in an African jungle flions and ele.
plants, to perish as so many had done before,
leaving only the name of Stanley to be added
to the sad, dismal roll of martyrs to African
discovery. Returning to camp" says Stan
ley, "frOm the fruitcss hunt'-nothing in all
that wilderness but the two lion cubs-"I was
so struck with the pnchcd faces of my poor
people that ! could have almost wept, if II
might have done so without exciting fear of
our tate in their minds. | resolved to do some
thing toward relieving the pressing needs of
fierce hunger" Stanley had medical stores
which IN such an expedition are sacred trust
He opened sheetlron trunk and made it'll
serve AS a pot. Into this pot he doled out five
pounds of Scotch oatmeal-perhaps the most
precious of all his possessions three tins
of "revalcnta arabica," and made Cruel at
was a rare sight," he says, "to see those poor
famine stricken people hasten to that Torquay
dress trunk and assist me to cook the huge pot
of Cruel; to watch them fan the fire to fiercer
heat and with their gourds full of water stand
by to cool the foamlng liquid when 1t threat
ened to overflow" The porridge kept the ex-
petition alive for fOrty-eight hours, when
Stanley heard the musketry of his returning
embassy coming in from Suna with food
"The grain was most greedlly seized by the
hungry people, and so animating was the re-
port of the purveyors that the soldiers one and
all clamorcd to be led away that afternoon.
And so our leader marched on.
There are several poems, and the depart
ments are full and interesting, the Editors
EASY Chair noting with admirable temper
and humor one of the provlnclalsms (rather
rarer now than they used to beg of the English
press in treating American matters. This one
is a surmise of the London Spectator that
Henry James, jr., is son Oft q. p r. James
perhaps.
soribner's.
The October Scrlbner concludes EpylestOn's