Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-26
.RoMANCES OF STANLEY.
THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER
DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE.
Incidents In His Career As Told by
Himself and Others.

Some incidents which Mr.. HerDer'
Ward tells of Henry NJ. Stanley illus
trate the nerve and endurance OF tlie
great explorer. While quite prostratea
BIZ fever Stanley often rose in his hfe
boat and steered it out of shallow
water. which innumerable bubbles on
the surface indicated. AS a navigator
Stanley's skill is remarkable.
Suddenly coming within reach OF
savage village, the half-ill explorer
glided by unframed amid shower OF
spears, each aimed at his heart
Turning. he saw two boatloads of his
duskv followers, who dared not press
in his wake beyond the hostile village.
..This will not do" the hero of the
Congo said, and, turning his back, he
again risked his life TO protect the men
of his command.
Is it a charmed life which Stanley
bears? This would seem true. think
he believes that his star will lead him
always into safety, but that fate dld
not allot him a life of happiness ana
rest. Stanley imagines that the rose
wreath of fame has its thorns, when
pierce, while the perfume delights.
The great explorers nature is not a .
happy one, and only in little circle OF
congenial friends does he ever give
vent to the humor which underlies bus
habitual GOODNESS.
In the fading sunlight of a winters
day, Just before Stanley left America,
he sat before the fire in his hotel apart
ment in kindly converse with one who
was familiar with his restless lie;
"Changeful, active, yet saddened and
. embittered,n the rugged hero said,
with sigh, tossing his cigar upon the
glowing Goals.
The festive board lured him from
thoughts of the past, with its mistakes
and successes, and its thorns of calum-
nv amid the fairest flowers OF his
fame.
"a little longer LET us sit in the
twilight. II may not soon again ma
ms thus. God knows where, if ever,
we shall meet again."
These words of Stanley in his SOM
, Der mood seemed almost prophetic to
the listeners ear, but above them arose
and shone his star, which has lighted
him ever on to success. The climate
of Africa has been Stanley's
, deadliest foe. The elasticity
, of body and of spirit which bear
: Stanley through the vicissitudes of his
wandering career desert him as the
excitement of danger ceases. The
dread of humanity becomes greater
than fear of savage foe.
Mr.. Hel bert Ward has experienced
the same nervous shrinking from the
> world, even in the rush and din OF
London, with countless friends eager
TO greet him and listen to his tales OF
privation. Ward felt himself in q
measure acclimated and surcharged
: with malaria when he reached Africa,
but Stanley does not so well bear the
, climate. This remarkable mans luck
since boyhood has been beyond com
} pare, and his story-life the most i'm.
} possible romance.
at seems that a curse follows al
that do Stanley moodily said, as the
twilight shadows fell athwart the room
, that winters afternoon, nearly three
/ wears ago. aSometimes this fancy hai
tempted me to pause in doing with my
q might what my hand found TO do. Blu
! my life of ceascless activity dispelleC
this morbidness, and the great incentive
always spurred me on to do my best.
4 Despite his faith in the star of his for
: tune, Stanley has had to contend
. against and conquer an undercurren
of premonitory gloom. A stratum OF
4 sentiment underlies the ruggedness o.
SANKEY'S exterior. In moments o.
: confidence he reveals his admiration
: for the fair sex and his dreams of hom'
}, and hearthstone.
"Nature adapted me for domestic
: life,, Stanley saws. but events seen
to have disturbed the plan of nature
:, A queer fatality interpeses always be
:. tween my matrimonial intentions an,
!, their consummation."
! We hear that a line in Stanlev's pain
" indicates this fatality. Re this as
may crosses in love have been anon,
: others borne by him. The pages o
J, his life are replete with romance tina
thrills the world and stirs even tn
J, phlegmatic temperament of the her
!. of African exploration.
v From the blaze of metropolitan
+ drawing rooms Stanley went out L
Z danger. Quickly the scenes shifted il
. the drama of his life, from the heigh
of luxurious civilization to the wild
9 ness of barbarism. From the honor
: of two worlds to the silence and oh
I security of an almost unknown land
o II were life calculated to rob tn
manner of grace and the speech 0
u t1attering tricks.
e "The serious affairs of life have OF
: cupied me too much for me TO hav
= given care to manner and style,
i Stanley said, in reference to criticisI
on both. 81 have considered tn
It homely old adage, Handsome is tha
; handsome does, more than the cut Q
T. my faafttrar ot tho rolor of my clothes