Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
StAnleN'S Love Affair

lS WIS o. years Ola, says the New oCk
Sun. The queen had presented him with
diamonds and he had been smgularly hon
pred by statesmen and the great men of
the Royal Geographical society. His name
was known all over the civilized world and
distinction and renown awaited him in
New York when he arrived here a few
months later.
Stanley hadn't been in New York very
long before his club friends remarked
that he WAS partial III his visits to a GER
tain mansion on Fifth avenue. He had
been well received in New York society.
aud, although he was not particularly en-
dowed with this worlds goods, he was a
handsome young fellow and the Young
ladies of New York society found him
most congenial. At one of the homes he
visited there was petite brunei who in
terested young Stanley from the first hour
that he saw her. Her fathers home on
Fifth avenue was one of the most attrac-
tive of spots for young Stanley after the
introduction. He would steal away from
club friends to make frequent calls on the
little queen of that charming home. The
servant announced her handsome Young
visitor, and she soon began TO look for
his calls. Stanley was the sort of a Young
nam to be interesting 20 most Young
ladies. He was q handsome fellow, a fine
conversationalist, and no was particular
ly attractive in the gallant and reveren-
tlal polteness which always marked his
conduct before the fair ones.
His visits to the Fifth avenue mensic..
became more frequent and his attentions
to the black-eyed little lady more marked,
and pretty soon Stauley's friends learned
that the young couple were engaged.
pu frEr L., 4 ~,
he was ready to settle down and have a
wlnsome wife and a modest home. He
seemed to be quite ready to rest then
with the name and fame that had already
come to him. Time ran on and New
York did not possess two hs pier souls
than Henry M. Stanley and his pros
pective bride.
But with Livingstone dead, there were
constant AID urgent demands upon him
TO resume the exploration of Africa. At
| last he consented to make another Jour
ney. 1t was to be short one, he told his
sweetheart, and with it would end his
career as an African explorer.
anybody can imagine the loving ten
! derness with which Henry M. Stanley and
| the girl he loved parted" continued the
club mau. There were tears OIL her part
and tender, comforting words for his
| share of that trying experience. They
were TO write by every steamer for two
| years and the happiest and tendersst cor
respondence passed between the young
| lovers"
Late in November, 1874, Stanley arriv-
| ed at Zanzibar ana began the arrange
ments FOR his trip inland. The little
| lady in the Fifth avenue mansion gnxl-
ously resd the dispatches about her lover,
/ n,,lr nh -, Al
| Sers which evsr came through the New
York postoffice. She was delighted be
yond expression when the cable announc-
! ed that Stanley had launched the little
boat in which he cjrcumnavigated
Nyauza lake and had named it the Lady
| Alice. That was her Christian name.
With a lovers eagerness he wrote to
| the feir one what he had done, and his
last letter before he left civilization told
| her to be of good cheer. He said that
he didn't expect that his task would be
difficult, and he spoke of the time when
his journey would be ended and he
would return ID her rich and with his
days as an explorer ended forever.
he was on the Congo river for niCe
months and reached the Atlantic coast in
1877. He arrived in London early in 1878
and eagerly glanced over the pile of let
tiers awaiting him. There was a dozen or
more in the handwriting of his betrotb-
ed running up to November, 1876. At
| that time he had reached Nyangwa, the
furtheGest northern point attained by
Livingstone or Cameron, The letters
ceased in that month. Down deeper in
the pile was a letter from a New York
club man, which told Stanley that his
betrOthed had been married early i'll 1877
to a geEtleman from Michigan.
The highest honors we're shOwered up
on Stanley, but he grew listless, and ap-
parently without ambition. His friends
said he was stunned at the shock he had
received. He roamed about London and
his hair daily grew whittier and his face
paler. He went back TO Africa
and spent five years there and first ap-
peared in New York again in 1886. He
only remained here few weeks and then
started on his present journey.