Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-26
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nracticed in my career, soiiio'
made enemies for me" oe
Stanley's brusqueness is al iiiiies oI'
fensiye to those who do not coniP
bend the genuine kindness " ~, ,;s
nc,ure. This is but revealed 10 MS
chosen friends who have watched oe
side him through illness, ana heiPeu ~
l;ft lie clouds of doubt and gloom ina.
often enyelop his brain. Success cai.io
n the GREAT explorer through the DIT
,orness of unfavorable comment, anu
as he said. .uniust prejudice" II mas
heen the poison in the chalice OF MS
fame II lined his face and whitened
his locks, and brought him lonely Vigiis
amid the hush of torrid mgh.s'
sometimes caused the bitter thought,
that with all of fame, he had missed
life's best gift-happiness.
When the King of the Belgians pro-
nosed 4 third expedition to Stanley ms
constitution was demoralized. Only
copious dlaughts of tea kept nm
awake after sunset, aud after 'n,o9
O'Clock in the morning habit compelled
him 10 arise from bed. But fate
seemed TO weave the web of restless
chance in Stanley's nomadic life, ana
no il fortunate if not doomed to pay
the price il exacts of the heroes Oh inc
world. .,..
when i'm a Jolly mood Stanley smiles
at memories of bis heart affairs. ana
recalls the time when he seemed 100
vouno TO wed and again the days when
dutv urged him on from the hghl OF
yonan's smiles to the land OF the
darker world. Those whom he wooed
lost their roses while his face was De-
ing bronzed by the fire of the Eastern
sun.
In Stanlev's chambers in London
once hung a picture of Greek glri,
slender and wondrous fair, with the
GRACE of the South in her limbs, ana
the pomgranate bloom on her cheek:
Stanley's boyish heart then thropDeu
with enthusiasm, and his HE was
wreathed with roseate dreams.
The thunder of war had sounded IN
his ears. aud Said, his gallant charger,
had borne him across the battle
grounds of Abyssinian fields. Crowned
with honors from successful mission
there, the young man carried ms
buoyancy of spirit into the other mis-
sion. upon which the chief OF his
journal sent him, to the more genial
climes of Crete and of Spain.
IL was in Greece that the original OF
the picture captured the young Journal
lists fancy. In the starlit southern
nights he wooed the Greccian belle
The opposition of her parents to Stan
Lewis Kaleidoscope career resulted IN
the maiden's written avowal of con.
stancy for months, and even followed
the Young explorer into the wilds o.
Africa. These ceased, alas! at parental
bidding and the suit of another lover
To the question, elias the lovelines'
vanished as it quickly does from tho
women of the East Mr.. Stanley
CALAMITY said that in more largely
developed form it remained. But Thu
smile in his eve indicated that TN
mortal enemy of woman's beauty hac
rounded too much the 1.-THE form OF
the Greek. perchanee woman's incon
stancv, as well as mans skepticism
helped TO rob Stanley of his youth an,
darkened the period through which h
passed before reaching the zenith o,
his fame.
Perhaps dreams of another fair on
: whom later he had left behind cheereC
the loneliness of Africa's dreary waste
and visions of her went with him a
he sailed in the boat which bore he
name.
The beauteous boat, the Lady Alice
lasted well, but the first home new
which reached the tired traveller a
I Zanzibar was that his inamorata ha'
married another.
So the Lady Alice, like the Greciai
girl, became only memory III th
, great explorers life.