The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-25
sTANLEY'S LOVE story.
A Romantic Tale Concerning the
Great Explorer.

srANLEY'S LOVE STORY.
A Romantic Tale Concerning the
Great Explorer.
A little clump of club men sat over a
late supper In Delmonico's cafe, New
York, recently. and between the grilled
marrow bones and bass told odd bits OF
variegated experiences. They are all
well-known men, and have never been
particularly bothered with the business
grind of life. Most of them are we'll on
toward 80. but If all the experiences
and yarns related at that table could be
accepted literally. they had damned 100
very rapid years into their lives. Sud-
denly one of the group raised his hat
from his forehead, and turning down
the leather band inside he pulled a clip
ping from a newspaper. "Let me read
you this, gentlemen, will your" he said
very pleasantly. ut isn't long and it
tells q volume. 1t is a complete romance
In ITSELF" Then he read in q well
modulated voice this: p
When Stanley was in this country,
o after his discovery of Livingstone,
he was full-cheeked, rosy, and his hair
was dark and handsome. When next
he came. after his memorable trip
through the heart of the Dark Cont
nent, the rudy hue of his face was
gone and bis beautiful hair was nearly
white. But the brightness of bis eyes
was not dimmed, and the alert and
sinewy limbs were as agile as Of old.
He has borne privations and great hard
ships well, but they have left their mark
on his face. His countenance and head
are old long before their time.
The club man then went on to relate
to his attentive listeners what he said
was the true meaning Of the newspaper
clipping he had just read. He pre-
faced his remarks by stating that the
words he had lust read were from Noah
Brooks's article In the February 81.
Nicholas, entitled 1.-The White Pasha."
He said he had carried the newspaper
clipping in his hat from the day it was
published, because 1t recalled to him
an experience in Henry NJ. Stanley's
life which very few outside of his in
innate circle Of friends knew. He
added that a very charming American
lady would fully appreciate everything
that he was about to tell. AT n time
she was a belle, and vas known in
New York and Chicago society. She
was a most lovable woman, and very
attractive. She is now a young matron,
with little sprigs of innocence and mis-
chievousness clustered about her.
One thing was certain, the club man
declared, Henry NJ, Stanley had not
passed a single day in the last fifteen
years without thinking of her. In the
dark and unfathomable jungles of
Africa, her face had been with him.
| On the desert, with the fierce white
heat beating upon him, he had had
memories Of her. He is a bachelor, AZ
years old, and he will never marry.
| The young matron now lives in Chica-
| 20, and her brother is seen on Broad
way on any bright afternoon.
The white hair and the pallid cheek
| that Noah Brooks speaks of, so the
story teller asserted, were not
altogether due to Stanley's privations
| on the Congo. 1t was about 1875 that
Mr.. Stanley came to this country after
his discovery of Livingstone. Four years
before he had started out to find the
lost explorer Not a word had been
heard from Livingstone in nearly two
years. There had been rumors that he
had been killed by hostile savages. and
his friends in England were anxious
to learn the fate Of the man who had
devoted nearly thirty years Of his life
to unravelling the mysteries Of the
interior of Africa. Stanley was Sc
lected by James Gordon Bennett to
take an expedition into Africa
and learn the fate Of Livingtone.
He was then 80 years old and full of
pluck and determination. He had been
In the Confederate Army, and when
taken prisoner by the United States
! troops he volunteered as seaman in the
Federal navy. He was spoken of at
the time as brave modest, and generous,
but with a rowing disposition, and
above all a determination to make his
mark in the world. Only Stanley him
self can tell of the restitution and the
hardships that he experienced III his
search for Livingstone. But on that
memorable day in November, 1871,
when at Ujiji, on the shore of Lake
Tanganylka, he found the great
| Scotchman, and nonchalantly lifting
his cap, to him, said: "Dr. Living
stone, I presume" he became equally
famous with the Doctor, and knew
that his name would 60 down through
the centuries. On his return to Eng
land the fetes and the banquets given
in his honor and the g~lorihcation OF
his name were only interrupted by the
death in Africa and the burial in
Westminster Abbey of DR.. Living
stone, Stanley vas a pail bearer at the
funeral Of the great explorer. 1t was
said at the time that the mantle of the
dead man had fallen upon the young
and ambitious Stanley. He was on the
top rung Of the ladder of fame, but his
| closest friends at the time have since
frequently remarked that Stanley's
marked characteristic was a cyniclsm
that was almost unbearable and GER
tainly unaccountable.
He was 80 years old. The Queen
had presented him with diamonds, and
he had been singularly honored by
statesmen and the great men of the
Royal Geographical Society. His name
"a known all over the civilized world,
and distinction and renown awaited
hiua III new Olh Wheu uo dAiiNcu
here a few months later.
Stanley hadn't been in New York
very long before his club friends re-
marked that he was partial in his visits
to a certain mansion on Fifth avenue.
He had been well received In New
York society, and although he was not
particularly endowed with this worlds
goods, he was q handsome young fell
low, and the young ladies Of New York
society found him most congenial.
At one OF the homes he visited
there was q petite brunette who in
terested young Stanley from the first
hour that he saw her. Her fathers
house Oh Fifth avenue was one Of the
most attractive of spots for young
Stanley after the Introduction. He
would steal away from club friends to
make freuuant calls ON th6 little uueen