The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-10
sTANLEY,s love STORY.
Romantic Tale Concerning the
Great Explorer.
From The Nelo York SltI,


bass told odd bits of their variegated ex-
periences. They are all well-known men,
and have never been particularly bothered
with the business grind of life Most of
them are well on toward 50, but if all the
experiences and yarns related at that table
that night could be accepted literally they
had jamme1 100 very rapid years into their
lives. Suddenly one of the group raised
his hat from his forehead. and turning
down the leather band inside he pulled a
clipping from a newspaper let me read
you this, gentlemen, viii you?" he said verv
pleasantly. at isn't long aud it tells Il
volume. IL is q complete romance in 1t
self" Then he read in well nodulated
voice this:
"When Stanley was in this country, soon
after his Il scOvery of Livingstone, he was
full-cheeked, rosy, and his hair was dark
and handsome When mex he came, after
his memorable trip through tho heart of the
dark continent, the rudy hue Of bis face
was gone and his beautiful hair was nearly
white. But the brightness of his ewes was
not dimmed, and the alert and sinewy
limbs were as agile as of old. He has borne
prlvatlons and great hardships well, but
they have left their mark on his face. His
countenance and head are old long before
their time.n
The club man then went on to relate to
true meaning of the newspaper clipping he
had just read. He prefaced his remarks by
stating that the words he had just read
were from Noah Brooks article in the Feb
ruary st, Nicholas, entitled ''The White
Pasha.h He said he had carried the rew,-
paper clipping in his hat from the day l.
was published, because it recalled to dim
an experience in Stanley's life which very
few outside OF his intimate circle of
friends knew. He added that very
charming American lady would fully APP
preciate everything that he was about to
tell. At one time she was a belle, and was
known in New York and Chi ago socie Y.
She was a most lovable woman and very
attractive. she is now young mstron,
with little sprigs Of innocence and mis-
chievousnass clustered about her
One thing vas certain, the club man de-
clared, Henry NJ. Stanley had J OF passed a
sing day in the last fifteen wears without
thinking of her. II the dark and unfath-
enable 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 bachelor, 40 years
old, and be will never marry. The Young
matron now lives in Chicago, and her
bro her is seen on Broadway on any bright
afternoon.
The white hair and tie paid cheek that
Noah B ooks speaks of, so the story tel Ter as
serted, were not altogether due to Stanley IS
privations on the Congo. 1t was about
1875 that Dir. st luley came to this country
alter his discovery of LiviuES one. Four
years before he had started out t. find the
lost explorer. Not word had been heard
from Livingstone il nearly two years.
There had been rumors taat he had been
Killed by hostile saVaCeS, and his friends in
En- gland we're anxious to learn the fate of
The man who had devoted nearly thirty
years of his life to unraveliug tn mystic
ries Of the interior Of Africa Stanley was
selected by James Gordon Bennett to take
an expedition into Africa and learn the
fate of Livingstone. He was then 80 years
old and full of pluck and determination
He had been il the confederate army, aud
when taken prisoner by tie United ates
troops he volunteered as a seaman in tne
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 himself can tell of
the restitution and the hardships that ne
experienced in his search for Livingstone
But on that memorable day In November.
1871, when at Ujji, on the shore of Lake
Tanganyika, he found the great Scotchman
and nonchalantly lifting his cap to him,
said, "Dr. Livingstone, presume" be be-
came equally famous with the doctor, and
knew that his name would go down through
the centuries. On his return to England
the tetes and the banquets given in his
honor and the gOri6cation of his name
were only interrupted by the death in
Africa and the burial in Westminster Alb
hey of DR.. Livingstone. Stanley was a
pail bearer at the funeral of the great ex-
poTer. 1t was said at the time that the
mantle of the dead man rad fallen upon the
young and ambitious SCaney. He was on
the top rung of the ladder of fame, but his
closest frields at the time have since fire.
quently remarked that Starley's mar ed
characteristic was a cynicism tlat was al
most unbearabla and certainly unaccouuta-
BILE
He was 80 years CID 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 was known all over the
civilized world, and distiaction and re-
known awaited him in New York when be
arrived here few months later.
Stanley hadn't been in New York very
long before his club friends remarked that
he was partial in his visits to certain
mansion Oh Fifth avenue. He had been
we'll received in New York society, and al
though he was not particularly endowed
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 a
petite brunette WHO interested young Stan
lev from the first hour that no saw her
Her fathers home on Fifth avenue was one
OF the most attractive of spots for young
Stanley after the introduction. He would
steal away from club frie IDS to make fire.
quent calls on the little queen of that
charming home The young lady herself
began 10 blush when the servant a lnounced
her handsome young visitor, and she soon
began TO look for his calls. Stanley as
the sort of young man to be interesting
to most young ladies' He was a ha ldsome
fellow, Il fac conversationalist, and he was
particularly attractive in the gallant ana
reverental pOliteness whica always marked
his conduct before tie fair ones.
His visits to the Fifth avenue mansion
became IN re frequent and his attentions t.
tne black-eyed littl9 lady mo q marked, and
pretty soon Stanley's friends learned at
the Young couple were engaged. Stanley
freuu nifty said in those d iys that ne was
ready to settle down aud have a wiasone
wife and a modest home. He see aed quite
contented to rest Thea vita the name aud
fame that had a ready come to him. Time
ran on, and New York did not possess two
happier souls than Henry NJ. Stanley and
his prospective bride.
But with Livingstone dead there was
constant and urgent dema Ids upon him TO
resume the explOr4tiol OF Africa. AT last
he consented 10 make another journey. IL
was to be short one, hs told his sweet
heart, and with 10 would end bis career as
an African explorer.
"Any oody cal imagine the loving ten