The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-01
STANLEY IN LOVE.
THE DIVINITY THAT SHAPES OUR
ENDS"

less WON an-Amerlcan Capitalists
Also Turn Their Backs Upon q
Man Who May Yet Be Governor
! General Of Central Africa-An IN
written Romance.
(copgriaht)
NEW York, May 3l.-Miss Tenant is
not the first person to whom Henry NJ.
Stanley has been under engagement of mar
riage. His early sweetheart now lives in
this city, and his attachment for her was
highly romantic.
A few years ago he was only a plain
newspaper man. blowing his way through
the usual reportorial vicissitudes, and some
of us still well remember the quiet, beard
less fellow who, although unsocial with the
crowd, ''grappled with hooks of steeln to
mis- friends. To-day he is honored among
the princes of the world; he left us young,
vigorous, hopeful; he has returned to civil
lzation premsturely old. exhausted and
CYNICAL because of woman.
Concerning his early career, Stanley has
been exasperatingly reticent. but enough
has leaked out from one source and another
to warrant the assertion that few eminent
men began life under less promising condi-
tions than those which surrounded him in
his youth. We know that he was born in
Denbigh, Wales, in the year 1910; that his
parents were abjectly poor, ald until the
age of thirteen the boy was practically
public charge. Even at this early age, how
ever, he exhibited the sturdy traits that
have characterized his later years. His
father being dead and his mother having re-
married, home thereafter became hateful
spot on account Of his brutal treatment by a
new master.
Naturally bright, he picked up here and
there bits Of useful knowledge and acquired
enough of the elements of education TO en-
able him to teach school, which he did until
an opportunity presented itself to come to
America. Shipping as a cabin-boy he
sailed for New Orleans. Up to this time he
had been known by the name of RowIands.
During his stay in that city, his intelli-
gence attracted the attention of Mr..
Stanley, by whom he was adopted and
whose name he at oncs assumed. His
patron dying shortly after, the young man
was again thrown upon his own resources
The outbreak of the civil wsi at this period
afforded him an opportunity to enter a new
field of adventure. and Stanley joined the
Confederate army. Taken prisoner in one
of the western engagements, he was fortu-
nate enough to be exchanged, and on re-
gaining his freedom, enlisted in the confed-
crate service, this time selecting the navy
as field more congenial to his active and
restless spirit. 1t is said that he was an act
ing ensign on an iron-clad, and one of the
crew of the Alabama when, toward the
close of the war, she went down in the
deadly duel with the Kearsage.
Making his way to New York after the
cessation Of hostilities, Stanley gained the
confidence of James Gordon Bennett, and
in 1867 was sent as a correspondent of the
New York Herald to Abyss MIA. Here, by
his daring and Journalistic enterprise, he
began to achieve high honors. On his
return from Coomassle and Magdala be
was sent to Spain. but in 1869
was suddenly summoned from Madrid
to Paris by Mr.. Bennett and ordered to lead
an expedition into the heart of Africa for
the discovery, if possible, of DR.. Living
stone, whose long silence had aroused the
gravest apprehensions. How he succeeded
In this endeavor, returned to England in
1872 and was received with distinguished
consideration by the queen, the Royal Ge-
ographical Society and other learned bodies
are incidents that have become part of the
history of our time.
And now occurred the particular episode
that has elected this article Stanley re-
NAMED In England long enough to superin-
tend the publication of his book, entitled
"How l Found Livingstone" Then, in
order to fill lecturing engagement, as well
as to revisit friends, he returned to the
United States.
His personal appearance at that time, as
may be seen from the portrait accompany
ing this sketch, " as that of @ man of abund-
dant health, with physique that showed
no trace of the hardship through which he
had passed, and a nature which had not
been soured by jealousies, doubts or antag-
onisms. He weighed probably no pounds;
his hair was dark, short and inclined to be
curly; his brown eyes seemed 20 be ever on
the alert and penetrative, and the firmly
nodded lips and broad chin in themselves
indicated unusual strength of character. in
his manner he was direct, but in all refer
ences to himself or his achievements he
evinced peculiar modesty. The quiet dig
nifty OF the man constituted one OF the at
fractions of his personality.
The reception accorded 10 him by his jour
nalistic associates, especially by these be-
longing to the then-existing New York
Herald Club, was well calculated to I'M
press upon HIM the magnitude of the work
he had performed, and we all felt that he
stood chief among the intrepid spirits of the
press, who, in obedience to instructions,
have gone forward in peace and war to
give the public the story of great events
The manner in'which he was treated by q
portion of the press, however, was of very
different character. By some of the new.-
Japers, now loudest in their praise, he was
denounced as fraud, charlatan and adj
venturer
Even the old travel-stained cap of L;v-
ingstone and his personal letters which
Stanley. on the plight of the famous Herald
Club dinner. presented TO the brother OF the
explorer, VINO had come feon Canada for
the occasion, were characterized by more
than one newspaper as the inventions of
clever journalistic swindler. Those of us
who knew the man knew be ter: but there
is little doubt that these Infamous attacks
upon one who for three years had
slDgle-banded and alone conquered
difficulties such a few men ever have had
to encounter aroused a sense of Indignation
in his breast. Nor was this inclination
modified by bis subsequent failure to elicit
popular interest upon the lecture platform,
that failure being largely br ught about by
the adverse criticisms referred to. 1t must
be confessed, however. that Stanley at
that time was not calculated to establish
success as a public spea ser. He ex-
ercised no personal magnetism; his treat
ment on the subject of African travel was
geographical, statistical and dry. There
were bits of description here and there,
which, eloquently delivered, would have
aroused enthusiasm, but they came from
him with commonplace effect, and the
audiences dispersed feeling little better salts
fed than if they had spent the evening
studying a map of Africa or going through
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