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The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
WITH STANLEY ON THE CONGO

ers, were, and bad fellows. They had
burned 81 village some three days
march ahead OF us and made prisoners
Of the people, killing the very young
and the aged, and made beasts oof
burden Of those able to walk. These
they made carry palm oil, ivory and
grain to the coast. The. trading
houses there take all that comes.
There was lots of raiding in those
days, and village burning. The old
trails to the coast are marked by a
line of human bones.
"Well, we had skirmish with that
crowd. I think two of our bearers,
natives, were killed, and several of
the Arabs. We captured the lot, took
their spoil and set the prisoners free.
Zone of the women prisoners told
us an awful story, although after
ward heard it was a common practice
among the slave traders. She had a
6-months-old baby with her, which she
carried in her arms, together with her
load of goods. She had broken down
on the march that very morning, and,
it being question as to leaving her
load or the baby. the brute of an Arab
overseer had left the baby by the
roadside. We sent men back along
the path for miles the way they had
come, but the baby was gone. Either
some animal had made off with it or
the natives had found it. Most likely
if was the animal
"Our natives were blazing mad, and
it looked ugly for Mr.. Arab, for the
woman had pointed him out to the
natives The men wanted to kill the
Arab at once, but Stanley objected
saying that they were not there to
enforce capital punishment The
Arab disappeared in the night; I
think some of the natives made away
with him. We buried the dead of the
party near the river, but the digging
was hard, for the soil in some places
is almost like iron, and it is my
opinion that the natives threw the
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
Horse Eager for Company

They came at late hour. Tom
showed his nose over into Jerry's stall
and whinnied. Jerry poked his nose
close up to Toms ear, and the man
in the hay was almost certain that he
saw the horse with the good eyes
smile.
Then Tom turned his head around
and looked all over the stables as if
to learn if the coast was clear A mo-
ment later he was tugging away with
his teeth. and he didn't stop until his
team mate was free.
Old Jerry slowly backed out of his
stall and crowded in alongside Tom,
who greeted him with an unmistak.
able neigh of delight. This trick was
repeated night after night, and now
the horses spend half their time in
Toms stall.
The sorrels have been pensioned
off and are living in ease and luxury
on the farm, as a reward for faithful
ServiCe.-NeW York Sun.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
Her Natural First Thou6ht

Mrs. Winifred E. Commeline, wife
OF Lieut.. Col. c. E. Commeline, COM
manding the Royal Engineers in Ber-
muda, who has been visiting in New
York, was the heroine couple of
years ago of an adventure that is still
remembered in garrison circles at the
British port of Plymouth.
Mrs. Commeline was driving a dog
cart near the town, when the Border
regiment, under command of Lieut..
Col. G. H. Ovens, came swinging along
to the strains of lively march. AS
the band approached the horse took
fright and bolted down a crossroad
while the groom was hurled from his
seat. Mrs. Commeline planted her lit
tie feet firmly against the dashboard
and pulled with all her might, but
the frantic animal tore on at full
speed down the long, straight country
lane.
The drivers of a couple of draws
moving in opposite directions tried to
make way by drawing their vehicles
one to the left and the other to the
right. Mrs. Commeline managed to
steer the runaway through the narrow
passage, but both wheels Of the dog
cart were torn off: The jolt nearly
pitched her out. She recovered her
seat, however, and held firmly to the
reins, though her arms were nearly
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

pulled from their sockets by the strain
to which they were being subjected
as the vehicle went humping and
bounding over the road.
Meanwhile the regiment had brok-
en- ranks and started in wild pursuit.
Bandsmen who had dropped their in
struments, privates with and without
rifles, and officers, mounted and on
foot, were streaming over the fields,
jumping bitches, breaking through
hedges and vaulting walls in the hope
OF heading off and stopping the run
away. At last the road took an up
ward turn, and the horse becoming
exhausted, Mrs. Commelne was able
to regain control of him and bring him
to a stop.
Col. Ovens, pale with excitement
and concern, was the first to come up.
"Are you hurt, Madam" he asked
anxiously, as he assisted the fair
driver to alight.
NO." gasped Mrs Commeline, add
ing, as she saw the scattered regiment
approaching, SIS my hat - Oh
straight?'
The look Of astonishment that
spread over the colonel's face quickly
gave place to one OF admiration and
amusement.
by Jove, Maam," he exclaimed,
with bow and a smile, "you deserve
the Victoria Cross!"
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
Says says ! Stanley Was y a Great Leader,
arg Always g. Careful: and . Consider !'e''
ate Of His Men-crueIties. Praeticed
i by the Slave Hunters on: Their
/ Raids for Human Victims-captur.
ing Big Snake.

had been let loose; shouts rent the
air, guns were discharged and tom.
toms beaten. At first we thought the
village had been attacked by a pass:
ing caravan, and we grabbed our
rifles and rushed out of our tents; but
we soon discovered that King Jacks s.
subjects were only rejoicing over the
capture ola big snake.
''They had set a trap and caught
him nicely. The village was surround.
ed by wattled wall. At the base OF
this wall they had cut a hole sufi.
ciently large to admit the snake. Out
side this hole they put goat, secured
tied to prevent his escaping. On the
inside they put another goat, likewise
secured. The boa-constrictor, mean,
dering around for an early breakfast,
came upon the outside goat and pro.
ceeded to swallow him. Then, still
unsatisfled, and smelling the other
goat, he wormed his head and part
of his body through the hole, and
made short work Of the inside goat
His greediness was his finish, for the
two animals still held their respective
positions, although inside the snake;
one was outside the hole and the other
inside, and the reptile was a fixture,
unable to move in either direction
In this plight the natives found him
and proceeded to make finish of him
But he died hard: In his long and
inI1c CT III %0sl
the walls and cut a wide swath in all
directions.
>"When we were sure he was dead
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Tom and Jerry are sixteen-year-old
horses owned by a Jersey City lawyer
who has a farm at New Brunswick,
N. J. They are greatly attached to
each other and are apparently miser-
able unless together
Jerry has been blind for several
years and Tom has appointed himself
his mates guardian. They occupy ad-
joining stalls and spend hours rub
bing noses.
For a long time after Jerry lost his
sight the stableman found the blind
horse in his companions stall every
morning. He couldn't understand how
he managed to unite the halter, and
told his employer that he guessed
somebody was playing pranl1s in the
stable.
But the pranks continued so long
that he was directed to solve the mys-
terry. He hid in the hay, where he
could get full view of Tom and jerry
in their stalls, and waited develop
ments.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Arab dead to the crocodiles. It was
easier than digging graves.
"On entering these native towns or
villages our native guard put on great
airs. They wore their old British uni
forms, tunic and trousers. When on
the march they always took off and
carried their trousers, but when we
went into the villages it was always
in state. No coat tails tapping in the
breezes then. Those darkies were
the envy of all the natives along the
Congo.
AT Aboku we met one tribe which
worshiped, instead of the native gilly-
gilly, our idols, what the native in
terpreter said4> was white mans god
This was a pile of stones on which
was a board or plank with some kind
Of writing on it. Stanley, however,
said it meant the unknown god.'
ut was at Akamina, place of some
thirty large huts, the headquarters
of King Jack where we stopped for
some days, that I was introduced to
what the natives call rum, but which
is kind of beer. Stanley said he had
seen the same stuff made on his Liv-
ingstone trip on the east coast. The
natives take sweet potatoes, oranges
and some kind of grain, mash them in
a big trough, made by burning out a
log, and then let the stuff ferment In
about three days it is ready to drink.
It is thick, like syrup. Two or three
drinks Of this will make a man drunk
for three days. 1t is the most in
toxicating thing know of, but leaves
no headache. After once tasting it,
to dream about it sets a man hot
"At Akamina, also, we were treated
to an exhibition of the native meth
DDS of catching the big snakes, the
boa-constrictors, which have way Of
picking up men-at least the natives
claim they do. We had seen some
monstrous fellows wound around the
trees or stretched out on the branches
but had run across only q few of tie
venomous kind. and OF course we
were particularly interested in this
catch, and in the way it was done
1T was early il the morning, per-
haps 3 o'clock, but still daybreak, for
dawn comes early and quickly down
there. The night had been hot and
close and I had got off my cot and
laid on the bare ground. Suddenly
we: heard noise as II pandemonium
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

I we measured him. He was thirty
five feet long and from eighteen to
twenty inches in thickness. Then the
! natives held a great pow-wow over the
body and had dance. Then they cut
the snake up, and every one, old and
young, paraded through the village
with piece stuck on the end of a
long stick. They would repeat some
kind of gibberish and then leap into
the air, twirling the stick around thei,
heads and yelling at the top of their
voices. Killing big snake like that
meant that they were going to be vic,
torlous in some combat with thei1
enemies.
This snake incident was one of the
most exciting things that happened
on the whole trip
when l left Stanley he was with
the Ambooku's tribe at the Narrows
had gone much further than I in.
tended, but it seems that I could have
continued up the river with him, SO
Capt. Holmes told me when I finally
reported. for duty on the Victoria.
When l came to leave Stanley he
shook hands with We warmly, and
gave me big bundle of letters and
other mail to take back to the coast,
which l did. Ny return journey did
not take me very long. and I didn't
lose a man OF my twenty-five
Capt. Holmes was killed later by
the explosion OF a Greener automatic
gun. got homesick. and, my term
having expired, did not re-enlist, but
went back to New Bedford to see my
folks. BY leaving, too, threw up my
opportunity for advancement in the
British navy. Another mistake ot
mine. I never went back. 1 drifted
to Vermont. my aunt left me a little
property in Meredith. and here I am
in New Hampshire pounding sand on
the railroad. drew $4s a month az
quartermaster under Queen Vic. ]
get SO a week on the railroad"
Mr. Carder is Democrat in poli.
tics and strong in his American patr1.
otism, notwithstanding his long ser
vice in the British navy. Every day
summer or winter, the large starry
banner flies from the tail fagstafr on
the knoll! beside his cottage at the
foot Of Lake Waukewan. "I'm Just
as good Yankee as they make
them" Mr.. Carder says.-Boston Her
aid. s 4 >.~>fz %s = ....5
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
New ! Hampshire MAN Man Who Accom-
\ panied the Great Explorer on His
+ History-Makins Expedition Tells Of
Some Of the Incidents of the Long
Journey Through the Dark Cont
nent.

John M. Carder of Meredith, N. H.,
now in middle life and working every
day as section man on the White
Mountains division of the Boston &
Maine railroad, was, almost quarter
of century since, a lieutenant OF
Henry M. Stanley on the Congo, and
had share, if only a minor one, in
the history-making opening up of the
dark continent by that intrepid ex-
plorer.
Mr.. Carder's story of his adven.
lures was as follows:
Il was born in Natick, r. l., and
when but IA ran away from home and
went to sea on the whaler Sea Ranger
from New Bedford. Then I was ship.
wrecked on Cape Horn, picked up by
vessel whose crew mutinied because
the officers abused a cabin boy, and
was one of the crew that did time
on st. Helena with a ball and chain
attached to my leg for three months
sweeping the streets. From St. He
lena I went to Australia, and there
enlisted in the British navy. l served
on the gunboat Victoria, Capt John
Holmes, along the east coast of AT.
RIGA during the Zulu war.
II think it was in midsummer that
Capt. Holmes, with some seventy-five
men in launches, went up the river
past Banana Point, we'll up toward
the cataracts. Just what sent us
there I do not remember; possibly
we might have been looking for slave
traders. Stanley had gone up before
that, and was making his way, build.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

ing roads, etc. Every schoolboy
knows about it. A lot of supplies
were to be sent up to him with an
escort of natives, about twenty five
in all, and Capt. Holmes furloughed
me to take charge of the party.
think it was September before we
reached the Stanley party, and
stayed on with them until the June
or July following. Stanley didn't want
me to leave him then; he wanted me
to go on with his expedition, and I've
always been sorry since that l didn't.
STANLEY was a great, wonderful
man. I slept in the same tent with
him more than once. He was good
man to travel with. He would share
anything he had with his men. He
wouldn't eat white bread or any other
delicacies and let you eat sweet pota-
toes and yams. He seldom used pro-
fame language. He talked but little
about himself.
"Our journey was partly on land
and partly on water. Stanley had
boats built for taking to pieces in CO.
ing around the rapids. The men took
turns on the boats and on shore. 1t
was a tedious journey, for it was hard
work pulling against the current. And
it was still more difficult when we
had to go by land. The trees were so
thick and tall the sunshine never got
through them, and the underground
was a tangled mass of low bushes
overrun with creeping vines and
matted vegetation. We had to cut
these before we could get through
them.
STANLEY carried a large quantity of
salt, a lot of copper, wire, knives,
bright red calico, jewsharps and other
goods, which he traded with the ma
tives for provisions-goats, chickens,
sweet potatoes, yams and cassava. l
never saw any pigs; the natives say
there is devil in a pig. Some of
our truck was given to the native
chiefs as kind of tribute money for
passing through the country.
''No, I never saw the pigmies. Stan
ley saw them later on. We heard
of the cannibal tribes, but it was not
our luck to run up against them. They
existed, though, for we had to watch
all along. for fear some of our men
would be, picked off and eaten.
1--WE did meet one caravan Of slave
traders. They were Arabs. the lead.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
What We're Here For

Hike back to you, baby.
And lift you and hold
You close to your daddy.
And smooth back the gold
That hides your white forehead
And kiss your warm brow,
Dear baby, I'm longing
To do it right now!
To do it right now!
It's hard, dear, to wait r,
And know you are watching
For me at the gate.
I know YOU are watching, ,
see your blue eyes;
Or out in the yard .;
You are making mud pies
10 show Ito your daddy :
When he comes again,
And you'll run to, meet him =
And love him, and then
Your laugh will ring loud -.
~, And he will laugh, too, . i !
There's naught like the love H.
OF your daddy for. you! - ...<k; !.
:, j. NJ. Lewis. in Houston Post.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

The Detroit man who has secured a
Judgment of $4,000 against a secret
order for injuries sustained while he
was being initiated into the organ
ization must have been butted furi-
ously by the goat.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Pugilist Jeffries declares, further.
more, that he will retire from the
drama at the end of the present sea-
son. This, coming right after the
death of Mr.. Jefferson and the fare
we'll appearance of Modjeska, will
leave the drama pretty wobbly. =,
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

New York's legislators receive ST..
500 a session, out of which sum sew:
eral of the members are said to have
laid by recently between $4,000 and
$4,000.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

A Scotch scientist is hunting for
rumored' herd of striped horses in
Mexico, needless of the fact that
there is a pub" on almost every cor.
ner at home in Edinboro
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

How can the Russian fleet expect
to win, when the men who serve the
guns have to stop every little while to
emit their stirring battle criy: Re.
member the Suvaborosliasissoisv
anavitch!"
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

The orange crop in Italy, Spain and
southern France is reported to be al
most a complete failure 1t is ex
pected, however, that the cotton-seed
olive oil yield will be as generous as
ever.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

We really fear that it would be a
great shock to the aesthetic senses OF
Mr.. Edward Atkinson if all women
should follow his suggestion and dress
on $65 year apiece.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

A New York author has purchased
over 1000 acres of land in the Adj.
rondacks from the royalties on two
novels. Yet some publishers wonder
why so many people are writing
stories.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

And now grasping employe OF
Uncle Russell Sage has sued the old
man for $500 wages, which he says
that he has earned and Sage won't
pay. Has he no respect whatever for
the aged?
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

If nothing will satisfy old John L.
Sullivan but a fight, let him stand in
front of a looking glass and fight the
various reflections Of himself he will
see therein.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Not much has been said recently
concerning radium. But how could
it be expected to keep on creating
excitement with meat at the present
price?
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Nine hundred new variable stars
nave been discovered. They are not
theatrical stars, although the latter
are extremely variable.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

It has been said that some men will
do anything for money. No doubt the
Cincinnati man who has agreed to
keep sober for three years for $4,000
feels that he has illustrated again
the truth Of this cynicism.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

The wife of Kansas laborer left
him, when she died, a legacy OF $40,.
600 he did not know she had. Yet
there are people who say a woman
can't keep a secret.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

, King Edward is to have an Ameri
can typewriter, but he will probably
not have what most American gen.
tlemen consider an important adjunct
"a pretty operator. Too bad, for he
could undoubtedly get one by adver.
tising.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

The would-be midshipman who in.
creased his height by the use of a
stretching machine might be rejected
on the ground that he stretched the
truth.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Think Of a girls throwing base
ball 1S5 feet 71h inches. Incredible!
Yet Miss A. Belding, Vassar 'O7. did
just that.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Edward Atkinson says that a man
who could live on $500 a year always
has gumption enough to get more.
Russell Sage, for instance
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

yale has sent a class of students
20 New York to study wicked social
conditions" Sociology?-or only the
usual bat?
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Henry Watterson says that maybe
Vesuvius was thrust up just to show
what hell would do. 1t has been an
impressive example.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

A well-known comedian has married
his leading lady. Let us hope she will
be able to lead him as we'll after mar
riage.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Vladivostok might as we'll get ready
to field a few shells. Pitcher Oyama
is preparing to open the season there.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

"All art is confession" says Elbert
Hubbard. Hubbard should have steer
ed clear Of art.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

The question discussed used to be
money the root Of evil. Now it is
money the fruit Of evil.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01
Work hard and marry early" says
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. That is, marry
early.

The dear old seventeen-year locusts
have begun their annual attack on the
fruit crop.
The Cook County herald., 1905-07-01

Dreaming Of home.
OF home and Of you.
All through the morning
And afternoon, too;
Leaving you mornings,
Alas, and alack!
Noontime and nighttime '.
Hurrying back;
That's what I'm here for,
That's why I do
All that I do do, {,
Darling for you.
Bringing home things -,
You think good to eat,
Pockets of goodies
For you when we meet;
It's hard in the morning,
And afternoon, too, Y
To do what I ought
Just for thinking of you;'
I think of you running
To meet me, you tyke,
And I long to drop everything
Baby, and hike!
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-27

Plate Glass Health
Losses incurred during
tie year ....--....... .slso.7e4 80 81 .ze5 "a
EUGENE H. WINSLOW. President.
s. WA- BURTON Secretary
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me. this 18th
day OF January. 1908.
A. H LAHY. Notary Public.