| Show concerning STANLEY alio civilized world lias all along taken and still tales dioro or loss interest in alo career as an african es lilor crot henry SI stanley alt hung with alio most acute interest upon every line from his supposed vicinity devouring the details without stopping long to inquire into their genuineness and when have come the that lie has all at once in some lonely jangle or 8 amp 0 thu dark continent or been murdered eillie of which have been so frequent as to create a species of ridicule out of decided doubt toward hie last we have experienced a feeling of such genuine badness as could only be entertained tor near relatives or very dear friends apart from himself at last wo have pot into tha very natural habit of asking stanley really is what he has done and what lie is trying to do wo all know what le started out tor the relief of emin the supposition baing that aliat intrepid colonizer and was cut off from alio world on all sides and anxiously awaiting at tho hands of some one who could daro and do in such a desperate cause confluence in stanleys Stan leys ability to carry out design if it could bo done was such that no one else was thought of certainly not suggested ills discovery of after BO many failures on the part of others amply assured us on the point of his fitness for alio undertaking der taking well equipped well supported and well hacked lie et sail and was soon lost to civilization amla the dark and dreary recesses of alie upper nile communication with the outer world being a matter of months and usually several of them news was not looked for but seized with avidity when it came so intense was the interest taken in the welfare and ablo outcome of the american and his foreign assistants in work of and love that all thoughts of the great lapses of that were being recorded without result were either quiescent or hastily banished banie hed as soon as born but the sacredness of the tie that bound us to the explorers lias of late been materially modified and threaten now to cease coexist altogether even if it be not in the end replaced by a feeling of indifference perhaps contempt on the part of some not necessarily tor alie expedition but for ourselves for squandering so much solicitude watchfulness and means upon those wo feared were or be lost in infested forests cooked and eaten it might bo while most of alie time they were having no other hardships than such as might be in fact were looked for by any pioneering expedition into an land with an inclement climate abounding in wild beasts and wilder men stanley was as well foi tided against all these things as any man could be his expedition was as perfect as the forethought and judgment of won of and experience could make it the hardships of course were a part of the programmers program meas we fondly hoped some satisfactory it not startling ro sulla would be after ha ing lad time to go around alio world and back again the unwelcome question would now and then intrude into the mind what can our hero be fooling around the anuw himi so long tor wo have heard of him there tor well nigh two barj knain is not presumably there nor near there why dont he puli pu li on through the country to the north and at least try to accomplish whit lie started out for alie only response that gigets our ears now is that stanley wiser than he know lie started on that expedition that if alio country had its dangers and disadvantages it biad also its attractions and advantages that ho found emin almost as early as was intended and eliat aliey have been prowling around alie neighborhood of exact near the equatorial regions for some time seem tj be pretty well settled when not encased in converting natives to civilization and christianity by killing them improved weapons or hanging a few native retainers os a warning to the others they slaughtering the powerful but harmless elephant and gathering in his tusks succeeding to the extent of about laden w ill which aliey are now headed for the frontier this is at least the substance of alie latest while it dissipates somewhat the gli self sacrificing devotion with which our representative was surrounded it still does no more than that stanley lias done a great deal of good taken some enormous risks and mercenary or otherwise is a deserving fellow after all is said THE UNION OH THE WARPATH charlie king of tha im us as a sort of his liand against every man and acry mans hand against him he kioes liia own row in his own peculiar way and sometimes taking his own statement tor it to liis on n woo hut he is every inch a hustler and koono ever called him a coward it is his misfortune in eefting hefting right and left that he hits with lie who arc only looking on and choso whoso sympathies might be with him ferolie more careful in his wielding of ahe ax such will be alio verdict after reading his manifesto last evening on the proposition before alie city council to choose and support an official organ ills is not the stylo to crook the pregnant hinges of the knee lie asks no favors from choso in power but he points out which it is his intention to maintain lie tells the liberal party of his journalistic labors in the gentilo cause not nor as a supplicant and he intimates that those of his baity who seek in him an enemy will find one aa anro lanting as they ran wish alio is not quite in the stylo of usual editorial writings nowadays justification for which may bo found in the unusual circumstances which called it forth it is racy enough at any rate and at the bottom thero may bo some facts a wise disciple of cordral Co tanner or clinna danof might hae found it worth while to consider kinuno to the salt lako says tho chamber of commerce evidently forgets that that journal has done more to attract hie attention of capital to lie junction city than all the combined efforts of the ogden sheets yes aliey ilo forget that and a great many other good which the modestly takes to itself it has helped oden as arnold helped washington oaTe tiel helped luther as gudaa helped the savior woo to them by whom offenses offen sea come I 1 HARRISONS life lias been saved ly alie deafness in lila left ear if loth barf had been good lie arera lie would have been talked to death long igo THE of the foundation work on the cheyenne sloops is a gentleman not his names fault it lie boog not put in good ele epurs |
