liisifi etisie B. F. SOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLIIJ. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. W EDNESD A Y . APKIL 24. ISS9. NO. 1; -.S' 0 nirn JIM most 14 ET. s Ex-Senator rAti!2, of Michi gan, is a conspicuous Illustration of a poor man dependent on a rich wife. Mrs. Palinerls worth from $6,000,000 to IT.OOO.COO, while he only has a paltr j 14,000,000. Tue Emperor of Austria proposes to travel incongnito for his health. If he will actually do so and go among the l?ople of his own empire and other turoiau couutrles he will learn much that will surprise and possibly Instruct Mm. A Lebanon couuty farmer, who kept his money in his house, found i.iiue virtue lu gold and silver coin. He t .iJ several thousand dollars In metal, an J when his house was destroyed by tiie recovered all of It, the gold coins teing melted together in one mass. Hereafter, however, he will keep his mouey in bank. KoLL call of tiie Pennsylvania Hall- road shows an army of nearly 90, CO) men engaged In transacting the bus! ur of that great corporation. If to these could be added the thousands wbo Indirectly find employment in supply' ing the company with materials or handling Its freight after it has passed from the control of the corporation, the army would be as large perhaps as any that formed a single command during the war of the Rebellion. M ana Sirs. Xiowser. Henry C. Wiiite, of New York, In a letter to the Tribune, says: '"There is really no ground for the theory of the formation of a deaf race of men. simply because out of the 33.00C deaf mutt, fully 80 per cent, loet their hearing through sickness or from purely accidental causes, and the defect Li not repeated In the offspring; on the other hand, congenital deafness has been decreasing, as Is shown by the annual reports of every State institu tion In the land." Ir teems that the copper syndicate did not make last year as profitable for the Boston companies as might have been expected considering the high price at which copper ruled. The eight companies paid dividends amounting to i4.120.000, but late in the jear, when the collapse of the syn dicate became certain, there was a ! '. i. in the market value of the hares amounting to 123,214,050. The effect of the syndicate's operations on the business of mining copper will no doubt continue to be felt until the syndicate stock Is largely reduced. Thk business failures for the quarter Just ended are much larger In number than those during the same period last year, 3569 against 3053. The liabili ties did not lucrease in proportion with the number of failures and the assets are about 60 per cent of liabilities. During the last four weeks the number of failures has fallen oil as compared with a year ago. Considering what the country has gone through In the oast six months in the way of shrink age of value it is wonderful that there has been so little disturbance among business houses. Tub United States Consul at Valpa raiso reports that while over 15,000 vessels entered and cleared at Chilian ports during 1SS7. the American flag waved over only 221 of them. The reason v. e are so far behind the other maritime uatlons of the world Is that the United States Government has handicapped American shipping with navigation laws and tariff laws that choke the breath of life out of commerce. The Western Union Telegraph mo nopoly displayed its hand recently In true Jay Gouldlan style. The Com pany has never had any Intention of placing its wire underground. Ke- ceutlv it obtained an order of court restraining the Mayor and the Board of Electrical Control from interfering with its wires and poles. Another telegraph company also served legal notice upon tiie boaid not to Interfere with its property. Now we have the fight Going under ground means a vast expenditure for the owners of the overhead wires. They are fighting Tor delay. The people have decreed that the wires must be buried, and vet after a Uiree years' struggle we only have in the subways 0,000 miles of the 100.000 miles of wires which, disfigure embarrass the city. When the startling tidings from Samoa of the loss of three American and three German warships In with a multitude of their officers and men. first came to us over the wires, there was every reason to hope that the story would prove to be as false as was the former story of the blowing up or the Nipslc by a German gunboat. All the probabilities seemed strougly on that side. It seemed incred ible that experienced naval officers, equipped with barometers, had allowed themselves to be caught In unsafe Mr. Bowser suddenly looked ud from bis paper the other evening and asked: 'Why is it that we haven't (rive an progressive euchre party this winter?' iney nave been voted too much trouble,' I replied. They have, eh? Did any one vote bes.des you? 1 saw half a dozen mem tioned In the papers last Sunday. it's almost impossible to get thirty or forty people togethei on a certain e veuing, even if they all desire to come. Mrs. Johnson calculated on eight tables and only had enough for five. Mrs, Dart calculated on Ob, boshl What does woman's cal culation amount to?' ' But if people can't come and don't come, what are you going to do?' 'They can come and they will come. It's all In the management' Well. I wish you'd try it. 'Do you? Very well, Mrs. Bowser, I shall give a progressive euchre party next week, Wednesday evening. It you'll see to the refreshments I'll see to the people.' I'll be glad to, of course, but ' ilut what?' You must prepare yourself for dis appointments.' Oli, 1 must! Flow kind of yon to give me warning! Mrs. Bowser, I don't went to seem vain or egotistical, but I'll invite thirty -six people here on that night, and for every one who falls to come I'll give you a $20 bill. Vou are kind very kind. I hope the party will be a great success. You can begin at once.' During the next hour he bad the use of the telephone to call up acquaintan ces, and when be Cnally hnng up the trumpet he returned to me with: Anything very dismal about that. Mrs. Bowser? I've got ten couples ' without moving out of my tracks. I'll have the other eight before tomorrow night- That is, they will promise to come. Promise I Promise I Do you imagine that all other people are like you Most folks know their own minds for a day or two ahead. Mrs. Bowser. When he came home next night h- had a list of eighteen couples who hail been invited and solemnly promised to come. Mr. Bowser had made It a point to inform each one that the play ing, would begin at sharp 3, and all had agreed to be on band fifteen minutes before that hour. 'Voted too much trouble can t get people enough!' sneered Mr. Bowser as he looked over the list. 'It's in the management. Mrs. Bowser all in the management.' For three days be walked around on tip toe and took every occasion so brag over me. Then came the nrst set-uacK. We were at dinner when the telephone rang and Mr. Bowser was asked for. Hello Bowser I' Yes.' This Is Filbert.' Yes.' 1 want to tell yon that we can come down to the party.' You cant? No. My wife has juit remembered that she agreed to go over to Johnson 'i l-u that night, Sorry, old fellow, but hone ' Mr. Bowser shut him off with a loud bang and turned to me ana said Mrs. Bowser, dont you ever darke Filbert's doors again neverl They are liars and dangerous people. I caa ill their places In live minutes.' lie tore he got out of the house there ras another ring. Hello! Bowser!' Yes. Tuls is Watklns. 'Yes.' When I told you the other day we'd , m down Wednesday evening 1 forgot ; hat our Eva was to have a child's oarty on the same evening. mat i nocks us out.' And you cau't come?' Of course uot. Sorry to dlsappo.nt you. old fellow, but of course Watklns is a liar, airs, uowser a first class, bold faced liar!" exclaimed Mr. Bowser. and you want to cut the whole family as dead as a door nail!' He went oft saying be could get two million COUpies loiase kueir iiucm, hum he returned at evening just as the fol lowing note came by the bands of a messenger boy: Mr. and Mrs. Jackson present tneir compliments, and regret that the death it an uncle in China will prevent them ram being present on Wednesday vening. Mr. Bowser had brgun to turn white hen the telephone rang. Hello! Bowser.' Yes.' Sav. old man. this is a world of change, vou know. When I told you we'd come down to that party 1 never thought about my sister. She's to be married that same evening. Tra la, old bov. hope yon '11 have a good time.' I told you It would be hard work to get so many people out,' l remarseo. Did vou. Mrs. Bowser?' How kind of vonl But I'll show you aud these liars a thing or two before I get rlirnilffTl There were no more declinations until Wednesday morning. Then Mr. Bowser was called up by telephone. Ibat you. Bowser?' Vm Is It to night you have that party?' ihwl I thought it was a week from to-nizhtl Well that knocks us out. We've got to go to the Y. M. C A. Sorry, you know, but this is a pre- .irtni n inurement. tr Rivwr was lumping np and An wn" when there trme another ring Hello! Bowserl' 'Yes. Nice weather.' v Say. Bowser, my wife made a previ ous engagement for to-nignt. 'Oh I so you are. Tour voice seems mighty weak to-night. Say. old man, the three couples of us in this terrace were coming down to-night, but we must disappoint you at this late mo ment. We have had free tickets sent up for the opera, and of course ' Mr. Bowser walked to the front door, locked it, muffled the bell and turned out the gas. Then he sat dowa nd was very quiet for a couple of hours. At last he looked up and said: Mrs. Bowser, some husbands would murder a wife for this!" But what bave I done?' V hat bave you donel CoaxeJ, bribed and bulldozing me into giving a progressive euchro party, and Where's the party? I told you bow It would come out, and here we are! Mrs. Bow ser. I I' But he was too full for further terance and went to bed. ut- As Good as Any Other Way. I had been asleep In my seat in the passenger coach as the train was rolling through Kentucky, and was aroused by couple taking a seat in front or me. did not raise my head, but made out that he was a young fellow ot tweuty two, or thereabouts, and she was a girl of eighteen or twenty. Reckon he's asleep?' queried the girl, referring to me. I'm shore of it, be replied, alter taking a look at the back of my hea l. There was an interval of silence, cut on the bias and warranted last co.or, and then he queried: Glad ye com?, Mary r 'Sorter. Bill.' We's friends, hain't we?' 'Shore.' I never did keer fur no other gal.' Shoo! Now you is funning me.' Shore as I live, Mary. I wouldn't marry no gal in our null section, no how. Honest?' True as cucumbers. Tap likes ye, Mary. Glad on'L' 'And mam likes ye.' Glad on't.' And pap was a-saylng te me that It got mar'd 1 could bring my wife right home.' 1 our pap is good.' But 1 can't git mar'd, Mary. v "Deed, but why not?' "Cause nobody loves me. Shoot Beckon somebody does.' '.No they don't. If they did they'd show it.' There was another Interval ot silence. bordered with forget-me-nots and or namented with orange blossoms, and during this minute 1 think he seized her unresisting hand. I think she was ready to be seized. He probably squeezed it as he said: 'so you reckon somebody aoesr Yep.' Then why don't they say so? Waitin, mebbe. Waitin' fur what?' 'To be axed to say so.' He was trembling with excitement, and he could not control his voice as ha said: If they loved me they'd squeeze my band, wouldn't they? 'lleckon they would.' (Squeeze zig gasp. Hello. Cen tral!) And and. Mary, If they'd marry me they'd squeeze again, wouldn't they?' Shore they would." (Squeeze whoop call up the par son!) Then he leaned over ana mssea ner, and Cupid danced a hornpipe up and down the aisle. O'.U, But Good. ln weary footsore travellers. Ali 'D a woetui pugnt. Sought shelter at a wayiula ina One dark and stormy niKUu "Nine rooms, do more," tbe landlord aa-id, '-Have 1 to offer too. To rach of eisht a ing.a bat. But tiie niutu must serve for two. A lin arose. The troubled host Could only scratch his bead, For of tboM tired men m two Would occupy one bed. The purale.l boa's was aoon at ease, lie was a c ever man And tK to p ease bis guests devisel Ibis mobt tuuenious plan: abcukpohi In room marked A two men were placed. The third was lodtred in IS. The lonrth to C was then assigned. The nith retire 1 to 1). Ia E the sixth he tacked away, In F the seventh man. The eipln and nimh in G aud H, And then to A be ran. V herein the bos', as I have said. Had laid two travellers by; Then taking one tue teutn and lost He lodged him aafe in Sine sinfcle rooms a room for each Were made to serve for ten: And this it is that puzzles me And many wiser men. Coloring in Ir'urnishlair. and In furnishing, the matter of coloring Is a point that should be carefully stud ied. A confusion of colors will spoil any room, and this nows gooa even t j the smallest appointment and decora tion. A chair covering or even a cushion can prove almost as complete a disfigurement as a carpet which does not accord with the paper, curtains or wood work. Colors possess character, and that of the most divers sorts. Some hues sug gest warmth and cheer, while others breathe of coolness and repose, uiue, gray, drab ana lawn are me proper colors for sunny chambers, while red. pink and buff belong to north rooms or any into wnicn tne ligur. comes in a stluted way. Jiven gloomy ipiaces can be made cheerful by employing right colors, especially when there can be added an open Ore witn a Drignt Drass fender. There is one rule in furnishing wbicu people of moderate means ought always to obey, yet they are usually the least inclined to carry It into prac tice. This rule is. not to be hampered by the fashion of the moment or at raiu of making one's room look unlike those of one's friends. The fact that several ladies in one's narrow visiting circle possesses a cer tain style of carpets, chairs, tables, etc, ought to prove a good reason for buying articles entirely amereut in shape or color. Furniture not so pretty Is far preferable to having one a uouse so like that of the right and left-hand neighbor that a new acquaintance cau scarcely tell which of the three domi ciles be has entereo. LETTER FU0M STANLEY. NEWS OF THE GREAT EXPLORER TO FEFTEMBER 4. London, April 2. Henry M. Stan lev's letter to a friend in Edinburgh describes the Journey between Yam bunga and Albert Xyanza. It goes much into detail, and Is Tsry Interest ing. Mr. Stanley, after stating the orders si-en by him to Major Bartelet, goes ou to describe the advance of the column. The expedition, which con sisted of 3SU officeis and men. stariea fiom Yambunca on June 2sth. 1867. On the first day the expedition marched 12 miles along the river bank of Yan fc arde. On the approach of the column the natives set lire to their Tillages, and, undercover of the smoke, attacked the pioneers. A smrmisn louoweo lasting 15 minutes. During the next six days the expedi tion marched inland in an easterly direction through a densely populated district- The natives used every art known to them to molest and impede the advance ot Uie party, but, although several conflicts took place, Stan.ey did not lose a man. Finally, perceiv ing that the path he had been following was taking him out of his proper conise, Stanley struck out toward the northeast and again reached the river on July 5th. From this date until October lSlh he followed the left bank of the AruwhlmyL After seventeen days of continuous marching the ex pedition halted for one day's rest- On August 1st the first death occurred, the cause being dyssntery. So far, for 34 days, the coursa had been singularly successful. The party now entered a wild country in their nine days' march through which their sufferings multiplied and several deaths occurred. On August 13ih. we arrived at Airsibba, the natives presented a bold front and the party lost five men from poisoned arrows. Lieutenant Stairs was wounded telow the heart and suffered greatly. but he recovered. On August 31st the expedition met a party of Manyemas, and their misfortunes began on this date. Stanley writes that he had taken the Congo route to avoid Arabs, who wmild temot his men. Within three davs of this unfortunate meeting 20 mm deserted. What Stanley describes as an awful month begins on September loth. Leaving the station ot the Arab chief, Uearrava. when the expedition num bered 203 men, having lest 06 by deser tion and death, and having lert ao sick with Uearrava. the march led to the Arab settlement. Kalmgalonga. The men lived on wild fruits, fungi and nuts. Before reaching Kalinealonga, Stanley lost 65 men through starvation and dpoertion. A slave owner at Kalingalonga, named Abedsalim, did his utmost to ruin the expedition. short of open hostilities. He Insisted uDon Durchaslnz rifles, ammunition and clothing, so that the expedition left the station beggared. The men were abso lutely naked, and were so weak that tuev were unable to carry tne uoau SLAiilev was therefore oblitred to leave tii a boat, tocetber with 70 loads of eoods. at Kalingalonga. under the care - - - . . -v- 1 We've " ... .snr hitn nff with a lane waters by a storm, especially lu a region , -'rArt.1 tor the office. During the kn.mn tn ho snbiaot to violent stmos- , . i took in two more decllna ..r..rn..,-M A sLorm aoes ,,..., .n,i wmie ne wm without warning to men was a ring ana uo v. pherlc not come accustomed to observe and equipped with instruments ot observation. Even on the stae a storm is no precipi tated without a preliminary turning down of the lights, and at sea naval .ffi in accustomed to observe every change In the barometer with .. ieand with eyes trained to detect the significance of every change. And Hell?! Bowser! I Yes. j -Say, Bowser? 1 -v- . vv eroect to be down early to- jigtL ..r it I . . . k- tha.t mv mother-in- .AW Will wuio ,-. jam a s-ikTi! come. ..I ,, " ., .m-i dazed as be hnng . . . . .v... .r ken .wl n,niui s.n.1 left the house. The as antuips, piaceu so ww. ' up m " r -1 xhs w w.y UlOU V. An Imaginative Youth. The power of imagination is aptly Illustrated by an incident which re cently occurred In Washington. A well known society laay, accompanieu by her little sou. visited the panorama of the battle of Bull Itun. The child seemed perfectly infatuated with the scenes spread before him, and it was with difficulty that his motner unaiiy .r.nnHwt him tn leave. All the way " . ; ., -, . 1 home ne remainea uniuunuj tueT gold their nues ana equipments makiag no comment whatever upou I for a few e3TS 0f Indian corn, deserted the panorama from wnicn ne naa touuu v,h tne ammunition and became at It so difficult to part. When supper toeetber demoralized. Ferceiving that was served the little fellow took ms mlld pUnlahment would be of no avail, eat at tnetaoie, oavreiiuw w tFuto i ot the meal. Finally In response to his j of Surgeon Tarke and Captain Nelson, the latter of whom was unable to march- After 12 days' journey, the party on Tjovember 1st reached Ibwlri. The Arab devastation, which had reached within a few miles of Ibwtrl, was so thorough that not a native hut was left standing between Ugarrava and lbwiri. What the Arals did not de stroy the elephants destroyed, turning the whole region into a norrioie wiiuer Mr. Stanley continues: Our suffer ings terminated at lbwiri. We were ievond the reach of destroyers. We were on virgin soli. In a populous re- fftnn. abounding With food. e our selves were mere skeletons. From 2S9 persous we now numered 174. Several of the party seeming to have no hope of life lert, a bait was therefore oraereu for the purpose of recuperating. Hith erto our people were skeptical of what we told them. The suffering had been so awful, the calamities so numerous. and the forests so endless that they refused to believe that by and by we would see pla ns and cat tle, the Nyanza, and Emin Facha. They hal turned a deaf ear to our prayers and entreaties, for. driven by hunger ana sunering. was scarcely to be believed that half a dozen of them had been caught In a tangle of rocks and shoals by rea Bon ot a fall are to put to sa in time. answer, answer. Is this Bowser sT' Yes. Where's the old " n7 I am Mr. Bowser. mother's anxious solicitations to tne cause of his lack ot appetite, he sud denly slipped down from his cnair, exclaiming: "To tell the truth, 1 cant eat, for the odor of those dead horses and soldiers on the Dattie ue.o just made me sick. A resident of Stony Foint, La., ha- Invented a machine for making buck ets and tubs from gum without staveh or hoops, the bottoms being lorcea it. the chimes with a screw press. iioo; are required for cotton wood, red cedar, poplar, magnolia, etc. Eight bucket--can be cat from one block of gum, i twelve bowls, dishes ana pans. x ne capacity is about forty vessels an ' houe- I resorted to the death penalty, ana two of the worst cases were hanged in the oresence of all. We hailed for thirteen days at Ibwln, revelling on fowls, coats, bananas, corn. yams, etc The supplies were inexhaustible, and our people glutted themselves with such effect that we bad 173 sleek and robust Imen. One bad been killed with an ' arrow. 1 When we started for Albert Xyanzi, an November 24. we were still 120 ' miles from the lake. Given food, the ' distance seemed nothing. On December , 1st we sighted an open country from the top ot a ridge connected with i Mount l'i?ean. which was so name! ; from our first view ot the land ot pro i mise and plenty. On December 5 we emerged upon the plains, leaving the deadly and gloomy rorest nenma ua. After 100 days of continuous gloom we saw the light of broad day shining all around, making all things r-tutirut. We thought we bad never seen errass so een or a country so lovely. - The men literally leaped and yellea witn joy ana raced over the ground with their bur dens. Ah; this was the old spirit of former expeditions, suddenly completed and all suddenly revived. oe netiae the native aggressor whom we may meet. However powerful, with such spirit the men will fling themselves upon him like wolves on sheep. um bers will not be considered, it was the eternal forest that had made them the ahject, slavish creatures so brutally plundered by Arab slaves at Kalinga Tonga. On the 9th we entered the country of the powerful Chief Mazamboni. The villages were scattered so tnicsuy mat no road except through them could be found. The natives sighted as, but we were prepared. We seized a bill as soon as we arrived In the centre ot a mass of villages, aud built a zarebi as fast as bill-hooks could cut the brushwood. The war cries were terrible from hill to hill, pealing across the intervening valleys. The people gathered in hun dreds at every point, war horns and drums announcing the struggle. After a slight skirmish, ending in our cap turing a cow, the first beef we had tasted since we lett the ocean, tne night passed peacefully, both sides pre- Daring for the morrow. Here Mr. Stanley narrates now negotiations with the natives failed. Mazamboni declining a pease offering. and how a detachment of 4'J persons. led by Lieutenant Stairs, and another of 30. under command ot Mr. jepson, with sharpshoeters, lea the zareba and assaulted aud carried the villages. driving the natives into general route. The march was resumed on the 12th. There were constant little tights aU alomr the route. On the afternoon of the 13th. says Mr. Stanley, we sighted the Nyanza, with Kavalli. the objective point of the expedition. Six miles off I bad told the men to prepare to see the Nyanza. Tliev murmured and doubted, saying. Why does the master continually talk l-thls way? .Nyanza, indeed.' When they saw Nyanza below them many came to kiss my hands. We wei'e now at an altitude of 52iXI feet above the sea, with the Albert Nyanza 2900 feet below, in one degree twenty minutes. Tne south end of the Nyanza lay largely mapped for about six miles south of this position, and right across to the eastern shore. Every dent in its low, flat shore, was visible, and traced like a silver snake on the dark cround was the tributary Laniki, flow inx into the Albert Nyanza from the southwest. After a short halt to enjoy the pros -pect, we commenced the ragged and stony descent, "before the rear guara had descended 10U leei the natives from the plateau poured after them, keeping the rear guard busy until ithin a few hundred ieet ot tne Nyanza plain. We camped at the fcot ( the plateau wall, the aneroids reach ing 2500 feet above the sea level. nicbt attack was made, but the sen tries sufficed to drive our assailants off. We afterwards approached the vi laze ot Kakongo. situated at the south west corner or Albert .Lake. luree hours were spent by us in attempting to make friends, but we signally failed. Thev would not allow us to go to the lake, because we might frighten tbei cattle. They would not exchange the blood of brotherhood, because they never beard of any good people coming from the west side of the lake. They would not accept any present from us, because they did not know wbo we were, but they would give us water to drink, and would show us the road up to JS yam-sassic. rrommese singular people we learned that they bad beard that there was a white man at u nyoro, but they had never beard of any white men being on the west side, nor had they ever seen any steamers on the lake. There was no excuse for quarreling. The people were civil enough, but they did uot want us uear them. We therefore were shown the path and followed it for miles. We camped about half a mile from the lake, and then began to consiuer our position with the light thrown upon it r . . : . I. . V T " . 1. py conversation wiiu iuo auuku natives. My couriers rrom Zanzibar had evidently not arrived, or Emin Pasha, with his two steamers, would have oald the southwest side of the lake a visit to prepare the natives for ourcomln;. My boat was U Kiiiua Tonga, 190 miles distant, and there was no cauoe oDtainauie. 10 seize a canoe without the excuse of a quarrel my conscience would not permit, mere was no tree anywhere of a size sufficient to make canoes. Wadelal was a terrible distance off for an expedition so re duced. We had used five cases of cartridges in five days fighting on the plain. A month of such lighting must ex haust our stock. There was no plau suggested that was feasible except to retreat to lbwiri, build a fort, send the party back to Kalingalongas lor a boat, store up every load in the fort not con veyable, leave a garrison In the fort to hold it, march back to Aioen iae anu send a boat in search of Emin Fasha. This was the plan which, after lengthy discussions with the officers, I resolved upon. On the loth we Degan a nigur. marcu. and bv 10 A. m. on tue iota we uaa gained the crest of the plateau once more, the Kauonhos natives having persisted in following us to the slope oi the plateau. We had one man kilned and one wounded. On January 7th we were in lbwiri once again. After a few davs' rest. L.ieut. Stairs, with 100 men. was sent to h.aungaiongas to brin the boat and goods. 1 also sent Sureeon Parke and Captain Nelson, Out of the 33 men in their charge, only eleven men were brought to the fort. The rest had died or deserted. Oa the return of Stairs with the boat and goods be was sent to Ugarrow. He was to bnnir u the convalescent, soon after bis departure I was attacked by zastrltis and an abscess of the arm. After a month's caretui nurainj py Parke I recovered and set out again for the Albert Nyanza. on April 2 accomDanied bv Je.ohson and Parke. .Nelson was apnoiniea commnnusui oi Fort Bodo in our absence, with garrison of 43 men and boys. On April 20 we arrived In Mazam blni's country again, this time alter solicitation. Mazamboni decided t make blood brotherhood with me. His example was f olio we 1 by all the other chiefs as far as the Nyanza. Every difficulty seemed now to be removed. Food was supplied cratis. Cattle, goats, sheep and fowls ware also given in abundance, so that cur people lived royally. When one day's m-irch from the Nyanza, natives came from Kavali and said that a white man named Malejja. had given tbelr chief a black packet to give me, his son. "Would I follow them," they asked. "Yes, to-morrow," answered, "and if your words are true I will make you rich." They re mained with us that night, telling us wonderful stories about big ships as large as islands, filled with men, &c which left no doubt in our mind mat the white man was Emin Pasha. The next day's march brought ns to Chief Kavalu After awhile he handed me a note from Emin Paha, covered with a .rip of black American oil cloth. 1 he note was to the effect that, as there bad been a native rumor that a white man had been seen at the south end of the lake, he had gone In a steamer to make inquiries, but had been unable to obtain reliable information. He begged me to remain where I was until he could communicate with me. The next day, April 23d, Mr. Jephson was despatched with a strong force to take the boat to the Nyanza. On the 20'b the boat's crew sighted Mawa Station. the southernmost belonging to Emlii Pasha. Mr. Jephson was there hos' pitably entertained by the Egyptian garrison. The boat's crew say that tney were embraced one by one, and that they never had such attention shown to them as by these men, who bailed them as brothers. Ou April 29 we once ajain reached the bivouac ground occupied by us on December 10, and at 5 v. m. of that day I saw the Khedive steamer about seven miles away, steaming up toward us. Soon after 7 l. M. Envn Pasha, Slgnor Carati, and Mr. Jephson arrived at our camp, where they wer heartily welcomed by all of us. Next day we moved to a better camp ing place, about three miles abave Nyamsassle, and at this spot Emin Pasha also made bis camp. e were together until May 25. when I left blm. leaving Mr. Jephson, three Soudanese and two Zanzibaris in bis care. In return he caused to accompany me three of his irregulars and 102 Madl natives as porters. Fourteen days later was at Fort Bodo. At the rort were Captain Nelson aud Lieut, stairs. The latter had returned from Ugarrow was 22 days after 1 had set out fur the lake, bringing with him, alas, only 10 men out ot 00. All the rest were dead. My 20 couriers whom I had sent with let ters to Major Bartelot had safely left Ugarrow was for Yambuya, on March 10th. Fort Bodo was In a nourishing state. Nearly 10 acres were under cultivation. One crop of Indian corn had been harvested and was in the srranaries. On June 10 I left Fort liodo with in Zanzibaris and 101 of Emln's people. Lieutenant Stairs was appointed com uiandant of the tort. Captain Nelson was second in command, and Surgeon Parke was medical officer. The garri son consisted oi d'J nues. i tnus ue orived mvself of all my officers, in order not to be encumbered with bag eace. provisions aud medicines, which would have to be taken it accompanied bv Europeans. On June 24th we reached Kilouga, and on Julv 19th TjRarrowwas. The latter station was deserted. Ugar- rowwa, having gathered as much ivory as he could obtain trom the district had proceeded down the river about three months before. On leaving Fort Bodo I had loaded every carrier with 00 pounds of corn, so that we were enabled to pass through the wilderness unscathed. Passing on down the river as fast as we could go, daily expecting to meet the couriers, who had been stimulated to exert themselves for a reward of 10 per head, or the Major himself, leading an army of carriers, we indulged ourselves in pleasing an ticipation as we neared the goal. Oa August 10th we overtook Ugar row wa, with an Immense flotilla of oi canoes, and to our wonder our couriers, now reduced to 17. who related an awful story of hair-bread Hi escapes and tragio scenes. Three bad been slain, two were still feeble from wounds; all except five bore on their bodies the oc ;s of arrow wounds. A week later, August 17th, we met the rear column of the expedition at Bunalya. There was a white man at the gate of the stockade, who at first 1 thought was Mr. Jamieson. A nearer view revealed the features of Mr. Bonuey, who left the medical serviee of the army to accompany us. well, my dear Eonney, where 's tne Major!' I asked. He is dead, sir; shot by a manyuena about a month ago,' replied Bonney. tJood God,' I cried, -and jainiesonr He has gone to Stanley Falls to try to get more men from Tippoo Tib. And Troup?' Troup has gone home invalided.' Well, where is Ward?' Ward Is at Bangala.' 'Heaven alivel Then you are the only one herer 'Yes, sir.' After describing what a wreck he found the rear column to be, Stanley complained to the officers at Yumbuya too readily accepting tne aeserver-s report of his death, and sending bis personal kit, medicines, etc, down to Congo, leaving him naked of neces Baries for his return to Emin. 'By accident. he says, 'two hats, a lair pair of boots and a nanuei jacket were lett, a truly Atrican an wun wuiuu m return.' The letter then proceeds to summar ize what had been accomplished. Stan ley says: 'We were 100 days in the forest one continuous, unbroken, com pact forest. The grass land was tra versed by us in eight uavs. xueumas of the forest along the edge of the grass land was well marked. e saw it extending northeasterly. with its curves, bays ana capes just jiko a sea s'.ore. Southwesterly It preserved the same character. North and south the forest area extends from Nyanzlve to the southern borders ot Monuuttu. East and west it embraces all trom the Congo, at the mouth of the Aruwimi, to about east longitude rj degrees, latitude 40 degrees. How far west beyond the Congo the forest reaches I do not know. The superficial extent of the tract described, totally covered by forest. Is 240,000 square miles. North of Congo, between Upoto aud Aruwimi, the forest embraces another 20,000 square miles. Between Yambuya and Nyanza we came across five distinct languages The land slopes gently from the crest of the plateau above the Nyanza down to the Congo river, from an altitude of 5503 to 1400 feet above the sea. North anl south of our track through the grassland the fall of the land was much broken by groups of cones or Isolated mountain rid ires. To the north we siw no lanl higher than about 6000 feet above the sea. but bearing 215 degrees magnetic, at a distance of 50 miles from our camp on the Nyanza, we saw a towering mountain, its sum mit covered with snow, probably. ,000 or 13,000 feet above the sea. It is called Ruevenzori, and will prove a rival to Kilimanjaro. I am not sure that It may not prove to be the Gordon Bennett Mountain in Gambaragara. but there are two reasons for doubting to be the same. First, it is a little too far west for the position or the latter, as given by me in 1876. Sec ondly, we saw no snow on the Gordon Bennett. I have met only three natives wbo have seen the lake toward the south. They agree that It Is large, but not so large as the Albert Nyanza. Before closing let ine touch more largely upon the subject which brought me here viz.. .min I'asna. ue nas two battalions of regulars, the nrst consisting of about 750 rides and the second ot C40 men. Besides these bat talions he has quite a respectable force of Irregulars, sailors, artisans, clerks and servants. Altogether.' Emin said, 'if I con- seut to go away from here, we shall have about 8000 people with us.' Were I in your place, I would not hesitate a moment, or be for a second in doubt what to do. What you say is quite true; but we have such a large number of women and children prob ably 10,000 people altogether. How can they all be brought out ot here t We shall want a number or carriers.' 'Carriers for what? ' 1 asked. For the women and children. You surely would not leave them aud they cannot travel. ' The women must walk. It will do them more good than harm. As for the little children, load tbem on don keys. 1 hear you have about two hundred. Your people will not travel veiy far the first mouth, but little by little they will get accustomed to iu Our Zanzibar women crossed Africa on my second expedition. Why cannot your black women do the same? Have no fear for them. They will do better than the men.' They would require a vast amount of provisions for the road.' True; but you bave thousands or cattle, I believe. Those will furnish beef, and the country through which we pass must furnish grain aud vege table food. 'Well, we will defer further talk until to-morrow. The conversation with the Pasha took place on May 1, 1K88. during a halt in camp at Nsabe. The Pasha came ashore from the steamer Khedive next day about 1 r. St. In a short time we commenced our conversation again. Many of the arguments used above were repeated. He said: What you told me yesterday baB led me to think it best that we should retire from here. The Egyptians are very willing to leave. There are of those about UK) men besides their women and children. L should 1 glad to get rid of them, because they undermine my authority and nul lify a 1 my endeavors for retreat. When I informed blm that Khartoum had fallen and that Gordon Fasha waa slain, they always told the Nubians that it was a concocted story, and that eome.day we should see steamers ascend the river for their relier. But of the regulars I am extremely doubtful. They have led such afr.e au I hHppy lite here that they would demur a( leavln? a country where they have enjoyed luxuries tney cannot command in Egypt. The soldiers are married and several of them have harems. Many irregulars would also retire and follow me. Now. supposing the regu lars refuse to leave, you can imagine the position would be a difficult one. Would I be right In leaving them to their fate? Would it not be consigning them all to ruin? I should have tc leave them their arms aud ammunition, and, on returning, all discipline would be ended. Disputes would arise, fc lions would be formed, the more am bitious would aspire to be chiefs by force, and from these rivalries would spring hate aud mutual slaughter. until there would ue none leu. Supposing you resolve to stay, what of the Egyptians?' I asked. Oh, these I shall have to ask you to be good enough to taKe with you.' 'Thus, day after day I have recorde 1 faithfully my interviews with Emin Pasha, but these extracts reveal enough for you to understand the position.' I left Mr. Jephson 13 Soudanese, and sent a message to be read to the troops, as the Pasha requestou. -ver-thina else is left until I return, Willi the united expedition, to the Nyanzi, within two months. The Fasha proposed to visit Fori Bodo, taking Mr. Jephson with him. At Fort Hodo I have left instruction? to the officers to destroy the fort an 1 accompany the Fasha to the Nyanza. I hope to meet them all again or the Nyanza, as 1 intend making a short cut to the Nyanza along a new route. Henry M. Stanley. NEWS IN BKIKF. Old-Time Uamblini;. In the old, old times, says the Minne apolis Tribune, everybody prominent In nnblic life was fond of cards. Wash ington was flooded in those days with gamblers of the professional sort. There were a dozen faro banks on tiie avenue within sight or Gadsby's, on the corner of Sixth street. MembuiH of Congress unhesitatingly entered these places. Sergeant Smith Prentiss was ald to have lost 30,000 in his Drst term in Congress. It was In one of these places that Henry Clay won from Count BroJisco the corner lot up near Lafayette square, which be afterward traded for an Andalusion Jack ass. Fox, the British Mluister. General Scott. Secretary Marcy aud a score of famous men played poker in those times. President Tyler was fond of "Loo," aud often made up a game at the White House aul played all day. The stakes were never large, nut air. xyier was just as happy as if be won his thou sands. At one time tienerai ocoli.. Henry Clay. Mr. Fox and Count Bro disco entered into compact to play whist once a week all winter, and the stake every night was S100. They played a matched game. and the old Russian against Cay n l the Englishman. They were eveuly matched, but Clay and Fox came out ten games ahead. Sc. t's loss was said to be as much as 11,201 In bis little social amusement. Oi l Thad. Stevens in later days was a famous man at cards. He didn't hesitate to go into the worst gambling resorts to get bis sport. He played with frigid quiet and coolness, and in the course of his tlay kept up a constant Ore of bnliiaut conversation. Probably there are not twenty-five men now in Congress who are at all given to card-playing. At dinner at the White House font generations gather. There are great grand father Scott, Trendent and Mrs. Harrison, their two children aud their children's children. The Unite 1 States Govern meut, as a reward for his faithful services, haa enrolled Washakie, the head chief of the Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, as a Government scout, with the pay of a regular soldier. The tall female hat now so agitates the minds of the male frequenter? of the London pits that it is proposed that the pit should be divided like a Quaker meeting bouse, the men sitting ou one side and the women on the other. An American is said to have of fered $ l,500,oK) for Secretan's great collection ot pictures. As they are chiefly modern productions, it would cost under the present enlightened tariff between fl K",0J aud 1500,000 to get them Into this country. John Jacob Astor all his life been a firm believer in the efficacy of pedes trian exercise as a means of health. He rarely enters a public vehicle, no mat ter what the weather may be, and sol dom makes use of his own private car riage, one of the plainest and most In conspicuous of all the millionaires in New Yoik. The feature of Edison's exhibit at the Paris Exposition will be an euor mous model of an incandescent lamp, forty feet high and made entirely of small incandescent lights, of which it will be necessary, it is said, to use 20, 000. The French and American flas will be worked out in iucaudesceut lamps on either side of the big lamp. It is estimated that the piesent population of the United Slates U 01, 00(1.000. The total Increase is said to be 100,000 a mouth, exclusive of immi gration, and last year the lucrease by immigration was 51S.000. At this rate the next ceusus, which will be taken In July, 1800, will show about i'.,tO, 000. Mrs. Harrison sent a bouquet of red and white roses todeck the table at the Garfleid Hospital tea. The ladles sold the flowers for twenty-live cents per pair. Mrs. Harrison h is also con tributed two water colors to the art exhibition, one a bunch of pansiea and violets, the other a landscape of Fall Creek, near Indianapolis, a sketch from nature. Dumas' two children Inherit the dramatic and literary talent of their parents. Jeaunlue, the soundest is a violinist or talent. Colette, the young est daughter. Is now Mme. Lippmanii. wife of a wealthy manufacturer. No Fiench girl has betm brought up more severely than Dumas' daughters-, until her marriage only once had Colette seen a ball, and there siie met her bus baud. The condition of fie 1500 pil-onws in Smg Sing, suffering enforced Idle ness, becomes ruoi e and more serious and pitiable. Insanity must of neces sity increase. Walking is the sole di version walking In file in horrible monotony. At the present rate In the development of Insane castes there will be seventeen or eighteen cases this year. There are 300 men each night troubled with insomnia. Tiie "American Duchess" (wife of Marlborough) Is said to lie sendiiig her fortune royally In reviving the ar tistic glories of her husband's house. An Eacllsh observer writes of her: 'She is a handsome woman, and has improved in appearance since she came to Euglami, while her toilets are daz zling, aud much more elaborate aud thought out than those m which she first appeared last year. At the American Express Com pany's sale of unclaimed baggage, which took place in Buffalo recently, a toy trunk was sold for 50 cents. ( u opening it the purchaser dlscovere.1 a number of letters, and among llieui notes aggregating S0J in value. Two of the notes bad been outlawed just ! three days one for a small amount, and the other for .. The others me : pronounced good, and amount to soiue I thing over f-loO. According to the latest returns, the Duke of Westminster Is Mill the richest man lu Great Britain, his fortune being set down at Jsi , OU,0X. This Is a pretty big pi:e, but it isn't over stating It to say that there are at least half a dozen men in this coun try who could buy out the Duke with out exhausting the contents of their coffers. America lias become the abode or the Cretesuses of the earth. At weddings among Germans In the southern colonies 1VJ years ago. the groomsmen attended in beauti fully embroidered wtite aprons. Their duty was to protect the brulo from having her slipper stoleu from her ftot. If any one succeeded in capturing It, the groomsman paid a bottle of wine for the loss, as the bride's dancing de pended upon it. The I'ope is a very flue chess player and one priest lu Kuma has the especial honor of being his adversary over the board. This priest Father Gtella has played chess with Leo Peccl for thiry-t wo years past. hen Cardinal l'ttci was raised to the Fapacy, Father Giella, who was then in Florence, got au invitation to pro ceed to Home and take up his quarters j in the Vatican. Giella is hot tempered, : but the Pope takes Ins temper good : nature'lly. and is said to often improve the occasion by a homily on the v.rtues of resignation and meekness. The Inventor of the "Figs In Clover" puzzle is Moses Lyman, a farmer living near Waverly, N. Y. He has a large number of children and keeps a great many pigs. One day he wished to amuse his youngsters and the idea of his famous pu.z came into bis head. He thereupon ma le out f a piece of woo 1 anJ a little paste board the original of the "Pigs in Cloyer." A toy manufacturing firm i at Elkland. Tioga county, l'a , heard i ot bis puzzle and made him a handsome Scott ' 3ffer which he accepted, for the ex clusive rigub to I'aieiib auu mrtuuiw ture the plaything. A fortune has al ready been made out of the fascinating little device. The longest tuuuel in the world i3 St. Gotbard, on the line of the radroi i between Lucerne and miles in length. Draperies of black net threaten to lupersede the figured Chantil'.y laces so long popular. Parisiennes wear riding gloves of heavy white su-de, with palm aud fou zhetts of taa kid. A puff of bias velvet, with a narrow frill at each edge. Is often worn as a collar with dressy basques. Dress collars are lower, and jierfectly plain ones ?.re exceptional, except upon tailor-made costumes. A mixture of kerosene and lampblack Milan, being yj j is a good application to kee steel sur ' aces bright. rTTntTr' ' VistM i
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