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THE MARION DAILY MIRROR, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 14, 1911.
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TIIH gun Is our ruler, wo all bow to
It" Thle was the story of Central
Africa, the religion ot the lavages, the
strength of their rulers In many paits of
tbe dark continent It Is still the Sultan,
but In no part where the brown faced,
white-haired tluta Mnladl left bis mark has
the gun remained on Us potent throne ot
fear. Hula Matadl, as Henry btanley was
called by tbe Congo natives, changed that
wherever he went In Africa, and where once
the rifle's crack was tbe "Voice Q.' God," a
demon to be feared. In the thoughts of the
Datives. It has become tbe command of lib
erty.
Henry M Stanley did more for the clvlll
latlon ot Africa than any one has ever done
or can possibly ever do The opening of
tbe Congo Is his great achievement. Tor.
although King faopold placed All his vast
resources behind the Intrepid eiplorer, and
made bis work possible. It was Henry Stan
ley who was led to his tnsk by the very
uncertainty ot everything African. Nothing
made a stronger appeal to him tlimi tbe
lure of peril. Danger never bad a greater
fascination for anyone than Stanley; nd
to accomplish a great work whilst facing
death was an Ideal method of beguiling
time, according to him
Never did a man start n(T with a greater
handicap than Henry M Stanley He nerer
knew bis parents, for those responsible for
bis existence were ashamed to acknowledge
their child. He was deserted by his rather.
John How lands, nnd abandoned by hl
mother. He tins a waif, branded by the
stigma of Illegitimacy f!ien the children
In the street mocked him In his childhood
and cried, "Ton have no father) You were
found In a hindhoxl Your mother hates
your face!" Ihey pointed the finger of
scorn ' at ,liltu. Up was ostracized on the
village.. open, pnd when the children of
couventlo'nfll parents played "blind man's
burf' and "London's bridge Is falling down"
In Joyous, abandon, the little nameless boy,
clad In llf-fltting charity clothes, stood with
bis finger In his juouth nnd tears In bis
eyes,, choking down big sobs, and wonder
ing vrhyhe would not be allowed to play,
and vvjiy , ho had no mother.
The Apt home he recalled was the poor
house nt St. Asaph, a sort of prlnon for
the Incarceration of social failures. known
as paupers, nnd abandoned children In the
cold, gray, unfurnished cells of this prison
house, he was glen his ilrst smattering of
education.
One dayn boon of travel nnd ndventures
fell Into ''his hand. How different the world
outside the ponrhouso teemed to be. He
wanted to see thnt world, nnd one night
with a boyi friend he made his escape from
tbe uncharitable charitable Ins'ltutltlon
This was bis first taste of danger, and the
birth of his love of adventure Hint In Its
maturity was to mako him one of the
world's greatest explorers.
nncoMr.s a cAitiN now
After serving n year as n school teacher,
where learning was not an essential nnd
still without a legal name, the outcast
shipped ns a cabin boy on a shin, to n
land where worth alona counts. When bo
arrived n New Orleans he found employ
mentwlth.'a merchant nnmed Henry Morton
Stanley, who ' became his benefactor, and
who gave the nameless lad his name, which
was to be made famous by his adootcd
child.
After the merchant died Stanley enlisted
In the Confederate army, nnd wns taken
prisoner In n fight with tho Union troops.
Later he was made an ensign of the United
Stutes Navy, being assigned to the Ironclad
"Tlconderoga." llefore the war was ended
be gave up tho life of n sailor and took
to the newspaper as a field for his actlvl
ties He became war correspondent of the
fit. Loud Democrat Ho went through the
Franco-Prussian war as n warrior of the
pen He then went with the Ilrltlsh ex
pedition that was ant out under Genernl
Gordon, to punish King Theodore of Abys
sinia for tbe assassination of some Ilrltlsh
subjects. In this expedition Stanley ob
talned his first knonltdgo ot Africa, whose
fascination be was never able to throw off.
His next trip Into (h'c Jungle continent
was made In bis memorable search for Liv
ingston. During this Journey tbe Stars and
Stripes were carried for tho first time Into
the heart of Africa. Ho found Livingston
and proved to the world that the news
paper man, whose efforts wcro bound to
fall, according to the Ilrltlsh military offi
cial, because be was not a military man,
was made of exceptional "stuff."
After Stanley's success he came to be
looked upon as Africa's chief explorer, and
be led numerous expeditions Into tho un
known country. lie hacked Ills way through
the terrible equatorial forests, dodged poi
soned spears, waded treacherous rivers that
were tbe homes of thousands ot crocodiles,
fought the hidden pygmies In the treetops,
battled with fierce lions nnd leopards, and
fiercer cannibals, that he might give the
world a true map of Central Africa, now
known as the Congo,
Like all successful men, Stanley had his
enemies whose envy was excited by bis
brilliant achievements. Ilecause be would
not side with the Ilrltlsh rubber and liory
Interests In the recent press agented cam
paign against the latr King Leopold, who
was unjustly accused of every crime on the
calendar, he was called the accessory of
the greatest criminal of the age The Liv
erpool rubber and Ivory merchants, who
were kicked out of the Congo by King Leo
polds order, because they paid the natives
,.for their commodities In poisonous liquors,
-rtrled to get Great Krltaln to seise the
Coni.0 In their Interests, as she bad selied
the Transvaal In tbe interests of the finan
cial clique that dealt In South African
stocks, Decause be would not become the
tool of a lot of designing schemers, the
papers that were Influenced by the rubber
dealers heaped every Indignity Imaginable on
fata head They even brought up his un
fortunate birth Sometimes the spltetut bit
terness ot tbe press even entered the draw
ing rooms, as the following Incident which
took place In the hearing ot the writer, will
Illustrate, as It also Illustrates Stanley's
wit. A certain Individual who carried the
handicap of a heavy hyphenated title and
n monocle, tbe holding of which In his eye
was his only accomplishment, noticed a num
ber of ladies Intently listening to Stanley's
description of a fight with the cannibals
In Central Africa,
The duks was unnoticed He yawned
about the room, polishing bis monocle and
readjusting It before bis eye repeatedly. The
fact that a "commoner" like Stanley was
tbe social lion, hurt his sensitive feelings
He Joined tbe party, and In a drawling
voice, and with a sarcastic smile on his
face, said :
".What does It feel like for man of
your shady origin to be honored by tbe In
terest of sucb delicate and respectable
ladles as theiel" He waved bis band over
the listeners' beads Tbe ladles blushed.
Stanley never moved a muscle. Ills ayes
were motionless, but they burned like fire
In tbe dull brown of bis hardship-furrowed1
face, TTe lild nt.t n word In reply, but
went on with his story. Silence was no
rebuff for tho noble duke. "I've ah been
very at Interested In your antecedents, as
It must he an awful thing to be boru like
you ah I mean ' without n ah nh
father ah who would b own you."
Stanley turned his face towards the duke.
"Oh," be said, calmly, "I don't know."
"I'd eh like to know your point of
view," said tbe duke.
"It could have been worse," said tbe ex
plorer, "Impossible," said the duke, "Howt"
"If you had been my father," answered
Man ley,
Tho monocle dropped from tbe muscle of
Ihe duke's face, und he showed that even
his dull brain understood the point.
"You were telling us about tbe fight,"
said a young lady. "Do proceed."
"Yes, It was on one of the many expedi
tions I made to punish natives for murder
ing or attacking my officers when I came so
near to death that after tbe fight was all
over It was hard for me to believe that
some benign or evil spirit was not guard
ing me from harm. llefore I tell of my
own encounter I must tell of that which
led ma Into the adventure.
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young fellow named Deane lie was on his
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was soon communicated, In various oxug
gerated forms, to other villages, and a gm
eral agitation was commenced to drive out
the white men. Iloforo long news enme
pouring Into headquarters, at Leopoldvllle.
that most of the rlicr poiU were being
harrassed by tho savages nnd t' if a general
wavo of cannibalism had selxed that part of
the population In which I had suppressed It,
"These were outrages which I .(.-ould not
permit on tbe chief highway of the Congo
Male, so I decided to punish Ihe savages In
such a way that tbey would hsn'ci furjh
respect n friendly while man.
"Getting our little steamers together, c
were soon dragging tbe native police In
tenders and huge nsllre war canoei. un Ibe
Itlvcr to where tbj went outrages liad been
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I'leno SeiHtc. an oilier In tb upiot of
the state, was a ()r)tur. wns in in. IimikU
of Ihe taunlbaU', If'hc.ltud nut ahudr In-i-u
devoured. '$
"l(eui.lilng d lTuco within a fen miles of
where some timylliaU were nthl to Iw hold
Inj; thvlr fcastLdUldtil B) fori-e Jtim four
purl, sending TMf- upT the river jfluil one
down the iIverAjyo nillns end) wd Those
wfre to enter thH forty and eut pit nerj
retreat In tli'edlnclliins, should the na
then bo found iTh'o third force I loft In hn
river to guard Ihe boats, and the fourth I
look Into the fjjiriyt In a detour so that
wo should haie.the savages hemmed lu un
all aides
'(The country was extremely rtlfilcull to
maub la, Cor UiAIrer baulm at this point
hall of death Into
were not above the water, whlclvran Inland
tr miles muling a fetid swamp In manr
nticis the water wai no deep that we were
ed to rlluili from one tree In .Another.
wlilrli tnmle our progrtsn'to slow (hat night
mertool. u whilst we were IJII lu the swamp
traveling rrom lliub to limb like 1110111.1714.
ami retarded hr our arms nnd iimiiiunlt'gn
lliere .i nutbiiit to 'do but halt till day
Ih'ht V hung In tho trees all night like so
manv gurillni Lluni and leopards ronied
In the dlstinre nnd lined tv. aimed nround
in In tiiiMinands A gorfllii ,ml liU mule
hi-ld unliimted eonierenliou nlmrr our hemls
and unseen Jungle mooters n(nheil lliiongb
Hie waleis below We were nil u.-,iier death
thnn life when the siubUu sun'iif the iioi.
morning struveleil to. fr. n r,r.
tliroii'ili'tbe dlsmnl giowtb tlmt tm,l i
tered us for lb nltbt Mm nee luif of iMir
emergency ration, anil condoned our bent
breaklns Journiy. One after another of my
faithful blaok' soldleis slipped rmni iie sllaiy
treesjand Umlrd In tbe foul smelling water
belaw. I thought tho Jonrnoy would neur
itid
"It wns again getting toward evening
when (he sudden ringing tlnul of u' nijllve
drum echoed over the ver(lifitilnlml
-watup 'Ihe sound came nenrer ns we 6
ninetd I I new. llierefnro. thnt it nfiist
li n war party, nod that drj land wes not
far 11 way
. With renewed energv we climbed from
iran 10 iimti anil wade good pro.-rr-es. 'Hie
foJIage beforo Us i-lmngid. Indleiitlng dj-y
gruund Tho diums still bent their Ijjirlhle
uwons. mng. duung. nnd now an(l again
jho (Jiltos of the nitlte reached our ears
Wo goon stood on knlid mirth, and I pre
pared mj men for action As I was giving
Instructions, a little pygmy arrow whistled
I'nougU the nlr, and hurled Itself In. the
l) cast of one of my native followers, who
w 11 not n soldier and w$ armed with 4
1 w and arrow A cry of pain broke from
his Up, la a tecum! he took aim with lilt
the ranks
s or uie Jniiulbal3.
primitive weapon his 'arrow lilsird In tho
nir nnd the dlitiloutlro bo)1y of n dwarf war
rior tumbled through lb, Icares to the
Igtound wllh nn arrow lliroijsh his heart. I
iu. mraiu in jii.iot iniirji trees, for that
would hive uljtmed'lbe putues whom' I es
imelally deslied to reach On Ibe oilier
hand Ihe pyguiles often ncl as scouts fur
Ihe other Halite nnd I nan Mli'iutilj- rcr
talu llinl the trues iy,-rc full of Ibeni Tllero
was uolliinj ifi 10 dn but iiih ou as fast
,i i-o-.ii,ii nti 'our arms ready, we nd
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V' liml rnt mnrelied more thin twenty
niinuIcK inoied tii-''ininglng'i drums wln-n
' inme'iu soldi 'rt-ien land 'on will, h nt
leum live liunilnd drluikcn bawling vaiugi-a
were danelng and grfnnliig, i.ti-lr mlMrpnird
iVlh showing in humble ghalliiii,s A
(l.iieti skull from winch the Heidi hud In en
riieiitlj turn nsrhii Uojtn.of Blr Hint lime
around them Kboued were'ttiiik nn n-iir
li'-iilj and etkks nioliud Ibe plica Smue
b)t tho dniiflng nutlri't licldr parts uf liuimin
ir'eiuiH in uieir nuniu ami tierc or tbi're
nlionl tho giound on btnnna leaves nere
(ilfers of huiuiin llcsli
"I wns Jiis deciding whitt action to take,
so IhaOl, cvuld luu Ihe whole lot with my
null forco, when n huge brute, who was
mml drunk, struck themuskmn s drum wlili
n human thigh bona. 'I his, of course, brokn
tue rjiiimie bint and the drummer objuled
wiiii a tuieaieninc gesture. 'I lie big fellow
Ij lulled, danced Around gin and once muro
struck Ihe ilium wilh the bono This started
in altercation anil Ihe drum Jientlng slopped
whilst Ihe nun argued As the sudden stop
ping of the music 111 the middle of n waltz
would breali up the dance, so the tossallon
uf the drumbeats stopped the orgy, nud the
wvoges became Interested In tho wur of
words.
' "When they clustered together I saw that
they were n too grent a number for my
llfllo force unless I gave them- a surprise
attack. As I contemplated tho best mode
of action, a noise came from the further
end of the clearing wMch wis oat of $
sight behind the bushes. The natives turned
and setting up a howling commenced 'te
dance. The drum men Joined and addd"'t
the hideous din. Something of great la thr
eat was evidently about to take place. Tbe
natives crowded back and I stw led late
their midst, near tbe fire, a naked whit
man, whose neck was fastened In the fork
of a heavy branch. Ills body wasJoov'r4
with dried bloods and a deep wound V
down bis vface In such a way that his tight
eye was jpllL tils left arm waa awollea
badly, showing tbat It 'was broken. The
savages stood htm ((fore the fire and com
tnenced to Insult him, One, a chief, pricked
the unfortunate with an arrow over,, the
heart, but he never flinched. He then spat
on tbe white and commenced to dance. ... ,
"How to rescue the captive wa now the
question. I hurriedly examined my Bern
Ington repeater and my Luger pistol, and
directed my men to prepare for action. All
at once a fierce howl broke from the natives,
and a huge executioner, with his terrible ax
like knife, entered the opening.
"'.Moat I Meat!' came from the hoarse
throats ot tho drunken mob. Tbe captive
was taken from tbe prong and told tbat
hi time bad come. He faced his brutal
capiors like a man.
"The drink-crazed horde were all to la
in ojted to notice anything else but tht
coining execution,
ATTACK ON Till! SAVA0E3.
"Wo crept nearer and 1 leveled my ride
to the nearest eavnge. My soldiers picked
out a man each, and at my signal we seat
n hall of death Into the ranks of the can
nllw Is, and then rushed Into their midst, th'e
soldiers with fixed bnjonets nnd I pouring
death cut of my Luger at every shot It
was a terrific fight. I was beside tht
white captive In a minute. He had fallen
on (he ground for protection. We formed
n square around him and fought back the
natives, who had encircled us, with bayonet
c.irges nnd volleys.
"Ivsaw tbat wc were In for a terrible
time, for the cannibals were not to be beaten
off I then decided to retreat toward the
water, of a small river, ot the end of the
clearing, so that wo shon d be protected ob
one side by the water, Hack to back, with
tli wounded man between us, we fought
our way to tbe water. A fierce and .des
perate rush droe us Into the river and we
stood waist deep In the water, Cgbtlng toi
our Uvea. 'r
"Spears rained on us, and one by one'my
brave soldiers tell. The savages were get
ting the best of us, and 1 feared that we
were all In our laat fight, 1 banded tht
iccucd man my Luger pistol and loading
my Hi mlngtou I prepared for tire last stand.
"'If )ou ever get out of this, said the
man 'my name Is Pierre Serste', Brussels.
Hi- opened lire with tho automatic Yep6tt.
'Hint was tho last I saw of him, for ft
sudifen blow from some flying weapon
knocked mo tense'ess I did not evn re
member falling Into the water.
"When 1 revived I was on tbe beach
uiiinn't A hiiiiilrml dond enemies and friends.
"I had- United down the rlter ou et
dinner My outflanking party bad been at
traded by the noise, of battle and hid ar
ilwcl in time to save my comrade froa)
complete annihilation, '
"I lost four-fifths of my men. berate,
fe.ltlni rff-nntitrA an,! ..- I..U &., .4.
out his brains with tho last ahot In tht)
Luger. '
"With tbe new arrival at my command,
I Indicted a scvero punishment on the can
nibals Ten of the chiefs were hanged fe
their crimes, and tbe Congo ITnio 'tatb
camo In once moro for a storm at abuii
from tbe enemies, for Its cruelty In bandrintt
the gentle, defenseless savages."
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