Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1887, Page 10

1v THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, LETTER FROM FRED DOUGLASS . Ho Gives an Interesting Account of His Trip to Paris. MAN NERS, MEN AND MORALITY Trouble Ahout a Passport—The Gay City Peacetal and Happy—The Tepublic Will Live-Early Emancipators, Pamis, Jan. 98.—|Correspondence of the Br My visit to this great city is the realization of a desire and purpose A long entertained and long postponed. P Many years ago, whila in England, 1 made some effort to this end; but owing to an attempt made upon the life of the Emperor Napoleon INL, the strictn with which the sport system was, in consequence, enforced, and my inability to procure a passport, that effort was de- feated. At this distance of time, it may geem strange that I could notthen obtain o passvort as en American citizen, but such was the fact. My application to Mr. G. M. Dallas, then minister to rland, for such a doc- ument, was instantly refused, on the al- Jeged ground that T was not an American citizen, Time and events have put an end to this objection, and this happy fact leayes me with no disposition to think bitterly of the injustice then done, or to magnify the hardships then imposed. 1 um here to-day with nothing in my ante- cedents, partialities or a ons to warp my impressions or bins my opinions. Though, by the grace of my country its amended constitution, T am now s American citizen, and have enjoyed this proud distinction for some years, this great privilege has not boen coupled with conditions _caleulated to blind me to American imperfections or to prevent me from seeing in a true light the institu- tions of countries other than my own, THE FRENCH CAPITAL TO-DAY. With all its faults, Paris to-day stands not less strong, compact and hopetul - than at any time during its history. I do e not find here that absence of contidence between man and man, that ennui and cnkness arising from se nality and other vices, usually ascribed to this people, and which is the sure precursor of the downfall of cities and empires. I notice much drinking, yet little drunk- enne much joud talk, butno street broils. In these respects and others Paris seems to me, both socially and politically, in & hopeful condition. Tms Buperb city is now, as it has long been, the chief continental center of European vilization, and 1 see nothing in its pres- ent charagter likely to cost it the loss of this proud eminence. No two scctions of any city are in stronger contrast than the old “and the new part of Paris. Th ppears not only in the differing condition of the in- habitants of each district respectively, but i the archit streets, and the general appearance of things, Old Paris is where the workingmen generally live, and it is a perfect network of nar- sombre courts, repulsive all lofty and dingy ' dwellings, crowded with occupants from foundation to roof. Winding his way through the sinuosities of this densely populated sec tion, an Ameriean, accustomed to wide strects, broud sidewalks, large rooms and abundant sunshine will shudder at the thought of a populace huddled together in such dark, thr ning and dangerous proximity. Bul this feeling is much re- lieved by the appearance of the people themselves. They certainly look healthy, 4 . well clothed, well fed, and are ingly cheerful. A proverb sa. ness is the devil’s workshop.” tanie majesty may have many such shops in this quarfer, for aught I know. I have not penetrated very far into the un- inviting obscurities of this shadowy sce- tion; nevertheless, upon the surface not many such dens are visible. AS BUSY AS BEES. The French people seem to be as busy as bees in a hive. Industry—active, earnest and persistent—is the rule. nrikin;.: feature of this industry is found in the fact that persons of all ages and hoth sexes, grey-haired men and grey- haired women, wrinkled not only by age but by toil, are seen in Paris in a larger proportion than elsewhere, all ali cn- aged 1 some industrial avocation. oman, in the humbler walks of life seems in France n more general help: meet than in the Uni: States. Many French women are surprisingly hale and strong. In Paris woman is everywhere a toiler, as much so as man. If a burden is to be borne, she is there to share the bur- den. Ifa handeartis to be drawn, she essed with a man, and supplies her e of the strength to draw the vehicle. ‘This union of men and women in the struggle for honest livelihood has a moral as well as material significance. It not only nccounts for the fact that this people usually have cash on hand, but it is the eause of results still more important and recious, for out of this mutuality and nterdependence in bearing the birdens A of life, spring honorable social and do- mestic relations. Even among the hum- blest and poorest classes in” Paris, the family is an institution of ideal cred- 5 ness. Itmay be true that the French e have no name for home, but it is not true that the real thing that constitutes home does not exist in France, A PRIZED HOME, A French homeisa real home—a vrized home. T'his union of effort of which I have spoken tells of husband and wife, of arent and child, of love and affection, , t tells of willing sacritice of individual sase for the improvement of the cond- tions of existence for all. No people who 3 thus love one another, and who thus . labor together, can justly be regarded us given over to destrietion, But industry is not the only strong point In the lives of these Parisians. There is bere a wholesome spirit of wise econ- omy, from which we in America N might well take a lesson. Nothing here that can be made valuable or usefu! to man 1s permitted to go to waste, There is economy in the use of time, space and everything else. Many boys and girls wear wooden shoes. Rags, bones, can- dle-onds, bits of meat, fragments of pa- per, uro all saved and turnod to account n ond way or another, There is especial economy and eare inthe use of fuel, Looking over the eity from the towers of K . Notre me, 1 observed many chimneys - butlittle smoke. In passing the dwel- ings of almost any loeality at night, you i will see many windows, but little light. R ‘We hear of fewer Jamp explosions in Paris, for a single candle is used where - we would baye three or four lamps. . Great fires seldom oceur. SOME OF THE.COMMON FOLI, in' New York to one . ard no fire bells and . seen butone fire engine during the two ‘months that I hav it here. Al labor “held i 1 useful callings 5 are respectable. ecords the E righit of way to- him 'who bears the bur- den. No are seoms nshamed of his avo- eation. 1 notiee that the porter,the boot * black, the conchman, the street cleaner; ‘even the - rug picker, each woears ‘the badge.of his.c: n'nr bravely. ‘The muid- servant, the shop-girl, the needle-woman wears -each her cap.or bounet, pr goes aneapped and unbonneted with equal ~ © nconcern as to What the crowd may say wrthink, And wel she mny.for however heap or coarse may be her apparel, she eldom fuils to maké. & neat and udy ap- ance. bave not been much impressed by the paliteness found 1 the streets among the working classes, There 18 certainly nothing humble-mouthed, servile or ob- sequious about them. On the contrary, they seem to be fullv conscious ot their own rights, dignity and power. They often occupy more than their needed space in QL‘ streets and will not step aside to make room for the passers-by. They look at a stranger sometimes as though he were an intruder, and they prociaim in their features the idea that they are lords of the soil and masters of the situation, Lam told that this feature of street manners, which seems to be little in excess of a just levy, is more prominent now than during the empire and the fact is not strange, for the com- mon people have a power now that v not then concede PEOPLE AND PRINCES, They now walk in freedom and in con- scious right where only princes walked before. And this fact 1s an element i the stability of the republic. The bean ful gronnds of the Tuileries, the galleries of the Louvre and the Luxembourg, the Musce Cluny, the Jardin des Plantes, the 5 Beaux-Arts, the Musce des sure park of Saint Cloud, the palace and gardens of Ver- sailles and Fontaineblean, the Esplanade of the Hotel des Invalides belong now as much to the working classes as they did once to counts and countesses, As to the possible permanency of the republie, T accept the statement of my old frie; and _eo-laborer in the anti- slavery canse, Mr. Theodore Tilton. He has resided lere several years, quietly pursuing his literary studics, and is close observer. is as bright and witty as ever, and deeply interested in the republic of France. Ile tells me that the “To be or not to be'’ of the republic depends upon the sontinuance of peace; that every day of peace is an additional gunrantee of the stability of the republic. But it is easy to speculate and philoso- Pphize about contingencies and_possibili- rowing out of the wide divergence !nwu and the disparity of conditions. TRUE CAUS W PEAC »-day at least, Paris scems happy, saceful and prosperous,. Her greatness evidently not the result of her tortunate situation, or of any sudden triumph of arms or achievement in diplomac She has lived for nc 5 under the deep ible disas ter, and has borne e in leveling a mountain of debt imposed by o foreign conqueror. She has at her door no broad or splendid harbor upon whic ride, but is essentially an y. The marvel is that dimensions snd magnificence, 2,000,000 inhabitants, should b here. Plainly enough the sceret of her greatness must be sought for within, and not from without. Itjs due to the genius ol des chives, the vl of ¢ inland city of such with of her people, their industry, their econ- omy, their publie spirit, their patriotism and theiv integrity. Under all_forms of their government these qualities have been conspicuous., In no other great center of western Europe lias more been donc to gratify the wsthetic taste of a population than in Paris. In addition to her picture leries, like the Louvre, the largest build- ing i Europe, with its miles of corridor: and acres of pictures, the Luxembou and other places dedicated to art, which art students from all quarters of lobe, thene are opportunities oftered o for the acquisition of knowledge, for tion ot intellect and for the refinement of taste. The college of Irance ovens wide its doors and wel- comes the public to listen to lectures by its most learned and gifted profe “without moncy and without pric Paris can bouast that her school of medi- cine 1s the most celebrated in the world. OKS BY TIHE BILLION. Her Bibliotheque Nationale has 3,000,- 000 of yolumes, the accumulation of cen- turies, n grand store-house of knowledge to which citizen and foreigner are ad- mitted, and where they are provided with every necessary for reading and study. Since the war “with Germany there has been developed an interest in the educa- tion of the masses beyond anythi the sort prior teems with schools, haye become in large ever a reading people. uce has fully realized the truth that an uneducated nation,. howeyer brave and patriotic, is at an immense disadyantage in comparison with one that is educated. She has learned wisdom from all nations, and has honored the United States by send- ing one of her sons, M. Paul Pa: to in- spect our educational system is 1 port on the subject shows him to have cen a close observer and a diligent student. He scems to have been much i ed with some of the features of m, and he armly commends Notwithstanding it is usual to city, given ore is to the war. and them. represent Paris as a Godls over to the works of darkness, th here a large degree of religious activit; igion in this city can on without meulcating sound morality, this activity tends to the conservation of Parisian socie THE OLD RELIGION. here 15 no question that Romanism as lost ground in France since the i and since no r make any impre auguration of the republic; that the common people have boeome ' indiflerent and the learned but the Ro- man Catholic church is stitl both a relig- 10us and a political force. No doubt that a sense of its diminished power acts as a strong motive for sd exertion. Its pricsts, in thei ack gowns, and its sisters of chanty with their pe- culiar costumes, are everywhere on, Numerous processions ot séhool children are met with in the streets, under the immediate guardianship of pricsts and nuns, whost ever-continued watehfulness cannot be without its influence upon the rising generation, I have seen but little of the statesmen of the French republic. It is not an casy matter to obtain admission to the krench senate or the corps legislatif. It will, [ think, be much easier to do so when the republic is a little further removed from the times of the empire. At present, spectators are admitted only by ticket, and as the galleries are small tickets are fow. 1 have, however, bad the good for- tune to witness the proceedings of the senate once, and those of the eorps e latif twice, For a part of this pri 1 was indebted to the kindness of Mr, Theodore Stanton, who, as a son of Henry B, and abeth Cady Stanton, bas inherited in & lur/,iu measure the high qualities of his gifted parents. He has resided here during the last ten yoars, and is eminent as o journalist and o lit- erary man, THE FRENCH SENATE, T was greatly impressed by the dignity, the decorum and the intellectual appear- ance of the French senate. In this re- spect 1t much resembles the American, The only marked difference is in the style of dress. Every French senator, I noticed, w attired in the evening cos- tume of a dress party. The corps legis- latif differs from ihe French senate in about the same proportion as the house of representatives diflers from the Ameri- can senate, On the occasion of the recent change of ministry, through the intervention of . Frederie Passy, an eminent member of the assewbly, I' obtained a seat in the gallery of M. Floguet, its president. I could " hardly bave had a better oppor- tunity of observing the stormy side of French character. 'The scene was about as wild and tempestuous us thatin our house of representatives, when James G. Blaine debated with Hill, of Georgia, the question of the -exclusion of Jelferson Davis from amnesty. 5 President Floquet, a calm, dignified man, with a laxge, intellectual head, had otten to ring his bell to still the umsosl, to restore order, and to hold the body to its work. At times it was Like the sound- ing of go) 10 keep the bees from swarming. ‘But his temper was excellent. and his management admirable. Looking down upon the senators as they filed into the chamber, 1 observed a g:nvc and venerable man, somewhat nt with age, but with firm and reso- lute step, proceed to his seat. THE GREAT & ATOR “That cenator,” said my friend, Mr, Stanton, “'is M. Schoelcher, the William Lloyd Garrison of France, for he brought forward the measure emancipating the slaves of the French colonies. in f‘ila W At once, perhaps like Poloniusin the play, 1thought 1 saw a slight resemblance. The head is long and almost entirely bald; the features clean cut, tranqui and benignant, liko those of the A can emancipator. On my expres desire to be introduced to him, Mr. ton, through a member of the sens procured me an interview with Schoeleher in the senate reception room. Among the first things he said to me was: ‘"How are the colored people now treated in the states? ©have heard that they are not eyen allowed to ride in the street cars of New York, and other large cities.” I very promptly and gladly assured him tht this barbarism was no longer practiced in the northern sta and that the old prejudice growing out of slavery, though still rife 1n the ol slayo states, is gradually disappearmg trom the pro- gress of a higher civilization, Soon after meeting M.Schoeleber in the senate, L had the pleasure and the privi- legge of an interview with him at his house, Itwas during his breakfast hour; and it was an interview that I shall never forget His elegant apartments, espe- cinlly his hbrary, proclaimed the ph opic history of the man. He was liter- ally surrounded by broken fetters and t-ofl’ phernalia of the slaye EARLY EMANCIPATION, e told me that immediately after the republic of 48 v formed he went to M. Arago and sad: “Now is the time to emancipate the slaves of our colonies, but that statesman met the propo: with the argument that such a measure could not be entertained; t it would produce insarrection and bloodshed in the colonies. “Itold him, said M. Schoel- cher, “that on the contrary failure to ncipate now, would canse the slaves in insurrection, and if emancipa- o, Twould myself ad- . Fortunately, no such adyice was given, and no insurrec- tion took place, for at theend of the con- v 1on, M. Arago committed the whole subject to the hands of M. Schoelcher,and the result was the memorable deere emancivating all the slaves of the French colonies. During break and a 1t was evidently some one who wished to see him, and I thought him about to de- cline admitting the visitor. He said to his servant, “Do I know him?” On re- cewving a negative reply, he hesitated for a moment, and then asked, “Is he a c ored 1 ) on learning that he wus, he ordered him shown at once into the libra This cireumstance bespoke the character of the man. An ordinary visi- tor would have probably found him too much engaged at that hour to gain ad- mission to his presence, but a man of the injured race, to whose cause he had shiown a profound devotion, he was un- willing to turn away. AN OLD L TEUR. M. Schoelcher is now eighty-two years old, and is not only active in the senate, but is doing much literary wor He s ing a biography of "Toussaint-Lou- rture, and I hope he will live to com- plete it. I have promsed to do my best o its republication in the United States for the benefit of the cl which the brave and heroic Tou belonged, for no colored man can be reat and good without thereby helping his whote race. M. Schoelcher is a free thinker. Pere Hyacinthe says of him that “*he is a man who docs not believe in a God, but one who makes other men believe in Him.” I have had many attentions shown me by American residents in Paris, and I wm happy w bear testimony to the kind- tthe door bell rang, aint ness aund cordiality of my countrymen abroad. Strange to say, to none have I been more indebted for kind oflices th to Professor Thomas Yeatman, former! a slave-holder from the state of Missouri, We met each other from opposite ex- tremes of experience, and he seemed de- sirous to atone for whatever of wrong there had been in his past relation to the slaves of America, by kind oftices 1o mo as a stranger in a strange land. Upon the whole, T eame to Paris with large expectations; I have viewed its wonders with satisfaction, and I leave it with regret, but with a hope of return- ing in the spring and seeing it under sunnier skies. 1 A Polk county, Georgia, man is living pleasantly with his eighth wife, Willlam D. Howells” wife is quoted as ing that her husband writes as a man wood. In Parls there Is o _fashionable club made up entirely of divorced people, and it is said to be the pleasantest in the city. Miss Woodrufte, of New York, has just 'n married in Paris to Henri Loge, the well-known Belgian planist and com- poser They had not met since they were in the ballet at the academy ot music, under Mapl son. “Dear Lizzie, U'm so glad to see you 80 1 am to meet you.” “Are you marfied? “Yes; are you “Yes; any children? “Pwos and you?” “None; our house is too small.” Marie Prescott’s husband, William Perzel, published a eard Iast week worded in this way: “Having returned from abroad and discovered the existence of certain circum- stances that necessitate action on my part, 1 feel it my duty as a man and a manager to make this public announcement ot the fact that I have severed all relations, business and otherwise, with Marie I’reseott.” The wife of au English clergyman has es- tablisned in London a place for the dist bution of elothing, which she denominat “'l'lw(‘Ilnl\(rrh's.”i)lllnl;’lhflnl\s!yl': noless than 10,000 garments have been received and distributed among the worthy poor. She has agents all over the city who inquire into the character and coudition of every peti- tioner, London Truth: I am informed that the marriage of Christine Nilsson with the Count Vallejo Muanda will be celebrated eithe: Cannes, whither she is going after appear- ing at a charity concert in Farls, or on her return to Paris in February. The delay of this long arranged affair has been caused by the vatican. The paval officers are in no hurry to sanetion the marriage of a faitnful Spanish hidalgo with a Lutheran lady. Miss Maud Howe. the daughter of Mis. Jull Ward Howe, was married to Mr. Johi Elliot on Monday in Boston, Miss Howe has furnished more than one model for artistic work, and visitors to the centennial will recall Porwr's exquisite portrait of a young girl in a red Galnsborough hat— which now belongs to the Corcoran gallery at Washington, as well as the beautiful por- traitin_evening dress which was exhibited at the Paris exposition, A vear afterward Miss Howe gained many laurels abroad as an American beauty, and it was hinted that George Eliot made her the model for Gwen- dolyn in “Danalel Deronda.” Later traces of her personality have been found in the hero- ine of “Dr, Claudius,” a novel by her eousin, F, Marlon Crawford, and in “A° Politician's Daughter,” Myra Sawyer Hamlin's novel of last summer. In going to Rome as a bride, Miss Howe will revisit scenes of earlier soelal triumphs, where, as the guest of her aunt, Mrs, Terry, the fair American received mueh adwiration in 15; ——— Madame Christine Nilsson writes that she will, after all that has been said, marry the Count de Miranda: Langtry declaves that she is engaged to Freddy Gebhardt, and is only waiting for her divoree to celebrate the eeremony, and it is- officially announced that Mrs, James Potter Brown will go upon the si of ‘which uluuenfio of shrew using. AWS Elvor- STANLEY'S SIMPLE ~ SMILE, Last Words With the Explorer on His Way to the African Wilds. LECTURES SPOILED BY LEOPOLD Jokes Before the Journey—ie Appearance — The Ex-Omahan in Good Shape—All Aboard for the Congo. Brussers, Jan, 21— Correspondence of the Bee.]-Duaring the llying farewell visit which Stanley paid to Kin Leopold, before leav- ing for his Emin Pacha expedition, I had the privilege of an hour's interview with him, at the Hotel de Bellevue, the very hotel, strange to say, where poor “Chinese Gordon” put up just before starving for Khartoum and death. Having only two or three hours to spend here, including breakfast time, Stanley had instructed the hotel porters to meet any eallers with a stern “Not at kome.”” [ never had reason to congratu- late mysclf so much upon my previous acquaintance with Stanley and the special link which my translation of his last book on the Congo had formed be- tween us; for, thanks to these eircum- stances, the watchword “Not at home" was exceptionally withdrawn, and 1 had the good fortune of being the last con- tinental journalist who spoke with the Cgreat little man’’ before his departure for that dark continent where he has spent, on and ofl, nearly eighteen years of his life, and from which he way never return. In the large but simply turnished where he had taken up his quarters, [ found Stanley standing, hi to the fire, in a black froek-coat, duck waist- coat and light fancy trousers, This was the very uncourt like attire in which he had just spent two hours with King Leo- pold. He has always shown something like contempt for the smatler details of Turopean etiquette, and I remember a French publisher telling me how, after Stanley's return from dizcovering Living- stone, he metthe famons explo in a Parisian drawing room in_ corduroy clothes and an Irish frieze to the evident srust ot the gorgeously dressed lookers on. FROM THE BACKWOODS, “Just like those Americans from the backwoods,” concluded the publisher, with a look of indignation. “And exploring the dark continent is just like those Americans from the baek- woods, too," ley smilingly replied, when L afterward repeated the remark to him. On the present occasion, the king of the Belgians, who doesn't happen 10 be a French publisher nor even a masher, had not noticed, any more than at any other time, Stanley’s comparative neg- As the great” explorer told me, his s wonderfully coraial, showed 1 of sentiment,”’ cong lated him specially on his having fore- gone his American leeturing tour for his noble and dangerous attempt to rescue Emin Pacha, and had the twinkling of o tear in his eye ou parting with the plainly dr 1 hero. It was in the Iatter part of our conver- sation that Stanley imparted these fuets, At first he did not seem inclined to un- bosom himself. “Have you come,” he inguired, “in the capacity of a friend to bid farewell, or a journalist to cross-examine me?"” “Both.” “I put the question,” he retorted with aqueer look, “because when 1 was a journalist in the United States I never in- terviewed people m a hurry.”” “Well, don’t you think people 1 a hurry are the only mteresting ones. and are you not doing an miu.\‘.lcu to the Américan press in_general and your for- mer self in parficular, by intimating that they are the yery people” Ameri j nalists take care to leave alone? “Well,” said the explorer, with a sly smile, *“‘all things considered, I do admit tha 1 had been anybody else to-day in Brussels, 1 should have interwiewed Stan- ley, or tried to, atleast. But then, you sce, am not somebody else, and when the interviewer appears I grumbl ATTACKED BY THE INTERVIEWER. Then we sat down in two-arm chairs facing each other, and Stanley, assumi o frigid look, beggzed *“‘the journalis begin his task, before ‘“‘the friend” pro- led with his effusions. [ have known Stanley personally for several s, had long conversations with him Brussels, Ostend, Paris and London; have received from him n nd sympathy, other talk. and sphynx-like, at such times, in his manner of staring at you with a kind of dreamy look, closed lips, and a general stiflness of the body, just i man who might be expeeting and preparing for an assault in a railway car, from some sus- meious-looking fellow scated on the opposite side. But then, only a journalist completely juminted with him could be frightened away by this unpromising debut.” When you have been questioning Stanley for some time and receiving brief, dry and unsugges- tive answers, and you begin to think that there is nothing to be got out of the cold and distant little man, the ice thaws all of a sudden, Stanley rises, a kindly smile ligghts up'his o) 1d he spontaneously lets loose all you have been unavailingly trying to extract from him, and then you have only to sit still and listen, and be- come enraptured with the heated tones, the enthusiastic gestures and the picturs esque words of the brave and eloquent explorer, who 15 henceforth so thoroughly carried away by his favorite African theme that he will only stop when out of breath, A RASCALLY PLOT, As an illustration of this, here is an amusing incident which oceurred at Os- tend, in 1884, immediately after Stanley’s triumphant roturn from the Conjzo, where he had been founding the free state. On hearing of his arrival, I ran down to Ostend, g0t an appointment with him for the following morning at6 a. m. and to make sure of keeping the early rondezyvous, 1 hired the room adjoining his own, at the hotel where he was stay- mg. When I rose on the morrow, just after thesun, 1 learnad that the hotel had become crowded during the might with newspaper reporters who had come with the same object as myself, and among whom wore correspondents of Germun papers, London papers, Dutch imucrs, beside a representative of the 1 {erald, specially sent for that purpose. immodiately - determined upon® the wicked seheme of talking with, Stanley at undue length and tiring him out, If could; in short, of making the rival journalists wait so long for their turn that my report should be secure of a clear “beat'" over all the others, We had been conversing for scarcely five min- utes, however, when I° gave up all "hope of succeeding “in this rascally plot. There was the asual frigid glance, and the short ‘‘yes" and “‘noes” following every query, and that general Egyptian mummy-like de- meanor, which 1stead of inviting ques- tions seemed to repel them and stiflo them back into my mouth, It seemed clear that my journalistic brothers would not have to remain very long out 1o the cold. Casually I asked Stanley whether he did really pelieve in the prospects of the newly founded free state of Congo. He rose o his feet, took from his mouth the pipe from which he had been pufling cloads of Virginia tobacgo, and let the FEBRUARY 13, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES. fire in it extinguish slowly on the table, while to my intense delight he entered into one of the most detuiled, amusing, and brilliant deseriptions imaginable. “THE TRAIN EOR STANLEY FALLS.'' T fancy I hear and see him still, enlarg- ing, with quite a boyish gusto, upon the future growth and welfare of Africa, deseribed the time when emigrants land- ing at Banana would be able 1o cool iheir heatetl bodies under the yerandahs of comfortable cafes, and how, after resting yor two in the hotels dway or Fifth avenue, strangers d jump into fine railway carriages, the porters shumming doors ana crying: “Gentlemon, gentle men, the train for Stan “alls! Now look oul there, we've ofl And to make the pictare more graphic, wley mi- micked the fresh-landed colonists wiping the perspiration from their forcheads under the seorching sun: and their sighs of rellef, aftorwnrds, whon sipping some | euld draught ‘‘under the v fahs,” | and the Vellowing of the y s vants, and even the hissing and spouting of the steam engme. And he proceeded at galloping pace, only resting now and then to take breath, and then starting off again at a simple remark which I wedged in from time to time in ovder to impell him on ain, 1 remained with him three hours and a half, and the represent- ative of the Herald was the only other consented to oh an exhaust- receiv ing and 1 have had oceasion to meet Stanley’s French rival, Savorgnan de Brazzn, and hav extraordinary con men offer in their general bearing, tonly 18 De Brazza us talland shim as Stanley is short and broad, not only is one dark as the other 18 now gray, but the difference in their deportment and character is so great that it is really worth pointing out. No i U ORI BOUIN WHIBO B jour- ist more courteonsly than De Brazza is n perpetual smile in s eyes, h scems as a reflection of those ies under which, i believe, he been' struck by the trast which the t HE 18 A CIGARETTE ND. s tall, supple frame bends conde- seendingly on the appearanee of an in- terviewer. Heis ready at onee not only ply to any arsount of questions, but even to suggest them, and his answers ys given in a soft, musieal tone, the ears as a warm, Strange to say, how Vi “rmvrh, or rather Italian, explorer has withheld frol him all information of real interest, it having hapvened that the wily gentleman was desperately chewing his” cigarette, and thereby mufiling his own words, each time he was letting some out of the bag for Mr. Re- porter’s benelit. Stanley, after a short moment of apparent coolness and stifl- ness, lays his pipe down and opens his mind with an absolutely American frank- ness, fearlessness and smcerity. The whole difference lies ther De Brazza, unlike the hero of Lafontaine’s fable, re sembles a sheath of iron painfed green like a reed on the surface; whereas Stan- ley is the reed which seems unbending at first sight, beeause it is painted over in iron hues. pa i Let us now return to our late interview at the Hotel de Bellevue, from which 1 have been wandering far away. With regard to what was said concerning the det of the iin - expedition, it will suflice to mention the fact of Stanley's astonishing coolness, cheerfulness and heedlessness of all danger. He could not have spoken in a lighter way of s perilous undertaking if he had been merely contemplating a holidey excur- sion to the Channelislands. “Well,” 1 enquired, after observing this, *‘what about that American lectur- ing tour upon the abandonment of which the king complimented you? Don’t you think you have greatly appointed “the people of the United State: AT HOME IN AMERICA. “Ihaveno doubt of it,” he replied. either will they doubt that their dis- appointment is largely shared b You will remember that at our interview at Ostend, I told you of my 1ntention to enjoy myself fora year or two, before trying another fresh trip. A long visit to Amcrica was to have been my principal enjoyment. Itisthe only part of the world, outside Afric rre [ really feel at home. The English are kind to me and the enlightened portion of the tion certainly sympath strongly with my work. But nowhere under the sun have I ever noticed such widespread,gen- eral and popular appreciation of my aims as in the United States, where the lowest as well us the highest classes of society follow my undertakings with the encour- aging and inspiring interest shown by the youngest as by the eldest member of a family towards the worldly experi- ments of a son or brother. I should have crossed the Atlantic and made a long stay in the dear place much earher had 1 not been foreibly detained in London by the protracted negotiations I had to carry for the construction of the projected Congo railway. As soon as tho i ations collapsed, and I felt myself free, [ started joyfully for Ameriea to indulge in the long expected pleasure, And, ccr- tainly, it was very painful for me to say farewell, and start back again to Europe, almost as soon as I had landed. But then, my Ameriean friends will keep an- other fact in view. I was, and am still, IN THE EMPLOY OF KING LFEOPOLD, Now,l accepted the mission to Wadelai, without knowwg whether it would be approved by your savereign, and the fore Iriskei “inenrring his’ displeasure and losing my engagement with him by rushing away to rescue Emin Pacha. Is there, in the United States, a single man who, under these circumstances, would not understand that I had to obeya higher call of duty and conscience, be- fore which all other duties and pleasu must yanish? In fact, I know the Ameri- an publie too well to' suspect that they would have entertained any other feeling than an uncomplimentary astonishment had I hesitated to tear myself away from them, at such a call. For there nation which more Admires and values daring deeds and lofty akings than thut which has furnished the motive power of my whole earcer and set mo on the track of Dr. Livingstone, and which was the first to give the real status of ex- istence to the Congo state, by oflicially acknowledging its flag loniz beforo any European government would even enter- tain the idea.” And thereupon Stanloy entered into s stashing comparison between the Ameri- can and the European press. He found that generally journals did not turn to such & good acconnt as they eould the enormous power they now wicld, There was too much of personal squabbles and party spirit shown. Attmes, he thought thatif he were SLANDERED BY A NEWSPAPER, he would not take the trouble to deny it, because the publie had become 80 suspi- cious of printed reports that even well- founded criticisms are often disbelieved. But the press of the United States at least Iml} this splendid quality, that it al- ways supports generous ideas and lofty A inspirations, and never tries to mar a great undertaking by the sneers or the facile fun which™ European journulists frequently indulge in on all subj heedless of the dispiriting effect whi single word may produce on the strong- est minds and the most philanthropic efforts. % " So intent was Stanley on this portion of his remarks that he had .me forgot- ten the breakfast-tray which bad been lying on the table for the last haif-hour, ITbad to remind him of it by shaking Wadelai. He conducted me to the door, and re- which he saw shining, as it were, out of | the shadows of the present; and how hé | worthy of | e e e e e e e e ~ e e e = - e beaded passementeries, flat gimps in ap pligue, molre cut into stripes. velvet ribbons and bands of Swiss insertion will bo used fo this purpose, The old reptilie and insoet forms, so pon lar this season, occasionaily take decidedly realistie forms. A necklace was recently seen, the ciasp of which was a huge greer frog, while the seyeral links were formed of | verting once moro to the ideas he had boen exprossing Yes," he said, "I should like to see the press of the whole world become kindor | and kinder, nobler and nobler, gs fast as | it bacomes mightier and mightier.” | And pointing upwards, he added: It should ever logk higher and highor and take for its motto one word: Excel- | long-tailea tadpoles. A P-in for the hair. sior!"* Geranp Hanuy, cqually pre-Raphwlistic, is composed of o o i burich of eherries, on one of which a slug s HONEY FOR THE LADIES, resting, a trail of slime being plainly marked behind it. India silks are more popular than French fouiards owing to their superior durability, White Indiasilks, with all over patterns of graceful lines in black, blue, brown or scar let will make pretty summer dresses, and tnere are many Waiteau and Pompadour de signs of roses and pinks in pale and charm ing colors. Lace is no loger used in profu sion to trim theso light silks, velvet having supnrseded it, Kate Chase is writing the life of her father. Mrs. Emmons is said to be worth about | 50,000, 1t is asserted that 1,000 women own and manage farms in lowa. Platina and gold s the favorite combina- tion in fine plated link buttons, Smail ehot now ornament the overlapping ends of siender wire and twist-shank rings, For misses, coil earrings chased and often urahs with farze, wide diagonal twills aro set with tarquoise are neat and fashionable. | shown in all solid colors and in many vlaids, Amonz the wealthy and the followers of | Some of the prettiest boing dark blue crossed fashion link-buttons are almost exclusively | With pink or lighter blue: Suede, with bars of worn. rose and ereen, and green grounds barred without doubt the conventional Hower With | oijjar, vest and. cuflss the skirts borderod arl eenter, The chased horse-shoo or wreath,combined with enamel flowers, is appropriately used in earrings as well as pins, A line of fancy stone with velvet, or with velvet the plaits. ‘There is already a large display In all the shops of sateens, batistes and other eotton because sich dres are made up Jaid in between earrings, including opats, sapphires aud simila stones, et very | durink the leisure of Lent. Panels of e plainly, i¥being made this season broidery, borders for the lower skirt and on. Mrs. Mackay is expected to become one of | tire skirts of embroidery are special featurcy the highest bidders for some of the Fiench | of these pretty gowns. The varions shades crown joweis at the conming sale in May. Black braiding on white cloth vests and pancls is 10t new, but is still worn, generally upon house dresses for those in mourning. Canadian_authorities objeet to American sloops and seliooners, but the Canadian gitls are very friendly to United States smacks. Ashley Townsend will edit the new y magazine soon to be is !I\IH‘II in Now Orleans, wit e title Art ana sotter of heliotrope, so popular this winter, reap: vear in the sateens, as well ns several of the now greens and grays, ‘Uhe tancy is to make them with plain skirts of solid color, the drapery being figured in white or ccri, - A Chinook Wind, Providence Journal: A Bostonian, who has just returned from a flying trip to Portland, Oregon, relates how he Tett Chi ro with the mercury at zero, and went on to find it constantly sinking, until with two locomotives it was ditlicult to get up steam cnough to drag the train; s beginning to lay aside mourning ar gray castimere combined with whito corded silk and trimmed with steel passe- menterle. and with ar ng tire in the cars it was g Ixhxll‘lIhmhll:‘rl::lrf"l“'l‘ ‘;'\“IX« hnrl-:"!lv{ {:' n‘m’\“ :‘ur still necessary to p muflled in furs to searing in bea styles, the varied finish | o anything” nearly comfortable. Ho :.I'II'(‘)IV:\t:\\l!ll.\ll\l.\llll\ulhllj, awide 80 Of | Guvs that in crossing snow Plams e s oy i | through Dakota, when everybody was I'he crescent in vermicelli finish, set with tid i AL dimmonds and having s smail diamond star [ Pindiod up to the eyes, a man “acens: on one ot its horns, 1s seen both in pins and | tomed to the countr SRR back his heavy ulster collar, ¢xelaim- litornia widows stand no nonsense. An | 1N 5 i 5 ad paper stated that a citizen had gone |+ Uliere, we've struck a Chinook wind. appier lome, and the widow has sued | Now we are all right. 1I'm going out on per for libel, the platform.” ‘There is a tendeney to return to someold- | Those not accustomed o the idiosyn- fashioned colors under now names, A bright | erasies of the American elimato in that h{m"\. . lls]v:lll(:‘{ *jubilee blue,” in hionor | espec 1al locality regarded the man us be of the English queen. * ¢ himselt, but when the platform was i linndsome opal ting recently intraduced | visiied by tho more daring ones, it wis 1ns a single stone with a trefoil of small dia- sovered tha » tempo! RO RGILH the shank around the gems richly ehased. alitatn b bl seting Bl atabadr il UL 1,i0108" vost oliAING, 478 How Shade. In the | Mysterious wind Tfllmml o have blown Frenci: style, polished gold shot alternating | 11 & new lelld lo name of this warm R ¢ | brecze is the same ns that of a tribe of In- with Freneh links of platinum, A small pla: Ui tinum locket in the same style is attached. dians of British Columbia, who perhaps manufacture it, and it 1s said to be so Lady Colin Campbell hesitates between ) the stage, the lecture platform, and a book, | warmthatit destrows three or tour feet of Having the sanction of the queen she will | snow in a single night nun doubtless succeed in whatever she under- | who rels vage closes by takes, relating how when he Wt Port- The for -me-not finish, a beautifully | Jund, pansics were blooming in th: gar chased wuface of platinum and gold i ini- | den beds, and mildness had possession of tation ot that popular flower, is the riclhest | ¢hojand’ an ending which is and most artistic novelty in chased sleeve- | gt BT S .‘_:. Ity buttons. effective in these frozen da A salable ring at present has a flat shank, the upper part of which is split, and two | allel rows of fancy stones, three in a row, age set eithr diagonally or fu line with the S| K. A lightlpink that s being brought out in vel- vets to combine with black lace is much like the ola Magenta shades and is ealled Charl X. pink Anemone is a new reddish parp mueh prettier than the heliotrope now: worn. five young women are studying in the law artment in the Mielian university this year. One of them is the danghterof a promi- nent lawyer in the Sandwich Islands, Ste in- fonds to prastice lier profession in lier native and. A new review has been started in Rome by three young Italian women. ‘The imitial number promises biographies of celebrated wornen, articles on household economyd; and lhygiene, ete., of particular interesi to womel, ‘Lhe newest queen chain is composed of red and green gold and platinum ‘in beautitul contrast, and ias a Lall pendant, the surface of which cons sts of deeply ehased blocks of the same wetals, set with different colored stone; She was a erank on the subject of music. A'centleman knocked at her door and asked: S'JACOBS O}, NOTHING LIKE IT. - BIFyom current_corvespondence with dealers Bere and there, shoui Jacobe Oib and its wonderjul ¢ff No Such Word, Globe™Mills, Pa., Oct. 20, 1956, “Thave never hieard of uso 173 which it failed to. enre, Facons off {ukes tholead” & 91 YODEK, Denter. It NeverDisapyoinis, Flandreau, Dakotal “Eyery one kno'ws it mid cals for 8t e 'S5 eobs Ol "1 huve only to wrap it up, knowiug it will niot disappoint.” D witi ction. , New York, N. Y, October TSt Tacobe Ol for yes had one réport of dissatish . DeLA Druggist. Never Heerd of Dissa Tharuac, Grentor Than All © “Does Mr. Suitl live here?” “No, sir; his T w0l I o e ks FI tendy s room is ar hizher—in the next Ine: demand; sules of Bl Jacobs flat,” she replied, i & pianissino andante Oil greater than ll others combliied.” 1L J. WATJEN, Druggist, | The Best Selling Articlo. tone of voice. In Holland women are rapidly usurping the occupation of pharmaceutical assistant: Out of a totulof fifty-seven candidates, nine- teen out of thirty-one and only eigt out of twenty-four males were suceess- ful in the recent state examination, The new aomestic golden beryl hus a very pleasing effect when mounted in the plain twist-shank ring in combination with small diamonds, or in scarf-pins in the popular Maltese foru It almost rivals the dia- mond in brilliancy When a youngz lady runs off and marries a coachman a great fuss is made about it; but every day some bride warries a sroout and nothing is thought of that, and a history of their case, receive ADYICE FREE. Said a maid, L will marry for luere E—— And her seandalized ma almost shu 3 i possentaLeatnd b ! STARGOUGH GIIRE And she toid the good dame, 'REE FROM OPIATES AND POISCN, Liotice she did not ebicr SAFE. 5Cts ‘T'he close French bonnet promises to hold SURE. AT DBUGGISTH AND DEALERS, its own the coming season, judging by the printed plates and other models sent over as TUE CHARLLS A, YOUELER (U, BALTINORE, K] A H, COMNSTOCK, announcements of fortheoming styles in - Pointed, gabled and horseshoe crowns are shown among the majority of these shapes, and the bonnet entire is still the diminutive toy head-dress that it has b Grenl, Insurance Agent And Real e Broker, 1toom 10 Creighton B v Omahy, Insurancot written in reliable compinies inde pendent of bonrd rates. Always Prolsed~ Enormous Salo, i Malden Lane, N, Y, Oct. 19, 1886, Sales of St Jacobs Oil' enormous, In 20 years nothing has equalled it; never heard t spoken of but in pruise, . H. FRANCIS, TIE CIIARLES A. VOGELER CO,, Baltimore, Bid. B All eroons USING St Jacobs Gil or Red tar Cough Cure, will by sending a two-cent stamp for two seasons past. “Phe mixture of striped and other fancy material with plain fabrics will continue in fayor during the coming season, and also the trimming of textiles 1n monochrome with bands of contrasting material of varions de- 5igns Lo Tepresent striy Galloons, fancy MODBEL CGROCHRY RHE The new Casih tirocery 1TOUFe CoNTINDes [ ATLTL CTOWGN 11 1 . Advantweo of the remurki Py T store AVISL 0 thls storo will sion In chargod. 11, who uro taking W, Lid No admis tand sLractly ply repiy you. "Tho sl 5 Lbs. Choice itoasted ( oynl Buking Pow 16 0z, cans. 450 434 Lbs. Faney Roasted Coflee. iturs Babbit’s Hest Soap .. 8100 4 Lbs, Roustcd Juva Colteo ranulated Sugar . 100 8 Lbs. Snmple Ton (hargain) )y's 210 Cornud foof | 101 4 Lhs. Fino Japan Tes rap, por Kew. ... . 150 0 Lbs, XX Arbucklo's Cofae 4 100 See our fun by postal card. Tarn over o new leaf and piy caeh. 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