Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1890 — Stanley's Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Stanley's Eyes.

The marvelous influence which £'an- ' ley exercised, not only over his Zanzibari followers, but also over all the natives with whom he was brought into contact during his transafrican expedition, is attributed by his Enropea. companions to the peculiar expression of his eyes, says the N. Y. Tribune. One of the latter describes them as follows: “He first looks st the natives as if he were going to eat them, and then, when they give in and do what he wants, he looks as if he had done so and was grateful to them for the meal.’* His eyes are stated to frequently display that strange, far-away light which constituted the most striking characteristic of the late Gen. Gordon’s personal appearance. Gordon, like Stanley, seemed to possess a kind of supernatural influence over the natives of Africa, who regarded the puny and delicate-looking little general with the same awe as they manifest toward Stanley. Stanley’s present visit to Cairo recalls the fact that the first time he passed through the Egyptian metropolis was in 1868, when on his wav to join the British' expedition to Abyssinia. On that occasion England spent a sum of £8,000,000 to effect die rescue of eight persons from the cruel hands of King Theodore. Stanley now returns after a lapse of twenty-two eventful years to the banks of the Nile with the proud consciousness of Having rescued 800 persons at a cost to England of £BO,OOO. Stanley’s receptioii on his arrival at Cairo was more magnificent and enthusiastic than any that have ever been accorded to the crowned heads, special ambassadors, or victorious generals who have passed through the knedive’s capital during the last thirty years. The most characteristic feature of the scene, however, seems to have been the fact that, apparently unconcerned by the ovation with which he was greeted, Stanley’s sole preoccupation was about the safety of Ids baggage. A little white-bearded mau named Widdows, now a clerk in tho Treasury Department, was one of Patti’s first managers. Widdows was a noted chime-ringer. He paid the thirteen-year-old child who was destined to become the world-renown diva SIOO a week for singing in a concert troupe with which he toured the country.