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CURRENT COMMENTS. 
Henry Stanley, the Livingstone Discoverer. 
Now we have a new sensation. The Sun, Aug. 
24, publishes a three column communication 
from Lewis If. Noe, Sayville, L. I., who makes 
the gravest charges against the character of 
Henry Stanley, the Livingstone discoverer. 
He charges that Stanley once induced him to 
desert from the P. S. Navy, tried to induce him 
to engage in bounty- 
jumping, to desert from 
the army after be had 
entered, seduced him to 
go with him to Smyr¬ 
na on false representa¬ 
tions, made him his 
slave in Turkey, Bogged 
and threatened to kill 
him, attempted highway 
robbery and the life 
of a Turk, got several 
hundred dollars from 
Hon. E. Joy Morris, 
American Minister to 
Turkey, by false repre¬ 
sentations and a ficti¬ 
tious draft, and per¬ 
formed other ignoble 
acts, indicating an utter¬ 
ly unscrupulous man. 
He gives all this with 
circumstantial detail, 
and sums up as follows: 
To sum up his charac¬ 
ter. Stanley is a daring 
adventurer, bold and 
unscrupulous, but intel¬ 
ligent and specious. His 
manners are those of a 
quiet man. In disclos¬ 
ing his infamy to the 
world, I have but a sin¬ 
gle object, and purpose, 
and that is, as far as r 
can, to prevent Mm sub¬ 
jection of others to the 
outrage and wrong [ was 
compelled to submit to 
at his hands. More than 
once he Ins threatened 
to kill me if I exposed 
him. With his cruel 
and revengeful nature I 
believe lie would not 
hesitate to carry his 
threat inio execution. If 
n favorable opportunity 
occurred in which he 
could do it with impu¬ 
nity. And I am not 
without my fears of as¬ 
sassination. Indeed, I 
should confidently ex¬ 
pect it were we to meet 
without the hounds of 
ci vi I iza tion or In a 
sparsely-settled country 
where crimes would not 
he quickly disco vered or 
where the avenues of es¬ 
cape were open. 
Our Common School 
System at the Vienna 
Exposition. 
A letter has been re¬ 
ceived In Washington, 
by the Bureau or Educa¬ 
tion from the Hon. John 
Jay, Uesidcnt American 
Minister at Vienna, em¬ 
bodying a suggestion 
made by Baron Schwarz, 
and stating that the 
Baron had expressed a 
desire that the United 
States Government 
would present at. the 
Vienna Exposition a per 
feet representation of 
the system of common 
school instruction adop¬ 
ted in the United States 
—a system the result* 
of which, he said, had 
been so wonderful. He 
stated that he had re¬ 
ceived with singular in¬ 
terest the report on 
American popular edu¬ 
cation recently publish¬ 
ed in Paris, and which 
has attracted so much 
attention upon the Con- 
tinent, and that an expo- (Engraved from t 
sition of that system, illustrated by a school- 
house and its appurtenances and results, would 
be a matter of profound interest and impor¬ 
tance, not only to Austria and Hungary but to 
the Eastern people who adjoin that Empire. 
The American Minister concludes by urgently 
recommending the adoption of the suggestion, 
which in all probability will be carried out. 
The Diamonds of Arizona. 
A cold water bath on the diamond excite¬ 
ment is the statement publicly made in the 
London Times by a firm of diamond brokers, 
that a few months ago an American visited 
London, and bought a large number of dia¬ 
monds In the rough, paying no attention what- 
ever to the weight or quality of the stones. 
These diatnoads, it is intimated, were used by 
the alleged discoverers of the diamond mines in 
Arizona, to sustain their assertions. It will be 
well for the young men of the country to wait 
before they invest their money, or enlist in any 
adventure in Bearch of Arizona diamonds. Gen. 
McClellan, whose name has been associated with 
this diamond Company, says ho knows but, very 
little about diamond matters, and is not certain 
that the diamonds exhibited came from Ari- 
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tti* 
JOHN LEARD’S TROUBLE, 
BY BERTHA SCKANTOM POOL. 
TnK sun set with a Bashing, "as ot tire," that 
afternoon. It reminded me, in its pageantry of 
color, or ** an army will) banners,” that the good 
old psalmist took for his metaphor. 
So few pretty things came Into Zillah 
Leakd's life that she always took note of tho 
sun's setting. Besides it 
j meant Hint John would 
com© home to tea. 
You would not under¬ 
stand her, I fear, if 
t she came to you unex¬ 
plained. You who read 
of the latest scientific 
discoveries. Hie an¬ 
nouncement of another 
asteroid, or the state of 
the London markets, at 
your break fast tables; 
you to whom nothing is 
astonishing In this pro¬ 
gressive day and genora- 
fion, and who live more 
in one month than this 
woman Ju a lifetime. 
There are far away 
towns on our own sea¬ 
board, where the quiet 
of every week - day is 
like a Sabbath—towns 
u» far removed from 
bustle or worldly lifo 
as night from day, as 
heaven from earth; 
where only a chance 
st earner or fishing vessel 
awakens echoes of tho 
world outside. Did you 
ever think, hurrying 
home in the crowded 
thoroughfare at dusk, 
that the same sun was 
setting on quaint, still 
grave-yards, on grass- 
grown roofs of old 
houses, and flashing its 
red fires on low, wot 
snnd dunes and suit 
marshes, where this city 
11 to wi t li 1ts daily clamor 
would come as startling- 
Iv ns bugle sounds at 
night? 
Look at the breakfast 
dish of cod or mackerel 
some morning, and 
think what, hardy lives 
are yearly risked and 
lost at the fishing banks 
that you may live in 
case at home. 
If Zillaii Leard 
came of a rough race, it 
was a long-lived, clean- 
blooded one. They had 
“followed the sea" for 
a generation baolc. 
When sbo read of 
Christ among the fish¬ 
ers,eating of their bread, 
sleeping on their sailor 
pillows, she grew proud 
of her ancestry. She 
had never seen a great 
painting or read a fine 
poem in her life. But 
there was something 
akin to her in a sunset, 
or the sea in a storm, or 
the wet sands glowin? 
red in the early morn¬ 
ing. There wasn’t any¬ 
thing handsome about, 
John Leard. His face 
was tanned to the color 
of a red herring and 
seamed and mottled 
from wind and weather 
till it looked nearer fifty 
than thirty - five. He 
hadn’t any fine points in 
the wuy of oyes or teet h, 
wing_ Size 'MxiiO I and his hair was grizzled 
already a little. But if 
you came to take measure of his chest, to note 
how he had to stoop to go in at house doors, and 
if you felt the sinews of his arms and bands, like 
iron, you would begin to look at him In wonder. 
To John’s eyes, Zillah was Just the most 
beautiful woman in the world. John had never 
heard of the French opera, had never seen an 
actress in his life. Zillah was his all. Hair 
like wet sea sand, eyes blue as deep water, skin 
like some pink aud white shell, and the sweetest 
mouth, mid the only on« he ever had kissed. 
For they were man aud wife, and had beeen for 
three years, when I first introduce them to you. 
I’m afraid if Zillah bad wanted a poetical, 
knightly hero, John wouldn’t have been tho 
one. But she used to tell other women she 
never brought in an armful of wood or shoveled 
a winter path when John was at home. And 
only she knew how once, when she had been ill 
for twelve long, tiresome nights, he never had 
slept; and how, when Bhe was gaining again he, 
carried her in his arms till she fell asleep like 
any babe. And all this John Leard would 
SEPT. 21 
MOOSE’S BUBAL HEW-YOBKEB. 
