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Show STANLE'MICASDS.: Ths Hero of tbe Dark Continent Tells of His Twenty-Three Tears Work in the Heart of Africa. HI3 MAGNIflOENT EGOTISM. Hii Trials, Bufferings and Triumphs The Founding of the Congo free States Hope for tho Future. What a magnificent egotist is the nrnn Stanley. An egotist, however, who has just reason for being such;who would almost be more than a man were lie otherwise. No man, of tundorn times has so much cause for egotism as has Henry M. Stanley. Probably few men could show It less. Flattered by monarch; courted by princes.houored by savants; worshiped by sovereign citizens of a great republic is not this enough to make hiui even more of an egotist than he is? (Ireat, however, as have been the honors that have been showered upon him; fulsome as has been his measure of (lattery; just as has been the position accorded him as a geographer, explorer and discoverer; still ho cauuot deny himself a (ling at the carping of littler men. This might at least have boeu omitted. A lecture otherwise perfect Africa. The building of tbe great road from Vivi to Stanley Pool, the hostility of tho native tribes along the river, the building of the first little town. What a pleasing picture pic-ture was that first post of civilization on the Congo (on his map Mr. Stanley spoils Congo with a C), tlie double row of neat wooden cottages, ranged on either sido of .a long, wido street, and painted white and blue, with a yard to each, in which nourished tropical plants of every variety. Some" things in connection with tha Kmin relief expedition might have beeti omitted. Why need Mr. Stanley tell us that Kmin. after being rather unwillingly unwil-lingly rescued, got drunk and foil from a second story window, narrowly escaping es-caping with his life. Kmin was in Africa before Mr. Stanley, ho has been the more successful of the two in his management of the natives, his name is linked with that of tho opening of i Africa, but in spite of this fact Mr. Stanley for eight years never meutioucd bis name. The twenty-three years with Stanley in Africa w'ill not soon be forgotten by anyone who was with bim last night, and with tho work of the great explorer the beginning of a great future for the dark continent is seen. Thirty steamers steam-ers now ply the waters of, the Congo, and innumerable steam launches now cleave the waters of the great lakes. This year a navy will be placed upon the lakes; railways are now being constructed con-structed by the Belgian and German governments, and an Knglish road has already been completed for a distance of forty miles. Over fifty missionary station's have been established that precept pre-cept and example may not be wanting for the regeneration of Africa. should not have been marred by a blot that can indx.ito only a twinge of jealousy. jeal-ousy. The press, he said, had called him hard names. But did it ever try to do-tract do-tract from the greatness of the work he has accomplished? There was a bitter controversy between himself and his officers. Hard names and ugly accusations accusa-tions were exchanged. Tho press gave the details; it could not do otherwise. IIo himself has bcou a uewspapor man (:ind ho referred to himself as a reporter re-porter proudly), and he must understand under-stand this. Why, then, that one scar on the polished surface of th't glass in which he showed us the picture of his noble work in Darkest Africa?. Stanley's lecture last night was a curious exposition of the character of the man. It has been said that no man ever went to Africa with him and cum t bick bis friend. In tho plainest of w nils he told us why. He had occa-B occa-B on to write a letter to one of his lieutenants. lieu-tenants. It was couched in the following follow-ing words, as nearly as I can remember it: "If you consider yourself a member mem-ber of my party, bind my commands upon your brow. Get you a boat and set sail for this place, and do it without delay." A truer picture of Henry M. Stanley was never drawn than those few words depict. Stanley's work in Africa was maguifi-rent. maguifi-rent. The task was au Herculean one. lie accomplished it in a manner almost Siibliine. Ho suffered; ho eudured; ho y came off more than conqueror. The re sults-have been glorious, and as tho years go on they will becomo more and more glorious. Tho liberator of Africa, his name has forever become a part of its history, lie brought to a triumphant completion sthe conception of David Livingston, a greater man than himself, and because of w.iom hecannot restrain a small thrust of what can it be called jealousy 'scarcely, but envy, perhaps, because another name than his own is linked with the bringing of light to the dark continent. Probably he is scarcely aware of it, and only his unconscious and, tit the same timo, magnificent egotism gives it utterance. Stanley's welcome to Salt Lake ' was almost an ovation. Inspito of seas of liipiidescent mud; in spite of drizzling rain; in spite of lowering clouds, the theater did not have even "standing room" left. A more Intelligent audience never lilled that auditorium. It represented the best culture of tho city. It was not an nu-dience nu-dience which would on ordinary occasions occa-sions enthuse, still tho reception of the great explorer was genuinely enthusiastic. enthusi-astic. Stanley is a magnificent num. Tho rnomeut he stepped on the stage, the charm of his presence was felt. Hois a handsome man and looks like a hero. His snow-white hair; his square, determined deter-mined faco and compact form aro at Dnco prepossessing. He is one of those men who look well iu full dress, lie Ihows just the slightest tendency to Unbonpoint. His body is rather long and his legs rather short, as aro uIbo bis arms. His clothes do not have.the appearance of fitting (at least not snugly). snug-ly). Tho legs of tho pantaloons seemed long, also the sleeves of his coat, but ho Is one of tho men who appear even better bet-ter dressed under these apparent disadvantages. disad-vantages. Ho is a good speaker; talks plainly and directly and without any striving after oratorical effect. Ho toldjhis story clearly hud in terse, vigorous language, lie has tho power of placing vividly bo-fore bo-fore his hearers the scenes through which he passed in few words. Not in-freipiently in-freipiently a gleam of humor showed through pictures of arduous toil and nwful privation and suffering. At one point it was the mellow haze of rich banana w ine on tho borders of a calm and lovely inland sea; at another the carefully planned reception of a pompous pomp-ous native sovereign with a troublo-Bome troublo-Bome conscience which would only be fjuieted by the extortion of more tribute Irom tho white invader. Alore magnificent word painting than the description of tho march through the tropical forest is not to be found iu the English language. In words few and terse ho painted tho picture in all Its awful grandeur; the blackness of the forest, tho drippiug moisture from the tropical foliage, pools of stagnant water encrusted with slime; (he tatlon limbs of trees, rotting and slimy; gigantic gi-gantic serpents and tho millions of turning vines fornvng a network so dense that tho ray- of the sun never penetrated thorn. j There were other pictures Oue was ; that of a Christmas day under the i eonator. at the base of tbe Mountains of the Moon, when the weary explorers gathered blackberries in the midst of a sceno of verdant beauty and drank 1 water, pure and cool that flowed from the snow cupped mountains that overshadowed over-shadowed them. And there were the voyages on the mighty river the CotiiM. Its rushing current, ever increasing in-creasing in volume, dotted by thousands thous-ands of green and lovely islands, and its banks clad in tropical glory. The Hi-count of the founding of the Congo free states. In rapid terse sentences sen-tences he sketched this, probably tho most important of his work in |