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Show A ELOYVH AKD I'l'XCTl'EED. Hknry M. Stanley, the explorer, is iu trouble. It i- not the rear guard, nor E.nx Pasha, nor native African traitors, this time, that worry him, but his own folly and overweening over-weening ambition. Stanley was not satis-lied satis-lied to rest 011 his laurels as aa explorer of. the (lark continent; he must achieve renown re-nown also as an M. P. The renown will not lie achieved because II. M. was beaten, although he stultified himself in the campaign by 'denying his American record, and now he is coming in for a deal of abuso in the English press that will strip him of much of his glory. Without question Henry M. Stanley is a i-'Miiarkablc man, and without question, too, Le Is a much overrated man. There are many people still living who knew him when lie was a reporter of an eastern paper during the Indian troubles in Nebraska. These people say that he made his headquarters in i Hnaha never going forward to the scene of liostilities.but gathering his information from Incoming teamsters aud soMiers, and preparing prepar-ing from these tiie sensational news ho sent back. A niau who will "fake" dispatches in America will do the same thing iu Africa, and we are not in the least astounded that Vis n.nsvitt-Afttr artil vo-i i i t )in V. .-.41. his accuracy ami veracity have both beeu questioned. Of course Stanley is a courageous and a hnrdy man or he could not have accomplished accom-plished what he has. At the same time he Is an adventurer without moral balance w horn friendly fortune thrust forward and whom adverse fortune would just as easily liave thrust downward. When he came to America to lecture lie was only too glad to pose as an American citizen, for revenue only; when it seemed useful for him to renounce this rotintry as part of his campaign argument, Lc did it just as glibly and readily. N' one in this country will sympathize with the explorer in his discomfiture be-isuse be-isuse be forfeited all sympathy through his own venality. |