Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-31
Especial Corre<pondsnee.I l

tive of AfriCa's great fOr'StS and rTeSuurcCSs with no incident stanley made them ac- tuhlly sec the fOr,~ts, the natives. the en- tirc journey. He had lcCturcd only II times and that snInc years bCfOrS,, and was thcrCforC comparatively incxpcricnc- cd. yet Inc faCtd houses rCprCSenting box office value always running tO five figurcs in S6 cities through that sCasnn of liO lee turcs.
 It was not till after the fifth or six lee turc that he began tO cXtcmporizc. tu evolve tho lcCtur, which finally embraced the salisnt features not of one chapter of his book, but of his entire expedition across Africa Hc needed the best critics, prun- ing hcrc, adding thcrc, according As he liked their counsel, gradually making his leCturr an oration that interested all
 am often asked how came to enter tho lyccum field as n manager and who was my first star We'll. I cntcrcd hy chance. My first star" was q Mormon woman, or rather n woman who had bcrn n Mormon. After the war I lived for n timc in Salt Lake City. Among the MOr- mons was Ann Eliza Young. the nine tCCnth wife of Brigham Young. The Rev | C. (. Stratton. the first Methodist minis | ter of Salt Lake City, and his family boarded with her and suCcCCClCd in induc- | ing her to ap0statizc. She t0Ok refuEc un- | der the protection of Chief Justice Nc ECan Governor Woods of Utah and the leading gCntilCs at the Walker House. and after much urging she one evening told | her story in the hotel parlOrs to a company who had gathered around her, including the chief justice. the governor. the federal | officers of the territory. editors of GCntile papers and newspaper correspondents | Such an intelligent and impartial but l broad arraicnnlCnt of her late lord and his l apostles have never heard Those present agreed that she ought to % east and tell her story. and perhaps GUt a hearing ir congress. Skc at last consented. and tC me fell the duty uf bringing her cast
 Ann Lli1a Nouns's Influence.
 l GrCat a-C had to Ia taken in smuggling her out of Salt Lake City. One black | night however, she was spirited away ir | a closed carriage 10 miles over the hills tC | Cinta, the nearest station on the CniOr | Pacific railroad. At Laramie she told hel story for the first time publicly. On sil hours advertising the only hall in thu town was packed at S2 n ticket, and was then and thcrc convinced that sh' would have hearing throughout the cn tire country. So east we came, and. need less to say, she was a grand success 1T Washington she was introduced to MT Blaine, who was greatly intcrestcd in her Then one day she went to the capitol, wa introduced to Senator Poland in O com mittec room, and soon she had n crowd O senators and congrcssmcn around he listening to her story, and 24 hours late the famous Poland bill was passed an' became n law. Such was my first protegee one of the most remarkable women haS ever known. Of all my experiences in tn lyceum 1 have never seen nor hcard
 woman speaker that could present n Caus with such earncstncss and eloqucnce.
 A Wonderful Memory.
 Since then, Of eoursc, my books shOS tho names uf scores of celebrities Agains some of these names would writc th modest word rmarkablc-against th nnme Sir Edwin Arnold, for example who Is remarkable for his memory. Il could rccitc anything he had Oncc rrat One evening we wcrc sitting in my hhrar, Shakespeare complete lay on the tahl' Now, major" said Sir Edwin. give tn first line from any scene at random, an | I'll give you the whole scCnc-" gave nil a line from ,n, of the least known of tf plays, and Sir Edwin, tO my astonishmen l rccitcd the cntirr scCnc. He tuld me aftc : ward that he could rccite Shakcspcal from beginning to end On the platfur
 he never looked at his books. cxccptiT to SCI when, he wanted to ls,gin- OI
 iay while in Philadelphia in cOmraI
 with John RuSs.,ll Young We went oy
 to ssc dear old Walt Whitman. Sir E
 win took down n volume Of Whitman
 pocms from the shelf The lcavUs We
 uncut Let me get you something
 cut tho leaves with, '" s-iid Whitman
 No. no. Never mind. Walt whitina
 never mind. l have no need to cut tho
 leaves. can sec tho first lines in the !
 dex. What poem would you like to hear
 The only man on my books with n mo-
 ory approaching Sir Edwin Arnold Is
 T. Do Witt Talmngc who dictates his s'
 mon for the syndicate, and without not