The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22

sent him back to Africa in 1878, and he u,o more exploring and map-maixing for tnem The mans dictatorial ways and Soehsureness were growing upon him. It n1o been necessary more than once for nm to order the punishment by death of some of his people who were not faithful 70 nim. and the very exercise of that power was not calculated to make him mild or easy-going commander.
 Ills hardest and toughest time was when he was sent by Sir William Mack innon and others to rescue Emin Pasla, whose right name was Schnitzer, Emin Pasha had been under Gordon. the Gov ernor of the Equatorial province of the Soudan.
 When the troubles began with the Nah di. Emin Pasha was driven back to the Albert Nyanza. at the head of the Nile. where he was living, so far as the world knew. In great distress and in imminent danger of being wiped out by the Nah dists. He wrote pathetic letters to the outside world from time to time. and $10c.0oo was subscribed to send Stanley after him.
 with heavy force, which he was obliged to divide at Stanley Falls because of the lack of carriers. He found Emin Pasha surrounded by two regiments of disaf- fected Soudanese, and quite out of sorts with himself and all the world. The Soudanese professed to believe that Stanley was liar and an adventurer. Emin Pasha spent months and months in wondering whether he wanted to be rescued.
 At last Stanley practically put him under arrest and got him out to the East Coast. But as soon as possible Emin Pasha hurried back. and met his end by assassination. It was in this trip that Stanleys career was marked by successive Quarrels with his subor- dinates. Even the faithful Jephson. who was left with the doubtful Emin Pasha while Stanley went back to the Congo, is accused in some of Stanley's letters of having succumbed to that fatal fascination of Central Africa which makes a man forget his home and his duty and to be content to re- main in idleness and unwholesome ease until the end"
 Of an expedition that started with more than 500 men, hardly 200 came back alive.
 Some of Stanley's subordinates &C., cused him of all sorts of atrocities af- ter this expedition. but, as has been said before. most of their yarns show ed their. falsity on their face. In re- viewing their conduct. Mir. Stanley said afterward that he had but two rules of conduct:
 Follow orders, though you break owners" and Never make q promise unless you intend tL neep It."
 Neither he nor his subordinates would have had any trouble if they had followed this course, he always maintained. He devoted much sar- casm to the fact that they believed him dead and threw away almost all of his personal belongings. except two hats. four pairs of boots and a flannel shirt. T propose" he said in one of his let ters, ito go back to Emin Pasha and across Africa with this truly African kit"
 This one sentence from one of his books tells more of what the real dis position of the man must have been than could pages of eulogy of his dar- ing and persistency It is his descrip- ton of the African Horest as he con quered it.
 The crowding trees and coilins creep CTS almost shut off the light of day, and we marched in cheerless twilight Everything seemed to be weeping; the huge. broad leaves kept shedding great drops of water, making the ground be- low into a thick paste of mud into
 
 step, glad to gain even few feet at a time, though only to halt again direct ly and stand shivering in one of these puddles for an hour or more, until some obstacle in front was removed.
 Stanley returned to London in 1890 and was married to Miss Dorothy Ten nant. He was almost immediately elected to Parliament and had since devoted himself to the work of devel- oping the Congo Free State and the la bor of opening the interior of the con tinent to civilization. Most of the country through which he toiled at the expense of blood and treasure twenty five or thirty years ago is now trav- ersed by railroads and telegraph lines
 Stanley was a rather undersized man, with rough. almost coarse features and a manner that would have been de- scribed as "cocky" in one of less won derful achievements. He was abrupt and gruff in speaking and hated the small talk of the tea and drawing room.