The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22

stones grave and reached the Lualaba, down which he marched and sailed, cut ting loose from all his bases Of supplies
 lie emerged on the west coast of the continent and found that he had been on the Congo all the time. He had deter mined long before he knew the real name of the river to call it the Livingstone, bu: the change of name was not practica- ble.
 The story of the meeting has been told a thousand times. It might almost have been rehearsed in advance for dramatic effectiveness. As Stanley told the story he walked up to Livingstone, who was coming from a hut in which he had lived for many months, and. lifting his hat said:
 ''Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
 For years afterward the writers of edi- torials and magazine articles made the remark a text on which to moralize on the Anglo-Saxon's simplicity of action In great crises. e
 It was characteristic of both men that with the resources of Stanley's caravan at hand and with both of them in the best of health, they determined to do a lot of exploring before they returned to civilization. They mapped out Lake Tan ganyika, which was then thought to be the source of the Nile. They found that 1t was not.
 The two worked together until May, 1872. when Stanley left all his surplus supplies with Livingstone, who wanted to keep on with his explorations. now that he had the means and could send back his dairies and maps to the world Stanley came back to Zanzibar.
 Livingstone died two years later, when Stanley was on his way back to London after accompanying General Wolseley on the Ashantee campaign, where he dis tinguished himself, as ever, by the promptness and accuracy of his dls- patches. By this time the world had learned of the truthfulness of his story of the finding of Livingstone. which had been received with slurs and sneers at first.
 As Stanley told the story of his assign ment to find Livingstone he was sum moned to Paris by the editor of The Herald in 1889. He had sized up the peculiarities of Mir. Bennett as success fully as MT. Bennett had estimated him. apparently. On reaching MT. Bennett's home, as soon as possible after getting the summons, Stanley forced himself into the editors bedroom.
 MT. Bennett climbed out of bed and in no gentle maner asked who the intruder was
 q am Stanley" said the correspond ent. What do you want of me? am ready for your orders"
 MT. Stanley" said the editor, where do you think Livingstone is?''
 Mir. Stanley didn't know He had not thought on the subpect. Livingstone had been missing in the middle of Africa for twenty months. One relief expedition had been sent after him and had return ed without results.
 T want you to find Livingstone" said MT. Bennett And Stanley did. He went about the business In a leisurely way There was no apparent need for hurry but there was every reason for getting a fair start before other newspapers here or abroad should guess at his intentions.
 So he went by way of the opening of the Suez Canal and ostentatiously visited Constantinople and Bombay whence he wrote long descriptive letters.
 He reached Africa early in 1871. The story of his almost inspired trip inland from Zanzibar, in which most of the time he practically felt his way, he told to the world in How I Found Living stone" He found Livingstone at last. deserted by all of his followers except two black men, at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. That was on Nov. TO- 1871.
 He wrote his book Through the Dark Continent" about this expedition. It's simplicity and honesty, the marvellous adventures of which 1t tells, have made 1t as much a book for boys as 1t was for geographers. for whom it had far greater value than How I Found Living stone."
 The Belgian Society of the Upper Congo