The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22

soldier in the Crescent Regiment of New Orleans He fought bravely, but was captured at Shiloh and was paroied or his promise not to light in the Confeder- ate Army again. That the main impulse oi his enlistment was not any particular devotion to the Southern cause, but rath. CT desire for adventure. was shown by
 his enlistment, after visit to his mother ir Wales. in the Federal navy.
 He remarked later. with that dry hu- nor which was always characteristic oi him. that he could in no other way get Into the war and keep the word he had given when he was paroled. not to fight again on the Confederate side.
 IT. the navy he served as secretary to the commander of the Ticonderoga. He volunteered to take a hawser to a cap- tured Confederate vessel, under fire He aid It by taking small rope in his mouth and swimming through the shot-torn wa ter to the captured vessel
 For this he was made an ensign. The latter part of his service in the navy was marked by the beginning of his experi- ence as a newspaper correspondent. He voluntarily sent mail dispatches to New fork newspaper after several engage ments. and got a name for saccuracy and Tor the promptness with which his dis patches went through The man seemed ali his life long to have a queer instinct which told him the way in which a dis patch or an expedition could best reach i'' destination through an unknown coun- try under unknown conditions.
 Stanley went with General Sherman through the Indian posts of the West right after the war. His descriptions of the Western country are embodied in two small volumes which were put together years later. Like nearly all of Stanley's works as a correspondent, they give a painstaking and coloriess presentation of the facts as he saw them. When he found that newly appointed army officers at some of the posts farthest from the eye of the War Department were treat ing their men with horrible severity, stalking them out"-fiogging them at the stake until their backs were torn to rib- Dons and applying the wickedest of the Indian tortures for the. punishment of small offences--he did not go into par- oxysms of indignation. He simply inti- mated the general nature of the atroci- ties with an apparent inconsistencies of the horrible nature of them.
 After the Indian campaign, in which Stanley himself was chased by Indians ana where he was on the scene of mas sacres a few hours after they occurred. stanley made no. little reputation as a correspondent It was enough to enable him to go to Asia Minor as a correspond- ent for number of newspapers.
 This was not war correspondence, but it was valuable experience. He was learning all the time to read men by their faces and to make sure that what money he spent was applied to the accomplish ing of thesthings he wanted to see ac- complished.
 On his return to the United States in 1883 Stanley was sent to Abyssinia by The New York Herald. It was a short and an ugly campaign, but Stanley endeared him self to his employers by getting the news of the final victory out to the world weeks before the official reports reached civilization.
 Always from the days of his amateur reporting from the Ticonderoga his swift ness and foresight in sending his news subjected him to accusations of "faking'' based on the apparent impossibility of doing the things that he actually did.
 From Abyssinia Stanley went to the Spanish rebellion. There his work made him known as a war correspondent all over the continents of Europe and North America. It was after the Spanish re- hN he was kept for long time as a special writer on subjects of particular import ance.
 It was in this time, so Newspaper Row traditions run, that he went to Police Headquarters. where news had been dull for some time, in the hope that by his presence there something worthy of the attention of a great war correspondent would happen. The strain upon his mat ter of fact disposition, thus being called upon to produce wonders where there were no wonders, may have been too much for him. At any rate the tradition includes the statement that the ordinary reporters who had no experience on the battlefield found things constantly in MT Stanley's work which had no foundation in fact.
 The English-speaking world came to make hero of Stanley. It cannot be said that the appreciation of the public turn ed his head. But certainly the public adulation which was poured on him jus tined the calm confidence which he had always shown in himself and in his plans, and made them loose the offensiveness which they had possessed for some of his associates in the past.
 The London Telegraph and The New York Herald asked Stanley, at his own suggestion. to go back to Africa to under take further discoveries of the unknown interior of the continent. Especially was 1t desired to learn more of the identity of the Lualaba River. of which Livingstone had heard and reported much and which he believed was the Nile.
 Stanley had a notion that 1t was the Congo, but the idea seemed so wild that he did not dare voice the belief to any but his closest friends. He started late In 1874 fought and coaxed his way at the head of great expedition found Living