The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10

greatest creative genius Of all the
world, with the most exhaustless as
similation and beWitching qualities.
With me there is but one Shakespeare,
and there has never been any rival
with him for more than sixty years.
The love Of his writings has increased
and intensified with age, and he is
really greater to me in old age than
he was in my youth or my more ma
ture years. My advice is, read
Shakespeare every day save Sundays,
and rea him until he is more precious
and delightful to you than any Of the
poets in any age Or country.
One of the worlds greatest explor-
ers and remarkable men was the late
Sir Henry M. Stanley, an English
man, by nativity, but for awhile a
resident in the United States. He
was indeed a man Of gifts and an
a~dventurer Of and success.
| had some knowledge Of him years
before he became such a famous and
wonderfully successful explorer and
d~iscoverer. He has been dead for
some ten years or more perhaps. He
died in his native land after achiev-
el1er and ~discoverer in Africa, and
was raised to the rank OF Knight
hood, a small recognition On the part
of the Queen then ruling, when he
was really the foremost explorer in all
Europe in the last century and by
great odds ahead OF any rival among
his own countrymen. He really
achieved very marked success by his
explorations of the Dark Continent
and had no rivals, although Living
stone made an enviable name by his
own expectations in equatorial Afri-
ca. 1t remained for Henry M. Stan
ley to decidedly eclipse all competitors
in all the last century that was SO
profitful in adventures, Journeys, dis
coverieS and uncommon experiences
and severe trials. A we'll equipped
student of Stanley's adventures and
success was Mr.. Allen, long a resi-
dent and correspondent in London.
/ have before me a brief but interest
ing account OF his performances as
an explorer in Africa. Brief as it is
it is too long TO be used in full. From
him one may learn hat Stanley was
the first white man to cross equa-
tOTlal Africa from sea to sea. Neither
gstone nor Cameron makes such a
complete success as Stanley did.
Mr.. Alden say that Cameron tried
ito make the journey down the Congo,
turned aside at Nyangwe and marched
southwest; and Livingstone's journey
across the continent was made far
to the southwark, where Africa is
much narrower than it is nearer the
equator. 1t was Stanley who first
surveyed the Victoria Lake and Lake
Tanganyika. 1t was he who traced
the Congo to it's mouth. He was the
true d~iscoverer Of the source of the
Nile. for the Semliki River is I'M
undoubtedly the EXTREMIST southern
tributary to the great river. Stanley
again crossed the continent when he
marched to the relief of Emin. He
founded the Congo State-a grand
achievement.
Stanley not only made many dis
coveries and had many hardy exp1o-
rationS, but he was a decided success
in his soldierly qualities for the writer
from whom I have copied, says that.
he was "a born soldier, and his sue
cess as an explorer in savage lands
was due in a great measure to his
splendid genius for command and
his indomitable fearlessnesS. Take
him all in all, he has never been rival
ed as a leader of explorations" He
was evidently not fully appreciated
by the British Government or he
would have received a more decided
recognition. His friend from who's
I have already drawn freely says that
he wrote admirably in a style Well
suited to his extraordinary tales that
he had to tell, and adds, which I copy
for it's SuggeStiVeneSS: and all the
reward that the British Government
could confer on this man was to
place him on a level with a clever
actor or a successful theatrical man.
ager."
He wished to be buried by the side
Of Livingstone in Westminster Abbey
in London, but the request was not
granted. He was a great explorer, a
fine writer, a brave soldier, an ac-H
complished, fearless hero, and he
richly merited much at the hands of
the British Government. He was no
doubt the greatest of all British ex-
plorers in the great African CONT
nent, and surely was we'll worthy Of
a burial in the great Abbey of Eng
land. He had many noble qualities
and his name and fame should be
amply treasured by all men who APP