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CORAL DENNY. Buffalo, Wyoming. STANLEY, COLUMBUS, AND MARK TWAIN Not long after Mr. Henry M. Stanley returned from his first trip to Africa he came to America to deliver a course of lectures descriptive of his search for and discovery of Dr. Livingstone. His first lecture was given in Tremont Temple, at Boston, and my wife and I went to hear him. The hall was crowded, and we sat in the front row of the balcony, from which vantagepoint the scene was panoramic. At the appointed hour a short, fleshy man appeared and crossed the stage to a chair. Following him came a tall, spare man with shaggy hair and white mustache, who sauntered leisurely to the front of the stage. It was Mark Twain. The silence was absolute. I turned to my wife and whispered: "That is Mark Twain, and these people do not know him or they would applaud. We shall see some fun." In his gentle, drawling voice, Mr. Clemens began to talk: "I don't suppose you folks expected to see me here tonight, but I was round to the Parker House and met my friend Mr. Stanley, and he asked me to come in and say a few words of introduction for him." Then he proceeded to compare Mr. Stanley and his achievements with Mr. Christopher Columbus and what he accomplished. "Now, what did Mr. Christopher Columbus do? Well, he discovered a continent. He started sailing west, and this continent was stretching for six thousand miles directly across his path, and all he had to do was to sit right still and hold on to his tiller and he could not get by without hitting it somewhere. He had no charter to discover any particular part of it. "Now what did Mr. Stanley do? Why, he found a man. Now some of you folks know how difficult it is to find a man sometimes, especially when he owes you anything." 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This was Mark Twain's theme, and he developed it so irresistibly that he lifted that entire audience out of bounds, and he appealed to their emotions until they responded with shouts of laughter. The effect on Mr. Stanley was critical. Sitting there without any visible neck and with his ample figure embraced by both arms, he rolled about on his chair and laughed until he was purple in the face. At the close of the lecture and while the people were leaving the hall a prominent professor of the Harvard Medical School came striding toward me over some intervening benches, and in an excited tone asked, "Who was that man?" I replied, "Mark Twain." "Well, that accounts for it," he said. "I have been wondering what man in Boston could do a feat like that and I never had heard of him." A few days after this lecture Mr. Stanley was suddenly summoned back to England and was obliged to cancel the remainder of his lectures. 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