The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-02-05
OH 8alletiu,
Stanley's Wonderful Career.

| a Writer IN hppetoD'B journal makes
some interesting statements about the
origin and nsme Of MIR. Henry NJ. Stanley.
Stanley II one Of the names that the world
knows now, and Henry N. Stanley 10 one
OF the men whom monarchs and princes
delight TO honor by bestowing upon them
special marks OF their tavor. Any thing
now about his birth, nativity, education
Ia news. The writer above referred to
states that stanlcy's original name was
John Rowlands, aud that he was born near
Denbigh, Wales, In ls40. The condition
Of bis parents appears to have been lowiy,
for at the age OF three years he was placed
IN the poorhouse al 81. Asaph, where he
remaired for ten years aud received an
education that fitted i'm for school. mas
ter. he taught school at Mold, 10 Flint.
shire, for year or two, but al this early
age he began to show restlessness and
desire to get on the wing, away from his
psrents neat Of poverty in Wales. At If.
teen he went as cabin-boy on board = ship
bound for New Orleans. In the Crescent
City merchat named stanley adopted the
lad and gave him his own namo, and be
became Henry N. Stanley. His patron
died, leaving no will, The civil war broke
out and carried young Stanley into the
Confederate army. Tho fortunes Of war
made him prisoner, and his desire to be
doing caused him TO volunteer In the SER
vice Of the Union. He became ensign on
the iron-clsd riconderoga, and finally
dritted into the profession Of journalism.
After the close OF the war he went as a
newspaper correspondent to Turkey and
Asia Minor, paying flying visit to his
native Wales and poor.bouss nest on
his way. When he returned to America
In 1867, he was sent by New York paper
a. military correspondent with the brit
ish army in Abyssinia. After this war
came his search tor Livingstone and hon.
ors from geographical and other scientific
societies, and then his later researches and
adventures which have kept his name
standing In type all over the civilized
world. He Is the most noted African ex-
plore of the present day, and his achieve
ments in these equatorial regions are pro-
baby more brilliant than any that have
been before. The universal pubic eye
were looking for the lost Livingstone, and
the fortunate Hader OF him was directly IN
toe locus oil observation. Stanley found
himself imme diateIy and widely famous.
The first suspicion Of tn . sensational was
soon dissipated by the full recogl ition or
the fact Vi the discovery by The scientists
and societies OF Great Britain. Living.
stones whereabouts was AZ great myster,
as the sources OF the Nile which he went
TO discover. Stanley went and found the
lost explore CT the iost Nile region, AND he
found and earned lame. This achieve
ment brought him to the front rank of the
worlds Investigators. The discovery Of
the lost man, at the time aud under the cir
cumstances, brought him as much re nown
as Columbus gained in his days for the dis
covery Of new worij.
America was beginning to be proud OF
Henry NJ. Stanley, and willilg 10 shsra his
fame as an American, but how it turns out
that he is onlg an American by adoption.
America gave him his name and not his
birth. Pennsylvania had put in claim TO
his nativity, but If the statement about lit
tie John Rowlsnds be true, tie Keystone
state will have to yield the honorto Wales.
The poor little bobolink when it migrates
changes its name, as 1t goes and gets fat,
becoming first the reed-bird, and then
the rice.bird, and John Rowlands
from Wales poor.house nest, be-
camo Henry NJ, Stanley in New
Orleans, and ono of the most noted
and honored men OF the day. His career |
lie brilliant instance Of the triumph Of In.
dustry and perseverance, and adventurous
over the obstacles CT poverty
aud obscuriiy. And In any event Ameri.
ca still has Its tuil share Of glory in the 'ri.
umrhs Of Henry NJ. Stanley.