Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-17
Il. M. STANLEY DEAD.
World Famed Explorer Succumbs 70


Sir Henry NJ. Stanley, the African ee-
plorer is 1esd in London. Sir Henry
was attacked by pleurisy few days ago
and his illness was complicated bv cbron-
| ic heart trouble. He had been in semi
conscious condition for two days
Born waif, bred in poor house. the
career of Sir Henry Morton Stanley is
one OF the most aotab,o, in history. He
at one time held the highest position that
II is possible for newspaper man to
achieve. He led an exploration party
into the wilds of Africa and found Liv-
ingstone, who up to that time was the
most nGfed Of all African explorers.
He was born in abject poverty in 1S41
and was christened John Rowlands. His
birthplace was near Denbigh. in Wales.
Fbr ten years he lived in q work house.
Having attracted the attention of a
rich man of the name of Stanley. he was
| brought TO New Orleans His patron
died suddenly without will and the boy
was left TO make his own way in the
world. He was q cabin boy on the Mis-
sissippi for several years At the out
break of the Civil War he enlisted in
the Confederate army. He was taken
prisoner. This proved no insurmountahle
obstacle to the waif of Wales. for he
enlisted in the Union navy and rose to
the rank of ensign
Goes Into Newspaper Work.
The war over, he took up newspaper
work. In 1867 he was ms-ching across
the plains with Hancock and Custer and
interviewing wild Bill" Hickock, an adj
yenturer in another field. At the close
| of the same year he was on his way TO
Abyssinia as war correspondent. again.
He represented the New York Herald in
the campaign of the British against that
country
Next he was commissioned by the
same paper to go in search of Liyings-
tone, the explorer, in the heart of AZ
RIGA. His success is recounted in the
famous volume How l Found Liv-
ingstone.' published in 1872.
His second journey is described in
Through the Dark Continent QSIS,
for which he was presented at the Sor-
bonnie with the cross of a chevalier of
the Legion of Honor by the president of
| the French Geographical Society. The
third time he went into Africa was in
| 1879. He travelled from the mouth of
the Congo 1,400 miles up that river to
| Stanley pool.
Ia 1887 he was presented with the
| fre@iom of the city of London. just be-
fore his departure for Africa the fourth
time. The story of that journey was
published in IN Darkest Africa" and
universities and scientific societies gave
him all sorts of honors.
Honors Conferred on Stanley.
Stanley received the degrees of doc
tor of laws and doctor of civil laws from
the English universities
His marriage in 1890 to Miss Doro-
thy Tenant, the famous English paint
er, was a social event of worldwide in
terest. 1t was not until two years later
that he conceived an ambition to stand
for Parliament. but to do this he had to
become a naturalized subject of the
Queen, for it was held that he had lost
citizenship in his native country by serv-
ing in the American Civil War. As he
served on both sides in the war between
the States, it is not certain whether it
was as a Confederate or a Federal he
became for a time an American.
He was defeated at the polls in 1894,
but the next year was elected. He served
in Parliament from 1895 to 1900
Stanley's election to Parliament was
the realization of his ambition Of the
period of cakes and ale. He represented
North Lambeth. He had his eye on Par
lament ever since his marriage with
Miss Dorothy Tenant. That carried
him into the most powerful "set" in En-
gland-the brilliant, cynical, but most
practical group, of which Balfour is the
exemplar.
Defended British Rule.
His voice was for colonial aggression,
for the extension of the imperial gov
eminent, for war with Russia at Cabul
with France on the Congo, with anybody
anywhere who disputed or intended to
dispute the sentiment that Briton new
er, never, never is a slave
The rescuer of Emin Pasha, the hold
er of worlds medals and honurs, mar
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