The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22
Stanley, Man and Explorer
The Human Side of the Seeker After
 Livingstone.

There was never boy born into tn, world with less of chance to make ( place for himself than was John Row lands of Doabigh. Wales. He died tn, other day, known all over civilization anC in thousands of places where civilization has not yet gone. Tn his coffin the, engraved the name Sir Henry Mortoi Stanley.
 There was a time when peiple, in writ Ing of him. liked to compare him to Cor Fer, fo La Saile and to others of sth, worlds great explorers of wildernesses The time to come will know him as on, who accomplished much more than any predecessor.
 Stanley began life as a pauper, ana his early years were spent in a foreier country as the proteeg of a rich mer. chant. who was not of kin to him. wher he died he was Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. and the husband of one who had been known al the time of their wedding as the most beautfful and brilliant woman in Eng land. He had fine country seat al Furxe Hill. Surrey, and a seat in Pariia- ment which he had snatched from a man who had held it for years with all the arts and wiies which a professional off e, holder could devise.
 Stanley had tried pretty much every Kind of adventurous life in his time. He fought on both sides in the Civil War and 0ravely. He had been a newspaper cor respondent in the West in the Indian campaigns which followed the Civil War. He was for time a reporter for The Herald in New York city. G
 He went on military expeditions into Africa and returned to find Livingstone tor James Gordon Bennett He went back again on an expedition of great geo. graphical importance and another time to rescue" Emin Pasha, who didn't want to be rescued and really resisted rescue for several months.
 Gtanley's great strength lay in the fact <hnf he always knew just what he want ed to do and just how he was going to 6o it. His weakness If he had a weak ness. was his inability to see the point of view of any one else and his lack lof considerations for those who differed from him. or who, for any reasons Whatsoever, made the slightest change in |3ie orders to them. This failing was not little based upon his vanity. which Stanley never took any pains to conceal.
 Stanley succeeded in arousing the bit kerent enemies by his explorations, and. some of them came back and circulated |most horrible stories of his cruelties and |fnjuzktcA. None of these was ever borne out by competent witnesses. and Stanley IAzmself spent very little effort in deny znx them. devcting himself usually in hts r&futaticns, to the lack of ingenuity 'nhowm by his detractors in devising lies which bore upon their face their own contradictions.
 Mr. Kettle. who was perhaps Stanley's most intimate friend among his biogra- pher8 says that Stanley was born in 1s40. Most of the biographers make the year 1Ssi. He was 'christened John Rowlands and was sent to the St. Asaph's poor house in 1s<s. because there was no means for his support at home.
 In his later years there were those who said that Henry Morton Stanley was dis loyal to his old friends and something of n snob. But he never faltered in his res- pect and direction for his, mother or in his loyalty to St. Asaph's. from which he was turned out at B years of age, to make his own way in the world.
 Until his mothers death he always made long pilgrimages to her home fin Wales, and always saw to it, after once his own days of prosperity came, that she wanted for nothing.
 When he came back from travelling in Asia in 1S6s. he went to St. Asaph's and rave the youngsters of the poorhouse a
  of telling them that if they worked as hard and earnestly as he had worked they might vet become as famous as he.
 Thrown on his own resources, when the moor school turned him out to make his cwn living. Stanley went to Liverpool wud got work at the cotton docks. He heard of the freedom of opportunity of America, and went out to sea on the first cotton ship. bound back, light, to New Orleans that would take him. He had naved a little money from his work in Liverpool and by teaching school to boys who were as old, if not older than him. self.
 In New Orleans young Rowlands, as he was known when he arrived there, found employment with Henry H. Stanley, a ectton press operator of large means. MT Stanley made a clerk of him and be- came very fond of the boy. After time che boy took the name of Henry Morton ssfanley. There was no formal legal adop- asou fnasmuch as at that time an act of 4he Legislature was necessary to give efFect to such a step and there is no re- cord of any such proceeding by the Lou asiRna Legislature.
 F5enry Hope Stanley died. leaving a will sn which young Stanley was not named. srhe cotton press mans relations took all his big property and threw Henry Morton Stanley on his own resources and prac- xicaIiy penniiess.
 Al the beginning of the civil war young stanley. who had been peaceful. hard working, commonplace sort of clerk in che oOttoi, pressman's establishment, was aniera with the wanderlust, which had af- 8ccted him before and which was to lead him to fame and fortune and honors in che years to come.
 He went to the war as Confederate