The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
HENRY

MO better epitome of Stanley's career
has been conceived than that given
N by himself in his "story of four
fingers" On his return from finding Liv
ingstone, he said, he had the honor of a
public reception by the Royal Geographic
cal society, and the especial honor of be-
ing presented ito an exceedingly dis
tinguished parsonage in the scientific
world who regarded him with conde-
scending favor, ann even went so far as
to shake hands with him. HE gave me-
said Stanley lone finger!' After his sec
ond and third adventures, his exploration
of the lakes and his opening of the
Congo to civilization, he was again pub
licly received, and this distinguished per-
sonage regarded him with even more IA
vor than before. Again he shook hands
with him. HE gave me two fingersi'
Once more Stanley went to Africa, to
rescue the faithful Emin and on his re-
turn he was third time publicly receiv-
ed. A third time the distinguished per-
sonage condescended to smile upon him,
still more approvingly than before, and a
third time to offer his hand. "He gave
me three fingersr' Yet once more Stan
ley appeared in public, with fair COM
panion, Miss Dorothy Tenant who a
few moments later was Lady Stanley.
There, once more, the distinguished per-
sonage was present, and so far conde-
ascended as to beam upon him with unre-
served approval 1.-The throng was too
great for me to get near him. said Stan
ley, "but I have no doubt that had I
been able to do So he would once more
have offered me his hand and on this
occasion he would have given me all four
fingers!"
Sir Henry Morton Stanley's life was a
romance. Born in Denbigh, Wales, Jan.
%, 1S41, into obscurity so dense that his
real name, John Rowlands, was for a
long time a mystery; into poverty so
great that some years Of his boyhood
were spent in the st. Asaph Union work
house, he rose to be a famous Journalist
an explorer of world wide eminence, a
legislator in the house of commons Of
Great Britain and a social figure in the
most eminent circles Of the world.
3 He was about sixteen when he first
came to this country, shipping as a cabin
boy on a schooner bound for New Or
leans. 1t was there that he met his first
friend and protector, Henry Morton Stan
ley merchant, who is said to have
adopted him and whose name he took
Mr.. Stanley died intestate and the lad
was thrown upon his own resources. When
the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the
Confederate army. but, being taken pris-
oner at Pittsburg Landing won his lib
erty by enlisting in the Federal navy.
For his bravery in swimming through a
storm of shot and shell to attach a
hawser to a captured Confederate vessel
he was promoted to be acting ensign on
the ironclad Ticonderoga.
His Visit to Crete.
At the close Of the Civil war he went
to Crete, where there was an insurrec-
ton against Turkish misrule. His mission
there was partly military as well as jour-
nalistic, for he entered into the service
for the Cretan liberties. He became dis
gusted with the Cretans and he wandered
to other Eastern lands as a correspondent
He fell into the hands Of Turkish brigands
and was robbed, and had to borrow money
of the American minister to pay his way
to England. In 1868 he accompanied the
British expedition to Abyssinia as corre-
spondent of the New York Herald, por-
ton of his correspondence to that paper
being later compiled in a book He there
distinguished himself by his enterprise in
getting his news home in advance of all
other reports. 1t was in 1862 while in
Spain reporting the civil war there, that
he was commissioned by the New York
Herald to lead an expedition into Africa
Tor the purpose of finding the explorer
David Livingstone, from whom no definite
report had been heard for over two years
STANLEY sailed from Bombay in October
1870, and reached Zanzibar, on the east
coast of Africa, early in January, 1871
Penetrating the interior, he found Liv-
ngstone on Nov. 10. at Ujiji, on Lake