Arizona republican., 1904-05-11
PHOENIX. ARIZONA, MAY Il, 19o'
Henry Morton Stanley.

The news Of the ueilln ol olI -AOi ton Stanley in London. Monday will revive recollections of a remarkable man who for many years filed large place iu the attention of the world. That he disappeared almost completely from the public view within a few short years of his final return from South Africa. and at a time when he was still in the prime of life so far as years measured his life, was undoubt- edlv due in great part to his own ec- centricities. While obviously vain CT his achievements and eager for ap- ulause, he affected to resent the inter est which the people of England and the United States took in his personal affairs. and although he manifested a strong desire to take hand in Ems fish politics, he succeeded in serving but a single term in parliament. The English people, while proud of him, vcted him queer and left him in se- clusion.
 On the whole, Henry M. Stanley probably died a disappointed man, on account of his peculiar temperament; but few men within the past century succeeded in doing so much in carrying forward the advance guard of civiliza- ton into the unconquered quarters of the earth. His origin was as humble and obscure as his career in manhood was meteoric. His real name was John Rowlands When or how he came to take the name of Henry Morton stanley, very few people ever learned. He repetied all inquiries about himself. It ia known that he was born in Den bigh, Wales, in 1911. Merely to men tiou the leading features of his life is to open she chapters of a veritable TO- marcs. Above everything else, how ever. he was the father of modern Africa, and was the creator of the Congo Free State. Had it not been for his Intrepid spirit Africa would not be today the busy field for the pi- oneers of every land, but it would be, instead still the dark continent"
 His experiences in the United States were @ good preparatory school for his adventures in Africa. He landed at New Orleans as a cabin boy, at the age of fifteen. Before 1861 his rowing dis position had carried him to California, and he passed through many thrilling adventures on the plains. He fought with equal zest on each side of the civil war. First enlisting with the
 
 the Gouthern army until captured, when he joined the United States navy. where he achieved the rank of ensign about the close of the war. He had always shown a turn for newspaper work, and In 1881 he secured employ ment on the New York Herald. He became a Ssvorite with both the elder Bennett. and James Gordon Bennett. the younger. He was sent by the Herald to report the Cretan revolt tion, and in 1867 he joined Gen. Nap ier's Abyssinian expedition. In some respects he was the originator Of pres ont day methods in war correspon- dence. He became distinguished in 1868 by getting his report of the battle of Magdala printed in London ahead of the official dispatches. He was then engaged in reporting the revolution in Spain against Queen Isabella, and while there in 1869 he received from James Gordon Bennett the terse order, Find Livingston"
 Explorer Livingston had long been lost in the jungles of Africa. The order from the Herald was a commis- sion to undertake one of the most difn- cIlt and dangerous feats ever per formed by an individual. Stanleys successful search for the great explorer was the initial exploit of the modern journalism which docs things,v and at the same time fixed the boundaries of his own life work for the future. He became the successor of Livingston in exploring the dark recesses of the Af- rican continent, and the books which he wrote: How I Found Livingston" Through the Dark Continent" "Cop- go and the Founding of its Free Stata." ''fn Darkest Africa Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa, and My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stor- ies," comprise a library of Illuminating information concerning Africa and it's people.
 His most famous expedition was his last, and was known as the expedi- tion for the relief of Esnin Pasha Emin was a noted Jewish explorer, who had become a Christian and then a Mohammedan. He had served the Sultan, and had later joined Gordon's expedition against the Mahdi. In 1878 he was made bey and governor of the Equatorial Provinces. It was suppos- ed that he was in great personal dan