Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-05-11
STANLEY DEAD.
African Explorer Will lnvesti-
gate in Great Beyond.
Peaceful Passing Of Man Who Trayers-
ed Various JungIes.
May Be Buried Beside Livingstone in
Westminster Abbey.

London. May 10.-Sir Henry NJ. STAN
ness was announced, early this morn
ing. passed away peacefully, shortly ar
ter o'clock. He was quite CONSCIOUS
to the last and able to recognize his
wife. Before he died Sir Henry ex-
pressed wish TO be buried at his coun-
try seat, Furse hill, Firbright, Surrey.
Henry Morton Stanley was born near
Denbigh. in Wales. in 1910; but his
name was not Stanley. He was enteres
on the records Of the pOorhouse at st.
ASaph in 1913, as John Rowlands, 3
years old; and he stayed there for 10
years.
His cousin was head OF n national
school at Mold. in Flintshire, and at
the age of 13. John Rowlands became a
pupil-teacher there. He rebelled against
the kind of work that was required of
him there and after a year of it he got
away to Liverpool, where he shipped as
q cabin boy for New Orleans.
At New Orleans Il merchant named
Stanley employed him and became
adopted the boy. and gave him the
The kind-hearted merchant died.
leaving no will. The natural legal heirs
divided his property among themselves
and Stanley had the world before him.
lie enlisted in the Confederate service
and was taken prisoner at the battle
of Pittsburg Landing lie broke away
from his guards, took to the water
swan to safety with shots peppering
work his way to New York.
He worked his way to Liverpool
dropped in on his relatives in Wales.
Later he tramped to Liverpool again.
shipped to New York and since his case
looked like something like that of a de-
serter inside of Dixie and an escaped
prisoner outside of it, he enlisted in the
United States navy.
He drifteG about New York for a
while and then ne was off to Europe. to
Turkey, this time, ana Smyrna, with
haZy plans for tramp through Asia.
He fell among thieves before he got
far, was stripped and tortured. and af-
ter being yainly held for ransom was
turned over. with mis- two companions,
to the cadi on the charge of murder.
The venturesOno young man knew
what to do in such an emergency, and
was 80 sure of mis- ground as an Amer
lean citizen that he turned the tables
on his prosecutors ana divided scna
$1,000 OF indemnity with his companCns
His taste for Asiatic travei on foot
was somewhat satiatcG, however, ana
he started home again.
He Went to the Far West next, as
correspondent for some Chicago papers.
One day there :TaS Il great victory over
.he Indians and Stanley was the Only
newspaper man within hundreds of
miles. He rode rcllmell to the nearest
telegraph station and bullctined the
New York Herald.
When he returned to New York ho
was made travelling correspondent of
the Herald and Joined Napier's expedi-
ton for the relief of English captives
at Magdalia. Here again he had exclus-
i've news of great victory, and played
his old trick once more Offering the
news to 4 London paper, as the one
to which it was worth most.
The official tidings of the battle were
many hours behind Stanley's accepted
dispatch. and the triumph of private !
enterprise was a long, wavy feather in |
St;nlcy's cap.
Soon after this he was sent to Spain |
to write for the Herald accounts of the |
Carllst insurrection. 1t was from this |
theatre that he was called when James |
Gordon Bennett gave him the famous
order. Find Livingstone
Within three months he had gathered
his expedition about him; two white
men Farquar and Shaw; an Arab boy
named Selim, born in Jerusalem, by
the way, who served Stanley as in
terpreter. The date Of his departure /,
was March 81, 1871
His subsequent expeditions to the
Congo and through the African wilder |
ness in search of Emin Bey are fresh |
in the minds Of most people on both !
continents.