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ROMANCE OF RHODESIA.
8t*ry of tho Missionary, tha Explorer'
and tha Proapsctor.
The story of the taking and mak
ing of Rhodesia forms one of the
most picturesque and thrilling chap
ters in the history of England’s
colonial expansion. About the time
that the nineteenth century had
reached its turning point a strange
tale, passing by word of mouth from
native kraal to native kraal, came at
last to the ears of a Scotch worker
in the mission field of Bechuana
land. It was a tale of a waterfall
somewhere in the jungles of the dis
tant north—a waterfall so mighty,
declared the natives, that the spray
from it looked like a storm cloud on
the horizon, and the thunder of its
waters could be heard four days’
trek away.
So the missionary, wearied with
the tedium of proselyting amid a
peaceful people and restless with
the curiosity of the born explorer,
set out. on a long and lonely march
to the northward, through a country
which no white man’s eyes had ever
seen. It took him three years to
reach the falls for which he started,
but when at last he stood upon the
brink of the canyon and looked
down upon the waters of the Zam
besi as they hurtled over 400 feet
of sheer cliff, he was so awed by
their majesty and their beauty that
he named them after Victoria, the
young English queen. Before he
left the missionary explorer carved
his name on the trunk of a tree,
where it can be seen today; the
name is David Livingstone.
For a quarter of a century the
regions adjacent to the Zambesi
were disturbed only by migratory
bands of natives and marauding ani
mals. Then Stanley came with his
mile long caravan of porters, halting
long enough to explore and map the
region, on his historic march from
coast to coast.
In the middle of the eighties a
bulky thickset, shabbily clad pros
pector, treking through the country
with a single wagon, found that for
which he was seeking—gold.* He
Baw, too, that its verdure clad prai
ries would support many cattle and
that its virgin soil was adapted for
many kinds of crops; that it was, in
short, a white man’s country. Un
armed and unaccompanied, he pene
trated to the kraal of Lobengula,
the chief of the warlike Matabele,
who occupied the region, and induc
ed him to sign a treaty placing his
country under British protection.
The price paid him was £100 a
month and a thousand antiquated
rifles—cheap enough, surely, for a
territory three times the size of
Texas and as rich in natural Re
sources as California. A year later
the British South Africa company, a
corporation capitalized at £6,000,
000, under a contract granted by
the imperial government, began the
work of exploiting the concession,
naming it, properly enough, after
Cecil John Rhodes, the lone pros
pector, who, with the vision of a
prophet, had foreseen its possibili
ties and by whose unaided efforts it
had been obtained.
Such was the first step in Rhodes’
policy of British expansion north
ward, a policy so successful that in
his own lifetime he saw the fron
tiers of British Africa pushed from
the Orange river to the Nile.—E.
Alexander Powell, F. R. G. S., in
Scribner’s.
Th» Word "Chores."
The word “chore,” generally used
in the plural, is not slang, but an
English word of highly respectable
lineage. In this form it is found
only in America, in England the
spelling and pronunciation being
“char,” though this is rarely used
except in combination with “wom
an”—“charwoman.” But in some
of the provincial dialects, that of
Cornwall for example, the word
“chores” is used precisely as we use
“chores.” All these forms come
down to us from the Anglo-Saxon
word “cerr” or “cerran,” to turn
over.
Misplaced Boast.
“Pretty nice land around here,”
said the stranger as his dusty rig
stopped in front of the gate.
“Certainly is,” replied the eager
farmer. “Finest in the state.”
“1 reckon it is too high priced for
a poor man,” sighed the stranger.
“Well,” replied the farmer, “it is
worth every cent of $1,200 an acre.
That’s the way I value it. Were
you thinking of buying?”
“No,” replied the stranger as be
jotted something into a book. “I’m
the new county assessor.”—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
. A • His CHeios of Charity,
i “Economy is all very well,” said a
speaker, “but some of the latter
day, scientific management economy
you hear about reminds you of the
skinflint millionaire whose only
charity wag foreign missions.
“ Tfou see/ the man explained, 1
choose foreign missions Because I
want to make my money go as far
as possible.’ *—Wkahington Post.
HOW DOLLS ARE MADE.
Th« Many Proeaasaa )n Uaa In tha
German Faotoriaa.
The making of the composition
dolls as seen in the German fac
tories is an interesting process, even
though some of the rooms are hot,
steamy places where one does not
care to stay a long time. First there
is the kneading room, where a big
mixing trough is set up, and in this
all sorts of ragbag material are to
be found—old gloves, rags, bits of
cardboard, etc., and gum traga
canth. This mixture is kneaded by
hand to the consistency of a paste, !
heated and carried into the mold
room. There it is dipped up by wo
men and poured into the patterns
which are set up in rows.
The molds are put away until
they are cold enough to handle,
when a workman by a dextrous
movement of his hands separates
the leaden sides, and the doll’s head
is revealed. The polisher then trims
off the ragged seams and sends the
heads to another room, where the
holes for the eyes are cut out. This
is an extremely delicate task, as all
the sockets must be of uniform size.
The work is done by hand, a long,
sharp knife being used.
The heads are next painted, wax
ed or glazed, depending upon the
character of the material from
which they are made. The arms,
legs and hands are molded in the
same manner as the heads—a special
machine being used for stamping
out the hands. These parts are
painted in flesh color, while the
heads must have rosy cheeks, red
lips and dark or light eyebrows, as
the color of the eyes used may re
quire. Putting in the eyes is a sim
ple operation, unless the eyes are to
open and shut, in which case the
balancing of the lead becomes a
matter of some skill.
Germany possesses a secret for
mula for the enamel used on the
faces, and the dainty, natural flesh
tint of the better grade of dolls is
the result of this process. The mak
ing of the eyes is a dreary task, for
it must be done away from the sun
light, and in some parts of Ger
many the eye makers work in the
cellars. It is said that one town
supplies three-fourths of all the
dolls’ eyes used. Violet is the most
difficult color to mix, and few violet
eyed dolls are found.
The wig is the finaf touch, and
this is usually made of real hair im
ported from China. The hair used
for blond dolls is the same, except
that the color is extracted.—Mrs.
C. It. Miller in Leslie’s.
His Hard Luck.
“What has happened to me?” ask
ed the patient when he had recover
ed from the effects of the ether.
“You were in a trolley car acci
dent,” said the nurse, “and it has
been found necessary to amputate
your right hand.”
He sank back on the pillow, sob
bing aloud.
“Cheer up,” said the nurse, pat
ting him on the head, “you'll soon
learn to get along all right with
your left hand.”
“Oh, it wasn’t the loss of the
hand itself that 1 was thinking of,”
sighed the victim. “But on the
forefinger was a string that my wife
tied around it to remind me to get
something for her this morning.
And now I’ll never be able to re
member what it was.”—Cleveland
Leader.
A Bargain.
Some years ago Mr. Rudyard Kip
ling sold a book to a firm of publish
ers in London for a sum that work
ed out at the rate of a shilling a
word—a fact which was very much
advertised. A Fleet street humor
ist, for the fun of the thing, wrote
to the author saying that as wisdom
seemed to be quoted at retail prices
he would like one word, for which
he inclosed a shilling postal order.
The reply came in due course. Mr.
Kipling had kept the shilling postal
order and written on a large sheet
of paper the word, “Thanks 1”
A French Joke.
Here is a French joke that is
rather English in character: The
| Marquis de Favieres, notorious for
his impecuniosity, called on a man
of means named Barnard and said:
^‘Monsieur, I am going to astonish
you.v I am the Marquis de Favieres.
I do not know you, and I come to
borrow 500 louis.”
“Monsieur,” Barnard replied, “I
am going to astonish you much
more. I know you, and I am going
to lend them.”
Various Kinds of Manna.
It is supposed that the manna of
the Israelites was a saccharine exu
dation of a species of tamarisk, the
sap of which was set flowing by an
insect. Several trees yielded man
na, as the flowering ash of Sicily
and the eucalyptus of Australia. In
India, says the Christian Herald, a
sweet exudation comes from the
bamboo, and a similar substance is
obtained from the sugar pine and
common reed of our own counter.
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