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CHINA MALE, OCTOBER 5, 1937.

SCOTTISH VEMPIRE”

TS who read the history of cona; his cousin out of Dufftown an epic of courage, endurance, and the wastes. Imprisoned after the Scotland from 1707 on, often George Stephen (Lord Mountste-devotion to his Master that have ill-fated raid on Johannesburg, he bhash at the scantiness of the sub-phen), and that engineering genius, never been equalled "What man- retained his popularity and became ject-matter. The Jacobite risings, Sandford Fleming, of Kirkcaldy her of many are you?" a rescued Premier of Cape Colony. "His heart Porteous Riots, the pacification and "This unique imperial achievement slave asked, weeping: "these others he gave to adventure and to friends, evictions, Dundas and Adam Smith, is owed to the vision, the audacity tied and starved us; yon cut our never to riches."

ropes and bid us eat.”. and a wee bit about the Disruption: and the idealism of the Scot." the rest is England.

The Dark Continent of Africa

James Stewart, founder of Love- Mungo Park, handsome, fearless For, says Professor Dewar Gibb owes most of its light to the Scot dale Institution, showed the modern and almost alone, solved the puzzle His adventures in his preface, "No attempt has too. Explorer, missionary, trader, way of combining missionary and of the Niger.

been the educational work, and his school has would thrill even Hollywood. But ever been made to assess the part administrator-that has played in the building up of the sequence: in the story of the last been a model for all such enter beyond. Timbuctoo, where the river. for two there is much that is sordid and prise. John Mackenzie was not narrows and is overhung by rocks, Empire by the nation which over two hundred years has laboured rapacious; but the history of the only a missionary but a great and hostile natives bombarded his cance and fought and dared alongside of two first contains much of the love fearless administrator. When the with stones and arrows till he took England, content at every turn to and endurance and glory of the savage opposition of the Boers would to the less cruel waters and perish-

ed. have barred British entry into Be know that the new nations which Cross itself.

fa Philip, of the London Missionary chuanaland in order to perpetuate Into the lands he had so daring- she was helping to rear were shioned one and all after the model Society, went first into the darkness. their own tyranny over the natives, fy explored, Mary Slessor, the Dun- of England; and that she herself Then Moffat, whose sweet influence it was he who took British author dee mill-worker, brought the gospel and all her deeds were lost in anony was such that even the savage Mosi- ity and justice there and triumphed and something of law and order. likatse's heart "was turned all white by sheer force of Christian person She was the muscular type of Chris- mity"

cuse

Different were the outlook

or-

Hence young Scotland and its par- as milk" Livingstone joined Mof- ality. He had with him only his tian who would wrest a ride from ents know little of Scotland's share. fat and married his daughter Mary, wife and two daughters in a wag a strong native's grasp or box a But from now on there is no ex- In the story of this factory boy, gon and a few native servants; delinquent's ears. Having the sense the to see that the natives were not In this massive and master- leaving school at ten years of age, "there was not a fire-arm in ly work of research, the story is educating himself as a doctor, giv- entire force.”

ready for Western laws, she clearly and graphically and imparti- ing life and all to evangelisation, ex-

and ganised and presided over a native ally outlined. It is for Scottish ploration and the suppression of the methods of Dr. Starr Jameson, court. "But the sort of man that

the but his power over the natives was Mary Slessor représents is rare” teachers to use the book, to have slavery, "superlatives become

In India, the trader was first on it in their schools, and if possible merest common-place." His crossing in many ways as great. His tact- get a cheaper and probably shorter of Africa, the Nyasa Shire explora- ful handling of Lobengüla, for ex- the scene, to be followed by form of it for pupils' use.

tions, and his last lonely journeys, ample, gave the Matabele and Mas- conqueror and the administratory; was only once honaland to the Empire; and Salis- so its history is different. "Every The story up to 1707, the author whose monotony acknowledges, has been admirably broken by Stanley's visit, constitute, bury and Kimberley sprang up in schoolboy knows" about Clive and

and sufficiently told in Dr, Insh's Scottish Colonial Schemes. So he deals briefly with Ulster and Lewis,

the American settlements and the fateful failure of Darien. *The

choice was too ambitious, the sites THE

too delectable," and Scotland too feeble.

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WORLD GOES BY

By “ULYSSES

the

about the Indian Mutiny, but of „the patient, brilliant work of recon- ciliation and administration of such as Munro and Elphinston and Mal- colm, nothing at all. Nor of Lord Dalhousie, laughing to himself, "sitting here and bowling • about kings and kingdoms as if they were eurling stones" but introducing

and railways

canals, post and telegraph and schools and hospitals; and

"treat-"

of

He begins with Canada and the Hudson Bay Company, always at hed least two-thirds Scottish. It rivals, also mainly Scottish, but by 1821 it had amalgamated with them.

AM very popular with readers of, According to this American paling even men with dark faces" as Of its scores of great men, we have the "China Mail" Every day per, a great many pigeons hang human beings. It is the knack of room for only three-Mackenzie of the postman staggers up the four round breweries, eat the mash and doing this ("which all the Harrows on earth will never Stornoway, the noble Lord Selkirk flights of stairs to my gilded office get remarkably tight(ie oiled, and Etons and Macdonald, who welded the with fan mail and presents of all screwed, or drunk) on the stuff. educate the essential Scot out Dominion and its CPR With kinds. The latest contribution

of Like most residents Hong doing") that accounts for the po- splendid daring, Mackenzie canoed which has made life a little less drab Kong, pigeons, it seems, suffer from pularity of our countrymen the

die early world over. from Lake Athabasca up the Slave for me is a charming letter from an stomach disorders, and

In evangelization and Biver to the Great Slave Lake, and Anonymous Young.. Woman, who from their excesses.

education, Scotsmen have helped thence by the river of his name to says she is knitting me a bathing One commonly thinks of pigeons here too; and a Hindu lecturer is the Arctic Ocean. On a second dar-suit.

las cathedral dwellers, saintly birds, quoted as having said in Edinburgh ing trip in 1793 he penetrated the

Gothic recently: "Everywhere in India the Old as I am, with a face in which wheeling on soft wings to "Rockies and, striking the Peace Experience has etched the lines of heights, or being fed by little girls young have been brought up at the

River, came at last to the Pacific. Disillusionment, I can relax and outside St. Paul's, or St. Mark's, in feet of Scottish schoolmasters.” His sole means of transport was a dream of the romantic possibilities Venice.

The map of Australia and birchbark canoe. It needs imagina-of this gift.

On the contrary, my poor un-history-books are full of Scottish tion to appreciate the obstacles, She will haunt all the beaches of worldly readers, the little devils go names Lachlan Macquarie, Bris- nature's and Indians', which he over-the Colony, hoping to identify me to church to confess their sins, and bane, Stirling and Fraser as gov- Hume, Cunning- by the bathing suit, hoping to pene-leven when accepting crumbs from errors; Stuart, Lord Selkirk, "nobly born, rich, trate that anonymity I have so far little girls are sometimes so spiffed ham, Mitchell and Forrest as ex- beloved, who used and gave all his successfully preserved.

that they can hardly stand up. plorers, are only outstanding among gifts for the sake of Scotland and

And if there is a second The day she does pierce my dis-

It shows us that a pigeon's city la host the Empire," paid ten shillings for guise, she will sink like a stone in residence is more than a mere ac-Scotland anywhere, it is the South 116,000 acres of land on the Red my foaming path, with the idea of cident of nature, that pigeon, Island of New Zealand. The found- River. On it and other parts of being rescused.

like a human, lives in town because ing of Dunedin and Port Chalmers, Canada, in the sorrowful times of One or two things will then hap-of a certain depravity of spirit and eg is a sequel to the Disruption; Thomas Napoleonic wars and the evictions, pen. Either she will drown as an unhealthy desire for excitement their first minister was he settled thousands of exiled High-both; or (which is more likely)

1 and conviviality.

Burns, who "came out" in Forty- landers; out of the wilderness shall find the bathing suit is becom- This is all very disturbing. Think three and who was a nephew of around Fort Garry have grown Win- ing slowly but surely unknitted, and of the pigeons' morals. Or don't the poet. It is said that for long nipeg and the golden wheat-lands of will have to head like 2 startled think of it, as you wish. It is, as there was scarcely any crime here; I have just said, very disturbing. and the gaoler would threaten his

came.

Manitoba.

hare for the open sea.

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its

James Bruce, eighth Earl of Elgin, In either case I shall draw down on But with our morals here what prisoners that if they did not re carried to fruition Lord Durham's my greying head the unrestrained (they are, perhaps it would be slight turn at the proper time he would ideal of responsible government. And wrath of my girl friend, the Officely cruel to draw attention to laxity lock them out for the night.

We cannot resist the speculation Sir John Macdonald, son of a Lairg Blonde, a wench of seductively in this direction among our fea-1 victim of the clearances, completed feminine shape which effectively thered friends. The subject, there as to what Scotland might have that conception when in 1867 the conceals from the outside world a fore, may now be considered closed. been had she been free and all these British North America Act created jealous and unreasonable nature. the federal Dominion of Canada. He bought the government rights of the north-west provinces for £300,000 | from the Hudson Bay Company. And

mighty sons of hers had scope for their energy at home or in a Scot- tish Empire. As it is, they were According to a psychologist, one driven from her by eviction, by It is interesting to learn from an should close the eyes tightly when economic durance, by sheer love of finally, to him goes the chief credit American newspaper that pigeons trying to solve a problem. I did this adventure or of fighting or of gain of the completion of the CPR His live a debauched life.

after dining with the Office Blonde or the love of souls. Their work chief agents were Scotsmen, mostly Apparently there is a side to the other night, but when I opened has been given to the empire of of humble originDonald Smith pigeon that we had never dreamed them again the bill was still 33 more Britain, not of Scotland. from Forres, who became Strath existed.

than I had in my pocket.

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A. B. SIMPSON,