Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-09-24

" " 1VuNeiuct 49, ~ 7I. 7 X.
Utah: eve are all enjoying the best
i health but expect to be home again
sometime in October. We all watch
Or the postman 10 get tho REELncToR.
Best regards from US ALL"
Ex-Mayor Folk sends . card from
Springfield. Ills, with my regards
o the REFLEoToR force" The card
has picture Of Bryan on u which
indicates that Gid has not changed
his mind.
G. G. Cress delivered the principal
address d the meeting Of the State
School association 10 Evans
ton. Wyo, lost week.
Albert e. Martin writes this inter-
esting letter from interior Africa
where he is doing missionary works
Ii is dated Aug. 70; ! fear am very
tardy, fulfilling my promise to occa-
sionally send the REFLECTOR line
from this far away land the West
Central Sudan. ! arrived in Africa
the 21st Of last January. With me
were three fellow missionaries, one
from Michigan and the other two from
Scotland. DR.. H. Karl W. Kumm,
the general secretary Of the Sudan
United Mission, who was expected to
accompany us out found himself I'M
able to do SO, being detained in Eng
land by the executive committee 70
perfect and arrange further plans Tor
future work in the Sudan.
AS told the REFLECTOR before l
left last autumn, it is the purpose 81
the Sudan Mission to establish an
educational and industrial colony In
this par. Of Africa on lines very sim
liar, l believe. to those of Bishop
Hartzell's in Umatali in South Africa.
Providentially. we seem more favored
than Bishop Hartzell in the beginning
Of our work for we find the material
already awaiting us here. while he
had to gather his material himself.
The material | refer to Is human and
consists Of 2S9 liberated slave children
now in the hands Of the British 90
Ilonial government at their headquar'
ters at zungeru, Northern Nigeria
These children range in age from
to is years, and have been freed al
they have been discovered 10 thu
hands OF native slave traders BY Brit
lish government officials since Britain
took possession n this vast territory,
now some eight years ago. 10 tn'
honor OF Britain, be it said. her hae
will not float over slavery. The ma
tive slave trader who has piled hil
pitiless trade for we'll nigh numberles'
centuries has had a rude awakening
lin Haussaland since the strange hel
met clad white men with their dead.
rides and their deadlier Maxim gun
have taken the rule over his country
Formerly, his business was, he DC
lieved, an honorable one, and he Pile
it as openly as his fellow trader wa
dealt in sheep or cattle. But nov
Alasi Although he tries to travel .
night with bis canoe load or his cara
yaa, it often happens, he is found 9
one of those inscrutable white mer
He is stopped, some uniformed blac
soldiers take him 10 charge; he
brought before another white msn I
a strange iron rooted building. TIL
! man be is told is a judge, sent BY u
great white king who now rules 81
: country. He is questioned where an
> how be got all those children. The
. are his own he bravely asserts; the
I mothers will come later on, and so OF
J But meanwhile the judge may has
formed another opinion and the slaN
3 trader gets as his we'll earned rswar'
7 from seven to fourteen years Of pen
servitude and forthwith be finds o
= cupatiOn in building good roads 4
J. Doga Numba, Haussa for great 60
e ernment.)
!. DR.. Kumm has long cherished u
d desire that the Sudan Mission mig
}. be able to found an educational Al
J. industrial home tor such childr'
II and that the Mission might recel'
them to bring up and train, VII