The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

its subjects, has built a handsome mosque. and, careful of their material wants, it has provided a great market where are rows of booths and shanties. and where camels and donkeys, tin pots and native damur cottons, and many other vendable things, are bought and sold under the strict supervision of cer- tain Coptic and Egyptian clerks.'
 Of the Soudan popu1ace:
 Black or brown, Semetic or negroid in blood, these people seem to have an excellent understanding with the latest rulers whom the chances of history have imposed upon them. Furious fighters as some of them have been, they give one the impression of a docile, easily governed folk. Unless all appearances belle them they both tant north who are set in authority over them.
 They are casual toward the Creeks, familiar rather than friendly with the Egyptians; but toward the English their demeanor is reverential. When a native mounted on donkey passes an English gentleman even In the streets of Khartoum, it. is eti- quette for him to dismount from hts beast and salute; it is also correct for the Brfton to acknowledge the saluta- .tion with punctilious courtesy"
 Education in this promising terri tory. up to and through the Gordon College, is of practical aim:
 "The young Soudanese is not encour- aged to read Burke and Mill and Her bebrt Spencer and Bergson, nor Is he induced to browse vaguely over Eng fish literature and modern politics. did not hear the boys recite any Eng fish poetry, for they do not learn Eng fish poetry, which would certainly confuse and probably upset them.
 Training of the Young Soudanese
 But I went through the drawing office and the surveyors class and saw young students working out plans with metre rule and T-square and calculat- ing quantities with neatness and pre- cison which would do not discredit to Great George street. The students learn sufficient English for all such purposes, not enough to denationalize them or cause them to forget that they are the Arabic speaking inhabitants of a Mohammedan country. Instead of qualifying his pupils to become disap- pointed office seekers or active politi- cal agitators, the director endeavors to produce a steady stream of young fell lows with the elements of a sound technical training
 Nor does the matter stop here MT. Low continues:
 
 toum-in some respects the most nota- : ble building in the Soudan or in all North Africa-is the Welcome Insti- ute. Here, thanks to the enterprise and liberality of MT. Henry S. We'll come. the head of the famous firm of manufacturing druggists, there are well equipped laboratories and consult ing rooms in which a staff of bacteri- ologists and medical experts is engaged in examining the problems of tropical vegetation, germ life and disease. Re- suits of the utmost value may be ex- pected from their researches. which may end in extirpating or bringing under control the worst of the maladies which have hung like a blight over the vitality and the progress of the sun lands" From semi social point of view: Tt is, indeed a very pleasant and attractive body of people who assemble in the Soudan capital in the winter months. whom it would be difficult not 1 to like. Something of the brightness of the clear. oxygenated air has com municated itself to the residents, who have tempered the national stiffness with certain southern vivacity. Then lit Is society of people in the prime of life and health
 "Everybody in the Soudan is young or youngish. There are very few Eng llishmen in the whole territory over 50 most are well under 40; many below 30 Officers in this service do not have to wait till they are gray and bald before obtaining positions of responsibility and power. They are commanding reg iments or governing provinces at an age when in England they would be helping to drill a company or sealing documents in Downing street. He joins the service at five-and-