Hackworth got all the news that was appropriate to his station in life, 
plus a few optional services: the latest from his favorite cartoonists and 
columnists around the world; clippings on various peculiar crackpot subjects 
forwarded to him by his father, ever anxious that he had not, even after all 
this time, sufficiently edified his son; and stories relating to the 
Uitlanders—a subphyle of New Atlantis, consisting of persons of British 
ancestry who had fled South Africa several decades previously. Hackworth's 
mother was an Uitlander, so he subscribed to the service.