| Show AMONO missionaries OP THE UPPER CONGO atik children bora in ot africa latee of tb mother and hor utta one auta S th station V 4 three hibe their bothee arrived in england few ago from central africa had never seen more than four or fita children of their own race and their playmates hai been blade boya and girls they are tha audren of the english A CL banks the oldest Maggi ewa bora in 1888 charles in 1391 and alien in 1892 and their home la ton ana upper congo at equator alft tion about seven hundred emilei roni the mouth of the river it asa oaly seven years before maggie waa born at equator station bay the st loots globe democrat that stanley ascending the river oa his 1 little steamer approached the native landing therea one ay the chiae carne own to the waterland wat erand sternly said s a we do noS Know aho vho you are or what you intend mcdo it you coma near enough to the eho willbe gin g in fighting if youliah you to go oc go if you to return iha river la afree hot touch not tha land chere ras beautiful candor in this vell expressed message ana itis not tor white men to establish friendly relations with such people as when the natives become convinced that he whites mean well and that benefits will result rom friendly intercourse A little later equator station was established and it soon became the handsomest white station can the upper conga some dozens of othar little chita folks are now scattered among the stations for a thousand miles up the congo they live far from one another and few of them have seen the white babies who live at other settlements they area are a source of endless wonder to thousands of black mammas who love to see then playing bedora the well built bouses their fathers have reared in the wilderness and who think good luck will corae to tham if they touch these happy little palefaces all un these white behles are an important part itt educating and uplifting tha natives of alrica black mothers as a rule are tenderly devotee to their off spring and they cannot ee those tittle white strangers carefully nurtured sheltered from all harm taught to real aud enjoy every their parents can give them without receiving new ideas that will benefit their own children now that american and european woman ia considerable numbers aro sro going to africa it naturally follows that marriages after the civilized forms bra beginning to celebrated there some of abes happy events bra celebrated at places tha beai known for very different reasons ago george grenell tha greatest missionary traveler in africa since ered the dwarfs and candit ails who in great numbers aloag the dense forests that lini the banks of the and lapori rivers ona of nia baack was a fat and healthy native who inspired one thought oaly in all the whom visited As tip bank and the villagers spied dfcia man they would with one accord that be macks unusually good eating thay at once offer to buy him 1 culinary culi uary purposes the poor fellow was in constant terror and grenfell did not trust him out of his sight for teara the natives would carry out their inces aaA threat bim for tha cooking pot among these very savages inthe depths aa the tropical forest a christiaa marriage was in march last year bichard bolei an Engli shiran was wedded to margaret dalgarno Dar garno a young woman frim scotland five europeans of ao many different nationalities in this event which was notable II 11 for nothing else because it in a of tha wildest cannibal ism and savagery where most odthe natives do ao wear any sort of areas and where sighting with other I 1 arices for the purpose of procuring meno eat Is one of the leading in destries eren the newspaper reporter was not lackin gym acthia occa sion A frenchman who was present arots an account of this african so ciely event to a newspaper at home and undertook to give tho responses in the english with the following curious result 3 ster bichard cola are you consenting to take hiss margaret Dalf farno c aes sir hargaret Ua rgaret galgamo Dal gamo are you consenting to ara cola like husband then there was a banquet tha straw roofed mission louse ador with orange blossoms gathered gat hared from aga tga neighboring thicket blac boys feast and that evening blacka moors cf both overy age had one of their frantic at tha station they had only a dim idea of what had occurred but as the happy 1 erenthal eren thad beba made the occasion for amace them many baags bails sad glass mirrors they gave their feelings falt vent |
