. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . hard conditions rise. As these emigrants loved the Motherland,they desired to remain loyal; as they hadlearned the advantages of land holdings, eachdesired to secure his own home ; but remem-bering the past, they sought to provide that thelimits of each to live from anothers toil shouldbe narrowed. Not by violating the rights ofproperty owners, but by securing the rightsof property creators, were new ideas popu-larised. But these inheriting world-owners, saidthe orator, as a rule, have a pretty good time,though none of them have been permitted toremain long enoug
. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . hard conditions rise. As these emigrants loved the Motherland,they desired to remain loyal; as they hadlearned the advantages of land holdings, eachdesired to secure his own home ; but remem-bering the past, they sought to provide that thelimits of each to live from anothers toil shouldbe narrowed. Not by violating the rights ofproperty owners, but by securing the rightsof property creators, were new ideas popu-larised. But these inheriting world-owners, saidthe orator, as a rule, have a pretty good time,though none of them have been permitted toremain long enough on their particular sliceof Oliffa for it to get stale. Reluctant to leave Britain, but anxious topick up some of her wandering children, hecloses our mothers case with this fond caress:— While these people of Britain are the saltof the earth, it is the offspring, and not theland-owner, who is to lead in the future socialcontests. Come to think of it, it is not * Britain, butthe Briton, that, like Atlas, carries the world. In Darkest jlfrtca* 8i on his shoulders; and tis the Briton who isthe salt of the earth, while Britain is thesalt mine. darkest Africa finally discovered. Oseba then turned his instruments on told his audience that while along the fringeof this half-mythical land there were glimpsesof a very ancient movement, the vast interior,until almost yesterday, was a veritable terraincognito, and to-day it is not easy to separatethe grain of truth concerning its history fromthe cartload of fiction. But Britain was now rolling up the sombrecurtain, and opening the doors of her fabuloustreasure-house that the grateful (?) nationsmight enter and take rooms. Africa, the sage told his audience, coveredone-fifth of the land surface of the outer globe,and had a population of 150,000,000 souls, ormore than live in all the Americas and theirislands. It has a doubtful history, thousandsof years old. It was once so civilised thatit housed three-hundred Christian Bish
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