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gins set up and in successful operation — 

 it would be difficult to believe that in two 

 vears so much could be made of the wild 

 Arab of the desert. But here the expla- 

 nation is not difficult: mechanics are in 

 much greater demand than supply ; steady 

 jobs in the government shops and dock 

 yards are ready for all qualified ; the 

 Arab is as keen for money as any man 

 who lives, even in Wall street. 



The Wellcome laboratories have al- 

 ready won recognition from the scientific 

 world for the value and thoroughness of 

 their work, and the first annual report, 

 taking up the actual question of the Su- 

 dan, is already standard and classic; for 

 the Sudan field, so far as exact scientific 

 knowledge is concerned, is almost un- 

 touched ; and here the investigators, hav- 

 ing a free hand, take up the pernicious 

 insects (particularly the deadly fever- 

 spreading mosquito), the blight and dis- 

 eases of plants, the ills that human flesh 

 is heir to, and all the other manifold mat- 

 ters of imperative practical importance, 

 with a zeal and a thoroughness surpassed 

 in no other laboratory work in the world. 

 Far up the White Nile, living on a 

 "felucca," isolated from the world, with 

 native servants his only companions, we 

 found Dr Grenville Neaves, conducting 

 under the auspices of the Wellcome la- 

 boratory hand-to-hand researches into 

 the dread sleeping sickness which has 

 decimated districts of the lower Congo 

 and which will be resisted in the Sudan 

 by every expedient known to science that 

 exact knowledge can suggest. 



Gordon College has now estate and 

 endowments of about half a million dol- 

 lars, one-fourth of which is invested in 

 one large brick building of the Gothic 

 order, where its classes and laboratory 

 work are carried on, and its pathological 

 and biological museum, under a young 

 American graduate of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, is located; and its classes 

 of young Arab lads, instructed by teach- 

 ers of their own faith and race, are a 

 picturesque and suggestive sight, as one 

 walks down the long corridors, catching 

 glimpses of the work through the open 

 <loor. 



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''Pay as you go" is, moreover, the 

 motto of Gordon, and, much as pupils are 

 desired and greatly as the institution and 

 its work are needed for the public wel- 

 fare, no tuition is free. Every student is 

 taught "that what is worth having is 

 worth paying for." The fee averages 

 only $10 a year. Next year a boarding 

 school, in which the charge will not ex- 

 ceed $50 per year, is hoped for. 



