THE TYPEWRITER IN UGANDA.
An independent testimony to the progress of missions in Uganda has been given recently by Sir Harry Johnson, a government commissioner: “The difference between the Uganda of 1900,” he writes, “and the blood-stained, harassed, and barbarous days of Mtesa and his son Mwanga is really extraordinary, and the larger share in this improvement is undoubtedly due to the teaching of Anglican and Roman Catholic missionaries.” Of the thirst of the people for education he says: “It is surprising what a number of men, boys, and even women have been taught to read and write at the mission schools. Several of the chiefs use typewriters; in fact, nearly all the official communications that pass between the regents and myself in the Luganda or Swahili languages are neatly typewritten by a chief or a ‘native secretary.’ The chief of Toro, on the borders of the Kongo Free State, possesses a typewriter also.” —Selected.