Part 14 (1/2)

After this followed the journey to the East Coast ending at Quilestone was the first to see the Falls of the Zambesi, which he named the Victoria Falls, after her Majesty the Queen The water at these falls dashes down in torrents, a sheer depth of 320 feet, the spray rises h and can be seen many miles ahilst its sound is like the noise of thunder

Numerous were the expeditions he made In the course of these he traversed thousands of miles of country before untrodden by the feet of Europeans His falobe, and he had published several volu an account of his explorations

In January, 1873, he started on his last journey In April, after suffering intensely froot to a place near Lake Bemba; and here he told his followers to build a hut for him to die in On the 27th April he wrote the last entry in his diary, viz, ”Knocked up quite, and remain--recover--sent to buy milch cows We are on the banks of the Molilamo” When on the 1st May his folloent into the hut they found the great explorer kneeling by his bedside--dead

Great was their grief and great was the sorrow of all in this country when the news reached Britain of his decease

But the little factory boy had done such a great work that no place was good enough for his remains but Westminster Abbey

FROM FARM LAD TO MERCHANT PRINCE

THE STORY OF GEORGE MOORE

George Moore was born in cumberland in 1807 His father was a small farmer He had the misfortune to lose his ood and pious reat effect upon him

The lad was shrewd and earnest, and showed a power of thinking and acting for himself

At one tiing; but wishi+ng tofares

By the tihteenpence a day, and at twelve years old did the work and earned the wages of a full-grown , and his et learning i it into hiht thee for one quarter to a better school The cost was only eight shi+llings, but the boy then got an idea for the first ti

He deter he could do better for hie Moore began his business life as apprentice to a draper at Wigton

He did not make at all a pleasant or successful start His as very hard He had to light fires, clean s, grooenerally useful His et his meals at a public-house One of his duties was to serve out spirits to custos considered, it is perhaps not surprising that he got into bad habits hi up often nearly all night, and losing or winning considerable sue caed at his master's house, and when he went out to play was accustomed to leave aunfastened so that he could let hi the household Somehow or other his master found out this plan, and deterone out he nailed down the , and when the apprentice returned ho he found hi daunted he clih his bedrooed, and on thinking the reat was his folly So he deterive up his evil ways, and was enabled to lead a better life in future

As soon as his apprenticeshi+p was up George Moore resolved to try his fortune in London At first everything went against him He tra here, there and everywhere, seeking for eive hio to America One day, however, he received froed in the drapery trade a request to call upon hi a salary of thirty pounds a year

George had now got his foot on the first round of the ladder, and her So he at once took lessons at a night school, and worked hard at self-education

Then he got a better place; but, for a time, had to bear h he had coe was the stupidest one of all! Still he bore the reproaches of his e made his mark He was offered the position of town traveller, and soon proved himself to be one of the cleverest business e hadhis hter come into the shop he was much struck by her appearance, and reirl should be his wife His cohed at hiirl, though she refused him the first tie Moore was no ordinary youth; and before he had been travelling for his fir, they discovered his value So did another fir away their business, and offered hi less than a partnershi+p would satisfy hiave it hie Moore became junior partner in the famous house of Groucock & Copestake, to which the name of Moore was then added

His fortune was thus early made, and his business life was one continued series of successes He had an immense capacity for work, and boasted that for twelve years he laboured sixteen hours a day

Yet his energies were not confined to business After a tier needed to work so hard for himself, he took up various charitable scheour soon obtained for them remarkable support The Commercial Travellers' Schools was one of the institutions in which he took great interest These schools were built at a cost of about 25,000, the greater portion of which he obtained