| Show THE PARTITION OF AFRICA aror anti more ot of art ACi achica ica dessert desert and or A frics burning hurn lilB shore itic ale turn ing in out to lo bo be well ivell watered lauds lands ns as the th adventurers who aho explore then them take the lie place of tile rhymesters rhy who for icily put them lit in verse verge from lake N geml the liek tiek keig keis havo have yent rent back word t thai at ill the lands beyond tin the kalahati kalahari Kal Na ahari labart aro are magnificent healthy lie althy and fertile and abundantly supplied with water and uro are more attractive than those of the transvaal or orange freo state often indeed was wa shakespeare right and a even when hen lie he couched touch cil upon africa how could lie foreshadow the explorations and tho discoveries of rich gold mines that have been made thero there within tile tho past few years what prophetic wit lie he mint have been endowed when lie he put liuo into the mouth ot of the boastful pistol these words A f ton 0 is ire for the world and world lings 9 base I 1 speak of africa and widen golden joys yet net the immortal william never heard of Masho or rhodesia and riot not in all his it is plays 1 19 14 4 thero there a character like ilko premier ciell cecil rhodes of oc kimberly tho the diamond king of oc africa new york sun ile he could see bee in futurity all that was jr in nature he could not paint an all artificial production like cecil rhodes solomons ships went to ophir for gold asia was well understood and so the impression lias has always been that solomons ophir was in that mysterious land of africa sien men felt it just as they felt that some rome time tho the sources of the nile would in or beyond the jungle be found of africa itself it Is not hard to imagine that the dark continent was purposely saved for tile the children of civilization when the rest of the old world should become overcrowded so a feitor tei was spread over and around it the wild beast the jungle the native barbarian the fever guarded coasts the deserts and tile the holy goblins of the long ions ago were all stationed to guard the obscure land it is not strange that now the age of exploration being abeln on many beautiful features are found there will be much good land discovered many vastly rich mines will be opened there will many a fierce battle be fought the cr man will be tainted more by tile the shocking exhibitions of savagery made there but the final result will be that order will come out of the contusion confusion the weaker races will gie ghe way to the stronger zt ronger governments will be organized peace will have a throne 1 there temples to justice to learning to industry and to religion will be there the savage beast will shamble away before the roar of 0 the locomotive savage man cowed by the exhibition of forces which he cannot comprehend will lose his fierceness and finally there will be no more frontier riot not even in africa with quickened modern me dern agencies more will be accomplished in a century than could have been done lit in a thousand years in the old time ways in a few years more all the ou outward mysteries of the world will be explored and understood and there nill M be no new fields for man to explore save in the realms of mind then nhsn the race will grow exalted refined and gentle and the beginning of universal peace will come |
