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Show CAPE TO CAIBO. A lost missionary and a phenomenal feat of newspaper enterprise In finding him have led within a generation to letting in a flood of light Into the "dark continent" of Africa, revealing potentialities poten-tialities before undreamed of and tempting the vanguards of colonization. Industrial development and frequency of depredation from many countries. Some of the greatest engineering feata of modern times or of any time have been achieved In that great territory. Spheres of Influence and centers of exploitation ex-ploitation have been established, and from them there are working outward and onward the forces of to-called civilization. Doubtless these movements move-ments have been and are being in many cases disgraced by greed and marked by gross cruelty and Injustice; nevertheless never-theless they appear to be along the lines that destiny has so often followed in reaching for higher results. Perhaps the moat Interesting public work In the scheme of opening up the continent to commerce- and civilized industry in-dustry is the Cape to Cairo railroad, which will, upon completion, connect Egypt with South Africa by a tine 700 miles in length, or perhaps the longest in the world, unless it may be the Siberian Si-berian railway. There has been considerable con-siderable progress made on this longitudinal longi-tudinal highway. About 1400 miles have been built from the north and shorter stretches at Intervals, some of which are In limited operation. All this has been brought conspicuously into public notice by the recent completion of the bridge over the Zambesi river and the passage of the first engine across It. the general detail-i of which have been given In the news columns. Boston Transcript. |