| Show IN AFRICA The Africa prom promIses startling contrasts when compared with th ot of the nineteenth con cen tury With an area tour Imes 1 os as great as that or of the United States n a lion of a role oll and climate capable of at Infinite variety of production a 11 rapidly expandIng commerce anI and the greatest known supplies ot of ivory Ivor gold and diamonds Its development under tb the modern methods whIch are no now boo be Jug Iliff applied to Il Iv Is assured The home of at the tho oldest It ItIs ItIs Is the last or of the continents to 10 Yield to the torch ot of the newest civilization But Dut yesterday enveloped In the darkness dark ness nei ot of mystery without and Ignorance within It Is today illumInated by the of at modern methods and ns as Its Importance and attractions are arc be beIng belag lag Ing recognized with this recognition must come development With two million scattered per peer Its vast area acquainting with Its natural conditions and requirements with the railroad the tele telegraph graph and the carrying light and knowledge and civilization to Its darkest corners Africa cannot N main unknown or It was only ani after the Speke Spek Stanley and others hall had discovered through persistent and heroic efforts that there existed vast navIgable waterways above aboc the tho tails falls near the thc mouths of the great streams whIch flow tram from the Interior that Eu European I u nations awoke to the physical and antl commercial of Africa and then In u a twinkling the Dark Continent Was aJ seized upon d and d d 1 Lur European up and b hinterland hinterland by U magic weep II v and ISIS S an area two and n a holt half the size of at the United States Stale and 1 taming a population of parcelled out b by an agreement t JI al of th powers At present cart a foot of territory remain and Fu lure ture by 0 I 1 Austin Forum lorum In the De |
