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Show E luiH FROM CAIRO TO THE CAPE. fli;JU The railway from Capetown to Buluwyao, 1,500 fa d jiH miles, is completed. The next thousand miles to 1 Jt'lgjB Kasali is promised within the year. Then about m h M 480 miles will remain to bo built to connect with. j!" fJH the road in Egypt and it is said a concession has m Ji ?fgB been granted for that. The total line to make tho 1 Mi ilJH northern connection will be but 20 miles less than Si m 1'JjK 3,000. The Egyptian line will be about 1,000 more. I jju HK With that finished, the new outlet ought to give JfH M Wmm to the poor of Europe a vast new land in which to fP' 1 IB make homes. The road will cross two zones. All W J j ttjjifB products of the soil used by men ought to grow in S $j iB profusion along that line. It ought, in a few ! J f ' !1B years, to be England's greatest colony; indeed, it jlji ffl!'iJB! will be the beginning of a new creation, and a JU n uJB transformation wonderful to see. Who knows jw it B what mines await discovery there, what basis will, w J jj&jflB be supplied for new, great enterprises? It is no mm 1 iffH wonder that Cecil Rhodes felt when he knew that w I f HB he was soon to die, that his .work was but half W I 1H completed. When Gordon unfolded his schemes' P HB for the building up of a great empire in Africa, Jr j( ( j Wm Rhodes asked him what his dreams would avail jgjj, ' 1 S him, he having no means to carry them through, Mil j y B and declined to join with him. But he went away Wi j j w iH to the South, first made a fortune, and then began m 1 r the conquest of that continent. Could he have m l I'JIB been spared fifteen years longer, what might he P N y fflB not have accomplished? But the work will go on in J i Hfl No one man is a necessity; the dawn of a new civ- El f p B ilization is reddening the east of Africa and the HkI t'HB day of enlightenment of that land is near. Pi I 1 'fJB w) id SH |