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Show I(I) The Victoria Falls THE VICTORIA PALLS on the Zambesi river ( in Rhodesia, Africa, dwarf our Niagara and , Shoshone Falls. A little above them the great Zambesi Is a mile wide. Then it is suddenly sud-denly reducedo.slxhunclred feet wide and makes us1ieefvplurlge of 400 feet. Then the channel & make's a right angle and ilifs causes1 a' monster whirlpool "The Boiling Pot.' Thele is a rainbow AVteath 6f mist always ' rising iin& Is 'two thousand thou-sand feet high, arid the rtiai1 has'nof'cea'se'a dince the basaltic reef was cleft. 'Tlie riutiVes 'feWthe wreath '"ThO' Pillar1 bf Light,"1 arid 'therbar rfIs known to 'them as' the "Thurtder 'Sinbkb.' Tue water power of thb' falls and 'of the rapids belbV ''is'-estlmated to be 35,000,000' horsepower. AlrehOy a project is" oil hand to utilize a littlo df 'It and supply tho mines of Rhodesia; arid engineers' Who have seen the falls arid know thb topography land resources of the adjacent1 country, Wreuidtttiat '$ 'in the not far-off future a great city' will -be' 'built at the fallri arid -their power will be1 utilized 'to turn the machinery and glVd1 artificial' light'to t c part of Darkest Africa! "'' ' l" ' mm -mo Was that thought in the mind (6fUthe"icInflnite when1 His finger marked but the'OhannerfofrJthe ii great' river,1 shrouded the land inn mystery! and ipeopled it byBwarthy 'barbarians? 'DldwHe!'rioe mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmgmmmmmmmmm then that in the ages to come, one member of j" another race which then like the others had no existence save in His own mind, would And his way there, carve his initial D. L. In the back of a tree near by and then reporting his find would be followed by others of his race; that the bold race would then project and begin the construction of a smooth highway from Cairo to the Cape? That todure them there great gold deposits were planted plant-ed in the soil and in the reefs, and the Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon would rule there? It was Livingston who found the falls, not long ago, either, but now a cantilever bridge is stretched across the awful chasm, directly over "The Boiling Pot" and over it from the south the locomotive hauls its trains; they will soon be met by trains from the north, and the needed track over which the transformation of the Dark continent conti-nent will spread east and west, will be completed. The great falls will supply the power to begin be-gin to light that region, and it will be the same light in its composition that the Infinite called up with the command: "Let there be light!" And as then a new world in its savagery will be ready to be redeemed by men. The Anglo-Saxon will be the guiding power, and over an area equal to, perhaps one-tenth of all the earth, the work will begin; to clear the jungle and the forest; to open 1 field and mine, to build cities and bridges and roads, to rears temples to learning, industry, justice, jus-tice, mercy and religion a work of redemption and peace, and to the honor of man and the glory of God. |