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Show LECTURE ON PEOPLE OF AFRICA. An audience of several hundred school children, a minor portion of whom were accompanied by their parent, par-ent, listened attentively to a stereop-llcon stereop-llcon lecture on Africa delivered last night In the study hall of ihe High school hv Albert R, "Foulger. Mr. Fol-ger Fol-ger la the son of Mr. arid Mrs. Fred Foulger of this city and has spent about three and a hair years In South Africa as a missionary of the Mormon church. D Luring- the young man'a stay on the dark continent he gathered many curios and took hundreds of photographs, photo-graphs, picturing 1oth the clylCi.a-tion clylCi.a-tion and the Bavagery of that distant land. Tho display of many of these curios and stcreopticon presentation of the photographs on a lnrce screen were in themxelvcs both interesting and instructive. Coupled with Mr. Fou Igor's talk, they formed a very liberal lib-eral lesKon In geography and In the world's progress, entertaining alike to the children and the adults who were pre-scnt. He gave a short review of the history his-tory of Africa, telling how centuries of civilization had passed and left their monuments of man's lntelleetual development 'on the northern coast of the continent while the southern half remained unexplored and unknown until un-til comparatively a few years ago. Not until the fifteenth century was the continent rounded by the ships of Europe Eu-rope and even then no fettlements wore attempted until many years after. af-ter. HeH told of the Dutch, crowded by the sea In their own country, seeking seek-ing new homes cm the southern portion por-tion of the Dark Continent. Pictures were shown of the now thriving city of Capetown. Nearly all of the places of Importance in and about this metropolis of Africa were shown and explained. He stated that Capetown now has a population of 20n,CiOO and is the second city In sto on the southern half of tho continent, Johannesburg being first. Since- the Anglo-Boer war, the people have been closely pressed by poverty and pictures pic-tures were shown of the market places In which many of the people of the city came to exchange nieces of household house-hold furniture for food. Mr. Foulcer eulogized the late Cecil Ce-cil John Rhodes, telling how the great financier had come to the country a victim of consumption and, through the discovery of diamonds at Klmber-ley, Klmber-ley, had become a millionaire before he was of age. Gaining both health and wealth by his trip to Africa. Rhodes had returned to England and entered Oxford and, after his graduation, gradua-tion, had returned to the Kiinberly district. "The workers In the Kimberly mines," said the speaker, as there flashed on the screen a horde of toilers toil-ers In ragged costumes, "aro all prisoners pris-oners when they accept Jobs with the diamond company. They become prisoners pris-oners for a period o six months and are kept closely guarded In the stockades stock-ades of their employers during the time thev have agreed to work. Five days before their time expires they nre kept in close eonfinement and carefully watched by experts. Their hands are kept tied and they are without with-out clothing of any kind. Every day a search Is made of their entire body to see that tbc-y have concealed about them no diamonds. Workers have been known to find valuable stones while at work and to have placed them in an open wound which has healed over the hidden diamonds. These stones would be cut from beneath be-neath the scar after the worker was released and sold. Even such methods meth-ods as these would avail the worker nothing under the rigid examinations to which he is now subjected. Should a worker be found attempting to steal one of the stones found while working, work-ing, he is turned over to tho government govern-ment by the company and is punished by a term of four or five years in prison. pris-on. In one car the Kimherlv mines have lelded more than $ J0.000.h00 in diamonds," The speaker showed specimens of tho blue clay fri which the valuable si ones are taken and told of going down into the mines to a depth of 2,140 feet. This was only hulf the distance, he explained, of the lowest level of the mine. Some very Intcreallug scenes of the Victoria Falls were shown and Mr. Foulger stated that these falls are about twice the height of Niagara and have about twice the volume of water pass over them. From the civilization of South Africa Af-rica to tho savagery of the Interior w as the final step taken by the lectin -er In his views and remarks, Ho showed the dark-skinned natives living liv-ing in their native haunts and told of their superstitions and their follies as well as some of their primitive virtues. He criticized the methods of some of the mission.? of Africa where the missionaries seem to thluk that when they have taught the native to wear clothing instead of a string of beads they have made a civilized man of him. |