The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-07-25

and finally lifted over the brow Of the
precipice. AT last accounts this ingeni
Gus fisherman was planning to have d
Windlass set up TO make it mere easy
to reel in"
His Address to the Lion.
When the Zambesi is at low water
the blacks drive their cattle over tt
the islands in midstream and let then
feed there and usually they haven't
been doing SO long before the cry OF
.Nkanga! Manga" (the lion. the
lionD goes up. Two or three times the
administrator Mr.. Coringdon, has beer
besought to shoot monarchs of the
jungle that were carrying off fat cattle
and he forded the river and tracked
their lionships through the grass of
the Islands, which grows over ten feet
high.
The less civilized natives believe that
the bodies of lions are inhabited by the
spirits Of departed chiefs, and 1t some
times happens, when one of these
beasts has been making trouble in a
kraal. that the headman has gone out
ana lectured him-at a safe distance
on the error of his ways. One lion
made special nuisance of himself by
carrying off every buffalo that the men
of a certain camp near the Zambesl
had shot for meat and the chief de-
clded to make some sort If protest. Ev-
cry night the villages are surrounded
by circle Of fires to keep off the
lions, and outside of these. the Eleam-
ing eyes of the intruder could be seen
as the headman and his chief warriors
stalked forward. AS the chief saw the
lion he called out to him:
'Ah. there you are, are you? Are you
not ashamed Of yourself, now, a great
warrior like you, to sneak up here at
night to steal our buffalo meat! Making
a mere scavenger of yourself! Why don't
you go and kill your own buffaloes?"
Whether the lion understood or not, he
SUNK off into the forest and the natives
said there was no doubt he had been much
confused.
Plenty of Work for Electricity.
In speaking to the writer the other day.
w. A. wills, the secretary of the syndi-
cate which is going to harness" the Vic
toria falls, said that they expected 70 be
supplying power wholesale In about ff-
teen years from now. No one knows yet
row much power the falls can furnish,
but Niagara is supposed to be capable of
supplying about a million horse power
and the Victoria falls are 420 feet high, as
compared to Nlagara's 1853 feet, and a
whole mile instead of half a mile wide.
NSOs'Aih1 hShhIlc HAS USG11 ueClOGO Vet
about the machinery that will be used
for the plant, but 1t Is almost certain to
be on the exact lines of that used at
Niagara, and Will probably come from
America. Already the syndicate has been
a plan of having the entire
installation made by the Westinghouse
There Will be uses enough for the pow
er whenever 1t can be supplied The syn-
Manning RI
l60 miles to begin with, and probably first
or all the Cape to Cairo railway Will be
electrified for this distance, beth north
and south of the falls, which, by the way,
1t Will cross by means of a steel bridge
over the narrowest point of the canyon
OF the Zambesi. Within this reach of $50
miles lie the great sandstone quarries that
supplied walls for most of the houses
In Bulawayo; the great teak forests Of
the Gwat district, the immense copper
helds north of the falls, which are among
the richest Of the world and which will
furnish almost on the spot all the copper
needed for the installation, and the Wan
kie coal fields covering 400 square miles
APast Dream.
Naturally the exploiters of the Victoria
falls will work along the lines which have
been followed at Niagara and in other
parts of the United States, and their plans
Tor the future are being based chiefly on
the results Of American experiments, They
are encouraged to believe that In time
they Will be able to transmit electricity
to q distance Of 400 miles,
supplying power to the gold fields of
Mazoe, Hartley and Lo Maghunda, as we'll
as to the towns of Bulawayo, Salisbury
and Gwelo--power for electric lighting,
and telephones and the other
up-to-date convenlepces that make such
rtor fro not -
lions.
The promoters arc finding encourage
nent In the successful working Of the
street car lines in Oakland, Cal, with
power from the Yuba river, 40 miles
away. II Tesla's promise Of method Of
power without much leak
age over still greater distances holds good,
force from the great cataract OF the Fam
besi may be sent down to aid the indus
tries Of the Rand-but that is too big a
to be even considered now. 5}
But, after all, the immediate possibili-
ties Of the Victoria Falls in South Africa
count for little In comparison with the
rsmoter future In which Rhodesia may
step Cor ward as the great Industrial icoun-
try OF the wccld. THAT Is my dream, =;
said Mr.. wills, and it seems to me not
ut all an absurd one. In the first place,
It is the richest gold country OF the world
-one-third Of the worlds most precious
metal within eleven square miles-the
richest diamond country, with seven
eighths of the worlds most precious gems.
The whole land Is q mass OF coal. The
copper mines may be expected to make an
Immense difference In the worlds copper
trade. The country Ia well watered; all
kinds of cattle flourish, and cereals OF
every sort do well, There is any amount
Sc cheap labor-the Faffirs-and unlike
The, red Indians, they multiply under white
control. White children thrive In the
for we are from 1900 to 5000 feet
above the sea level, with a climate much
like that Of California. In time, Rho
desia will be the one place In the world
FOR a young man to go to. In fifty years
we shall have a tremendous population
there and what the country may become
and what part Of Victoria falls may play
then Is a subject that Is too big even for
my imnginat ton. = sE
Keep Your Memory Busy.
Boston Herald: Memory does not fall,
except in loss OF all the faculties; sim
ply gets weak and languid for want Of
lse--just as the physical organs do. N
4 People often say NJy memoryais fall
Ing, (, when 1t Is really as good as ever
Il they would give it a chance. "A word, a$
Hate, 8 name, an incident somes up--or,
rather, fails to come up--when you want
It. There seems to be no possible way OF
remembe herring II. You make two Or tf,reel