The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-02
LECT u RE ON
PEOPLE OF
AFRICA

An audience of several hundred
school children. n minor portion OIL
whom were accompanied by their par
ents, listened attentively to Stereop-
ilcon lecture on Africa delivered last
night In the study hall OF the Hlgh
school by Albert r FoulGer. Mr.. Foul
ger is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Foulger OF this city and has spent
about three and half years in South
Africa as a missionary OF the Mormon
church
DImring the young mans stay on
the dark continent he gathered many
curlos and took hundreds Of photo
graphs. picturing both the civlllza-
tion and the savagery OF that distant
land. The display OF many of these
curlos and stereopticon presentation
OF the photographs on large screen
were in themselves both interesting
and instructive. Coupled with Mr..
Foulger's talk. they formed very lib
eral lesson in geography and IN inc
worlds progress, entertaining alike to
the children and the adults who were
present.
He gave a short review OF the his
tory OF Africa, telling how centuries
OF civilization had passed and left
their monuments of mans intellectual
development on the northern coast OF
the continent while the southern half
remained unexplored and unknown un-
til comparatively 4 few years ago. Not
until the fifteenth century was the
continent rounded by the ships of Eu-
rope and even then no settlements
were attempted until many years ai-
ter. He'll told Of the Dutch, crowded
by the sea in their own country, seek
ing new homes ON the southern 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
200, 900 and is the second city In size
on the southern half OF the continent
johannesburg being first. Since the
Anglo-Boer war, the people have been
closely pressed by poverty and pic
in which many OF the people OF the
city came TO exchange pieces OF house
hold furniture for food.
MI IOuIESI SulOGlEcu llle ldNt tt-
ell John Rhodes, telling how the great
financier had come to the country a
victim of consumption and, through
the discovery of diamonds at Kimber-
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 gradua-
tion, had returned TO the Kimberly
district
The workers in the Kimberly
mines" said the speaker, as there
flashed on the screen a horde Of toll
ers in ragged costumes, ARE all pris-
oners when they accept jobs with the
diamond company They become prts-
oners for a period OF six months and
are kept closely guarded in the stock
AIDES OF their employers during the
time they have agreed to work Five
days before their time expires they
are kept in close confinement and
carefully watched by experts. Their
hands are kept tied and they are with
out clothing Of any Kind. Every day
a search Is made OF their entire body
to see that they 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 be-
meath the scar after the worker was
released and sold Even such meth
DDS as these would avail the worker
nothing under the rigid examinations
10 nh oh h.
a worker be found attempting to steal
one of the stones found while work
ing, he is turned over to the govern.
ment by the company and is punished
by term of four or five years in priS-
on In one year the Kimberly mines
have yielded more than $4,000 900 in
diamonds"
The speaker showed specimens of
the blue clay frAl which the valuable
stones are taken and told OF going
down into the mines to depth of 2 40
feet This was only half the distance
he explained, of the lowest level of
the mine.
Some very interesting 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 AZ
rica to the saYagery of the interior
was the final step taken by the lectur-
er In his views and remarks. He
showed the dark-skinned natives Hv.
ing in their native haunts and told of
their superstitionS and their follies as
we'll as some OF their primitive virtues.
Of the missions OF Africa where the
missionaries seem to think that when
they have taught the native to wear
clothing instead of string of beads
they have made civilized man of
him.