Show SURPRisES fRIENDS AND A ND fOLS Ds poses of f and aad leaves 50 Per Cent More laJ sh s to d a States Ti to Engl En land nd Perso t tHeirs H Heirs Lose Estate if They Are Lazy April 4 Cedi Rhodes scheme f far r universal peace J is ant lined In the t fallowing extract from one of his What as awful t thought It he WrItes that if if evea aa now DOW W we with tile the pe Wheal el 01 the United States assembly and aDd our of com commans mans tile the peace of tile the world be secured for fer ill I We w t hold aId a federal parliament five years yeah In Wa b sad a e in Lon t doat The Celli Cedi Rhodes provides for two 31 tar fu seek eacIa eI art tile the exit states and ad territories of the United Slates eater It also pro t sides toe for ave Gaa ps In each of the Trot three buret years after ner his depth or a total of fifteen FI ty per euIt Pere t are an bestowed es ID Ia the United States bane hi There Ia i u hE is toes oe precise w fiig of tine coaleD ceded as only die tenor t of It was from oath Africa In ID a codicil codIe to pis wID Cecil Rhodes the t a estate OR as Js his brother Prad William Rhodes and w shale Ie heirs Wre with the to bis 1 brother Frederk Rhodes and aDd Ids his male heirs In 18 a ea clause referring t to tl thia settlement Mr Rhodes t bis objection oa to the expectant heir developing develop lito iato a loafer and aDd says 78 that at the whence of a proper life Is 18 that every man should have haft a deft site Dite occupation during a substantial period of his career In the D of the Dallas estate It is provided that the SUC c or eee to tile the estate must have been ten years ears in ID business or m In a profession pro profession other et r than the army or In the cue case of an aD Infant heir he be must enter business and remain there for ten years yean otherwise le the entail wm will The will gads strictly against encumbering the es ea t tate t In an aD editorial the Times says BaTS that Cecil Rhodes has as furnished ed a will modern parallel to Caesars caesar as depleted by b The Timex Times like other papers merely mentions the fact that the States will wiD be able to have hae 10 scholars permanently at Oxford and says It selection of these scholars t De be both curious and businesslike 1 4 O April win will of Cecil CedI L Rhodes Rhoda provides for the establishment I of the ten colonial scholarships scholar ships as 10 previously announced and tWo t f American to ea each b of the j I present states tates and territories of the i United JU Mr M Rhodes will Is a remarkable and document of more than 3 words Even en tJ is not the en the will as the executers only p gave n out the portions which they consider i be beof o of interest It was 1 Y r n nl l There is a codi al t te I Ithe th the e efrom day of the last Jut i from England sad another from Cape Town Toll leaves yearly to keep up the spot in the be hills where his remans are to be buried The will further furher directs that a railroad extension Exten ion sion bt be made ma into the hills so 0 that way ay go 50 there thu at the he week weekend k end to in t UK the majesty and glory ot oL belt their surroundings j Mr Rhodes explicitly says sap be at Is tobe to tobe be burled In an aperture cut cat In the th solid rock by 1 a brass tab tablet tablet let bearing the words as Here lie the of Cecil John Rhodes No one ODe else ta Is to be muted there Who I bu baa not de deserved welt well of his country Mr Rhodes divides LI be bequeathed the Oriel college Into several fusels indicating indica concisely hOW he wished them to be applied and adds this characteristic sentence They seed Heed And finally as college authorities i live secluded from Ute the world and lid so art are like dt children drea u as to commercial matters I would advise them to consult my trustees regarding t the investment j of these various aR a they would j ree ire he peat great help and ass a oe ad on pa paw i RHODES HIS FRIENDS AND FOES Continued 1 such fe Amen can Mr says herons I desire to encourage and foster an appreciatiOn of the advas winch I implicitly wilt re suit from a union O the English speaking peoples throughout the wo ld and to encourage In the from United States who will benefit by these scholarships as attachment to the from which they have sprung but without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land if their adoption or birth The will provides that the executors may at thelt discretion delay any territorial scholarships Ut suck time an they may think but It provides ilso that the once shall not lapse upon the admission of the territory to statehood Another pro provision vision Is that no shall on for election on a count if Mr Rhodon desires that ae should not aT Ps college but distribute tb selves the The are allowed to suspend or re remove move any scholar at their Mr Rhodes the hope that the wilt arrange ton graduates who ane able to attend and Invite thereto as guests persona who have shown sympathy with the views a by me In my will Mr all his property near and both In to trustees he to cultivate the land I the Instruction of the of Hit celebrated place at not far from Tow Mr Rhodes leaves as a residence 9 te prime minister of the federal Inept of South with 1 for Its maintenance Comments on WilL W T Stead wrote for the this analysis of Rhodes l The will of Cecil Rhodes In In evy respect worthy of Its author With i exception of some relates lit t country the whole of which Is Left to his own relatives Mr Rhodes baa his wealth In sad gd tp uses Its Is dictated by was ever the duet beating principle of his life What renders will of Interest to Americana Is the fact that It reveals for the under his hand and sealS that he was no mere British imperialist but that he was citizen of the United States if thE world In other words bI hew ac I I his when I on the strength many intimate and I nations that as his coat mon fatherland the great English speaking community which both th United States and the BrIl lab empire within Its ample Mn Rhodes first will was made tn 1817 he was a bt 24 At that time he was only beginning to amass the wealth I before he died basal made hIm a millionaire not hi dollars but His last wll ws dated Jsn 1 iSiS But the two doen meets are essentially allies In mont They both embody in expreSs terms what was ever the master thought of this master mind the necessity sity for promoting the relation of the race the Executors Mr Rhodes wilL a wl known group of seven of hi he of his Estate This I group Is further charged to undertake I the of acting as trustees for endowment which will provoke the lIveliest and excite the interest throughout both the United States and the British empire for both share in inthe the of Mr Rhodes bequest Mr Rhodes was a graduate of Ox Oxford ford and a student at to which by the way he has loSt a special bequest of He has made Oxford university In whose gb ties the AmerIcan descendents of Its share equally with those who still Inhabit the old country the center of his educational success and he left lefta a sum which may be roughly I as representing for Lh foundation of echor ships Mr Rhodes It will be rein was 50 with bite vue of a university education that alter I be had been compelled to brisk his course at Oxford by Ill health rendered It ImpossIble for to win winte te In England he returned every sum rater from South In order to corn his university career To bin thinking the university bet tet than any other natural naturally ly affords a ter o race unity It is free all corn anti a university with the old traditions of Oxford seemed to him the lest fitted for the purpose he had In view When I discusSed with klan the of t chote of the maimer Iy Which be selected pa race center respectIve claims of Oxford and Cambridge or acute Ari lean unIversity were freely That Mr Rhodes settled the In favor of was due to hi do motion to his Old university and if these fellowships had to be at any one center It would be to cail at his Mr Rhodes there tore Oxford as his race center from his love of his old alma mater has drawn up a broad outline of the general on which I tiree scholarships should be awarded The principle of his schem Is that every colony sad every state and territory ui American Union should be offered a scholarship of the memo of a year for three rears at Oxford By this means Mr Rhodes believed It woud be to make Oxford Ut center of the spirit of race unity where from every part of the En world would meet en common In the most famous of the od What wilt result In the future ence of in what has as leng been one of the moat conservative nd anglican of meat Britain the future must The of at much American and blood may have Import Important ant at which some of the theold old would Ear leg decided that each state or colonial unit should have one al allowed lowed to It every year Mr Rhodes will proceeds to deane the terms upon which these should be al Mr always opposed the modern Ideas of awarding an prim solely for literary attain The to award a for success In paso in seemed to him to put a premium on book worms ha bait drawn up a scheme for forthe the election of students for his shins which Is extremely original and very of the man it Is Isas as Tn the of r student to a regard should be had to literary and scholastic at second hs fondness for or in manly sports such Sn football and the like thIrd his of manhood such ae courage devotion to duty sym sympathy pathy for and of the Test of Real Worth Marks tot the severn should be awarded Independently as follows that Is to say or tb lot the second and third by the ballot of fellow Students of the candidate and for the fourth qualIficatIon by the head nasa era of the schools and the of Ut awards that Is to say the marks obtaIned by each for each should be added together and the successful student be who the greatest nUmber of marks giving hint the highest all round His object continues Stead in inlaying laying down these conditions was to secure the best men for the worlds light to bring them together In one center and to secure for them the best He baa undoubted ed y In changing what he call the dull monotony of modern corn petition Of Mr Rhodes political will arid It indices to say that there stands In Its forefront the promotion anti the unity of races and although It Is not laid down specifically In bli Will Itt written state In which he has expressed his Ideas he has specifically set that the key to the practical solution tion of the question hi to be found In a of the constitution of the United What an awful thought it is he writes that If even now we could ar arrange range with the political members of th United States and our of the peace of the world would be secured for all eternity We could hold a parliament lye years In Washington and live In London The American has been taught the of borne rule and the success of leaving the management of the local pump to the parish beadle He does not burden his houng of with the responsibility of cleaning the parish The present position of the English house Is ridiculous You mIght as well expect Napoleon to have found thu to have personally counted his dirty linen before he sent it to the wh and Is have recounted it upon its 1 have said enough however it show that Mr Rhodes last political will and testament Is as remarkable as I Ithe the career of which It remains a worthy monument At least I venture to hope that the world will begin to I appreciate the essential se of the great man whom England has just lost STEAD |