Show lj w Kimbtrlep Was Discovered One of the Founders of the Beleaguered City Now Living in CaliforniaCecil i Rhodes First I I Diamondlhe Great Empire BUilders Secretiveness HIS ParsImony and Loving J I Kindness for All Dumb BrutesHow He Bought a Boers Mongrel Dog ResIdIng upon his math In stlUlhern I 1 California Is a gentleman the Hon John Studdy late of Kimberley South I AfrIca and an excoJonlal mInIster of I financewho from a personal knowl edge of the subject describes how the I I I first dlamQnd was dischercd which ed to the buildIng upof the beleaguered I beleaguer-ed city of Klmberle and how Cecil I Rhodes laid the foundation ot his colossal I colos-sal wealth and DOWer It ttas In 1869says Mr Studd that I first met Herbert > Rhodes the I pIoneer of the Rhodes family fortune at Du Toltspan where we joined In the rush to Old De Beers and In which latter place wo worked together upon very friendly terms In a short tIme Herbert Rhodes was followed by Frank now Colonel Rhodes when the two brothers en tered Into partnershIp worklnga good paying Claim upon Road Xo S I Both brothers were Yen popular at the diggIngs Herbert was a strong I good aU round man ndlf he possessed Ia fault It was his big hearted generos I Ity whIch at times carried him to lengths of expenditure perhaps not war I eJur by the extent of his hind and who surely deserved a better feW than I that horrIble one of being burnt to I I deth which subsequently overtook him when gold PIOSIctlnr on thecoast I I of Zanzibar Ofr zJb 1 lund worked for over a year at Old l De Beers wIth fairly satisfactory re suits when I went out In company wth a friend upon that memorable I hunting tripwhleh loP tothe discovery I of New Rush or KImberley and in cldentaJb to the making of the for tune dfame of the night Hon Cecil Rhodes I I The iitw Diamond Field It was on 3 Sunday afternoon I remember re-member that we had pushed our ray across a plaIn of high Tmboke grass when b searching for some partridges I had bqught down near a clump of minora bushes I found a prospect to which I at once called the attention of my companion S I On making a careful survey of the ground seeing that It was of similar rmatlon to that of old De Beers I sat down and sorted out some of the I dirt when In less than five minutes I picked out as many small diamond With this evidence of an Important i discovery before us we decIded to giver give-r up the shoot and returnIng to camp I i at old De Beers I ImmedIate urged upon my partner the advisability of I starting for the nea ground My partner I j part-ner however happened to be a man of a very conservative dIsposItion and I was sceptical of the value of my die i Nr covery asking If there were na enough diamonds rIght where we stcod to satisfy sat-isfy our needs instead of madly rush lag all over the country and In the I hUntot a shadow perhaps Jose the stub I stancl S S Still Impress t9th thbelief that I I had madea bIg iindJ ivent over to the tent of un old Natal frIend Popham by name with whbm at the time was I Herbert Rhodes 1 told them of my discovery and wu thee at once decided i to organize a stampede for the new fieldPopham Popham and TIJlOdes got away In ion than twp hows nd I fully intended intend-ed to accompan them but deterred to the wIshes of my partner to remain with him at old De Beers sending on four Kaffir Zulus how ver to help stake out our ddims ltcll It was but a few hours after through the instrumentality of the frIend who 1 had taken with me on the hunting riP that tte news was spread aoroad through thecamp and before 7 a m In the nettmornlng Old De Beers I was deserted and in twent four hours later there were from 3000 to 4000 men I on the ground on which now stapds the I I city of Kimberley In a tepilaS the Country all around 1 that chump of mInora whereI had shot the partrIdges was staked out and I it was almost on that spot right in the reenter t of the crater of the extinct mud volcano nQw forming the celebrated De i I Beers mIne that Pgphnm Herbert fUhodes and myself cured thrEe of the best paying I liinus l I Cecils Disgust It waS aboutfive or SIx months after i this when we had all moved to New Hush that ecl1 Rhode the youngest I brother dnexp ctedry turned up at the diggings Cecil Hhodes was both In appear an e and character Quite differdnt to his brothers belngat that tIme tall and thin darker complexion thdn Frank Rhodes but not so darkas Herbert S His onstitutlpn appeared to be very delicate and It was generally understood under-stood that he had come out more with the Idea of building tip his health than I makln1 n fortune Hetook up his abode In a tent close I to my own and for some months on account ac-count of the Intimate relations exist I ing betw en hIS brothers and myself I i saw a gdud deal fhlm In fact dining I wIth the three almost every night I I While as I said before Herbert anti I Frank Rhodes were open hearted generous erous fellows Cecil on the other hand I t was of an altogether different character charac-ter being very resered and hard tI I I draw out He was at first evidently I I not bubbling over wHh delight at all I he witnessed ana qeard In his new surroundings sur-roundings tallng rather unkindly to I I the situation which dId not tnd to 1 make him popular In the camp and I even his brothers seemed a little shy of I I hIs presence I On the morning of his arrival in camp Herbert Rlfodes asked me to take hIs brother Cecil down and jhow him over the claims here they were workIng work-Ing from eighteen to twenty Zulus To thIs request I readO agreed and while I In the pit pitched out a small dIamond from the side tvtli and banded It to him his first stone In 501th Africa He I was however very reticent of all he saw only remierking th the had no idet itwasUke this ifrtfuathfldniipar ently by no means enthusiastic over the prospect of becoming a dlamovd digger dig-ger Havink made up his mind to stay he settled down to work with a deter mlnat10n and uifiinclting purpose that seemed out or keeping with his delicate health and build From the first he eschewed the convivial habits of his brothers critielsing their actions se verely by saying that he dId nQt seethe see-the reason or necessity of squandering money In giving champagne sUppers to the other diggers and that for his part his only object was to mae a large enough sum to go home and never set eyes on the beastly place agaIn Mr Studdy here interposes that wIt regard to Kimberley at that time Mr I Rhodes criicIs was perfectly just i J was not long after Cecil Rhodes came upon the sn Mr tuddy con 1 tlnus that I foresaw that sooner or later there was going tl be a sIlt In the cp In this prognostication I j was eventually proved to be right for Herbert first of all sold out hstnter to Cecil and then rank dId the ame I when Cecil who would hardly fame enough on his 0 and clothes to keep body and soul decently together be J r eu r gao with the aict I of his savings to engineer I en-gineer those plans which han r4lseti him to be one of the two foremost men I In South Africa A Mongrel Dog One important trait in Cecil Rhode character tat of his wel knon fondness fond-ness for animals la eplmslzed by aStor a-Stor related by Mr Studd when thl former had only been a short time il South Africa I appeared that upon a certain afemo n when Cecil IL oes was returning to his tent having knocked off work for the day a mon < grel dog feeing from the lash of an Inhuman Boer took refuge nt Mr hode sIde JumpIng up and lIcking j th3 young fellows hand and whining i piteously for prttUon j J Kick that brute over here shouted hIm the Boer and Ill thrash the life out ot I himI am not In the habit of kicking anY anima calmly rejoIned Mr Rhuodes What has the poor best done I Tats no business of your retorted retort-ed the angry Boer ties my dog nt I yours ana Ill do what I hike wIth I him I I 1 you replied Mr rhoe resting ing hl9 had upon the dogs head I rater think not at least not whIt Im here and he stood confrontIng the Boer while the dog cower at his feet feetWell S Well saId Mr nh des after a pause during which the Boor throat I eaiirgiy handled his whIp what arc you going t13 do Thrash me and the I dog both I think not I thInk perhaps per-haps you had beterP him over to i my care Here and drawing a coin from his poke he tossed I over to the I Boer Take that and leave the doa with mc Come alOng doggie and with the poor brute at his heels he j strode on to hIs tent lAnd l-And for many a long day con ciudes I Studdy that mapgrol dog J wn9 probably t C nly coni11ant whfeh irT R te reucscussedthonly erect 1 ture which might have herwhlspen many an ambltlousaesign and far I reaching project J MICHAEL GIFORD WHITE jI j I |