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Show 1 LED TRANSVAAL RAID JL I .. . " I Dr Leandor Starr Jameson, In resigning the V1-53 premiership of Capo Colony, rovlvcs memories of I lr Ifcv tho days of old King Lobenguln, tho Transvnal j ffl ra, tho reform movement, which led to tho im- M jMff prlsonment of John Hnys Hammond, tho American ki mf engineer, and other reformors, nnd, flnnlly, tho q ( Hoer war, tho cost of which to Great llrltaln, ns K J President Kruger foretold, did "stagger humnnlty." w, w Dr. "Jim," as ho was popularly known in his M JiX I hustling days, is about BE years old, was born in AC r' Jv Scotland and educntcd for tho medical profession. . lhh, 110 wont t0 South Africa In tho early days of the ,jras' lIJIl discovery of tho KImberloy mines, mado tho nc-wifffllllll nc-wifffllllll ajT ntiaintnnco of tho lato Cecil Rhodes and became tlUll Pll A 5 iff'll 1,18 wnrm frloml nnu" confidant. Tho young Scotch lllll'l'v doctor soon developed Into a South African dlplo-v dlplo-v mat, went nlono on a mission to King Lobongula of Matnbeloland, in behalf of Mr. Rhodes' Hrltlsh South Africa company and persuaded tho warrior chief, in exchango for a few firearms nnd other truck to permit tho company to scttlo his country, exploit his gold mines, nnd so on. Fort Salisbury wns soon established In Matabcleland, nnd then camo tho I Matabcln war, in which tho lintlvo warriors wero mowed down In thousands j , by rapld-flro guns. J ife Cecil Rhodes, who wns premier of Capo Colony when Jnmeson started j V on his raid into tho Transvaal, exclaimed that "Jim" had "upset tho cart," , and resigned tho premiership, but novcr blnmcd Ills friend. Dr. Jnmeson, on tho resignation of Sir John Gordon Sprlgg, tho premier of Capo Colony, In Fcbrunry, 1904, was called upon to form a now cabinet. He has held tho premiership ever since, and, In nddltlon, hns served as a director of tho Do Doers Diamond Mining compnny and of the Ilrilsh South Africa compnny. |