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Show The Rhodes Mausoleum THE memorial to Cecil Rhodes in the Matoppo hills, South Africa, is now completed and pictures of it are publishd. It is massive but so far as shown in the picture, neither graceful nor attractive. The chief features are the equestrian statue in the center and the gigantic lions which surmount the masonry that flanks the stone steps leading up to the structure. But what must have been in the mind of Rhodes when he ordered that his tomb should be orected in that wilderness? Was it to make plain to men that there was nothing in great wealth and station that could bring anything much worth cherishing to man? Or was his thought that all he had, all he had achieved came to him from the wilderness, and that it was but fair that his dust should remain there? No one can tell, but they are there and as one looks at the picture of the mausoleum, the old story comes to mind of the other chief who died in the wilderness and lo! at his death the lions came out of the jungle and from them all a few of the mightiest were selected and taking , up their stations held their watch, night and day, until the friends of the dead chief came and bore the body away. So these gigantic lions seem to have taken up their everlasting watch around the tomb of the man who transformed South Africa. |