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Show Strategy of Cecil Rhodes . i How Ho Cot Ahesd of His Brother In Matter of Boiled Shirt The late Sir William Hutler, In his sutoblogrsphy, which has Just been published posthumously, tells the following fol-lowing story of Cecil Rhodes, which Cecils brother. Frank Rhodes, told him: "My brother," said Frank Rhodes. "Is a strsngo man. Wo were young chsps together, and tbero wasn't too much money or too many things smong us. "One day Cecil cama and asked mo to let him have one of my shirts, aa ho wanted to go to aa evening party In London. Well, I wanted tho shirt myself that evening and I told him ho couldn't have It Ho said nothing, but I know ho dldnt like losing a chance, so 1 watched him. "I saw him off to tho train. Ho had neither tho shirt oa him nor bad b bag and baggage with him. hut i thought that I'd go to the drawer and Just make sure of my shirt, it was gone! Cecil came back that night. " 'Well. Cecil,' I said, 'you won over that shirt of mine; but Just tell me how you did it. for It wasn't on you when you left here snd you had no parcel with you. What did you do with itr "Ho chuckled a little and said, dryly, dry-ly, 'I put It on under tho old one.' Now. that's Cecil." Surfeited. "Can't I persusdo you to subscrTtsj for a copy ot our latest book oa aorta polar exploration?" "No. sir; you couldn't perousde mo to take It aa a gift I spent four years carry re g mails la North Dakota, two years drlvrng a cab 1a Minneapolis, sod I've Just oscsped from Duluth. Got a book oa hur'nj in central A.1 rlc- |