Show t I A BRITISH CAESAR ECIL ntlODBS WILL DEFY TUG LIONS CMIintS lie l > l UMI tilng o llrp ll < i In teeth tfrle Mmllr In Our twntame IIi I-II IK Hrt rreMrnl snd Msy tee 1 OMINd KVI1NT8 east their sliadon before M > the UII t C old mw and If this ttJ X be I accepleil a nu 1 SYJ 1 W Ihorltatlve then the oN + Gy neatl of Hlr Henry V r 1 t m Uwh the governor l it of Cape Colon 4 rr whli I hwan nn I nmmceil the other Iftt day must lie taken lo mean that the lifelong ambition of Cecil llhnde the prim minister of the colony In I on the rr of restitution What that ambition ambi-tion M U I told In very few wnnl wh tIt t-It realisation woull mmii would require re-quire column Cecil I lihnde I n clinr 111 actor of tremendou weight I In the making mak-ing nt Mstnry and If he should live long enough history will acclaim him U one wen bus done more towanl ills lurking It not disrupting the nuton omy of the llrlllsh Kmplrf than ahoy Ingle man rave uenrgo Wshlngton Tlnm wan not long agn either when Cecil 1 Ithnde wa unknown In fame and still loon I to fortune He In I hi awn maker lint relied on no man but himself him-self hoe used all men at tools soil has til lent friend In hlmwlf He has fought hla way upward from the lowest low-est rung nt the ladder step by step lowly nnd gradual but with n farce relentless In Ill Intensity and tremendous tremend-ous In II Inwer It In I doubtful If there In I another man excepting lie greot NaHile ii who could liar neoom Illsbwl what the Hnulh African elate man did 1 Home twenty year ego Cahill Afrlen was In tho throe of DM diamond fever and IIs imputation thought diamond drcnme1 diamond found diamonds lioiight diamonds and In inoro than sne cape stole diamonds It Ira Diamond Dia-mond diamond overywhrr hill no man Imagined for n moment that she country brlhlet diamond hail al about that lime rl foot upon the sell 1 of brightest film It wa when the diamond crass wa reaching 11p resplendent re-splendent tenllh when fortune of mil lions were made and lnt In a day that Cecil Ithodcs a tounger son of an Kng Hull clergyman arrlveil at Capo Town 111 health his lung being rather weak had compiled ith n doe lo abandon Imtl studle for his prospective profession the pulpit nnd ho MiURht the snlubrl ou climate of the Capo In I time hope of being benefited Uko everybody else ho caught the prevailing disease and at once plunged Into tpeculallon with n daring a skill and it foresight that confounded and ammed the gambler and promoter and Investor lie did nothing by halve and plunged In the fullest Tense of tin term In nn almost Incredibly short lime ho amassed a tew million nnd then looked about for now world tn conquer He had made Id headiU rter nt Klmberley Diamond apolls and before long liecan n serif nf financial operations that equal the most daring scheme of the late Jar nould He needed lieutenant and he chose them well III first selection wa llarney llarnato an ciVhllecharl contortionist who lud none to the Capo nnd had by Intuitive shrewdness made Rome twenty million dollars Ills second election wa Henry J ICing n former resident of New York and them the chairman of tho Kimberley Htock exchange Ulth Ihcso two and a few assistant Ithodcs proceeded lo buildup build-up the most glgantlo monopoly In existence ex-istence He amalgamated else De hoer mine shut down all lime mine save the Do Deer and by restricting the output of stone succeeded In doubling doub-ling the price of diamond l In 1 n rear In consequence the shares of the Con olldaled Do terra I were doubled In value und Ithode was christened the Diamond King Then came the discovery dis-covery of gold In the ltwatersrAnd district In the Transvaal republic moo m-oo mile north of Klmberley and llhode II Co by clever manipulation soon became the organliT and promoter pro-moter of over 100 gold mining companies com-panies millions of unearthed pound l flowing Into the coffer of the combine oral 1 IIIIODKB About this time the dormant poll eel Instincts began to assert themselves and nt the next election IthodM wa chosen to represent Klmberley In the Cape parliament llarnato representing llarkley West an adjoining district When ho assumed his I seat the Afrikan der or anti forelfii party wa In control con-trol of affairs and Us member at once went to work lo demolish Ithodus Hut the latter concluded that he did not earn to bo demolished and before a year had passed had l the Afrikander worshiping nt hla shrine while the progressive ing llsh element simply Idolsed him This sudden chang of front wa due to this lmtilo fact that Jlhode wa Irrevocably Irrevo-cably opposed lo government from Downing street In London He ad In plain Kncllsh that he for one would not bo governed by men who knew absolutely ab-solutely nothing ot the countrys needs and desire and who were some liOOO mile away Relating In the moldy a ml musty atmosphere of the Ilrltlsh foreign for-eign office Then began the phenomenal career ft Cecil Rhodes l He wa made prime mlnlstei of the Colony and Sir Henry Loch a former governor of New 0 South Wale 1 WU made governor nfl > llsh high onntmllon nnd etimman derlnehlef Hut the two did not full well together The prime tnlnlmr wu the managing director of the llrlllsh South Africa company noting under the motherly eye of the queen and had annexed Matabeleland and Mashona land killing A few thousand mllre and a king or two Rlr Henry Ixwh lie cam it Jealou of the prime mlnliterR great Influence and greater fame and the result wa the triumph of Ithode Cecil llhode Is I a man who grout rat amusement consist In pollllenl In trlgue whose groatest ensure Is lute game nf chew with nation In the there of the Ivory 11 lece lie la I about U years of age tall well built and wllli a tinge nf apoplexy In Ith complexion HI face I full nn1 florll his hair and mustache manly and him eye small and blue and exceedingly penetrating Ill 1011w la I full and resonant and when employed In debute or oration nvwtnp mot local 1 organ He in I phlegmatic In temperment cool 1 and esUcutailne and Inneetse magnetic nerve Ills wife Ic I one of the noted bMUlle of Cpr Culony What Is I the ambition nf Of II llhod What hoc ben hi dream the year The daring of the project I worthy nf the muster mind that conceives It It In I tlw unification of nil the H utli Afrl can stairs nod the fitrmatMi of n United Hlaleo nf Hoiith Africa th com pnnent Purl bring IH On Coluny the Transvaal the Orange Km Hate Natal lortUKUfs 1151 Africa and the nlmot numnLerlea native Rtale Tea constlluilon nf this pro M > eil republlo In I to be that at our own country That Is I the ambition of Cecil llhnd that Is I the goal for which he Is I Htrlvlng and which ho may reach If he live another ten years Calm Colony nnd Natal nro none lima friendly toward the mother country mil It would not need muai > 4 l 1 1 MIIR CKCIL mionrs to produce n serious anti permanent rupture II Is I In affect such a state nt affair that IlhoJrs I now laboring and when he succeeds In his Lea path will lie clear and Ids road smooth Then It will no longer IK Cecil Ithode prim minister nt Capo Colony but Irrsldent llhode of the United mate of Houth Africa llhodes has the ambition of an Alexander the diplomacy of a blotter nlch the determination of n Iran and the luck nf a Itosebcry Will ha sue reed Will ho fall Only time can an wcr the question |