The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-25

Jameson and Cecil Rhodes were feted In
England and entertained by royalty at
the imperial institute, in the company of
such guests as the late lord Chancellor.
duke OF File, Earl Grey, Lord Playfair,
Sir Frederic Leighton. Sir r. Herbert
and Sir q. Mills. The Prince Of Wales on
that occasion, amid the enthusiasm Of
nearly 5000 hearers, thanked Dr. Jameson
for bis most interesting and excellent
address, and chopped that he would con-
tinue to be most successful in his work
In South Africa, and it was also on the
same occasion that Dr. Jameson expressed
his belief that Rhodesia Unjust be great
factor in what he hoped would yet be at
tanned, nalrely. commercial union of
the different states Of South Africa" He
ventured to think that "within reason
able time even the Transvaal would join
in a much-desired confederation.
Miss Balfour, in her recently published
| socount of Twelve Hundred Miles in a
Wagon" gives the following description
of Dr. Jameson's abode at Buluwayo:
DR.. Jameson and Sir John Willoughby,
new towns, about two miles from the
latter, are living in ten is and have given
| us their rooms have Sir John
Willoughby's room. This is a true and
faithful description Of it: 1t has mud
walls, mud floor, thatched roof, with no
ceiling, doors made of two packing case
lids and an unglazed window, with shut
ter OF rough boards. Furniture-a bed
stead, one box upside down, some wooden
shelves. a small strip OF mating. an
empty whisky bottle doing duty as q cam
dlestick, and Ooh. luxury y table DR..
| Jane Sol, 8 room Is much the same only
1T has slx-lnch square looking glass as
well; The dining room and
kitohen are close BY. -: The no use
description OF it may make you think it
is an inappropriate abode for the admin
| lstrafor OF territory as large as France"
But the doctor was always Spartan in
| his tastes.
We have stated that Cecil Rhodes owes
his life to DR.. Jameson's skill. Accord
| ing to a letter from DR.. Covers, Presi-
dent Kruger does the same Jameson,
shortly efore he became administrator.
was summoned from Kimberley to Pre-
toria TO attend the president during n
dangerous illness and brought him ba
to health. This the president is not likIy
to have forgotten, and probably Jameson
will now b. glad that he has at least
some personal claim to the PRESIDENT
favorable consideration.
| To those who know him it is not diff
cult to see the reason of Jaueson's great
success. HE isl wrote DR.. Covers,
who saw much of him as student, ga
man Of wide and deep capacity, but not
OF wide interests, and his ability is, there
| fore, concentrated. The secret of success
in the work of life is concentration. It
is the diffusion Of ability, the scattering
of the shot, which prevents any great re-
suit. DR.. Jameson ia one of the men who
possess that most precious of all qualifi-
cations, an instructive and instant pre-
ception of the relation of means to ends,
OF the ends worth pursuing, and of the
m vans which will secure them. To this
ne unites physique capable of constant
hardship, which responds with increasing
strength to buffet, and also all intrepid
courage and a capacity, when the need
arises, for untiring labor"