Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-06-19

belle war. which Is recent enough to be re-
membered. The company promised rich
gifts to lis followers. and the conquest was
soon complete Poor laundering King
Lobengua was brushed away like trouble
some fly and the English government turned
the province over to the company which
hal assumed the cost OF the campaign.
Til. English boast that this was the only
war the empire ever waged without cost.
He was building a $4,000. 900 house, which
vulgar and ostentatious as II Is. will not now
realize a 1.-THE OF its cost. He was followed
by toadics who turned their backs on him rs
he began to fall. AMI he was publicly
MED by the lord mayor, who was ostracised
in consequence, the vote OF thanks. u retir-
orial. being denied him.
The ndomtable members of the circle
were soon at work again. Theyha got out
of London nearly as much IA they thought
the city could stand. and they next set
Paris and Berlin crazy with their schemes.
Millions again flowed into the COM
panys hands. Barnato's last coup was
the most astonishing in financial history.
He put on the market the stock for the Bar
nato Bunk, Mining aud Estate Corporation.
Limited. No prospectus was issued. nor
was any statement made OF the constitution.
object or management of the institution.
One or two preliminary deals were arranged
public at an advance which yielded the
members ten millions Of dollars in
single day. The demand for shares
seemed limitless. Five dollar shares sold in
immense quantities at $50 before business
closed on the exchanges. There was SEEM
inyly no end to the power OF this band of au-
dacious capitalists. Every dollar they coaxed
from the pockets OF investors they kept. and
Barnato was rumoured to he worth $780,
100000 Rhodes S75.000,00c, King. the
American, s25. 100000. and the Bats S3O,-
100000. Robinson. another South African
Croesus. is said to be worth $40. O00, 900
more. Altogether. Barnato. through the
circle, controlled $1,000 100000, or more
than the combined wealth of the Rookie
fel.rs, Vanderbilts. Goulds and half-dOzen
others of the richest men of the United
States. He was, perhaps, the first real
Millionaire of modern times.
In appearance Mr.. Barnato was a
typical modern Engishman one of the
kind that is often seen on the stage, ana
medium weight. he was rather heavily built.
with an oval face and brown hair, which he
wore parted in the middle and plastered
rather tightly on his head. His sandy
mustache was cut short and twisted so
tight at the ends that it had the appearance
Of being waxed. Near-sighted, he acquired
tho habit of squirting. and though pair of
eyeglasses rendered his vision good. the
muscles around his eyes were usual
~ so contracted as to form mass
of wrinkles. Fond of home life
he tried to keep business out of his town
house, but with little success. He married
while in Africa, and has three children, two
sons and daughter. Most of his time of
late years was spent in London. where he
lived in Earl Spencers town residence until
a magnificent house on Hyde Park was com
pleted. Barnato's widow was II pretty bar
maid with whom he was well acquainted
in London before goingto South Africa.