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and wives, but they had a wholesome
fear of the whites
Far to the north of the land of the
Matabeles was Mashonaland, a nation
conquered by the Zulus, and the king
OF the Zulus gave to Rhodes permission
to dig for gold in the land of Mashona-
land. Railroads were built and with
them came the telegraph and mail.
Mashonaland doomed for two years,
and then it was discovered that it's
wealth was overestimated greatly.
1t looked like failure for the South
Africa company. Something must be
done. The gold miners We're clamoring
for chance to locate claims in Mata-
beleland. Then was started the Mata-
belle war, the barbarities of which ex-
ceeded previous campaigns, because the
company was bent on destroying the
Matabele nation to seize their rich
country. The Matabeles gave the ex-
cuse by sending warriors to punish cat
tie thieves. The companys border po-
lice replied, and the war was on. Vol
unteers were called for, and to every
man who elisted We're promised 5000
acres of land and 20 claims in the new
Ell Dorado, when it should be won.
The Matabeles We're attacked on three
sides, their capital, Buluwayo, was
taken, and great was the slaughter.
Opinions differ as to the justice of the
Matabele war, but it put the South
Africa company on it's feet again, which
was its purpose. On April IS, 1893,
Matabeleiand was thrown open to the
world.
The new land was called Rhodesia.
Rhodes was made premier of the col
ony and in 1895 was appointed Queen
Victoria's privy councillor, purely
honorary position.
His great ambition was partly real
lied. He added almost an empire to
Great Britain's possessions.
Cecil Rhodes name had been brought
to the attention of the world at large.
HIS name was in the worlds newspa-
pers. He was nicknamed the Young
Diamond King He had his photo
graphs taken representing him holding
in both hands a pail filled with bright.
glittering diamonds, and the photogra-
pher snapped" him as he was pouring
out the slittering gems on the floor.
Rhodes is great believer in Ameri-
can ideas. He used repeatedly to re-
mark. IN the midst of home rule dis
cussion, when this, that and the other
thing can't be done, or that difficulties
would arise that would be insoluble:
Why don't these people read the
American constitution? There are fif-
~ or sixty millions of people living in
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When Senator Lee Mantle had this
picture taken he did not have as much
on his mind as he has had the past
five days. Although the reception to
the soldiers took place nearly week
ago, Mr.. Nantes worry and perplexi-
ties have not diminished to any appre-
ciable extent. In fact, he has had
quite as much to attend to the past
the reception. You can enter his office
any time and find from a half dozen
to score of people waiting there to
get their oar in. There are soldiers
who found Butte's reception SO warm
that they failed to get the trains which
took the balance of their companions
home. They have to be put in the way
Of getting back to their homes. Others
are sick and have to be taken care OF.
Then there are the medals of honJr.
Only small portion Of the medal:
were given to the soldiers last Monday,
, owing to the fact that only a minority
of the regiment was left at the track
by the time the presentation was made
The others are given badges as fast
as they call for them. But one Of the
chief worries on Mr.. Nantes mind is
the fear that he won't have medals
enough to 60 around. Just enough
medals were ordered to give each SOL
der one. In the hurry of the evening,
after the speeches were over, the
main thing looked to was getting the
medals distributed with as little de.
lay as possible. Accordingly no rec
ord was kept as to who received medals
and who did not. It is not known that
any of the soldiers have since gone to
Mr.. Nantes office and obtained a. sec
ond medal, thus double shooting the
turn. but they could have done so with
out being detected. Then, it is sus-
pected that some of the young ladies
who did the work of pinning them on
the soldiers swiped a few of them in
the innocent thought that they would
be such nice souvenir to give to their
friends. Mr.. Mantle the other day is
sued a call for all ladies who had mad
vertently carried medals away with
them to return them to his office at
once. The net result was the return
of three of the medals. 1t Is said that
Mr. Mantle sometimes wakes up in the
middle OF the night oppressed with the
nightmare that there are not enough
medals to go around.
Then there are the bills. They have
added a wrinkle or two to Mr. Nantes
smooth brow the past week. A good
many bills are coming in which he
never dreamed of being presented, and
some bills are not what they ought to
be- in his view. at least.
Some bills are too large and none are
too small. Some bills are for work
which he had fondly hoped had been
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1t was not, however, until some time
after young Rhodes arrival that the
Kimberley mines were discovered. Her
bert Rhodes and his brother were among
the first on the field. They seized their
opportunity and it led to fortune.
Every Kaffir who possibly could be
spared from Herberts plantation was
brought, claims were staked off and
they were guarded night and day.
That one days work made Cecil
Rhodes fortune.
After the first rush, when order was
obtained, the diamond mining began in
earnest Cecil returned to Oxford; but,
his health again failing, he went back
to Kimberley. worked and studied so
that when he reached England again
he passed the examination and obtained
his degree.
Herbert died. Cecil became the sole
manager of large interest in the Kim
berley mines. Then he began his system
Of consolidation and was made presl-
dent of the De Beers Mining company,
with 81, 100000 capital
mond companies made the African dia-
monds fall in price lower than at any
other time. This was in the early sos
In 1889 all the diamond mines were
consolidated under the name of the De
Beers Consolidated mines Gimited),
capitalized at s3,95o,0o0, or s19,750, o00
with Cecil Rhodes president. But, while
Rhodes was making money by thou
sands. he was on the lookout for an
opportunity to fulfill the great ambi-
ton of his boyhood-"All that my hand
covers will one day be minen'
He sent mining engineers out into the
interior. BY accident they found at the
entrance of one gold mine a Roman
coin, showing that the mining shaft
was as old as Rome in her glory. Gull
tivating the acquaintance of the kings
of the interior, in exchange for pres
ents he received valuable mining con-
cessionS.
Organized South Africa Company.
He went to London and the South
Africa company was organized, cap
italized at G1,000,000.
While busy with his mines he did
not neglect politics. Early in the SOS
he was elected to the Cape house of as
sembly from Barley. After receiving
a charter in October, 1883, he started
back to Africa to open the new lands.
There was still the UNEMPLOYED re-
gion of the Matabeles left. The king of
the Zulus was Lobengula, who pursued
the usual Zulu policy of exterminating
all weaker people with whom they came
in contact and appropriating the cattle
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states side by side which in the last
hundred years have settled all these
questions. not by theory, but by prac-
teal experience. They have worked IT
out for themselves"
He Believes in Us.
Cecil Rhodes said in Alexandria,
Egypt, ON February II, 1899: THE ul-
innate work Of the United States will
be to govern South America. You will
probably begin with Mexico; acquire
the Central American states, then
those on the continent OF South Amer
lea, until you hold all of the country
south of you. These states have in
competent governments; it will be your
duty to give them the white mans
government
THE! Philippines came to you by ac-
cident. but for these neighboring peo-
pies it will be logically your duty to
provide. You can never withdraw from
the Philippines; it is your duty to give
to that people a strong and good gov
eminent"
''The God in the Car" is Anthony
Hopes conception of the character Of
Cecil Rhodes, and the story is of an
unpublished genius ignorant of convic-
tons but wise in human nature, a man
uniformly successful, to whom ordi-
nary men are TOOLS a man to whom a
stingy German baron gives a fortune,
and friends infatuated wife gives
her heart, and who accepts the for
tune as an aid to the accomplishment
of his one great scheme while he
breaks off the guilty love affair by
being called away at a crisis in the
companys affairs.
Barney Barnato, the circus clown
who became a King Midas of South
Africa. and who committed suicide at
ter the bubble of his vast enterprises
burst, paid this emphatic homage to
the ascendancy of Rhodes: There is
no other man who lives in the world
who could have induced me to have
gone in with him in the amalgamation
(the diamond trust), but Rhodes has
an ascendancy over men, and he got
me to do almost anything he liked. No
one would believe it at first, but he
roped me in, as he roped in everyone
else"
When things began to come his way
he saw that a man who is to do some
great political work must have money,
and that the country which hopes to
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0eoll Rhodes Sketched True to Lfe-He Is Power and
Gould Make Himself King-Here Is the Story of
the Man Who Is the Central Figure in South Africa

Cecil Rhodes without doubt is the
most picturesque figure next to Dom
Paul in the Anglo Transvaal war. He
is the mightiest millionaire of the age.
Others may have more money, but
Rhodes possesses the power and ability
TO shape the destiny of South Africa.
The son of minister sent to South
Africa to improve his health, he has
added within a few years an empire
to England's territory and has become
the modern Colossus of Rhodes.
Hated by the Beers. Who Immediate
ly after the utimatum expired, sent
a picked band to hold up his special
train, Rhodes won out again, but was
surrounded in Kimberley by the Beers.
That the Beers would rather capture
Cecil Rhodes than dozen Kimberleys
is not an exaggeration. They blame
him in part for the present trouble,
and they have had a deep hatred .or
him ever since the Jameson raid Wnen
800 chosen men, led by Jameson, were
compelled to surrender 20 miles from
johannesburg TO the Boer sharpshJot-
ers.
THAT murderer is Dom Paups gem
tie way of speaking of the Colossus
upon whose head price of $25, 900 has
been set.
The surprising growth Of British
South Africa is due largely 20 the ef-
forts of this one man, the organizer
and manager of the Imperial British
South Africa company. The career of
Rhodes has been meteoric Proba1l
NO Englishman since Sir Francis Drake
Failed round the globe with the gold
oe Spain has brought more glory to his
country at less expense to his govern
ment than he. He has taken the milk
from the African cocoanut
lie was born on July ), 1853, and mis-
father was the Rev. Francis William
Rhodes, vicar of Bishops Stortford,
town about Is miles from London. His
eldest brother. Herbert, had a planta-
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ton in the south of Natal, and in 1855
Cecil, whose lungs were too weak for
the English climate, was sent to live
with him.
On subsequent visit to England he
went to see the doctor who had or
dered him to South Africa. The doc
tor, he found, was dead, but the doc
tors son searched the register Cor the
name Of his visitor.
Three years ago, you say? Rhodes :?
Rhodes? Stay, here is an entry. &C.
ell But, ah, it can't refer to you"
why not?" asked Mr.. Rhodes. my
name is Cecil"
'Oh, it is?" asked the doctors son !:
but it cannot be you. My father added
footnote to this case, Cannot live
more than six months"
II the doctors prediction had been
true the history of South Africa would
have been different.
His Boyish Ambition
The story is told that. on arriving at
Natal the boy of 16 laid his hand upon
large map Of Africa, excIaiming:
'Ail that my hand covers will one day
be mine,'
merchant who heard this said:
That is your dream, is it?"
THAT is my dream" replied the young
| man.
Wei, III give you 10 years to wake
up, was the reply of the merchant.
Two years after this tho history of
South Africa changed. A traveller
stopped for refreshment at farm
house near the Vaal river, the frontier
of Cape Colony. One of the children.
he noticed, was playing with a bright
pebble. and the Dutch farmer, whose
name was Jacobs, gave the toy to the
man. 1t was a diamond worth $1,000,
The rush to South Africa was greater
than the Klondike excitement. and, I'M
like the Klondike craze, people focked
there from all over the world,
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| held it's own in the world must have
| plenty Of territory.
| When Chinese Gordon told how he
(Gordon) refused roomful Of gold. Of
| fered to him by the Chinese govern
ment Rhodes laughed at him.
Il would have taken it, and as many
| more roomfuls as they would give me.
| It's Of no use to have big ideals if we
! can't carry them OUT
And yet Rhodes with all his millions,
| lives at a Cape Town club where his
annual expenditure is not more than
$4,000 year. But he is happier when
living on the plains in tent with only
an attendant to look after his personal
wants.
He has a home in Grooteschurr,
which is presided over by his sister.
His wealth has been estimated at
from $50, 900 to s125, 900 900, but a per-
sonal friend of Rhodes said of him re-
Gently: He would no more think of
boarding money than a party leader
would think of boarding votes. To him
million pounds sterling simply means
d LEVEL, al lAStiulIleHt VI po"cA'
There is no modesty about Rhodes.
He knows he is Rhodes, and he wants
everybody else to know that he is
Rhodes. 1t is related that the only
man who ever got even with him IN
the matter of personalities was a little
German clerk in the government office
at johannesburg. Rhodes had to ctand
in line, and he didn't like it. He had
not been used to standing in line IN
South Africa, or anywhere else, for
that matter.
please attend to me at once" he
said. 81 can't wait
when your turn comes, mister"
mumbled the clerk.
"Confound you, sir, don't you .;now
who I am? I'm Rhodes"
"Oh, yes, know that, but that don't
worry me-" was the unruff1ed reply.
IF you were in Cape Town I'd aave
YOU discharged in a minute" roared
Croesus.
Yes, I have heard that they dis
charged people in Cape Town for doing
their duty" answered the clerk, but
we amt in Cape Town. This is re-
public"
His Personal Courage,
He is held in awe by the natives. In
many incidents he has shown his per-
sonal courage. In native uprisings he
goes around in shirt sleeves, belts,
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trousers and SLOUGH hat, looking much
like an American cowboy, but often he
carries no weapon.
In one of the Zulu uprisings his beau
tiful home at Grooteschurr. with his
collection of curios, was burned. 1t
has been rebuilt One of his old friends
went to break the news gently to him,
saying:
MIR. Rhodes, have bad news for
you"
tWhat is it?" queried Rhodes.
"Grooteschurr is burned up"
ooh" said Rhodes, sis that all?
thought you were going to tell me that
Jameson was worse
Jameson was then in prison and
sick.
After Dr. Jameson's raid Rhodes enc
mics said that he was ruined eternaily.
Rhodes resigned his many offices, but
remarked, my career is only begin
ming"
w. T. Stead, the great English editor.
said at the time:
There are only two men that know
who look at the world constantly and
steadily as a whole; the pope of Rome
is one and Cecil Rhodes is the other.
For the moment Cecil Rhodes has South
Africa as his bishopric. just as Leo
XIII. is bishop of Rome as we'll as pope
of the whole Catholic church.
I'm speech Rhodes is not an orator,
but he is frank and direct. He has
waged several fierce wars with the ma
tives of South Africa; ne is building a
railway andotelegraph line from Cairo
to the Cape, to say nothing OF the lines
he has built in the Cape country itself;
he has founded an empire-and he is
only 46 years old. Yet, after accom-
plishing all these wonders, he re-
proaches himself, and says that lie IS
lazy-complains that he does not make
speeches because it is too laborious-
causes too much exertion.'"
ALEX Med. STODDART
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The Political Party and Honesty.

A Political Party in off re perceiv.
ing Honesty in the distance crawled
under its Platform to conceal its Cor
ruption. Honesty, upon appIolckinG,
examined the Planks and, filed with
admiration therefor, was intending to
permit the Political Party to remain in
office, but Wisdom happening along
dragged the scaly reptile from Its re-
treat, whereupon it's Corruption was
revealed, and together they cast 1t
into Oblivion. Moral: Honesty with
out Wisdom is no match for Political
Corruption. &a
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BUTTES BIG RECEPTION IS ALL OVER
NOW EXCEPT THE REAL TROUBLE,

Chairman Mantle Has Plenty Of That and He Discovers That Is
Coming Right Along Thicker and Faster-Ie bitches About
Money and Badges and ThankThe Share of the Railroads. the
Weather. the Spread the RaceTack and the Orators Jointly and
SeVeray Bringing to Pass That the Soldier Day Was Not
the Thing 1t Ought Have Been Was Expected Be-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-08-16
American Heroes Suffering.

News which has, apparently, at
least, escaped the acting censor, has
at last reached San Francisco in the
shape of a startling story from the
Philippines regarding Lieut.. Gilmore
and the party from the Yorktown who
were captured by the Filipinos, and
who have been reported from official
sources as being well cared for and
well treated. 1t appears that when
the Americans reached San 1sidro.
where the Yorktown mem bers and
sore soldiers and civilians had been
imprisoned. they found the names of
the prisoners scratched on the walls
of the Jail. Some letters from the
men were found secreted under
stones, and a Spaniard who had been
intrusted with several presented them
to Gen. Lawton. The letters told of
the hardships the men were compelled
to suffer and begged that aid be sent
them. The men planned that they
had been starved, beaten and bound,
and, moreover. were in rags. One of
the letters, signed by Albert Lowen-
shon, said that the Spaniards had been
treated very badly, worse than the
Americans, and that hundreds were
dying of dysentery and other diseases,
and that the government took no no.
tice of sickness prevailing.
In his letter Lowenshon, who was
formerly of the steamship Zealandia,
gave the list of prisoners held by the
Filipinos as follows:
Prisoners from Yorktown. G.
Gilmore, w. Wilson, p. Vandovil,
w. Ellsworth, S. Edwards, S. Briso-
loz, A. Pearson and F. Anderson,
captured at Baler, April IL; A. ID.
Price, +. Honneman, Nevada cavalry.
captured Jan. so; A. Bishop, Sd
artillery, April II; Fl. II. Huber, hos
pital corps, and j. O'Brien, civilian,
Jan. %.
And yet facts of such direct causes
as these of the American people are
Withheld by imperial orders
that would suppress the mission of
the press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-08-16
No Right to URIiness,

The woman who is lovely in face
form and temper will always have
friends, but one who would be at
tractive must keep her health. If she
is weak, sickly and all run down. she
will be nervous and irritable. If she
has constipation or kidney trouble,
her impure blood will cause pimples,
blotches, skin eruptions and a wretch
ed complexion Electric Bitters is the
best medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to
purify the blood. 1t gives strong
nerves, bright eyes, smooth. velvet
skin; rich complexion. 1t will make
a good-looking, charming woman of n
rundown invalid. Only 80 cents at
Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-08-16
WHAT MAKES SUCCESS.
It's the Man, Not the Job-There Are
Possibilities In Everything.

Possibilities In Everything.
"NTe are forever going to begin work
in earnest tomorrow" said Mr.. Stay
bolt land we are never satisfied with
the job we've got, and we perform the
labor involved in it in only a half heart
ed manner, but we are going to work
in dead earnest when we get a job tc
suit us.
1.-The fact is that tomorrow, when we
get to it, will be to US as today is to US
now; we shan't feel any more like
work. And that other job, when we
come in actual contact with it and see
it close at hand, won't suit us any bet
ter than the one we've got now does
''The truth is that we are dawdlers
and shy of work and trying to get
along just as easy as we can. We hate
to pitch in and go ut things.
''The time for us to work is now, not
tomorrow, and the job for us to collar
is the one we've got. Round that up in
style, do the work completely and thor
oughly, and you'll be astonished to find
how you'll bring it out and what
chances there are in it And every
body that knows about your work or
is in any way concerned or affected by
1t, as 1t is done well or i'll, will be de-
lighted to see it well doEe-everybody
likes to see n job, whatever it is, well
done-and pleased with the doer, and
there's money in it every time.
ut isn't the job that makes success;
it's the man. and don't you forget it,
New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-08-16
Texas Old Name.

Probably the feet is not generally
known that Texas was at one time
and for many years called the New
Philippines" The first settlement in
what is now Texas was made by
French emigrants in 1855. During the
next % years there was an intermit-
tent struggle between the French and
Spanish for supremacy, resulting in
favor of the latter, and in 1914 the
name of the New Philippines was
given to the country. This was its Off
cial name in Spanish records for many
years and until the name OF Texas.
from n tribe of Indians, gradually
came in vogue.-Indianapoli Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-08-16
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Some People We Know and We WIN
Profit by Hearing About Them.

Some People We Know and We WIn
Profit by Hearing About Them.
This is purely local event.
1t took place in Rock Island.
Not in Buffalo or New York.
You are asked to investigate it.
Asked to believe citizens word.
To confirm a citizens statement.
ANY article that is endorsed at
home.
That obtains resident advocates.
Is more worthy of confidence
Than far OFF foreign article
Testified to by foreign people.
f. j. Wivill, of 1911 Seventh ave-
nue., carpenter, SAYS: Il was so sore
and lame across nv back that could
not stoOp over far enough to tie my
shoes. When l was obliged to pick
up anything from the floor | had to
get down on my knees to avoid the
sharp, shooting pains through my
kidneys. There was a dull, heavy
pain in my back and also a weakness
of the Kidneys which was very annoy
ing. 1 used many remedies, but l
got little or no benefit until | tried
Doan's Kidney Pills, obtaining them
at the Harper house drug store.
They effected complete and perma-
nent cure"
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price so cents. Mailed by
Foster-Milburn company, Buffalo, N
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no substitute.