Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


cuuIl 70 e..
..n Rhodes r. without question the
,.t,isst millionaire Of the age
o.,.. men may control more dollars
80 r,ascsa a fraction N his power
hIs fellows. HE ability 10 shape
rsdds destiny. his Imagination
,-s.,..s and execute schemes Of Wo''u-
g.,lrr no Official position. he goes
-,,.r,rs and kings In his own right
..t.rr treaties and planning conces-
s-. hated by many, feared by more
..tiprd by endless thronga' he
..ii.. over Europe and Africa a veri-
IN. colossus. making the mishucnt OF
s.s.ii,vr seem dwarfs beside him.
", ,ben one nrst glances at this AZ
~, rrlar the sensation Is one OF dis
.-..lgtrcnt. Picture u dull-faccd'
s,,y.i,ved. ciumsy-looking man. big
s-.j..bouidcrcd and burioncd with
.r.rruch flesh. Ills face tells NO story
rt..a apathcuc eyes seem a. belong 90
nsy soul whose chief interest m IN
G.IanI drink The HiuuchihE Falt' lne
.Irv.ITfe vacancy " expression hic
I.,r.potrnbic musk clolkiug the soul
', sg'b IL Cecil Rhodes In rcposc. But
49,. fte man nj work iH 10 see another
t.Ire When De- rises to move a Atrat
r,fhrrlng the dull eyes wnken WIN
tf..Ute lash the sl0uchlng figure De-
s1mes erect. the air - stasnauuh pass.
,.nrd the oul0ukcr disuuvCrH n man or
,rfItinr enorry. Of unhendrd VIII, one
-t, .in nrp hls fellows with % mad
5.tiIus snthuninHm. who displays w hm
eysry move q vigorous. Nlrilc ana IN
tense ilfc
T,grniy.seyen years ago cecil Rhodes
tbs1 tall. thin lnnky lad. lu dele t'
health and with little money hurried 70
m. newly discovered diamond ncldH OF
Kimberley in the hope of making his
Tbe aon ~ an English clergyman. he
had broken down in health while al Ok
ford. and n1ught South Africa IN the
hone Uf saving himself from an early
death hy consumption. a wctting whlln
baltre ut college had brought on
ANN and tho chill Induced a. serious
lung complaint ON subsequent VISIT
40 ENGLAND he went TO see the doctor
Wtl hau ordered him abroad. The due-
tur Boz found. had died. but the doc
tore ann searched the register Tor the
name NJ hlH visitor.
Three years ago. you snyr Rhodes!
EhHlea' stay here ~ an entry, 'eci
John. hut-hh-it cannot refer Co you.
why nOt2" asked Mt Rhodes Ihnt
"oh. is itg' said the DOCTORS son.
"Hut II cannot surely b. you My father
added "a fo0tnotr 30 this case: Cannot
live more than ak months"
N the old doctors prognnstlcnti0n
had boon true. the history % modern
Africa would have been different, But
Ia hHWN ~ tho diamond
fields the young college man got back
biz health. They were rough tribe in
the fields. with the pick of the rascal
dom vi the world literally scattered
among them. Illicit diamond buying
was the most fourishlnE business. and
some who are 30 widely known a. mis-
u0nalras laid the foundation OF their
fortunes hy buying stolen diamonds
from the blacks. Hut the college lad
was too smart To- let his black boys
steal many Of his gems.
Cecil Rhodes was not content 10
watch over his negroes digging In his
own diamond patch, He Invested some
" HE first savings IN OLD agricultural
engines and began pumping two mines,
The days were hot. ana the digErrl
vtra willing 10 pay literally for cooling
drinks Traders brought up bad whisky
and worse brandy but Rhodes thought
b. knew q game worth two u that Tie
ran Nn lcu-mnldnE machine ana hhd no
difficulty in dlaposing OF all the Ice he
could manufacture.
The black boys then began 20 look on
him as dcmi.Fpd Look" they
whispered 90 ono another. The inkpsi
Uhe chico ~ great medicine man, He
can make bricks out ~ watcr!"
After two or three years on the Holds
Rhodes surprised his associate by re-
turning ti England 90 complete his
term no college. He was now "a man "
considerable means. but he underwent
lhe somewhat irksomc discipline NJ an
Oxford undergraduate until he had
taken hls degree Between terms he
vas back and forward % Africa. for h.
Jaw that n great transformation was
samlng over Kimberley ana that In II
Uas hs chance of greatness,
Even thus, at the beginning or his
,arcor, De- saw clearly two things, The
int was that the man who IL 20 do a
Il great political work must have money.
8 the second. that the country which
hopes 90 hold It's own In the world needs
plenty " territory,
Whom Chinese Gordon, who became
a BIZ great friend, told him how he had
4 refused % roomful u gold offered him
II " the Chinese government Rhodes