The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-05
CECIL RHODES WILL
W. 7. Stead Says That II Is Charac-
tefiStic of the Man.
REQUESTS TO EDUCATION
He Remembered All the English
Speaking People Of The World.
WANTS THEM EDUCATED AT OXFORD
Two Scholarships to Each State and Ter
ritory Of the United States.
HE WANTS HIS GRAVE LOOKED AFTER
Large Sum Donated for It's Maintenance
and the Building Of Railroad
to It's Site.
WANTS THEM EDUCATED AT OXFORD
Two Scholarships to Each State and Ter
ritOry of the United States.
HE WANTS HIS GRAVE LOOKED AFTER
Large Sum Donated for It's Maintenance
and the Building Of a Railroad
TO it's Site.

London, April 4.-The will of Cecil
Rhodes provides FOR the establishment OF
colonial scholarships, as previously au
nonced. and two American scholarships
to each Of the present States and Terri
forbes Of the United States.
The will Of Mr.. Rhodes also provides for
dve scholarships for students OF German
birth at oxford to be nominated ny I'm.
peror William and. commenting the be-
quest. Mr. Rhodes In a codicll telegrsphed
from South Africa, said For good un.
Outstanding between England, Germany
and tho United states viii secure the peace
Of the world and educational relations form
the strongest tic"
All the Rhodes scholarships, American
colonial and German, are at oxford.
Mr.. Rhodes viii Is remarkable aud
vouminous document NJ more than $500
words. Even this Is not tie entire Will
as the executors only gave oat the portions
which they consider to be 81 public Inter
est II was executed in 1899. There is
/ = codlcil attached on the day Of tho do
! ceased's last departure from England. and
! another esbled from Capatown, which
| leaves $4,000 yearly to keep pp the spot in
! the Matoppo hills, where hA remains are
/ 10 be buried The will further directs that
a railroad extension no mads into tho Ma
| toppo hills So that visitors may e. there
to Inspect the majesty and glory Of their
! surroundings.
/ Mr. Rhodes explicitly SAYS ne is to he
| buried in an aperture cut in the SOLID rock
surmounted by brass tablet bearing the
words; Here lie the remains Of Cecil John
Rhodes"
No one else is to he buried there who
has not deserved we'll Of his country.
Mr., Rhodes henueaths the landed prop.
erty near Buuwayo and Salisbury, both
in Mataheleland. to Trustees whom be d.
reefs TO cultivate the land for the instruc-
rion Of the people Of Rhodesia. HIS cele.
brated country place of Grootschuur not
far from Capetown, Mr. Rhodes leaves as
residence for the prime minister Of the
Federal government Of South Africa. with
flO0O yearly for It's maintenance.
W. L. stead wrote the following for III,
Associated Press: The VIII Of Ceri
Rhodes Is IN every respect worthy NJ It,
author With he exception Of some family
estates in this country, the whole of which
are left to hiS own relatives, Mr.. Rhode
has dedicated his wealth in diamond an,
gold mines To public uses. It's dispositioi
is dictated by what was ever the domipat
ing principle Of his life
What renders this will Of exceptiona
interest 10 Americans Is the fac, thnt
reveals for the FIRST time under his han
and seal th0t he was no mere British I'm
perialist. bu, that he WAS essentially 81 cit
zen Of the United States, of the Buelisl
speaking world In other words his wi
shows how accurately interpreted his scr
timcnts when ! declared IN the strepgt
Of many Intimate and confidential convers,
lions that he recognized as mis- commo
fatherland the great English speaking con
munity, which includes both the Unite
States and the British empire within II
: ample frontiers.
Mr.. Rhodes first viii was made in Sci
tember. 1917 when he was young r-sn
"a. Al that time he was only beginning
amass the wealth which before he died bs
made him = multi millionaire not In dollar
bur In pounds sterling His last viii NJ
dated July J. 1so9. But the two document
arc esscntiqllv alike n, sentiment Tn,
both embody in express terms what ",
Y ever the master thought Of this mast,
mind, the necessity for promoting the r
union Of tac English
"Mr Rhodes was graduate NJ Oxfoi
y and a student ~ ore college. n whtc
by the way, he mas left a special heque
Of $4,000 He has made oxford univo
sity in whose glories he American dcsceu
enis 81 It's founders share equally wi
those who stiil lnhabit he old country. Il
10 center Of his educational scheme, and
le has left a sum which may bc roughly os
pc mated as representing SioOOO.OOO for Il
it founding OF Anglo.Americau scholarship
Sc tenable at oxford, for three yenrs. r.
Al central principle Of his scheme Is tn
le every English-speaking colony and eve
lie state and Territory in the American Uni
o. should be offered scholarship Of the val
In OF $500 year for three years. BY q
70 means Mr.. Rhodes believed q would
IN possible 10 make oxford the center Of Z
sn spirit Of race unity, where students IRE
every part Of the English speaking Wol
= would meet on common ground IN the me-
famous Of the old universities.
'what viii result in The future presen
OF Americans and colonlals In what has
long been one OF the most coDserva;i
and Anglican centers OF Great Britain t
future must decide The influx OF SO mn
American ana colonial blood may ha
). very important consequences al viii
some OF the old OIonians would sta
agbsst. Mr.. Rhodes always opposed I
modern ideas Of awarding an education
\ prlze solely for literary stiainments. I
4 tendency 10 award scholarship solely I
success in passing literary examinatia
seemed 70 him to put premium on DO
worms; hence he has drawn Up Sehel