Arizona republican., 1902-04-20

sOnal appearance was well Eno"'n. He generally wore, no matter what the business in hand, a suit of gray tweed He made no exception even when he visited the, kaiser, and it is Said that the monarch was i'll pleased with his informal attire.
 Mir. Rhodes" the kaiser is reported to have said would never have ven tured to dress like that if he had had an interview with my uncle
 Referring to this meeting with the kaiser another writer says.
 MT. Rhodes had genuine respect for the German emperor. "A thorough business man: q master of detail; knows his own mind and exactly what he wants and how to get it. Spares no pains in getting up his subject and Is probably the hardest worker in Eu- rope Such sums up briefly the main points Of a long conversation on the kaiser I had with MT. Rhodes at Bur- lington hotel in the spring of 1899, two days after he had returned from hlS famous interview at Berlin"
 RHODES'S POWER OVER MEN.
 A writer in the Standard. who saw much of Rhodes. says:
 Tt is characteristic of the whole personal position of Cecil Rhodes that the men who made his fortune, in the process of making their own, seldom gludged their labor in his service. lie took it as d right; and they, I think, had quite honest admiration for him.
 Rhodes, said one of the great Af- rican millionaires to the present writ CT. is different from the rest of us. You see. We,' and he cautiously bal anced our-and-siXpenny cigar on the edge of q Dresden table, and went on, almost with 9 sigh. we all want to make as much money as we can, and spend it. But Rhodes doesn't care about it one way or the other. He would live Cn q shilling a day, and throw away a million over one of thosa ideas of his
 T suppose that was one main source of his attraction. People in all ages and in all times are impressed by d man with a great purpose, who may be selfish, but is not sordid.
 This apart, there was undoubtedly something extraordinarily impressive and fascinating about MT. Rhodes which even the casual acquaintance | found it difficult to resist. It was not exactly what is called charm of man. l ner. for his bearing was rough, his voice curiously thin and high for his broad chest and big throat, his address by no means polished.
 ''Bu. the leonine head, with it's hedge of tumbled hair, and his height and size (which somehow always seemed | greater than they were). made him a commanding figure. One oT his attrac- tions was a smile of singular and ap- 1 pealing sweetness, which now and 1 again would break over the stern, brick-red face, and go straight to your i heart.
 But he was also a talker of extraor- l dinary plausibility He spoke in ab- rupt. rather jerlIy sentences, but his | conversation carried conviction. You might approach him full of skepticislr and opposition, but you were apt to be carried away in spite of your better | judgment.
 TRIUMPH OVER KEEN MINDS. T saw him on the day of his return 1 to London, after the Jameson raid, and was struck by the change which that i catastrophe had produced in him. He seemed to have grown gray. old, al- most feeble and he talked with ar al- most incredible lack of reticence.
 Next year I sat in the committee room at Westminster and watched Mr Rhodes before his judges in the South African inquiry. He had quite recov- | cred by that time. and was much at his 1 ease. It was a strange spectacle. Some | of the keenest of inteIlects of the enl- | pire were ranged round that horse 1 shoe table-Sir William Harcourt Mir 1 Chamberlain, Sir Michael Hicks Beach Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman. Sir Richard Webster, Mr./Cripps, and Mir 1 Bighman, MT. Wyndham, Mr. Blake | MT Labouchere-master some oI l them. of controversy and dialectic, old | parliamentary hands, CT skilled and 1 subtle lawyers.
 "The big man with the bad case sat ] in the witness chair, and at first we thought he would do poorly enough His memory was so uncertain, his grasp of details was so deplorably | loose: his rough. vague manner oi meeting the searching questions put t1 him seemed like parrying a rapier with a bludgeon. But presently the old in fluence asserted itself.
 He waved the questions aside in- stead or answering them; he lectureG the committee on the ethics of empire
 he pointed a warning finger at Mir Labouchere, he passed from that mat ter of the raid and the plot as if they l were below his notice; and the Vui- urine eye frightened and the smile, now
 sweet. now scornful, came out as he talked earnestly and quite irrele-
 vanity. about Rhodesia, and Germany
 and the road to the north; and the
 cabinet ministers, the great lawyers
 the angry radical members of parlia- ment. listened meekly and with eenu-
 inc interest.
 Long before the end Mr Rhodes
 had completely dominated the con-
 mittee. He entered practically as [
 criminal under trial; he remained as z
 sort of patron and instructor of his
 own judges-every one of them, per.
 haps, an abler man, so far as mere
 ability goes. than himself It was :
 most astonishing illustration of tn.
 triumph of character over intellect anf
 of personal force and energy over clev.
 erness and knowledge and accomp. lishments."
 NOT A SPECULATION.
 Edward Dicey tells story of Rhode: