The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-27
c,o GOO in diamonds. is the monument OF

600 600 in diamonds. is the monument OF
mis- success
The De Beers Company OF Kimberley
Is the largest diamond producing COM
pany in the world. Since its amalgama-
ton in 1855 it has supplied the world with
diamonds, which, sold wholesale, brought
In no less a sum than GD00o,o0o This,
however, is by no means the chief dis
tinction of the De Beers concern. 1t IS
chiefly notable because in it's charter. or
articles OF association, Nh. Rhodes was
able to secure the insertion of a proviso
authorizing the directors to appropriate
from time to time such funds as they
deemed it advisable to set apart out OF
profits fer political or Imperial pur-
poses. It was on the basis or that I'M
periat' allowance that "Rhodesia arose
to it's present position and the Jameson
raid was made j possibility.
Lost zone, by the War.
Owing to the very great success OF tue
De Beers mines, the British chartered
South African Company and other great
South African ventures, Rhodes fortune
had been steadily accommodating. He lost
money over the war, but what inroads
that it made must have been trifing com
pared with the many millions he pos
sessed. He never lost his open-handed
but somewhat reckless methods OF hand
ling money. Not long ago he walked into
the office of one of his confidential suoot-
dinates and threw down bundle OF
notes. bonds. etc, saying: invest thesa
for me- and went out. without waiting
to have them looked at. lnspection re-.
yeaIed the fact that they amounted I"
more than million pounds ster ms FLOW
they were invested Mr.. Rhodes never
knew or cared for months later. as that
night he went off on one of MS wander.
ing tours and refused to allow himself
to be bothered with the details OF tht
Investment Of his million until he re-
turned to England
Personality Was Attractive.
PERSONALS, the man seemed able to III.
spire Inrestrained enthusiasm SeEe'd.
merchants who came to Washington froia
Johannesburg two years ago referred "
hin, confidently as 1.-The greatest man on
earth" He dealt In continental proJsc.f
almost exclusively. At his death ne nas
four great purposes in mine-the develop
ment of Rhodesia, the iihslhS u {,
graph line to Tanganyika-a great lake Ii
the center of the continent-the construc-
tion of a railroad from the Cape OF COCO
Howe TO cairo and the federation OF all
South Africa.
In his dealings with his own worNpsopR
Mr.. Rhodes was just and generous. rev
Donald Macleod, one of the Queens chap
made a personal investigation OF ME.
Rhodes care of his laborers at kinoerieS
and published q very remarkable ,esti.
u1ouv to the effect that after the chris.
tian missionaries no one had ooae y,
much for the African natives as Cec1i
Rhodes. -,
In MatabeIeland he was Regarded ~
tha natives as the one white man WnoE
thew can trust. IIe conquered theul. ou'
thew felt him to be Just: and after 'hs
terrible. instruction, 1t was By ms ven,
ftnrinc unarmed into the rebel stronshold
of the NIatappos that the strusSle VIZ
brought to (. peaceful conclusion
Mr.. Rhodes was not. in the ordinary
sense Of the word. u religious man Hs
vas horn in a rectorE. and. like many
other clersyuen's sons, was no ssea.
Church man. Jfe had an exaggerated
horror OF the extent to which modern
research in his Judgment had pulser1zee
the authority of the Bible: and. strange
though it may appear TO those wuo oniy
knew him as the destroyer of LooenSuiat
his moral sense revoited against accept
ing the divine origin of the Hebrew writ.
inrs which exult over the massacre o.
the Amalehites. In the doctrine OF ete.-
nal torment he was an out-and-out w.
believer.