Arizona republican., 1902-04-20


 house and then quickly withdrew it.
 its full of poor colOred folk from Cane Town," he said. almost shame facedly. They're doing no harm there but if they see us they'll bolt away and spoil their half-holiday."
 MEETING WITH THE CHIEFS.
 The story of his meeting with the na- tive chiefs of Rhodesia in the Matoppo hills. where he was buried. is almost too well known to repeat. But here 1t is in brief:
 Twice his new territory was almost swept back to barbarism by the War like Matabele. and twice, in the event, it was himself alone who saved it from disaster. On the second occasion of his interference Sir Frederick Darlington with large force had beaten the Ma tabele into the Matoppo hills; but ha could not dislodge them thence. Time passed. and Sir Frederick Darlington resolved to retire into winter quarters.
 Mir. Rhodes was alarmed. The eX- penses of the war were already eno-- nous, and paid by the Chartered Com pany; if the war dragged into another season the company would be bankrupt. He resolved to penetrate the Matoppo fastnesses himself and seek to make an end of the war. In company with the famous Johann Colenbrander and two others, all unarmed, he visited the stronghold of the Matabele and urged the indunas to tell their grievances.
 lie listened and responded kindly The grievances disposed of. Rhodes as tonished his companions by an access T1 his and their own safety. While he spoke his eyes blazvH with anger anl his lips trembled and the indunas lis tened in silence.
 "I do not upbraid you he said, flor making war on the white men, but why did you kill their women and children? For that outrage you deserve no mercy"
 These words, spoken in English. Col enbrander had to translate, but yet the indunas covered under them, for they were driven home by the rage of the speaker. The Natabele were completely submissive, and the end was peace. 1t is characteristic of Rhodes that when he turned away from that meeting he said:
 Ut is scenes such as this which make life really worth living"
 DID NOT LIKE TO WRITE.
 Archibald Colquhoun, author Of the Mastery of the Pacific" who served under Rhodes and knew him well, writes:
 "So much has been written on the subject of people who either knew little about him. or were not ill position 10 express unprejudiced opinions, that there is nearly as much obscurity round this great modern statesman as about Mary Queen of Scots or even Napoleon Bonaparte. Where is the real man ia all this tanele of fulsome praise or wholesale denunciation? We can at once dismiss the idea that he was either an archangei or demon, great | EliZabethan statesman, a simple Eng fish gentleman, or an unscrupulous fnancier.
 When a man has become a million | aire it is usually safe to suppose that | money making plays great part in his life. Cecil Rhodes profoundly believed in money: until he had made it he be- iieved he was powerless to carry | through the great schemes he had 1 evolved. Money to him meant power, but for the mere accumulation of shek- els. or the pleasures and splendors which gold could buy, he cared noth- ing.
 The most interesting side of this man of action was his love of books and his extraordinary powers of assim- Hating them. He could, like John 1 Richard Green. suck the heart out Of a 1 book in a very short time, but, unlike | the author of the Shorter History" | he was incapable of reproducing in writing what he had read "The shortest letter was a trouble to him, and, indeed. he seldom, if ever. | could be induced to write one. 1T must be said, however, that his ex- 1 treme 1eticerce on paper was not due | merely to a dislike for writing or to a feeling of incapacity, but to a caution which grew more and more marked. He was 2verse from committing anything to the compromising evidence of biaci: and white.
 l His literary studies did not take i him into the region of intellectual sub- 1 tleties. but were all connected with liv- ing facts. History, ancient and mod ern, was particularly congeniaI to him. and he devoured anything which would | tell him of new countries or new peo- ples.'
 IMPRESSED BY TRIPLES.
 With all his greatness of conception 1t was curious how he was impressed by trifies. He related how. when in London during the raiders trial. he found nothing so cheering as the recog- milton of the London bus drivers as he took his morning ride. They got tc know him: they touched their hats tc him in a half-friendly. admiring way though he seemed just then to be al the ebb of his fortunes.
 When you have the people with you like that" he said, "you know you're all right"
 And the demonstrations of the under graduates when he took his IL. D. de- gree affected him in the same manner 1t was curious to hear the man who had done so much refer to such trines in his career with gratitude.
 PULLING A SCULPTOR'S LEG.
 A characteristic story is told of a series of sittings which Mir. Rhodes gave to a distinguished sculptor ir Chelsea. MT. Rhodes was a fraction: sitter. and the sculptor was not tn. man to stand any nonsense, even from