The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-06
A Reincarnation of One of the Caes'

A hundred years would have been all too brief for the fulfillment of the great plans over which his mind brooded cease- lessly. But when the summons came he had not completed his fiftieth year.
 He always seemed to be a reincarna- ton of one of the grsat rulers whose genius and valor essayed in vain to ar rest the decadence of the Roman Empire. He was reared in the philosophy of Aris. totle, which he readjusted in accordance with the science of Darwin. His mind always turned hungrily to tn, history and the remains of the Roman Empire. He rushed across Europe once in the midst of business in order to see with his own eyes the geographical argument which led Constantine to transfer the seat of empire from the Fiber to the Bosphorus. and ruin starcd him in the face, he con soled himself by the thought of the stoic philosophy of the Caesars.
 How often," he said to me, these Emperors must have felt. when flying from a stricken field. as if the whole universe had gone to rack and ruin But the world wags on fairly well, after all. And as it was with them. so 1t will be with us. So I used to turn and sleep, my friends wondering at my being able to sleep in such a crisis"
 I once mentioned to him the subject of reincarnation. He replied that the sub ject did not interest him. Life is too short he used to say. ito worry about previous lives. From the cradle to the grave-what is it? Three days at the sea- side. Just that, and nothing more. But be doing something. cannot spend my time throwing stones into the water" Life Just Three Days at the Seaside.
 His "threc days at the seaside are ended now. and the world is poorer by the loss of one of it's greatest men.
 MT. Chamberlain is now left alone in solitary pre-eminence as the one strong man of the British Empire. He is also freed from his only fear. As long as MT. Rhodes lived. MT. Chamberlain was com pelled to walk humbly before him. Be- fore the Jameson raid, he went in con- stant fear lest MT. Rhodes would use tn. Dutch in order to enable him to become first President of the United States of South Africa. After the Jameson raid. Chamberlain feared him even worse, for MT. Rhodes held in his hands the secret which might at any moment not merely compel him to leave the Colonial Ofhce, but finally terminate h.s public career.
 Dead men tell no tales. But MT. Rhodes secret was not locked in his own bosom. It is known to at least nalf q dozen intimates that there would have been no Jamescn hasco but for MT. Chamberlain His unworthy suspicious of MT. Rhodes loyalty in the first place his over -weening egotism in the second place, and in the third place. his utter imeorance of the result of his own actlon were Uilt Causes pt'hShb ob'HsN ''' Jameson raid. MT. Rhodes, unhampered by MT. Chamberlain, would never have made such q fiasco. while If MT. Cham- herlain had not been mortally afraid of Mir. Rhodes he would never have given him the facilities for making the raid.
 I was very anxious. in the interest of South Africa and of the general principle $ of peace and legality to have my frlend Mir. Rhodes sent to jail fo- his share in the Jameson raid.
 "All right" he said. If must. l must. Ruf INshall moi rn alone -