The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-22
DOG. JAMESON The
FRIEN OF RHODES
Man Who Has Risen From a
Convict's Cell to Premiership
81 Cape Colony.
CLAIMED BYcoNsUMPTIoN
Ment to South Africa for His Health
Was Taken Up by Colossus, ana
Pushed to the First Place
in the statc.

fGSheu 10 the THa
in the etate.
London letter: From potential vice
roy of a big realm half as DIG as VI,
United States to ~conyict's ciotnes a'to
prison fare, and thence on 10 me 20
sitton of premier OF a powerful s.".e,
with untold possibilities for tne i"su,e
Il career for q fuiet NUS out
sean who a few years 6 had no taste
fnr politics. no notion of business and
no suspicion that he had the knack ~
lDIayinC the strong mans game-the
game In which other men are paWhs'
knights. kings and sue things. n IN
which the chess board is a continent!
II took Cecil Rhodes to discover an
these possibilities in an u~nassuiiihs
young surgeon liz Kimberley to wnoh'
somebody, who didn't know that MS
tory was being made by q chance re-
mark. sent Rhodes on u day when ne
Happened TO be in need OF inedica'
treatment. Everybody who had come
la contact with DR.. Leander Starr Jam
cson In Kimberley felt that ne was u
winning, sympathetic sort OF niue man.
who had the personal magnetism that
went as far toward pulling patients
out OF an illness as did his
skill in surgery and medicine. he hau
built UP a big practice In Kimberley by
the time he was thirty odd, and his
personal popularity was due only IN
part to the fact that SO long as he had
money enough to keep going he never
bothered siow-paying patients with
bills. If they paid for his deft skill, all
right. re they didn't, that was all right.
too. Those were high OLD days In roar
Ing Kimberley, and the young lIdin-
burgh doctor had his share or the run,
without much thought of the future.
Then came that memorable day In
1888 when Cecil Rhodes sent for d..
Jameson to see him about q pair of
lungs which. 1t was supposed, were
fatally weak. Rhodes was on n of
his exploring expeditions into the heart
of Matabeland at the time, and DR..
Jameson. who happened to be in the
aejghborhood. was implored to go and
nee him at once. A prompt cure was
effected. and likewise history was
made. II Is easy enough now to mag
Inc that the story of South Africa
would have been far different except
for this nance meeting. Rhodes, with
his genius for essentials, discovered In
The carclessly- dressed. easy-going sur
geon something that neither the doc
tor himself nor any Of his friends.
either In Edinburgh or in South Africa.
jAsau suspected.
Il Rhodea Took Him From Profession.
At this time Jameson had become
Known as about the best doctor In
South Afrlca--certainly II of the best
surgeons. He had all the money he
wanted without having to bother him
self about collecting bills. He had u
practice that brought $751; 900 a year. HI
loved his profession. Yet Rhodes
~41tanped IA, and nar9iJ oHaI him tn ufyC
IL all up and go into the unwonted bus
iuess OF governing men instead OF
inending them.
III was like Rhodes to make such ar
offer, and 1t was like Jameson to &C.
cept 1t. From that day on through
successes worthy of a Caesar-or
through disaster. disgrace n ridicule
un through slow progress toward sue
cess again. on to the last scene in {
three-room cottage at Nuremberg
where Jameson WATCHED night and daJ
with the dying Colossus Rhodes never
wavered in his affection FOR the MAJ
he had loved as a brother almost from
The moment he first set eyes on him
The last word he uttered in THIS worlt
was the name of this dearest OF all hi
friends. AS 1t became patent to all tina
his end was imminent. Rhodes brothe
was brought to his bedside. He recog
nlzed him and clasped his hand. Thel
relaxing his grasp. the dying mar
stretched his feeble hanf. to the doctor
inurmuring: Jameson That wa TIL
end.
DIR. Jameson was a sort of privat,
secretary to Rhodes at first. learnin,
the details of the management OF tn,
British South Africa company's affairs
and In 1891 was made the administrato
OF Rhodesia, to the establishment o
everybody except Rhodes. His govern
iment OF this 100000 square miles wa
wonderfully shrewd Inc wise. Tie Ma
tabele war, In which II. r. Burnham
the famous American scout, first at
tracted European notice, was under tn
direct management of DR.. Jim, and &C
cording to all accounts reflected higl
credit IN his military qualities.
In 1895. at the moment when 1t he
gan to look as If the greatest O
Rhodes dreams might be quickly real
lied. and when II he had willed it, an,
no one had ~blundered. he might hrv
o the whole of South Africa OF
tfom the map of British territory an
set up In government for himself there
in a United States of his own. wit
DR.. Jim for vice president or crow
prlnce-just at that dramatic momer
DR. Jim slipped up Wit the untimel
dash into the Transyaal. He might hay
got to johannesburg with his 500 trooI
cTs, and the government might haN
been overturned II the men whc we,
engineering the Johannesburg end {
the scheme a been as dashing ar
ar unhesitatlng as DIR. Jim. But tt
raid failed; the inevitable extinction
the Kruger government was postpone
to a day when the cost of a reyolutic
In British men and money was to !
multiplied by thousands, and Rhode
n the t~oo-previous DR.. Jim wei
down with a crash.
Sent to Jail in London.
Rhodes proved to the satisfaction
most. folk that he had not authorized
advised the raid, and escaped worse pu