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TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JITA
Trip Across Matabeleland and a Visit to the Grave of Cecil Rhodes
(Copyright ly. by rrnnk O. Carpenter.)
LYING for alxty miles over
F Matabeleland In an automobile.
I Racing at twerty-flve mile
an nour ever m reidt on roa.lt
so rruiJJjr that the whwli often
spin around with catchlrat.
Pashm through streams where th.
naur splashes hlh Into tha aJr. and
crossing ditches where th. machine goea
up ami down with a Jump.
Now honkltxg by awnmps. frightening tha
gnit black and white heron which lira
there; now raring with antelope over the
plains, and rxw rushing by Matabel kraal
where the natives come out and naze at ua
in their half-naked wonder.
Those are aome of the Incident of
ride I took yesterday from here to tha
Matopos hills to vlalt the grave of Cecil
Rhodes.
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Armas Matabeleland.
The
(treat African statesman lies burled
in low
mountains far off from amy human
r-! t
nt. Ho selected as his tomh a
fcr-ratinn fitted for the (crave of a Rod,
r : the way to It takes one for thirty
ti Ihronli a fertile valley, tho most of
i is comprised in a -r.-.it estate which
ittio.l'-s owned and whici Is still held
! i name.
!: an up this valley v wont on our
way to the tomh. Tho couMry Is but
1': ! illff. rent from what It was when
Do. 1,1 Livingston, the great African Ft
pin r. first announced Its existence to
wl- men. It consists of a vddt which
s r-u hes on and on ss far as the eye cam
ran. h. The moat of It Is covered with
gra.-s. aa Kroen as that which borders
VI'T.irla Nynnia, spotted here and thcr
with a scanty growth or thorny brush.
Thorp are many native villages along tho
ronfl to the tomb, and all tha way out on
the veldt are patches of cultivated lands.
These am the farms of tho natives. Some
are not aa big aa a bed Quilt and tha
largest contains only four or five acres.
They are planted to millet and Indian
corn. They have no fences around them
and they stand right out In tha wilds.
Cecil Rhodes gave directions that the
natives should have free, any of his un
used lands, and they ara charged no more
now than when the whole country be
longed to them.
astoag tk Msiaktlti.
I ahall WTlta mora of tha Mat&belet In
the future. I had a, good ohanca to aee
them during this iK). Their kraals ara
scattered over th country and hi nearly
every corn patch tha woman war work
ing. The hard labor of these people Is
done by the women. Wo saw many girls
who were hoeing corn. They were naked
to the waist and tha white sweat drops
stood out Ilka pearl on their brown skins
aa they bent low and chopped out the
weeds. Ia soma of tha fields then were
men. hut they were mostly smoking and
watchln tha woman to keep them up to
their work. A few of these lords of crea
tion were clad In cast off European clo
thier, but soma war absolutely nude, save
far a little skin apron tied around the waist.
The aprons ara not much blgrar than a
ladles' handkerchief. They ara mad of
deer or calfskin with the hair on, and
ara quite ornamental. My chauffeur told
m that the woman wwr tha wive of the
watchers, and tha latter wera out In tha
fields to sea that thara ladles dld not loaf
on the Job. Many of the Matabeles have
two or three wives, and there are soma
"trust magnates" who have twenty or so.
Women bar are a sign of wealth, and the
more a man owns the richer ha la.
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sb native tuwaisw
We stopped now and then to visit soma
ci me native villages, many or wtucn are
iuuna nor rar irom me roadway. They
are fair typee of the thousands which are
acattered over this country. Lt me de-
scribe one. It consist of a dosen or so
huts, surrounded by a wall made of limb
of trees tied together and looking not tin-
like one of the stump fences of northern
New York. Inside thla wall tiier l an-
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'"" Buuiuiin vi. a ayau in wrucn ui)
sheep and goats ax kept at night and out-
side the latter are tha home of the people.
Tha. a ara ,.L.a m,A v... ....
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about five feet hisfe and thafnhaA r.
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Each hut ha a dooa ai tha front ui4 thia
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la tha nlll ara InfA Ik. a- 1 w
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cement mad. of rUW nod. It la a
smooth a. ai school boy elate, except at
the center, -where a hole a big as a peck
measure ha. been cut out for the fire. The
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as In the past, most of the cooking la done
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In rude Jar. of clay. mad. by th. native.
In one hut
ut that I entered I .aw green
ng and In another a half-naked
ira roasun. looasta vhu. h-r
corn boll!
woman wa roasting looasta, troll, her
family squatted about and smacked their
Hps, awaiting the feast Very few of the
huts are more than ten feet In diameter
and some ar. much lesa
Oont Jaahn aad Cecil J. Rhode.
On of th village, w. visited was that
of a famous native chief who led in tha
rebellion whloh resulted in the loss of
Matabeleland to the naUvea Thla wa
Oom Jaahn. lie I now an old man, but
still ha a great respect for the roan who
conquered him. Indaed. h U afraid of
Cecil Rhodes' ghost that he will not go
to Ms grave for fear his spirit may be
hoeiing about It Not long ago the mao
aker of tlte Rhode estate here told Oom
ja:.u mat n wouia giv mm a nore ana
a new .addle and bridl If h would Uavel
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over
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the Matopes lulls and look at th Rhode
monument The man replied that he did
nul want Cecil Rhode to haunt him for
the rtst of lil life and that h believed it
wai best to let dead men lie. Nevertheless
Oom Jaahn was a famous warrior and dur
ing his prime was much feared. He fought
kill. 1 , , . . ,
". e graauajiy came to reaped parts or the country, and wa himself In
tho English soldiers who Conquered him. receipt of an Income of tlOO.000 a year
A abort time ago he. was akej what be The other day he was declared a bank
thought of Cecil J. Uhod-s and his troopa rupt He did not care for run-down, or
11 replied: ha-bens; h selected "reduced gentUnven
-Thi-.o m. n . re men." by which I mean men who had been prom'i-
a moment and pro-
Cecdi J .
"Tin..-.' nn u wt re men of men, Ani,"
he coi.cluii :. "their lathers were men te
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t rill llbodea' Ilia- Farm.
About scvep'een miles from Bulawayo we
fjund ouiaelvea In the he-irc of a big
farm establuhcd by Cecil J. Rhodes. He
bought up nearly all th laud between
Bulatveyo and the Matopos hills. Including
a strip twenty or thirty mile long, em-
Li-.-li. a number of rteh vajlava ir
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tatiier. deproasion In th hllla II butt
a uiu holding UiuO.uM gallon of water U
irricaie a t-ri oi mu iraci ana so ar-
of this
ranged th land about thla that they form
on of th paying part of hi eatat.
Thar I a tauant la ehaxg of them who
kp 709 acr In crop of various kinds,
nd I andarataad that h U now railing
two crop of corn a year, in addition
there are Una of thousand of acre of
pasture and a part of this 1 now drotd
to
ostrtch. a Dart La oattla uul othsr
u7 mlJ TJLTZ
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paru
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trlohes on the property, but, by Rhodes'
ducrecs. no shooting can be done upon It.
How He. odes Lived.
This farm was one of the favorite
homes of the great whit African king,
and during my trip I had a chance to
see the palace which formed his home
upon It. The word palace Is ironical.
Cecil J. Rhodes. althcuKh he was worth
millions, waa more fond of the simple
Ufa than 'Wagner himself. One of his
residence waa the government house at
Bulawayo, which had every comfort that
money could buy, but his favorite home
was a native hut Ha had such a hut
outsld the government house, and often
left the latter to sleep under the thatch.
Out here on the farm he had three huts.
Stories and Quaint
Flaatlaar Hal on Bald Head.
IIY should a man worrv about
w
Ms hair or the lack of it?
Nearly every day. ..y. the
New York Pres., I receive
3JSfi
leiuirs rrom men or women ask-
lng for a dandruff cure and a
hair restorer. The beat dandruff cure Is
a bald head. The beat hair restorer Is a
?Tof tnClmbd,?tth,eC0n,l0rthlfd
fall Of tha HhlfFM rival l. an awl
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a mallet and soma soloe cum. After
punching a hole In the scalp he Inserts a
hair, which la plastered around with the
gum and gently cultivated until it takes
firm root ills custom la to plant three
hairs a day. To plant more would throw
the hairless one Into convulsions. I knew
a man Who WAS fhlrtaan Vaara DOln. .
new planting of hair,
rim Wonatam MUalasr Tea
Years.
poas oapturad a wild woman In the
tnlckets of Grr c.mlntv
lntv Tavna Ch.
Mr. Jrtha WHk.a
,.r. wdUappeared
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had been Identified as
wlf of a young farmer
from bar home In Bablne oounty ten year
ago and haa never been heard of ainoe.
She was then K years of age.
Tha woman waa mourned a dead, and
tha husband, after spending ail h had In
trytn; to find hsr, dead or ailve, left
Texaa, Bhe is a strange looking Creature.
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wim wree-incD linger naua, and skin
browned and tough aa leather. n-Ml only
In a short woolen garment, ah carried a
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" ol uut- woe, ana roota. She
la ttnnri i.m..ii i
- m., uiviuory a
7 ".iwumuwiuwiixmiu
ta raatraln haw.
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WWawr
When it oome. to th. unique in tha way
of plmlca. on. near Berwick. N. J., atands
out brightly. Announced a the second
Annual pionio of the widow. U Berwick,
. 1 7. . Wn nnslnt ta age.
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bettor to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all."
Bo great was the auooea. of the Mcalo
that U wa decided to hold U alnext
year at tha ,i,.
year at the same
and pi. Mo
widower ar invited.
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later Axw Xatenkrlana.
Mr. Ansa K. Bolton, aged lOi, of Alex-
audita, ln&, vlgocou fa nund and body.
will go to vlU her on. Utrajrv imim J
aCoaomo. After Uie iCokomo trip ahe will
to unattended to Ford. k-.n tn w.i. v,.
aistor, Mra Ulsa Wilson. u yar oid.
Th family la noted f or lu longevity, Mr.
Bolton being- one of a pair of twin, the
other, Jame Co of Quincy, III., la .till
living. Another alster. lln. NuioT Riria.
nour of' Brownsburg, is mill alive at lut
year.
Mra Bolton's memory of thing fa be-
yond the Hfe of tha ...
aula
to thm but tradition, la clear. She talks
0f tncldenu of the war of lsli a familllar
aa Ilia av.ni,. . . ,. ...
"UJ avcava OI Ul
Bpanua war.
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.. K.cn mo uisuianc Deaoiar Nanr
York ever had wa Archie Ilalne of the
r.qultable. Haines, as general agent, made
the fortunes of thousands of men In all
rent In social life, but had lost everything
.... ..v.u.. a, wuuiu pica up a relic,
or a derelict with oodles of acquaintance,
hut no money, and offer enormous com
missions, rebates, etc., for noo.Ono policies.
One cf thes curiosities of the past, who
had gone down to his last dollar and wa
virtually beggar, was taken up by Halne
t the age of TO. and In thre days had
sold a many policies of r.on.nno each. His
commissions amounted to I15.0OO.
Oa Rlrd tieealr. Blm.
a. l ...
- ""' cum par, i-nicsgo, Is ex-
cited ovr th execution of little English
sparrow Ti e highest point of a tall tree
v.,:,mri, Buen park. Chicago. Is
in rront of the home of WIllarA ir
Steama.
nraaMtait if K. t . r. .
. . 1urlla rH rK Ln.:fns ss.o
cmtion. was chosen as the place of execu
tion. Big eparrows escorted a seventh to
the top of the tree and there hanged the
oira. ine victim waa
feet
suspended by It
" waa mi mom nmarli.h . V. I
ever saw,- declared Mr. fit..
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u TZW' WO,U"d m","n ab th
u thair oondmnd fallow. Tha vi
condemned -tow. Th vm-
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RHODES' XTVTN'O ROOM."
srf In these he pent weeks and months
at a time. One hut was his bed room
and another his kitchen, and the third
might be called his drawing or living
room. They ere all still standing. His
living room Is open on all aides, and
, consists of merely a thatched roof up
held by posts covering a space about forty
feet square. Its walls conaist of screens
of matting which may be rolled up and
down to shut out the wind. When Ce
cil Rhodes was here, they wer usually
up; and, a the huts stand upon a hill he
had a magnificent view on all sides. He
could look over the rich valley In one
J...H.U,., mna away on ai me otner see
these mighty hills among which he loved
to wander and where he directed his rest-
lng place should be. Right under the
tlm waa then forced from the branch and
h. Tf 4 .k.. . k .v..
bird. At first the bird struggled to escape.
but tha cord held and lu flutter, grew
weaker until they finally lded In dafh
Graadfather at 31.
Married when 15, a father at 18, and a
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ceieDnaied their fiftieth wedding uini.
versary recently,
They are one of the youngest couples
In the country who have ever done so.
Lord Is a farmer and genera storekeeper,
and the family Is one of the oldest In that
part of the country.
Rooster Mothers Nine Chicks.
A bantam rooster which Philip Stack-
7hriT'h.h ' 'Vr "J?!
" in jyju
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n..n.a uinu tui ouu inn owner or
Btackpole discovered that the rooster ap-
peered Jealou. of the hen'a ability to
ef Finally th. little bird took to a
Intelligence of Anta
inuou irora rag vrae.j
.
Jaws. Two smaller anU that were with
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mem were unaouDtedly the two that had
earned home the Urrlble news, for they
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iu me way aown the tree and over to a
P" rrom wnicji u army behind them
could view th. great beast This following
of big ant. must taava bHn the military
of th. colony, for after looking th. field
over they debouched and came to the
ground In a .trateglo poaltlon In th. rear of
th. toad, who .at there all humped up.
have been fifty or more of
rnoaa r I . .M. mnA . v. w M.uw.a , .
-w-, luaiviwu in a mui
against th. toad. Before he waa aware of
their presence thy had climbed all over
vZ "TT"" "V"raDM aU 0ver
nd trom the way h to hop I
knew tho. great Jawa of their' Were getttnw
getting
their work" in on him well. The first hop
took him into the thick of the nasturtium
bed, but If h. had awakened to what had
"truc a,n "d expected to wipe those ant
oft of nlm by contact with th thick grow-
n plants he wa adly mistaken. The ant
nuDg 00 aai nlppad, and not until they had
nagged him clear over to th dtre of tha
yarQ. where he tumbled among some thick
T0"rth of young lllao bushes, did the ant
consider that they had auffVcIently tri-
umah1- Then on by one they dropped off
nd " br came straggling back
through the grass, or tho of them that
had not fallen in th fight and sought thlr
Lrrack 111 th old tree' depth.
"Of oomra. attar that .mnhuia ...
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P'te bounce the anU had given him, I
dldn't "P to ee that toad around
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" "aa, un a IHUI SUrpriSCI!
when I went out next day to w hat wa
ao'ng on around th tree o eome face to
tk Mr. Toad th very flrat thing.
And wh.n T k
bow he had fixed himself
couldn't help but My right out:
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expectation at and about that spot and
didn't intend to c taken by aurprise, and
hustled away from there again, not If he
knew It He had scooped out for himself
a lltti hollow in th ground and th spongy
wood of th tr and had backed Into it
with )ut th front of hi head out o that
he could see what wa going on ouUlde
and could act accordingly, with his
rear entirely protected, lis wa discovered
during tha day by scouting ant, fortu
nately for them, at a safe distance, and
they must have carried the new borne,
for some of the big anu came down after
while and reconnolured Mm. They
doubtless reported that the toad's poaltlon
was a little too strona; for the ant army to
attempt to carry, and the toad remains In
his retreat to this day when hot out forag-
lng elsewhere about the yard. And no ant
of that colony ha pasaed within aU Inches
. a. m. root or tne tre.
since the toad made It and located there,
The toad ha don a good buslneas. how-
ver. In strange or try anU that hav
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Ordinarily there wa nothing- beside,
th. working of th. anu and th. passing
nn a r ,. a ... "
mmw maim ox in colony
M-fd apparently on marly routfn. hurt-
ns ta -,ai .tt.i. . .
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to .CUaot atUntlc. tn tham av
hill there Is an orchard of peaches, pon.M,
applea and apricots, now In bearing, which
was set out under Mr. Rhodes' direction,
and looking over the valley one now
sees the rich fields of corn which bis Im
agination planned.
Lover of Solltade.
I am told that Cec il Rhodes liked to be
alone. While at the government house
he was overrun with callers. When he
came here to the farm thoae who wished
to aee him had to drive eighteen miles
out and then eighteen miles back before
they reached a hotel. If they wanted to
stay they had to sleep In the open, for
the huts were only large enough for Mr.
Rhodes himself. Later on he built a hotel
about three miles distant In order that he
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nest ret..rr,i. ti. -v .
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rooster. Only once a day. when he souaht
food and water, did the rooster leave the
eTg, and then only for a brief period.
Dead Wagon at Wedding.
To step from Hymen's altar and find
two undertakers awaiting them with ambu
lances was the serio-comic experience of
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Stitt of Butler, Pa."
While the Rev. J. W. Pontius was per
forming the marriage ceremony at tha
home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Kllngen
smlth, parent of the bride. Miss Emma E.
Kllngensmith, some Joker called the M.
A. Berklmer and the George W. Am v un.
"il'?0r?
tu buv rcaiuenco uouoie quica.
ine amouiance men drove at hrMlmnrv
' ujuvo ai ureannecK
10 th "rriv'ng about the same
5,'m wAlted t.,e word to romove the
dead and dying. Instead, they were Intro-
duced to a blushing bride and a Mnm.
inev wer intrA.
groom.
Anffort to force th. couo.e tn .
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but one day about the middle of June as
" appie xree suddenly rrom the main
nmnlh. t ,- wn - - -. .
various omer
exit which I tben fni- the. rirt i.
.
T ulrau
Sxcitement In what iam.,i . 1.
. . . " wuuiu ciose on a ui&CK ant tnua
tnnt- an mm . ! 1 . v. . . ......
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round- At fl'
thouht tho "readed toad had worked his
deIth of th nollow an a
laanln; out thIn" there, but glancing
f05?, 1 "w Uiat h ""lng atolldiy
hU ho18- Ttuit lanc d 'houtrh.
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another kind were swarming.
Th mti were not one-tenth the slae
of h. ., .,
of th. wood anU and they
Jmo' transparent In th,
wr pink and
J"oi trans parent in the midst of the
wa"n was a group of their kind, but with
wlnKS, and around these the other seemed
to me to be maintaining a Strict guard.
11 waa the presence of these ants, and they
murt have come up out of the ground,
their appearance had been so sudd. n. that
nad created the panlo In thut wood ant
colony. Th big black ants would rush in
ana uPn Httle red ones, only in
nln case out of Un to be Instantly seized
by no,t of red ones and torn to pieces.
tor th rd a"t. small ss they were, were
tigers. The big black ants wore
B0 mtoli at all for the Httle red ones. It
"med to m aa If the object of the black
ants was to get at and capture the group
of winged red ants that wer kent In tha
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center of the swarm, and that It was to
prevent this that th guarding red ants
fought so fiercely. At any rate after a
savage fight of ten minutes or more. In
which the field was strewn with dead and
wounded on both sides, the blafks retired
and made their way back up tha tree,
scores of them burdened with red ar.ts
which had fastened on their legs a id f elei
and other parts of their bodies, where they
hung like leeches, the pain making the big
ants frantic.
8Core ut "'-m burdened with red ar.ts
Lrr w
n"c'
A r1 an' that had Seised hold of a big
black -oldier ant s fore leg, out of rtach
of ,h ant a jaw, had u turn been
i"1 by another black soldier ant, and
uu on" succeeded in tugging both
off the field. Ail of Us tug.lng, however,
"J 'raring at th red ant would rn nida.e
the tenacious Hill aiu to r.lea.e th black
oldier ant and so the other bia aut. hold-
lng to the red ant and the red ant holding
to the leg of Uie soldier aut, dragged them
both to the tree and labored with tne bur-
den up the tree trunk three freet or wore-,
neu. ne aiaapprarrd in tha h.,ll,.w ii.
vi aoiaier am nanslng rrom the Jaws of
the red ant limp and dead, but tn red
ant UU alive and resisting the effort to
nake it release Us hold.
"After tha battle an ih ,
black ant army the surviving host of r.-d
ant and their winged charge disappeared
under the ground as suddenly at they
had appeared. What puxzled me and
pui.le. me yet Is by what mysterious
telegraphy th. black ant. in th. depth.
of that old appl. tree knew of the coming
of that army of red anta on th. around
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at th foot I
that it ha
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-a waa arniuw UU Ml IIlSlni
a ,
. 'ut?ael oo-
- um. Ukuu iai weea,
might havo a rln'"e to entertain such
guests as he chose. This hotel Is now
used by tho visitors as a lunching place
On their way to the tomb.
I am told that Mr. Rhodes would go
off and spend days by himself In the Ma
topos hills. He would take hooks along
and camp out. At one time he wandered
up to the place where his remains now
He and got lost. It was some time bo
fore a native appeared and showed him
tho way out. In describing the place
to the Matabeles he was told that the
hill on which he was lost was known
a.mong them as the "mountain of the
friendly spirit."
Rhodes Zoologrloal rark.
Leaving the farm, we passed through
of Every
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w ra lawa. me joKer will be
asked to pay for the ambulance service.
Gravestonea of Glass.
A glass company of Pittsburg announces
that It has received several orders and will
begin at once to manufacture headstones
of glass to mark graves. A unique feature
of the new tombstones will be that there
can be blown In the glass a photograph of
the deceased person.
Sara-eon Gets Bl Fee.
After receiving what he. considered a
prohibitive fee of JO.OOO, Dr. George W.
hZ' wUinr..M af f Muhlenber
hospital Plalnfleld. N. J., and recognired
aa the foremost surgeon In New Jersey,
consented to sail for Europe for a consulta
tion with Dr. August Bier of Berlin,
to be ate.t surgeon in'that
country.
A young J
, (Lminy
private hospl
oolson In th.
A young American woman studying art
recently entered Dr. Bier's
spltal in Berlin for treatment for
nMonn in . . i . , . . rr.v -
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Vm T. ma pauoni mat
Z.:Xt7""thoot-
r,u Uu touiili H me opera-
with the same results. Each time after
the worker anta of the vvt .m e..i
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came aown and carried the dead and
... v-.i. . . ...
"u""cui piaca ana rea, up tne tree
me nonow. ivow and then a wounded
... ., . ..
"aai. m never tetcing up would
ng that ant to the condition of
those that It had come down to carry off
"eld- And a strange thing during all
this excitement hi the colony and the fierce
battles was that there would be never a
brealc In the regularity of that procession
the ants that w.re carrying the refuse
--
iruiu ma nuiiB ana MKnntf i r n ha rtumn
Those anrts were evidently seeing their
au,y 41111 It, regardless of war or
rumor r war-
wur". naving oeen punned with
re"r Increased force of anta during
the Iast few day" cf ceased about July 1,
and I presume the ant home waa then
finished. Ants of all kind In th. colony
having alnce then been busy carrying in
and storing supplies. I suppose for the
winter. If that old apple tree trunk should
be cut In twain what wonderful thing.
W9 undoubtedly would see In the home and
home "f of tnat colony of great anta"
Union Pacific Shops
(Continued from Page Two.)
material as locomotives, cars, rails, bridge
material, etc., the chenilBt and engineer of
tests is assisted by a chief Inspector, who
lias general su:cr islon over the work of
the Individual Inspectors, under the direc
tion of the chemist in.l encineer of tests.
Ill adidt'on to the chief Inspector the com
pany has at present twenty-seven lnspec
tors coi.tlnuall) traveling In different part.
l"K r-"-,rr '""" ' l "or or in-
r:;r..'.,'r,r; jus
and Is responsible for the quality and cor-
rectness of all materials purchased under
contract by the Harriman lines. Last yesr
when considerable work waa being done
U over the west this department inspected
material to the value of t'.S.Ooo.CMX
l abor Ravlna- Uevlaes,
The Union Pacific for years has been the
pioneer in the Invention anil trial of
labor-saving devices and special prlvll.-tri
are afforded to a man with an Inventive
'urn of mind who might possibly Invent
some contrivance which will save time and
labor. Mr. Harrlms.n l.,olt blnitlv
upon
i'".o "in hyp money ana per-
mlts of any expenditure which will In tne
on onus returns uy saving labor. Just
as the Union Pacific railroad waa the pio
neer wtat of the Missouri in the uae of
dining cars, vcsiibuled cars, steam heal,
Pintsch light, buffet amokir.g and libiary
cars and tourists cars, so 11, e Union Pa
cific shops has U-eti tl pioneer In the uae
of hL.ndr.-ds of labor-saving devices.
Coniprtrsaed air wa first extensively used
at the Union Paclflo ahops.' which at one
time were recognized all over the country
.a the leadlug "rneumatlc" ahou of ih.
anllra wr.rM T II J .f.. II , , .,
... nw.(s.. v . . u ....Cll a.l U j. 21.
Manning wer. th leader, of thla form of
work. Mr. McConnell first used oom-
TOMB OP CKCIL JOHN RHODES.
the great psrk and gardens which Mr.
Rhodes l.-ft In his will aa a resort for
the people of Rulawayo. They lie be
tween the farm and the hills and com
prise a part of the latter. The park
covers 1S.O0O acrep, and there are fifteen
miles of roads throuuli It, all trees. More
than SO,) specimens of plants are cul
tivated here; and there Is lalso a large
nursery devoted to the development of the
forest
The zoological garden Is inside a fnce
four miles long. It Includes every kind of
animal that will live in Africa, with the
exception of the beasts of prey, such as
Hons and leopards. There are giraffes,
antelopes, elands and sebras everywhere
to be seen. The animals are not afriid,
for do shooting Is allowed In the vicinity,
Day Life
tion until Dr. Bndlcott rave his consent
The Ilalnfleld physic-lew ha never heard
Of the woman, and was reluctant to make
the trip to Europe when urged to do so by
her New York attorney. He asked Tor a
fee, with expenses, which he considered
would not be met, but got his certified
check and sailed on La Lorraln.
Chanted Ills Mind.
President Roosevelt's remark that he'
had "a perfectly corking time" In the
White House, relates the New York Tri
bune, recalls an equally characteristic state.
man maAt K.. kiM . .
lng. while he was governor, he occupied a
chalr next t0 a mcmber of the Trlmjna
etafT on a train going from New York to
Albany. The next republican convention
waa the subject of discussion and the Tri
bune man said: "Well, governor, you wtll
probably be the candidate for vice presi
dent" "Not If I can help It." said Mr
Roosevelt; "I like my Job and I'm getting
a good run for my money." The newspaper
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man u-lt-' that he would change his
mind. and when they met again the gov-
knew what was meant when hi. rail-
road companion said. "I
told you so."
pressed air on a lltti. r,r..
,.... . ,
Mllo Wlieel
by hand. "Bllm
Jim" Learned was then running
nun running
switch
engine around the yards
OeCaUSe '
rheumatism he had difficulty in ruverslng
. reversing
nis engine
a enmr...,....! i. .
was put on the locomotive whereby he
could move the big lever by simply turning
an air valve. Air wa then used to operate
drill Instead of a water motor. By its
own force the compressed air worked Its
ay to the fore until for year. It was gen-
"""y in use on all sort. f device, to save
h- now; however, been trans-
Tno t air spread all over the country
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winuivu uy c ecLrunv.
,n1 no lunger Is trouble experienced In
making the air work, but It Is rather an
exact science. Air waa used on the trans
fer turn table In the machine shop to
transfer an engine from one stall to
another. It did the work which formerly
required twenty nun, when. a one could
operate the air machine. Air bus given
way at the Cnlon Paclflo ehors to elec
tricity, which is supplied from tne central
"'wer ln "d now Insteud of opening
me air vaiv a button In turnn.l nJ th.
chained lightning will do the work. Air
Is not entirely discarded, for many devices
ure still In ue In which compressed air
I the means of transmitting the power.
The Union Pacific was ihe ploii. r in
the us. cf a sandpapering machine, the
firs', machine of that kind l.avlrg b e;i
made In the Omaha "hops. It was Invent...
by George C. Brown, the pres nt general
foreman of the machine shops. It Is still in
us-i and liesldes saving an Immense amount
of labor It does a better Job than could
be done by hand. The air spray for paint
ing cars and buildings ami for whitewash
ing bulldinps was alo an Invention turned
out at the Union Pacific shops and still In
general use there. It is esp.tl.lly useful
for painting st-ei cars and fur aandblatlng
freight cars.
ome Wondrrs Achieved.
Th entire plant of the Union Paclflo
hops is on labyrinth of device for ac
celerating work and for saving men and
time. A visitor will se work done In a way
ha never before dreamed of and which if
told about would not believe waa possible.
One of tl. greatest helps In th machine
snop as the discovery that by more
highly tempering the cutting tools th. y
eould Le made into what Is known as hl.h
pied at. el which leunlts these to.. Is to
worn over live times us faai as tw.nty-flv
jeurs ago. An in.tance lu point 1. that It
formerly took ten hojr to tin n off :he
roi.ith surface on a na!r of drivim u, ..i.
h le tutr t ie same wheel, aith , r .n . i .
th... san-.e machine have been cut down at
at
the rate of eleven pair in ten hours anj
fif;ren minutes, thus working Just elev. u
times us fast.
K. IT. Harriman lias taken a personal In
terest 'n the shops at On, aha and on eeril
oi casl. ns has stopped I. is special train In
Its fl glit across the continent h.ng enojh
to pay a visit to the shops He takes a
personal Interest In the work there and ea
p tally In having up-te-date ahops second
to none In the country. On 1.1s last visit a
was particularly pleased alth the grass
pU.ts and trees and chlded a man who
tack d Lis autometiil. upon on. of tn. ga.
ploa
i
'.,-f 'v-:vi..r; ".Si 1
and they are premltted to live aa far 4
possible in a state of nature.
Matopos Hill.
I wish I could describe for you thes
mighty hills which Cecil Rhodes cho
as his last resting place. They aro noth
ing like any range I havo aeon else
where. They rlsA up out of tho African
veldt in the shape of great masses of
granite, ground smooth by the glaciers of
a million odd years ago. They are sixty
miles long and from ten to twenty mtloa
wide, and they wind their way in and out
over the plain, looking aa though they
might have been thrown up by volcanoes.
In some places they remind me of the
Saxon Switzerland, and In others of tha
"Garden of the Gods" on the edge of the
Rockies In Colorado. Upon many of them
aro boulders piled one upon another. And
auch boulders. You will find nothing like
them In any other part of tho world. You
have seen pebbles so worn by the water
that they are a round as marbles and a
smooth. On these Matopos hills there ar
boulders as big as a haystack lying on
these granite rocks which are as smooth
as the pebble. The rock upon which
they Ha are smooth. In places they made
me think that thoy might be great wen
on the bald head of old Mother Earth,
which Is here pushing Itself toward the
sky.
Great Glacial Gardea.
Indeed, the wholo range Is one mighty
glacial garden. The hills, where I vis
ited them, are about eleven mllos wide.
Bn1 a11 are crtrred and worn, with these
mightV bnilhlora Ivlnv har. anrl . V
"P th-m. In some places the rock, are
plied up like a fortification, being as evenly
lalrl as though the gods had been the
nlaBon ard hud here worked at their
trade. Borne of the rocks are beautifully
colored, and their huea change as the sun
moves over them. Some contain cavea,
and In these caves the natives of gen-
"rations KO have painted pictures which
are now the wonder of the archeologlats.
The hills contain beautiful valleys. Cas
cades flow down them and springs here and
there gush forth, reminding one of the
living water whloh spouted when Mosea
smote the rock.
Cecil Rhodes' Toms.
We drove th automobile right Into th.
hills and wound our way among boulder,
to the foot of the rocky mass which tha
ereat African hero ehnse. as hla lJ!t raatlno-
ni&ea. It la tnnra than a mil. In Wk n .
- - - ., " i w .u .vua.B auu
If H... a. It.. ...11... 1 .....
...o .uiicj iui uuuurmi Ul
feet Like all the hills. It Is composed of
red granite and Is ground aa smooth a a
floor. With staff In hand I climbed up,
bending half double In places and setting
my feet Tat for fear I might slip. The view
broadened at every step, until at lat on
the top I was far above the Matopos hills,
which extended up and down the country
as far as my eyes could reach.
On the summit the rock Is smooth, form
ing a level apace, which covers perhaps a
quarter of an acre. About this space He a
score of the mighty boulders I have de
scribed, so placed by nature that they seem
to guard It. Right In the center of this
space, on the very summit. Is the tomb of
Rhodes. It Is the rock Itself. The grave
was gouged out by mallet and chisel and
the graulte was so hard that It required
the masons ten days to do the work. There
was no blasting for fear that Is might crack
the rock, but the square hole waa dug out
bit by bit until It was dp enough to hold
the coffin. This was then covered with
cement and a granite slab placed over It
the whole being hermntlrally sealed. Upon
the top of the slab there Is riow a bronss
plate three feet wide and five feet long, and
upon It are engraved the simple word
which Mr. Rhodes ordered for th monu
ment. They are:
"Here IJo the Remains of Cecil John
Rhodes."
There Is no date of birth or death, nor
any Inscription mentioning the wonderful
work that Rhodes did for Bouth Africa and
Great Britain. The very simplicity of the
monument adds to Us prandeur, and the
fact that It lies out here In the open, In the
wilds of the vast
country which he ha
riven to the r7nIIah crown, seemed to me
monument enough It was Impressive and
as I looked at It I Involuntarily took off
my hat, for I seemed to be upon holy
ground.
Gaarded by the Matabeles.
I climbed up the rocks and walked
As
'"re and there about the grave I was fol
lowed by two Matahele boys. They mad
no noi.e as they slipped In their bare feet
round the mltrhty boulders which guard
the tomb, and It waa onlv whan T .v,
my course that I was able to ae them.
They were, I am told, two cf the guards
which Oom Jaahn, the chief of whom J
hHve written, keeps always here to guar
Rhodes' tomb. They are replaced by other,
from day to day. so that aoiu. ar. ever
prek.rit
These guards say nothing to visitors, but
nnv m.n who mi.ild dare to cut his name
upon the rocks or rmitilate the place would
at on, he reported t i tha authorities at
Ilulaaavo and punished. At first Oom
Jaahn furnUl ed the boys fre of charge aa
a tribute to the memory of Rhodes, after a
custom that the Matabeles have of guard
li.g their n .ted dead After a while, how
ever, the Rhodes estate recognised their
valu as a protection axalnst Iconoclast
nd sine then a certain amount ha been
regularly paid to the ebony watcher.
FAAMC O. CAJCPaaNTXR.
