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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (RICKERT ROYAL.) 



by organized agitation and the British annexa- 

 tionists among them were represented as inclu- 

 ding the whole population, the agents of Rhodes 

 hatched a plot to overthrow the Government of 

 President Kruger by a revolutionary uprising. 

 Arms and ammunition bought with funds of the 

 De Beers corporation were smuggled into the 

 country. Rhodes planned a simultaneous inva- 

 sion of the republic by his Mashonaland troopers, 

 most of whom volunteered for the adventure on 

 being assured by Dr. Jameson, Rhodes's represent- 

 ative and administrator in Matabeleland, that it 

 was unofficially authorized by the British Gov- 

 ernment. When the appointed time for the revo- 

 lution was at hand a hitch occurred in the nego- 

 tiations still going on between the arch con- 

 spirator and the revolutionary committee, an 

 American member of which, who had the widest 

 influence in the Uitlander community, refusing 

 to sanction the raising of the British flag, while 

 Rhodes would not sanction the insurrection on 

 any other conditions. Dr. Jameson, whose force 

 was waiting impatiently on the border for the 

 signal, led them into the Transvaal and rode 

 into a Boer ambuscade near Pretoria, for Pres- 

 ident Kruger was well informed of Rhodes's 

 plans and was able to lay hands on the arms in 

 Johannesburg and the chief conspirators. The 

 Jameson raid led to the Boer War, and the policy 

 of Cecil Rhodes triumphed, though he was in 

 eclipse and disgrace. He frankly acknowledged his 

 culpability, immediately resigned as Prime Minis- 

 ter of the Cape Government, went to the territory 

 of the British South Africa Company, called after 

 him Rhodesia, although he had to give up his 

 chairmanship and seat in the directorate, and in- 

 tended to devote his energies and his surplus 

 capital to developing the agricultural and indus- 

 trial resources of the new colony he had created. 

 On arriving there he found an opportunity to 

 exercise his executive ability and fertility of re- 

 source in conducting the military operations of 

 the Matabele war, which begun in March, 1896. 

 After his railroad from Kimberley was completed 

 to Buluwayo he raised capital in England for its 

 continuance to Tanganyika and persuaded the 

 British Government to lease territory from the 

 Congo State for carrying it through to Uganda 

 in order to realize the scheme of a continuous 

 railroad from the Cape to Cairo. The German 

 Government having objected to this lease, he ar- 

 ranged in an interview with the Kaiser for a 

 German link in his projected line and its opera- 

 tion in connection with the railroads to the coast 

 in German East Africa. He was still member of 

 the Assembly for Kimberley, yet during the 

 negotiations that ended in war he never raised 

 his voice or took any active part in political 

 affairs. Anticipating that Kimberley would have 

 to stand a siege, he went thither after the begin- 

 ning of hostilities, accumulated large stores of 

 food and other things, and supplied the mili- 

 tary authorities with many necessary things, in- 

 cluding arms and ammunition and mechanical 

 aids from his workshops and helped to feed the 

 garrison and the population. He attempted to 

 assume control of the operations, but the mili- 

 tary men resented his interference. The strain 

 broke down his health. He was a bachelor, and 

 in his will he left his estate outside of Cape 

 Town to be the residence of the Prime Minister 

 of the future United States of South Africa, and, 

 besides a bequest of 100,000 to Oriel College, 

 he left the bulk of his estate to endow scholar- 

 ships at Oxford worth 300 a year for three 

 years, colonial scholarships and additional Amer- 

 ican scholarships to be filled 3 each year from 



Rhodesia, 4 from colleges of Cape Colony, 1 from 

 Natal, 1 from each Australian colony, 1 from New 

 Zealand, 1 from Ontario, 1 from Quebec, 1 from 

 Newfoundland, 1 from Bermuda, 1 from Jamaica, 

 and 2 from each State and Territory of the Amer- 

 ican Union. By a codicil he founded 5 German 

 scholarships of 250 a year to be allotted by the 

 German Emperor to students of German birth. 

 He hoped that the intercourse of selected Amer- 

 ican and German students with young English- 

 men at the university would help to secure the 

 peace of the world by cementing a good under- 

 standing between England, Germany, and the 

 United States, since educational relations form 

 the strongest tie. Desiring that the scholarships 

 should not be conferred on mere bookworms, he 

 directed that qualities of manhood, truth, courage, 

 devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of 

 the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, 

 taken together, should rank with literary and 

 scholastic attainments as the chief qualifications, 

 and fondness for and succees in outdoor sports 

 and the exhibition of moral force of character 

 and of instincts to lead and take an interest in 

 schoolmates as the two minor qualifications to be 

 rated at two-thirds of the value of the others. 



Rickert, Heinrich, German politician, born in 

 Putzig in 1833; died in Berlin, Nov. 3, 1902. He 

 represented the town of Danzig for thirty years 

 in the Prussian Chamber and in the Reichstag. 

 He was leader of the group of free-traders that 

 seceded from the National Liberal party in 1879 

 on account of Bismarck's adoption of a protection- 

 ist policy and formed the Liberal Union, which in 

 1884 coalesced with the Freisinnige party of Eugen 

 Richter. He led the Moderate section of the Rad- 

 ical party, and in 1884 he and his followers seced- 

 ed from the advanced section to support Count 

 Caprivi's army bill in the hope of bringing about 

 a Liberal administration. His group, known as 

 the Freisinnige Vereinigung, has since then sup- 

 ported the Government's efforts to strengthen the 

 army and navy, to acquire colonies, and to play 

 a greater part in the world's politics, but without 

 altering its position in regard to aristocratic 

 privileges, protection, and domestic policy. 



Roberts-Austen, William Chandler, Eng- 

 lish metallurgical chemist, born in 1843; died 

 Nov. 22, 1902. In 1885 he obtained the royal 

 license to take the name of Austen. He was 

 graduated at the Royal School of Mines in Lon- 

 don, obtained employment in the mint, and in 

 1869 became assayer there. In 1882 he became 

 Queen's assay master. In 1880 he was appointed 

 to the chair of Metallurgy at the Royal School 

 of Mines, which he held until his death. He pub- 

 lished metallurgical memoirs, especially in con- 

 nection with the alloying of copper and gold. 

 He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1875; was president of the Iron and Steel ln>ti- 

 tute in 1899; served on the British Executive 

 Committee of the Paris Exhibition of 1889; and 

 was vice-president of the International ^lininj: 

 and Metallurgical Congress in Paris, receiving tin 

 Cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1 >^> 

 he was made a C. B., and in 1899 K. C. B. He \va> 

 a D.C. L. of the University of Durham. As a teach 

 er he is said to have been a universal favorite. 



Royal, Joseph, Canadian journalist and 

 statesman, born in Repentigny in 1837; died in 

 Montreal, Aug. 23, 1902. He was educated in the 

 Jesuit College of St. Mary's in Montreal and be- 

 gan newspaper work in 1857 on the staff of La 

 Minerve, founded Le Nouveau Monde in the same 

 year, and L'Ordre in 1859. In 1864 he was one 

 of the founders of the Revue Canadienne,to which 

 he contributed articles on political subjects. He 



