Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — Cecil Rhodes’s Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Cecil Rhodes’s Eggs.

Cecil Rhodes used to take a coop of hens on board to provide fresh eggs on his numerous* voyages between England and South Africa. But those Were three weeks’ journeys, and no! a mere five-day crossing of the Atlan tic. Hence another prominent Soutl African personage was asked why h< did not follow Rhodes’s example and provide himself with the luxury oi newlaid eggs at sea. “Oh, I don't bother to take a coop of fowls or board," Iw replfed. ’Trot I Vtip the bos’un who looks after Rhodes’s hens and I get Rhodes’s eggs.”