River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-08
THE EMPRESS EUGENE.
Her Mission to ZuIulaad--i Mothers
RecOlIeet Ons of Her Child.

A correspondent of the Gauois visited
Chiselhurst to. take leave ofthe Empress
Eugene before her departure to Zalu-
land. At the moment of the writer's
visit her majesty was setting out with
only three persons who are now with
her, to show them building which she
thought might serve for the model for
the chapel to be erected on the COM
mon to the memory of her son. The
thought of the dead prince has become
a simple monomania with ner; the re-
solve to visit Zululand, came to her as a
sort of an inspiration while she was at
prayer. When first she heard Of the
princes death the empress wished to
know nothing of the details, but as soon
as Capt. Carey's account of it appeared
in the newspapers her plans entirely
changed, and she became as eager to
get every scrap Of information about
the terrible event as she had been to
ignore it. She has passed all her time
since in piecing together the evidence
on the subject. This, in her own words
is what she has found out down to the
latest dates; the voyage to Zululand is
to tell her the rest: There were about
cort, They were in two troops. Inc
first party fired just as the party were
remounting, and Carey and four men
of the escort Immediately ran away,
leaving the prince and two others be-
hind. As to the prince he did not
utter single cry, he never asked for
help, but as soon as he saw lis retreat
was cut off by the second party Of Il Illus
faced round and threw himself among
them-to adopt the expression of the
Zulus themselves-hke young tiger.
"The wounds on his arm" continued
the empress, show the severity of the
struggle. He had an instructive habit
OF covering himself with his arm. Often
when he was quite little boy and we
were playing tog Their, he used to raise
it like a buckler at the least sign of at
tack. When Capt. Carey returned to
England he asked to see me, the mother
of him whom he abandoned! | ca
understand To certain point why a
murderer should wish to see the mother
the man he has killed. For my part
| could even look on the Zulus without
anger, though not without sorrow and
pain. These men killed my son, but he
might have killed them IN his turn. 1t
is the law of war. But the man who
left him to his fate, have never seen
him and never will see him." The en-
press said this with extraordinary agita-
ton, and to recover herself she took up
the manuscript notes found IN the
princes pocket-book on the day of his
death, and with the aid of magnifying
glass read out the faint pencil entries.
"Going with Carey" is about the last of
them. "There's only one thing" re-
sumed her majesty, "in Carey's MARIA
tive which seems at all probable. The
prince, he says, Just before starting
asked for ten minutes delay. That
was a habit with him. He always ask
ed for ten minutes, and carried it so far
that l often said to him, You ought to
be called Monsieur Ten Minutes
When heIwas quite child and | tried to
to wake him was ten minutes more, and
often when l have watched him as he
was going to sleep and was good deal
too tired to speak, he would hold up
his ten fingers and ask for ten min
ute's grace.