, 1880-08-02
A Famous Pilgrimage.

The sufferings and woes Of prinoesses
have always evoked the ready sympa-
thy of mankind. Whether it be Dido
or Zenobia, Mary Queen of Scots, or
Catherine of Arrsgon, Marie Antoinette,
tho Empress Josephine, or Carlotta, the
popular heart is touched by the misery
which fate has bequeathed them. even
when they have simply fallen heir to
their own follies or their own perver-
sity.
In spite Of the growing penurious-
ness, self-assertion. and obstinacy which
Queen Victoria has more and more
displayed since Prince Albert's COM
mon sense ceased to control her, the
profound love for him which her pro-
found grief for his loss so clearly be-
trays, has kept the hearts of her peo
pie tender and considerate; and il has
surrounded an otherwise hard and un-
romantic figure with an atmosphere OF
romance which will attend her while
she lives and enshroud her when she
dies. In spite of the sorry story of an
Improbable reign ending in national
catastrophe. the touching devotion of
kuGenie, the mother, to q dutiful and
aEeetionats son, softepe and colors the
aesolate life and retributive fate of the
ex Empress of the French. There is
little Of respect either for the prowess
or the good sense Of the youth who met
his death, while rashly meddling in q
vulgar war OF conquest, in b hopes
that from those barbarian q .abbles
he might wrest few laurels to be at
some lucky moment worn with his I'm
perial crown; but the relations between
the Prince Imperial and his unselfsh
mother command the admiration and
sympathy of the world.
Even if there are those who think
that journey to the wilds of South
Africa Is superhuous and sentimental
vay of indulgiDg her mothers love and
assuaging the aching of her heart, they
can hardly fail to confess that her pill
grimage in frail health, from the COM
forts of an English home to the jungles
Of the Zulu country, is tribute to her
sincerity which should command the
deepest reverence and the noblest com
passion.
With minuteness and patience born
only of her aH ctioas. she has traced,
en- The anniversary of each day, the ad
ventures and the wanderings which her
son experienced year ago. Exactly
one year from every date she has seen
the country as it appeared to his eyes,
the year before; The water courses, in
which the Zulus were hid in ambush !;
the tall grass, from behind which they
plunged, in their sudden attack; the
pumpkin vines trailed upon ruined
wall where the Prince and his suite
bivouacked for the last time. She sees
the bill on which he sat sketchlpg, the
spot where he laid down to smoke d
cigarette, and afterwards stood, watch
in hand, waiting for the hour of fonr
when he intended taking his departure.
It vas here his horse WAS brought b m,
and here where Just as he was mount
ing came the voiley that + ut them all to
night, leaving him while trying to gain
his saddle, to be surrounded by the
aavages.
At this spot, now marked with u
marble cross, which is enwreathed with
imnortelles and bears an honorable in
seription, she knelt, and, by solemn
masses for the dead, consecrated the
place to the memory of her dead boy.
One may entertain reproaches, indigna-
ton and contempt for the naughty and
nnscrnpulous dynasty which is just. Il ow
mos. conspioulously represented by a
lone woman, who, at the grave of her
idolized son in the grass plains of Zu-
laland, is seeking the consultations of
the Christian Church; but no one can
withhold sad and reverent sympathy
for the heart-broken mother who vainly
weeps at the foot of the cross which
commentaries all she holds dear in
world thai was once so large and bright
TO her.-Detroit Press.
While drawing bucket,,Of water at
Kearney, New Jersey, the other Gay, a
boy years old mbled in and fell to
the bottom of the veil, eighty feet down.
His mother, catching sight of his heels
as he disappeared, gave scream, which
brought two men to the spot. He said
he was cold, and cried, "lemme out
O. this" Being naturally fond of chill
dren, they told him to catch hold OF the
rope and they would haul him up.
But instead of fooling him and leay-
ing him in that plight, they brought
him up out of the wet and handed him
ever to his mother with bumped
head and slight scratch. Owing to
bis having struck the bottom of the
well, his hair, on coming up, was
found to be quite sandy, tho same as
his complexion before going down.
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The Crown Prince of Germany, on
arriving at Kottbus the other day, OBJ
served an old acquaintance in the
crowd assembled to greet him. To the
surprise of all, the Prince went straight
ap to his humble friend, and shook
him cordially by the hand; then, turn
ing to the wondering assembly, in q