Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-01-06

some piece of royal ibertinism.
TRAVEL CURED HIM OF JEALOUSY.
From that time forth Lord Randolph
was a changed man. His nerves, always
strung at the highest tension, had re-
celved a shock from which they .nevel
recovered. He seemed forevet to be Ia
boring under intense nervous excitement
or fit Of depression and dependency.
He was forced TO resort to opiates to
secure sleep and rest, and as time went
on this developed into an abuse, and
he became slave TO the morphine
habit.
Nor did the six or eight months which
he spent in sport and exploration in
Mashonaland prove of any lasting bene-
fiji to his health, physical or mental.
For he returned to England in much the
same frame of mind as he had left 1t,
with this difference, however, that he
had had time to reflect over his conduct
toward his charming American wife,
and to become impressed with the con-
vction that he had been guilty of grave
Injustice toward her. He therefore re-
turned to her side, and from that time
forth she was his constant companion
and his most devoted nurse, endeavor-
ing in vain to soothe him and to cure
him of the disastrous habit that he had
contracted,
Everything in turn was tried to divert
his thoughts, to occupy his mind, TO
engross his attention, butiwithout sue
cess. His ideas were forever encircling
around thu wrong to which he had been
subjected by the reigning family, and he
seemed imbued with the idea that he
was an object of scorn to all his coun-
trymen, as a man who owed every po-
litical success TO the admiration which
the beauty of his wife had attracted on
the part of royalty. He went in for
horse racing on an extensive scale, but
without achieving any results either TO
his purse or TO his health. He en-
barked in business, associating himself
with Colonel North, OF nitrate fame,
who is popularity supposed to have put
him mp for a number Of good things on
the Stock Exchange.
DISASTROUS SOUTH AFRICAN SCHEMES.
But whatever money he made there he
lost again in his South African enter
his friends and relatives, including his
brothers-in-lsw, Lords Wimborne and
Curzon, to embark money in these
schemes, and when they turned out dis
astrously his mind became still further
affected by the sense of responsibility
for the losses that they had incurred on
his account.
How serious these losses were may be
gathered from the fact that he was
forced to sell his well-know town house
in Connaught place and to take up his
residence with his mother, the old Dow
ager Duchess of Marlborough. He was
likewise forced TO sell his cottage at
Newmarket, to which he was especial
ly attached, and to dispose OF his stud.
To London society the close CT the
Randolph Churchill establishment was
great loss. 1t was the most perfectly
appointed house in London, one OF the
few which possessed electric lights.
Lady Randolph was perfect hostress,
and her entertain ments-particula rly
her dinners-were famous for the eX-
cellence OF the cooking and Of the
wines.
One of the incidents of his career was
his onarrel with the Prince Of Wales.
1t was in connection with certain letters
and documents belonging TO the Prince,
which had got into.the possession OF the
late Duke OF Marlborough, and which
the Prince was most anxious TO recover.
The Duke had at one time been the boon
companion Of the Prince. The CORE
spondence in question was said to az
feet not only the honor of the Prince,
but also that OF ladyibelonging to the
highest ranks of the peerage.
When the Duke Of Marlborough defi'
nitely broke with his wife, the Marehion-
ess of Blandford, and with her family.
aud was divorced by her, the Prince,
like all the members OF the royal fam
ily. sided with Lady Blandfald, whose
brother, the present Duke Of Abeacorn,
was Groom of the Stole to the Prince,
and his most intimate friend.
1t was only after the Prince had given
expression to his sentiments with re-
gard to His Grace of Marlborough Ia
the most free, unvarnished and uncom-
plimentary fashion, that, it is said he
finally bethought himself OF the fact
that the Duke OF Marlborough had in
his keeping package OF letters, the
publication of which would leave His
ROYAL Highness 10 an infinitely worse
plight, as far as public opinion was con-
cerned, than the Duke, although the
latter's name was covered at the time
! with so much opprobrium as to render
il a very bY.word aud term OF reproach
throughout the length and breadth of
Europe.
The Prince. it is said, endeavored in
vain. and by every mems that he could
think OF, to recover possession of this
cores pondenee. All sorts Of influence
was brought to bear upon the Duke, and
Lord Randolph was even urged to do
what he could in the matter. The
Prince himself is said to have tackled
Lord Randolph on the subject and in
voked his assistance, being tactless
enough to insinuate that be was afraid
that the duke might prove unscrupulous
enough to put these letters to illegal
use.
Now Lord Randolph was warmly at
tsched to his elder brother, and was
quick 10 resent tne EGlnCeS femdrks,
and that, too, In the most plain and d.
rect language, pointing out, it is stated.
that gross as had been the provocation
which the Duke had received from the
Prince, his Royal Highness's honor and
that of the lady were far more safe in
the keeping Of His Grace Of MARI
borough than in the Princes own. Very
bitter words passed between Lord Ran.
doIph and the Prince on that occasion,