The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-18
WHO IS THE
PRINCESS RADZNLL?.
Of Whom Cecil Rhodes Had a
Fear That Was Comic.
DID He REALLY LOVE HER2
Her End in Pri8on---Her Be-
ginningin Russian Aristocracy
DID He REALLY LOVE HER2

IN 4 south A1rlcan penal institution,
serving a sentence Of two years. is the
Princess RazdiwiH. one Of the strangest
enigmas that ever Influenced the destiny
Of nations
She IS the only woman who played a
Fart in the career Of Cecn Rhodes. one
OF the strongest and greatest men Of his
time, Of whom ii was believed that no
woman had ever entered mis- life
The Princess RadziwH was born to the
purple She is allied TO one OF the Oldest,
most aristicratic and richest houses of
Europe. That woman Of noble birth
and high position should be sent TO prison
is notable, but such things have happened
before.
In her romantic life she accomplished
many things and made the world talk
At least one great man killed himself
for love Of her But in her many expert
ences everything melts into nothingness
beside the single fact that she was a
factor Ia the life Of Cecil Rhodes, builder
of an empire and the hater Of woman
In ali that has been said and written
about him who was called tine uncrown-
ed king Of South Africa" the one thing
that il dwelt upon more than anything
else was his contempt for love-making.
Woman is q barrier to mans highest
and noble career was one Of his favor
lite sayings. The world believed that ne
lived up 10 this belief
OF the books in his big library he most
preferred Vanity Fair" There is no
heroine in Vanity Fair unless Becky
Sharp be called heroine. and here is
not a character TO inspire love.
No Ian ever had greater ambitions
than Cecil Rhodes. No man ever worked
ord
these ambitions Ii was said Of him:
Some men think in parishes. others
in nations but Cecil Rhodes thinks IN
empires"
There was no place for a woman in
those mighty thoughts of his. and yet
woman forced herself into them. a wo-
man Who is said To have been the imme-
date cause Of his death-the Princess
Catherine Radzwill
Recently. in the Paris Matin. there
appeared an article by N. De BoIwitz.
for many years the Paris correspondent
OF the London Times. in which he said:
shortly after these lines shall have
appeared the body OF Cecil Rhodes-the
Colossus OF Rhodes-wn lie buried in the
heart of the land Of Rhodesia, on the
hill of Matoppo. which he wished to make
the Walhalla of the future of South
African federation.
Something besides fame, an immense /
fortune and an imperial legacy rivaning
that of Caesars have been left TO human /
lily by Cecil Rhodes for at the threshold
of his tomb stands living enigma. per
sonihed 10y q woman OF exalted birth
This woman assumed a place beside Cecil
Rhodes during the latter years OF his life.
and has now sunk into the lowest depths +
of judicial abyss.
What this place was. OF had been. was
not known during the lifetime Of the
South African millionaire When. in
November last. Princess Radzwiu was
arrested on a charge of having forged /
Cecn Rhodes's name 10 the notes OF the
value Of $4,000 there were those who de- +
olared thar she was AN adventures max
ing capital out OF her acquaintance with +
him
II was said that for months Mr. Rhodes
had lived in fear of her that was almost
comic, that he had consented to have
her prosecuted only when &c was brought
home 70 him that if he failed 10 Go so
he was making himself party 10 crime
lie returned 60 South Africa to appear
against her in The preliminary hearing
For herself. the Princess said only that
she was not guilty of forgery. and that
Mr. Rhodes had NOT told tie whole truth
on the witness stand. He died a month
before she WAS brought 10 triaL She was
convicted on April 30 last
From Tho time ~ her arrest until she
was u.ken 10 the House of Correction
to serve her sentence. Princess Radzwm
contente3 herself with merely proclaim
Ing her Innocence.
Her very silence as wen rs her whole
attitude were pregnant os mysteries. Of
truths hair told o. wholly concealed Al
the end ~ her trial She was even more
OF sn enigma than she was in the begin
ming
some facts about her have transnirsd
since 0hlch shows that hers has been a
sinsularly romantic lfe Little sidelirh-s
have been thrown upon her relationsh
- Cecil Rhodes. but tho real part she
played in h.s nrs is stan mostly con-
lecture
only two persons could reveal that.
Cecn Rhodes IS 8ead and Princess Radz-
viii has kept silence
She was or Polish osisia. she has been