Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-06-12


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"sYou make mistake. You are Z
captain. you are handsome, you are
free. and | am sure that some attrac-
tive heiress will be glad to marry
you
THAT is exactly what l must avoid.
| love Mile. Pachkoff. | can never
love anyone else. | can never hope TO
wed her, so l prefer to go away
Wait a day longer I will speak
in your behalf. and then you may go
off if you like
THE steward put on his festal
clothes and went to find his boyar.
" Listen to me, Pachkoff,' he said
For % years you never would permit
me to go over the accounts with you
nevertheless, | have kept them with
great care. You have an income of
800 ,000rubles. You have always spent
twice as much. | began by advancing
you small sums. Then with your con-
sent l sold small lots of land, and duly
gave you the purchase money. After
val dioO vim yOdi NOhoOhNr DOAN
larger lots and then whole farms and
domains. These l bought myself.
made fortunate investments, and the
result is that today am the owner of
everything here, and if you had only
what remains to you, you would not
give tomorrow
The boyar burst into furious pas
sion, and the steward, after calmly
listening to him, remarked:
"'All can yet be arranged if you
sacrifice your pride. My son, Cap
tain Poltavtzeff, whom you know and
are fond of, is here. He loves Mile.
Pachkoff, and if you will proclaim his
betrothal with your daughter, l will
give you back all your former prop
erty.'
"An hour afterward the steward re-
Joined his son and said to him:
Go to the castle and embrace
your fiancee.'
Mile. Pachkoff married Captain Pol
tavtzeff. She had six children. One of
her daughters married General Skobe-
left, brother of the famous General
Skobeleff, brother of that fascinating
Zina Skobeleff, Duchess de Leuchten-
berg. This story is related at length
because it is interviewer with the life
of Princess Catherine Radziwill
General Skobeleff met Princess
Catherine Radziwill and fell madly in
love with her. The princess refused
to elope with him. Skobeleff declared
that her refusal was his death SEN
tence. The princess did not take the
threat as serious. Two days later
Skobeleff died in the midst fan orgy
that he had organized for that very
purpose. 1t is asserted now that Sko-
beliefs death, which was at the time
with great mystery, was
due to chloroform having been admin
istered by woman at the dead mans
plunged Princess Catherine Radziwill
into a sort of nervous prostration.
She loved him, and her remorse was
terrible. For two years she retired
from society. She afterward reap
peared in st. Petersburg, where she
entertained lavishly, and afterward
went to London, where, at a dinner
given in her honor, she became ac-
quainted with Cecil Rhodes. She had
already been attracted by the halo of
renown that surrounded the 'Napo-
leon of the cape and had firmly per-
H.
She gave her new hero an antique
Russian medal that he had admired.
Cecil Rhodes accepted the gift and
they met frequently.
''As is we'll known, Cecil Rhodes
was an inveterate woman hater He
was fond of repeating that woman
was barrier to mans noblest and
highest career He often declared
that no woman could ever penetrate
his existence and dominate his facul-
ties. On the other hand, Princess
Catherine Radziwill, whose charms no
man had yet been able to withstand,
swore that she would conquer Cecil
and she certainly had cause
to believe that she had succeeded in
exercising over him an unlimited
sway. When this occurred Cecil
Rhodes was obliged to start for south
Africa.
Princess Catherine Radziwill
seemed absolutely devoted to him.
She left London for st. Petersburg,
having in her possession Quantity of
shares of the chartered company. She
negotiated these shares in Russia
after some little difficult, and lived for
a while most sumptuously, but she
was always haunted by the recollec-
ton of the man who had consoled her
for the loss of Skobeleff. Skobeleff's
death weighed heavily on her con-
science. She imagined that Cecil
Rhodes was as passionately in love
with her as Skobeleff had been. She
feared that if Cecil Rhodes felt him
self abandoned by her he might com
NIT some desperate act that would
cause her renewed remorse. She
came to Paris. where she sold for $780,
900 some of her jewels that were real
ly worth $4,000 She then had her
portrait painted by Benjamin Constant
and started for south Africa She
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