The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-07

And two days after she had given her
decision the general died in an orgy
planned for the very purpose of death.
1t is said that Gen. Skobeleff's death,
which at the time was surrounded by
great mystery, was due to chloroform
administered by woman at his earn
est request.
/ The generals tragic death plunged
the Princess into nervous prostration.
She loved him. and her remorse was
terrible. She retired from society and
was not seen for two years.
| Then she reappeared socially in St.
Petersburg, where she entertained law
| ishly. Afterward she went to London,
where shs met Cecil Rhodes at a din
ner given in her honor. She had al
ready been attracted by the halo OF
renown that surrounded the "Napo-
| leon of the Cape" and had firmly per-
suaded herself that she loved him. She
gave to her new hero an antique Rus
sian medal he had admired. Rhodes
accepted the gift, and they met fire.
quently.
The Princess is of Polish origin. She
was born. forty-five years ago, Count
ess Rzewuska, and is a daughter of
the Countess Rzewuska, whose maiden
name was Dachkoff.
When very young she eloped with
Prince William Radziwill. of the Prus-
sian branch of her own family, al
though her father had intended that
she should wed a rich manufacturer.
BY this marriage she had five chill
dren. One of her daughters is the
Princess Butcher. the wife of the son
of the famous soldier of that name.
At the time she had the love ar
fair with the Russian she merely toll
Grated her husband. When she appear
ed in London, after her career In st.
Petersburg, she had abandoned him en-
tirely. He lives somewhere in OBJ
scurity.
Rhodes was a woman-hater. He
believed a woman blighted a mans
career and deadened his ambitions.
| He often declared that no woman could
penetrate his existence and dominate
his faculties.
The Princess, whose charms no man
had ever been able to Withstand, swore
she would conquer Rhodes.
When Rhodes was compelled to re-
| turn to South Africa she went to ST.
| Petersburg and sold all her property
and securities. Returning to London
she sold her jewels at sacrifice had
her portrait painted by Benjamin Con-
slant and started for South Africa.
She felt sure that Rhodes was in love
with her and she was haunted by the
fear that he might kill himself for loce
of her, as the Russian had done.
Arriving in South Africa, she found
that Rhodes had fully recovered from
his infatuation and treated her with
cool indifference. Broken-hearted, agi-
tated and disappointed, the Princess
plunged into all sorts of enterprises
and soon became involved in pecuniary
embarrassments. Among other things
she intended as a means of aiding the
| realization of Rhodes's hopes in adding
the colony to the British Empire.
Rhodes helped her with liberal sums
in her dilemmas, and it was at mo-
ment when his generosity toward her
was great that her arrest came-an as
founding piece of information in Lon
don and at the courts of the world.
If the action she has now brought
against Lord Rosebery and the others
is not settled out of court the public
may expect. astonishing exposures not
only concerning Cecil Rhodes but also
British matters of state of the highest
inheritance