Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-07
THE PRINCESS sALM-sALM.

4 Ptucky Woman Who Went Through |
Three Wars and Three MARRIAGES I'm |
scathed.
Princess Salm- Salnl who has not been the |
Princess Salm-Salm for the past two years,
but plain Mrs. Charles Heneage, is dead
now. The English newspapers have good
deal to say about her queer life; and it was
a queer life. assuredly. Who her father
was seems somewhat uncertain: in general
sort of way the books of genealogy dismiss
him airily as the slate Colonel LeClerq.''
on Christmas day, 1910, and was
ohristened Agnes. As she grew up SIZE de-
veloped into handsome, dashing woman
and bold rider. Not content with ordinary
riding, she took a course of instruction at
the old National Circus, on Walnut street,
above Eighth, this city, in the winter of
lo57-5o, and before spring came she had APP
peared IN public and made success. She
starred IN the Southern and Western cities
as circus rider and as dancer. and in the
autumn of 1858 came North and established
herself in New York. She had a fair
amount of money and abundant good looks;
very naturally, she got married. Her hus-
band was good article, as husbands 90, and
| they got along together capitaily. But mar
| rled life OF that hun-drum sort did not suit
her, and one morning she quietly
walked out from her home and never
came back to it, BY way of making the
business regular and proper, she got a di-
vorce after while. After living for some
months at Havana she came up to
| Neshington-just after the war broke out
and led a lively life, half the military men at
the capital being in her train Of admirers.
IN 1862 she made her game. 10 the aston
ishment of everybody, she married the Prince
Felix Constantine Alexander John Nepoum-
Gene salam-Salam. He was a genuine prince,
though prince good deal down at the heel.
and the ambition of the ex-circus rider was
tolerably well satisfied. She had the in
husband, and without distinguishing himself
by anything in particular lie fought along
quietly until the war was at an end. Then
the prince and princess went down to
Mexico and offered their swora-it was
quite partnership affair-to poor Maxi
milan. The first and last emperor of Mex
leo was disposed to fight shy at first of this;
brace of princely adventurers; but the prin-
cess Won him over without much trouble.
and the prince soon was made the emperor
first ald-de-camp. 10 do them Justice. they
stood by the sinking imperial ship right
plucklly, and the prince came uncommonly
near being shot alongside of his master. The
princess, however, begged him off, and after
be had been year behind iron bars she
begged him out of prison and carried him
off in triumph to Europe. She patched ur
a peace with the elder Prince Sam-Salnl
and made it valid by clause proyid
ing for payment of her husbands
Prussian debts. Having cleared the
, decks by this clever move, she had the prince
appointed to command in the Prussiai
army; and when the war began i'll 20 he was
thanks to her, major in the grenade
guard, and In an excellent position to vii
the bubble reputation at the mouth of tn,
cannon OF France. Poor fellow. no doub
his intentions were excellent towards maxi a.
3 the best Of the opportunities that his wifi
: had secured for him-but he was shot al
? most at the beginning of the war, at Grave
lotte. 1t was hard upon the princess to los
her husband IN this off-hanti sort OF way
but she was made of too good stuff to fall t.
: weeping weakly over her loss. Instead o
giving way to grief she braced herself II,
and went to work like the plucky good
hearted little woman that she was. In th
midst OF her diplomatic negotiations for TIL
advancement OF her husbands interests sh
had found time to study medicine and ha,
graduated With very fair amount. of hcnor
Until the prince marched off with his reni
ment at Graveiotte, never to come back t,
g her alive, the princess served with him il
> the field. When he died she turned he
, medical knowledge to account, offered he
services to the government and was mad
medical director of camp hospitals, with
! on Ia
Until the war was over she played tn
t dart OF a Germanized- American Florenc
a Nightingale, in way that won for he
the love of many poor soldier, sorel
4 wounded and in grevious pain, who fe
. under her tender care. The war ended. sh
a settled down at Anhalt-where the Salm
e salm people have their headquarters
s tried to be staid and un-Bohemian AS wa
i to be expected, she found it very hard work
II and by way of steadying herself she marie
e couple of years ago, a MIRO Charles Heneagt
: an attache of the English Legation at Berlin
They did notget along we'll 1t was a cas-
Y of an eagle in doves nest. Heneage was
very good sort of fellow in his way. bu
y after living with such a splendid Bohemia
e as was the dead prince, the ex-princess coul
: not lind much comfort in living wit
a seenaiy soeial-law-abiding citizen as wa
this underling of the foreign Office.
e course they had rows, and thing
r came to climax when til
spirited Mrs. Charley sued he
e so-called lord and master for the FL eco
. year that he had settled upon her, but til.
. he had failed to pay. They separated, b,
u Mr.. Vice Chancellor Malins decided the su
: IN her favor, and the money has been du
and regularly paid. And now the plucky Ii
n tie woman has left the world aItogethe
o while still IN the richness of her life and
s her beauty. Let US hope that she has e
u y TINS reJolned her dear Prince in Paradise, az
u IS leading true Bohemian life amidst ii
e saints aboye-the only sort of life that ey
= agreed with her, and which she has describe
d SO well In her charming book published
k 1876, Glen Years of my Life''-a life sue
e as has fallen to the lot of but few women
IS live