The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-18

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Louis Blenber, and one afternoon while
the army lay in front of Washington, Miss
I,eclprca was included with a party of Wis.,
itors from the Capital City who went the
rounds of the camps to see the sights.
The prince was introduced, but couldn't
converse in English. Some of the women,
among them the future princess knew no
other tongue but
soft ewes looked love TO eyes which spake again.
and "a brief camp cOurtship led the way to
the priest, where private ceremony made
the sprightly actress the wife of soldier.
such n fate doesn't necessarily involve IA
remarkable career, but If the soldier chance .
to he n prince Of restless and warlike stock .
there are possibilities in the situation.
The prince for Il couple of years did not /.
get away from the circle of capital intrigue,
and being an honest, modest German he
lacked the diplomacy needed to make head
way in the scramble for preference Luckily
for him, his wife was thoroughly schooled
in the secrets of official life, for she had
been reared in the family of II cabinet
official and had noticed the part woman
often plays rs IA power behind the throne.
Through her Cleverness entirely Salm-Salm
was saved from the disgrace of dismissal
when his superior, General Blenker, fell
under a cloud, and was appointed colonel
of the Eighth New York regiment. When
dismissal was hanging over him ready to
come at any moment, his wife hurried to
Washington to secure his appointment TO
command. II was necessary that it
should be among Germans, and but one
vacancy existed, the colonelcy of the
Eighth New York. The princess laid the
case before Senator Ira Harris of New
York, who declared that it was hopeless.
Governor Morgan he said, was n stern
woman hater upon whom Establishments,
smiles or entreaties would be wasted. But
the plucky wife appeared at the executive
chamber in Albany and announced that
she would sit down and wait until the
governor found n German regiment lack
ing a head and made cut and delivered to
her in person a commission for Prince
Salm-Salm as colonel of the same. The
tactics prevailed in n couple of hours and
Staff Officer Salm-Salm resigned, honor
ably, to muster in again AS colonel of the
Eighth. The regiment was one of few
enlisted for two years and was discharged
from service in May, 1868, leaving the
prince again without a command. The
colonelcy of the Sixty-eighth, Ger
man regiment, was vacant, but the
ranks were not full by several hun
bred men. Prince Salm-Salm was of
fered the position if he would recruit
men enough to complete the organization.
Several plans for this failed and at last
the princess took the matter in hand. She
found in Washington several hundred un-
assigned recruits which were secured after
long battle of diplomacy. One hundred
of them belonged to Illinois, and the gov
ernor of that state, Dick Yates, said that
he was willing to let his men go to New
York regiment, but they must be led by IL
captain who was not a New York dump
kin, rs he expressed it, The princess
quickly assured him that that shouldn I
happen if she had to take command of
them herself. Acting on the hint, Governor
Yates appointed her captain ON "A regular
salary, and the whole battalion accompa-
MED her to the camp in New York. Salm-
Salm was duly commissioned colonel and
took the regiment to the west, where it
served in the field until the war ended.
The princess joined the corps of army
nurses and gave the suffering boys in blue
the benefit of her art in diplomacy, II
there were any supplies to be had, the ir-
repressihle nurse cut red tape and secured
them, law or no law.
One day she broke down the rules OF
discipline fixed by the prince himself
Sitting in his tent while he was absent
she heard sounds of human distress at the
guardhouse nearby. They We're traced Il
n soldier who had been bucked and gagged
with a bayonet in his mouth. His offenst
was refusal to obey an order of ColOne
Salm-Salm, then commanding the brigade
The princess demanded from the adjutan