El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-19
KAISER'S AMAZONS
When william Goes Hunting He Will
Have Regiment OF Women
Mounted On Horses.

When Emperor William goes to en-
Joy the hunting season in Prussia.
which he will do as soon as the yacht
ing season closes, he will be received by
regiment of 500 cavalry women.
They are Lithuanian girls aud are now
organizing to receive the Kaiser. The
regiment will be known the Impe-
rial Mounted Women Volunteers, and
of a more unique body of troops no SOW
ereipn 10 the world can boast.
The homes of those cavalry amazons
ere in the district which lies far in the
north of the empire, between the Bal
tic, Russia and Poland. They are of
the race that became famous under the
Jsgellone.
one which the Lithuanian girls
ORIGINATED themselves. When they
made their proposition to the officials
OF their province they said:
1--WE make one condition-our duke
(meaning the Kaiser) must have no
other bodyguard. During the time OF
his stay ia our country we want 10 be
his soldiers. We will garrison his
castle, will beat the game for him.
will attend him on his trips around the
country and see him safely home when
he desires to return"
Count Bismarck communicated with
the emperor's court marshal to find
out whether the offer would prove
acceptable. The court marshal
wrote:
st all depends on the girls. Go and
look them over"
So his excellency invited his fair pc
titioners to meet him at Trakehen, the
celebrated horse farm, and at the same
place for the use of a hall. But 1t the
hall had been as big as Madison Square
Garden it couldn't have accommodated
the assembly, for every one of the 600
came on horse back, many
bringing led horses, and all insisted
upon attending the council seated on
their chargers.
and Count Bismarck, who Is already a
little stiff in his joints, had to mount q
blooded horse, despite his rheumatism,
q ad make speech from the saddle. |
President Hegel, of the Gumbinnen
translated the address into the |
Did Prussian tongue, for the Llthun1ans |
DO not understand German, and an ex-
change of views followed, with this re-
suit:
''The provisional government &C.
,epts the services of the Lithuanian
women with view of selecting from
hem 500 to make up q regiment. The
regiment is to be uniformed in the ma
ional dress of the country and select
ts own officers, subject to the approval
If the president of the district. Mem
,ers of the regiment furnish their own
lorses, and each officer or sub-officer
8 entitled to have a led horse. The
,orse may be put out to grass on the
oval estates, but oats must be provid-
ID by its owner.
"The name and style of the regiment
8 Imperial Mounted Women Volun-
eers. Its mem bers are entitled to the
rdipary soldiers mess, but receive Eo
ay."
Then the native women gave an i'm
exhibition of their horseman-
hip, and. after drink of ''mead," a
trong, fermented liquor made of honey
nd water, richly spiced, scampered
IF.
They have been drilling under their
etmen twice week ever since; and
5 these hetmen have invariably seen
Military service either as privates Or
on-commissioned officers, they are
'ell able to teach the girls their bust
ess. OF late Count Bismarck ordered {