The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-12
PRINCESS SALN-SALN
Who She Is and What She
Does Now in America.
HEROINE OF THREE WARS
Beautiful, Good, Clever and as
Wild as the Winds.
HEROINE OF THREE WARS

New York, April lite Journal says:
The Princess Salm-Salm ha come back
home.
The Princess is an American.
She is the heroine of three wars.
She has helped in the maxim of the history
Of Mexico, Germany and America, and her
adventurous life has unfolded itself in
real chapters that would be deemed in
credible in a novel.
She stepped off the gangplank Of the
Wilhelm der Crosse as lightly as a girl
last Tuesday. She laughed from very
lghtness of heart as she landed in Ameri-
ca again.
She wore close fitting black gown and
jaunty turban. She held her head high.
Her dark eyes sparkled with good humor
and excitement of Homecoming. Life has
silvered her hair very slightly. There were
few lines on her face and those were about
the eyes and were made by laughter. She
looked less than forty. The Princess Salm-
Salm is fifty-eight.
Yet for all her laughter, Her Highness
has drunk deep of life
''And who is the Princess Salm-Salm?"
you ask.
She has been a circus rider.
She has been a rope dancer
She has been a soldier in three wars.
She was an officer in the American re-
bellion.
She was an army nurse and a spy.
Common soldiers have died in her arms.
but her hands have been kissed by kings.
She was the friend of President Lincoln,
the friend of Emperor Macmillan of Next
co, the friend of old Kaiser Wilhelm.
She has worn the soldiers uniform of
three countries.
She has been wounded twice in war.
She rode through the rebel lines in the
south on a cowcatcher of an engine.
She stopped a train because she had for
gotten to bring her lapdog.
She kissed President Lincoln at public
banquet in Washington, and ever after
ward, Mrs. Lincoln referred to her as that
Mrs. Salm-Salm."
She obtained a reprieve for the Emperor
Macmillan and all but secured his escape.
She was pensioned and publicly thanked
by the Austrian government for her aid
to the Inflated Macmillan.
She has seen many tragedies and many
sorrows. She has never lost her cheerful
philosophy. She is the soldier princess"
but she is the Laughing princess" too.
The princess came from Bonn Germany,
She brought with her six smoke stained
old flags Three Of these she will present
to the Eigth Regiment of New York Vol
unteers. The others she will give to the
Sixty-eigth Remgient of New York Volun-
teers. Her husband, Prince Felix Con-
stantine Alexander John Nepomucene
Salm-Salm, who was killed at the battle
Of Cavelotte, in the Franco-Prussian war,
commanded both thee regiments The
presentation will be made at Vineland. 1t
win be time for "reminiscences and tears
and laughter. For the Soldier princess
is the Laughing princess" too. She will
laugh in the ecaof death himself. She
has laughed thus many a time.
1T was in the early sixties that the
beautiful Agnes LIE Clerq appeared in
Washington, The war cloud was hanging
low and its shacows were reflected in
every face-Every face but Agnes LIE
Clerq's. That brigt, dark face dimpled and
sparkle always.
THE brave are ever the marry" she
said. Her face and her motto made Agnes
lie Clerq welcome everywhere.
She was only a professional rider. But
she rode like cloud before the wind She
was one OF the stars IN travelling circus.
She gave some cross country exhibitions
with other daredevil riders. She is 1.-The
most beautiful woman in Washington"
they used to say.
She frankly admitted that her name was
Agnes lie Clerq for professional purposes
only. She was plain Eliza joy Her father |
was a farmer of Philipeburg, in the pro-
vince Of Quebec. She had learned to ride !
on the anadian farm.
The circus manager asked Agnes lie !
Clerk TO add a flying somersault to her |
equestrian act. Miss lie CIerq rebeiIed she |
became a tight rope walker instead.
She returned TO Washington with the |
circus. There she met Prince Salm-SaIm. |
He was young and handsome and he had |
a war record that veterans thrice his age |
envied. He had served in the war between |
Austria and Denmark. The Emperor had |
presented him a sword in recognition of |
his valor He had the scars Of seven !
wounds receive in battle
He and Agnes lie Clerq fell in love at
sight. Tt was like the meeting of flint and |
steel They were married a week from the |
day they met
The civil war mad begun. The American /
Princess soul, formed for riding upon
storm clouds. burned with the fires of /
patriotism. President Lincoln embodied /
"the cause 10 her. The impulsive young /
woman lonEed to show her admiration in
emphatic fashion. Words were too feeble (
She made a wager with member Of the T
Diplomatic Corps that she would kiss the /
President before the month was gone. \ /
basket Of champagne was the stake. Three /
DAYS later she met The President at ban
Cuet. She threw her arms around his neck /
and kissed him twice. The President made /
10 protest. The women present followed /
her example. Mrs. Lincoln was angry. /
She never asain spoke of the Princess !
Salm-Salm. she always referred 20 her as (
''that Airs. Satm-Salm.'