The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-12

| the civil war. The Princess asked the
| Presidents permission. He told her he
feared complication with Germany.
Fear? Fear nothing, Mr.. PRECEDENT"
said the intrepid Princess.
The President told the Princess he would
welcome the German regiment if the
Prince would arrange the preliminaries
| with the Fatherand. And so it was that
the German regiment, the Eigth New York
| Volunteers came into being.
| The Princess Salm-Salm helped her fus-
band in the work of organizing the new
regiment. She refused TO be separated from
I him and followed the fortunes of battle
| with him. The Eigth Volunteers idolized
| their Colonel's wife. They presented them
a great tent that could be partitioned into
twelve rooms. The Eigth Volunteers en-
| camped resemb,ed the retinue of a prince.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, met the
Princess in camp. admired her beauty,
her spirits, her bravery. commissioned
| rea Captain of Illinois Volunteers. She
received a captains fee from that date.
The princess spirit of fun showed in the
very front of war. Once she CHANGED TO
remain behind her husband for a brief visit
in Baltimore. While she visited in Balti-
more the rebel line closed about the Army
of the Potomac, to which her husbands
regiment belonged. Her friends begged her
to remain with them. The Princess laugh
ed
She offered an engineer 800 TO take her
through the rebel lines on avid engine"
Bethinking herself of the story of the
army that placed its women and children
in front that it might pass safely through
! the enemys country, the Princess laugh
ed.
Are you ready?" said the Princess to
the engineer.
The engineer nodded and offered to help
her into the cab.
"No thank you" she said
The princess SaIm-Salm climbed upon the
cowcatcher and clamly took her seat.
Cor said the princess. This time she
stopped laughing and frowned.
The wild engine with the Princess sitting
on the cowcatcher, dashed five miles
through the enemy's country and into the
camp.
The Eighth Volunteers were the only
men in camp who were not amazed at the
sight. The Princess climbed off the cow
catcher and ran laughingly into the arms
of her husband.
1T is not half as bad as riding blooded
stock" she said. 81 never enjoyed a ride
so much in my life"
Once she made a journey through Vir-
ginia with a train load of troops. They
had gotten well out of sigt of the station
when she remembered that she had left
her lapdog, Jimmy behind. She jumped
upon seat and pulled the bell rope. The
train stopped. She ran back for the poodle
and returned with him in her arms. She
was laughing Of course.
A few days before the close Of the war
saw the Princess ambition gratified. Her
husband was commissioned a brigadier-
general.
"My husband made me a Princess, but
made him a general" she said.
Garrison life was too monotnous for
the Princeand Princess Salm-Salm. The
fever of war could never cool in her veins
Prince Salm-Salm and his soldier wife
Joined cause with Emperor Macmillan of
Mexico. In this as in the civil war the
Princess was a ministering angel upon the
field of battle. She raised the canteen to
the lips Of the wounded if they were
wounded. She said words of cheer to the
suffering, words of comfort to the dying.
Many a poor fellow died with his head
upon her knee. In the civil war she had
Won the blessed badge of the Red Cross
In the Mexican war she and her husband
wore the gray and silver of the Belgian
army.
She was trying to pass the lines of the
Emperor's army one night when a sentry
challenged her and demanded the pass
word
The Princess was not skilled in Span
ish as in laughter She stammered when
she tried to say Amigo" The sentry bull
let struck the arme Of the Princess
Again she was at the head of a recon |
noitirinf party that was lookinf for her
husband, who had been separated from
his command. The shot entered her Shout |
der. Her hOrsewOmanship saved he life |
She spurred er beast to a gallop and dash |
ed away like the wind over the plain gras-
es. Three men who accompanied her were
killed.
Emperor Macmillan and the Empress
arlotta were very fond of the beautiful |
American. The audacity that shocked |
Mexican society charmed the Inflated |
rulers
The Emperor made Prince Salm-Saln his |
chief aid. He shared his prison with him |
and narrowly escaped his fate.
The Princess tried to escape to the Unit |
ed States to be the recognition by this |
country Of Maximiians claim to the |
throne Spies prevented her escape. She |
wrote appealing letters to all the powers. |
Her letters were intercepted She hired |
some Indians to free the Emperor from |
prison. Her plot was exposed. She begged |
General Juarez to grant a repricve. It was /
but a short one. Maximiran's fate was
sealed by the finger that has written the |
doom of monarches,
The Prince and Princess left Austria |
when the unfortunate Maximilian was be- |
yond the need Of their ministrations. The |
Princess was pensioned by the Austrian |
government.
A in the American civil war, and as in /
the Mexican war, the laughing Princess |
followed the fortunes of her husband in |
the Franco-Prussian conflict. She followed 7
him 10 his grave after the battle OF Grave
lotte. 1t was feared that she would go /
mad The castle was az Bonn was a /
castle Of silence for VITO long, weary. dark /
years. Then the Princess paler than be /
fore and with more silver hairs in the /
shining brown coronet that nature had /
given her. emerged into the sunlight.
''He has gone" she said. 'and with him /
my heart has gone. But there are others /
to be made happy, others VINO VIII laugh, |
though I have forgotten how. I viii give /
nv lie TO them"
So the silent castle al Bonn was awaken