Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-22

emptying her purse to find comforts for
the sick or wounded soldiers.
Everyone loved her and it was largely
! to her influence that her husband owe
his military advancement. MY aus
band made me a princess, but l made
him a general" she once proudly said.
II would have remained a colonel with
out a regiment but I procured for him
the command of the Eighth and raised
for him the SiXty-eighth regiment"
The regiment to which she referred
was the Eighth New York and the chief
object of her visit to this country is to
present to the men who followed her
husband the cOlors that were carried so
braVely throughout the war. That they
at least will give her a royal welcome
there can be no shadoW of doubt.
At the conclusion of the civil war the
Prince and Princess Salm-Salm spent
some time in Washington but they finally
went to Mexico and Joined their fortune
with that of Macmillan. Again the
princess showed her devotion to her hus-
band by remaining near him and when
the cause of the emperor fell they left
Mexico and went to Europe. A few years
later the prince died and the princess
grievcd for him so sorely that, although
scarcely more than SO years Of age, her
hair soon turned gray. At that time she
decided to enter a convent and she went
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The holy father received her kindly
and listened to the story of her sorrow.
He finally told her, however, that he
did not believe that she was fitted for
a religious life and suggested that she
think the matter over for a year before
entering the %nunnery. She did this and
before the year had ended was very
grateful for the advice.
Since the death of Prince Felix the
princess has lived at Bonn-on-the-Rhine.
near Cologne, the home of one branch of
the Salm family. She receives a hand
some annuity from the emperor of Aus
tria in recognition of Primo Salm-Salm's
and her own services in behalf of the I'M
fortunate Macmillan and this in addition
to a legacy that was left her by a distant
relative in America, whom she had not
seen since she was a child, has enabled
her to spend her life in comparative
luxury. She has lived these years very
quietly, however, going into society but
seldom although the princes family have
often urged her to become one of their
circle and she has always been welcome
at the Court of Austria.
In spite of her high position the prin-
cess has never told the story of her early
life. Many years ago she published har
diary but this volume had to do chiefly
with her experiences as her husbands
companion during his military career in
! lit al llic VI tlS 'Illlth oIdl1S utIl
Mexico. In speaking of her earlier
years she said:
II am not writing my biography, and
l am therefore dispensed from the ne
cessity of describing my cradle. the emo
tons | experienced in admiring my first
pair of shoes, and disSecting my soul
for the amusement of some curious
people. | confess it affords me even a
/ malicious pleasure to diSappOint, in this
respect. a number of persons who for
years have taken the trouble Of invent
inc the most romantic and wonderful
stories in reference to my youth, tax
ing their fancy to the utmost to take
revenge on me for my silence. May
they do so: their benevolent SUPPOSE
lions will not induce me to dispel by
plain and dry reality the romantic cloud
in which they have wrapped my youth
With these words the Princess Salm-
Salm dismissed the subject that had 50
long been of interest and she is, there
fore, almost as great a mystery today
as she was when, as a girl, her attrac-
tive personality and WinSOme manner
won for her the hearts of the men of
Washington and the hand of one of the
sons of q proud German house.