The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-19
SUBJECT OF COL. JOHN sOBlEs
KRIS LECTURE AT cHAuTAu-
W QUA ASSEMBLY. n
Large Audience Highly Pleased With
Distinguished orator--Goes
to Anna To-day &c Ad.
dress Assembly.

Col John Sohieski, The d!sUngu he
Pole, was gree ed by large and rer
resentatiye audience al the Chautau
qua Assembly last night az Twenty
eight street and Easu Park Place,
: In deliberate manner Characters
tic Of the orator, he gave his lecture
The Rise and Fall of The Polish Re
public" many of the events of which
are famil'a ar 10 him from the fact OF
personal participation in his youth
Col Sobie HI charmed the audience
/ which was abso.bed with interest
| Throughout his lecture His address
contained much that was instructive
a. well as enterta ming AMI in every
way considered, il was one Of the best
efforts of The kinl ever heard acre
! pc SOS ing peculiar interest because
Of the ancestry Of he speaker
Col. John Sobieski was born in Pc
land. September 10, 1872 With MS
daughter he il The only known living
descendant OF the great warrior king.
John Sobi ask' Of Poland, who with an
army If 10000 men defeated an army
!of 100000 Mohammedans who were
heseiglng Vienna. and threatening 10
overwhelm Christian Enrnpe
He Is The only son of Count Iohn
Sobieski. who commanded the last
Palh uprising in 1876. and who wa
executed by the Russians with his
knsmen His mother the Coun e $
Sobieski. was banished and made her
way first 10 Italy and then to England
where she died. Young John then
scarcely ~ years old, stole on board
the United States man,of-war Con
oscillation" al Liverpool and nnnoticeI
for The land Of the free"
On arriving in New York he enlisted
as a bugler in the regular army, and
served In the Indian service until the
breaking out of the war of the Rebel
lion, when he Joined the Army of the /
Potomac and saw active service /
the war
Al The close Of the war he enlisted /
in Mexico against Macmillan and was
General E,cobedo's chief OF aft, /
being present at the execution Of Max.
milan. ...,......
Returning to the United States in
1865, he was elected to the Minnesota
egislature. Since that time ne has de
voted hi. service and his talents to the
cause of humanity, and has been con-
coded to be one OF the most eloquent.
and instructive platform
in the country
During the last twenty-five years he
las lectured in every state in the
Union. in the British provinces,
throughout England, Scotland, ireland
md Wales.
Col. Sobieski and Robert A. Sickles
will go to Anna today to address the
ssembly there today ana Sunday
The attraction at the chauauquaj
hi alte,noo and tonight will be Hon.
Eugene w Chain of Chicago This
entleman is learned, eloquent and
most TO- -ful and convincing speaker.
lis knowledge of the political situa-
ion in the state and nation Is as com
rehcnsive as the most experienced.
ie deals with the living issues OF the
ines in mastery manner.
Seldom l., the public permitted to ,
ear genuine independent in poll
c', who talks what he knows and ,
eals with conditions without bias, f.,
UGH are Mr.. Chafn's method. Every !
ne should hear him. His subject to
lghr will be Wa hingIon as a States.
IAN" Sunday afternoon his subject :
III be Christian Citizenship"