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Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
TABLE DELTCACIES
SOME NEW AND OLD RECIPES OF
VALUE.
Oatmeal Bread viii BE Appreciated
by Those Fond Of This Cereal
Ingredients for Batter
Pudding.

OATMEAL BREAD.-Put n heap
ing cup of dry rolled or faxed oats
into a mixing bowl, add a rounding
tablespoon of butter or lard, n level
teaspoon of salt, two cups of boiling
water, and let stand until lukewarm,
then add one-half cup of molasses,
one-half cup of lukewarm water, and
enough -four to make a drop batter,
Cover and let rise one hour. Now
mix stir with -four and let rise oveI
night. In the morning mold into
loaves, using as little -four as posi-
BILE. Put into pans, let rise, and bake
well in a moderate oven
CRANBERRY MINCE PIE.-Chop
fine one cup of %cranberries and one
half cup of seeded raisins. Line a
plate with paste and put in the Der.
ries and raisins mixed. Sprinkle with
one cup of sugar and a slightly round
ing tablespoon of flour, add one-half
cup of water to which Is added one
half teaspoon of vanilla and a pinch
of salt.
GOOD COKIES.-Cream n cup of
butter and two cups of sugar, add
three tablespoons of milk and m
rounding tablespoon Of caraway seed.
Sift two cups of flour with three
level teaspoons of baking powder and
add to the first mixture and more
flour If needed for a soft dough.
Shape into little balls, lay on a bak-
ing pan some distance apart; press
out thin and bake.
CHEESE CREAM TOAST.-Toast
six slices of bread and cover lightly
with grated cheese. Make two CUPS
of white sauce. Set the bread and
cheese in the oven for a few min
utes, then pour the sauce around and
serve at once.
STEAMED BATTER PUDDING
Beat two eggs and one rounding
tablespoon of sugar together, add M
cup of milk, one tablespoon of melted
butter, and two cups of flour sifted
with three level teaspoons Of baking
powder. Beat well and pour oven one
cup of stewed and stoned prunes in
a buttered mold. Steam one hour
and a quarter and serve with a hot
liquid auc
MULLED JELLY.-Take one table,
spoonful of currant or grape jelly,
beat with it the white of one egg and
a teaspoon of sugar. Pour on it a
teacupful of boiling water and break
in it a slice of dry toast or two
crackers.
AMSTERDAM PUDDING. - Pour
one cup scalded milk over one cup
fine cracker crumbs, add one table
spoonful butter, mix two teaspoon
fuls cocoa with one-half cup sugar,
add it to the milk, one teaspoonful
vanilla, and the whites of four eggs
beaten very stiff; boil in a buttered
melon pudding mold one hour. Serve
hot with a yellow sauce.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

Sobieski dynasty. The definition Of
dynasty is a family Of kings. Poland
in the days of John Ill. was an aristo-
cratic republic and elective monarchy.
There is a tradition that comes down,
however, that when the elective sys-
tenn was abolished by the new consti-
tuition in 1891 1t was the general
understanding that the Sobieski fam
lily was to be the royal family. The
constitution was only prevented from
going into force by the conquest of
Poland"
Col. Sobieski denies that the So
bieskis disappeared from Polish his
tory; he says they were in every fight
for Polish liberty.
Regarding the charge that the ex-
ecution of a Sobiesh (his father
would have made a thrill had it really
occurred" he says; Nicholas l. had
a wonderfully effective method Of
quieting thrills, or at least the mani
festation of them"
Col. Sobieski has instructed his
Chicago attorney to confer with the
Polish editor regarding the submission
Of the case to Cracow university.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Red River ~PrOspectOr
enD RIVER NEW MEXICO.
The superstI,lon Of Seaman.

n Superstition OF Seamen.
Seamen are superstitious, but their
notion that certain vessels are unlucky
seeing often to be borne out by facts,
says Leslie's Weekly. The steamer
Saratoga, which was sunk on the Hud-
son river several weeks ago by col
iision with the Adirondack, had long
been accounted unlucky by Hudson
river captains. Her misfortunes be-
gan by her success in getting aground
mysteriously and often when she was
new, though she had one of the most
skillful and careful of commanders;
and it was her way to get stuck in the
mud for a good long stay. An unlucky
ship which had a very eventful history
was the Cromartyshire, which was re-
Gently wrecked off the coast of Chile.
She was built in Scotland in 1879, and
her quarter century OF life was full Of
tragedy. On July 4. 1893, she sank the
French liner La B%ourgogne in a col
lision, 562 lives being lost. A few
years ago she caught fire, narrowly es-
Gaping total destruction, and her cap
tain lost his life in attempting to
jump into one of the lifeboats. Some.
times a naval vessel is believed by its
crew to be "~hoodoed." A bad state of
mind for fighting men in case of a
brush with a hostile ship.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
ONIONS IN DELICIOUS STYLE.
Variation from Usual Form in Which
They Are Served.

Bermuda onions and the silver
skins grown in this country, which
are nearly as good, are delicious
when pierced with a fork. Drain and
place in a shallow bnttered baking
pan; pour over enough milk to cover
(about one cup), into which has been
stirred a tablespoon of tapioca; add
a half teaspoon of butter, a teaspoon
of salt and a dash of pepper. Place
in the oven and bake until a light
brown on top, about 20 minutes.
Serve in the same dish. This is a
change from the ordinary creamed
onions; the tapioca is a delightful adj
dition.
The ordinary method for baking by
putting in a pie tin with an inch of
water and letting cook in a slow oven
brings toothsome results. Stewed
onions when parboiled are relieved of
the odor and aftermath of taste that
annoys some people.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
RanIshed by Macmillan.

She proudly refused, and chose ban
ishment, poverty and misery. She
babe her husband good-by, and he was
shot down the next day. At the same
time her father and brother were
killed.
Everywhere went the exiles, or
dered out by the authorities; driven
out of Austria, Prussia and Italy.
They were driven from Italy by the
Austrian viceroy, Maximilian-after-
ward the emperor of Mexico. They
took refuge in England at last. The
mother died and the son was adopted
into the family of a Polish professor,
who had been an instructor at the
United States naval academy at An
napolis. When the United States
ships of war visited Liverpool the ca
diets used to visit their old professor.
One OF them persuaded Sobieski to
stow away in the old frigate Constel-
lation and come to America.
He was then only a little fellow
70 years old, but managed to enlist
in the United States army as a bugler.
He enlisted in 1855, and two years
afterward was ordered out with the
troops that went the desperate jour
ney across the plains to fight the Nor
moRg.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
His Remarkable Life.

1t was there that fate chose him as
one of the firing party, where he wiped
out an old score against an emperor,
avenging the cruelty of his mothers
Punishment.
Follows the briefest possible glance
at his remarkable life:
He was born in 1912 in Warsaw, be-
ing the sixth in line of descent from
the great warrior monarch of Poland,
John III. His father was John Sobi-
eski, who lost his life in 184S in the
great Polish rebellion.
He says one of his earliest recol-
lections of childhood is of a sleigh
ride and the gay trappings of a Cos
sack soldier who conveyed his mother
and himself to say goodbye to his
father-about to be executed.
His father had been captured by the
Russian army and had been confined
in a vile Russian prison, crawling with
vermin, for 10 months.
Before they were allowed to see the
doomed husband and father, the young
mother was taken before the Russian
vicerOy, who offered to allow her to
retain her estates and honors If she
would give up her son-the last So
bieski-to be sent to the Russian zap
ital and there brought up as a loyal
subject of the Car.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

Behanzin, formerly king of Daho-
ney, is dead. The event recalls the
admirable work the French did a few
years ago in s%uppressing the barbarous
and inhuman customs of an African
kingdom. Dahomey, which is on the
west coast, disgraced the present civ
BLEED era by an annual semireligious
and semifestive celebration, during
which hundreds of human sacrifices
we're made. The kingdom was annexed
by the French in 1894 and the king
exiled to Fort de France, Island Of
Martinique, where he vas living with
his family at the time of the eruption
Of Mont Pele. He did not like Mar
Unique. and was allowed to move to
Algiers last April.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Value of Old Gloves.

The house worker should never
throw away her old gloves, particular.
ly her old white gloves. They are
most useful in protecting the hands
while busting, sweeping or wipine
dishes. AS women often complain
that they feel clumsy in doing their
work with gloves on, by simply cut.
ting away the finger tips this sensa.
ton is overcome. A very good pair OF
gloves which laces up the palm of the
hands and is bought several sizes
larger than the ordinary wearing
glove is the ideal working glove. But
large old gloves do as well.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

The old Polish nobleman tells of the
tragic incident of h~istory-the execu-
ttion of the e~mperor-in simple sol
der fashion. In writing an account
of it for his biography he says:
'The last three or four days of Max
imilian's life we've spent almost Who'll
y with the priest. On the morning
of the execution, June 10, 1867-a
bright, beautiful morning-he was
taken out of the old convent where he
was captured and where he had lived
during the time he was in our Gus
tody, and placed in an ambulance and
driven outside of the walls of the city
nea an old fortress, where the execu-
ton took place.
Arriving on the grounds, the troops
were formed in line, the doomed men
were placed in position, Macmillan
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Is the Jew AsslmlIabIe7

OF the material prosperity Of the
Russian Jew there can be no question.
He will never crowd our almshouses
nor be a serious drain upon private
charity. But is he assimilable? Has
he in himself the stuff of which Amer
leans are made? One point in his
favor, declares Burton J.. Hendrick in
McClure's, must be at once set down;
his enthusiasm for America knows no
bounds. He eagerly looks forward to
the time when he can be n~aturalized.
An alien Jew legally entitled to citi-
zenship is a rarity. He has no allie
glance to forswear, and he cannot re-
turn to Russia. The rapidity with
which the New York Jew adopts the
manners and trappings of Americans
almost disproves his ancient heritage
as a peculiar people. He objects to
being regarded al a thing apart, and
goes to extremes to make himself like
the native born.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

lies there than ever to allow him to
ascend any throne. Yes, my memories
of monarchy are as bitter as that"
His memories of monarchy cannot,
inded, be very happy. This gentle
old nobleman who lives so quietly in
Los Angeles saw his father led away
to be slaughtered by Russian soldiers
after long confinement in a prison so
vile a dog could not have lived in it;
saw his mother driven away from
home almost a pauper; saw her driven
like an outcast from country to coun-
try until she died an unhappy exile.
No wonder his eyes flash.
The intricate question of his right
to that noble ancestry will be consid-
cred below. The mans own life is so
interesting, SO thrilling and romantic
that it rightly takes precedence over
family trees.
Even his nearest neighbors in the
pleasant neighborhood of West Adams
street little dream that this sunny old
gentleman his lived the wild life of
a soldier of fortune.
He commanded the reserve firing
party that executed the Inflated EN-
peror Macmillan in Mexico. 1t was his
revolver that sent a shot crashing into
the ear of the emperor after he had
fallen wounded at the first unskilled
volley.
He vas an eyewitness to the famous
battle of the Monitor and Merrimac;
led a distinguished and sensational
career in the regular army; took part
in the famous expedition against the
Mormons; vas under fire 426 times
during the civil - own civil
war, not Poland's. Lastly, he became
a soldier of fortune in Mexico-in the
Mexican war for independence.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

one Of the firing party, directing them
TO take good aim.
THE firing party was now ordered
to advance, make ready, aim, hrel
Strange as It may seem, Macmillan
fell MORALLY wounded, only, exclaim-
ing as he fell: oh, my Godl my
God!' At once the commander of the
reserve firing party (Sobieski himself)
ordered n of the men from his own
party to advance, and drawing his
own revolver, ordered the soldier to
put it to the ear of the archduke and
fire. He did so, and the career of the
archduke was ended"
Col. SobIeski's long subsequent
career as lawyer and temperance lee
turer is well known. He had one son
who would have perpetuated the nam
but he died while a young child. His
one daughter married Mr.. Gilhausen,
of Los Angeles. To them a little son
has lately been born.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Worth Rememberlnn.

II you have a splinter in your finger
don't poke about with a pair Of tweez.
Ors or a needle, but make a plaster by
crushing some soap on to a place of
rag, sprinkle a little sugar over it.
MASKING 1t together with the end of a
teaspoon. This plaster applied to the
wound at night will draw the splinter,
however deeply 1t may have entered,
to the surface by the morning, so that
It a be pulled out with the fingers
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Witnessed Stirring Scenes.

When the war was getting ready to
break, young Sobieski's battery was
ordered recruited to its full strength
and the young Pole was ordered to
New York and Washington on recruit
ing duty, witnessing the Inauguration
of Lincoln, the closing debates in the
senate and many other stirring
scenes.
He went all through the civil war
and was terribly wounded the first
day of the battle of Gettysburg. It
was his privilege to be an eyewitness
to the most dramatic battle in naval
history, the first fight of the %ironclads,
the fight between the Merrimac and
the Monitor.
After the war he went into Mexico
and began another fight for a peoples
freedom. He lived the hunted life of
a guerrilla warrior, eating rattlesnakes
and living a p~recarious life off the
country. He was commissioned a col
onel. He seemed to have a charmed
life. He came through a hundred
thrilling escapades unhurt-once be-
ing the only man of an entire COM
mand to survive.
After the Imprisonment of Emperor
Macmillan, Col. Sobieski became
m of the jailers of that Austrian
potentate who had driven the two pit
lful refugees-Sobieski and his wild
owed young mother-from Italy. He
recalled that incident to the emperor's
mind one day in prison.
well time rounds up all things"
said the unhappy prisoner.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Sees End Of All Thrones.


So the last of the Sobieskis is a Gill
hansen.
After this long and exciting career
Of adventure, Col. Sobieski is a calm,
handsome, gentle old mantle soul
of courtesy. Aside from his bitter
ness against m%onarchies whose tyran-
nies have brought him such misery,
ne has other reasons for not caring
anything about the right to the empty
throne to Poland.
Before you are a middle-aged man."
he said to the writer, every throne in
Europe Will be swept away in a vast
bloodless revolution"
That is the startling theory of the
last Sobieski.
He is making a vigorous retort to
Editor Siemiradski merely to defend
his honor.
Siemiradski claims that there is not
a mention in history of any Sobieski
in recent times. He wants to know
why no Sobieski came forward as a
candidate for king at the election Of
King Stanislaus Augustus Ponia-
towski in 1854 if the family still ex-
listed. He denies the execution Of
SobIeski's father, saying that history
has no mention of it, and points out
that it would have made the nation
thrill.
He makes a great point of the fact
that the Almanach de Gotha makes no
mention of any living descendants Of
John III.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

standing on the right of the firing
party. The. firing party consisted Of
SO men, formed into two companies,
six to each of the doomed men. CTwo
traitorous generals we're executed at
the same time.)
One in each firing party of six had
a blank cartridge. There had been a
sharp rivalry for the honor of belong
ing to the firing party. l was selected
to command the reserve firing party.
When everything was ready each Of
the men was asked If he had any
thing to say.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
No sobleskl DYNASTY.

In reply, Col. Sobieski points out
many places wherein the Polish editor
c~ontradicts himself; he then proceeds.
He (the EDITOR declares that the
Almanach de Gotha has not got me on
the list. l could not presume under any
circumstances to think that my name
would appear in that distinguished al
manac, as it is a register exclusively
devoted to dynasties. l do not claim
to be of any Sobieski dynasty.
In the first place there was no
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

Many Of the young officers under
whom he served on that expedition
afterward became famous in the civil
war-Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston,
then a colonel; Capt. Hancock, after
ward the northern general; Col. AL
exander, who became Lees chief Of
staff; Fitz John Porter, Maj. Beaure-
gard. Capt. j. B. Magruder, afterward
a southern general, was commander
of young Sobieski's battery.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Cheese Biscuit.

Roll some puff paste out thin and
sprinkle over it a dash of cayenne
and dry grated cheese to cover it;
double up the paste, roll it out again
and cut 1t with a small round cake cut.
ter, says a writer in What to Eat
Brush owe the biscuit with an egg,
lay them on a Toured tin and bake in
a hot oven to a very pale brown. Any
stale bits of cheese may be pleasingly
used in this way.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

Tribes in the Indian territory are to
be formed into companies to control
the coal and asphalt lands in the ter
ritory. If there is any scalping done
In the subsequent business transac-
tons Of the companies 1t will be of the
good. old-fashioned sort.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21

Color-Sergeant James Gregory, a
Crimean hero, who has died at Taun-
ton, England, has seven sons and four
daughters, Of whom ten are six feet
Aign. Six of the SOM were in the
army at the same time.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
Fate eIves Deferred Rsvenae.

Macmillan, speaking in Spanish.
said in substance that he loved Mex
leo and desired its welfare; and If
shedding his blood would be the means
of bringing peace and happiness to the
distracted country he was willing to
die. He asked that the commander Of
the firing party advance to him, and
he delivered to that officer six pieces
of gold which is equivalent to about
ten dollars of our money. He ordered
a piece Of gold to be delivered TO eeOG
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
cE9s Z.6 Oh AALt5HN

proofs of descent. He suggests that
his documents and proofs be submit
ted to the Imperial Academy of Sci
ence at Craoow.
He may be somewhat chagrined to
learn that the paper containing his
defy has come into the hands of Col
onel Sobiesh, who has promptly ac-
copied the challenge. He has written
to the Chicago Record-Hera and to
Editor Siemiradski that he will be
pleased to leave the question to the in
~stitution of learning named in the
defy If 1t can be shown that 1t is a
university Of national Importance and
standing in Poland. Colonel Sobieski
~cOnfesses that he has neve heard
OF II.
1T is only for my honor that l am
preparing these documents" said Col
Onel Sobieski TO the writer.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1907-02-21
He Wants No Throne.

There is no throne in Poland. If
there were n and it were offered to
me, / give you my ord l should re-
fuse It,"
The eyes OF the old nobleman flashed
as he added:
Rather would / go to the cradle
and strange that little baby as he
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-02
Almost Forgotten.

Francis J. Murphy, whose death
was reported Sunday from Los An
geles, had passed out of the minds
of thousands of people who saw and
heard him twenty-five and thirty
years ago. He was best known in
the East at about the time the
reform club wave surged highest,
uniting men and women of all be-
liefs and no beliefs In practical,
neighborly work against drunken
ness.
Most of these reform clubs have
disappeared; just as have vanished
the bulk of the Good Templar
lodges that fiourished years ago, but
the work done by both agencies
through moral suasion and helpful
ness was strikingly effective, and in
hundreds of cases it made strong,
upright, self-respecting citizens out
of the victims of intemperance.
Murphy, at the outset of his re-
form career, appealed directly to
the people. He talked plainly and in
unpublished language, but his mes
sage rang true, and it went to the
hearts of those over whose heads
other temperance workers had fired.
He had been a hard drinker, a
keeper of a saloon. He had served
a term for manslaughter. He went
from Jail to mission work.
The number of those who signed
the pledge under his persuasion has
been estimated at million. Figures
are not all-important. 1t is GUS
tomary, especially in country towns,
when a temperance wave is on, to
have everybody sign.th pledge, lit
tie and big, men and women, drink
ers and total abstainers, Yet, re-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-02
What Kind p?

Indianapolis reports that certain
radical temperance people connected
with the church of which Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks is a member are OPP
posing his selection as a delegate
10 the quadrennial conference, on
the ground that he caused cocktails
TO be served at the luncheon to
President Roosevelt on the occasion
of the dedication of the Lawton
monument.
The charge is serious. 1t should
not be hastily made. What kind of
cocktails did the Vice President
serve? The temperance people of In
dianapolis should understand that
there are various species, some of
which are harmless, while others,
it must be admitted, bite like a sea
serpent and sting like an adding
machine.
The oyster cocktail is heaIthful. it
is claimed by those who are able to
use catsup without becoming more
than mildly intoxicated. There is a
lobster cocktail, so called because it
is ordered almost exclusively by lob
sters. Again there is a South Bos-
ton cocktail, into which goes every
thing behind the bar except the
license.
Why dwell upon such an unpleas-
ant subject? What kind of cock
tail did the Vice President present
to the President and the other
guests? Get the facts. Be not
overhasty. If it was Martini, or
Manhattan, there is no defense. But,
it is surely possible-Is it not?-
that there is a buttermilk cocktail
on the Fairbanks wine list.