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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
APPLES PROPAGATE MOTHS.
Germans Give Warning Against Keep.
ing the Fruit in Dwellings.

Germany has found peril
IN apples. They are the principal
medium for the propagation and
spread of the destructive house moth
(Glycyphagus domesticus), according
to observations recently made.
The discovery was the result Of a
plague of moths at Griez and the vii
lagos surrounding it. The larvae were
traced to the stores of apples kept
In the houses and outhouses and
thence to the trees themselves.
The larvae are found first of all in
the apple blossoms. AS the fruit
grows they cluster in the conical de-
preston about the stem.
When the fruit is taken into the
hause it is laden with the eggs. The
propagation of the eggs is said to be
prodigious.
When the fruit is taken into the
house the eggs find their way into
clothing, hangings, carpets and up
holstered furniture, and the insect is
Matched out, with the we'll known
ruinous results. The eggs are also
said to be the cause of the white
nothing that is SO often noticed on
dried fruit.
AS result Of the discoveries, it is
urged that apples never be taken into
dwellings without careful cleaning
and even then they should never be
kept in living-rooms, and the peelings
should be promptly removed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
JOHN DIS NEW WIG HELD UP.
Billed at 81, but Customs Officials sa,
That 1t Is Worth $75.

Cleveland.-John D. Rockefeller will
not be allowed to wear his new French
wig until he pays full duty on it. 1t
is being held by the revenue officers
here because it's value is given at 81,
while the officials insist it is worth
s75.
Mr.. Rockefeller ordered the wig
when he was in Paris last summer. It
was billed in December, and the state
ment of its maker says it is worth five
francs, or about 81.
When the wig arrived here ]. T. Ball,
clerk in the customs Office, examined
1t. He admired the soft gray locks.
Fine piece of work." he said.
Then he looked at the bill.
"That wigs worth more than a dol
lar" he declared
Ball showed the wig to the proprie-
tor of Euclid avenue hairdressing
establishment.
What's such a wig worth?" he
asked.
About s75," was the reply.
The decision was reached that
Rockefeller should not have his wig
until he paid duty on price nearer its
value.
Mr.. Rockefeller has had many and
varied experiences with his wigs.
When he first wore one he appeared at
the Euclid Avenue Baptist church and
caused a sensation. The wig was an
amateurish affair, ill-fitting and full
Of bumps and eccentricities.
Later he got another wig made in
New York That was better. The
French wig is supposed to be the best
Of them all.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

Los Angeles, Cal-Sucking his bare
pink toes and calling aloud for the
royal nursing bottle, the rightful flu
ture king of Poland lies in his cradle
in cottage in the West Adams street
district serenely unconscious of the
fact that battle of documents and
family trees is raging over his crown
and estates.
Little does he care that rude Chi
cago editor has denied the claim that
he is the direct descendant of Thad-
deus of Warsaw and heir to vast
confiscated estate-not to mention the
shattered Polish throne.
His fond father is L. 9. Gilhausen, a
clerk in the First National bank. His
grandfather is Colonel John Sobieski,
the well-known temperance lecturer
the last of the illustrious line of John
ILL.,, who rescued Europe from the
Turks.
From life of quiet retirement, this
grandfather and grandchild have burst
suddenly into national fame.
Recently Polish editor named
Siemiradski came into print in the
Chicago Record-Herald denouncing
Colonel Sobieski as an impostor, or
practically that He denies Colonel
Sobieski's claim to direct descent by
the on-ofthe-eldest-son route
from King John I'LL, the adored ma
tional hero of Poland-again not to
mention the throne and the great es-
tates.
This editor with a name like a
sneeze claims that the last genuine
sobieski died over a century and a
half ago. He calls upon Sobiesh of
Los Angeles to bring forward his
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

and began another fight for peoples
freedom. He lived the hunted life OF
guerrilla warrior, eating rattlesnakes
and living a precarious life off the
country. He was commissioned a col.
onel He seemed to have a charmed
life. He came through hundred
thrilling escapades unhurt-once be-
ing the only man of an entire COM
mand to survive.
After the Imprisonment of Emperor
Macmillan, Col. Sobiesli became
one of the jailers of that Austrian
potentate who had driven the two pit
iful 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.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
How to Make Madras Curry.

Made from any scraps of veal or any
cold meat.
One large onion, one large apple,
one dessertspoonful of prepared cocoa.
nut, one dessertspoonful of chutney,
one dessertspoonful of brown sugar,
one dessertspoonful of curry powder.
one dessertspoonful of curry paste, one
tablespoonful of vinegar, one pinch of
salt, the juice of half lemon, three
quarters of a pint of new milk.
Fry the onion and apple in little
dripping until brown, then put It into
saucepan, add cocoanut, chutney,
curry paste, curry powder, sugar, salt
and stir together, then add lemon juice
and vinegar, lastly the milk.
Let it simmer for one and a half
hours, stirring often; about half an
hour before serving add the cold meat,
cut into little blocks, and serve with
boiled rice.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
Steers Heed Masters Call.

Columbia, Mo.-In response to their
masters call, heard quarter of
mile away above the roar of raging
waters in the blackness of a stormy
night, a herd Of CT steers, penned in
a lot surrounded by a barbed-wire
fence, leaped into the roaring stream
from the spot where they had taken
their last stand on high ground in
the middle of the lot, swan over the
fence and, swimming in body, reach
ed the shore without a single loss.
Such is the report which reached Co.
lumbia from Perche creek, seven miles
west of this city. The creek, which
joins the Missouri only few miles
from the point in question, was on a
rampage and had flooded the country
for miles.
kodoi Dyspepsia Cure
UlnUvtJ WlMt HUH Uuk
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
NEARLY BURNED UP IN MOSS.
1osebushes Shipped in Midwinter Are
Found Almost Ablaze.

st. Louis.-Two large refrigerator
cars of, young rosebushes were re-
ceived at Hannibal, Mo-, from nur-
sery in California They were shipped
In wooden cases containing numerous
augur holes for ventilation and were
carefully packed with wet sphagnum,
or California swamp moss, to prevent
chatting and to support their vitality.
No ice was put in the cooling tanks
and the covers of these as well as all
other openings in the cars were closed
as tightly as possible. The cars were
ten days in transit. The outside tenn
perature was 60 degrees Fahrenheit
at the start and Is degrees at the end
Of the trip.
Upon the arrival steam was issuing
from every crevice of the cars. Upon
removing the tank covers it rushed out
In a large volume. The doors were
opened and ice was put in the tanks;
the free circulation of cold air soon
cooled the contents of the cars.
In unloading it was discovered that
some of the upper layers of boxes
were badly damaged by heat, which
naturally was most intense near the
top of the cars. No signs of actual
combustion were found, but this would
probably have occurred in short time
had not the cars been quickly cooled.
The temperature must have been
nearly up to the burning point, as
many of the green stems of these
plants were black and brittle
Wet sawdust in large quantities fire.
quently becomes hot in the interior
even when exposed to winter weather;
In fact, the lower the temperature
Of the atmosphere the hotter usually
the sawdust.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
Banished 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 Sobiesh to
stow away in the old frigate Constel-
lation and come to America.
He was then only little fellow
,l2 years old, but managed to enlist
in the United States army as 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
mons.
Many Of the young officers under
whom he served on that expedition
afterward became famous in the civil
war-Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston,
then 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.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
How to Remove Paint sno+e

Paint may be removed from cloth
Ing by the application of equal parts
OF ammonia and turpentine we'll
shaken together. Apply carefully to
the actual paint spot and let it pene-
trate for five or ten minutes; repeat
two or three times and the paint will
come off in flakes In wash fabrics
this treatment is very successful, even
II the paint has been dried on for q
lepx period 80
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
No sobieski Dynasty.

In reply, Col. Sobieski points out
contradicts himself; he then proceeds.
HE (the editor) declares that the
Almanach de Gotha has not got me on
the list. could not presume under any
circumstances to think that my name
would appear in that distinguished al
manac, as it Is register exclusively
devoted to dynasties. | do not claim
to be of any Sobieski dynasty.
'In the first place there was no
Sobieski dynasty. The definition Of
dynasty is family of kings. Poland
in the days of John Ill. was an aristo-
cratic republic and elective monarchy.
There is tradition that comes down,
however, that when the elective sys-
tenn was abolished by the new consti-
tuition In 1871 it 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 Sobieski (his father)
would have made thrill had it really
occurred" he says: Nicholas I. 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.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

candidate fer King at the election OF
King Stanislaus Augustus Ponia-
towsk; in 1854 if the family still ex-
listed. He denies the execution of
Sobleslli'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 Ill.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
GOVERNOR OF CARACAS SLAIN.
Assassins captured-Prominent Men
Are Thrown Into Jail.

Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 80 (de-
layed)-General Luis Mata y Illas, the
governor of Caracas, was assassinated
in cafe in this city last Monday
night. The assassins were captured
in the mountains to-day without blood
ihed and are now in prison here.
After the assassins had been cap
tured General Francisco Teran, Loren
20 Carvalla and other leading sup
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
Witnessed Stirring Scenes.

When the war was getting ready to
break, young Sobiesd'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 1t
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
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
porters OF wee PRESIDENT Gomez were
thrown into jail,

thrown into Jail.
Domipgo Carvajal was appointed to
succeed General Mata y Has as gov
erner of Caracas, but he died of heart
failure a few hours after being told
of his appointment. The appointment
of DR.. Angel Carnevali Montreal as
governor of the city was announced
to-day.
z Among the assassins was Eusebio
Gomez, a cousin of the vice president.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

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
soldier of fortune.
He commanded the reserve firing
party that executed the Inflated En-
peror Macmillan in Mexico. 1t was his
revolver that sent shot crashing into
the ear of the emperor after he had
fallen wounded at the first unskilled
volley.
He was 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; was under fire 426 times
during the civil war-our own civil
war, not Poland's. Lastly, he became
a soldier of fortune in Mexico-in the
Mexican war for independence.
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 1848 in the
great Polish rebellion.
He says one of his earliest recol-
lections of childhood is of sleigh
ride and the gay trappings of 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 cap
ital and there brought up as loya.
subject of the Gear.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

vigor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become SO prevalent
that it is not unconl-
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
1yeo1- 1-i5pa,-c 1ffbe
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

Constipation causes headache, nausea
dizziness, languor, heart palpitation.
Drastic physics grippe, sicken, weaken
the bowels and don't cure. Doan's
Regulets act gently.and cure consti-
patiUn. % cents. Ask your druggist
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
one of the firing party, directing them

one of the firing party, directing them
to take good aim.
The firing party was now ordered
to advance, make ready, aim, fire!
Strange as it may seem, Macmillan
fell mortally wounded, only, exclaim-
ing as he fell: oh, my God! my
God! At once the commander of the
reserve firing party (Sobieski himself)
ordered one 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 name
but he died while young child. His
one daughter married Mr.. Gilhausen,
of Los Angeles. To them a little son
has lately been born.
Sees End of All Thrones.
So the last of the Sobieskis is Gill
hansen.
After this long and exciting career
of adventure, Col. Sobieski is calm,
handsome, gentle old mantle soul
of courtesy. Aside from his bitter
ness against monarchies whose tyran-
MES have brought him such misery,
he 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 vast
bloodless revolution"
That is the startling theory of the
last Sobieslli.
He is making 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 EobissM came forward az q
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
cMAS LIS MH4usEM.

proofs of descent. He suggests that
his documents and proofs be submit
ted to the Imperial Academy of Sci
ence at Cracow.
He may be somewhat chagrined to
learn that the paper containing his
defy has come into the hands of Col
onel Sobieski, who has promptly &C.
cepted the challenge. He has written
to the Chicago Record-Herald and to
Editor Sie1niradski that he will be
pleased to leave the question to the in
stitution of learning named in the
defy if it can be shown that it is a
university of national Importance and
standing in Poland. Colonel Sobieski
confesses that he has never heard
of it.
ut is only for my honor that am
preparing these documents" said Col
onel Sobieski to the writer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
Women as Well as Men Are Mads
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discouragesan and lessons ambition; beauty,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
He Wants No Throne.

"There is no throne in Poland. If
there were one and it were offered to
me, l give you my word l should re-
fuse it,"
The eyes of the old nobleman flashed
as he added:
Rather would I go to the cradle
and strange that little baby as he
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 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
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

child urinates too often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet-
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diff
Guilty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made 1nlser-
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp-ROot is soon realized. 1t is sold
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
Col. John Sobieski, Once SOL
der of Fortune, Direct De-
scendant of 7haddeus
of WARSAW.
SAYS INFANT GRANDSON IS ROYAL HEIR

Interesting Predican1ent of California Youngster and
the Romantic Life Story of His Grandfather-DriUen
from Austria by Maximihan He Lived to Com
mand Firing Party That Ended the Career
of His One Time Prosecutor.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12
Maximilian's Execution.

Maximilian's Execution.
The old Polish nobleman tells of the
tragic incident of history-the execu.
ttion of the emperor-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 were spent almost who'll
ly with the priest. On the morning
of the execution, June 10, 1S67-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
near an old fortress, where the eXecu
ton took place.
Arriving on the grounds, the troop
were formed in line, the doomed men
we're placed in position, Macmillan
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. 1.-TWO
traitorous generals were executed at
the same time.)
zone in each firing party of six had
blank cartridge. There had been a
sharp rivalry for the honor of belong
ing to the firing party. 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.
Fate Gives Deferred Revenge.
Macmillan, speaking in Spanish
said in substance that he loved Mex
leo and desired it's welfare; and il
shedding his blood would be the means
of bringing peace and happiness to the
| distracted country he was willing tt
die. He asked that the commander o
the firing party advance to him, ant
he delivered to that officer six pieces
of gold which is equivalent to sbou
ten dollars of our money. He ordered
a piece of gold to be delivered to eacl
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root,
including many of the thousands of testi-
monial letters received from sufferers
cured. In writing DIR. Kilner & Co.,
Bingha1nton, N. ", be sure and mention
this paper. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swanlp-Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swanp-Root, and the adj
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
bottle
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-02-12

by druggists, i'll fifty.
cent and one-dollal
size bottles. You may
have a sample bottle
h,, mail free also {