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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
THE STORY.

n HE first one to greet Caleb as he
from the assault upon Hebron was his
young and beautiful daughter Achsah.
She had been the last one to bid him
God-speed as he had departed on the
expedition against the strongwalled
city of the sons of Anak, and her
words of faith and assurance that
God would give him the victory had
cheered and strengthened him in all
the fierce conflict of the days that
had followed, and while he had been
warning on the city, Achsah had kept
watch for his return, and that morn
ing had gone out along the pathway
which led from her home to the
high knoll which looked out over the
valley through which her father
would pass. 1t had been five days
now since his departure, and she felt
he must return that day, for he had
said as he waved her last good-by
that he would be back surely in four
days, and here the fifth day was near
ly half gone.
Can it be that disaster has come
to him." she asked herself, as she
looked out across the valley and
sought to penetrate the rugged path
way that led up into the rocky
heights where Hebron was situated.
mo-" she exclaimed half guilty., be-
cause of the doubt that had crept into
her heart. mo, that cannot be, for
did not God promise him this city as
an inheritance? He tarries that he
may win a yet greater victory. But
he will surely come to-day" she add
ed, as she settled herself at the foot
of a rock comfortably and gave her
self up to joyous anticipation.
When the division of the land had
been made under the direction oil
Joshua, she had felt soemwhat rebel
lious that such difficult portion should
be given to her father. why" she
had asked, petulantly, did they mo-
give you inheritance in the fruitful
valley of the Jordan? You have
fought hard and served long in be
half of Israel, is it not time that al
easy portion were given you?" Anc
her father had drawn her close to hi,
side and had retold to her all tn,
thrilling early history of Israel. How
as one of the spies he had declare,
that they We're able to overcome tn
strong city of Auakim, and that Go,
had promised that city and the coun
try round as his inheritance. "An
! do ! need an easy portion?" he ha
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

Sobieski dynasty. The definition OF
dynasty Is family Of kings. Poland
In the days of John III. 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 constf
tuition in 1871 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 tho eS
ecution Of a Sobieski (his father)
would have made thrill had 1t really
occurred" he says: Nicholas l. had
wonderfully effective method OF
quieting thrills, or at least the mani
festation OF them"
Col. Sobleski has instructed his
Chicago attorney to confer with the
Polish editor regarding the submission
of the case to Cracow university.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
SAYS INFANT GRANDSON IS ROYAL HEIR
Interesting Predicament of California Youngster and
the Romantic Life Story of His Grandfather-DriUen
from Austria by Macmillan, He Lived to Com
n,and Firing Party That Ended the Career
of His Cne- Time Prosecutor.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Sucking his bare
pink toes and calling aloud for the
royal nursing bottle, the rightful fu-
ture king of Poland lies in his cradle
In a cottage in the West Adams street
district serenely unconscious of the
kact that battle of documents and
family trees is raging over his crown
end estates.
Little does he care that rude Chi
cage editor has denied the claim that
nc is the direct descendant of Thad
deus of Warsaw and heir to q vast
confiscated estate-not to mention the
shattered Polish throne.
Ills fond father is l.. s. Gilhausen, a
clerk in the First National bank. His
grandfather Is Colonel John Sobieski,
the well-known temperance lecturer
the last of the illustrlous line of John
I'LL, 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 denounclng
Colonel Sobieski as an impostor, or
practically that. He denies Colonel
Sobiesh's claim to direct descent by
the eldest-son-of-the-eld est-son route
from King John ILL.,, the adored ma
donal 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 Sobieski OF
Los Angeles to bring forward his
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
Witnessed Stirring Scenes.

When the war was getting ready to
break, young Soblesld'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 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 precarious life off the
country. He was commissioned 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
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.
We'll, time rounds up all things"
said the unhappy prisoner.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
No Sobieski Dynasty.

In reply, Col. Sobieski points out
many places wherein the Polish editor
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 1t is a register exclusively
devoted to dynasties. I do not claim
to be of any Sobieski dynasty.
I'm the first place there was no
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
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 Sobieski t.
stow away in the old frigate Constel
lation and come to America.
He was then only a little fellow
IL years old, but managed to enlls
in the United States army as bugler
He enlisted in 1856, and two years
afterward was ordered out with thu
troops that went the desperate jour
ney across the plains to fight the Nor
mons.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
Believes In Army Y. M. C. A.

Lord Roberts has interested him.
self in the extension of the army
Y. M. G. AS in Canada, which he has
just Endorsed in these words: 81 con.
slider that these associations are doing
a great service to the army; that
their methods are thoroughly prac.
teal and fully serve the purposes for
which they are devised, namely, to
afford the men an opportunity to oc.
cupy their spare time reasonably and
to their own advantage"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
Maximillan'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 1t for his biography he says:
"The last three 81 four days of Max
imilian's life were spent almost Who'll
ly with the priest. On the morning
Of the execution, June 10, 1871
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 troops
were formed in line, the doomed men
were placed in position, Macmillan
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

standing on the right of the firing
party The firing party consisted of
sc 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
q 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 il he had any
thing to say,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

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. d. Magruder, afterward
southern general, was commander
of young Sobieski's battery.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
SERMONETTE.

This story of Othniel and
Achsah is one of the many
beautiful romances found in
Gods Word. True marriages,
II has been SAID, are made in
heaven, and certainly the Bible
gives evidence in its record of
the human race of Gods inter
} est and share in the closest tie
which can draw two hearts and
} lives together - that of mar
rage.
1t is evident from Gods
spoken word when he created
man and woman he gave them
to each other that he intended
them to be one in thought and
purpose and aim, that to so
bear life's burdens together,
and most and best of all, estab-
lish the home and raise a fam
lily about them.
But too many men and won-
en- of to-day have drifted far
from the Divine thought and
plan for the welded life. The
unhappy homes and the records
of divorce courts hear their sad
witness to the havoc which sell
fishness and sin have wrought.
No longer does there prevail the
same sacredness to the mar
rage vow. Engagements are a
thoughtless diversion, a mo-
mentary fancy to be entered
into lightly and to be cast aside
and broken ruthIessly If whim
or caprice so prompt. Marriages
are hastily contracted, or with
that shallowness of purpose
which never so much as enter
tains the faintest intention of
home making and the rearing
of family.
And when the very thought
and purpose of God is thus ruth
Iessly and sinfuly cast aside,
and man and woman enter into
relations which are not sane
titled with holy purposes and
desires what can be expected of
the ultimate outcome?
1t has been said, and we'll
said, that the greatest danger
which this country faces to-day
is the destruction of the home
life of the nation. What can
be the stamina of the coming
generation of men and women,
If they are not to have the nur-
ture and training of the pure
home atmosphere? How the
moral standards of the coming
men and women must be low
cred if they are reared in the
fetid atmosphere of all kinds of
social excuses and frivolities,
and are cursed with the DEGREES
of the divorce courts. But 1t is
not so where God has a share
) in the romance, and joins two
2 hearts in loving helpful union.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
officeholder's Gratitude IN kor,.

A Korean who was appointed tax
collector by the late Minister of vi
Keuntak has determined out of graft.
tude for this great favor to repair the
minister's summer house at consider
able expense.-Korea Daily News.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
Nation BEING Educated

Ninety-two per cent of the children
in Japan are in school. Attendance
Is compulsory between the ages of
s and IA, Three languages are
taught, Japanese. Chinese and Eng.
lish.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
Fate Gives Deferred Revenge.

Macmillan, speaking in Spanish,
said in substance that he loved Mex
leo and desired its welfare; and II
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 niece OF gold to be delivered to each
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
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 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 vile Russian prison, crawling with
vermin, for IL 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 t.
retain her estates and honors il she
would give up her son-the last So
bieski-to be sent to the Russian cap
ital and there brought up as foya
subject of the Gar
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

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 1t may seem, Macmillan
fell MORALLY 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 1t 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.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
Sees End of All Thrones.

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 calm,
handsome, gentle old mantle soul
of courtesy. Aside from his bitter
ness against monarchies whose tyran-
MES 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 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 Sobieski.
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 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
Sobiesk'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.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
cMgL.G MANushY.

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 Siemiradsh 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 1t is a
university of national importance and
standing in Poland. Colonel Sobieski
confesses that he has never heard
of It,
ct is only for my honor that am
preparing these documents" said Col
onel Sobieski to the writer.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07
He Wants No Throne.

"There is no throne in Poland. II
there were one and 1t 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 go TO the cradle
and strangle that little baby az he
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

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 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
to that noble ancestry will be consld-
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 unskillet
volley.
He was an eyewitness to the famous
battle Of the Monitor and Merrimac
led distinguished and sensational
career in the regular army; took par
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
soldier of fortune in Mexico-in the
Mexican war for independence.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-02-07

Scripture NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is
1919.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-01-04
One Too Many.

speaking of what they call dispense
tons of Providence" said the old farm
err, eve had some experience in that
direction. | once had $500 barn in
sured for $3.50. After a few days
heard of man who had a kicking
COW. She was warranted to kick over
any human being who sat down to
milk her. went to see the man and
the COW.
"'How muchY says l.
"'Take her for $1O,' says he.
81 paid him the cash and took her
home, and I says to my hired man:
"'Jim, you needn't milk that kicker
until after dark. Then take a lantern
with you
"'All right says Jim, and he follered
Instructions"
"And he was kicked over, the lantern
smashed and the barn burnedP was
queried.
Exactly"
"And the insurance was paidT
'That was where Providence took a
turn" replied the farmer. providence
got me the insurance, Providence sent
me after that kicking COW, Providence
burned the barn, but durn my hide if
Providence didn't twist things around
so that | had to take 5000 Insurance,
and 1 was almost three years getting
it!"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-01-04
LYME CENTER.


Arthur Dimick of Concord has
been visiting relatives in town, re-
turning Tuesday.
Preston Rich has finished work
IN Barre and will soon enter a
clerkship with Carter & Jones,
Hanover.
Geo. Pushee went to Concord
Tuesday to take his seat in the
legislature.
Richard Pattee of Portsmouth.
State lecturer, installed the Off
GERS Of Morning Star Grange in
a very able and pleasing manner.
tuesday evening, January 1. His
remarks were also instructive and
pleasing. Lyme Orchestra of six
pieces assisted in the program.
An oyster supper was served in
the room adjoining the hall.
The annual meeting of the Peo-
pies Telephone Co. was held at
10 O'Clock Tuesday. The follow
ing officers were elected: Pres.
W. j. Boyd; vice pres, L. G. An
dreWs; Sec, 3. B. Alden; treas,
l.. G. Andrews; directors, w. j.
Boyd, F. j. Bryant, Adna Chase.
AT the annual meeting of the
Baptist Society held Tuesday
afternoon, John A. Cook was
chosen clerk; Frank A. Chesley,
Lee G. Andrews, VIM. w. Balch,
soliciting committee for the COM
ing year; E. B. Alden, treas.
Mrs. David Lamott died sud
denly of bright's disease last Fri
day. She is survived by a hus-
band, four sons and three daugh-
ters. Funeral from the house last
afternoon the Rev. B. IA.
officiating.
Many are suffering from grip
colds.
James NJ. Cook is restricted to
his room by a pa1alytic shock.
Marston Brown of Nashua, a
native and former resident of
Lyme, died last week. He was
nearly 80 years of age.
Dwight RiGh's valuable colts
are very sick with the prevailing
distemper and colds.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-01-04

MRS. JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIEID-MRS.
OSCAR S. STRAUS.
merce and labor when Victor H. Met
calf was transferred from that post to
head of the navy department, has a
very accomplished wife. When he &C
cepted a cabinet place, he asked his
wife to make a trip to Washington and
select their home at the capital. She
saw the venetian palace" erected on
upper Sixteenth street by General John
B. Henderson and set her heart on it.
So the new secretary and his wife will
live in one of the most imposing resi-
dences in the city of Washington.
Mrs. Straus was a Miss Lavenberg
of New York and married the present
secretary of commerce and labor in
1882. They have three children, two
married daughters and son. Mrs.
Straus is much interested in girls
clubs. She once addressed gathering
of young women on Constantinople,
where she lived when her husband was
minister to Turkey. She began by say
ing Girls, do you want to travel to
COnSI3nJlnOple! anu was dDOuI 10
proceed lovingly with her subject
when, as with one voice, they all
shouted, Eyes, yesv' The lecturer was
somewhat disconnected but, recover
ing, gave her hearers graphic ac-
count Of the beautiful but dirty Belle
of the BOspOrus."
James r. Garfield commissioner of
corporations, who will become secre-
tary of the interior on the retirement
of Ethan Allen Hitchcock from that
post, married in 1890 Miss Helen New
ell, daughter of the late John Newell,
a former president of the Lake Shore
road. Commissioner Garfield is a dew
otee of tennis. and his wife is an ex-
pert at the game too. They give much
time to the athletic training of their
children and take long walks with
them into the Washington suburbs.
Mrs. Victor H. Metcalf. wife of the
new head of the navy department, was
Miss COrinne Nicholson of California
and as a society belle was noted for
her beauty. Mrs. George B. Cortelyou,
wife of the present postmaster general
and future secretary of the treasury,
is an expert at candy making. while, as
for her custard pie. it is reputed the
best in Washington.