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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
MaxlmiIian's Execution.

MaximiIian'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, 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
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
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.)
"One 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. 1 was selected
to command the reserve firing party.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
A UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS PARTY.
Two Girls Gave Novel and origna
Entertainment with Pictures.

Two girls who are enthusiastic anna.
teurs in the use of the kodak gave a
delightful and original party last
year, says a writer in The Housekeep-
er. The invitations sent out were
kodak pictures of the two entertain
ers In different poses, but in each in
stance a newspaper, book, fan or UNI
brella concealed the faces. The in
vitations ran:
''These headless ladies at home,
January II, s o'clock"
Not little guessing and comparing
notes was necessary among those in
yited to decide with certainty upon
the identity of the Would-be hostesses.
The guests were received in a pref
ty room, half studio, half sitting room,
where, after few minutes lively con-
Versation, they were given cards deco
rated with tiny photographs of the
house in which the party was given,
with pencils attached.
Their attention was then called to
the numbered photographs tackled up
on the wall, each representing some
well known book The titles were to
be written opposite the number on
the card corresponding to that of the
photograph. In one or two instances,
where the book title was not widely
known, the name of the author was
printed on the card.
Miss Alcott's Little Women" ''Lit-
tie Men" and "Old-fashioned Girl"
Seton Thompson's wild Animals
Have Known" and Holmes over the
Teacups" and "Autocrat of the Break
fast Table" lent themselves readily to
Photographic illustration. Among
others were 1.-THE Masquerade" "a
lady in domino and mask; Prince
(prints) of Indian" 1.-THE Crisis" Tin
fudge making), and ''To Have and To
Hold" "a wedding).
Thirty minutes were allowed for
making out the list Of titles. The
prize for the most complete list was a
handsome photograph in passepartout
of locally celebrated spot. The con-
ISOLATION prize, the photo of the family
cat, yawning prodigiously.
Partners for supper were selected
by matching kodak pictures cut in
half. The menu was written on the
back of mounted photograph of the
principal public building of the city.
The evening closed with fun and
flashlights.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

ice alone. I always accompanied my
mother, but on this particular Sunday
she was slightly indisposed, and there
by forced to remain at home.
81 was occupying seat very near
the pulpit, and the theme of the di.
vine was Am / My Brothers Keeper
after preaching about Is minutes
he reached the climax of his remarks
with the words of his subject, and his
gaze seemed to rest directly on me.
I commenced to fidget little, but he
didn't turn his eyes from mine for a
second and after a short pause he
burst forth again: Am I my brothers
keeper
Il could stand it no longer. and an
swered in meek voice: No. sir 7"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
snoilinu 2 War Story,

There is a certain war veteran In
Boston whom we will call William
Brown. He has an honorable record
and is fond of relating incidents OF
the rebellion. He often tells how be
got a cut on the head from the sword
of confederate cavalryman. There
is small bare place which he says
was the scar of this wound. Many
time we who work in the same Office
with him have heard this story.
Brown has a brother Charles who
came into the Office the other day
to make call. Bill was at his desk
writing when Charlie walked up be-
hind him and giving him a slap on
the shoulder, said loosely: We'll,
Bill, see you still have that scar on
your head where Buffers dog bit you
when we were boys!" From that
time one Of Bills war stories gets
little credence from lis.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

Yarmouth, of Louisiana. I spent an
hour or more with him at the Ebbitt
House in Washington one evening in
1880, and I thought him one of the
most enrapturing persons had ever
come across. His voice and manner
held me spel1bound.
ANDY Johnson, of Tennessee, had
a splendid face, with sparkling little
black eyes, and from his lips some
times spiteful words dropped like
pearls. William NJ. Gwin, of Califor-
MIA, was massive but courtly and had
a complexion like peach.
'In the house before the war there
were some remarkably handsome
men, among whom was Dan Daniel
E.) Sickles, for whom / cast my first
vote in the Fifth ward of New York
in 1856. He was the finest looking
man in congress at that time. The
next handsomest congressman was
Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland,
who was one of the most brilliant ora
tors in congress.
'tBut Blaine, who came later, was
the handsomest and most magnetic Of
all. Conkling also was exceedingly
handsome and even majestic (if may
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

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 q cottage in the West Adams street
dlstrlct serenely unconscious of the
Tact 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
ne is the direct descendant of Thad-
deus Of Warsaw and heir to O vast
conhscated estate-not to mention the
shattered Polish throne.
His 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 illustrious line of John
HI, who rescued Europe from the
Turks.
From a life Of quiet retirement, this
grandfather and grandchild have burst
suddenly into national fame.
Recently a 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 eldest-son-of-the-eld route
from King John III, the adored ma
tional hero of Poland---again not to
mention the throne and the great es-
fates.
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
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
School Without PuplIs.

A peculiar condition of affairs ex.
lists in the Concow school district at
GRANVILLE, Cal. The trustees desire the
retention of tho present teacher, while
the parents insist change shall be
made The differences have resulted
in deadlock. The trustees have no
children to send to school, and as the
parents refuse to send theirs, the
school has no pupils. The teacher in
charge appears every day, calls the
roll and remains throughout the day,
observing the regular routine of
school work, dismissing for recess and
noon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Mud Houses sulIt By Wasps.


A naturalist has thus described the
habits Of a species of wasp that makes
it's nest Of mud, says the Dundee Ad-
vertiser. The mud of which their
nests are composed, he said, is often
carried for some distance, and it is
essential for them to use good, stiff
clay. At the edge of some pond or
stream you may see these insects roll
sticky little balls out of the stiff mud
with their strong jaws. With this
heavy load of mud they rise slowly,
and, having gained some height, they
get their bearings and fly in straight
line to their nest. In this they resem-
BILE the bees; indeed, all the wasps
and bees seem to have wonderful
faculty for flying directly home from
any point When the wasp has gained
the place selected for building site
she puts the tiny ball of mud against
the wall Of the building and ribs it
tight by moving her head from side to
side very rapidly. The outer surface
of the nest shows series of rings,
with sharply defined lines between
most of them, but the interior is al.
ways extremely smooth and almost a
perfect cylinder. While building her
nest the insect continually runs in and
out of the tiny cylinder, examining it
infinitely with her "feelers." If a
rough place is felt on the inner sur
face she carefully sets to work and
rubs it smooth. When the cylinder Is
finished the wasp goes hunting for
Snidars
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Apples That Look Like Pears.

A tree bearing apples shaped like
pears is to be seen in an orchard at
Yorktown, N. Y. Some marks of in
sects' work near the stems of the
strange fruit are taken as indicating
that the upper portion of it was
checked in early development, while
the lower part developed naturally
giving the matured apple the form of
a pear. Pear-shaped apples and an
Performed pears are not unknown.
The Japan russell variety Of oriental
pear is as fiat and almost as indis-
tinguishable in appearance from a rus
set apple when matured, but it ia in
every sense a pear.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

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 Sobiesh, who has promptly &C
cepted the challenge He has written
Cd the Chicago Record-Herald and to
Editor Sierniradski that he will be
pleased to leave the question to the in
atitution of learning named in the
Oefy If 1t can be shown that it is a
university OF national importance and
standing in Poland. Colonel Sobieski
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Witnessed Stirring Scenes.

When the war was getting ready to
break, young Sobieskis 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 precarious 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.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Sees End of ALI Throne 4


So the last of the Sob;eskis is Gil.
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 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 a vast
bloodless revolution"
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 q
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
Sobleski'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.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Corn Like cauIiflower

The French Academy of Science
has received from NJ Blaringhen a
communication about a new variety
of Indian corn which is raised in the
aorth of France. This corn has the
appearance Of caulifiower, and ripens
as early as August, whereas the fod-
der variety from which it is derived
ripens in dry and warm years. about
the end OF October. The new species
is obtained by means Of traumatism.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Famous Americans
Handsome of Person
and Mental Giants
Major Truman OF California Talks En-
tertaIningly Of Noted Men Whom
Nature Seemingly Had FASH
toned to Be Leaders
Blaine and sconkIing
Among Them.

The memory of Mai. Ben. c. Tru-
man of Los Angeles. Cal, is a gallery
~ Adoniges. In the Graphic OF that
town he paints with beauteous parts
~ speech-to use his own language
the portraits of the handscmest men
he has knowa.
AThe first really handsome vision
ehat comes to my mind" says the
major. .fs that of Col. John W. For
new editor and proprietor OF the Phil
adeinhia Press, and a conspicuous per
aonage from 1874 until 1884. Col.
Tarney was tall and straight and
handsome Of face and figure.
some of the mosa strikingly hand
some men ] have ever met was GoV'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
HEARD MANY MILES AWAY.
Sound OF Submarine Bell Carried for
Long Distance.

The fact that the sea is a marvel.
GUS conductor of sound, as all swim.
mers know, has now been turned to
valuable account by an ingenious de.
vice known as the submarine bell.
The bell is dropped deep into the sea
from lightship, and rung at intervals
by a cable attachment, as shown Ia
our picture. In order to hear the
sound other vessels are fitted with
submarine telephone, the receiver of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Ancient Comic pramatist.

A highly interesting discovery is
announced from Egypt. M. Lefevre,
one of the inspectors in the service of
the Egyptian department Of antiqui-
ties, has been fortunate enough to dis
inter large number of leaves of a
papyrus codex of Menader, containing
upwards of 1000 lines. The publica.
ton Of this most welcome discovery
should enable modern scholars for the
first time to form an independent
judgment on the style and genius OF
the famous comic dramattst
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Housefui Of ksnnna4s

A few days ago, while hunting.
BARLEY Eckfleld Of Marion, O., found
hornets nest, which he took home
and hung up in his library. The
warmth Of the Eckfield home put life
into the hornets and the family spent
a day fghting the fierce insects.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
END OF ALL CONTROVERSY.
Bow Settled Question Which Has Long
Been Vexing One.

Ex-senator Anthony, OF hhoue
Island, when a little chap was atlenu-
ing church service at the Town Oh Gov
entry, r. I.
81 was only ten years DID, SAID tue
veteran of the senate chamber, and
had been sent to attend Sunday serV-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
His Remarkable Life.

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 1S46 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 vile Russian prison, crawling with
vermin, for Is 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 a loyal
subject Of the Car.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

confesses that he has never heard
of 1t.
ut is only for my honor that I am
preparing these documents" said Col
onel Sobieski to the writer.
He Wants No Throne.
There is no throne in Poland. II
there were one and it were offered ito
me, give you my word I should re,
fuse it."
The eyes of the old nobleman flashed
as he added:
Rather would I go to the cradle
and strangle 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.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
living Toad From Earth,s lntsrio

Living Toad From Earth's Interior.
A live toad was brought up from a
depth of 346 feet by men drilling an
artesian well at Murdo, s. D. The
toad weighed four pounds. The drill
was working slowly through a clay
drift when the toad was brought to
the surface. No one believed the toad
was alive, but after being in the cool
air the reptile reVived.-St. Louis
Republic.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

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. ]. B. Magruder, afterward
southern general, was commander
of young sobieskis battery.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Paradise.

"Whah not only de wicked ceases
from troublin,' an de weary am at
rest, but whah," here Parson CrinkIe-
top lowered his voice to hoarse whis-
per, while he leaned far over the pui4
pit to look his awestruck flock fuller
in the face. "dey has ter stop in de
middle OBJ de eolIecksin to go an
empty de box!"-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

rubber. neckties we don't go around
putting our noses into other folks's
business. We keep looking straight
ahead. Now get along, you dude, and
don't come around here no more to
put city notions in sensible country
boys heads"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

which Is, of course, on deck, the trans.
mitter beng fixed in the hold of the
ship below the water line. In this way
the deep notes of the bell may be
heard many miles away. Our smaller
Illustration shows the telephone
transmitter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
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 it is register exclusively
devoted to dynasties. do not claim
to be of any sobieski dynasty.
'Tn the first place there was no
Sobiesh 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 a tradition that comes down,
however, that when the elective sys-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

said in substance that he loved Mex
leo and desired it's 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 each
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

tenn was abolished by the new consti"
tuition i'll 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"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
CALLED HIM 'DUDE"
FARMERS RESENT MANS ADVICE
AS TO WHISPERS.
MeddIIng with Subject of Personal
Adornment Seems to Have Made
J. H. Hale, Peach Grower,
Somewhat Unpopular.

J. H. Hale, who has made for
tune raising peaches in Connecticut
and Georgia, discovered that he put
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Must Make Allowance

AS matter of fact, no new con-
gresham is expected to be as wise
as he looks. Washington Times
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
Col. John Sobieski, Once SOL
der Of Fortune, Direct De-
sceradarot of 7haddeus
of WARSAW.
SAYS INFANT GRANDSON is ROYAL HEIR

Interesting Predicament of California Younester and
the Romantic Life Story of His Grandfather-D riUen
from Austria by Maxinilion, He Lived to Com
Enand Firing Party That Ended the Career
of His One Time Prosecutor.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16

Fate Gives Deferred Revenge.
Macmillan, speaking in Spanish,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-02-16
The Beginning of Greatness.

Americas first printing press was
erected at Harvard in the year 1883.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1907-12-21
,oRTGLvou CITED
Must Show Cause Why He Should Ne,
Be Enioined


Washington. Dec. ls.-Justice Gould
OF the District supreme court cited
George p. Cortelyou. secretary of the
treasury. TO appear In court Jan. ,,
1908. 10 show cause why he should
not be enjoined from turning over or
delivering the balance Of the s2i .i5o..
900 OF the Panama canal bonds 20 Ger.
tain banks and persons 20 whom he
has announced allotments. The cita.
ton issued by Justice Gould is based
on a petition filed by George W. Aus
tin OF New York. who describes him.
self as a taxpayer and property own
er I'm the United States. and who de-
clares he made a proposal to purchase
bonds as advertised to the value Of
ss.ooo.0oo. He says he had agreed TO
pay at the rate OF 103s75 and accrued
interest per 800. and such notice OF
the acceptance. Of the secretary's hav.
ing ignored these bids. the United
States and the citizens thereof. ire
spcctive OF the rights Of said bidder.
had been deprived Of. and will be de-
prived OF and dsfrauded of several
hundreds Of thousands OF dollars"