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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31

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. 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.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31

almost the exceptional order that Is
Is conducted on the theory that 1t is
possible to take an inferior lob and
foist 1t on credulous people by
means of a reduced price and the
honest reputation established by the
neritorious original which it shame
lessly caricatures. These methods
have been crowned with success SOLE
ly by reason of the fact that mail or
der houses put more skill. energy and
money into advertising than do the
manufacturers to whom the American
people are directly indebted for the
best vehicles on the face OF the earth.
"The mail order business Is the
quack doctor OF commerce. 1t prom
ises much and guarantees nothing.
The directions are always on the in
side. and you have to buy a non-re-
out what they are"
A. G. Enderton. OF Walter. Okla.
writing to the Shawnee. Okla. Union
Signal. says:
"' The mail order houses
are the worst offenders of the pure
food law that We have to dea, with
They are the people who use short
weight tin cans and every year the
American public is cheated out Of
thousands of dollars by this alone.
/ see where some mail
order houses offer paint at about what
good oil is worth. Now. does anyone
think that a mail order house can buy
good paint stun cheaper than anyone
else?
Now suppose you find out what
crude petroleum, like what is pumped
out of oil wells cost. Very cheap, Is
1t not? That is the oil that is used
and what about the paint stuff2 How
about Spanish whitening. with just
enough white lead to stick 1t together?
e."
The question of prompt delivery is
another question which mail order
house patrons should consider. 1t Is
filled promptly. The reason for this
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31
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. II
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
guerrilla warrior. eating rattlesnakes
and living a precarious life OF 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
Maximilian, Col. Sobiesh became
one of the jailers of that Austrian
potentate who had driven the two pit
iful refugees-Sobiesh and his wild
owed young mother-from Italy. He
recalled that incident to the emperors
mind one day in prison.
We'll, time rounds up all things"
said the unhappy prisoner.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31
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 bvinging 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 ez.c<
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31
Banished by Macmillan.

She proudly refused. and chose ban
ishment, poverty and misery. She
bade 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 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
IL 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.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31

Many OF the young officers under
whom he served on that expedition
afterward became famous in the civil
war-Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston.
then n 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
southern general. was commander
of young Sobieski's battery.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31

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. excla.m-
Ing as he fell:, oh, my God, MY
God! At once the commander of the
reserve firing party (Sobieski him self
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.
Sees End Of All Thrones.
So the last of the Sobieskis Ia a Gill
hansen.
After this long and exciting career
OF adventure. Col. Sobieski is a calm.
handsome, gentle old man-the soul
OF courtesy. Aside from his bitter
ness against monarchies whose tyran-
nies 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"
That is the startling theory of the
last Sobieski.
He is making vigorous retort to
Editor Siemiradski merely to defend
his honor.
Siemradski claims that there is not
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-
towsh in 1864 II the family still ex-
listed. He denies the execution Of
Sobiesk's father, saying that history
has no mention of 1t, and points out
that 1t 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.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31

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 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 ill-fated EN-
peror Macmillan in Mexico. 1t was his
revolver that sent a shot crashing into
the ear of the emperor aftor he had
fallen wounded at the first unskilled
volley.
He was an eyewitness to the famous
battle of the Monitor and Merrimac:
led 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
banishment
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 1s4S 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 vile Russian prison, crawling with
vermin, for 13 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
biesh-to be sent to the Russian cap
ital and there brought up as a loyal
subject of the Gar.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-31
CHS s. MA4Lka6W.

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 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 it is a
university of national Importance and
standing in Poland. Colonel Sobieski
confesses that he has never heard
of 1t.
at is only for my honor that 1 am
preparing these documents" said Col
onel Sobieski to the writer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Boston. June 8.-Cleveland's long
hitting defeated Boston today. Knight
made his first appearance as a member
OF the local team today and played
brilliant game in the field. score:
Cleveland. :. :. POI 600 1oo-4 !
5o sstfsris:.I;b o.as COL 600 600 d,. ?
Pruitt. oberlin and Shaw. Time i 80.
Umpires Stafford and Evans.
easily defeated St Louis today In a
loosely played game. Timely hitting
won the game. Score:
St Louis. :. =. 600 oil ooO-2
PhfaadeRsa IA a 100 l1 odnnor.
Dygert and schreck. Time lis. UNI.
pires Hurst and Connolly.
New York. June 8.-Detroit opened
a four game series here today by shut
ting out the hone team. Chesbro was
relieved by Keefe in the ninth. Con-
ROY was put out of the game for dis
putting the umpire's decision. Score
R Rstro York: 90 90 SsS d 1Sss !
Enthusiastically and Archer; Ches-
bro, Keefe and Kleinow. Time 1853.
Umpire Sheridan.
Washington. June S.-washington
batted Smith out of the box today and
also hit Patterson hard. defeating Chi
cago handily. Graham was effective
throughout Score:
Washington .. :. $50 zoo os.-s u Q
Batteries-Graham and warner:
Smith. Patterson Mcfarland. Time
1870. Umpire oLoughlin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
Exclusive Dress
for Men.
WIN NINE
HAVE LOST BUT THREE GAMES
AT HOME.
Aside From One Tied Contest with
Memphis, The Team Percentage
With Western Visitors
Has Been .750.

Yesterdays victory over Shreveport
made nine won. three lost and one tied
thirteen games played at home on this
trip. the first invasion of the East by
the West. OF the fifteen games sched3
one so wisS Memphis a sw BEEN po ano
poned on account of rain.
The Climbers won two out of three
with New Orleans, Maxwell and Ma
1arky winning. their games and Walsh
losing his. They took three out of
four with Little Rock, Maxwell, Ma
larky and Walsh winning their games
won one and tied tied one with Memphis.
Ing his and Walker losing his. They
took all three from Shreveport.
The complete record of the Western
teams in Montgomery on this trip is
as follows:
Montgomery % New Orleans, o; Hits,
rors. Montgomery. o: New Orleans, /.
MAXWELL and Phillips.
Montgomery, s; New Orleans, 9. Err
Malarky and Manuel.
Ns New ses sans ID j. HTS IT,
Fritz and walsh.
Little Rock.
Little Rock. 10; Montgomery. g. Hits,
Little Rock. IL; Montgomery, 10. Err
rors, Little Rock. 0; Montgomery. 4.
Walker and Hart.
Montgomery. A; Little Rock, 8: Hits.
Montgomery, s.; Little Rock, 5. Err
rors Montgomery, /: Little Rock o.
Maxwell and Buchanan.
Montgomery, 8; Little Rock, 5. Hits,
Montgomery, IL: Little Rock. IL. En-
rors, Montgomery 3; Little Rock, 0.
Weems, Malarky and Eyler.
Montgomery, g.; Little Rock, O. Hits,
MONTGOMERY, 10; Little Rock, 10. Err
rors, Montgomery, 4; Little Rock. 8.
Walsh and Hart.
Memphis.
Montgomery, 8; Memphis. 8. Hits,
Montgomery. 81 Memphis. l. Malarky
MONTGOMERY. s; Memphis. 3. Hits.
Montgomery. 8; Memphis. Z: Errors,
Montgomery. /; Memphis. 2. Walsh
Memphis, 10; Montgomery. 8. Hits,
Memphis, IA; Montgomery, IL. Errors.
Montgomery, /; Memphis, Q. Suggs,
Walker and Perry.
Shreveport.
Montgomery, IL; Shreveport, 4. Hits,
MONTGOMERY. 10: Shreveport, is. Err
rors, Montgomery, /; Shreveport, l..
Weems and Graham and Gaskill.
Montgomery, 4; Shreveport. 2. Hits,
monte emery, 6; Shreveport. 9. Errors,
Montgomery, /; Shreveport, 8. Walsh
and Becker.
Montgomery, 4; Shreveport, 2. Hits.
Montgomery, 10; Shreveport, z. Errors,
Montgomery, 3; Shreveport 2. Malarky
and Hickman.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
LEAVE FOR 10 GAMES
CLIMBERS TO MAKE TOUR OF THE
WEST.


The Climbers left last night for
trip Of eighteen games on the ROAD.
twelve In the West and six IN n ar, tns
Heights s mot unfit fist the first sse Of july
Today. Monday and Tuesday the
day. and Thursday are off days and
team Is In Memphis Montgomery has
no postponed games in either New Or
leans or Memphis. Monday. TUESDAY
cna ass X E Ef ne1 Rock xeek neS
there on account OF both the Mont
gomery and Little Rock teams having
their scheduled dates in the East. There
win be no chance to play that game
on his trip unless Malarky plays a
b and F Sardly
s. Thursday another off day and Fri
day. Saturday and Sunday they are to
be in Shreveport Montgomery has a
the team can get from Little. Rock TO
the Louisiana town by Thursday noon,
1t is probable that this game will be
There are three off days on this
Western trip and MONTGOMERY has
Memphis and Shreveport
June sith. s5t ass and 9Th, the ciimberrs
are in Birmingham. Malarky has
three postponed games there. but I'M
less Vaughn plays some double head
on this trip. Thursday. Friday and
Saturday, the 9th, 2Sth and 29th. they
are to be in Nashville. There Is one
postponed game there and a double
On Monday. July LIST. they return
at Capitol Heights Birmingham has
one postponed game in Montgomery,
II nraffv close to the 4fh OF
July double header 1t Is not probably
that this game will be played on
Jumping to Atlanta, Montgomery
plays a double-header on Thursday.
July 4th. and one game Saturday.
Atlanta has no postponed games with
MONTGOMERY, either there or In Mont
Monday. July sth, Nashville opens
at Capitol Heights. the Climbers .hav-
Ing eighteen games at home, playing
sames are with Nashville and three
with Atlanta, the other twelve being
with the Western teams, who make
their second Eastern trip.
each have a postponed game in Mont
gomery and those three games will
probably be played Of then. =
July 2sth. Both and S1st the team has
by three in Atlanta and three in Nash
Vile. There are then nine at Capitol
Heights. with Birmingham, Nashville
and Atlanta.
On August 18th they take their
last road trip of twelve games in the
West, winding up in New Orleans on
September LIST. On September End they
start on the last lap, the West finish
ing the season in the East.
Montgomery finishes with twelve
games at home, including the Labor
Day double-header with Little Rock
Memphis ends the 1907 season at
Capitol Heights. Many fans will then
be feeling chesty and many others
chewing cotton--the 1907 pennant will
have been won and lost.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

CLiMbERS HAVE PLAYED NINE
SHUT-OUT GAMES,
One Rum Has Decided Each Of Twelve
Contests and Five Have Gone
Extra Innings, Two
Being Tied.

The Montgomery team so far has
had ten postponed games, four at
nome and six on the road. The Climb
ers have played in nine shut-out bat
lies. hye on the road and four at home.
Ihey have been shut out once in At
lanta and once by Atlanta here. Nash
vile shut them out twice In Nashville
and they shut out Nashville twice here,
Birmingham and were shut out by
Memphis once in Memphis.
They have played two tie games In
Shreveport and one with Memphis in
Montgomery.
One run has decided twelve games
that they took part in, one in Atlanta
and one with Atlanta in Montgomery,
one With Nashville in Montgomery. two
with Birmingham in Montgomery, three
In New Organs, one In Memphis and
They won seven by one run at home
and lost five by one run on the road.
They have played five extra inning
games. tieing two, losing two by one
was eleven-inning contest lost in New
Orleans by score Of to 4. One was
thirteen-inning game lost in Mem
phis by u score of l to o. One was a
fourteen lining game won from Little
Rock at Capitol Heights by a score of
to 5. The other two were the Shreve-
port fifteen-inning tie games.
Following is the record Of the Mont
gomery team UP to the beginning of
the second western trip June o:
Montgomery, one; Montgomery in Nash
Vile. one; Birmingham in Montgom-
cry. one; Montgomery In Birmingham
three; Montgomery In Shreveport train
late; Montgomery in Little Rock. sched-
ule at fault; New Orleans in Mont
gomery. one; Memphis in Montgomery,
one.
ut-outs-In Atlanta Atlanta 1.
Montgomery o: in Montgomery. Atlanta
8, Montgomery o; in Nashville, Nash
Montgomery 8. Nashville 0: in Mont
Eomery. Montgomery Z. Nashville O.; in
Montgomery Montgomery 2, Nashville
o; in Birmingham. Montgomery g. Bir-
mingham o; in Montgomery, Memphis
1, Montgomery o.
port. two fifteen innings each Memphis
in Montgomery, one, called In ninth in
ming to catch the train.
Won and lost by one run-Atlanta 1.
cry 3, Atlanta Q, in Montgomery; Nash
Vile 4, Montgomery 3. in Montgomery;
Montgomery 8. Birmingham 2. Birm-
ingham 2. Montgomery 1. in Montgom-
cry; New Orleans 5. Montgomery 4, in
New Orleans; New Orleans 8. Montgom-
New Orleans 1, in New Orleans; Mem
phis 1, Montgomery 0. in Memphis;
Montgomery 1, Little Rock 8, Montgom-
cry g. Little Rock 5. Montgomery 6,
Little Rock 5 In MONTGOMERY
eomery 9. Shreveport 1. Montgomery 1.
Atteen innings each. IN Shreveport:
New Orleans 5. Montgomery 4. eleven
innings In New Orleans; Memphis I,
MONTGOMERY Q, thirteen innings; in
5. fourteen innings, in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
BRIEF NOTES FROM
THE DIAMOND
The Minneapolis Club bias made a
great climb from the cellar to the
cupo1a.

The Minneapolis Club bias made a
great climb from the cellar to the
first games with the New York Ameri-
cans, but will they ever win another?
Claude Rossman of the Detroit team
sweet?
With Addie Joss going at such a, fast
clip, the Cleveland club will make
It is said that Manager McCIoskey
is dissatisfied with his infield. And 1t
S Wb the S;, St n dsHs fans
catchers and bay boy.
The Cercle Francois of Harvard de-
feated the Deutscher Cerein in the
to l. The Deutscher verein would do
well to have their kinfolk, the Deut-
scher Cubs Of Chicago, teach them the
game.
Evidently Jake Stahl has placed him
self with some other club as he is try
ing to have his release to the White
Sox set aside.
In three games played at Terre Haute
the Springfield Central League team
did not make an error and made only
one run. In three games at home, the
same club made thirty one errors and
twenty runs.
sta DalIas huh has :. n ball player named
contrary he is is smooth MOI s srn1 ON the
ished player. and is with the glossy
finish around the third station. QUIT
that!
The Vancouver tenn, 10 +ba Ios+ ohors
of the Northwest League for sure
They lost eighteen of the first twenty
games played.
ICY" Seymour is the same old heavy
splash with the hickory. Cyrus will
help the Giants win several games be-
fore the end of the season.
Kansas City has been fighting for
the lead in the American Association of
late, but the pace is getting too warm
for the "Blooz."
societv girls of Philadelphia are said
to be playing. baseball this season in
stead OF golf apd tennis. Strenuous
girls. those.
large number of last seasons
pennant winners are finding the going
pretty rougr this season. Birmingham
in the Southern League has found it.
place; Des Moines, Western League
fourth place; Grand Rapids, Central
League. sixth place: Cedar Rapids,
Three-I League, sixth place; Lynch
burg. Virginia League. fourth place;
Scranton. New York State League
fourth place. and Paterson, Hudson
River League, last place.
It's the. does or don't" and will or
~ 90 h. hnA L. a :.
greatest game ever invented by Jim
MCGUIRE.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
AMATEUR GAMES.
VuIcans Win Game.

The VuIcans defeated North Mont
gomery in a ten innings game by the
score of to A. The feature of the
game was the pitching of Brown for
the Vulcans. who struck out twelve OF
the North Montgomery men. "A
The line up was as follows
Vulcans-Brown, p; J. Miller. C; HUI
sci. lib; Evans, B.. 2b; Hogan. If; Joyce,
CT and SIS; Dove, 3b: Evans, c.. IF; HUI
len. CT; McGlynn, SIS.
North Montgomery Farley D;
Smith, 2b; Cox. 1b, Powers, 3D. Ansley,
SIS: Ryan. R.. CT, Dove. d. If; Coniff, c;
Pruitt. IF.
Score by innings:
Vulcans -. go. 0O3 900 600 3-6
North Montgy -. 600 800 600 IA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
COLLEGE BASEBALL
GAMES TODAY

Harvard vs. Columbia at Cambridge
Mass. . ,
Brown VS.. University of Pennsylvania
LehiEh VS.. Lafayette at Easton, Pa.
Williams VS.. Dartmouth at Hanover,
N. H.
University of Chicago VS.. Purdue at
Lafayette.
Wabash VS.. Indiana University at
Bloomington. Ind.
At Cambridge-Harvard, q; Column
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
ENGLISH COLLEGES DECLINE.
Do Not Accept Challenge of Americana
Enr nnnI Gnnncs

New Haven. Conn, June st is Off
cialy announced at Yale that a letter
received a few days ago from Oxford
University stated that the challenge of
the American universities. Yale and
Harvard. for dual games, would not be
accepted. The letter says that the
athletes in both English universities
are verv keen on the ideas of iuterna-
tional sports and are muca disappoint-
ed that there is a failure to have a
meeting this year, but they hope next
spring before the Olympia games in
London. the men of the FOUR universi-
ties may, meet and later also meet in
the London games.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

The eminent Belgian sculptor, JET
Lambeaux, who is regarded by many
as Robins only rival. is busy on the
monument to be erected in Washington
TO the memory OF the late George NJ.
Pullman. the former head of the Pull
snan Tar ComDanYa