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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-01-18

Even hunger isn't an infaliible cure for
l~aziness.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-01-18

Sold by all druggists, soc. per box, o.
gent by mail.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-01-18
DOES YOUR BACK AcAE7

euro the Kidneys and tho Pain VIII
Never Return.
Only one way tt. cure an aching
h 0cE C11rn tho oo,1So khA li1no-c
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She felt that she must keep busy or

She felt that she must keep busy OF
go mad, so, after the first six months,
sine began to build herself a home OF
stones-two rooms. She spent months
selecting stones of the right shape, and,
piling them n upon the other, and
across the top she placed the boards that
had been the sides of her first home, and
she matched 1t all over with leaves from
the trees and with grasses.
She searched the island owe and
planted little vines and flowers. Near
the end of the first year, as she count
ed time, using stones in small piles, one
stone to each day, she had a fright. No
rain had fallen for weeks, and the little
pond began to go dry. Day after day
she watched it dwindle away. Finally,
it was a tiny pool of muddy, unpalatable
water, and she retired that night in de-
spair, and during the night rain poured
and filled the pond again. The fruit
from the palm trees, a species of edible
root, some delicate seaweed that she
found, oysters, a species of shrimp, and
fish constituted her main diet, although
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found on the beach during her tour
around the island. and every bit of this
she dragged up the beach, beyond the
reach of the waves, that were still break
ing high.
Her first work was to plant a piece of
driftwood on the highest point of the
island and float a distress signal from 1t.
Then, selecting a spot in the wind
twisted grove Of palm trees near tire
edge of the pond, she started to build
a shelter. She had no tools, and for
days she labored. using a piece of board
for a shovel and her hands, and event.
ually she managed to erect a sort of hut
by planting the pieces of driftwood
from the wreck upright and piling sand
and stones against the outside. Over
this she stretched the largest piece of
sail, and she and Mons had a home.
There she carried everything that drift
ed ashore.
For days she was on the verge of de-
spair. Alone In the middle of a great
ocean, practically without food or shell
ter, her only companion a lion cub, the
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Girl Lives on Desert Island in the Indian
Ocean for Fifteen Months.
is SHIpWRECKED BY A TERRIBLE TYPHOON
Pet Lion Her Sole Living Companion-Is Finally
Forced to Kill Animal to Save Own Life--At
Last Rescued by a Passing Vessel
and Returned 20 Parents.

They went to New Zealand, and, trav-
through Christchurch, Timaru, Nelson,
over to Wellington, on the North island,
they added to the menagerie.
Shipwrecked by Typhoon.
Early in December they were ready.
They loaded the tents, and the animals,
and all, aboard the Lilly and started for
Melbourne. The typhoon struck OF De-
cember Is in the morning, and for over
three days the little vessel, under bare
poles, fed before it. The men, exhaust
ed and worn from working the pumps,
fkl fainting. Three times they tried to
turn and ride in the face of the storm,
but could not. They were driven north
ward, always northward-lost, hopeless
and dying.
And during it all Liela helped the
men, and when they fell from eXhaus-
ton she worked at the pumps, strong,
vigorous. tireless, her athletic training
standing her in good stead. On the 18th
hope was abandoned. The storm was
abating a little, but the vessel vas
~1oundering heavily and had lost its
~buoyancy. At ten o'clock sea after sea
pounded upon the decks, and still the
vessel staggered on.
The tired vessel, worn out by the bat
tie with the sea, gave up about noon.
The steering gear broke. The little
barkentine turned ~broadside, wallowed
a few moments, and sank.
The Ponquet fortunes were swept
away, and the family separated, in an
instant. The father and mother reached
the boat, but Liela. with seven others,
was swept overheard.
Alone on Desert Island.
Then began the strange career of the
girl. She remembers struggling in the
waters; then she lost consciousness.
Hew long she was in the water she does
know; it could not have been long.
She was aroused by being hurled upon
sand. She felt the wave that had cast
her up drag her back into the sea, and
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after a short, despairing struggle
reached land and threw herself, exhaust
ed, upon the sand.
When she awakened it was dark. She
felt something warm upon her face, and,
starting up in alarm, found Mons, her
pet lion, licking her face. The lion had
been cast ashore, and, although one of
his legs was badly hurt, he was still
alive, and together the exhausted girl
and the crippled lion lay down and slept.
That was the first night of $50 that the
young girl and the lion lived on the
speck of land in the center of the vast
ocean.
L1ela did not know then, or until she
was rescued, where she was, but the lit
tie speck in the sea upon which they had
been cast was one of the minute islands
northward of the Bellona reefs, towards
the Chesterfield islands, and from the
south side of their little island home the
girl could see palm trees on another is
land southwark.
Builds Home for Herself.
Like Crusoe, the girl made the exam
ination the day after she was cast
ashore, and in less than On hour had
learned the worst. She still hoped that
the boat would find her, for she thought
perhaps it had been cast away also,
possibly on the speck of land to the
southwark. Some driftwood, a few bits
of rigging from the lost vessel, a chicken
coop filled with dead fowls, a few tat
tered bits of sails. and two large tins
Of sea biscuit were all that the girl
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at rare intervals she caught a gull, and
nnca she caupht q small green narrOt-

| at rare intervals she caught a gull, and
nee she caught a small green parrot.
Hope still lived. She believed that
some day she would be saved. Her only
hardship was loneliness, and she talked,
or sang to herself to keep her mind busy,
and she climbed to the top of the trees
and sat there gazing out across the sea.
She was in a tree top On the afternoon
she was rescued. She was sitting gaz-
ing southwark toward the familiar
speck. day-dreaming of her beautiful
France, and wondering whether she ever
for hours, when suddenly she gasped
and almost fell out of the tree top. She
heard voices.
A moment later, with a cry that star
tied the sailors, she slid and jumped
down the tree, and rushing towards
them across the sand, laughed and cried
and laughed again, begging them to
speak to her. One of the sailors spoke
French. He told her they were from
the trading schooner Cyprus, and would
take her aboard.
Then the strange, sun-browned, grass
CARRIED beauty fell, still laughing, fell
fainting upon the sand, and before she
recovered she and her little store of
tools she had made, were safe on board
the vessel, bound for Noumea, New Cal
edOnia, and. eventually, France, where
the happy family was reunited.
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Important Movement in Advertising.

The creation of a General Advertising
Department for the New York Central
Lines, and the placing in charge of that
department the veteran railroad adyer.
tiser, George III. Daniels, who has been
for nearly twenty years the General Pas
senger Agent of the New York Central
Railroad, marks an era in the history of
advertising in America.
The New York Central Lines are the
first great system to create an advertis.
ing department which covers all the rail
ways in their system, and the far-reaching
consequences of such a movement cannot
be appreciated at first sight, but this ac-
these lines emphasizes the value of adver-
Using generally, and forces the conclu-
sion of a strong belief in the efficacy of
railroad advertising in particular.
Some idea of the Importance of this
new department can be had when it is
understood that it will control the gen.
eral advertising in America and in foreign
countries Of the New York Central, Bos-
ton and Albany, Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, Michigan Central, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis, Rut-
land, and Lake Erie and Western railways
and their leased lines, having their west
ern terminals at Chicago, st. Louis and
Cincinnati, and their eastern terminals at
New York, Boston and Montreal, and en-
braclng more than twelve thousand miles
of the best equipped railways in the world.
Mr.. Daniels has for many years been a
firm believer in newspaper and magazine
advertising, and, therefore, the organiza'
ton of the General Advertising Depart
ment of the New York Central Lines is
of importance to every legitimate publica-
ton in America, daily, weekly or monthly.
In ar address before the New York
State Press Association a few years ago,
Mr.. Daniels made the point that the rail-
road is the advance agent of commerce
and that railway advertising had been of
immense value to American manufac-
turers in calling the attention of the
whole world to the excellent work hone
by our inventors and mechanics, as illus
trated in the Empire State Express, the
Twentieth Century Limited, and other
great trains that connect the east with the
west; the average foreigner arguing that
the men who are able to turn out such
machines must be able to build anything,
and that the farm machinery, and all kinds
of industrial machinery made in Amer
lea, must be of the very best quality. Rail-
road advertising has certainly been the
means of bringing thousands of men here
from foreign countries to investigate our
manufactures and has wonderfully in
our foreign commerce..
Every legitimate newspaper and maya
zine publication in America will nave a
direct interest in the General Advertising
of the New York Central
Lines, and every advertising agent on the
continent will take a new lease of life
of this endorsement of the value
of advertising.
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COFFIN SUIT FATAL TO TEN
Men Who Engage in Fight Over
Property Given to Undertaken
Struck Down Mysteriously.

Galveston, TeX.-Death from a
strange malady which physicians say
they have never before seen or heard
of mas overtaken ten men who were
connected with the suit over a piece
OF property given to an undertaken by
a widow in payment for her hus-
bands coffin. The belief. is wide
spread in this vicinity that the deaths
are a judgment from heaven. So terri
flying have been the manifestations of
what is believed to be divine wrath
that even the county officials refuse to
have anything more to do with the
case, which probably never will be
adjudicated, at least in the present
generation.
The case is that of George E. Smith
against John Daley. Both men died
o after suit was brought of the
strange disease which specialists were
unable to diagnose or treat. Then
Thomas Brick, the district clerk who
filed the suit, fell a victim to the same
mysterious avenger.
Three lawyers participated in the
widows coffin suit" as it is called
Clegg Stewart, Forester Rose and Will
liam 7. Austin. Within a few days all
three became ill and died of the pecul-
lar disease for which no remedy could
be found. Then Judge William H.
Stewart, who tried the case and who
but 2 few days before had rendered a
decision in the case and granted a new
trial, fell a victim, AMI in a short time
expired.
Alexander Bartlingcock and c. A.
Sias were employed to survey the
land in preparation for the new trial.
Scarcely had they completed their
task when they fell i'll and died.
j. F. Simons, the district clerk,
laughed at the fears of the supersti-
tious, and made preparations for the
new trial. A few days> later he died.
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The story OF Robinson Crusoe and
ais remarkabl. adventures is familiar
10 almost every man, woman and child
To prove the old saying that truth is
stranger than fiction this interesting
tale has been enacted by a handsome
young French girl, and II anything her
experiences were more remarkable
Cast away on an almost desert island
in the middle of the Indian ocean,
Thrown on her own resources, Liela
PonQuet, a pretty young trapeze per
former, now about Is years of age,
Iived for Is months before she was
picked up by a. passing vessel and
finally sent back to her home in
France.
When she arrived at Marseilles she
was reunited with her father and
mother who fcr nearly two years she
had believed dead, and who believed she
mad persisted when the little French
bark Lilly sank on December IS, 1903.
They had parted when the little vessel.
after q brave fight with the typhool,
zurchcd and sank. They had seen her
lifted on a wave, with a life-preserver
sclasped about her. and they had fought
with the sailors in the boat for a chance
to save their daughter. She had caught
one glimpse of them as she was buried
under a huge roller, and the boat was
lifted above her, and then they parted.
Nearly four days later the boat had
reached one Of the Belep islands. off
New Caledonia. and after a day or two
OF rest and preparation had crossed to
the larger island and reached safety.
An Acrobatic Family.
The Ponquet family-father, mother
and daughter-were acrobats and ami
NAL trainers, and POnquet, the father,
had for many years been the leader of a
little circus. sometimes with a dozen or
more men in his employ, sometimes
with only the members of his family to
assist him in giving performances. His
oldest son.. a promising acrobat, had
been killed at a fair in France by fall
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Gng from a high wire, and the other boy
weak and sickly, never would do for an
athlete, so he was sent to school and
Shen into the priesthood, and he was the
pride of his mothers heart.
: But Liela, from her earliest childhood,
Cook to the ropes and the rings and the
bars as if by second nature, and before
she was II years old her feats of daring
and strength and agility won her ap-
plause and caused her father to believe
her the most wonderful acrobat in all
the world. She was strong, healthy,
beautiful-beautiful as more than one
young man thought who saw her at the
little country fairs in Breton.
But the POnquets were poor. They
made but little money at the fairs, and
they talked often of America or of Aus
'xralia, so at the end of one season they
decided to cast their fortunes in a new
world. There was a sad leave-taking
with the son. who soon was to become
q priest, and they sailed away to Austria
aia.
That year Liela was 13 years old. Her
beauty, her grace and daring attracted
attention to the grimy, sordid little tray
cling circus, and prosperity came to the
Ponquet began to think that
his fortune was made. He had dreams
of being the proprietor of a great cir
Gus, with hundreds of men and wom-
en. with great gilded wagons. At Mel
burne, at Sydney, at Clarendon, New
Nortlo If wocfbo
and the gold rolled in.
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Not on the Bill.

He was a stout, pudgy individual liable
to be irritated early in the morning, evil
IDENTIFY subject to indigestion, and he
walked into the dining-room in anything
but good grace. The hotel was new and
the prices were not mellowed. Their ST..
front "riled" the guest still more.
Turning to the freshly imported, white
shirted mummy at his side, he said:
Haven't you people any conscience
here?"
Citing no answer, his face grew red,
and he blurted out:
Conscience. Conscience Have you no
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES here?"
Eel eet ees not on re bills eet ees
charge extra for" ~suavely replied the i'm
portation.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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girl gave herself over to a fit of hope
lessness. But after a week of living or
the drowned fowls and sea biscuit Lield
suddenly aroused herself and deter
mined to live. Young, strong, athletic
full of life, she rallied from the shocl
and the despair and set to work.
Her first care was for food, and she
began to set snares for turtles, and
from the cordage that had come ashore
she began to knot together a seine with
which to catch fish in the lagoon be-
tween the island and the reef.
Also from her Scant supply OF pins and
hairpins she fashioned little hooks that
she set to catch gulls.
Burns Seaweed a. Signal.
For nearly three weeks she lived with
out fire. Again and again she tried to
make fire by rubbing sticks together,
as she had heard of savages doing, but
she failed, and she was in despair. Eat
lag raw fish and chewing on the roots of
unknown plants that she found began
to FALL upon her, and she determined
to have fire at any cost. She hunted the
island over for stones that would make
sparks when she struck them together,
and finally on the beach she found two
large pieces of flint. 1t took two days
for her to set fire to a little bunch Of
dried, %cottonlike pulp from a weed she
found, and hen she blew and famed it
into a fame and fed it constantly.
The evening that she got fire she was
happy, and she declares that she be-
lieved her battle Wood was scarce,
but she resorted to dragging seaweed
from the lagoon and leaving it to dry
on the beach, and over the burning sea-
weed she piled wet seaweed and kept
a great smudge burning at the highest
point of the island.
Mons-the lion-kept her from be-
coming desperate from loneliness, but
after a month he became dangerous.
The diet of raw fish and oysters and
pieces of sea gull did not suit him. And
then followed the widest adventure of
all.
Liela was sleeping. 1t was near norm
ing, for the stars were beginning to grow
dim and the roseate light was showing
by a strange, suffocating sense of dan
ger. In an instant she was on her feet.
Days before she had prepared a great
stick for use in defending herself, and,
grasping this, she backed into the corner
of her frail hut, ready to strike.
$1,000 Iofar che roaorn;zol how
pet, and called him. An angry snarl
answered her, and the beast leaped.
The girl realized at one that the saw
age instincts of the brute had been
aroused, and that he had turned upon
her to kill and devour her. Like a flash
she swung the club, and there, alone on
the island, thousands of miles from
friends, the two that had been friends
fought a duel to the death.
Battle with Pet Lion.
Again and again the maddened beast
for the white throat of his mis-
tress, and each time was driven back
by a blow, and finally, as her strength
was deserving her, Liela swung the club
with an effort born Of despair and laid
the half grown cub ~senseless, and, be-
ore it could recover, she killed it, and
hen sank down sobbing beside its
body.
Her last friend was gone, and she was
alone. So she sobbed until daylight, and
hen with sharp stones she skinned the
'east, and cooked part of it for her
breakfast |
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tressing 1 dreaded their approach.
This was my condition for four years.
Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right
away when l began with them and
three boxes cured me permanently"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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New Office.

Orville Nemiss-How do you know We
are going to have a storm?
Capt. Salter-We have a man n the
forecastle forecasting it.-Pittsburg Chron-
icle- Telegraph. .
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suffering so with
sharp pains in the
small of the back
and had such fire.
quent dizzy spells
that / could scarcely
get about the house..
The urinary pass
ages were also quite
irregular. Monthly
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Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullen is Nature great remedy Cures
Coughs, Colds, Group and Consumption,
and all throat and lung troubles. AT drug
gists, 25c.. soc. and ST. per bottle.
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An Atchison girl who works down town
for three dollars a week bought a Christ
mas present for her young man that cost
six dollars-a hair brush. And that il
love, too.-Atchison Globe.
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A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles.
Druggists are authorized to refund money il
PAzo OINTMENT fails to cure in to 14days. SOC
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Half the time when 4 man thinks he is
having fun it is only because he is forget
ting his misery.-N. Y. Press.
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Policy honesty is the rankest form Of
dishonesty.
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AN EVERYDAY STRUGGLE.
Too Many Women Garry the Heavy Load
of Kidney Sickness.

Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Main Street,
Haverhill, Mass, says: "In1 1898 l was
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of
as a cough cure.-J. w. O'Brien, SD Third
Ave. N, Minneapolis. MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
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1t is vain to expect to live both long
and fast.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E.W. GROVES signaturei is ON each box. 25c
The Washington times., 1906-09-16

Representative Butler Ames, OF Lowell
Is spending the fall at the Mount Wash
ington in the White Mountains, as has
been his custom since the opening of
the hotel some years ago Representa-
tive Ames will change from Stoneleigh
Court. where he has spent the past sea
son or two, and will occupy an apart
ment in the new apartment house at
the corner OF Sixteenth and L streets
Mr. Ames spent ms first winter after
The Washington times., 1906-09-16

ran. in Sixteenth street. which they
now occupy, to their newly acquired
residence in Rhode Island avenue Their
new home viii probably always be re-
ferred 10 as the Morton house. from the
fact it was occupied and owned by the
former Vice President, from whom Mr.,
Root bought II. Until Mrs. Roots ar
rival II is not known just what changes
the house VIII undergo. but it viii be
The Washington times., 1906-09-16
Personal

Mr. and Mrs. George ". Vanderbilt
are among the numerous New York
people who viii spend the most brilliant
part OF the social season In Washington
shis winter. They have leased large
apartment at Stoneleigh Court. and are
expected over here. at least for short
time. in October. and win come again in
midWinter.