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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31
Chew What You Know About and
8 8 Know What You Are Ccff11ee>vvir1Q

There is real pleasure in chewing
the best tobacco grown-where the
best tobacco grows-in the famous
Piedmont Country.
Only choice selections Of this
well-matured and thoroughly cured
tobacco is used in making
SCHNAPPS. Thatswhy SCHNAPPS
and others Of the Reynolds brands,
as shown by the Internal Revenue
statistics for a fiscal year, made the
wonderful growth of SIX and one
quarter million pounds, or a net
gain Of one-third Of the entire
increased consumption Of chewing
and smoking tobaccosin the United
States.
Evidently, chewers cannot resist
thefavor and they cheer sCHNAPPS
because SCE1NAPPS cheers them
more than any other chewing to-
bacco, and every man that chews
sCHNAPPs passes the good thing
along-one chewer makes other
chewers- Until the fact is now es-
tablished that there are many more
Sold at soc. per pound in &c.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
1. County of Lexington.
Tn ronr+ of ro,,or,,o,, DJooc

In Court Of Common Pleas.
John F. Miller, in his own right and as
administrator of the estate of Thomas
Miller, deceased, Plaintiff,
against
Simon P. Miller, Anna Miller, Alice
Canada, Eliza Shumpert, Ella Bailey,
Jas. L. Miller, Frank McNinch, Orrie
Thompson, Maggie Baughman and
Carrie Allen, Defendants.
Partition.
IN OBEDIENCE TO THE DECREE
of the court herein, signed by Ernest
Gary, presiding judge, and dated
May %, 1906, will sell to the highest
bidder at public outcry, before the court
house door in Lexington, S. c., during
the legal hours of sale, on the first Mon
day in November, 1906,
1. "Home Tract No. ~ All that
piece, parcel Or tract of land, situate,
lying and being in the county of Lex
ington, and State aforesaid, containing
one hundred and forty-one acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of j. J. Lown,
Lorick & Lowrance, Shumpert Tract
No. 1 and No. 2, G. M. c. Kyzer and
Home Tract No. 2.
2. "Home Tract No. g." All that
piece, parcel or tract of land, situate,
lying and being in the county of Lex
ington, and State aforesaid, containing
fifty-seven acres, more or less, adjoining
lands of J. J. Lown, Home Tract No. l
and G. M. G. Kyzer
8. "Shumpert Tract No. L." All that
piece, parcel or tract of land, situate,
lying and being in the county Of Lex
ington, and State aforesaid, containing
one hundred and twelve and one-half
(1129) acres, more or less, adjoining
lands of Home Tract No. l, Lorick g.
Lowrance, estate of w. F. Bachman,
deceased, and Shumpert Tract No. 2.
4. "Shumpert Tract No. g." All that
piece, parcel or tract of land, situate,
lying and being in the county of Lex
ington, and State aforesaid, containing
one hundred and seven acres, more or
less, adjoining lands of G.. NJ. G. Kyzer,
Home Tract No. l, Shumpert Tract No.
l, estate of w. F. Bachman and Jas. L..
Miller.
5. ssWiggins or Steep Hollow Tract
No. l." All that piece, parcel or tract
| Of land, situate, lying and being in the
county of Lexington, and State afore-
said, containing eighty five acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of VIM. Fields,
Jas. L. Miller, John Griffith, Bennie
Waites and Tract No. 2, Wiggins or
Steep Hollow.
6. "Wiggins or Steep Hollow Tract
No. g." All that piece, parcel or tract
of land, situate, lying and being in the
county of Lexington, and State afore-
| said, containing seventy-four and one
fourth acres, more or less. adjoining
lands Of VIM. Fields, Wiggins or Steep
Hollow Tract No. 1, G. NJ. G. Kyzer,
Heads Land and E. G. Rawl.
Terms of Sale: One-half cash, bal
ance on a credit of twelve months with
interest from day of sale, secured by
bond of the purchaser and mortgage of
the premises sold, with leave to pay all
cash. Purchaser to pay for papers.
These lands have been recently sur
veyed, and the plats are on file.
SAMUEL B. GEORGE,
Clerk Of Court.
Lexington, S. c., October 8, 1905.
G. T. Graham, Esq, Plaintiffs at
tOrney.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31

It is we'll known medical fact that
pine rosin is most effective in the treat
ment of diseases of the bladder and
kidneys. Sufferers from backache and
other troubles due to faulty action of
the kidneys find relief in the use Of
Pineules. $1.00 buys 80 days treatment.
Sold by The Kaufman Drug Go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31
Eichard Dargan Executed.

Last Friday Richard Dargan, a
negro, convicted of criminal assault
upon Mrs. Lucy Ann Patterson. was
hanged at Bennettsville. He con-
fessed to the perpetration of the
horrible crime, and attributed his
awful fate to drinking.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31

chewers and pounds Of tobacco
chewed, to the population, in those
States where SCHNAPPS tobacco
was first sold than there are in the
States where SCE5NAPPS has not
yet been offered to the trade.
SCHNAPPs is like q cup of fine;
Java coffee, sweetened just enough
to bring out its natural, stimulating
qualities. SCHNAPPS pleases all
classes Of chewers:: the rich, be-
cause they do not find a chew that
really p1eases them better at any
price; the poor, because it is more
economical than the large 10c. Or
15c. plugs and they get their mon
ey's worth Of the real sraappy, slim
ulatng favor SO appreciated by to-
bacco lovers. All limitations con-
tain much more sweetening than
sCHNAPPs. They are made that
way to hide poor tobacco improp-
erly cured.
For the man who chews' tobacco
for tobacco S sake, there is no chew
like SCEzNAPPS
s. Strictly zoe. and ,5c. Plugs
YYinstosa-Salem, N. c.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31

Foley's Kidney Cure will cure any
case Of kidney trouble that is not BE-
yond medical aid. Kaufman Drug Co.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

found on the beach during her tour
around the island, ard 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 or 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 nea the
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 q 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
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

at rare intervals she caught a gull, and
once 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
would see 1t again. She had been there
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.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

after a short, despairing struggle
reached land and threw herself, exhaust
ed, upon the sand.
When she awakened 1t was dark. She
felt something warm upon her face, and,
starting up in alarm, found Mons, her
pet lion, licking hN 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.
Liela 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 n of the minute islands
northws!d 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
nation the day after she raj cast
ashore, and In less than an hour had
learned the worst. She still hoped that
the boat would find her, for she thought
perhaps 1t 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 filed with dead fowls, a few tat
tered bits Of sails, and two large tins
Of sea biscuit were all that the gtsl
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12
Girl Lives on Desert Island in the Indian
Ocean for Fifteen Months.
IS SH|PWRECKED 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 to Parents.

They went to New Zealand, and, trav-
cling along the coast from Palmerston
through Christchurch, Timaru, Nelson,
over to Wellington, on the North island,
they added to the m%enagerie.
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 on De-
cember Is in the morning, and for over
three days the little vessel, under bare
poles, fled before 1t. The men, exhaust
ed and worn from working the pumps,
fell 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 was
t1oundering 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
not 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
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

She felt that she must keep busy or
go mad, 30, after tho first six months,
she 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 over 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 1t dwindle away. Finally,
1t 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
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12
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 has overtaken ten men who were
connected with the suit over a piece
OF property given to an undertaken by
q 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
soon after suit was brought of tho
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 1t 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 q new
trial, fell Q victim, ana in a short time
expired.
Alexander Bartlingcock and c, A.
sias wero employed to survey the
land In preparation for the new trial.
Scarcely had they completed their
task when they fell III and died.
j. F. Simons. the district clerk
laughed at the fears Of the superstis
Ftious, and made preparations for the
new trial. a few days lstes he died.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

The story of Robinson Crusoe and
his remarkable adventures is familiar
to almost every man, mi 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 if anything her
experiences were more remarkable.
Cast away on an almost desert island
in the middle of the Indian ocean,
thrown OF her own resources, Liela
P%onquet, a pretty young trapeze per-
former, 10Y about 1S years Of age,
lived 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 for nearly two years she
had believed dead, and who believed she
had persisted when the little French
bark Lilly sank on December IS, 1903.
They had parted when the little vessel,
after a brave fight with the typhoon,
lurched and sank. They had seen her
lifted on a wave, with a life-preserver
clasped 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
lNewAC aled6aiaAaAd affsfAdaA4ior two
Of rest and preparation had crossed to
the larger island and reached safety.
- An Acrobatie Family.
The Ponquet fainily-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
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12

Ing from a high wire, and the other boy,
weak and sickly, never would do for an
athlete, SO he was sent to school and
then into the priesthood, and he was the
pride Of his mothers heart.
But Liela, from her earliest childhood,
took to the ropes and the rings and the
bars as II by second nature, and before
she was IL 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
tralia, so at the end Of n season they
decided to cast their fortunes in a new
world. There was a sad leave-taking
with the son, who o was to become
a priest, and they sailed away to Austria
liza.
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
family. 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
Castle, Brisbane-eyeryWhAre II was the
Samo, aud the gold rolled In.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A numerously-signed petition, head
ed by Grover Cleveland, has been pre-
scented to Gov. Higgins of New York,
praying for executive clemency in be-
half of Albert T. Patrick. convicted
and awaiting electrocution, for the
murder of William Marsh Rice. "Rea-
sonable doubt is the ground taken.
All of the leading express companies
have agreed, and have issued orders to
that effect, that after January Is they
will not carry any business free of
charge as a personal courtesy to mer-
chants or other patrons or for any rea-
sons"
Eleven petty officers and members of
the crew of the United States gunboat
Bennington have been awarded medals
of honor and a gratuity of 500 each
in recognition of extraordinary heroism
displayed at the time of the lamentable
explosion on board that vessel in the
harbor of San Diego, CAL, July 81 last.
The Omaha (Neb.) lighting contract
which was recently forcibly put
through the city council has been de-
clared invalid by the circuit court.
Fire at Kansas City, Mo-, put the
Columbus Buggy Co., the Kimball
Piano Co. and the Hettinger Bros.
Manufacturing Co. out Of business and
practically destroyed the National Bank
of Commerce building; estimated loss,
over $500, 600.
Requisition has been made on the
Canadian government for the return of
Harry Latimer. wanted in Philadelphia
to answer charges of embezzlement and
swindling.
There were 9,212 homicides in the
United States in 1905, as against e.4S2
in 1904.
The death is announced Of Prince
Knjo Michitaka, fathef Of Grown
Princess Sadaka Of Japan and of Rear
Admiral Togo.
Iaa duel with swords. comprising 10
bouts, In Paris. Gen. Percin was twice
wounded by Maj. Driaut. Gen. Perctn's
right arm WAS disabled.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-01-12
THE WEEKS NEWS
TERSELY OUTLINED
An Epitome of the Most Important
Events at Home and Abroad
the Past Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.
What Congress IL Doing, Together
With Latest Develop pnents In Ia
Internal Troubles in Russia, ind
ltemsC ulled from Important Hap
penings All Over the World.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

Champ Clark, of Missouri, enter,
tanned the house, on the 9th inst, will
three hours of oratory, in which he ran
the gamut of current political topics
under the fiction that he was talking
to the Philippine tariff bill. He ad-
mitted, however, that he was merely
giving a specimen of Champ Clark
democracy"
When the senate reconvened follow
ing the holiday recess Senator-elect R
M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, appeared
to claim his seat and was sworn in.
The proposition in the Philippine
tariff reducing the duties on sugar and
tobacco to 25 per cent. of the Dingley
tariff rates is being sharply antagonized
in the house by the cane and beet SUI
gar and the tobacco-growing interests.
The post Office committee of the
house has been instructed to inquire
whether members are abusing the
franking privilege. .
Senator Foraker has introduced a bill
providing that citizens of Porto Rico
shall be citizens of the United States.
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
The Russian Christmas was a SOM
Der one, being almost entirely devoid
Of the usual festal spirit. The rich
were in no mood for the usual lavish
expenditure, and the v'crking people
had no money to %squander, so the
Christmas trees and other things dis.
played In the capital remained un-
bought.
1t is learned from an authoritative
source that the Russian government has
been without communication with Gen
Lirevitch, in Manchuria, for about five
weeks.
An army of revolutionaries has cap
tured K~rasnoyarsk, capital Of the gov
eminent of Yeniciesb, Siberia, muir
deIed every soldier in the garrison ant
hanged the governor and chief of pc
lice. They seized $4,000, 900 contained
in the treasury of the city.
Three hundred revolutionaries wer
killed at Gakhmut, in southern Russia
in a battle with troops which laste(
eight hours. They were caught be
tween two fires.
Admiral Rojestvensky is confirming
. the opinion formed of him in connec
ition.with the Dogger Bank incident. H,
,snow asserts, in e%xtenuation of his de
feat in the Sea of Japan, that the Brit
ish feet was concentrated at Wei-Hai
Wal, with orders to destroy him in cas-,
Admiral Togo failed.
The governor general of Moscow doe
not think a repetition Of the uprising
there possible, as the leaders have beer
either killed or made prisoners and thu
stores of arms and ammunition con
fiscated.
Numerous arrests of extremists con
tinue in st. Petersburg.
The situation in the Baltic province
is still critical, and the military ar
adopting most energetic measures.