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burne, at Sydney, at Clarendon, New
Castle. Neutrality-suspicious. it was the
same, and the gold rolled in.
They went to New Zealand, and, trav-
cling along the coast from Palmerston
through Christchurch, Timaru, Nelson,
wei 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, fed before it. 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-
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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 q
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 T. Austin. Within a few days all
three became i'll 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 a few days before had rendered a
decision i'll 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.
]. 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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ed time, using stones in small piles, one
stone to each day, she had q fright. No
rain had fallen for weeks, and the little
pond began to go dry. Day after day
she watched it dwindle away. Finally,
1t was a tiny pool of muddy, unpalatable
water, and she retired that night in de-
SPAR, 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, ana
fish constituted her main diet, although
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 it 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 h
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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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.

beautiful-beautifu1, 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 one season they
decided to cast their fortunes in a new
world. There was a sad l~eave-taking
with the son, who soon was to become
a priest, and they sailed away to Austria
liza.
That year Liela was 10 years old. Her
beauty, her grace and daring attracted
attention to the grimy, sordid little trav-
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
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The story of Robinson Crusoe and
his remarkable adventures is familiar
to 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 if 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 18 years of age.
lived for Is months before she was
picked up by a passing vessel and
finally SEN 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
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ton she worked at the pumps, strong,
vigorous. t~ireless, her athletic training
standing her in good stead. On the 18TH
hope was abandoned. The storm was
abating a little, but the vessel was
f1oundering 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
b%arkentine turned b~roadside, wallowed
a few moments. and sank.
The Ponquet fortunes were swept
away, and the family separated, in an
instant. The father and mother reached
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HINTS TO -HoUSEKEEPERS.

When long hair becomes so matted
that it is difficult to comb the tan
gled locks, they should be saturated
with alcohol. This done, they will
became amenable to the brush and
comb as if by magic.
Save tea leaves ror washing var
nished paint. When sufficient leaves
have been collected, steep them for
half an hour in a tin vessel and then
strain through a sieve. This water
gives a fresher, newer appearance to
vanished wood than ordinary soap
and water.
Mildew is not generally affected by
chemicals, though it sometimes yields
to their action. = 1t may best be treat
ed with a stiff paste made by boiling
down CASTLE soap shavings, spreading
a thick layer of this upon the stain
and scattering over it some powdered
potash. Moisten slightly with wa
ter and bleach out on the grass.
Many people boil eggs to their lik-
ing by placing the eggs in cold water,
which is allowed to come to the boil
ing point. One housekeeper at least
uses the same method for poached
eggs, taking them from the almost
boiling water perfectly cooked.
Avoid too hot an ven when cook
ing a turkey. The oven should be
quite hot when the bird is put in, but
after the outside has been scared
the heat should be modified. Always
roast a turkey breast down.
Tired feet should be we'll bathed IN
warn water, to which a little sea salt
has Eeen added. Dry thoroughly, and
rub with a little lemon juice. 1t is
wonderful how this treatment soothes
them.
To properly air 6 room, open the
window at the top and bottom. The
reason for this is to allow impure air,
which always rises, to escape at the
top, while the cool, fresh air will come
in at the bottom from outside.
White chiffon washes perfectly, but
a better way to clean it is by a dry
method. Use two quarts of finely pow
dered starch to one of powdered borax.
Spread the chiffon on a clean muslin,
and rub the mixture well into it.
Shake this out, and sprinkle literally
with clean -four and borax; cover and
leave over night; the next day brush
and shake every particle of powder
from the chiffon. 1t should be found
quite spotless.-Bostcn Budget and
Beacon.
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Potatoes and Cheese.

Cut some boiled potatoes into slices
and prepare a sauce OF one cupful OF
milk thickened with n tablespoonful
Of flour and with two tablespoonful
Of butter added, and mix with one
cupful of grated cheese, a little cay
enne, two ~teaspoonfuls of mustard.
Line a dish with croutons. arrange
around them a close row OF the pota-
to slices, and cover with the sauce;
repeat in alternate layers, covering
the whole with sauce; sprinkle light
ly with grated cheese and very brown
croutons, and bake in the oven for
about 20 minutes.
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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 typhoo1,
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
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
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with only the members of his family to
assist him in giving performances. His
Oldest son, a promising acrobat, a
been killed at a fair in France by fall
ing from a high wire, and the other boy,
weak and sickly, never would do for an
athlete. SO he was sent to school n
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 if by second nature, n 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,
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Distant Target.

While attempting to shoot the sky
full of holes Saturday night so the
rain could fall easily, says the Wilbur
ton, L. L., Journal, Louie Goolbasin, a
Russian, was reported by some folks
who didn't have umbrellas with them.
Some say Louie's experiment cost him
about $50 besides the three days am
munition he wasted. Shootemupski
gotenuffski!
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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 adver-
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. advertls-
| 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 &C.
| 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, Dos
ton and Albany, Lake Shore and Michigan
| 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-
| bracing 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 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 an 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 done
| 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 thai
| 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
creased our foreign m
Every legitimate newspaper and maya
zine publication in America will have a
direct interest in the General Advertising
| Department of the New York Central
Lines, and every advertising agent on the
| continent will take a new lease of life
| because of this endorsement of the value
of advertising.
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He Got tha lob.

On December 6, 1877, a young French
doctor sent in an application for q
small post under the government and
heard nothing more of the matter till
a few days ago, when he was required
to fill UP a blank in order to get .
nomination for the position he had ap'
piled for nearly % years before.
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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 1 began with them ans
three boxes cured me permanently"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
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suffering SO with
sharp pains in the
small of the back
and had such fire.
quent dizzy spells
that 1 could scarcely
get about the house.
The urinary pass
ages were also quits
irregular. Monthly
neriodS were so dis,
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for Fame.

"I suppose you are glad to have es
capped all notoriety in connection with
these financial exposures?"
II dunno" answered Mr.. Cumrox,
sometimes I think mother and the girls
would rather see my name in the paper
thai way than not at all."-Washlngton
Star.
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Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullen is Nature great remedy Lures
Coughs, Colds, Group and Consumption
and ali throat and lung troubles. AT drug
gists, 25c., soc. and Sl.00 per bottle.
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THEY -coyLpNT-Fool HIM.
Son Of Erin Knew He Was in the
Wrong Place by Letters on
the Wall.

At the recent election, owing TO the
lack of proper accommodations, it was
found necessary, relates the New York
Times, to use the rooms Of the American
Pleasure association as d polling place for
one Of the lower East side districts.
1t happened on the very first registra-
ton day that a little old, weakened son
Of Erin Ia newly-made c~itizen) strolled in.
He proved a very snappy and suspicious
individual, and the inspectors OF cleo
ton found it a very difficult task to ex-
tract from him suitable replies to the
usual questions, the old fellow displaying
keen resentment and taking much UNI
bragg. at the necessary information re-
quired qualifying him as q voter.
Soon the chairman of the board and the
old chap were exchanging compliments
relative to pedigree, intelligence and
facial appearance Of not too fattering q
nature.
Suddenly in the midst of his harangue
with the chairman, the excited Irishman
stopped short, the color left his face, he
threw his clay, pipe angrily, upon the
floor, and with his eyes blazing fire
brought, his fist down upon the table
with a bang as he shrieked:
"Begorry, l thought this wasn't the
right place! l knew something was
wrong! It's a trap I've fallen into! And
there's the proof" he added, shaking his
finger menacingly at the wall.
The inspectors quickly turned. A smile
| fickered across their faces. On the wall,
the clubs emblem, "a. P. A."
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Half the time when,A man thinks he ia
having fun it is only because he is forget
ting his misery.-N,(4. Press.
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When a girl boasts that a young man
is crazy to marry her, the chances are
she Is somewhat daily herself.
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Tn the japanese.

Bataro-How old are you, madam!
Hanko-I have seen l9 summers, sir.
"Eh-um. How long have you beer
blind?"-Tokio Puck.
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The WRONG Angle.

did the critics SIT through your
play?"
mo. They sat on it."-Detroit Free
Press.
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken Of
Ave, N, Minneapolis. MINI, Jan. 6. 1900.
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A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching, Blind, Bleeding. Protruding Piles
PAzoOINrMENTf fails to cure in6to 14days. so
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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: "In1S9S l was
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1t is vain to expect to live both long
and fast.
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Criticism, like charity, should begin at
home.
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Again and again the maddened beast
leaped 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-
fore it could recover, she killed it, and
then sank down sobbing beside its
body.
Her last friend was gone, and she was
| alone. So she sobbed until daylight, and
then with sharp stones she skinned the
beast, and cooked part of it for her
breakfast.
She felt that she must keep busy OF
go mad, so, after the 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 one upon the other, and
across the top she placed the boards that
had been the sides of her first home, and
| she matched it all owe 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
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-06-21
CONSOLIDATION
IS DEFEATED

The result OF the election Monday
on consolidation was disappointing c
those who wish for school advance
ment and general improvement in
higher education in the valley
In Hood River out of 92 votes cast,
only seven we're against consolidation,
while all we're unanimous in favor OF
free transportation of children to and
from the high school from the coun
try districts.
Frankton voted almost unanimously
in favor of the consolidation, and it ID
to be regretted that the other distri ts
in the proposed consolidation did not
see matters In the same light.
Barrett voted against the PROPOSE
tion by Il small majority, while Pine
Grove cast vote of II for aud 55
against, 1t is said the result in Pine
Grove was largely because of local fac.
tionaI troubles, and that the case was
hardly tried on its merits.
This leaves the matter as it Was te-
fore with each district to shift for it
self Hood River will have the twelfth
grade as the highest and all those i,
the country Wishing TO take this grade
at the Hood River school, viii he
called upon to pay their proportion of
the expense of teaching this grade.
In district No 3 Mrs. Button was
unanimously reelected school director
and G. ii. Vaughan clerk.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-06-21
SlOcOm.Kelsay.

Married, Saturday, June, l6, 1906,
at the residence sof the BRIDES par.
ents, at Myrtle Greek, Oregon, Miss
zoloto Kelsey to .Mr. George |. Slo'
cum, Rev. Miller officiating.
The wedding was quiet, home
affair only few friends. and relatives
OF the contracting parties being pres
ent. Thosei In attendance from here
we're DIR. and Mrs. Watt, Mrs. II. l..
Smith and Roy Slocum.
The rooms we're very tastefully dec
Grated In green and white, outline In
maple vine and Oregon grape, entwined
with white orange blossoms. A slarge
green wedding bell was hung over the
marriage altar. Mrs. Sybil Hughes
played Lohengrin's wedding march
preceding the ceremony. Miss Lelah
Kelsey acted as bridesmaid and Roy
Slocum as best man. The bride wore
white crepe d'poplin over white silk.
After the ceremony the guests sat
down to wedding supper, after
which the happy. couple took the eseven-
ing train for Portland, remaining
there over Sunday, arriving ut Hood
River Monday morning.
The bride is daughter OF our for
mer townsman, A. M. Kelsey, and is
we'll known and highly esteemed here.
The groom has been known here since
boyhood, and Is one of our most pop
ular young merchants. We extend
congratulations
Mr.. and Mrs. Slocum will go to
housekeeping at once In their new
home on Oak street, and will be at
home to their friends after July |.