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carafe. Not that kind of thirst at all
but the thirst that shrivels. the tongue
into black twist that lies. hard and dry
as tanned leather. within the mouth. The
kind of thirst that dries the skin until it
is like parchment-so hard and moisture
less that cuts and wounds do not bleed
because there is no fluid blood left I'm the
outer circulatory system. The kind of
thirst that drives men mad: that brings
them TO the condition of mummies while
they yet live; that parches the lining
membranes of the nose. mouth and eyes,
until the eyelids cannot close. and the
grinning lips shrink away from the teeth
like curled-up bits of blackened leather
Then consider how greatly aggravated
even moderate thirst would be in a
desert where hardly even q cactus grows
where flies and scorpions cannot exist
where even the rattlesnake refuses to
make his habitation. where the dry sand
and the dry air, under merciless sun,
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suck from the body every drop of moisture
and leave 1t desiccated as shriveled
piece of paper. and such places are the
deserts Of southwestern Arizona.
In these deserts there is no humidity.
The long days bring no rains and the hot
nights afford no relieving dews. There
one finds nothing but sand and alkali
dust: the heat waves simmer above the
dry surface. and at night. rising from the
baked earth. make the hours of darkness
almost as insunerable as those of day.
Under these conditions thirst is more than
a temporary Inconvenience and unpleas-
antness-it is agony and madness and
death.
Only one man has ever. so far as is
known. been lost in these deserts for
week and finally escaped with his life
This man is Pablo Valencia. Mexican. as
his name indicates. and the story is told
by DR.. W McGee. under whose obser-
vations, personal and on the spot, the
events occurred.
Dr. MCGEE. who is now secretary of the
inland waterways commission and soil
expert in the bureau of soils, Department
of Agriculture. was camping in the desert
at one of the infrequent tanks" or nat
ural reservoirs where water from the win
ter rains collects in hollows of the rocks.
He was the last white man who saw
Pablo when the Mexican plunged into the
desert on a prospecting trip; and he was
the first white man who saw him when,
a week later Pablo dragged himself with
In earshot of the camp and was found. q
parched withered mummy. with the spark
of life still burning feebly within him.
1t was DR.. McGee who famed that
feeble spark. who cared for and nursed
the Mexican back to strength and life
after the desert had wreaked its worst
with him and left him more like the
dried shell Of a man than anything hu-
man. 1t isn't pretty story; there is
the rawness of primitive brutal con-
ditions about 1T. But 1t shows what
living. breathing. thinking human be-
ings can pass through and still live. and
it has the further value of being true.
Not often has science had the oppor-
tunity of seeing. at first hand. a case
like that OF Pablo Valencia: SO far as
the medical journals and books are con-
cerned no other case even approximate
ly paralleing 1T has ever been observ-
ed by a trained scientist, says DR.. Nc
Gee. who tells the story.
From May 90 to August IS. 1906"
says DIR. McGee, Il was camped on the
borders of the desert in southwestern
Arizona. The camp. tentless one, was at
Tinajas Atlas, or high tanks in gorge
cleaving the northeastern side Of the
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Gila mountains. The Mexican boundary
is few miles to the south. Yuma is
seventy-five miles to the northwest The
tanks are forty miles south of the Gila
of the Colorado river. The nearest GER
tain water. to the east Is eighty to
ninety miles. To the north, water. may
be obtained at the southern Pacific sta
tton at Wellston. thirty miles distant
over broad sand wastes, interspersed
with little mountains and buttes; at the
Fortuna mines, thirty-five miles north
west, there is also water.
For the hundred years from 1850,
when California was fourishing
Mexican province. Tinijas Atlas was
known as the only sure water on the
road from Rio Sonoyta. on the east. to
Yuma. on the west. The travellers over
that desperate overland route called 1t
Ell Canine del Diable.' which means
The Devils Road and in land where
all the roads are bad the name takes on
an added significance. Scarcely a mile
In the 200 that stretch from Santo Domin-
go, at Rio Sonoyta, to Yuma is unmarked
by one or more OF the cross-shaped heaps
of stones that mark the grave of some
one who died by the wayside from the
cruelest form of death-by the torture of
thirst. No tribe has ever permanently In
habited the region; even the Indians shun
IL tHcy are IoTceu tnefe or visit 1t
for, some special purpose. Close to the
tanks the stone heaps are thickest. for
the worst portion of this devils road lies
between Tule Wells and Tinajas Atlas,
Within gunshot of the tanks-yes within
sight of the almost perennial water OF the
high tanks'-there are more than sixty
Of the marked graves, and none know
how many that are unmarked.
This was the site of our camp a camp
devoted to meteorologic observation and
the study of the effects of light on desert
life. For a part of the time our party
consisted of three-myself, Harrison Ford
and Papago Indian named Jose. Some
times one. sometimes both, of my COM
panions were away and | was left there
alone: and only two or three times during
the summer were we visited by others
prospectors passing along the little-trav-
eled trail.
ut was just before noon August IA that
Pablo Valencia> and his companion and
guide, Jesus Rios. came into camp, en-
route to the lost mines that had been re-
discovered some months previously by
Pablo. The two were supplied with pinole;
which is meal made of parched wheat,
and with bread. cheese, sugar coffee and
tobacco-enough for a weeks subsistence
They also had two twH-gallon and two
one-gallon canteens of water-six gallons
Evening star., 1909-05-23
The Technical Waiter.

discussing in Anoka certain battle
- of the civil war r. G. Woodward.
commander of the Minnesota Department
Of the Grand Army of the Republic. said:
THAT general reminded me of a waiter
In Minneapolis. The general was too
scientific. He was too busy with causes
and effects. with technical moves and
what not, to get results-that is, to win
battles.
$50 with my Minneapolis waiter. In a
restaurant | said to him:
Look at the color of this water.
Why. it's not fit to drink.
But the waiter, instead of rushing
some crystal-pure water to me. took up
my goblet. studied II carefully. shook
his head. and said:
No. sir. You're deceivinc yourself,
sir. The waters perfectly all right. sir.
It's only the glass what's dirty"
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An Awkward Compliment.

INSPECTOR GENERAL HORNADAY
of the Grand Army of the Republic
was relating incidents Of famous national
encampments.
II remember a little Jap who attended
one of our banquets." he said, smiling,
''and q queer compliment that he paid to
a coloneIs wife.
II sat between the two. and the lady
said across me:
Mr. Takashirn, you compress the
ladies' feet In your country. don't you?
oh. no, madam. that Is Chinese
custom said the Jap. We japanese
allow our ladies' feet to grow to their full
size. Not that
And he bowed and hissed In the polite
Japanese way.
mot that they could ever hope to
rival yours, madam.
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Won are on the right rails and the depot
Is not far distant.
A few gentlemen are born. far more
are made. Old William Of Wykeham
said: Manners maketh man.. but 1t
were nearer the truth to say, Man
makes his manners" and his manners
make his success or account for the
lack Of 1t.
Teach your boy to be strictly honest
in all his dealings with his brothers and
sisters. Cheating in childish games and
disregard of the property rights OF
Others should not go unrebuked by par
ents. If a boy disregards the rights
OF his brothers and sisters, he will grow
up to disregard the rights of men,.
Caution your boy to be scrupulously
honest in little things. 1t may be
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in all Besides. they had about. twelve
pounds of pressed a--alfa and twice the
quantity of rolled barley for the horses.
From Yuma to Tinajas Atlas they made
two camps. starting from Wellton about
3 o'clock the morning of the 14th and
doing the thirty miles in trif1e over
eight hours.
Gable. at that time. was about forty
years old. Of remarkably fine and vigor-
Gus physique; he was, In fact one Of the
ever seen. His height was about feet Z
inches and his normal weight in the
neighborhood of 155 pounds: notably deep
chested and round-bodied with exception
sleeper, of phlegmatic disposition and
given to browsing In the shade rather
than working in the sum- Yet. between
periods of repose he was of energetic and
sandals rather than riding, with strong,
upspringing gait that In the long run car
ried him past all but the best horses:
openly scorning hunger and thirst. and
with the ability to withstand far beyond
ordinary men the inconveniences Of the
range--in short. an ideal man to endure
extraordinarily stressful experiences. He
had been a sailor. prospector, miner
and a small rancher. His companion was
about sixty-five years old. a former
vaquero. typicaliy Mexican, claiming IA
miliarity with the country. but little de-
pendable. being erratic and inconsequent
in statement of fact or any other way.
1.-The two remained in camp with me
while their horses ate and rested they,
meanwhile, feasting on jerked cimarron
(sun dried flesh Of mountain Sheep In
addition to their own grub Then.
against my advice, which was to make
their start about ! O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing, the moon then being about the full.
they set out for their Ell Dorado about 5
o'clock in the afternoon. In half an
hour they returned. saying they had de-
cided to wait till morning because their
horses had drank little; really, they re-
turned because my judgment had at last
worked into their heads. The two pull
ed out next morning about 3:45, Au-
gust II.
soon after midnight Jesus came in
alone. with both horses. reporting that
Pablo had sent him back from a point
about thrty-five miles southeast to re-
water. Pablo. he said,. had gone for
ward on foot with a two-gallon canteen
of water and a supply of pinole, under an
agreement-inane. If not insane. in desert
lfe-to camp twenty-four to thirty hours
later, not on the trail. but on the farther
side of nearby sierra. Jesus struck
the trail again about $3.50 the morning
Evening star., 1909-05-23
How to Make Man Of Your Boy-By Dr. Madison c. Peters,

small thing to insist that he cannot
honestly use the postage stamps of his
employer for his private correspondence.
The amount involved is trivial. but the
principle is all-important.
Don't turn your boy out to spend the
night you know not where. Don't al
low hun to go out at night to see the
sights or to find pleasure in the amuse-
ments OF the city. unless you go with
him, until he is grown to mans estate
and his habits are formed. IL you want
to make your boys destruction sure give
him unmatched liberty after Dark
There are many things OF which iR-
norance is bliss and wisdom folls-things
which a man cannot learn without being
damaged all his life. "As an eel. If he
were to wriggle across your carpet.
would leave a slime which no brush
could take off. SO there are many things
which no person can know and ever re-
cover from the knowledge Of"
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NnecdOfe8 COncelninU
Well-knOWn peODlp.

he said. told his new boy one June
morning to go to the back of his shop
and fill box with two-dollar grade
strawberries for Mrs. Van Golde.
The boy a moment later called from
the rear:
Hey ther amt enough berries here
to fill this box
THE fruiterer hurried back himself.
He looked at the box. then he sneered
At the boy.
why, you young Greenhorn,' he said,
you've got 1t upside down."
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ality. An offensive manner jars upon
refined taste. Virtue itself ofends when
coupled with forbidding manner" More
men succeed in life by their kindliness
of manner than by their talents. Good
manners, like the sunshine are welcome
everywhere. The world needs much Of
this sunshine and it has great rewards
for those who supply its wants. Good
manners are the rails on which you can
ride into the union depot of success. If
your passing provokes a hiss you have
laid the rails wrong; If 1t wins applause
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TERRIBLE Suffering of

TERRIBLE Suffering of
/ Pablo Valencia, a Mexi-
can, in the Arizona Desert
Washington Scientist Has
Opportunity to Make Study
of Case Which Attracted At
tention of Medical World
Only Incident Known Where
Life Existed When Body of
Unfortunate Prospector Was
Parched and Shriveled by the
Burning Western Sun.
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will not give them to him." DR.. Johnson
once remarked: A man has no more
right to say rude thing to another
than to knock him down."
Money, talent and influence are keys
that turn some locks, but the kindly man
ner is the master key that can open all.
Emerson said; Give a boy dress and
accomplishments and you give him the
mastery OF palaces and fortunes wherever
ne goes. He has not the trouble to earn
nor To own them; they solicit him to
enter and possess
Everybody avoids repulsive person.
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boys character so much as putting
him on his honor, trusting to his honor
| have little hope for the boy who is
dead TO the feeling of honor. The boy
who needs TO be continually looked after
is on the road to ruin. If treating your
boy rs a gentleman does not make him a
gentleman nothing else ever will.
ST. Peter enjoins to love as brethren
be plt1ful, he courteous Courtesy d
Christian duty has been soreiy neglected
by Americans. If a civil word 1--WE
will make Il man happy said French
king, lie must he Wretchcd indeed WHO
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what he is. . 'Tis only noble to be good
Collateral can never take the place OF
character. Character Is capital
Anciently the Romans worshiped virtue
and honor as gods; they built two tenn
Piles. which were situated that none
could enter the temple of honor WITHOUT
passing through the temple OF virtue.
Among the Greeks and Romans in their
best days honor was more sought after
than wealth.
Times changed. Wealth became the
surest passport to honor. and respectable
ity was endangered by poverty. But
Rome was Rome no more" when the
1raffic and when gold could purchase with
ease the honors that patriotism and valor
once secured only with difficulty.
Goldsmith more than hints that money
does not make the man when he says:
III fares the land to fastening ills q prey
Where wealth accumuiatcs and men decay.
II is easier to acquire money than char
scter. In the estimation of the better
thinking world there is one thing more
valuable than property and higher than
position-it is manhood. Better be q man
than merely millionaire.
How. then. may You make really use
ful man of your boy?
II is a rtie in the imperial family of
Germany that every young man shall
learn trade. going through regular
apprenticeship till he is able TO do good
journey work. This is required because.
in the event OF unforeseen changes. it is
deemed necessary TO d manly inde-
pendenee that the heir apparent or a
prince of the blood should be conscious OF
ability to make his own way In the world
This is an honorable custom, worthy of
universal American emulation. The
Jews wisely held the maxim that every
youth. whatever his position in life.
should learn some trade. The Talmud
says: He who teaches his son no trade
is as IL he taught him to steal" Frank
lin says: He that hath a trade hath an
estate"
Evening star., 1909-05-23
The Miraculous Box.

T UTHER BURBANK, at a dinner in
II Santa Rosa, replied modestly with
an anecdote to a euiogy Of his new cre-
alton, the spineless cactus.
Really, you know" said the plant
wizard. 'the spineless cactus is nothing
like so marvellous as the strawberry box
that the fashionable fruiterer of the east
uses That is a creation indeed"
He smiled.
"A fashionable New York fruiterer,"
Evening star., 1909-05-23

IRE Y ou yer
thirsty? Not the
kind of thirst that
c a u S e s o n e s
thoughts to turn
to the nearest
place where you
may obtain a cool
ing beverage. nor
the thirst that is
e a S | v quenched
with a single glass
of water from the
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VI r r S o N says.
The truest test Of
civilization Is not
the census, nor the
size of the cities,
nor the crops; no.
but the kind Of men
the country turns
out" Manhood
overtops all titles"
A man is rich or
poor, not according
to what he has. but
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ing. Rather let him be shoemaker and
put genius In his shoes than be a preacher
whom nobody wants to hear. No matter
how honorable the business or profession.
let him not enter upon 1t unless his talents
lie in that direction.
Urge him TO select a clean occupa-
ton. an Occupa ton that will develop him,
which will elevate him, which will give
him a chance for self-improVement and
promotion. Remember that all. work,
however humble. IS honorable. and that
the most despised calling may be made
honorable by the honor of it's professors.
Franklin left upon the printing office an
impress which has benefited the pro-
fession of printers ever since. Blacksmiths
love to speak of EIihu Burritt.. The day
has gone by when man needs to hang his
head on account Of the humbleness Of his
vocation.
AS Pope has it:
Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act we'll your part, there all the honor lies
Let your boy wait on himself as much
as possible. The more he has to depend
upon himself the more manly fellow
he will show himself to be. Sef-depend-
ence will call out his energies, bring into
exercise his talents. Pythagoras says:
Ability and necessity dwell near each
other" 1t is not In the hothouse, but
on the rugged Alpine cliffs where the
storms beat most violently that the
toughest plants grow. So it is with man.
The wisest charity is to help boy to
help himself Let him never hear any
language but this You have your own
way to make. and II depends on your own
eXertion whether you starve or live"
Show your boy that every man stands or
falls by himself that Individual manhood
is what tells In this land of the free
you cannot legislate prosperity. Gods way
Is work. HOll cannot dream VOnrGalf
a character. You must hammer and forge
one for yourself.
Teach him 10 tell the truth at all times
under all circumstances and in the face of
all risks. To do this may require as much
courage as was ever displayed upon the
field of battle. amid the glitter of cold
steel and the rattle OF musketry. OF all
the valiant men in the world let him be
chief who dares to tell the truth.
With the first lispings of speech teach
your boy to speak accurately on all sub
jects, be they trivial or important. and
when He becomes man he will scorn
to tell a lie. BY example show him the
strict letter of the fact and do not deal
In the marvellous.
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Find out where your boys talents lie
and what groove he is intended to fill.
To succeed he must follow the bent of his
genius Your boy is born with talent for
some pursuit. If you make OF him any
thing else but what nature intended him
for, you will make him worse than moth
Evening star., 1909-05-23

IL your boy has committed a fault
or carelessiy broken anything. takes the
full blame upon himself and makes no
excuses about II that boy will make every
inch a man Encourage him 10 tell the
truth. Do not whip him because, like "A
little man, he tells the truth. Whip him.
he may lie the next time to escape the
whipping There Is nothing that improves
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-09-24
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
the MAN IN THE STAGE.
A Tragedy of the OIden Days In New
York City,

A good many years ago, long before
skyscrapers and rapid transit were
thought of and New York was lust a
big growing town, they used to tell
story that was CHASTITY enough to cur
die the blood of the most skeptical
and to keep people Of nervous temper
ament awake of nights.
The tale went that of a summer
night a husband aGd wife, returning
home from the theater, entered a Fifth
avenue stage far downtown and for
many blocks were the only occupants.
A little above Fourteenth street. how
ever, the stage came to an abrupt
stop, the door was opened, and three
young men entered. One of the three
had evidently been drinking heavily,
for his companions were obliged to
help him to his seat. The door was
closed behind them, and the stage con-
tinued its journey northward.
About ten blocks farther on one of
the young men rose and, bidding his
friends good night, stopped the stage
and alighted. A few minutes later
the second of the three said, "Well,
good night, Dick" pulled the strap,
stepped to the sidewalk and walked
off through one of the side streets
There remained in the stage only the
husband and wife and the young man
who was obviously under the infu-
ence of liquor and who sat in
crouching attitude in a corner Of the
stage under the dim Pickering lamp.
After a time the husband noticed
that the young mans head seemed to
be dropping as if in sleep, and, fearing
that he might be borne beyond his
destination, he rose, tapped him on the
shoulder and called attention to the
number Of the street they had just
passed. There was no response, and
the husband repeated his words, lean
ing over as he did SO Then he sud
denly Strengthened up. turned to his
wife and said quickly 1--WE will get
out here
She began to protest. but he simply
repeated the words, pulled the strap
and helped her to alight AS they
stood under the corner iamppost she
turned queStioningly and asked him
why he insisted on their getting out
Of the bus so far below their destina-
ton.
Because" he replied, that young
mans throat was cut from ear to ear"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-09-24
PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT.
saivadorean conspirators Have Been
Placed Under Arrest.

saivadorean conspirators Have Been
Placed Under Arrest.
Mexico City.-Charged with being
implicated in plot to kill President
Figuroa, of the Republic of Salvador,
General Jose Dolores PreEa and Gen.
eral Damas Copinel are behand prison
bars in the capital of that republic
of Central America, according to let
tiers received in Mexico CITY.
The writer OF the letters states that
on the sixth of last month big reli-
gious and civic fete was held in the
capital. 1t was planned by number
OF men, ii is said. that the president
should die on that day.
Secret detectives of the government
discovered evidences of the plot in
time to Illustrate 1t, and white the
festas were in progress a number
were arrested and put In prison,
among them being General Preza, who
was commander in chief of the Sal
vadorean and Hondurean forces when
they fought against Nicaragua in the
war of 1907.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1909-09-24
ADDITIONAL COUNTY NEWS.
POWDER SPRINGS.

Miss Ethel Hardage left last
week for Florida, where she Will
take up her duties as teacher for
another year.
Mr.. Herbert Conner, of Conner,
is in the Bank, studying under his
brother.
Saturday, the 25th, is "Work
Day" for the orphans. Let us all
do something on that day that
will help the little orphans.
Miss Gertrude Bell is in Atlanta
for few days.
Rev. J. S. Bookhart, of Taylors-
vile, was minglingwith old friends
here Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah Miller is i'll at her
daughters in Atlanta.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Wolfe WIS.,
tied their daughter near Hiram
the past week.
Mrs. H. H. Clay and two little
daughters, of Macland, spent
Thursday with Mrs. J. D. Middle
brooks.
Mrs. M. T. Marchman, Mr..
Warren Bell and Mrs. Ragedale
are quite i'll.
Mrs Wallace Florence delight
fully entertained the Matrons
Club at her home last Thursday
afternoon