MAN'S WORD MUST BE KEPT
THE STAR
BEYN0LD3VILLE - . PENNA.
PAID HIGHLY FOR BEAUTV
Humorist Tellt How He Became
Handsome, and Declares It Wae
Worth It.
To be handsome Is not always to be
good, but there is surely no harm In
being handsome If you can become bo
without spoiling your face. For years
I was considered hotnoly. My beBt
friends admitted It and my enemies
made unkind references to It. I knew
that there were dermatologists who
were perfectly willing to give silver
bridges to brldgcless noses, dazzling
brilliance to lack luster eyes and rav
ishing outlines to hideous profiles, but
I did not care to go to the expense. I
determined to bo my own dermatolo
gist. I have drawn nn outline of my pro
file as It was before I began to work
on my face. It will be seen that, while
Intellectual, It was not handsome. My
ear was too long and my nose too like
a toe, while my brow needed building
up and my chin pushing forward. My
eye, while not beautiful, had charac
ter, and I decided not to alter that,
but the other features needed manipu
lation. I began with my nose. When I went
to bed I lay on my back with a flatlron
bound to my nose. It was painful at
first, but I soon got used to It, and day
by day my nose changed Its shape un
til at last It was perfect. I next tried
sleeping standing up In a specially
prepared bed, with heavy weights
hung to my chin. This had a tendency
to bring my chin forward. Luckily I
was out of a Job, so I was able to do
my sleeping In the daytime. To give
myself a high brow I made a hat like
those used by hatters to ascertain the
size of the head. This I screwed on
my head on retiring. Increasing the
pressure each night. I also took double
doses of headache powders, as I need
ed them. As I look back It does not
eeem more than six months that I la
bored with my visage, but my diary
tells me It took a year.
I append a profile of my face as It
was after I secured beauty for my
self. The difference between the two
profiles Is great and the torture was
Kreat, but It Is certalny pleasant to
hear people say whenever I appear In
public: "Who Is that strikingly hand
some man?" Charles Battell Loomls
In Delineator.
In Praise of Gardening.
Charles Dudley Warner: There Is
- probably nothing that has Buch a
tranquillzlng effect, and leads Intc
such content, as gardening. By gar
dening, I do not mean that Insane de
Blre to raise vegetables which Borne
have; but the philosophical occupation
of contact with the earth, and com
panionship with gently growing things
and patient processes; that exercise
' ulch soothes the spirit and develops
the deltoid muscles. In half an hour
I can hoe myself right away from the
world, as we commonly call It, Into a
large place, where there are no ob
stacles. What an occupation It Is for
thought! The mind broods like a hen
on eggs. The trouble is, that you are
not thinking about anything, but arc
really vegetating like the plants
around you. I begin to know what the
Joy of the grapevine Is In running up
the trellis, which Is similar to that ol
the squirrel In running up the tree.
We all have something In our nature
that requires contact with the earth.
Had Been Under Suspicion,
, "I will ask you," 'said the lawyer,
who was trying to throw doubts on
the testimony of the witness, "If you
have ever been Indicted for any of
fense against the law?"
"I never have, sir."
"Haveyou ever been arrested on a
charge of any kind?"
"Neve."-
"Well, have you ever been suspected
of committing a crime?"
"I'd rather -not answer that ques
tion." "Ha! Tou would rather not. 1
thought so. I Insist upon your an
swering It. Have you ever been sus
pected of crime?" v
"Yes, sir; often. Every time I come
home from a trip -abroad the customs
Inspectors at New York city suspect
me of being a smuggler." Chicago
Tribune.
Things Worth Knowing.
Stand not near a tree, Iron gate or
leaden spout In time' of lightning.
Where a lighted candle will not
rtrrt, animal life cannot exist It is
an excellent caution, therefore, be
fore entering damp and confined
places to try this very simple experl-
meat
To induce sleep when one is over
tired or worried and cannot sleep, be
ing gently rubbed all over with a
towel wrung out of hot, salt water,
and deep breathing in fresh air
through the nostrils Has excellent ef
fect '
The Reason of It.
"The boat you see in so close there
is the mall boat and its route em
braces small settlements all along the
coaBt." r
"Embraces so many, does it? I sup
pose that is why I see the boat Is
hugging the shore." '
Neighbor's Baby Is Useful.
"You watch, your neighbor's baby
with considerable interest.",
. "Yes," said Mrs. De Style. "When
' the weather turns her baby blue I
-don't let Fido out"
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wood. Apparently the presenoo of an excess of
gypsum la prejudicial to the. growth of the mes
qulte. The bottoms among the dunes, have a dense
vegetal Ion is compared with that of the dunes
tlieuiBetves. It is characterized espgclally by the
presence of a grama grass (Douteloua), forming
almost a turf, and by frequent clumps of Ephedra
of a graylBh purple color at this Beason and with
three Bcalcd nodes. These bottoms usually show
no Blgn of moisture, but lu two placos we found
water holes, the water so alkaline that the horses
would not drink it at
the end of their first
day's drive.
Probably the most
extraordinary product
of the Sonora desert,
weBt of Torres, Mex-
Echlnocactus was represented by a half-dozen
species, of which one, E. grande, is undoubtedly
the most massive of all the genus, being as much
as 8 or 9 feet In height and 30 or even 30 Inches
In thickness, which, with the many convolutions
of Its surface, makes it a 'very grotesque feature
of the scenery.
E. flavescens forms small heads in clusters,
while in E. robuBta colonies 10 or 15 feet across,
muklng mounds 2 or 3 feet high, include hundreds
of heads.
No systematic account of any desert Is to be
found in which the storage function appears so
highly developed and by so many species. Of
course all of the cacti exhibit this feature In a
very marked degree, and a single plant of Pllo
cereuB fulvlceps may retain several hundred gal
lons of water. The large stems of Yucca, which
is a prominent member of the flora of the slopes,
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UCSON has a cli
mate of a thor
oughly desert char
acter, and a flora,
including moun
tains and plain,
rich In species and
genera. In addi
tion to its situa
tion in the heart
of the desert of Arizona, it is cen
trally located, both as to position
and transportation, with reference
to the deBerts of Texas, Chihua
hua, New Mexico, California nnd
Sonora.
Tho University of Arizona, with
Its School of Mines, and the Ari
zona agricultural experiment sta
tion are located at
Tucson.
Not the least of
the advantages of
Tucson as. a center
for the activities .of
the government
desert laboratory is
the broad-minded
comprehension of
tho Importance of
tho purposes of the
Institution evinced
by the citizens, ac
companied by an
earnest desire to co
operate in its estab
lishment. This ap
preciation was ex
pressed In the prac
tical form of subsi
dies of land for the
Bite of the building
and to Berve as a
preserve for desert vegetation, the installation -and
construction of telephone, light and power
connections, and of a road to the Bite of the lab
oratory, about two miles from Tucson. This
spirit of hearty co-operation has animated every
organization In the city, and has enabled the lab
oratory to gain control of a domain of 8C0 acres,
of the greatest usefulness for general experimen
tal work.
Extending northward for nearly 100 miles
from El Paso is the noted Jornada del Muerta
(Journey of Death), which has a width of 30
to 40 miles. It formed a portion of the route
connecting the earliest settlements along the Rio
Grande, and here the traveler was compelled to
leave the stream far to the westward, in Its ,
deeply cut, inaccessible canyon, and toil for two
or three days in the burning heat without water,
except such as might be carried. It was for three ,
centuries one of the most menacing and hazard
ous overland Journeys to be encountered in the
American desert. Recent investigations, however,
have shown that the region traversed is in real
ity a basin, and that water is to be found, as In .
many other deserts, within a reasonable dlstaace
of the surface.
Beyond lies an equally remarkable desert, the -Otero
basin, which is the bed of an ancient lake, '
and is noted for a great salt and soda flat, a salt
lake, and, most striking of all, the "White Sands,"
an area of about 300 square miles covered with
dunes of gypsum sand rising to a maximum
height of 60 feet
The surface of the duaes is sparkling white,
due to the dry condition of the gypsum powder,
but a few inches beneath it is of a yellowish or
buff color and is distinctly moist and cool to the
touch, even when the air is extremely hot
The most characteristic plant of the dunes la
the three-leaf sumac (Rhus trilobata), which oc
cure In the form of single hemispherical bushes '
four to eight feet high, the lower branches' hug-.
glng the sand. The plant grows vigorously, the
trunk at or beneath the surface often reaching
a diameter of three Inches. The binding and pro
tecting effect of this bush is often shown in a '
striking manner when in the cutting down of an
older dune by the wind a column of sand may
be left protected above from the Bun by the close
covering of tho branches and leaves) and the sand
in the column Itself bound together by the long,,
penetrating roots. One of these columns was
about 15 feet high from Its base to tho summit
bf the' protecting bush and about 8 feet-In dlam
eter at the base. I
A marked peculiarity of the White Sands is
that a oottonwood is occasionally found in the
lower dunes, reaching a foot in diameter, but sel
dom more than 15 feet in height; yet at the same
time not a mesquite was seen. The mesqulte is
a tree requiring less moisture than the cotton-
ico. is tho guarequl (Ibervillca sono
rae). a tendril-bearing plant whose
inordinately thickened root nnd stem
Dase lies gray and naif cxposeu upon
the ground beneath some trellislng
shrub. These tuberous formations may be seen
during the dry Benson lying abont wholly unan
chored, as tho slender roots dry up with the close
of tho vegetative seaaon, which lasts but a few
weeks.
In February, 1902, some of these tubers were
taken to the New York Botanical garden, and a
large specimen not treated in any way was
placed in a museum case, .where it ins since re
mained." Annually, at a time fairly coincident
with the natural vegetative season in its native
habitat, the major vegetative points awaken and
Bend up a few thin shoots, which reach a length
of about two feet only, since they do not obtain
sunlight After a period of a few weeks they lie
down again and the material in them ' retreats to
the tuber to await another Beason. Seven periods
of activity have thus been displayed by this speci
men with no apparent change in its structure or
size. It does not seem unreasonable to suppose,
therefore, that the guarequl is a storage structure
of such great efficiency that water and other ma
terial sufficient to meet the needs of the plant
for a quarter of a century are held In reserve
in its reservoirs. -
The morning-glory (Iphomoea arborescens) 1b
here a tree 20 to 30 feet high, , with smooth,
chalky gray trunk and branches. During Febru
ary it' is leafless throughout, while Its large white
. flowers open one by one on the ends of the naked
branches. From its white bark the tree is some
times known as palo bianco, and from the gum
or resin, which exudes from inclBlons made In it
for the purpose and which is used as incense In
religious ceremonies, it is also called palo santo.
One of the striking features of the Tehuacan
desert of southern Mexico Is the extreme locali
zation or strictness of colonization exhibited by
many species which are found to cover an area
of a few square yards, the face of a slope, the
crest of a cliff or the floor of a barranca, with no
outliers and w-ith the nearest colony perhaps
many miles away.
The Cactaceae are more abundant here than
In any other part of the world yet visited, sev
eral of the species being massive forms,
Cephalocereus macrocephalus is a tall species
of tbo massiveness of the saguaro, and like it
having a central shaft bearing numbers of
branches which are more closely appressed. It
was f een only along the cliff near the Rancho
San Diego, along the eastern edge of the valley.
Pilocerous fulvlceps, of more general distribu
tion on slopes, has a series of branches, In many
instances 40 or 60 in number, densely clustered
and arising from a short trunk, which barely rises
from the ground before It branches.
function to this pur
poso to some extent
while tho fleshy
loaves . of Agave
marmorata and oth
er species and of
Hectia. are essen
tially Btorage or
gans for reserve
food and surplus
water. Here is also
a Euphorbia and a
Pedllauthus. with
thick upright cylin
drical stems, in
which the Btorage
function is made
more effective by
the possession of a
thick milk Juice.
As one proceeds
to the ancient ruins
of Mltlo, 36 miles
firlyAGOjVPJAATJlDiMfWfG to the southeasi-
fgOMA CACTUS ward of Oaxaca, the
aridity increases until In the vicinity of the ha
cienda of that name extreme desert conditions
are found. The ancient structures hero afe in
dicative of a type of civilization characteristic of
the desert, In which co-operation or communism
was carried to as great lengths as it must have
been in the pueblos of the northern deserts in
America.
One of the most difficult problems to solve is
that of transportation in the desert, and there are
extensive areas in American deserts that have
not yet been systematically explored by reason
of this condition.
A comprehension of the part that water plays
In existence and travel in the desert Is to be
gained only by experience. Some of the native
animals, such as mice and other email rodents,
have been known to live on hard seeds without
green food for periods of several months, or even
as long as two or three years, and nothing in
their behavior indicated that they ever took liquid
in any form.
Deer and peccary are abundant in deserts In
Sonora In which the only available supply of open
water is to be found in the cacti.
' Man and his most constant companion on the
desert of America, the . horse, are comparatively
poorly equipped against the rigors of the desert
A horseman may go' from the morning of one day
until some hour of the next in midsummer and
neither he nor his horse will incur serious dan
ger; experiences of this kind are numerous. If
the traveler is afoot, abstinence from water from
sunrise to sunset is a serious Inconvenience to
him, and if he continues his Journey, the follow
ing morning his sufferings may so disturb his
mental balance that he may be unable to follow
a trail, and by the evening of that day, if he has
not come to something drinkable he may not rec
ognize the friendly stream in his way. Instances
are not unknown in which sufferers from thirst
have forded streams waist deep to wander out on
the dry plain to grisly death.
Scouting Indians have long used the blsnaga.
and a drink may be obtained In this manner by a
skilled operator in five to ten mlnltes. Some trav
elers are inclined to look with much disfavor on
the liquid bo obtained, but it has been used with
out discomfort by members of expeditions from
tho desert laboratory. That it is often preferred
by Indians to fair water is evidenced by the fact
that the Whipple expedition found the Mohaves
near the mouth of the Bill Williams river, in
1853, cooking ducks and other birds in the Juice
of these plants by means of heated stones
dropped into the cavity containing the pulp.
Essential of Business Life Is to Have
the Confldenoe of Your
Associates.
- A man's word is his stock In trade,
and it cannot be broken without in
luring his commercial standing. Many
good men grow careless of their word
and fall to see the importance of keep
ing It until they have suffered some
serious consequence. There are those
whose word Is said to be as good as
their bond. Whether it ' is or not,
their word must, be good, for the world
Is not easily deceived about such, mat
ters. Keeping one's word Is more often a
matter of linblt than character. Good
men, with the best of intentions,
sometimes become careless In respect
to a promise, a Btatement or an en
gagement, and while no harm is
mennt, It might as well be, for one
cannot habitually break his word
without losing his caste as a "man of ,
his word." Nothing Is more essential -in
business life as the element of con
fidence, and confidence, after all, rests
entirely upon one's care In doing what
he says he will do. This matter of
personal integrity cuts a larger figure
In business than we are , sometimes
willing to admit. It is one of the de
mands that business makes of men to
fulfill their words. Let business learn
to distrust a man's reliability as to his
word, and it will soon discount his
liability as a business man. Omaha
Bee.
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT
"My little son, a boy of five, broke
out with an itching raBb. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but be kopfi
getting worse until we could not dress
btm any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical' college,
but its treatment did no good. - At
the time I was induced to try Cuti
cura he was so bad that I had to cut
bis hair off and put the Cutlcura Oint
ment on him on bandages, as it was
Impossible to touch him with the bare
band. There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass of
sores. The bandages used to stick to
bis skin and in removing them It used
to take the skin off with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. I began to think that
he would never get well, but after the
second application of Cutlcura Oint .
ment I began to see signs of improve
ment and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled off twenty
times, but it finally yielded to the
treatment. Now I can say that he is
entirely cured, and a stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
is to-day, twelve years or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattara,
1148 Forty-eighth St, Chloago, 111.,
Oct. 9. 1909."
IT HAPPENED SUDDENLY.
Mrs. Fond man Fell into a pond!
Oh! oh! and with your best pants on!'
Bertie Well, I didn't have time to
take 'em off!
Science and Cheese.
A medical authority kindly assures
us that as long as cheese isn't de
cayed it will not affect the health of
the consumer. This is a fact that we
have suspected for a considerable j
time. But bow is the ordinary cheese
epicure to detect the difference un
less he waits for results?
There Is cheese so thoroughly dis
guised in the costume and aroma of
decay that its proper standing on the
sanitary testing table would puzzle a
conjuror. '
For instance, there is the brand
known as limburger.
But why pursue this subject? -
Puzzled by Wireless.
"Mlstah Jenkins," asked an old ne
gro of Atlanta of his employer,
"would yo' be so good, sah, as to ex
plain to me 'bout this wireless tele
graph business I hears 'em-a-talklng
'bout?"
"Why, certainly, Henry," responded
the employer, "though I can do so only
In a general way, as I myself know
little of the subject. The thing con
sists in sending messages through the
air Instead of over wires."
"Yassah," said Henry, "I knows
'bout dat; but) sah, what beats me is
how dey fasten the air to the poles!"
A Generous Gift.
"You may say what you like agarasK
young ministers, but I have nothing
but praise for our young pastor," the
pompous Mf. Brown remarked, as he
passed out of the church. "Nothing
but praise!"
"So I observed," dryly retorted the
deacon who passed the plate. Harper's.
Truth is a structure reared on the
battlefield of contending forces. Dr.
WinchelL
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