WATER, BEARER, J .A L L A N AUTHOR, y ' aman DUNN to KI5 M A T E ' T H E D IV IN E R S Y N O P S IS — Id ly flo h ln g H a r- m am »« c r e e k . In C a l if o r n ia , C a le b W a r n e r , c iv il e n g i n e e r a n d a N e w E n g l a n d e r , la w ltiv -a g o f th e e n d o f a c o y o tte p u lle d d o w n by tw o w o lf h o u n d s , u r g e d o n b y a g i r l r id e r A d m ir in g th e b o u n d s , h e I n tr o d u c e « h im s e lf , a n d le a r n s h e r n a m e Is C lin to n . W ith w e s t ­ e r n h o s p i t a l i t y s h e I n v it e s h im to th e r a n c h to m e e t h e r f a t h e r . A t th e C lin on h o m e W a r n e r l e a r n s hla n e w f r i e n d ’s n a m e Is B e tty . H e Is w e lc o m e d b y h e r f a th e r . S o u th e r n C iv il w a r v e t e r a n a n d o w n e r o f l i e r r n a n o s v a lle y . He te lls th e m s o m e t h in g o f h is a m ­ b itio n s a n d h is f e e l i n g t h a t h e Is d e s ti n e d to be a “ W a t e r - B e a r e r . ” In th e to w n o f G o ld e n W a r n e r t h a r e a a i a p a r t m e n t w ith h is old C o lu m b ia c o lle g e c h u m , T e d B a i ­ te r . c a r e f r e e a n d s o m e w h a t d i s s i ­ p a te d y o u th , o n ly c h ild o f h is w id o w e d m o th e r , w h o c o n tr o ls th e f a m ily f o r tu n e . A t a c lu b lu n c h e o n B a x t e r I n tr o d u c e s C a le b t o W i l b u r C o * , l e n d i n g b u s in e s s m a n a n d p r e s id e n t o f th e w a t e r com pany w h ic h s u p p lie s th e D eed s o f G o ld e n . H a g iv e s Cox a n in k l i n g o f h is a m b itio n s , a n d C ox, I m p r e s s e d , I n v it e s h im to d in n e r t h a t n ig h t. D u r in g d in n e r C ox a s k s C a le b to c a l l a t h is office n e x t d a y . 11« d o e s bo a n d C<>x a r r a n g e s a m e e tin g b e tw e e n C a le b a id H in c k le y , t h e w a te r c o m p a n y ’s c h ie f e n g in e e r B a x t e r te lls C a le b he Io In d iff ic u ltie s w ith a g ir l , M a ry M o rg a n , C o x ’s s te n o g ra p h e r, w ho I n s is ts he m u s t m s r r y h e r. W ith H in c k le y , C a le b lo o k s o v e r th e w a t e r c o m ­ p a n y 's s o u rc e o f s u p p ly , th e C r y s t a l s p r in g s , In lie rrn a n o s v a lle y . was a man. To create something, to be a w ater bearer, to the th irsty earth or to thirsty people." Baxter, coming In, broke through his reverie. "you look like a latter-day prophet seeing visions," said Buxter. “ W hat’s the Idg Idea?" "Ju st a hunch, so far, Ted. I'm go­ ing across the bay tomorrow, pros­ pecting.” The other looked at him oddly. "Expect to uncover a gold mine at El Nlilo? Beware of the sirens who lie behind the rocks! As I remember her, th at day at the dog show, the Clinton girl was a looker. B ew are!" ■'I'm not looking for that kind of a mine, Ted. And I hadn’t thought of going to El Nhlo this trip. You seem fairly happy yourself.” “I am. I've heard from my parties In the land deal. They'll be out In a few weeks. Probably some tim e next month. Thereby greatly relieving the general situation. Now It's up to me to attend to the little form ality of finding the land to please them. I wonder If there's anything across the TT CHAPTER V— Continued "Surely. Had to. Still have to. If you ever build u dam unywhere along the line of the (¡rent Fault, don't forge: that. Every major qu«u> runs along the name line, out of the sen at a tangent, nor'weat to sou’east down the original crack. The big temblor In 1812 th at wrecked tin- Mis­ sions, and the quake In 1906 that wrecked Holden and Santa Rosa, moved over an Identlral trail. And th at trail went clean through my big dum down there." The long lake had once been a peifoe- ■ ful v a lle v , Hinckley tidd Caleb, a stngc road winding through It on the way lo tin sea. farms, farm houses and a hamlet with a famous roadhouse at the Crystal Springs for which the val­ ley was named. All these had been razed to prepare the bottom of tin- great reservoir, fence* taken up, treea eliminated, the plant devastated aa the tilg dam rose In the great notch that formed tin- main outlet to the valley. Caleb turned the talk to the qucatlon of Golden a Impending shortage. "Mr. Cox,” ho *ald, "stated th at there w a a un more w aterahed avail­ able on the peninsula.” 'T h a t Is true. We own a certain number of artesian wella around the l-.wer end of the liny lint they are only a drop in the bucket. The outlook la not very encouraging.” "How about across the liny?" Caleb put the query with a degree of nervous­ ness lie feared th at llluekley was about to uncover hla own precious theory and demolish It. The engineer a eye* twinkled. "They «av th at w ater, like gold. Is where you And It. And findings keep­ ings I T here Is w ater over there th at ethically belongs to Oakville. Our company naturally considers Golden more Im portant. Hut It la difficult of development. Means large expendi­ ture. We should have a hnrd Job to get w ater rates raised sufficiently lo w arrant It. F iltration Is the Idg tro u ­ ble. The work would be elaborate and expensive. We can't see our way d e a r.'' i aleh kept hla face d e a r of every­ thing but earnest attention, llut he was breathing more easily. Ills theory was still virgin. Hinckley proceeded to go Into the present nitration system and the lay­ o u t o f the conduits that supplied the hydrate« of Golden. Caleb's Interest It- Crystal lakes bad been satlsfled but be foil -wed the technical talk with Intelligent comment and left Hie engi­ neer at Inst on term s th at were more than merely friendly. He reached Golden after the stores were closed for the -lav hut. early the next morn­ ing he -htalned geodetic section map« of the lUadranglea covering Caliente v alle' ind the Gahllan range. He put In m««t . f the day studying these and making little draw ings to scale In ver­ tical plane. It was all In support of a mere theory but It w a s his habit to be pains­ taking even In prelim inaries, and he surveyed his sketches with a good deal of sntlsfaetbai. If the theory panned -ill It meant, not merely money and fame If he handled his dis ,-nvery pr-q-erly, hut It would make lilm. Caleb W arner, an actual factor til pioneering. In elty building, lie quote,! to him self what Betty Clinton had suit! a t El Nhlo. "T hat Is what I should prefer. If I The Long Lake Had Once Peaceful Valley. Been a buy? I must look up my notes. Want me to come along with you. Cal? 1 wonder If the El Nldo valley Is for sale?" He glanced mockingly at Caleb and laughed. “Old Chief Wooden Face, aren't you? D on't worry. I won’t butt In to pouch on your preserves. Give my regards to Miss Clinton. She may vaguely rem em ber me. I was Ini no d in ed to her at the Show. But, re ­ member my warning. Stoics like you, when they fall, fall h ard!" CHAPTER VI T h e D iviner Caleb caught an early ferry for the slx-nille w ater trip across th e bay from G.dden to Oakville. At Oakville he took a local train th at paralleled the shore of the lower bay for a time before striking east through Coyote canyon, the n atural gateway through the hills for the overland trains. As he had done on H erm anns creek, Caleb noted flood signs. Then he gave him­ self up to study ing his sketches, cov­ ering the region he was going to pros pect, going over them while the train tngged up the canyon until he knew them by heart. lie left the train at the same sta ­ tion he had used on his previous trip, buying some fruit to serve ns lunch eon before he crossed the bridge and started up Hermanns. He had brought along roil and creel, more n s a mask to hl* real Intention* than from any hlen of fishing. The scanty flow ran In a deop chan­ nel gouged out hy floods. He ex­ amined the aides and found them all of gravel. A wagon road th at had fol­ lowed the creek up front the railroad '"L’l! .*2.’!! .*—” ! turned off to wind behind a low ridge. It was deep-rutted and Caleb traced It. He found that it ended at a gravel pit, dug Into the able of the ridge, used probably for roudmuklng purposes. The pit had been bitten out In the shape of a horseshoe and, standing where one of the calks would come, he saw a dilapidated shed from FOWLS PAY WELL the roof of which smoke was rising FOR RIGHT CARE through a rusty stove pipe A man leaning against the open door, su r­ veyed him curiously. With profits Increasing from poultry Caleb nodded to him as he wulked It will puy to tuke good care of the over to the shack, crunching through producing hens this summer. the gravel. The man was lank and “I t Is poor economy to neglect the tall, stooped of shoulder und constrict hens dutlug the rush of summer ed of chest. A hooked nose stuck out work.” says A. O. Oliver, poultry ex­ boldly from the peaked und sunken tension specialist for the North Caro­ face between eyes th at glittered lina State college. "W hen the hens strangely. Long hwlr fell below his are neglected profits are reduced. sh irt collar. Less grain Is needed under range con­ As he rested against the door Jamb fit of coughing attacked him and he ditions but plenty of musty should be shisik with It like a reed In the wind. supplied In the hoppers. U nder aver­ He was so helpless In the grip of the age farm conditions w here the hens attack th at Caleb hurried to support have free range and production Is de­ creasing. less pf the scratch grain and him, thinking him about to fall. But the violent efforts ceased and more of the mush should be fed. This the man rallied, sndllng wanly, with will force the birds to e a t more mash a grimy handkerchief set to his lips. and thereby stim ulate egg production. Caleb caught sight of telltale flecks Mash consumption m ust be encour­ of bright-red blood quickly folded Into aged to get high egg production. The the rag. The cough was from the mash Is composed of whole grains finely ground and Is more easily di­ lungs, the man tubercular. “ '8 all right, stranger,” said the gested.” M r. Oliver suggests th a t the hens man. "I've bln a sight worse. Fm gettln’ It baked out of me here. Lungs be given equal parts of cracked corn, teched hut they’re heulln’. Flshln', wheat and oats by weight as a scratch are ye? B etter work up to the canyon grain. If w heat is not available, one- yonder. No use w astin' yore time third corn and tw o-thlrds oats should down here. Folly the road below the be fed. F or the average farm flock pit an' then trull the crick. It's tough a mash made of equul part* of w heat goln’. Slle's chokin’, what little they bran, w heat middlings, corn meal, Is of It." ground oats and fish meal Is good and ".Mostly gravel undernenth, to Judge this should be kept befora the hena. by the pit," Caleb answered. “T hanks In a dry pluce, a t all times. for the tip. Have a cigar?" Feeding Is one of the most Im­ The man took It wolflshly and bit portant factors In securing eggs from off the end. the farm (lock during summer. The Caleb gave him a match. hens may be kept laying and molting "I thought th at perhaps you owned delayed by either Increasing the the gravel pit.” amount of mush fed or by Increasing "Me. I don’t own nothin’. 'Cept the protein w ithout Increasing the this cough, and I’m willin’ to get shet amount of mash. If a flock of birds of that. Mine's a charity Job. It's cun be selected which does not stop good gravel an’ the hill makes It handy laying until October or November, the to git nt. I can’t work at my trad e chicks from these eggs will have a no longer. It takes It out of me, you murked effect on the egg production of see." next season’s flock, states Mr. Oliver. Caleb didn’t see. The g litter In the Early molters, on the other hand, will man's eyes was not so much th at of produce early molting chicks which fever ns of the spirit, he decided. H e work short hours and eat as much as fancied him a little demented, by way the heavy producers. of being a crank or a fanatic. “I'm glad the land's worth some­ thing,” he said. “It doesn't look like It." The man shot over a quick, burn­ ing look. "T h at’s to them ns looks only on the surface," he said. “W hat do you mean?" The man led the way Into the shack. From the two-by-fours thnt supported th e corrugated Iron roof hung some switches of freshly cut willow and hazel. Some were old and dried. And all were forked. "Know w hat those are?" asked the man. "Them 's divinin' rod* I’m a diviner. A W ater-Finder. T h at’s my trade. I t’s the power within me that goes out an ’ leaves me weak. Too weak to work at It. Each Job means another nail In the lid of my coffin. Mebbe you’re one of them that laugh at It?" he dem anded fiercely. "But th ere’s many In the upper valley ns has blessed me when I showed ’em w here to bore.” The thing seemed uncanny. Yet. somehow, It fitted In. The hunch stirred In his brain. To Caleb, under the spell of his vision. It seemed pre­ destined th at he, the W ater-Bearer, should meal this W ater-Finder to con firm his hope, a living signpost thnt he was on the track. He knew thnt w ithin the year the French Academy of Sciences had ac­ cepted the dem onstration of a nuin her of selentlfiealljA controlled cases where the "w ater-divining rod” had proved beyond a doubt that certain persons were gifted with the power to discover subterranean springs and reservoirs. Scientists did not attem pt to explain the mystery, hut accepted ,h e phenomenon and were making it the subject of expert research to dis- cover the n atnral causes. "I have known many cases hack In the E ast, w here I come from,’’ Caleb said, “where w ater has been found hy the use of the rod.” The man was Instantly mollified. “Ah,” he said. "It’s all true. I ain 't quite human, mebbe. I t’s a gift, the power. Like a medium's. Super natural. The spirits talk to me about It sometimes. I'd like to show ye. bnt I’m too weak. But you can take my word for It—me, D avid Evans, the Welsh W ater Finder, w h st’s discovered n score of wells north of Coyote crick ; th at there's w ater nil under here— under this gravel. Apparently tbi« David Evans I* to play an Im portant part in the story. W hat does he do? iNTINl’KP ) .* « • • S • • •« a « h A W *■ A« • »■ » w • S e * •» • » » a M an Ever W a g in g F igh t on D isea se Happy legends to the contrary, there seems no reason to believe th at the world ever has known a golden age of health. Geologists find diseased hones which are thought to show th at even great prehistoric Ilsanls. and after them the early mammals, suf fered fro :. tum ors which, according lo the advertiser*, will claim the teeth of four out of five of ua. Man | probably falls heir to troubles which other flesh suffered before him. By herding In crowds, by giving up his dower rights of sunlight and space, he even ha* added to tunny of those trouble*, has created wholly new i ways of w racking body and mind For ' a tim e the balance of life and death [prom ised doom to cities: they sur- vlved only because life was produced , abundantly and cheaply w ithout their walls, and the best and most adven­ turous were fed luto them. The slow process of observation and control i which has made It safer now to live In a big city than In a village (and often safer to live In a city than tn the open country Itself), Is the science of public h e a lth —Survey Graphic. Of alt European countries, Ireland , accom modates the fewest Jew * OZJ M ed ica l School F irst medlcul school In A m erica was established at l ’erkasle. Pa., on May 3, 176£. In 1779 the rights and prop­ erty of the school w ere tran sferred to the U niversity of Pennsylvania by the sta te legislature. FAT NEEDED FOR QUALITY BUTTER Two things ham pering profits to cream eries and cream patrons are the low grade of b u tterfa t sent to the cream eries and small am ount per patron. ‘•These two things prevent the cream eries from paying about five cents per pound more than they do pay for b u tterfa t,” says \V. L. Cleven­ ger. specialist In dairy m anufacturing at the N orth Carolina S tate college. ¡•There a re a large num ber of patrons who sell less than 200 pounds of but­ terfat annually. It costs Just as much to collect, weigh, test and otherw ise handle a sm all quantity of cream as it does to handle a lurger am o u n t It Is a general rule th a t the sm aller the am ount of cream produced on a farm each day, the poorer the quality, be­ cause of the longer period between de­ liveries and the less cure and atte n ­ tion given the cream while it Is on the farm .” Those cream eries which are now making the best grade of butter, m an­ ufacturing it at the lowest cost per pound and selling the product for the highest m arket price, are the ones which get nil average of 1,000 pounds of fat per farm , states Mr. Clevenger. This means thnt the product from five cows, each producing ns much ns 2