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Show THE PAGE SIX pe 1 & MAN TO HIS MATE" "RJMROCK TRAIL" CHAPTER I The Canyon Celeb Warner conscientiously fished hole every foot of the likeliest-lookinhe had seen on Hermnnos creek, but (here came no rise, no eager tug, no submerged gleam of a rainbow's shimmering flank. lie waded ashore, put up rod and tackle, climbed through the thick, tall ferns and brambly undergrowth to the narrow trail and turned upstream. All the day was his, the next, for that matter, and he fancied the fishing Caleb would be better higher up. walked with his coat tucked between the slings of his creel, his shirt open at' the throat ; lean, long, well-shotanned of dered and slender-flankeekin, springy of action, generally good to look at. By the canons of moving Vlctures and magazine illustrations he was not handsome. New England an cestry had made him too aquiline of feature, but lie had youth and strength, his gray eyes were clear, his d forehead high to his straight, and hair, his lips clean-cu- t Ills chin well forward, not too narrow was typically His general make-uYankee-Americaun American, marred by Inbreeding. Below him Hermanns creek sang, half hidden by the undergrowth. His economic, New England brain saw po tentiality going to waste. In Massa chusetts Hormanos creek would long ngo have been harnessed. Mills and ' factories would have sprung up along Its banks. Here was wafer for steam, for turbines, for commercial and do- tnestle use, for Irrigation; all unused. Its energy seemingly doomed, for there was a peculiar thing about the creek that Caleb; as an engineer, had noted. Contrary to the habit of most watercourses. Its volume diminished as It flowed. six years out He was twenty-sevenf the :'cge chrysalis that he had spun at Columbia. He had served in the war, Ward, practical service In e but necestasks fliat were sary, the crude, swift work of builds and ing and repairing liridges, and in It Caleb Warner had. In large measure, found himself. He liad acquired Initiative, resource, command of men. If nothing else. And he liad come out unscathed, unwnunded, tingassed, reduced to an acme of coordination, sane mind and sound body. He bud been granted wider horizon. Jso be find come west to find his oyster and to open It. Swiflly the woody cave of the can-- . yon became a tunnel, tne creek now g bearing Its tall like a great plume, overhauling the coyote with tremendous leaps, going at a ter rific rate, yet so smoothly that Its speed seemed effortless a Russian wolfhound. Beyond the willow fringe came her mate, bound for bound, level with the bitch, unseen, though perhaps not un known to the coyote. Then, from a thicker growth of trees, outmatched but traveling fast, a pinto flashed Into Caleb's view, a boy crouched low on the withers, welded to the horse, urging It on. Caleb thrilled to the chase as It swept on beneath him, cdmlrlng the of the horsemanship figure In and breeches, puttees fluttering blouse, a little envious of It. "Gad, he can ride," he muttered. A cap blew off, a long tress of chest nut hair, ruddy as a flame, whipped out, was reached for and tucked In by Its owner, only to stream errant again. The boy was a girl I The bitch was almost up with the coyote, the dog, watchful through the gaps In the willows, came circling In, jaws agape, ready for the kill. The coyote made a last desperate effort. The bitch, with one enormous leap, came abreast. She lunged, her white neck like a snake's for speed and her teeth clamping down on the forefoot of the coyote. Caleb saw the latter checked, tumbling, heard a broken snarl of defiance, and then the second hound sprang In a white gleam of fury, too swiftly for him to catch the action. Its powerful Jaws, bred for the work, crunched through the vertebrae of the coyote's neck. The hunt was ended. The girl rode up at a gallop, checked the pony In mldstrlde and slid to the turf while the two hounds thrust their muzzle at her. With one close-croppe- p d ,, low-grad- war-road- In a water-chisele- ' w""'.. d porge. The tunnel became a gut, A mspension bridge, a shivery thing of wire rope and short planks, anchored w ith wire cables to high walls of rock, crossed the g'Tge. It shook under his trend and huiif trembling as he topped midway to look at the gush rf compressed water surging through the gup, twenty feet down. There were signs on the roek that at times the cieek rose close to the flooring. Before him, to the smith, lay Hermanns valley, h green bowl lipped by rolling hills, their crests bronzed by the summer sun. blazoned with great patches of golden popples, with clumps of purple lupine, the lower liX's furred thick with wild out waving in the wind. oats as high as 'slob's head, a shimmering sea of emerald and silver. lie Hjond for n while undecided whether to adventure on to the waterfall or to stay where he was until It vs time to (Ish down the canyon with 1 he boie of belter results than the three front his persistence had lured from the creek. lie had a book tucked Into his pocket but be was not tired. An1 he had lunched an hour before. The view held hhn, Looking down, tie saw that the stream was a vagrant, that, In the rains, one bed was not enough to convey Its waters. A second coorxe, now dry and partly grown ver. Piratically paralleled the actual iwk. Willows bordered It. Along this Idle water track, racing m fast It seemed n pray streak, hpad "own. brush lowered, n cojote ran at e mij Sim ed, pursued, not hunting if'. mnd at s frantic pace, g;rw- fo Us utmost by fear. df. (. opthnps fifty yard." away cov-retn- How do you know?" J She laughed and he added that and her teeth to the catalogue. Both were, to tils taste, perfect. How do T .know? I am 'sure now. Does anyone but a Tank reply to a question with another one?" "Yank I Are you a southerner?" "There you go again. Walt I must answer your charge against my dogs. If you think It was not sport ing to set Saratof and Siva against one coyote, how about ray helpless calf that was butchered last night? And half a dozen others this summer. And a coltt There are probably fifty coyotes who make this valley their larder. Gabllan shelters scores of them. And these two have accounted for nine of them. It Is sheer Justice, administered mercifully. The coyote always has the start. It Is killed Instantly, not worried, not touched afterward. My borzois don't eat car rion." "I 'Acquitted," answered Caleb. I am a Yankee beg their pardons. from Massachusetts. I am a civil engineer come west to seek my fortune. My name Is Caleb Warner. I live In Golden and I was recommended to Hermanos creek for trout fishing. She had a trick of looking through long lashes that was a bit unfair, Ca leb thought. But they did not hide a twinkle that lurked behind them. "Did you catch any trout, Mr. War ner?" she asked. He showed her his basket. "We have trout In New England," he said. "I was hoping to do better later In the afternoon. Did you say you were from the South?" "I am a Callfornlan." He was cer- tain that she knew he had hoped she would give him her name- In return, "The best fishing Is In the canyon back of the waterfall at the head of our valley," she said. "You can easily climb the cliff." "You own It? The valley?" She opened her eyes a bit In acknowledg- ment of his persistence and speed to take the opening. "My father does. His name Is Clin- ton." She bad evaded It cleverly. Miss Clinton. That was as far as she would go. Caleb bowed to his l navy-colore- . ESS' . f $ kid ' g associRecords kept by ations In North Carolina pay larga dividends when the results are studied and applied ,to the owner's herd, states J. A. Arey, dairy extension specialist at the North Carolina StaM cow-testin- college. Mr. Arey gives the experience of two herds In one of these associations. One herd contained 21 cowa, while the other had only 9, yet tha difference in profit over feed cost, was only $5.01 In favor of the larger herd. The owner milked, fed, and tended 13 cows the greater part "of a year for $5.01. The net receipts were $007.59 for the larger herd as compared with The owner of the smaller herd had better .Mva and fed them In proportion to their production. There is a gradual improvement la all herds where the testing work la being carried on, states Mr. Arey. The production cost shows a decerasa with a corresponding Increase In actual production. This, he finds, Is dua to the adoption of better feeding methods and the elimination of th low producing cowa. "There has been an average of 20 cows sold each mnth from the herd associations In In the five the state," says Mr. Arey, "and thla elimination will continue until all unprofitable cows have been sold ot slaughtered. cows In the "Twenty-fiv- e association were found to be unprofitable and were eithere sold or asbutchered. In the Forsyth-Davisociation seven cows were sold for beef, and other associations report numbers ranging from three to seventeen as being sold or slaughtered. "A standard dairy ration recommended by the dairy extension specialists Is being used In all herds, and records show that the average produc tion and cost Is very close in all associations.'' $002.58 for the small herd. ''' .v.4 COW TESTING PAYS LARGE DIVIDENDS -- i then. Miss Clinton, do yon think your father would have any objection to my fishing through bis meadows, later, after I have been above the full?" "I am quite sure he would not. Per- haps you would like to meet him? The house Is not very far from here." Caleb laughed and she with him. "I should be delighted," he said. "And I am very glad to have met you, Miss Clinton." She took his hand and shook it as a boy might have shaken it. More strongly, with fingers that were firm and cool. There was noth- Ing of coquetry about her. Her sug- gestlon that Caleb meet her father held, he felt, no hint of flirtation. It showed that she liked him, a little, sufficiently to dispense a measure of hospitality that he had come to rec- The Boy Was a Girl. ognlze as a western attribute. "The house is there." she said, hand she patted them while with the other she strove to coll up her hair, pointing. "Back of those eucalypts. Father planted them for a wini now fairly down her shoulders, reach break." ing to her belt. Good girl, The sir! bad left the pinto pr.ny "Good boy, Saratof I Siva!" standing with Its reins banging Caleb heard her faintly but plainly straight from bit to soil, an effective and shouted down bis own meed o haltering. Now she placed them about applause. He had left most of bis In Its neck, their buckle buck of the nate reserve behind him In Rurnpe saddle-hor- n and, as she and Caleb and the stir of the hunt still held him walked along the stream Inward the "Bully for both of thetn!" he cried house the pony followed as closely and sedately as the wolfhounds. and waved his hat as the girl look up. She smiled, waved buck un tin gloved hand at him In western friend Evident! Miss Clinton it what liness. and finished the tiptu isting of we Americans call "a nice girl," her hair without einbnrriissinent. Cawith individual attractions. Does leb started down through the oats. He the Yankee measure up? loved dugs. He did not know so much ubout girls, lint this one seemed different. And he bad left the conven(TO BE CONTINfED.) tions behind in Massachusetts. She smiled at him again as he came Colonies ClatsiRed out on the level, half naded, half In 10IK) the American colonies were Jumped the creek and went toward her. The wolfhounds looked at. him divided under the following clarificatwith their dark brown eyes, sniffed, ions: Itoyal, proprietary and republaccepted his patu add turned their ican. The classification Is bnset. upon The the three different methods by which beads away, pointedly aloof. At their governor obtained effice girl laughed at bis evident chagrin. "They are disdainful beasts, my bor- this date the following colonies were zois," she said.. "You must excuse royal: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Maryland them." The proprietary coloI (temporarily). "They are marvelous runners. nies were Pennsylvania, Delaware, New did not suppose anything could overhaul a coyote. But It hardly seemed Jersey anil the Carolitias. Of the latfair up there on the hill. Two to ter group only the first two remained The rest became roynl, one, I mean." proprietary. She looked at lilm quizzically. She while Maryland was restored to the was fmt.kly surveying him. He tinted I'.altlmnre family. Uliode Island and that she whs about six Inches shorter Connecticut nbme retained their electhan he was which made her five tive governors and so tuny be classed feet six that she was at once us republican. slim Htnl rounded, that the bud a short straight nose and a mouth that Trantmltting Light Rayt was neither small nor iarge, neither The bureau of standards says that full lipped nor narrow, a round chin, the transmission facto' of smooth, a dimple In one cheek, and that her clear glass Is abeut 92 per cent In pe eyes were the exact color of the lu- lndicularly Incident light, the lose pines. Also that there was no non- being that reflected at the two sursense about her. A part of Caleb's faces. The amount of light transmitcurriculum, a majority of his exige- ted varies with the angle of Incidence nce, had ronslsted In the training and the refractive Index of the giAM. of his powers of observation. In the The reflector will absorb from 10 te brief glances he had permitted him- 40 per cent of the light Incident upoe self he had done very welL It, dpemllng upon Its tarfac UP&Z? Style-suprema- - ' ' good-style- ft j - defeitt. "Well, this season over the dress of feminized and ornate styling. However, do not forget in this mad rush toward greater elaborations that during the hours of morning on avenue and boulevard utmost chic Is expressed by the woman who would go, who wears a coat-froc- k strictly tailored of fine cloth. Milady, versed In the art of correct dressing, Invariably makes It a rule to have at least one handsome tailleur In her dress collecd tion. A cloth gown as. genuinely as Is the model In this picture Is Just such as she would be apt to select. Is at once appard ent in the fine deep wool twill selected for the development of "comfy" luxurious woolen coats now so popular the Ideal of smart utility Is attained. The new topcoats glow with vivacious coloring as they tell their fascinating story of plaids and checks, cubes and diamond shapes, zigzag stripes and modernistic patterning. Novelty Is the specialty of present-da- y cloaklngs and they enact the part In spectacular fashion, completing the color scheme by collaborating with blended fur. An exponent of the coat Ideal for school or business wear Is here plc- tured. It presents color In Indescrib able lnterinlnglings of brown, green," red and beige. The relating of pocket and belt In a single unit stresses the Intricate cloth treatment which char- - white-coate- Here's a new kind of story of the West a romance of hydraulic engineering Mining, ranchlumbering and railroad ing, building have been the favorite aubjects of the fictlonlsts and many a pood Btory have they riven us. Here's a new kind of hero a young New Engrlander born under the zodiac sign of Aquarius and dsst.lned to be In very truth a "Water Bearer." The heroine la a "native daughter'' of California. And around the water-bearinexploit of the Eastern man and the Western girl revolve fascinating adventures "by flood and field" and a story of true love that runs far from smoothly at times. As for the, author why, he's J. Allan Dunn, whose Western stories have deservedly won for him a wide popularity. And here East meets West and a stirring romance grows out of the meeting. him TN THE "There are not very many coyotes but gaining at every bound, sped a where you come from?" she queried. gallant, beautiful hound, taper-muzzle- below NOVEL PLAIDS AND TWEEDS; FINE CLOTH MAKES FINE GOWNS By J. ALLAN DUNN AutW .f "A Friday, October 22, 1926 NEPIII. UTAH S, WATER 'BEARER I HERO AND HEROINE far TIMES-NEW- ny ilt v cow-testin- g Wake-Durha- f i l ;kxi3 . j 9 K--e j Sii.ix,:?.f a fJ S j j acterizes ail dress and coat designing just now. The tawny fur on collar and cuffs reflects the warm reddish tone which prevails throughout the novelty woolen weave of the coat. - Three outstanding color tones lnflu- en(e tMe smartest cloaklngs. These' are wine and green, dark or ' rust,' deep light. That is no matter If plaided. checked or otherwise patterned there Is a characteristic color which asserts Itself. The smart herringbone tweeds come In n range of charming colors and they often present multitoned i mixtures. Conservative and practical, yet most tweed deserib-- ' ' elegant, is an Kngllsh ing an "indivisible" plaid, struight- lined in cut. very simply belted but revered and collared handsomely Train Calf by Gentle Treatment at All Times i j ; j For School or Business Wear. Its claim as an expothis nent of the truly high class Is substantiated in the clever positioning of godets so that skirt fullness Is forced to the back. The sleeves reveal the latest etyle trend, which Is to bell at the wrist. Exclusive taste in is finding supreme satisfaction navy cloth dresses this season. Another Interesting outcome of the vogue for the cloth dress is coat-dres- man-tailore- d j ' - S- i - r- - Many farmers allow the bull to run with the herd and consequently pay no particular attention to his feed. Where silage forms a part of the ration this is to be discouraged. It has been proved that a liberal amount of silage, six pounds or over, promotes sterility In the bull. From the data gathered In numerous experiments It would seem that even a small allowance will reduce his vitality. With farmers learning to have milch cows freshen In .the full it would appear that silage can' be wholly omitted from the ration for the bull. It is true that the bull recovers from the effect of silage, but this means early spring calves, a thing that the man with milk cows docs not j j it r M j j ' - ,: f H ' u t ' I -- Large Amount of Silage Proves Harmful to Bull j i Make the calf like to be handled. This can best be accomplished by genTeach tle treatment at all times. the calf to lead by handling It gently. One god way to do this tralnlr Is to use a "small stick. The calf should walk on the right side of you and should be trained .to mind the stick. Teach the calf to stand quickly In one position. Then it should be trained to stand with Its weight evenly distributed on all four legs, which should be squarely placed. The head should be held up and to the front and the back straight and firm. Because the calf which fiincltes, pulls, kicks. Is easily frightened, or stands In a position that makes Its back sway, or. Its rump appear faulty does not readily catch the eye of the Judge, the calf should become accustomed to strange people, sights, and sounds. A little training every day Is much better than a half day of It once each month. want Dairy Notes X. P- - " Alt .r Good-Style- with seal, panels of which uniquely trim the sleeve. Speaking of these seal panels, which 'n this Instance extended from elbw to wrist at the bnek of the sleeve, call to mind the eccentric placement of fur which features the "last word" modes from I'aris. for example, fur euriously shaped, are set at potkets I ii n out-o- f angle. As t treatment of fur on sleeves, there Is no end to the novelty exelbow puff pressed. The f ir below-thare someand the fur thing distinctly different. ( house ns many bright silken and hlmsicnl frocks "as thy purse can , mode waxes eloquent llf-for ! e half-sleev- e Skim milk powder and semi solid buttermilk are being used extensively In the baking trade. They are opening another lurge field for dairy products. & i I "oft-type- 'll'-zJAW- 1 A Excellent feed, good care, or proper management cannot make a good " dairy cow out of a poorly bred heifer. V Cloth Gown. the interest shown In bluck broau cloth. In a recent black broadcloth coat dress there was some suggestion o the direvtnlre. It having n high-hu- t toned collar and doiiblc-hrensteclos Ing, which opened to form revers. Two other torsions of the (loth frock feature In the newer collect Inns, namely the surplice front opening and the simply styled prlncesi effect. Speaking of the former, tbes side fiiMctiitigg make use of tabs, straps, buckles iind buttons. The princess cloth types nr without trimming, button from neel to hem at the front. one-plec- n brought-over-to-on- e Jl'I.IA (B. 11. Wmiot I'.OTTOMt.KY. Newspaper Union.) The calves should be fed on whole milk for at least two weeks before giving them substitute, as there Is no substitute for milk for the very young calf. The silo puts alt the corn plant where you can use It. The crib stores only part of It. The rest goes to waste. When running the separator, avoid Irregular speed or sudden Jerks on the handle. Steady, uniform operation brings the best results. A bull pen that gives plenty of op portunlty to exercise Is the thir.x Good air, sunshine Snd grass In s i tea are essential. |