THE PAGE TWO The Water Bearer flahlnK Maad WNU Service 4 tail, thick mantle of flung over the arms of the trees. In front, between bouse and stream, there waa a amoklng pit straddled by an Iron grid on which two swarthy men were turning joints of meat from wild-grap- . ' which came the smell that had loos- ened all the spigots of Caleb's gastric One of them looked up. economy. Caleb bad no time to disappear. No wish, once the mutual recognition bad been made. The cook, el coclnero, was Luis Padllla. The swinging screen of grapevine parted and two people came through, Betty Clinton In her riding togs and an upstanding young man in riding breeches, puttees and a shirt of silken stock about big tan, with a neck. A tall, chap with a clipped yellow mustache and brown eyes, good teeth displayed In a hearty laugh, generally genial and eminently well pleased with things In general The girl was laughing, too, laughing so heartily In silvery carillons that she stopped from sheer lack of breath and then, regaining somewhat of gravity and lung power, called to Luis: "What Is It, Luis?" "Senorlta, eet eez el Senor Warner." "Discovered, upstage, center, peering through the postern," said Caleb as he came out In response to the girl's Instant and cordial greeting. "You are Just In time. Did you come on foot? How did you know we were here? Mr. Warner, Mr. Thursr ." d good-lookin- g Continued "But It ain't no good," be said, sud"'Cause why? denly disconsolate. What's the good of water 'less you can pse it? The slle here ain't thick enough to put dirt In yore fingernails. It wouldn't grow a radish. An' the wells wouldn't be artesian. They'd have to have windmills to work 'era. And, as I said, they ain't no slle. Seems like a plumb bit of foolishness to put water where It ain't no manner ' use, don't Itr "Ilave another clgnr," said Caleb. "Where do you suppose all the water comes from?" The Welshman looked at him pityingly, "You fish that stream an' youH see. This Is Callente sink. The stream runs Into It like dishwater goes down the drain. Wish you luck, mister. An thanks for the smokes. Some day. If you come this way, an' I'm feelln' better, I'll give you a demonstration. I'll be glad to see you any time. Kinder lonesome here In this oven, but it's baking me bnck to health." Caleb went on upstream In a mnr.e. It seemed, though his Yankee mind affected to scoff at the suggestion while It considered It, as If he had rotEC Into close touch with mystery. He fingered the emblem on his seal and smiled. Had the sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, really charged him with destiny, leading him along the to the trail to be the Water-Beare- r frontier city of the sands? Half a mile up the canyon from where the gravel road branched off, an arroyo entered from the east through a bench that was thlck-forre- d with underbrush of desert species. Only a trickle of water waa to the almost dry watercourse, barely Hasting to mingle with Hermanoa creek. The place was wild enough, and sl-- I road chose either pnL A grass-growhank at random, fording the creek at frequent Intervals. He found stones to keep his feet dry an he crossed. . Up the road he begun to come across evidences of an abandoned There was little left but the roots and a scattering of tentative tendrils, scantily leaved. He passed a corral, no longer tenable, a lean-tbed without a roof, a leaking flame, a tumbledown wall of stone, and then be became aware that he was walking through what had been once a garden, a stately garden, still with a certain dignity. The garden had attracted him unconsciously and be bad left the road. He did not go back to It but wandered on to the house that rose above the cypress guard. Caleb's footsteps rang hollowly as be passed over the flags and glanced In through where a door had failed as warder. He was beginning to people the place with sncb ghosts as he Imagined should represent the former no ru pants when he heard the high, clear sound of laughter at the very Instant that his nostrils conveyed to his nerves of smell, thence to palate and to stomach so that bis mouth watered and his .appetite proclaimed Itself with no uncertainty the smell f broiling meat. Ills hje of something from a ranch larder, a glass of milk, a piece of cake or pie. If nothing more substantial bad died with sight of the deserted houe. The tracks he hnd been trail ing must lead too fur for blm to fol And now he bad low uncertainly. blundered on to a picnic a California which mentis a barbecue. picnic Caleb's stomach yearned, rose In re volt against his manners and so far won that he ventured to the outer and peered through. cjoor of the ar-The laughter nail ended hut he could of young voices, men aar toe chatter mo women, blditen somewhere down Kfrn'ii tint had wheeled to y tt of tlir old tiouse and Bow tn turn ix h the Interstice of a ftpe-slran-rherl- o half-obliterat- -' J. O By Dodo, Her- manos creek, In California. Caleb a Warner, civil engineer and New Englander, la wltneea ot the end of a eoyotte pulled down by two wolfhound, urged on by a girl rider. Admiring the hounds, he Introduces himself, and learns her name Is Clinton. With west- era hospitality aha Invites him to the ranch to meet her father. At the Clinton home Warner learns his new friend's name Is Eetty. Hs Is welcomed by her father, Southern Civil war veteran and owner of Hermanoa valley. He tells them something of his ambitions and his feeling that he Is destined to be a "Water-BearerIn the town of Golden Warner shares an apartment with his old Columbia college chum. Ted Bax-te- r, carefree and somewhat dissipated youth, only child of his widowed mother, who controls the family fortune. At a club luncheon Baxter Introduces Caleb to Wilbur Cox, leading business man and president of the water the company which supplies needs of Golden. He gives Cox an Inkling of his ambitions, and Cox, Impressed, Invites him to dinner that night. During dinner Cox asks Caleb to call at his efflce next day. He does so and Cox arranges a meeting between Caleb and Hinckley, the water company's chief engineer. Baxter tells Caleb he Is In difficulties with a girl, Mary Morgan, Cox's who Insists he stenographer, must marry her. With Hinckley, Caleb looks over the water company's source of supply, the Crystal springs. InIn Hermanoa Hermanos valley. Prospecting valley, Caleb meets a man, Evans, who boasts of his ability, through "divining rods." to locate water without boring. CHAPTER VI f Notes News to Live in It a ton." The two shook hands while Warner explained the accidental happening of his arrival. Betty Clinton was giving some directions to Padllla and his assistant. "Come on," she said, "and meet the rest. Dad's here. This Is my annual She Took Poisession of Him. and barbecue. Birthday fes tivity, you know." She took possession of blm. The man named n"hurston lagged behind as they broke through the vines and looked down upon a level bank of turf. fringed with ferns, just above the level of the creek. Two girls and an older woman were aiding and direct ing the laying of a table by two men. Clinton himself sat apart, back to the He rose as bole of a tree, smoking. Caleb came Into view and the rest looked up. "I'll make the Introduction general," aid Betty Clinton. "You can all make It personal later. This Is Mr. Caleb Warner. I think I've mentioned hi in to all of you. And these are Carmen Wilson" she Indicated a girl with black eyes. In a white dress, wearing a scarlet beret so vivid that Its outline waa fuzzy with radiance; "Mrs. Henry Vedder, Henry Vedder and George Brompton. The meat Is barbecued. The enchiladas are at the height of their excellence. Be seated. Dad, you at the other end. Mr. Warner, next to me, at my right. AH right, Padllla. bring on the carne. I hope you brought an appetite with Carmen, pass the you, Mr. Warner. enchiladas. Frljoies, If you like them better. They are our substitute for And the Boston beans, you know. salsa, Mr. Brompton." The meal was all animation. Good viands, good nature and a general bubbling over of high spirits. picnic j j j AT WASHINGTON SUES STATEMENT INTERPRETING INTENTIONS EMBASSY Privilege Utah 1 Bits of the talk, allusions, chaffing remarks, together with little summaries supplied him by Betty Clinton, soon put Caleb In possession of surface information concerning the members of the party. Thurston had been a bank clerk, losing his position In the merger of banking Interests. But he had possessed commercial faculties and, sound backed to some extent by bis uncle, he had started raisin growing in the Fresno valley. Now he owned hundreds of acres and was rated almost a millionaire, soon to pass that mark. Henry Vedder was editor of the Pioneer, a weekly published In Golden, of recognized literary merit. His wife bad a leaning toward modern esthet- - j ics, extending to her gown and her,: mode of halrdresslng. She apparent- ly saw nothing except through tha j medium of her husband and she hung on his every word in the attitude of j one who. eagerly waits the opportu- nlty to encore the performance of a 1 favorite dramatist. George Brompton was an artist who specialized In mural work. He was the most diffident of all the com-t- j pany, with an especial shyness toward, Carmen Wilson, which that vivacious personage did not appear to regard as the kind of tribute to her charms that she preferred. Thurston and Betty Clinton had ridden down Hermanos canyon to the picnic on horseback. The rest had come In a buckboard. by the longer road, a wagon preceding with the materials for the barbecue. Luis Padllla had come mounted. The vehicles and the horses were stowed In the old barns. The whole party was returning to El Nldo In the early evening, where Maria was now preparing a fitting dinner for the fiesta of her young senorlta's birthday. "You are to come, too," she Insisted to Caleb. "And stay over tomorrow. I am not to be denied anything today and I make that an order. You need not feel that you are crowding or were not Included in the original Invitation. There Is lots of room, "You have made It an order," said Caleb. "That settles It." Here again was a different side to the girl, he thought, as he listened to her lighthearted talk, admiring her quick wit. He caught himself watching her closely whenever she laughed. The inside of her mouth was as pink as a kitten's and she laughed without reserve, so that one caught a gleam of even rows of teeth that needed no dentist, backed by the rosy glow of health. Caleb enjoyed himself thoroughly, the food, the company, the talk and the shady spot beside the stream. After tne meal, Betty Clinton proposed an excursion. Vedder claimed to have had an Inspiration for a poem and said that he was going to try 'to put It on paper In the old 'garden. Ills wife was no more to be detached from him than a limpet from a rock. Clinton himself made the excuse that he was not feeling especially energetic. "Then Mr. Brompton must stay to keep you company," announced Carmen. "You and Mr. Clinton can discuss that pioneer panel. Mr. Brompton." she went on to Caleb, while Brompton smilingly acquiesced In the arrangement, though the smile was as wan and lacking In warmth as a winter sun, "Is working on a set of panels for Judge Hemingway's new house. They are to represent California, past, present and future. And Mr. Clinton is brim full of pioneer lore, aren't you, Mr. Clinton?" It was obvious that Carmen Wilson Intended to make the trip to the lookout a foursome. Clinton smothered a smile. Brompton seemed to be used to this aort of thing and the four ! 4emmeeeeee IS- Words Bury Purpose; Officials Admit; Begin Intensive Study; State Department Officials Taken By Surprise Washington The Mexican embassy tossed a new factor into the whirlpool of the dispute over Mexican land and oil laws Thursday which left Btate department officials completely at sea as to what it portends. On its face the embassy announcement, headed "Plain Facts Concerning the Mexican Oil Laws,", seems to wipe out many of the points in dispute which brought American-Mexicarelations to an admittedly critical deadlock on application of the new laws to American oil and mining companies in Mexico. It asserts the intention of the Mexico City government to apply its new laws and regulations, when they become efin PRESIDENT GIVES CONGR ESS PROPRAM WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS DISCUSSED IN WHITE HOUSE, ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Conceding that there great amount of new legislation during the present session,. President Coolidge laid before congress a long list of recommendationsatin which temporary tax relief and tention to the farm marketing problem Washington could be no "Mi r i n fective 1926 Hopes for Little New Enactments;. Economy Stressed; Farm Relief Taxes First Noise on the Senate Floor In the Limelight, Alex II. Dunn, of Tooele, President of ,The Association Utah Pi-es- s January, "preferentially," Vernal so far as foreign companies are concerned, without confiscatory retroactive enforcement of provisions ot the Mexican constitution nationalizing natural resources. Jackrabbits in Moffat coun- become so large and numerous that they are Btealing the hay from cattle, according to word received from the county. Despite the fact that whenever the farmer boys have a day off they organize- - a Tariff is Put on Cotton to Russia rabbit drive, the pests have multiMoscow American cotton, which plied until they have become a conhas been entering duty free through stant nuisance. Murmansk, will pay a tariff hereafter Salt Lake Names of Utah seed cents a pound. The producers whose exhibist to the eighth of about 3 peoples' commissaries council has de- annual International Hay and Grain cided upon this change since the de- show, recently closed at Chicago, drew cline in the price of American cotton, favorable recognitions from the judges which will make it possible to impose have been received from Professor J. the duty without making the price ot C. Hogenson, extension agronomist American cotton too high in relation with the Utah Agricultural college, to Turkestan cotton. There has been who, with E. E. Smith, Bountiful seed a duty heretofore on foreign cotton grower and show expert, took tha entering through ports other than Utah display to Chicago. Utah's Murmansk. This port, icefree throughwinnings were in alfalfa seed. out the year, has communication with heavy Entries from this state took ten out construcLeningrad over the railway of fifteen awards, almost a repetition ted as a' war measure with the coop- of last year's achievement ot thirteen eration of the allies. During the Rus- out of the fifteen. Other winnings sian fiscal year, which ended October were In barley, clover and wheat.' 1, about thirty-fiv- e ships loaded at Myton E. D. Samuels, Guy SamAmerican cotton ports, unloaded at uels and Ren Samuels, residents of Murmansk. Salt Lake City and Vernal, who are operating in sheep under the name of Prizes Stock Canada Takes Samuels Brothers, recently purchased made awards Outstanding Cliicago the William C. T. Mule ranch in Rcutt included: livestock the at exposition county, Colo. The ranch consists of in female Senior and grand champion 492 acres, and they expect to make it Aberdeen-Ancriiof cattle class the of their oxteusive Pride of Rosemore 67th. owned by the headquarters business. Consdon & Battles, Yakima, Wash. sheep Price Price City now bvasts one Horse division: Clydesdales Senior and grand champion stallion. Forest of the few hospitals that are paying Favorite, HagKerty & Black, Bella their own way. A financial statement Pla.ine, Sask., Canada. Reserve junior prepared by City Recorder Arthur N. Smith covering the operation from the champion stallion under three years Saskatchew- time It started, Dqcemhr 18, 1&25, footmark, University of won a medal until this month, shows that during an. Forest Favorite also offered by the Clydesdale Horse so- the months of October and November, 1926. the institution paid all expenses. ciety of Great Britain and Ireland. Ephraim Of the 25,9!I2 farms in War Lords to Fight Cantonese Utah, 7157, or 27 per ceui, hold graz Peking The northern war lords ing permits on national furests, it is formed an alliance Thursday to halt reported by the Mantl National forest the victorious sweep of the Cantonese office here. Of the 501.308 head of catforces, which, within a few months, tle on these farms, 141,262 head, or 26 has given them control over territory percent, have forest range permits, people by more than 200,000.000 and and of tbe 2.355,038 sheep owned withhas caused the reign of the militarists in the state, 747.309, or 32 per cent, of the north to totter. The war lords' have similar grazing permits. The much heralded conference at Tienstin farms total $.000,724 acres, or 9.55 per having dragged out a vacillating cent of the total land area of the stale. course for more than .a fortnight, proVernal Beekeepers of Utah wi?l duced its first tangible result in the hold their annual meeting in Suit Luke Tso-Linof election and installation Chang on December 14 and 15, according to dictator of Manchuria, as generalissimo of what is proclaimed the uniot H. E. Hillmnn, state apiarist. ExpertsIn from tbe agricultural department of northern forces. Washington will attend and will deliver short talks on the, Industry. It is Fighting Goes on in Niearaugua probable that action looking to a more beExtensive lighting Managua uniform handling of the honey crop in tween government and Liberal revo- the several western states and the stastarted. forces is here, a of prices will be taken. They were less than half way when lutionary Wednes bilizing at Betty Clinton suddenly missed hor battleinoccurring Dates for the tenth anLake Salt revolutiontwenty-fouwhich day, camera. wounded. nual livestock show were announced and were killd many ists a to take "I have been Intending of commerce. The government troops succeeded In Friday at the chamber of photograph of that view for two annual exhibition 'Ihe prlxe livewith the .town slight will be held at the Salt Lake years." she exclaimed. "The light Is recapturing stock a fnrnmr I'erlns. de losses. Jjiguna wonderful. Wendell, you'll get It for thirty mil's north of I'nion stockyards, North Salt Lake,me. won't you? We'll wait here. It's rebel stronghold on the eaRt coast, has been March 29 to April 2. 1927. J. H. ManBlueflelds, In the buckboard under the seat." 'lei field was appointed manager of the by government forces. Thurston went swinging off on his occupied ho'. An appropriation of $15,951 errand and the three sat down to be made by the chamber for the wj'f. in 50 Years Fall Riviera Has Worst comfortable until his return. The show. where famous The Riviera, Nice change of scene seemed to have put Myton Diversified farming Is uelng the sun Is supposed to shine unlnt-r- Betty Clinton In more serious mood. mud by several In the Uintah basin Is around. suffering "Have you found your opening ,I rupledly the year is a necessity on the part of the farmof southeastern rest the Fiance, like Caleb. asked vet?" she i from the wort fall season in fifty er. The J. C. Peppard Seed company, Inches of v l:lt offices at Duchesne, Roosevelt Two and one-halyears.In buyIn a in Nice fallen has single day. an! Vernal, although eneascdhi rain It looks as if Carmen Wilson alfalfa and seed, urging ing raising coast from the Floods are raging along Intends to capture Caleb. Does cows. ' Marseilles to Mentone. Portions of farmers to raise dairy Betty cars? Roosevelt The board of governors fashionable Cannes are Inundated. Rhone river and Its tributaries are cf the ehomber of commerce voted the (TO HB CONTINUED I Mtn f $100 to the Parent-Teacherising rupldly. playground committee. This committee, vhlctl consists of Homer Evsnston Fir Loss $500,000 which started In the P. K.ri wards. Mrs. D. P. White more and Chicago--Fircm leo D. Yoims, has already raised conManufacturing Flossy siderably ever $100. which, with the pany's plcnt in Evanston Tuesday assures a The strained hearts ot burned through the block along Hen-so- chamber's appropriation, disappear. marathon runners also got smaller. avenue, between Kmmcrson street good nucleus for furnishing the playiHx-to- r CJordon said, and did not reand Vnlvernlty avenuo, and caused a ground of Roosevelt's new elementary scl ool btt'ld ng. turn to normal for several hours. loss estimated at tiOO.000. Athletes were studied to note any P.ilt Lake The men who bunt predpermienent enlargement of the bear! Utah's Expense for November $309,876 atory nn!ninls In Utah and keep I hi which could be blamed on the exerIt roM $5or.F76.7.1 to con ran sees, secl by livestoc k operators, Salt I cise, but It was found tbnt the moat llies kllbrs have some of from thf free business durlnt finance the duct not efforts did proprolonged vigorous of th' ronii.ntlc! north-we- t th ci'inll''" to the duce the much dreaded hypertrophy month of November, according moused pol'ca. When the police of the heart. record of arritnts issued by the state as suititor during the pnt thirty d.ivs take the tr.il "'o gots their man," on tl " movie so'i'i'i stay they on No In the Once Pilgrim' Retort balance treasury The vrtil tl. vilUIn hns been Receipts fsi Com post el a In Spain wns one of tha vtmber 1, v,ns l.fi22.t7o.S2 lh- - Mili'illi H furJ'lstl'---- . to 1 lin.i.,ht 1"0.727.!0. were mak principal pilgrim resorts of the world for the month the rend. Sltu!'n'b ther predatory sns. It has been noiea Ing the total for the month $2.052. In the Middle ages. the ! nr, or bnrfT k"rv 7S. deducting the November expend from the Ninth century for Its or tl wo'f until It Is trapped the lion, 1 Is $1, December balance the Jama relics of toa 8t j sessions of lb ifires. of polronej r,r otrwl.'' tent into Ihe M3.021 Sit. Stiles of clgaret tax stamp Oreater 'f depart, t! reatures. during November totaled $I0.S30.29 greet Decries All Fear of Athletic Heart students need no longer College fear thBt four years of hard football or track work will leave them with a shaky "athletic heart" In middle age. Kxperlments by Dr. I'.urgess (tordon of the Itoston Peter ltent Ilrlgham hospital on men and animals revealed that the heart. Instend of enlarging after strenuous exercise, acFlirt liermore. no entually shrinks. largement of the heart resulted after prolonged athletic training. Ictor CJordon made bis observations on Post on marathon runners, und rabbits with normal and abnormal The rabbits were exercised hearts. to fxbuli"n. and X ray pictures afterward retaken Immediately tonic time to vealed a kLi It.kage 'a PUZZLE ADDED ALLAN DUNN Author of -- A MAk TO HB MATE" "IUMROCK TRAIL" THE PICNIC IdlT MEXICO BRINGS , Bv SYNOPSIS Friday, December 10, NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- S, ty, Colorado, have s stood out prominently. Steps to transfer the Philippines from the millitary to the civil branch of the government were oue of the president's recommendations. Another was that something be done to "end the great inconvenience and expense" caused by the lowering of the level of the Great lakes. No mention was. made of the world court, the president having announced he would not again submit that question to the senate. A reaffirmation of his stand in favor of the protective tariff was included, and a pledge of economy on behalf of the administration waa made. Ice Jam in Lakes Breaks Sault Ste. Maries Favored by milder weather, efforts to break up the ice blockade that for a week has held more than 100 lake freighters, with coal and downbound with grain, tight in the "bottle neck" of the Great lakes, gave promise of success Tuesday. The upbound fleet of coal carriers began moving slowly before noon after a tug had opened a lane for their passage through Middle channel. The progress was very slow, the ice in Middle Neebisch dike above the channel disputing every foot of the way toward Lake Superior aud open water. A score of the upbound fleet haji fought their way through the dike up to early this evening. Ten others got out. Nee-bisc- h Livestock Rates Lowered by I. C. C. Washington Substantial reductions in freight rates on livestock moving into a considerable portion of southern territory were ordered by the interstate commerce commission. Rates from tbe principal cattle markets to Atlanta and Moultrie, Ga., were held unreasonable, and the charges from Chicago to Birmingham, Ala.; Jacksonville, Fla., and Chattanooga, Knox-villand Nashville. Tenn., were described as too high. New schedules, to go into effect January 20, by which the charges from western stockyards to the cities named shall be 47 cunts per hundred pounds for distances of 420 miles; 62 cents for 900 miles, aud ti8 cents for 1200 miles, with amounts for intervening distances in proportion. Jugoslavian Cabinet Resigns Belgrade Jugoslavia's cabinet, headed by Nikola Ouzouuovitch, resigned Tuesday. The resignation is considered a direct outgrowth of the n signature of the recent treaty, which is looked upon here as Forvirtually Isolating Jugoslavia. eign Minister Nlnchltch is quoted In the press as Baying that the cabinet's act was planned for ,the purpose of calling the attention of all Europe to the "new and grave situation." The newspaper Politico says It learns from an unconfirmed source In Scutari that the treaty, announced as one of friendship and security, contains a secret military clause blndint; Italy to defend the present Albanian government under any circumstances Halo-Albania- , Italo-Albanla- n r Change in Basic Law Discussed Washington Congress assebles next Monday and President Coolidge at one of the early meetings will deliver his annual message. The probable, contents of tbe message and the probable legislation by congress have supplied the bulk of the political discussion in the newspapers for1 some two weeks past. This condition in other yoars would provide the text for reflection on a change in newspaper custom. Possibly a statistician would compare the number of times newspapers of an ear'ler day ned the past ton.ie. with the number of future tenses In a modern paper. Older persons would deplore the era of "the journalism of anticipation," and would emit cynical recollections about a time when the prdbi of a newspaper was the quality of In descriptions of what took plac e, rather then the abnndence. If not th- - accuracy, of Its forecasts abut what Is exp'i'ted. To this argument point would bo added by the fact that much of the antlc'psfory discussion about the coming focuses on nnn aspect of It and 'hat Ihe nvMt distant in time; ninclr, whether 'hi-n- i will be an extra session of cor stress i j r IH-nt- i'-'- , s'!r c ' s!nn YosrTtite Area is Nw nervt ihiIhihD' bvl rfrr Washingtonof seven squere ini!" In th bMi l crra country of Yor it- - n.i!:.inil piirV Calif., in which w iM f ;i: m . frutu nqi rcj'-!'-"'pri Towers - An .. ! J i th- - desinirt'v ef civiiliziuiiin !; fin interior d' pnrtmr'a cri,.r. It beevnes the enly reserve ef l; kind In the United Flute. V.'hi!" ihe reenv, n fi't inaccessible. It b pn entering rusds or lrn'! and b ? b' n ! s i little disturbed hr the i iiv gion Is r-- of ')! rvt. vl-i-