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THE CASS COUNTY SUN
1PATER
BEARER
T3ij J. JILLAN DUNN
Author of
Jl MAN TO HIS MATE1
"K'MROCK TRAIL
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THE DIVINER
SYNOPSTS—Idly fishing Her-
manoi creek, In California, Caleb
Warner, civil engineer and a
New Englander, la witness of the
end of a coyotte pulled down by
two wolfhounds, urged on by a
girl rider. Admiring the hounds,
he Introduces himself, and learns
her name is Clinton. With west-
ern hospitality she Invites him to
the ranch to meet her father. At
the Clinton home Warner learns
his new friend's name Is Betty.
He Is welcomed by her father,
Southern Civil war veteran and
owner of Hermanos valley.t He
tells them something of his am-
bitions and his feeling that he Is
destined to be a "Water-Bearer."
Ifl the town of Golden Warner
shares an apartment with his old
Columbia college chum, Ted Bax-
ter, carefree and somewhat dissi-
pated 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
company which supplies the
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
office next day. He does so and
Cox arranges a meeting between
Caleb and Hinckley, the water
company's chief engineer. Baxtor
tells Caleb he is in difficulties
with a girl, Mary Morgan, Cox's
stenographer, who insists he
must marry her. With Hinckley,
Caleb looks over the water com-
pany's source of supply, the
Crystal springs, In Hermanos
valley.
CHAPTER V—Continued
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"Surely. Ilnil to. Still have to. If
you ever build u dam anywhere
along the line of the Great Fault,
don't forget that. Every major quake
runs along the same line, out of the
sea at a tangent, nor'west to sou'east
down the original crack. The big
temblor In 1812 that wrecked the Mis-
sions, and the quake in 1906 that
wrecked Golden and Santa ltosa,
moved over an Identical trail. And
that trail went clean through my big
dam down there."
The long lake had once been a peace-
ful valley, Hinckley told Caleb, a
stage road winding through It on the
way to the sea, farms, farmhouses and
a hamlet with a famous roadhouae at
the Crystal Springs for which the val-
ley was named. All these had been
razed to prepare the bottom of the
great reservoir, fences taken up, trees
eliminated, the place devastated as the
big dam rose In the great notch that
formed the main outlet to the valley.
Caleb turned the talk to the question
of Gotden's Impending shortage.
"Mr. Cox," he said, "stated that
there was no more watershed avail-
able on the peninsula."
"That Is true. We own a certain
number of artesian wells around the
lower end of the bay but they are only
n drop In the buclgpt. The outlook is
not very encouraging." > _
"How about across the bay?" Caleb
put the query with a degree of nervous-
ness. He feared that Hinckley was
about to uncover his own precious
theory and demolish It.
The engineer's eyes twinkled.
"They suy that water, like gold, Is
where you find It. And findings—keep-
ings! There Is water over there that
ethically belongs to Oakvllle. Our
company naturally considers Golden
more Important. But It Is difficult of
development. Means large, expendi-
ture. We should have a hard Job to
get wwter rates raised sufficiently to
warrant It. Filtration Is the big trou-
ble. The work would be elaborate
and expensive. We can't see our way
clear."
Caleb kept his face clear of every-
thing but earnest attention. But he
was breathing more easily. His theory
was still virgin."
Hlnckiey proceeded to go Into the
present filtration system and tbe lay-
out of the conduits that supplied the
hydrants of Golden. Caleb's Interest
In Crystal lakes had been satisfied but
he followed the technical talk with
Intelligent comment and left the engi-
neer at last on terms that were more
than merely friendly. lie reached
Golden after the stores were closed
for the day but, early the next morn-
ing he obtained geodetic section maps
of the quadrangles covering Callente
valley and the Gabllan range. He put
In most of the day studying these and
making little drawings to scale In ver-
tical plane.
It was all In support of a mere
theory l)nt it was Ills habit to be pains-
taking, even In preliminaries, and h
surveyed his sketches with a good
deal of satisfaction. If the theory
panned out It meant, not merely
money and fame If be handled his dis-
covery properly, but It would make
him, Caleb Warner, an actual factor
in pioneering, in city building. He
quoted to himself what Betty Clinton
had said at El Nido.
"That Is what I should prefer, If I
was a man. To create something, to
be a water-bearer, to the thirsty earth
or to thirsty people."
Baxter, coming in, broke through
his reverie.
"You look like a latter-day prophet
seeing visions," said Baxter. "What's
the big Idea?"
"Just 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 Nido? Beware of the sirens who
He behind the rocks! As I remember
her, that day at the dog show, the
Clinton girl was a looker. Beware!"
"I'm not looking for that kind of a
mine, Ted. And I hadn't thought of
going to El Nido 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 time next
month. Thereby greatly relieving the
general situation. Now It's up to me
to attend to the little formality of
finding the land to please them. I
wonder if there's anything across the
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The Long Lake Had Once Been a
Peaceful Valley.
bay? I must look up my notes. Want
me to come along with you, Cal? 1
wonder if the K1 Nido valley Is for
sale?"
He glanced mockingly at Caleb and
laughed. <
"Old Chief Wooden Face, aren't
you? Don't worry. I won't butt in
to poach on your preserves. Give my
regards to Miss Clinton. She may
vaguely remember me. I was Intro-
duced to her at tbe Show. But, re-
member my warning. Stoics like you,
when they fall, fall bard!"
CHAPTER VI
The Diviner
Caleb caught an early ferry for the
six-mile* water trip across tbe bay
from Golden to Oakvllle. At Oakvllle
lie took a local train that paralleled
the shore of the lower bay for a time
before striking east through Coyote
canyon, the natural gateway through
the hills for the overland trains. As
he had done on Hermanos creek, Caleb
noted flood signs. Then he gave him-
self up to studying his sketches, cov-
ering the region he was going to pros-
pect, going over them while the trnln
tugged up the canyon until he knew
them by heart.
He left the train at the same sta-
tion he had used on his previous tr'p,
buying some fruit to serve as lunch-
eon before be crossed the brldg^and
started up Hermanos. He had brought
along rod und creel, more as a mask
to his real Intentions than from any
Idea of fishing.
The scanty flow ran In a deep chan-
nel gouged out by floods. He ex-
amined the sides and found them all
of gravel. A wagon road that had fol-
lowed the creek up from the railroad
turned off to wind behind a low
ridge. It was deep-rutted and Caleb
traced it. lie found that it ended at
a gravel pit, dug Into the side of the
ridge, used probably for roadumklng
purposes. Tbe pit had been bitten
out In the shape of a horseshoe and,
standing where one of the calks would
come, he saw it dilapidated shed from
the roof of which smoke was rising
through u rusty stove pipe. A man,
leaning against tbe open floor, sur-
veyed him curiously.
Caleb nodded to him as te walked
over to the shack, crunching through
the gravel. The man was lauk and
tall, stooped of shoulder and constrict-
ed of chest A hooked nose stuck out
boldly from the peaked and sunken
face between eyes that glittered
strangely. Long hair fell below his
shirt collar.
As he rested against the door Jamb
a fit of coughing attacked him and he
shook with It like a reed In the wind.
He was so helpless In the grip of the
attack that Caleb hurried to support
him, thinking him about to fall.
But the violent efforts ceased anil
the man rallied, smiling wanly, with
a grimy handkerchief set to. his Hps.
Caleb caught sight of telltale fleckrf
of bright-red blood quickly folded Into
the rag. The cough was from the
lungs, the man tubercular.
*"S all right, stranger," said the
man. "Fva bin a eight worse. I'm
gettln' it baked out of me here. Lungs
teclied but they're healln'. Fishln',
are ye? Better w«rk up to the canyon
yonder. No use wastin' yore time
down here. Folly the road below the
pit an' then trull the crick. It's tough
goln'. Slle's chokln', what little they
Is of It."
"Mostly gravel underneath, to Judge
by the pit," Caleb answered. "Thanks
for the tip. Have u cigar?"
The man took it wolfishly and bit
off the end.
Caleb gave him a match.
"I thought that perhaps you owned
the gravel pit."
"Me. I don't own nothln'. 'Cept
this cough, and I'm willin' to get sljet
of that. Mine's a charity Job. It's
good grave! an' the hill makes it handy
to git at. I can't work at my trade
no longer. It takes It out of me, you
see."
Caleb didn't see. The glitter In the
man's eyes was not so much that of
fever as of the spirit, he decided. He
fancied him a little demented, by way
of being a crank or a .fanatic.
"I'm glad the land's worth some-
thing." he seid. "It doesn't look like
it." The man shot over a quick, burn-
ing look. -
"That's to them as looks only on
the surface," he said.
"What do you mean?"
The man led the way Into the shack.
From the two-by-fours that supported
the corrugated iron roof hung some
switches of freshly cut willow and
hazel. Some were old and dried. And
all were forked.
"Know what those are?" asked the
man. "Them's dlvlnln' rods. I'm a
diviner. A Water-Finder. That's my
trade. It'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?" lie demanded fiercely. "But
there's many In the upper valley as
has blessed me when" I showed 'em
where 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 that he, the Water-Benrer,
should meet this Water-Finder to con-
firm his hope, a living signpost thut
he was on the track.
He knew that within the year the
French Academy of Sciences had ac-
cepted the demonstration of a num-
ber of scientifically controlled crises
where the "water-divining rod" had
proved beyond a doubt that certain
persons were gifted with the power to
discover subterranean springs and
reservoirs, Scientists did not attempt
to explain the mystery, but accepted
the phenomenon and were making It
the subject of expert research tft dis-
cover the natural causes.
"I have known many cases back in
the East, where T come from," Caleb
said, "where water has been found
by the use of the rod."
The man was instantly mollified.
"Ah," he said. "It's, all true. I
ain't quite human, mebbe. It'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, but
I'm too weak. But you can take my
word for It—me, David Evans, the
Welsh Water-Finder, what's discovered
a score of Wells north of Coyote crlnk ;
that there's water all under h««—
under this gravel.
Apparently this David Evans
is to play an important part In
the story. What does he do?
(TO BK CONTINUED.)
■(PROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SundaySchool
' Lesson'
(By REV. P. B. FTTZWATKSR. P.D., t>ea
of iha Evening School, Moody S'ble In-
stitute of Chicago.)
((c). 1926. Wastern Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for June 6
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JACOB AND ESAU
"Laborer" Was Right
Getting one's name on the voting list
In an outlying town in Massachusetts
for the first time is a serious ceremony,
yet with touches of humor. For in-
stance, one lady was asked what her
occupation was and she replied
"Housewife." Whereupon the regis-
trar volunteert'd this one: "I asked
this question of one woman and she re-
plied, 'laborer.' " The registrar, some-
what puzzled, again queried, "What
kind of labor?" The woman replied,
"Well, I'm home all day.**—Christian
Science Monitor.
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SAFFRON SKIN
FROM SOOR BILE
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SOUTH GEORGIAN DRIVES OUT
ENORMOUS QUANTITY SOUR
BILE WITH DOOSON'S
LIVER TONE.
WESSON TEXT—Genesis 88:1-11.
OOI-iDEJN TEXT—Be ye kind one to
Another, tender hearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake
hath forgiven you.—-Ephes. 4:82.
PRIMARY. TOPIC —Two Brothers
Make Up a Quarrel.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Esau Forgives Ja-
cob.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-
IC—Brotherly Love and Forgiveness.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP.
IC—A Lesson In Reconciliation.
I. Their Birth (25:21-26).
In answer to Isaac's prayer, seed
was given unto him. Before the chil-
dren were born God revealed unto Re-
bekah the fact that the elder should
serve the younger. God" reversed the
ordinary law concerning the position
of the elder son.
II. Esau Sells His Birthright (25:
27-33).
1. It was right that Jacob should
have the blryirlght and the blessing,
for It was according to God's plan
which had been preannounced. but his
scheme to get them Is to be con-
demned. He took advantage of a
brother's weakness to drive a sharp
bargain.
2. Esau- th«, profane (Ileb. 12:10,
17).
Many think that profanity is only
swearing, but swearing is not the most
common profanity. To be under the
sway of appetite Is to be a profane
person, Esau was a supreme example.
He sold his birthright for a bowl of
pottage. This birthright was the
right of being at the head of the pa-
triarchal family, a position of honor
and Influence, as well as being the Iti
heritor of a double portion of the fa-
ther's estate. This being a gift .of
God, It should not he despised. In the
moment of his distress he thought
only of that which would bring him
some carnal satisfaction. He was
willing to relinquish all claims ofi the
future If only, his present desire could
be gratified. A profane person, there-
fore, Is one who for the enjoyment of
the present will forfeit all claims upon
the future.
III. Jacob Secures the Blessing
(Gen. 27). '
1. Esau requested to get venison for
his father (vv. 1-4).
Isaac loved Esau because of his ven-
ison (Gen. 25:28). He ought to have
loved him because he was his son. It
Is a sad commentary upon a father
that his love for his son hud such a
sordid basis as that of his stomach.
2. Itebekah's scheme (vv. 5-33).
God had said to her that the elder
should serve the younger. It was His
plan that Jacob should he at the head,
but God was able to bring His own
plans to pass.
3. Esau's remorseful cry (vv. 34-30),
When he came to realize that lie had
not only lost his birthright but the
blessing, his conscience smote him and
he earnestly begged for a blessing,
even seeking it with bitter tears.
IV. Jacob Meets Esau (Gen. 33:1-
11).
1. As a result of Jacob's cunning
and deceit lie was obliged to flee from
home to save his life. In spite of his
selfishness and sin God appeared to
him at Bethel.
2. Prayer for deliverance from
Esau's wrath (32:0-12).
He was about to meet his brother,
whom he had wronged some twenty
years before.
(1) He made Ills plea on the basis
of God's covenant. Jacob came In line
with the Abrahamlc covenant, so he
had a right to plead that relationship.
(2) He plead that he was in God's
way. We should assure ourselves that
we are going according to God's will,
then make our pleas before Him on
that ground.
(3) He made a definite plea. He
told God plainly of his danger. He
Bald, "Deliver me from the hand of
my brother."
3. The angel wrestles with Jacob
(32:22-30).
Observe that It was not Jacob wres-
tling with the angel, but the angel
wrestling with Jacob. Jacob did not
get the blessing because he wrestled,
but he was not blessed until He had
been crippled and in his helplessness
clung to God.
4. Jacob gets a new name (32:27-
80).
This experience at the ford of Jab-
bok wrought a mighty change in Ja-
cob. "'Jacob" with his cunning and
deceit was left behind and "Israel,'*
"a prince with God," entered the land.
V. Esau and Jacob Reconciled (33:
Ml).
At Jabbok Jacob got right with God,
•o now he easily got right with Esau.
It is easy to get right with our brother
after getting right with God.
After a long period of the worst
form of weakness and the terrible
feeling of sickness that comes from
a system loaded with sour bile, Mr.
Sam Puckett says: "When I kept get-
ting those bilious attacks reckon I
took enough calomel to kill a mule.
Got worse all the time. Finally I
turned saffron color all over. Me' wife
happened to read about Dodson's
Liver Tone in the Weekly Constitu-
tion, so we drove to town and got a
bottle. It was like magic. It drove
quarts of sour bile out of me as black
as ink. From that day I have felt
as If I had a new liver, and whenever
I begin to feel weary and bilious, with
no appetite, a dose of Dodson's Liver
Tone puts qje to rights."
This wonderful, quick-action, liver
starter ought to be In every house-
hold, if for no other reason than to
stop the use of dangerous calomel.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant to
take, even for children, and never
makes you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone Is personally
guaranteed by every druggist who
Bells It. A large bottle costs but a
few cents, and if It fails to give easy
relief In every case of liver sluggish-
ness and constipation, you have only
to as* for your money back.
The Analyst
Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian
sculptor, said at a New York recep-
tion :
"Psycho-analysis Is the ugliest and
silliest fad of modern times. A lot of
novelists have taken it up, but how
my father would have hated It!
"Psycho-analysis analyzes the finest
things and proves everything to be
ugly. It's like the professor whose
wife burst Into tears when he refused
her a summer holiday in Europe.
" 'Ah, my friend,' he said to her,
'tears are useless. I have analyzed
them. They contain a little phosphate
of lime, some chloride of sodium, oxy-
gen, hydrogen, and that's all.'"
If your ryes smart or fuel scalded, Roman
Eye Balsam, applied on going to bed, wilt
relieve them by morning. Adv.
Salting Chicago Fish
A million gallons of sea water will
be transported from the Atlantic
coast to the new Shedd aquarium in
Chicago, to provide a home for the
salt-water fish which will be on exhi-
bition there.
Envy feels not its own happiness but
when it may be compared witli the
misery of others.—Johnson.
ToNIGHT
Tomorrow
Alright
MB A vegetable
|1V aperient, adds
tone and vigor to
the digesUve and
eliminative system.
Improve* the appe-
tite, relieves Sick
Headache and Bil-
iousness, corrects
Constipation.
/Used for over
3 Oyears
. ~j
Chips off 4he Old Block
Nt JUNIORS—Little ffta
One-third the regular dose. Made
of same ingredients, then candy
Coated. For children and adults.
aaiaiSOLD BY YOUR DRUGCISTan
STOP THAT COUGH
with Boschee's Syrup—the old reliable
family remedy that has been In use
for 60 years. Loosens and brings up
the phlegm and eases the dryness and
Irritation. At all druggists. 30c and
00c. If you cannot get it, write to
G. G. GREEN, INC., Woodbury, N. J.
Baby Loves
A Bath With
Cut&cura
Soap
Btay.1 and SooWt,, to Ten**
J
~ FAKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Remove* Dandruff-Stops Hair Falling
Raster** Color and
Beauty to Cray and Faded Hair
60c and II.CO at Dnifrgists.
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HINDERCORNS Removes Corns. Oal-
Kmscs, etc.. slops all pain, ensures comfort to ihs
fest. makes walking MM, Uo by inall or at Drug-
gists. Hlaooa Obemloal Works, fuchogne, M. I.
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