W.N.U. FlATURtS^ D ? A ahil* mil I -J-- J ? Is born on the Goose Bar ranch In Wyo ri.y Hie color Indicates that he la n throw bach to the Albino, n wild stallion. Otherwise his ancestors are all thorough breds. Thnnderhead, or the Goblin as ho is commonly known, grows from a stab by and Ill-formed foal to a sturdy year ling. One day ho wanders southward into the mountains. Ho ranches a river sr.] follows It ever higher. Suddenly an eagle darts at him, ripping his flesh. Gohttn-flghts It off, hut Is badly fright ened and runs home. A weeh later, how ever, he returns to the river, and flnds n valley, accessible by only one small opening in high cliffs. Goblin's nose tells him that horses Uvt within the valley. CHAPTER X Goblin stood motionless, his eyes scanning the valley, his muzzle lift ed to suck in and savor and read all the messages it flung at him. He knew much about it already. This was the country that bad called him and he had answered the call. Those horses over there, the big, loosely flung herd, grazing quietly, were the horses he had been hunting. Mares! His nostrils quivered. He neighed loudly. The mares raised their heads, the foals faced around. What magniflcent animals ? big, smooth, glossy?the very smell of them was sweet and strong with health and power. The mares were blacks and bays and sorrels, and the colts were the same, except for a few piebalds. Nickering, they lifted their heads and trotted toward the newcomer. Goblin rushed happily to meet them. He was at home with mares. Most of his life had been spent with them. They milled around him, thrilled and excited by the advent of a stranger. He lost all thought of fear or caution in the happiness of having arrived. He met and smelled and talked to them one by one. The squeals an<l whinnies, the jumps and snorts and playful kickings were all delightful fun. Some of them tried to drive the intruder out, but their bites and kicks were half hearted. On the summit of a near-by hill stood a great white stallion. He was upwind from his mares, which was fortunate for the Goblin. As it was, the Albino noticed the commotion in his harem and lifted his head to observe it. This animal stood sixteen and a half hands high. He was pure white. His body had power and strength rather than gracefulness. He was not smooth. He was gnarled like an old oak tree. His coat was marred by many scars. His great age showed in the hollows of his flanks and shoulders and face. Behind the dark glare of his eye, a blaring Are burned and on this flame was pro jected an irresistible will-power, and a personality that was like the core of a hurricane. He looked over his kingdom. He naa siooa mere ior years, musing over his kingdom. And?if horses think?wondering who would take over when his end came. He had no heir. How could he have? He permitted no colt older than a year to remain in the band of mares, nor any stallion older than a two-year ofd to be in the valley. Here and there, in the deep grass, were the polished bones of those who had challenged him. And if any attempt ed to return after he had driven them forth?they did not try a sec ond time. When Goblin caught the unmistak able strong scent of the stallion he trotted out from the herd to find him. He saw him up there on a hill?just where Banner would have been?and with a joyful nicker, started toward him. The Albino came down to meet him. Goblin, a creature of fire and mag netism, himself, felt the- oncoming stallion in terms of voltage, and it was almost too much to be borne. Goblin came to a stop. It occurred to him that he was going in the wrong direction. But he held his ground. He watched. He had never seen or felt anything like that before. The stallion was so Contained, his power was so gathered and held within him that he was all curves. His great neck was so arched that his chin was drawn in and under, the crest of his head was high and rounded with long ears cocked like spear points. His face was terrifying? that lerocious expression: inose fiery eyes! And his huge, heavily muscled legs curving high, flung for ward so that the great body floated through the air?then the massive hoofs striking and bounding up from the earth with sledge-hammer blows that made the hills tremble and echoed like thunder in the valley I The Goblin still held his ground. The Albino slowed his pace, came closer?stopped. Their noses were about two feet apart. For as long as a minute they faced and eyed each other. They were the same. Trunk and branch of the same tree. And from that confusing identity?each seeing himself as in a distorted mirror there flamed terror and fury. No self-respecting stallion would deign to attack a mere yearling, or even to take him seriously enough to administer heavy punishment. But suddenly the Albino raised his right hoof and gave one terrible pawing stroke accompanied by a short gmialiag s?MMfc~et-?MaetMr Airy And in so doing, be both acknowV eugca ana attempted to destroy his heir. The stroke was delivered with lightning speed. From his great height, if the blow had come down on Goblin's head, as was intended, it would have killed him instantly. But Goblin was endowed with the same speed, and reflexes that acted quicker than thought. He swerved. The great hoof glanced down his neck, ripping the flesh at the shoul der, and sent him rolling. To complete the attack, the stal lion dropped nose to earth, turned and lashed with hind feet to catch the body of the colt as he fell from the blow and finish him oft. But the Goblin rolled too far and too fast, landed on his feet, and whirled to face his antagonist. The stallion plunged toward him? head stretched out like a lethal mis sile, the twisted mouth open and reaching to bite?the great teeth, like slabs of yellow stone?bared? and in the wild and terrible face, two eyes blazing like flre-opals. The Goblin whirled and streaked toward the band of mares. They were bunched, watching, fascinated. They opened their ranks and let him in. They scattered at the impact of the Albino's head-on rush. Goblin dodged. He felt the rake of the Al binois teeth down his haunch?a chunk bitten out?he squealed and' doubled behind another mare. The Albino's charge knocked her off her feet and Goblin went down under her. He felt a burning pain in his ear and tore it loose. He was up again, shouldering into a group of mares and foals. When he came out the other side, the Albino had lost him for the moment. It was his chance. He fled toward the keyhole in the rampart, Albino in thunder ing pursuit. Entering the passage way, the Goblin followed the zigzag path which led through it, and here his smaller size gave him an ad vantage. Emerging on the other side, the Albino was some distance behind, but still coming fast. It was a long chase. Goblin's youth and his quickness at dodging and doubling?and the cover given to him by tbe rocks and clumps of trees?saved him. Six miles down the river, he was alone at last, as the afternoon light be gan to fade. He was limping from the painful wound in his shoulder. He carried his head on one side, fa voring the torn ear, now and then giving it a little shake to shake the pain away, scattering drops of blood. He ached all over. To move, The stroke was delivered with lightning speed. now uid i iie nau siujjijcu luiuuug, was an agony. He stood under a tree, twisted and quivering. He ate nothing all night The memory-of all that had hap pened was graven in him. He laced the rampart, cocked his one good ear, turned his head until he caught the wind, and stood straining, listen ing, smelling, bringing to his con sciousness?almost as strongly as i1 he could see him?the terrible mon ster that had terrified and bested him. He had the impulse to neigh and challenge him?but not thfc strength nor the courage. Never mind?there would be another day. Wait. He had wounds to heal. Goblin grazed until he had filled his belly and renewed his strength, then took the way home. ? ? ? Fortitude was demanded of Ken next day when Flicka went unex pectedly into labor and Rob said she was going to have a bad time and they would need the vet. Driving over to the telegraph sta tion with his mother, Ken's face was white and furious. "God made the world, didn't He?" he asked sud denly. "Well, I don't think much o! ; the way He made it. I could havi ; done it better. I can think up aw t ful nice worlds." Nell glanced down at him. Whs - could she say? Goblin?now Flicka ^ ? i it was a pretty big dose of trouble for him. "Why do all the horrible things have to happen?" he asked passion ately. She must answer him. "We can't understand entirely, Ken?" "Why not?" "You can't understand something that's so much bigger than you are. Not wholly understand. You can't even wholly understand your father or me?only one aide of us. And even less, your Heavenly Father, the Father of all of us. It would be as if a small circle, like a nut, could get outside a big circle, like an orange." Ken was silent, composing an im portant prayer. "Please God, make me have fortitude. And don't let me lose my grip. But if you could man age it to have the Goblin come back, and Flicka get through this foaling all right, that would be just keen. For Jesus Christ's sake, Amen." There was a flash of radiance on his face as he looked up at his mother. Arrived at the railroad station, Nell entered tha telegraph office, and Ken stood listening to the mys terious dots and dashes which asked the televranh Affent At T-aramie if he would be so kind as to do Captain McLaughlin of the Goose Bar ranch a favor, and telephone the veterina rian, Dr. Hicks, and find out if he could start to the ranch immediate ly to deliver a foal? Within five minutes the message came back that Dr. Hicks would come. On the Goose Bar ranch the weather was hot?really hot?for only two or three weeks in midsum mer. On this day the thermometer stood at a hundred and one with a burning, dry heat which lay on the land in shimmering waves, remind er that it was not far removed from the desert. Inside the barn, in spite of wide open doors and windows, everyone was soaked with perspiration and Dr. Hicks had constantly to turn aside and shake the water from his forehead. Rob and the boys were naked from the waist up. . Flicka, exhausted by hours of un availing labor, lay on her side. It was a dry birth. For a long time before the veterinarian's arrival one of the foal's forelegs had been pro truding. "Which means," said Dr. Hicks when he arrived, "that the other leg is curled back and makes birth im possible. The foal is in the wrong po sition, it will have to be straight ened out" He asked for a gunny sack, cut hole* in the corners for his arms and one in the middle for his head, removed shirt and under shirt, donned the gunny sack, greased his arm and went to work. Ken watched him, vowing to him self that never again should Flicks be allowed to have another foal. The doctor puffed as, holding the tiny yellow foreleg, he slowly forced it back into the mare. Ken saw it vanish with a strange sensation. Could the foal still be alive after being handled like that? At length the doctor's hand and wrist disap peared too, and Ken, watching his heavy brown face with its humor ous expression, as if at any moment fie was going to crack a joke, tried to read on it just what was going on inside there. Lucky, thought he, that Doc was so big and husky. To be able to straighten out ? foal inside of its mother took strength! While Doc worked he talked in short grunts. "This mare'll never foal again?that infection she had when die was a yearling injured her ?scar tissue?it's a wonder she's as good as she is. All right for saddle ?ah, there, I've got it now?" "Got what?" breathed Ken. "The other hoof. Both of them. This isn't going to be so bad, after all." Nell was kneeling at Flicka's head, sponging her face and mouth with cold water. Now and then the mare gave a spasmodic heave. Presentlv Doc was pulling on I something. Flicka groaned and la I bored mightily. Ken groaned and I strained too, but Howard watched every move the doctor made, keenly interested. Two tiny hoofs and a muzzle appeared and the doctor got to his feet and mopped the sweat from his face. "She may be able to manage the rest herself now I've got it in the right position," he said. But Flicka couldn't. Most of her strength was gone and it seemed that something still impeded the de livery. McLaughlin looked at his watch. "It's been going on three hours now." He and Doc talked together in low voices. It frightened Ken to bear them?so casual and fatalistic. Ken touched the protruding hoofs. They were not hard yet and were covered with rubber-like pads. He tried to pull on them and was dumb founded to find that it was like try ing to pull a bough from a tree. McLaughlin sent Gus for ropes. They tied a rope to the foal's legs and Doc and his assistant put all their weight on it. The foal moved a little, the head was nearly out. Then it stuck, and when they continued i to pull the only result was that ' Flicka's whole body slid across th? 1 floor. They tied her forelegs to i > post and pulled again. Flicka's bod) " stretched out straight and taught ropes at each end of her, but thi * foal did not budge. - ? (to as onmxuxD) L IMPROVED 1 UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson h" Lesson for July 29 _ Lema subjects sad Scripture texts se lected end copyrighted by laternstlonsl Council of Religious Education; used by permission. GOD'S PROMISE OF A NATION LESSON TEXT?G?tv?.la 11:1-1*. GOLDEN TEXT?I will oUbllmh my Cow unt between me end thee and thy aeed after the* In their generations lor an ever lasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy aeed after thee.?Gencela 11:1. God keeps His promises. It may have appeared that God had forgot ten, but He had not, and in our les son we find Him ready to fulfill His promise. We need to learn the lesson of patience, of awaiting God's time for the carrying out.of His purpose. He is not in any hurry, but He always arrives on time. If we travel life's way with Him, all will be well. Abram found the fullness of God's blessing because he sought His will for life and service. We find him I. Walking in God's Plan (w. 1. 2). The place of blessing is not in some cloistered refuge where the circumstances of life and its prob lems cannot disturb us. It is out in the daily walk with God, in the home, the office, the shop. What is God's plan for the life of the believer? Just what He told Abram: "Be thou perfect." Noth ing less will do, for He is a perfect God. His law is perfect (Ps. 19:7). < He requires a perfect obedience to the perfect law (James 2:10). This ' was His standard for Abram, and it 1 can be no less tor us. 1 How shall we attain to it? Only ? in Christ can we meet and fulfill I God's plan of perfection.' I That means that as followers of ' the Lord we are to seek His power 1 for the outworking of His grace in I our lives. We are not to be content i with a Christian life on a low stand ard or lacking any of the graces which God can give us. We, too, must recognize that if God is to give us His full measure of blessing, we must walk in accord with His will, walking in the tight as He is in the light (I John 1:7). Much of the failure and impotence of present day spiritual lite Is ex _i.t i i it. _J m..;. pxainea ay uie wuuiiguess ux viuia tians to live imperfect livei. 11. Talking of God's Purpose (W. 3-8). Abram fell on his face in adora tion and worship. Ineverence and humility, he put himself in the place of subjection and service. What happened? "God talked with him" (v. 3). This man was ready for a holy conversation with the Lord. His attitude of body was only the outward expression of an atti tude of heart which was right So God and he talked about the purpose of the Lord for Abram's life. He had been Abram, which means, "exalted father," that is, of a family or a tribe; now he became Abraham, "the father of a multitude." This Is the first of many instances in Scripture where a name was changed by God to mark an impor tant event, or a change of heart. For example, Jacob "the supplant er" became Israel, "a prince with God" (Gen. 32:28); Simon became Peter, "s rock" (Matt 18:17, 18). The letter to the church at Per tfamni nv>Aka of th#? ami who over? comes in Christ's name as having ? new name written which no man knows save he that receives it (Rev. 2:17). The believer on Christ is a changed man, a new creature, whether his name be changed or not. God wants to change men?has He changed you? The promise is renewed to Abra ham. It was to his "seed," that is, his descendants. He took the bless ing from God's hand, accepting things that as yet were not, as though they were. God is able to make them come to peas (cf. Rom. 4:10-18). m. Trusting God's Promise (w. 8, 10). Down through the ages every man in the great host to descend from Abraham was to bear the outward token that he belonged to the cov enant people. This was to be a sym bol of and to lead the recipient into that attitude of heart which would bring outward rite into ful fillment as an inward reality. Observe that after Abraham, it was always the parent who thus brought the son into the covenant. This speaks of the parental respon sibility to bring the little children to the Lord, and it also gives us the precious assurance that God is in terested in the children and ready to receive them at the hands of par ents, taking them into His own ten der care. Thus down through the genera tions, Israel was to show their faith j in God, their assurance that He would keep His promises to them, and their consequent eagerness that their families should be counted into the covenant with God. Christ is ready and eager to un dertake for our children. His grace ' is sufficient, not only for us, but also for those who come after us. His promise is to our "children's chil dren" (Ps. 103:17, 18), "of such as keep His covenant." Let us trust Him, and put ourselves and our chil dren in that place of obedience - where Be may bless us and then. TU HOME TOWN REPORTER In Washington ? I'l'lltiililiU llili'l'H IliJI-l hIUJL' ? New Agriculture Secretary WKU WmtUfmm Manma (21 Dm1mm Trust MMh<. FARMERS, rancher*, dairymen ' and all others in the agricultural industry, both in the production and processing fields, must have confi dence in their government . . . must have faith that their government will stand by every commitment made to them in full . . . and go ahead for the fullest production of food stuffs possible. This is the message to agricul ture from Clinton P. Anderson, tall, lanky westerner, and new secretary of agriculture in the administration of President Truman. The new secretary, a rancher farmer-business man, is determined that farmers will not suffer in their patriotic efforts for all - out production . . . that support prices will be suf ficient and over-all to insure adequate prices . . . that there will be no huge surplus which wiu uug uwwii ytivca Clinton . . . that consumer Anderson subsidies will grad ually be eliminated is upward pressures on prices relax . . that agreed requirements from igriculture represent obligations which must be carried through . . . :hat adequate manpower and ma chinery for the (arm must be given priority . . . and that the government must take necessary steps to pro vide adequate transportation facili ties to move groups and foodstuffs, perishables and livestock, and the movement of manpower to areas where there is an acute labor short age. This, briefly; is the program which this new, dynamic figure in the de partment of agriculture has set for himself and the agricultural indus try for the immediate months ahead. He is no novice at the job he has undertaken. As chairman of the special committee of the house to Investigate food shortages, he trav eled the country from coast to coast, heard innumerable witnesses nm all eMaa nf aiiara nnaatian end oft. imi au Diuca ui c v ci _7 ULDkiuu auu U4k er weeks of consideration, he and his committee came up with a set of recommendations, most of which have now been enacted into law. Long Range Program Too And while Anderson is immediate ly concerned with the production of foodstuffs for the war period, he has not lost sight of the long-range pro gram to which the farmer is looking for the postwar years. Mr. An derson will be secretary of agricul ture for the nest 3ti years. There is a probability that 2V4 and maybe more, of those years will be postwar years. At any rate, with his char acteristic thoroughness, he already has a committee of agricultural ex perts at woA studying basic agri cultural problems with the idea of bringing forth a set of recommenda tions for the postwar period. This reporter would say, after an Interview with Mr. Anderson, and a study of his work in con gress,- that the new secretary has his feet Sdlidly on the rrooad, that he M not given te going off half-cocked. that be studies ev ery side of a question and that once Us mind is made op he will ose every resource and all his ability to carry through Us While be would not commit him self as to the Triple A program, he did say that the Triple A program, with the exception of soil conserva tion, had been pretty well laid on uie well UUTU1B uiese war years and (or the poetwar period he indi cated that the crop adjustment pro gram would have to be analyzed thoroughly and that he already had a committee at work doing just that Interested in Parity By congressional action, however, farmers have been guaranteed a price (or their products, or most o( them, at 90 per cent of parity (or two years after the end of the war and Mr. Anderson is particularly in terested in adequate support prices to maintain this price. Furthermore, support prices are not costing the government anything at this time, since prices of commodities are well above the prices set It is only when commodity prices start falling for any reason, that the support price will hold the farmer up from ruin ous prices. Anderson is not anticipating any huge surpluses, but nevertheless he is taking no chances on the so-called reconversion period when army and other huge government buyers start cut-backs in food purchases. For this reason he is now starting conver sations seeking to taper off, rather than cut-off, army purchases, and end lease. Consumer subsidies, he leoks upon as temporary expediencies, and very temporary at But. Bo to not la (aver of such subsidies as a governmental policy in peacetime. VVT HO h?ve been the beet come ' * dians baseball has known in the last 40 or SO years? This thought came bounding along after reading A1 Schacht's merry and in teresting tome known as "G I Had Fun." A1 Scbacht is certainly one of the members of the king pin row. One ?t_? a a .1 w UIC uxai ui Uicac was Crazy Schmidt, an unconscious hu morist, who pitched (or Cincinnati sev eral decades back. Others include Ar lie Latham, Rube Waddell, Tacks Par rott, Ping Bodie, Germany Schaefer, Nick Altrock, Sher ry Magee, O'Neil of Dizzy Dean the Cardinals and Dizzy Dean. There have been many others but these are the ones who still remain longer In memory. Crazy Schmidt went out to pitch with a glove, a baseball and a note book he carried in his hip pocket. The contents of this book noted the weakness of every man he had pitched against?a high one or a low one?a curve or a fast one. As the batter came to the plate Schmidt would take out the notebook con taining some 100 names to check on his weakness. "What have yon got written against Hans Wagner's name?" one of his teammates once asked. "A base on balls," Schmidt said. Germany Schaefer was one of the stars in this field. He was then playing second base for Detroit. I recall a game years ago where Schaefer was playing in Cleveland. Around the third inning it began to rain. During the fourth inning it poured. Tommy Connolly was um piring and Germany kept squawk ing to have the game called. Con nolly refused. When the tilth inning opened Con nolly looked around and fount Schaefer playing second base witt high rubber boots, a raincoat, i Gloucester fisherman's hat and hold ing a big umbrella over his head Connolly charged Schaefer with i roar and told him to remove hii deep sea make-up. Schaefer refused "I have a very bad eold," hi told Connolly, "which is now bor derlng on pneumonia. If I get rlt of my rubber boots, my raineoa and my umbrella I will be in thi hospital in less than two hours am I will certainly sne you and thi league." Connolly called the game Schaefer had a keen, quick wi and could always draw a laugh. Waddell had the Athletics goofy b; buying a mockingbird owned by thi proprietor of a popcorn and peanu stand that had a whistle attached All the mockingbird could do wa wake up the entire floor shortl; after daybreak by singing his onl; song ? the song of the peanu whistle, with an added screech. Ping Bodie and Dizzy Dean It was the immortal Ping Bodii with the Yankees who bought a par rot and spent weeks teaching sail parrot to keep saying over am over?"Ping made good" ? "Pini made good." But after all, Dizzy Dean in man; different ways was the top of then ?outside of Schacht Dizzy wa loaded with pranks, as well a pretty homely wit. There was the time in Florid: when Dean had reported as a rookl from the Texas league. Jimmy WiJ son, the veteran catcher, begat missing his silk shirts. Finally Jim my caught Dean bedecked in one c raw rookie wearing hie silk ahirts was too much to stand. He started in to bawl out Dizzy when the rookie stopped him cold with this comeback: "Now wait Just a minute, Jim my," Dizzy said, "you wouldn't want the greatest pitcher baseball has ever known to go around a month wearing a single shirt, would you?" Jimmy let him have the shirt. I was walking with Dizzy by ? hotel in Bradenton one day when ha said he had a phone call to make. He was gone some time. He finally came out wearing a wide grin. "Well," he said, "I Jut called op gam Breadon In St. Louis. I told him I had changed my mind about signing lor any |M,IN. We had a long hot argument. He threatened to hare me thrown out of baseball. We mnsta argued 2d minutes. Then 1 finally told gam I had already signed and sent my contract In." "What was the Idea In doing that?" I asked. Dizzy grinned, "I had the charges reversed and It cost Bam Ml." There was also the time on a blistering day in St. Louis, temper ature 112, the crowd melting, when suddenly a wisp of smoke came up in front of the Cardinal bench. There sat Dizzy decked out in a heavy overcoat, warming his hands in front of a fire he had Just built. And I still recall his classic re mark after his arm was about gone when be was warming up for the Cubs to pitch a world series game against the Yankees. How you feeling, Diz," I asked. "Well," ha said, "I ain't what I used to be. But who la hsqjs?^ Charming Nightgown For Summer Wear ^5894 Smil MiJiuwi Lnt? A CHARMINGLY simple night gown to make up in white rayon crepe, using two-inch white embroidered beading to finish the V-neck and for the shoulder straps. Run narrow pink or bine silk or satin ribbon through the beading. Sell material bandings will give a more tailored effect, it you prefer. ? ? ? To obtain complete pattern and finishing ? 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