Ihimde^ead;
? W.M.U. riATURtt"
? THE SluRi THUS FAR: TbUDder
bead, commonly known at the Goblin, la
the only white horse ever bora aa the
Goose Bar ranch la Wyoming. He grown
from a misshapen colt to a powerful
yearling, resembling his great graadslre
mors every day. The grandslre Is a wild
stallion called the Albino. One day Goblin
wanders Into a mountain valley, meets
the Albino, and barely escapes with bis
tile. When bis wounds are healed, Ken
McLaughlin, bis 12-year-old owner, be
gins to train him. Goblin, although dlf
Acnlt to handle, occasionally submits,
and ions with astonishing speed and en
durance. Charley Sargent, millionaire
horse breeder, tells Ken that Goblin
might become a winning racer.
CHAPTER XIV
' Ken brought his horse over the
line as he had done before?the
same, hard gallop, with the colt
fighting his head and unwilling to
obey. It made Ken mad that just
now when he wanted performance
Thunderhead would do nothing but
fight.
All right then?let it be war. This
battling with the stallion was bring
ing out something in the boy that
had never been there before. He
raised the light crop he held and
brought it down on the colt's
haunches as hard as he could. Thun
derhead leaped in the air and tried
to shake Ken off. Ken could feel
the power and anger surge into his
own body. He raised his arm and
brought the crop down again. When
the horse lit this time he was going.
It was the long floating effortless
pace that had been Rocket's. Ken
sat motionless on the tiny saddle.
Down to the turn, around the posts,
up the other side?
Nell glanced at Charley. "See
that?" she said. "That's what I
mean." *
"And he's not even trying," said
Charley in a daze.
"He's coming! He's coming!"
screamed Howard. "look at the
watch?"
Sargent gave a start. He hadn't
had his eyes off the colt, he hadn't
timed him. He waved his arm and
yelled at Ken, "Keep going! Go
around again!"
Ken's eyes flickered up to him as
he passed, but he didn't turn his
head. There was a rapt look on his
face.
"Gosh! He runs in the air!"
howled Sargent. "He doesn't touch
the ground!"
Howard was jumping up and
down. "Keep it up! Keep it up!
Thunderhead! Thunderhead!"
Nell felt hysterical. She sudden
ly put her face into her hands. The
beauty of it. The super-perform
mtiaa an/I ITAn oiffin a an atill iho
victory at last?the two-year-long
battle?the faith?the exhaustion?
the cuts and bruises and strains she
had to bind up?and now. Victory?
She raised her head and looked
again. Coming back up the home
stretch!? Coming 1 One long sus
tained yell from Sargent?and the
horse over the line, Ken trying to
pull him up?swinging around in
circles?Howard's voice squawking
?"What did he make, Mr. SargentT
What did he make?"?while Sar
gent was trying to scramble down
the rock.
Thunderhead had made the half
mile in forty-seven seconds.
"Oh, Kennie?Kennie?'
"Gee, Ken-he did it?Gee!"
"That horse! He's one of the sev
en wonders of the world!"
Thunderhead was fighting. He
wanted to keep going. Ken had
hardly come back yet from the ec
stasy in which he had ridden. His
glowing face with the slightly part
ed lips was half unconscious.
"Could he do it again? Has he
ever done it before? We'll let him
rest a little, then give him another
spin."
"Rest?" said Howard. "He's not
tired. He never gets tired. He
hates to be stopped when he gets
going. That's why he's mad now."
They decided to try the colt again;
and again they climbed to the ledge
and timed his start, and again Ken
fought with him to control him,
forced him over the line, and was
shaken by the angry, rough gallop
by his breaking through the posts.
The struggle went on?the lashing
of the crop?the scarlet face of the
boy, while Charley grew grave and
the little group on the ledge no
longer chattered with excitement,
but stood silent.
At last Sargent was hopeless. "It
(iwas a fluke," he said. "He's un
| controllable."
"Lock, look, Mr Sargent! He's do
ling it again!"
The colt had broken through his
temperamental impediments. He
burst into his swift, floating pace,
and went streaming around the
track. As he crossed the line Sar
gent punched the watch. They held
their breath. Sargent's mouth was
wide open in a crazy grin. His
ayes popped.
? ? ?
The gelding.
For days and nights Ken had been
thinking of it. The better the colt
behaved, the more speed he showed,
the more despair Ken felt. They
told him and they argued with him,
and they proved it to him. The
colt would lose no iota of his speed
might even have more, because his
energies would not be wssted in
fighting, in running after mares, in
breeding them. It made no differ
ence to Ken. He had seen the colts
before gelding, the power that flowed
through them like hot lava, making
them rear and play and fight and
wrestle; making their tails and
manes lift like flying banners; giving
a look of Individuality and passion
to their faces?and he had seen them
after. Seen the change in the car
riage of the head, the look of the
eye, the appearance of the colt, the
general behavior.
Nothing would reconcile him. But
his father had decided. What could
one do in such a jam? Fortitude.
When you couldn't have what you
wanted, you accepted defeat with
fortitude. His mother said you could
pray?but you needn't think you'd
get what you wanted, you'd just get
the strength to bear the disappoint
ment.
Those days made a change in
Ken's face and character. He said
little about it. The more you ar
gued and plead the less likely his fa
ther was to yield. His mother was
really on his side, tyit she left such
things to his father. She felt that
he really knew best.
It happened that on the morning
of the day of Ken's trial race down
on the track a call came Into the
office of the veterinarian at Lara
mie. It was from Barney, the ranch
er west of the Goose Bar, stating
that he had a sick cow who needed
to be cleaned out after a premature
calving. Could Dr. Hicks come out
and take care of her?
Dr. Hicks and Bill, his assistant,
arrived at the Barney ranch about
one o'clock. They worked over the
cow for a couple of hours. When
they were leaving, Dr. Hicks said,
"It's only a few miles down the
back road to the Goose Bar. We'll
stop in there and geld those two-year
ntmriiinm
"How's your moseleT" asked Nell.
olds of Captain McLaughlin."
They arrived at the stablea soon
after Rob had driven off with the
blacks. Gus went out with a bucket
of oats and called in the colts, and
the men got to work.
"Is that all?" asked Doc, when
he had gelded seven, "I thought
the Captain said eight."
'Dere's one more," said Gus,
"Ken's colt. De white one."
"Oh, the throwback!" said Doc.
"The one Ken thinks is going to be
a racer. How's he comin' on?"
"He runs right gude now," said
Gus.
"Maybe they don't want him geld
ed."
"De Captain wants him gelded all
right. Mebbe you cud wait a little,
while I go down and help Tim wid
de milkin'? Ken tuk de colt out a
while back?he might be home any
minnit."
Doc and Bill took seats on the
corral fence and rolled cigarettes
and waited.
The shadows grew longer. They
heard the cowbells as the cows, aft
er being milked, wandered out into
the pasture; then the sound of the
separator wmrring in me mine nouse
as it cut the milk in half, pouring a
rich, foaming, white fluid into one
jar, a thick yellow cream into the
other.
At last Doc told Bill to pack up
the stuff. They got in the car and
drove away.
Ken felt almost awed when be
arrived at the stables with Howard,
having driven the blacks home in
the "jouncing cart," and heard from
Gus what had happened. There
stood the seven gelded colts in the
east corral, their heads hanging life
lessly, their hind legs covered with
blood. Thunderhead, said Gus, had
come galloping in with Touch And
Go some ten minutes after Doc had
left. He had unsaddled him and
turned them both out into the home
pasture.
Ken stared at the geldings while
the blood rushed through his body
and sank again. This meant?this
meant?Doc had made his trip to the
ranch 1 His fsther would never or
der him up again to geld one colt! |
Ken leaped in the air with a 1
whoop of triumph. ,
"Gosh!" said Howard. "You're :
shot in the head with luck!"
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So Thunderhead was not gelded.
A year before, the Albino had
recognized in Thunderhead a reflec
tion of himself in miniature. But |
gelding would have changed that. \
It would have left the colt, perhaps,
a successful racer; it would have
made him more useful to men and
amenable to their demands; but
never again would he have been a
creature who could have com- ?
manded the notice of his royal great
grandfather.
Nell had hardly recovered from
the emotion she had felt when she
saw Ken's triumph. And the fact
that the colt had escaped gelding
(for Rob had said that since Doc
had come and gone he could wait
another year) gave her an even
stranger feeling of unreality. When j
obstacles vanished, they just floated I
awav?as if thev nAv#>r had ha?n? I
"He is going to be a racer after '
all, isn't he, dad?"
"Looks like it, son."
"And all our troubles will be
over."
"What are you going to do with aQ
the money, Ken?"
"He's going to pay back a lot
that he owes me!"
"And he can pay for his own edu
cation!"
"And pay off the note on the
ranch."
"And put wooden fences around it
?he's promised me that!"
Mother, you've got to tell me ?1
what you want! I've asked you and
asked you and you never have."
"Can I have three wishes?"
"Yes?three things. Make them
big things, mother!"
"I want a swan sleigh all covered
with bells! I want a monkey treel
And I want a little girl!"
"What is a monkey tree?" asked
Charlie.
"It's a kind of big old pine tree
here on the ranch?there are only a
couple of dozen of them," Howard
explained. "We were looking at one
one day long ago?They are a queer
shape with branches all twisting ev
ery which way, and mother said it
had a face like an old monkey's."
"Mother," insisted Ken, "tell me
some other wishes?real wishes that
I could get you."
"He wants to buy her joo-oo-oolsl"
clowned Howard.
ocuci uuh your lingers, rven,
said Charley. "Many a slip betwixt
the cup and the lip, you know?"
In the Interchange of talk and
flashing glances that played around
the table, Nell's look crossed Rob's.
They stared a moment. She felt the
Impact of his animosity. He hadn't
forgiven her for what she had said
last night. When they were alone
together, he was smooth and easy?
as if it were forgotten?but with
people around, he lowered his guard
and let her see the truth.
While they argued as to whether
it would be better for Thunderhead
to be raced this coming toll or wait
until he was a three-year-old, and
decided on the latter, she sat at
the end of the table, feeling all her
elation dying down. Thunderhead's
success began to seem very remote
?indeed, unlikely. No. The odds
were, nothing would come of it. The
colt had, apparently, run a half
mile faster than it had ever been
run before. Could that be true?
According to recorded runs, yes.
But there were many colts in the
world besides those who ran in races
?many colts who had been clocked
on makeshift tracks like this one
who might have?must have, broken
records, and yet, for one reason or
another, never were heard of. WhyT
Things happened. They got hurt, or
stale, or proved a flash in the pan,
or unmanageable?
"For you see," said Charley, "we
know now he's got it in him. It's 1
there. But he's an unmanageable
brute. He can't be depended on.
He needs a lot of training and diaet- '
pline. Besides, he hasn't got his
growth yet. In another year, whan
he s settled down, he ll be unbeat
able!"
He gave Ken's back a resotmcHnf
whack! "Young fellah, me lad,
you'll have a winner! How*fl it feel
to be the famous owner of a fa minis
horse?"
But Ken had a thought. *"Bua
pose," he said lugubriously, "see grt
him all trained for a race, sad than
he runs away and we aaart fad
him?"
Rob glanced at Ken, flies at Han.
His expression was sardonic. "Ken,
you take after your mother more
than any boy has a right ta."
Nell's eyes met Rob's ? and
clashed again. She looked down and
finished her sliced peaches. What
was the matter with hint H wasn't
only the quarrel of last light?that
had left him hard and cold toward
her, but now he was is a state
had been all evening- tear since?
ever since?yes, ever sines he ar
rived at the race track in that ridicu
lous cart?what had he been doing
before?Oh, yes, he went out on
Gypsy?went out on Gypey to see
Bellamy and ask if he was going
to take the lease again this fall? 1
Ah!
She put down her spoon and sat
motionless, staring a hole through
the table?her mind rushed forward.
Charley was shouting that with a
horse of such potential value as
Thunderhead, they would never
dream of putting him out on the
range that winter?
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uJ^U^?|mproved--UL-.JU
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sunday i
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST. D
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chics to.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Lesson for August 28 '
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts ?*
lecied and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used hy
permission.
JACOB ADJUSTS PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS
LESSON TEXT?Genesis 33:111. 1730
GOLDEN TEXT?Let us therefore fol
low after the things which make for peace.
?Romans 14:19.
Eventually a man's past catches
up with him and he must face his
own record. The Bible says, "Be
sure your sin will find you out"
(Num. 32:23), and it always does.
Jacob, who had tricked and de
ceived his brother and had fled into
a far country, ultimately had to re
turn to his homeland and face Esau.
The story of what happened makes
up our dramatic and instructive les
son.
Before Jacob could be permitted
to enter the Promised Land of his
father, he had to meet God. He
needed a thoroughgoing transforma
tion of life and attitude, and he re
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sv dj tie winvieu wiin uog
at Peniel (Gen. 32).
Ultimately the stubborn man had
to yield, and then "he found that it
was God who had come to give him
a great blessing. How often do we
fignt against the goodness and mer
cy of God. Yielding brings bless
ing; Jacob "the supplanter" became
Israel "prince with God." He was
now ready for
I. Reconciliation (w. 1-7).
After living for 20 years in horror
of meeting Esau, Jacob now learned
that his brother was coming against
him with an army. He resorted to
clever strategy, but this time it was
done not in sly crookedness, but in
an open friendly effort to win his
brother's good will.
? There is nothing wrong about the
use of a tactful approach, and it
really worked for Jacob. His cour
tesy was shown by his seven bows.
His bravery appeared in going out
first. His conciliatory attitude
showed in his rich gift to his brother.
Then came a surprise. Esau
proved to be a loving brother rather
than a hated enemy. Blood does
count, and men do well to respond
to the promptings of their hearts to
be affectionate toward their breth
ren.
M-l. T ?- ? __?? ?
nuic ?ibcoo 8 priae in presenting
his family. God had blessed him
and he rejoiced in his fine children.
The scene is typically Oriental, but
it shows an attitude toward one's
family which we could well emulate.
Next, a very practical note en
tered into the reconciliation of the
brethren, namely:
n. Restitution (w. 8-11).
The gift which Jacob had prepared
for Esau was in the Oriental tradi
tion, and yet it bore also the na
ture of a restoration of something of
that which Jacob had taken from
Esau in defrauding him of his birth
right.
There is a place for proper resti
tution in every case where we have
wronged another by taking his pos
sessions or destroying his opportu
nities to prosper. Becoming a
Christian is a forgetting of those
things which are behind (Phil. 3:13)
in a spiritual sense, but not in the ig
noring of our obligations to others.
What we can make right we must
make right if we want God's bless
ing.
Esau was generous and did not
want the gift, but since it would have
been an affront to his brother to
refuse, he accepted it. There are
proprieties in life and little courte
sies to be observed. Failure at this
point has created much friction even
between believers. Being a Christian
should make one gentlemanly and
ladylike. Let's remember that I
Then, too, Jacob was wise in put
ting Esau under the friendly obliga
tion which is inherent in the accept
ance of a gift. Those who are stingy
and close-fisted about aivina tn nth.
in often find that their lack of gen
erosity haa reflected in their lack of
friends.
The time haa come for the broth
ers to part, and we And Jacob fall
ing into his old trickery as he pre
pares to
III. Return (w. 17-20).
The portion between verses 11 and
17 indicate that instead of going on
n straightforward dealings with
Esau, Jacob resorts to evasion in
jrder to be free to go where he
would in his return to his fatherland.
Instead of going back to Bethel
he place of blessing (Gen. 28), to
which Jacob had been called (Gen.
11:11-18), he went to Succoth and
iltimately to the outskirts of Shech
im where his family fell into great
tin. Ultimately, God did get him \
jack to Bethel (Gen. 3S), but only
ifter much sorrow and suffering.
Jacob was called to Uve the life
if a shepherd out in the fields with
sod, and when he pitched his tent ;
tear Sbecbem be compromised and
ost out.
The incident pictures the tragic re
mit of such folly in our day. Those
rbo will not move over into the
i-orldly life want to be close enough
o it so that their children may have
he cultural and educational advan
ages, and soon they And that they
lave lost their children to the world
ind have lost the savor of their own
piritual experience.
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FEDERAL PATRONAGE
SHOWS BIG ADVANCE
POLITICALLY SPEAKING the
meaning of patronage is the right of
nomination to public office. To what
extent patronage has grown in but
a few years is demonstrated by the
amount of the federal government
civil administrative payrolls, tha
pay of those employed In govern
ment bureaus. In 1939, the total of
all such payrolls was $1,613,400,000;
by 1943 that total had increased to
$8,328,000,000. Of that 1943 total$612,
800,000 was paid to employees in
Washington. The remainder of that
more than $6,000,000,000 total went
to the army of federal employees in
the several states. In New York state
federal civil employees received in
IM
1943 *639,700,000, as against $171,100,?
000 in 1939; in California in 1943 the
amount was $559,600,000 as against
$89,700,000 in 1939. .
In only one state, New Hamp
shire, was a decrease shewn bp
a drop to $8,344,000 In 194$
from $9,900,000 in 1939. It is
generally considered that jobs
represent votes. Tammany, In
tbe old days, flgnred each Job
was good for an average of
eigbt votes.
MORTGAGE ON WEALTH TO
REACH K of TOTAL
Your house and its furnishings;
the local store, its building, fixtures
and stock; your farm, its buildings,
stock and machinery; your car, and
all other tangible property are all
a part of the 385 billion dollar value
of the total wealth of the nation.
That same total includes all the util
ities; the forests and mines; the
railroads and industrial plants,
large and small. ,
According to figures compiled
by the Northwestern National
Life Insurance company all of
this $85 billion doUars of tangi
ble wealth Is mortgaged today
for more than two-thirds of that
total value by oar government,
federal, state and local, to cov
er government indebtedness,
which we most pay. State and
local Indebtedness amonnts
to 15 billion. The remainder of
that two-thirds is federal indebt
edness. The sum is so large
that it Is meaningless to any
of us until we realise what It
means to ns as individuals. Bo
fore the war ends the mort
gage covering government In
debtedness will represent more
than three-fourths of all the tan
gible property we own.
0 0 _0
A TRAGEDY IN THE LIFE of the
nation that occurred 80 years ago, in
April of 1865, the assassination of
President Lincoln, had a direct con
nection with the introduction of an
innovation in travel comfort for
the American people. George M.
Pullman had built what, for that
time, was a luxurious sleeping car.
The floor of that car was wider than
what was then standard railway
equipment; too wide to be used with
station platforms and some railroad
bridges. The roads would not con
sider making the needed changes to
use the car. President Lincoln's
family and others of the funeral
party wished to use that car be
tween Chicago and Springfield. The
Chicago It Alton railroad hurriedly
altered its station platforms and
bridges to accommodate the new
car. The incident assured the adop
tion of the new Pullman cars, the
first trip of any one of which was
made between Chicago and Spring
field, on May 2, 1865.
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Regardless of who may oper
ate Industry there are tare ex
pease Hems that eome ahead of
labor. One Is taxes, which mast
be paid if the industry is al
lowed to continue, and the other
a, is material from which the
product is made. With this in
mind, International Harvester
offers a fair average example of
dictrihnHnn Ia I?Ka? TUJnaii?
the coat of taxes and materials
from its total receipts, labor re
ceived a fraction over 7t per
cent as Its share of all that
materials sad (overameat did
not take. Could government op
eration do a better Job for labor?
? ? ?
The cost of fresh vegetables has
jumped more on the West coast, and
especially in California, than in oth
er sections of the country. The head
of lettuce that was sold at from
3 to 9 cents now costs from 13 to 20
cents; the radishes that were two
bunches for a nickel arc now 10
cents a bunch. So it goes all through
the fresh vegetable line. The cause
is the elimination of the Japs. They
were the truck gardeners. Now that
white men have taken over, our
American scale on which they live
does not permit of Jap prices.
? ? ? ?
NAZI ISM, FASCISM, Communism
and other isms, such as those of
Spain, China and Japan, are all one
and the same thing, totalitarianism.
They mean dictatorship; a bureauc
racy-planned government under
which the individual is subservient
to the state. There will be mora
of It throughout the world before
there ia less. Much of the Increase
will be fostered by Russia. It will
not be forced so much as it will be
accepted by war satiated peoples.
Our margin of escape was not too
wide.
"
! SEW1ISC CIRCLE PATTERNS
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: Simple, E asily Made School Frock
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YOU'LL like this nicely tailored
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lines give that look o( well groom
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it with short or three-quarter
sleeves?whichever you prefer.
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Pattern No. 8889 la designed for sizes 14,
16. 18. 20: 40. 42. 44 and 46. Size 18. abort
sleeves, requires 3^ yards of 39 or 38
lnch fabric.
School Girl's Frock
HEBE is a charming school
(rock (or the grade school
crowd. She'll like the sweetheart
neckline, short puffed sleeves and
gay bow. Easy to make?mother
can run it up in no time.
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Pattern No. 1389 la designed for sizes 6,
6, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 1%
yards of 39 or 30-Inch material.
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into the legs of a table facing a
wall, will prevent the table from
bumping the wall and marring it.
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Empty salt bags, after being
washed in hot suds, can be used
as individual shoe bags for stor
ing evening slippers. Or, they can
be slipped over shoes to be packed
for a journey.
A teaspoon of lemon juice added
to each quart of water in which
rice is cooked, will make the rice
whiter and more fluffy.
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Water hanging plants with ice
cubes to prevent spattering. But
do not place cube near center of
plant.
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Screens are comfortable, but
they don't afford much privacy.
Fool the neighbors. Paint the in
side of the screens with a thin
white enamel. You can see out but
they can't see in.
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To clean artifleial Sowers with
out using water, place them in a
paper bag with a handful of salt
and shake well.
Store peanut bntter in the re
frigerator where the oil will not
separate. The jar is kept upside
down until opened so the top but
ter will not become hard.
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current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few etf
the most popular pattern numbers.
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