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m ITOBT THUS PAB: Thunder iMi h the Mly white horse mr fooled % mm Hw Goose Bar roach la Wyoming. Ho ?mumbles his creot grand sire, a wild r known as the AlMua. His IS year-old owner, Kea McLaughlin, hopes Thaadnhisi will develop lata a race hone because of his reasarkahle speed. lSwinlisd is diHcutt to hoodie however, aad piaas for catering hlas la mm mm race aeetiaf are uncertain. ?smskill Boh McLaughlin, Ken's fa Bw, haviaf to raise some cash for Kea awd Howard's tuition aad other hills, kadi M horses into a trailer aad drives he the auction at Denver, Colo. Kob gets poor prices. He gets acquainted with CBisy, an eastern horse huysr. CHAPTER XVI "I'D sell them at Doc Horner's auction, in Setonville, Pennsylva "When?" "He has two sales a year, one in the third week of September, one in May." "Do you expect to make a profit au them?" The man grinned. "I sure will. Those are fine horses." "Do fine horses bring prices at Horner's sales?" "I go around buying up horses at country auctions. I collect a car load of them a couple of times a year and sell them there." The man reached into his pocket and brought ?ut a bunch of cards. He shuffled (hem through, picked out one and gare it to Rob. "And they do bring prices. That's a hunting communi ty. And polo. Horsey, you know? people of wealth. Horner collects realty good stuff and they bring good prices." "What will you get for those horses you bought?the two blues, for fcstance?" The man shrugged. "It's pretty hard to say. There's always an element of gamble in horse-trading you know?but that's a nice little pair?they'd be nice for a couple ef little girls?so gentle and pret W "Yes. How much?" "I'd be surprised if -1 got less than four hundred for the pair?if Jot the right buyer is there, six hundred." "And big geldings? Polo ponies?" "Ah?those are the ones you real V get prices for. I've seen a polo pony?experienced, you understand ?bring two thousand dollars. But ?tat's not every day." "You must know, in round fig ures. about what it costs to ship horses from this district to Penn sylvania?say two carloads?about twenty-tour horses to a car." They did some figuring. It would cost in the neighborhood of five or aix hundred dollars. Howard had two new suits. Rob McLaughlin always said, "Get them clothes that will show every spot?that'll learn 'em!" One of the suits was a dark blue arrge guaranteed to show every spot. It was double-breasted. When A was on Howard, buttoned around tim, he was hardly bigger than a young tree, but Ken felt his dignity j aid was awed. The other suit was a silvery gray ?weed; very becoming to Howard's I 1 slick black hair and good color. Both hays had fine skins; smooth, honey- , tan and rosy. Both had blue eyes, hut here was the difference?the | changing shadows of Ken's, the ] ?right, unwavering stare of How- , ard's. ] Ken stared at Howard's new tan oxfords. They looked like his fa- , tier's. How could they be so big! | ?Te?an? wviiM llAtunrrl Ko CO toll? ITnn stood in the middle of the room on me leg, breathing heavily. How mild there have come, . suddenly, hh fcreat difference between him self and Howard, so that he felt re spectful? He looked down at him arif. He was too small to count. WeB, Howard had only done this shooting up in the last year?there ?as still time. The most impressive moment was when Howard put on the Fedora hat. The nearly six feet of his slender height had done nothing to his head ami face. The head was so small ysa wondered at it up there, and ?a face was the face of a little boy. tapped by the Fedora hat?I Nell had to turn away to hide her laugh ter. Ken began, to feel very close to ?a with Howard 'gofng' aw'iy like * ?as. The Fedora?the long blue suit ?the huge Oxfords?life was an enormous hollow to the right side of Mas. It was as big as the world. It was gray and filled with darker gray clouds, swirling about. Often he tnrned his head and looked into a Howard going away to West ntatl Well, almost West Point. He'd learn how to walk the West Not walk. All their lives it had been fun?it had been an exciting aha* to get their father to walk the Weal Point walk for them. When they begged him to do it and at M he paid no attention and then suddenly stood up and then stepped < out, it always struck them dumb. Tau could feel something at the rafts of your hair. At times he had tried ta teach it to them?right foot aad left arm and shoulder forward? left foot and right arm and shoulder farward?the knees lifted high (just Isr practice) feet going in a circle He the curving trot of a horse. But it was like trying to command the wobbling leg* of young colts. When they went to the movies 1 and. In the newsreel, saw the shot 1 of the West Pointers marching, they I strained to catch the details of the walk before it was flashed off. Howard had an odd walk. He slouched. When he tried to stiffen i up and do it correctly he had a lit- 1 tie jerk. It wasn't smooth. "What'll they say about that?" 1 asked Ken anxiously. Rob roared, startlingly, "There gees McLaughlin bouncing in line!" This was the last straw for Ken. It removed Howard utterly. At in- . tervals during the day, the words rang in his ears, there goes Mc Laughlin bouncing in line. He wasn't even Howard any more. He was McLaughlin. And he was in the line! To save expense, Howard was to I go east with the shipment of horses i his father was taking to Dr. Hor- . ner's sale. The railroad allowed one man to each carload of horses, free of charge. There were to be two carloads. Every horse on the ranch, three years old and up, was to go, 1 and a few of the twos who had had I enough training. In all, forty-eight ! horses. Howard sat talking to his father in i the den, one ankle hanging across the other knee just as his father did , it. "Dad, how about selling High boy to help out with my tuition?" "Good idea, son." Taggert was to go. She was a , good polo player. GypSy," Flicka, , Thunderhead and Touch And Go , would be enough to keep for the | "There's always so element of (ambling In horse trading, yon know?" family. In the spring there would be a new crop of two-year-olds. The days went by for Nell in mis ery and confusion. Hob had not for given her. Indeed, since the auc tion, when he had sacrificed some of bis best stock for a few hundred dollars, he had been, she said to herself, fit to be tied. She tried to think it out. Had she done anything so terrible that she must be punished like this? The thing she had done?her criticism of him?had shattered the illusion that he was perfect in her eyes, and a man pf his. pride and self-confidence simply could not take it. Most of the. time, when he looked at her, his [ace bad an expression of sardonic animosity. Occasionally it was worse than that?it was like a blow. And all the love and tenderness was gone. One night, before going to bed, she went into Ken's room for a mo ment. He lay on his back in the moon-flooded room, the sheet thrown iff, the pillow on the floor. He was spread-eagled ? arms and legs hrown wide. His breath came even ly. The top button of his pajama lacket was fastened. From there it was drawn away by the twist of his body exposing the thin, bare, [rail-looking torso of a child. -The legs of bis pajamas had slid up, one toot hung limp over the edge of the Ded. His face was blissful, his lips part ed in an ecstatic smile! Dreaming if Thunderhead, thought Nell, as she gently turned, straightened him, replaced the pillow and drew up Ihe sheet. It did not wake him, he nad felt these hands since his birth. He made a murmurous sound, rolled m his side, drew up his knees, gave 1 i deep sigh and was instantly quiet again?breathing deeply and regu larly. Nell went on down the hall to Howard's room. There was a line if light under his door. Howard was standing half naked, examining lis physique in the small mirror iver his chiffonier. "Howard! Why aren't you In led?" "Gee, Mother! I was just stand ng here a minute?" His voice dipped down to bass and they both aughed and it slipped again. "How's your muscle?" asked NeO. He flexed his arm. "Feel it, moth er! What do you think? I was won dering if I was getting a little bit muscle-bound." She 'squeezed the small egg of his muscle and looked solemnly at him. His shoulders were narrow, his I smooth chest very childish, his ribs stood out bravely over a little waist she could almost have clasped with her hands. But she had to reach up to slip her arm around his neck. He gave her a shy, naked hug and she laid her cheek against his. "What do you think?" he insisted. "No?I wouldn't call you muscle bound. Howard?go to bed. You must get your sleep." On the day before the departure Rob, with Howard and Ken as flank riders, took the horses over to Tie Siding and penned them in the load ing corrals there. Not a horse on the Goose Bar ranch but knew what was happening. Next day the horses were loaded. Rob led them up the ramp one by one, reassured them with his voice, put them in their places. They were sardined in?head to tail, alternate ly, tightly enough to support them and hold them steady when the train was moving. At certain stations there would be long enough stops for the horses to be taken out, fed, watered, walked around. Nell watched them go up the gang way. Taggert, Highboy, Pepper, Hi dalgo, Cheyenne, Tango, Injun, and a lot of others. If things had been different between her and Rob perhaps she wouldn't have felt so terribly. It seemed like an end ot things. Rob and Howard were dressed in bluejeans' for the trip. When the horses were loaded and the big doors closed, Rob came to stand beside her near the car. He was very qui et, almost distrait. There had been no shouting. His thoughts were all lor the horses?he hardly seemed aware of her there beside him. "I often wonder," he said medi tatively, "if we should ever have anything to do with animals or ever do anything for them. We make them helpless. Without us, they take care of themselves so well, but when we have once taken charge of them they depend more and more on us, and what do we do but harm to them? And yet they look at us so trustingly." Nell found no words to answer. She was wondering if in the moment ot goodby his hard shell would crack. Would there be, when he put his arm around her and held her against him while he kissed her, any reassurance, any promise, any warmth? Rob and Howard were to ride in the day coach next to the freight cars in which were the horses. While they waited they all stood near the steps of this car. The brakemen were attending to the last business they had in the station. Up front, the engineer was hanging out of his cab window. He waved his arm, and at the call "All a-bo-oard!" goodby kisses were exchanged and Rob and Howard went into the car. As Rob bent his head for the kiss his eyelids bad covered his eyes. The kiss was as cold as a knife. But when he had taken his place in the car with Howard, while Howard and Ken grinned and waved at each ether, through the window, mouthing words, he did look at Nell and meet ler eyes. And it was one of those lard looks by which he served no tice on her that she had offended dm and was not forgiven. Eat something, said Nell to her telf, as if she were speaking to a child. You'll feel better if you do. Ifou must. But she continued to stare' out the window, sitting in the arm chair in ler bedroom wrapped in her dark ilue robe,-hew feet drawn under her secause of the chill that Oiled the louse. There was no Ore on the learth and the bed was not made uid her hair was not brushed. It was one of those raw October lays that should be shut out by Ires and curtains and cheerful /oices. On some such days Nell worked furiously from dawn HI] lark, cleaned and mended and made lew curtains and counted and took mt and packed away and potted ge ranium slips and cleared the flower xirders. And there were other days when, if she moved at all, it was a wander listlessly, pausing at .ev ery window, wondering what she lad come into this room for, won iering if it was morning or after loon?what day of the month? Gus's heavy tread was on the itairs, coming slowly. He rapped on he door. "Come in!" "Bring you some wood, Missus." "Oh, I haven't used up what's lere." "You must have Are." "It's not very cold." Gus kneeled down, removed some if the ashes, laid and lit the Are, ind carefully brushed the hearth, ks he got to his feet he threw a ]uick glance at Nell. Her gaze was m the Are now, the lips of her soft mouth parted. There were dark hol lows under her eyes and her face looked both old and cMldish. Gus started to sptedt, hesitated, then came out with it. "How de Boss come out mit selling de horses, Missus?" (TO SB OOVaNUED) 'ffST b"J'd'11'IMPROVED1 " | UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson Lesson for September 9 L*eaoa subject* and Scripture text* ee- ] lected and copyrighted by international Council of Religious Education: used by permission. | A NATION GOD USED ~ LESSON TEXT?Gencall 41:4*41. GOLDEN TEXT?Ha bath given meat > unto tbem that fuar him: bo will cvar bo mindful of hla covenant.?Psaim 111:5. | Conservation of natural resource* | ?that phrase hat a modern touch to it, and yet we would do well to turn back to the story of Joseph In Egypt and learn anew the importance of not wasting what we have if we are to be fed in the days of shortage. Certain it is that we should face at once the shameful record of waste in the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. This is temperance Sunday. Let us not fall to stress this truth. Joseph recognized the provision of God and made use of it for His glory and the good of the people. I. Food?Gad's Provision (w. 48 49). As men work with God in the cul tivation of the land they are apt to begin to think of themselves as producers, when they are actually only the servants of the Lord in the orderly care of that which He pro vides. We need to renew our sense of complete dependence upon God lest we become proud of our own sup posed attainments and forget Him. ThM U. will L? i. HLL.1J I". ? ???? nm iiarc vu wiuuiuiu ma I bountiful hand and we shall stand , with empty measures. Remember, too, that what God | has given to feed the nstions cannot j with impunity be used for the menu- , facture of intoxicating beverages j which are designed and used for no , good purpose?only for destruction. t Let's not forget that God could send j us a famine, too! j The manner in which Joseph cared j for the gathering of the grain is 1 worth noting. He did not sit in his ] royal office and send out an edict. ] He went throughout the land build- i ing storehouses, seeing that the i grain was properly conserved. I We need more of that personal touch In government. Too much of i life is controlled by "directives" and "rules" with too little of the touch' , of human kindness and a personal j knowledge of the needs of the peo ple. Observe also the wisdom of stor ing the food in the place where it was raised and where it would eventually be needed. No shipping and re-shipping, no undue centraliza tion, and no temptation to form a special "grain bureaucracy." II. Family?God's Gift (w. 50-52). From among the Gentiles, Joseph took himself a bride. While It is not indicated, we have reason to as sume that she was a believer in the true God. One cannot imagine a man of Joseph's character and spir itual integrity marrying an unbe liever. The sons which came into the home were recognized as God's gift. Note how God was tainted into the life ?< ,1,... ? ?? -1? l v* w?w ww ui mo uuine. We spoke above about the need of conserving grain. Think now of the infinitely more important con servation of boys and girls. The liquor interests have used this war to create a taste for beer on the part of millions of young men and women, both in the armed serv- ( ices and in our war plants. They have broken down the objections and | the religious principles of many and we are almost at the point where one who objects is regarded as a foolish fanatic. O America cannot with impunity use her grain to make booze, do you think God will hold us guiltless if we stand idly by and let the rapacious breweries and distilleries take our boys and girls? It is high time that we awakened to our re sponsibility and stood up for our con victions, come what may I III. Famine ?God's Opportunity (w. 53-97). Now the time had come when God's word to Joseph was proved to be true. When His loyal servant stood before the world as the one 1 who was in touch with the infinite One, he had the food to give out because he had obeyed God's com mand. It is in the crises of .life that the ! things of God prove themselves. When man's hand drops in weak ness and despair, God steps in and ' does the abundant thing; that Is, if we are willing to recognize Him. There is another sense in which the coming of famine was God's op portunity, for it gave Him the chance He wanted to speak to men. In the days of plenty and prosperity mankind is self-sufficient and too busy to listen to God, but when there is no food to eat, he has time to ! bear God. One wonders, with a wonder that I is almost agonizing at times, wheth er America is going to force God to bring hunger of body to her children in order to make their hearts hun ger for Him. Will we wait to cry out to God until we have felt the sharp pangs of hunger, or will we by our obedience and gratitude of heart encourage Him to continue His abundance toward us? Reader, how do you feel in your own heart? UeleaaaC by Wasters Newspaper Uskrs. COMMUNITY SPIRIT ENCOURAGES GROWTH FOR THE COMMUNITY, whose >eople wish It to grow and prosper, >o one thing Is more essential than :omm unity spirit. The future of any own lies in the hands of all of its >eople, not in the hands of a few 'Georges" only. Each citizen must >ut his shoulder to the wheel of irogress, and do his or her part In pushing it forward. In the promotion ef a eommu-^ nity's Interests there most he a leader, some one, or group or Institution, that proposes for ward-looking steps. To he suc cessful that leader must have influence. The logical loader In most instances Is that commu nity institution, the home town newspaper. If it b the right hind of a newspaper it has in fluence. It can be, and Is in a position to mold public opinion. It reaches the community audi ence, and what it proposes should become a subject of dis cussion through its columns. No newspaper editor b always -ight. His proposals may be, and is a rule are, in line with commu nity progress, but there may be hose who object to what the editor las proposed. If he is conducting "the 'ight kind of a newspaper" he wel :omes to the discussion those who ire against as well as those who are 'or, and prints the letters from both is a means of community discus lion. Those whose letters to the iditor approve do so in a spirit of relpfulness. They display their will ??uvsa w uu iucu part ior wnai hey believe U a worthy commu lity enterpriae. They are not will Jig to sit back and let "George" :arry the load. Those who disap prove do so because they do not be ieve the proposal would serve the pest interests of the community, and they are fearful of the influence of the newspaper, and realize its op portunity to mold public opinion. Both those who approve and those who disapprove display that com munity spirit so essential to prog ress. The community that is lacking in leadership, or where there is not a willingness on the part of the citi zens to discuss proposed better ments, is a good place to "be from." It means a dying town in which the great majority of the citizens are but drones in the hive, who are un willing to show their colors, or to carry their part of the load. | The newspaper that does not have influence, or the .one that is pub lished in a place in whicb commu nity spirit is not alive, and cannot be aroused, will, in time, find a place in the newspaper cemetery. The newspaper with influence can be, and is, the institution best fitted for community leadership, but if it can not arouse and maintain recognition of that leadership, demonstrated by the response of the people to its proposals, it will fail in accomplish ing much for the community it wishes to serve. ? ? ? I LISTENED to a conversation be tween a state and a city official on the subject of taxes. The city official was insisting on an increase in the state sales tax, with a refund to the city or town of what the increase produced in each city or town. To such a proposition the state of ficial objected. It was the old, old story of an effort to pass the tax buck. If the state levied that in crease the state affleial weald pay the vets price, while the city weald cell est, indirectly, the deilar revenue. It repre sents an evil (rem which the American people have long suf fered. Our officials attempt to hide their own spendings behind an indirect tax levy. If each governing body had to directly account for what it spend* we might have a greater ef fort at economy. That Is true of federal as well as local government. ? ? ? IN A SMALL TOWN la a central state three men secured a corpora tion state charter for a manufactur ing concern capitalized at $3,900. They applied to the local bank for a loan of the $3,900 their charter called for as capital aaaets. The bank could not see an incorporation charter as ample security for such a loan, and the men were referred to the small business organization of the federal government. They se cured the loan. That is a sample of how we, as taxpayers, are financing new industries. Those three men have nothing to lose, but they may gain. The taxpayer does the gam bling. ? ? ? THE PURPOSE OF OUR CON STITUTIONAL government is to provide orderly processes that en able the people, as Individuals, to do for themselves. When we encour age mendacy, we destroy that pur pose. * * * The last congress did not vote a raise in the salaries of its members. That would not fit in with the peo ple's demands for economy. It mere ly voted to provide mors places for the family on the government payrolls. "1 SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Jumper-Jacket Ensemble for Fall Tot's Jumper and Matching Jacket Tlf^ i mm 1381 1242 Jumper and Jacket Ensemble SMART and very practical for fall is this well fitting jumper jacket ensemble. The jumper has the popular wide shoulders to ac cent a trim waistline. Wear it with tailored or frilly blouses or bright harmonizing sweaters. An ideal street costume with the jacket added. ? ? ? Pattern No. 1381 cornea in sizes 12. 14. It. It. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14. jumper, re quires 2'k yards of 30 inch materiel; jacket, lonf sleeves. 2Vs yards. 8910 24 yn. in s jumper ana V1CKPI JUST the thinf 'or a growing " youngster?an .adorable little jumper and jacket to match. 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