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? W.M.U. riATVftitM TO STORY THUS FAR: Thunder Rend, Ahs only white horse over loaded m Smi Bar ranch, It evidently a throw Raoft te hit freat g raadtlre, a wild ital mm dale# the Alhino. Hit 14-year-old ?w, Ksa McLaughlla, ho pet ho wlU lume a famous racer. Thunder he ad, wry fait hot dlfflcult to handle, hat Show entered la a race meeting la Idaho. A aeenth before the races Thunder he ad ?teaks away aad >olnt a herd of wild tanas. He kills the Albino. Ken It ua htet Bo recover him. Boh McLaaghlla, BWs father, eeadt a speedy Ally, Teach and Co, to the track. la an early cold snap both Banner and Thaaderhead bites their herds to the ranch. Rob sashes Thaaderhead to the race track. CHAPTER XXVI A flashing glance of Rob's fierce Mae eyes paid tribute to Ken for this ago of understanding and honesty. "AO the same, Ken, we're commit ted to this and we can't turn back, ?either can Thunderhead turn back. It's too late. Remember, too, how aaucb depends on this." "What?" "Have you forgotten all the things yon were going to get for your another?" Ken winced. "Right now, with hospital expenses toeing us, believe me, if there's any monev in Thunderhead. we need it." Ken's mind began to turn and krist, looking in every direction for an escape for Thunderhead. Touch and Go had run in two races and had not shown in either, al though she had nearly been in the money in the second race. She had ane more chance, in the race which would follow the Greenway race that afternoon. But certainly she was nothing to count on now. "And," went on Rob, "remember the things you were going to do for the ranch. Wooden fences. Clear off the debts." "I know." "Are you going to turn tall and be a quitter now at the last moment just because Thunderhead is moon ing for his mares?" "But dad?it's just because?be cause?well, he never was like this to me before. He always stared at me, and did things to me, aimed a kick or bite at me, you know. I always had to watch him. But he's changed. He was glad to see me this morning?glad! He?he?" "What did he do?" "Well, he just put his head in my aims and leaned against me the way ha always did with mother, as it I was the only friend he had in the mrld?and gave a' kind of a little mumbling grunt, you know the anund as if it enmes richt out of his heart." Rob was silent and could not raise his eyes to look at his boy. At last he said, "Ken, you've got ? divided loyalty here. And there's aothing tougher than that. Which ever way you turn you hurt your aeif and someone else too. This hap pens to people often and it'll be a good experience for you. Are you going to stick to your plan to make money for the ranch and for all our ?eeds?your own too, don't forget ?hat?the money that's needed for your education and Howard's?Are you going to carry on with what you'ye started ? what we've all worked for for three years? Or are you going to?well, not exactly quit, lut be deflected from your aim at Die last moment?" "Would that be wrong, dad?" "It would not be strong. Ken. I eould not admire such behavior. It wouldn't be manly. Sometimes, in Ife, you have to choose a course lhat is right and pursue it even if II hurts some innocent party." Ken did not answer. Rob finished Iris breakfast, laid down knife and tork and pushed his plate away. "When Dickson gets on that horse ffiis afternoon I want you to be puli ng for them both with all your heart." Ken's face began to burn. Visual king Thunderhead prancing out with Dickson on his back, he couldn't do anything but pull for him! The idea ?f any other horse beating Thun derhead 1 "And remember this, Ken, al fcough right now Thunderhead's got Ins mind on other things than rac ing, and he's sulking, yet he's been trained for a race horse. It's in his Mood now. And after a little of it, Diis life will become his true life." Ken's eyes lifted to his father's with a deep probing question. "Hon estly, dad? As much as his wild life weald be?" Rob hedged. "Well, Ken, you twnw how I feel about horses. I al ways have the regret that when we lake them for our own ends and make artificial lives for them, we deprive them of their true and nat ural and self-sufficient lives. But fecse would not always be neces sarily better lives, in terms of the Dorse's well-being and happiness." This made Ken thoughtful. Rob was getting impatient. He called fee waiter and paid the check. A glance at Ken showed him that the hoy was still in a state of indeci sion. He leaned across the table. "listen!" Ken looked up. There was a dif ferent tone in his father's voice and a different look on his face. "You're going to make your deci ?on right now. Ken, and then stick IS "Me?" "Tea. Be a man. It's your horse. ? you want him taken away from the race course without making a try, why it's up to you!" "Is it, really, dad?" "Sure it is." But there was a sharp, contemptuous look in Rob's eyes. "Make your choice!" He leaned back and took out his pipe and lit it, then looked around as if he had no further interest in the sub ject. The decision leaped up in Ken, ready-made. He said, suddenly, "He'll run. And he'll win." The words went through Rob like the twang of a string and caused him the emotion he always felt when one of his boys took a stride toward manhood. His hand came down on Ken's arm and squeezed it. The other hand reached for his hat. "Come on, son! We'll go out and see to getting Thun derhead's shoes changed." They walked out to the stables to gether, and if anything more had been necessary to crystalize Ken's determination, it was the remark his father made as they reached Thun derhead's stall. "Of course, Ken, if he doesn't win, and if we have to take him back, you realize I can't have him around the ranch any more. I'll have to sell him for any thing I can get?and that means gelding him first." Ken came to a dead stop. "But dad! I'd get him off the ranch. He'd go back to his valley!" "But he wouldn't stay," said Rob simply, "and sooner or later he'd get in a fight with Banner?and, well ?you know what that means. You saw?" Thunderhead did not like Dickson, and came out of the stall fighting. The rest of the field were off and away on the two-mile race while Dickson was still trying to shake the bit out of Thunderhead's teeth and head him in the right direction. The stallion went up onto his hind lets. Ken, standing close against the fence in front of the grandstand, leaned down and thrust his head be tween the bars. The blood came up into his face as he saw the fight Thunderhead was putting up. The field was way ahead already. Stag horn and Bravura, the two likeliest winners, running in the lead, five oth ers bunched against the rail behind them, and three outclassed contend ers trailing hopelessly. Thunderhead stood in the same place, whirling and plunging. Dickson lashed him unmercifully, and, as always, the fury engendered in the horse by this conflict mounted and finally explod ed, releasing him from the complex of his inhibitions and flinging him into his smooth running gait. Ken straightened up, drenched in the sweat of relief. But the field was already sweeping around the turn into the back stretch. The grand stand fell into a sudden breath-hold ing silence as the white stallion hit his pace, running, as it always seemed with Thunderhead, in the air, propelled by one lightning-quick hoof-thrust after the other, the un believable power of which kept him hurtling forward at a speed which was rapidly diminishing the distance between himself and the rest of the field. Dickson rode with mouth open and a look of dumb amazement, and as Ken glanced around him, he saw this expression mirrored on a hun dred faces. The horses swept around the track. Thunderhead passed the taii-end ers, gradually overtook the next group and at the head of the home stretch passed them too. At that, the grandstand came out of its stu por and a low, sustained sound burst from it. Thunderhead was pulling up on the leaders, then was abreast of them, then passed them. At this, the grandstand rose, swayed, and burst into a roar, fluttering hands and programs and hats. Thunderhead wavered and stopped, his flaring, white-ringed eyes and sharply pricked ears turned nerv ously to this strange hearing moun tain to the right of him. At Dick son's yell and the shaking of the bit in his mouth, the stallion went up onto his hind legs.. Bravura and Staghorn rushed past, beginning the second lap of the race. "Whip him, Dickson! Beat hell out of him!" Ken's voice, cracking with strain, reached Dickson from the crowd. Dickson cast one hope less glance toward Ken as Thunder head whirled and plunged, and a wave of the jockey's empty right hand showed that he had lost his whip. Ken's open mouth closed without another sound and his face paled. Dickson pulled oil his cap and beat it from side to side on Thunder head's neck. Other horses passed him, streaming along the rail. Sud denly Thunderhead plunged forward, and again Ken was weak with relief. He unclenched his Angers slowly. Little bleeding scars were in the palms of his hands. It was all right now?Thunderhead had passed them once, he could do it again. D..4 rni_. i s a ? ? ?-* ?' uui i uuuuerneaa naa no mienuon of doing it. All he wanted, appar ently, was a good spot in which to show everyone what he was going to do to this rider whom he didn't want on his back. Angling across the empty track, he floated over the inner rail, galloped to the center, leaped into the air, corkscrewing, came down with feet like four steel pistons?rocked a couple of times, and had no need to do more. For Dickson was making one of those slow curves through the air that Ken had made, times without number. Free of his rider, Thunderhead de cided to join in the race. He floated over the rail again?and the beau tiful easy leap drew a gasp from the grandstand?and then he started to overtake the field. Again it grew like an orchestral crescendo?the roar of the grandstand?until the white horse closed the distance be tween himself aod the rest of the field. Thunderhead did not know when to stop. He floated on when the race was over and the winner pro claimed and the other horses were walking back into the paddock. At tendants ran out on the track and tried to stop him. That angered him. He dodged them, sailed over the outer rail and away into the dis tance, the little stirrups dangling and tapping at his sides. When Thunderhead vanished be yond the grove of willows south of the race track. Ken fought through ] the crowd behind him. under the grandstand out at the back and around the west end of the track. He ran as fast as he could, keeping his eye on that little dip in the wil lows through which Thunderhead had disappeared. Half a mile away the white stal lion stood quietly. When Ken whis tled for him, he turned his head, then trotted toward his young mas ter. As he came up, Ken looked at him bitterly. "You fool! You've thrown away the only chance you had in the world!" Thunderhead stopped, recognizing something other than approval in Ken's voice. "You could have done ttl Easy as pie! And now you've spoiled ev erything!" There was a tremor in Ken's voice as he finished, and he said nothing more, but mounted the horse and rode him slowly back, circling the track to reach the sta bles. As he did so, he heard by the roar from the grandstand that another race was in progress, and drew rein on a little elevation and turned in the saddle just in time to see the horses flash over the finish line?a bright golden sorrel with blond tail a good length in the lead. Touch and Go! He had entirely forgotten that she was running! And now she had won! A flood of joy al ternated with the feeling that it could _ Meaiklu he truo UUI twaoii/i; wr*- ?*wv< Ken galloped Thunderhead to the stablea, not dismounting to open gates, but jumping every one. Ha put the stallion in his stall, called to one of the stable boys to attend to him, and ran back to the raca track.. He was in time to hear the an nouncement over the loud-speaker. "Winner, Touch and Go, of the Goose Bar stables. Owner, Kenneth McLaughlin." Ken stood still a moment. This was what victory felt like?Then he dashed forward. Ha wanted to get his hands on Touch and Go and sea if she was really still herself. Perry Gunston had her in the pad dock. A blanket had been thrown over her, and around her was a crowd of men. Rob McLaughlin was talking to old Mr. Greenway, and he called Ken to him and said, "I want you to meet Mr. Greenway. This Is my son, Mr. Greenway, the owner and trainer of the Ally." As Ken put out his hand be heard an eager little whinny behind him. Mr. Greenway exclaimed, "You don't say! You don't lay! And I : hear you trained the white stallion : too. But you'll never have any ; luck with him, my boy, too (inde pendable." I The whinny came again and Ken i longed to go to her. "Mr. Greenway has hut bought , Touch and Go, Ken." I "Bought her!" do aa uMtiMiuuH ' . - II LI 1 ,|MpROVEDul>,""? UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L LUNDQU1ST. D. D. Of Tha Moody BibU Institute of Chicago. Releasad by Western Nawspapar Unloo. Lesson for November 18 ttNoa iub]ecu and Scrlpturt teiti aa lac ted end copyrighted by International Council of Rellsloue Education; uaed by panniaalon. THE OUTREACH OF THE CHURCH LESSON TEXT; Acta 11:21-30; 12:30. 19. 13:1-4. GOLDEN TEXT: And He eatd unto them. Go ye into all the world, and preach the roe pel to every creature.?Mark 19:19. A church that is spiritually aliva will be misfionary-minded. What seemed like unfortunate persecution of the early Church (Acts 8:4; 11: 19) proved to be a blessing, for like flying embers from a beaten flre, these believers lighted many new fires as they were scattered abroad. The ministry by Philip in Sa maria was paralleled by that of others in Phenice, Cyprus, and now in Antioch. That great city was not far from Jerusalem, but it was far from Gotl. A mighty city, rich in trade, it was also deep in all kinda of sin. But (here it pleased God to Mtahlish a arpat rpntpr nf Christian testimony. God loves to do new things (see, (or example. II Cor. 9:17; Isa. 43:19; Ps. 33:3; Rev. 21:5). 1. A New Fellowship (11:21-23). The Antioch church was a living witness. "The hand of the Lord was with them"; little wonder that "a great number believed and were turned to the Lord." Your church and mine might learn much from the church at Antioch. The genius of Christianity is fel lowship. Those who have a religious belief which makes them exclusive ?not willing to fellowship with other Christians ? do not truly represent their Lord. When the church at Jerusalem ' heard the good news, they sent Bar nabas to help the new converts and to establish fellowship. He was the ideal man to send, for " 'he was a good man.' It is far more important that a man be good than that be be brilliant if he is to edify young converts. He was 'full of the Holy Ghost.' He was also 'full ui laiui, ana wunoui mai no man need undertake the work of instruct ing and developing young converts. He was free from the love of gold (4:36, 37). "He was free from personal ambition and jealousy in his work (w. 29, 29). He was very sharp eyed to see the sincerity and prom ise of a yoong convert (9:27)." Into this new fellowship of life and service- the gracious -and gener ous Barnabas brought a new evan gelist ? Saul, God's prepared man for this hour. n. A New Nsme (11:29-30). Christian, the beautiful name of those who follow Christ, was first used at Antioch. It may have held a measure of contempt (see Acts 29:28; I Pet. 4:19), but it was a re markably suitable name for those who had come out of paganism now to live, amid their old surroundings, a new life, a separated life, the Christ life. This name "combines Jewish thought with Greek and Latin lan guage, and thus, like the inscription on the cross, bears witness to the universality of Christianity as a re ligion for the whole world. The idea of 'Christ' (Messiah) is Jewish; the substantive 'Christ' (Christoe) is Greek, and the adjectival termina tion 'ian' (-tanas) is Latin. . . This new name was intended to in troduce and mark the difference be tween Jews and Gentiles on the one Hfanri inH thnw who orKatKar Tama or Qen tiles, were (ollowera of Jet us ; Christ. . . . The term 'Christian' evidently points to the person of Christ, and to those who are asso ciated with Him as His followers. It implies and involves union and close association with Christ" (W. H. Grif fith Thomas). Those believers at Antioch not only bore the name, they practiced the life of Christ. They gave of their means, "every man according to his abilities," to meet the need of their new-found Jewish brethren in Judea. III. A New Vision (12:24, 23; 13: 1-4). Little wonder that in such a church "the word of God grew and multi plied" (cf. 11:21). But the believers were not content to settle back at ease and enjoy that fellowship. Their precious church was simply the center from which they reached out to the heathen world around them. Every army must have a home base. Just so, the army of the Lord looks to the home church, the local gathering of Cod's people. An army would fail if those at the base of its action were asleep, or so interested, in the pleasures of this world, or so indifferent to their responsi bility, that they would not work hard in support of the active army. So the cause of Christian missions can not go ahead if it must depend on a home church which is spiritually asleep, indolent, indifferent, and worldly-minded. The church at Antioch prayed and fasted. It ministered the Word of God. It was responsive to the guid ance of the Holy Spirit and ready to sacrifice by giving its leaders to the missionary cause. Is your church that kind of church? llfJlom* ^ouut fopotiUti Ft WASHINGTON ty Wah?r Stead WNVCmfMM WNU Washington Buroau. 14It If! St. M. W. The Little Red Schoolhouse Is Out of Step With the Times Celebration of the first anniver sary of the White House conference on rural education, in October, served to bring into focus again the shortcomings and problems of rural education in the country schools. Moreover it has brought to the fore once again the long-standing debate over the merits of the one-room, one-teacher school, versus the con solidated country school. There is, however, one fact that proponents of both the one-room school and the consolidated school can agree on, and that Is the rural youth of the nation is not getting an even break with his city cousin in the matter of education. With this in mind, a 24-point pro gram for improvement of rural edu cation has been drawn up for a long range fight for adoption by federal, state and local school authorities. Tki. 1. ?<f?a t? 1 -J 4uu ?o cui cuuii iu wins rural cuu cation up to a higher level to give the boys and girls of rural communi ties the type of education they need and the most education possible in the rural public schools of the na tion. Dr. Howard A. Dawson of Arkan sas, director of the rural services of the National Education association, at a recent press conference here announced that shortly after the first of the year nine regional conferences on rural life and education will be held in various sections of the coun try. Representatives of farmers, business, labor and educational groups will participate in an effort to stimulate greater interest in the program. Country Schoola Nood Holp Here are some vital statistics and facts which become problems before any gathering of rural school au thorities: Farmers have 11 per cent of the children and only II per cent of the national Income, so there Is a need for greater state and federal financing as aids to local adminis tration at rural schools. Rural school teachers average ap proximately $959 per year in salary as compared to an average of $1,955 for elty teacher*, so city schools are able to obtain better teachers. There are 54.M* school teachers as* working under emergency cer tldcates who are net qualified to teach, and two-thirds of them are in rural schools. Rural school districts are too small and should be enlarged to pro vide increased resources and to de crease administrative costs. Of the 189,063 rural school build ings, 108,000 are of the one-teacher variety and one recommendation of the White House conference is that schools should be consolidated wher ever distances, topography and the best interests of the children and of community life permit, which, by the war. Is a manner of straddling the question of whether the one-roofn or the consolidated school is for the best interest of the children. Enrollment in teachers' colleges, the source from which school teach ers are obtained, has dropped 80 per cent during these war years. As a result, 380,000 of the nation's 900,000 teachers are new to their jobs, and, whereas city schools have been able to maintain staffs because of high er salaries paid, country schools ara bearing the brunt of the shortage. Bigger, Better High Sehoel* It Is potntfd out that the curricu lum established by the state boards of education in many states varies little in the city and country schools. It is a matter of common sense there is a vast difference In the edu cational needs of country children and those who live in cities. So one of the problems is for a course of study particularly fitted to the needs of the rural youth, and a staff of teachers who have the kind and quality of preservice education which will Qualify them to teach in rural schools as contrasted to city schools. The NEA believes also that there can be no adequate high school edu cation in any rural high school where enrollment is less than 300 pupils. There can be no adequately formu lated high school program which will give this student a well-rounded education where there are only a few students; there can be no school morale or spirit, nor can interest of the student in the teen ages be maintained through four years of high school work in small high schools, educators believe. 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