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Show SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS OH AR A w.n.u. r eatur ts MARY THUS FAS: Tfcudrr-fcud, commonly known as Ik Goblia, u kite horse ever bora Lhi the only Be (rows Sam Bar ruck U Wyemioi. eott to a powerful misshapen from yeariiagi rescHafcliSs' hi great crandsire n a ins mere every hi- jtaUioa called the Albino. One lay Goblia aaders tat a moan Uia valley, meets tbe Albiaa. ana harely escapee with kit life, waea kla wwudi are healed. Kea matt, be-HcLanfkUa, all (in to train him-- Goblin, althoach to haadle, occasionally submits, and rui wltk astonlshinf speed and endurance. Charley Sargent, millionaire korse breeder, tells Kea that Goblia mirht become a winnlnj racer. ' THE STOKY ! iiuun i ' dil-aea- lt CHAPTER XIV Ken brought his horse over the line as he had done before the tame, hard gallop, with the colt fighting his head and unwilling to obey. It m2de 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 bringing out something in the boy that bad 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. Thunderhead 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 eat 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 suddenly put her face into her hands. The beauty of it. The Ken sitting so still the victory at last the battle the faith the exhaustion the cuts and bruises and strains she had to bind up and now, Victory-S- he raised her head and looked again. Coming back up the home stretch! Coming! One long sustained yell from Sargent and the to in circles Howard's voice squawking -- "What did he make, Mr. Sargent? What did he make?" while Sargent was trying to scramble down horse over the line, Ken trying pull him up swinging around the rock. e Thunderhead had made the n in seconds. "Oh, Kennie Kennie ' "Gee, Ken he did it Gee!" "That horse! He's one of the seven wonders of the world!" Thunderhead was fighting. He wanted to keep going. Ken had hardly come back yet from the ecstasy in which he had ridden. His glowing face with the slightly parted 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 half-mil- forty-seve- spin." "Rest?" said Howard. "He's not bred. 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 f the crop the scarlet face of the boy, while Charley grew grave and he little group on the ledge no longer chattered with excitement, but stood silent. At last Sargent was hopeless. "It as a fluke," he said. "He's un- controllable." "Look, look, Mr Sargent! He's do-to-g it again!" The colt had broken through his He temperamental impediments. burst into his swift, floating pace, and went streaming around the track. As he crossed the line Sargent punched the watch. They held weir breath. Sargent's mouth was wide open in a crazy grin. His yes popped. The gelding. For days and nights Ken had been linking of it. The better the colt behaved, the more speed he showed, desPair fu?ore him and 1 Ken felt. They with him, they argued ana they proved it to him. The wit would lose no iota of his speed jn'gnt even have more, because his n"gies would not be wasted in ngnting, in running after mares, in weeding them. It made no differ-- f l Ken. He had seen the colts Before gelding, the power that flowed wugh 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-a- nd he had seen them alter. Seen the change in the carnage 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 - So Thunderhead was not gelded. A year before, the Albino had recognized in Thunderhead a reflection 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 commanded 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 Those days made a in another year) gave her an even Ken's face and character.charge He said stranger feeling of unreality. When little about it. The more you ar- obstacles vanished, they just floated gued and plead the less likely his faaway as if they never had been ther was to yield. His mother was "He is going ta be a racer after really on his side, but she left such all, isn't he, dad?" things to his father. She felt that "Looks like it, son." he really knew best. "And all our troubles will be It happened that on the morning over." of the day of Ken's trial race down "What are you going to do with all on the track a call came into the the money, Ken?" office of the veterinarian at LaraHe s going to nav back a lot mie. It was from Barney, the ranchthat he owes me!" er west of the Goose Bar, stating 'And he can pay for his own edu that he had a sick cow who needed cation!" to be cleaned out after a "And pay off the note on the premature calving. Could Dr. Hicks come out ranch." and take care of her? "And put wooden fences around it Dr. Hicks and Bill, his assistant, he's promised me that!" arrived at the Barney ranch about Mother, you've got to tell me one o'clock. They worked over the whaft you want! I've asked you and cow for a couple of hours. When asked you and you never have." they were leaving, Dr. Hicks said, "Can I have three wishes?" "It's only a few miles down the "Yes three things. Make them back road to the Goose Bar. We"ll big things, mother!" stop in there and geld those 'I want a swan sleigh all covered with bells! I want a monkey tree! And I want a little girl!" 111 Illllll "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 every 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 clowned Howard. "Better cross your fingers, Ken," said Charley. "Many a slip betwixt the cup and the hp, 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 fall or wait until he was a 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 "How's your muscle?" asked Nell. were, nothing would come of it. The colt had, apparently, run a half-miolds of Captain McLaughlin." faster than it had ever been They arrived at the stables soon after Rob had driven off with the run before. Could that be true? blacks. Gus went out with a bucket According to recorded runs, yes. of oats and called in the colts, and But there were many colts in the world besides those who ran in races the men got to work. many colts who had been clocked "Is that all?" asked Doc, when he had gelded seven. "I thought on makeshift tracks like this one who might have must have, broken the Captain said eight." 'Dere's one more," said Gus, records, and yet, for one reason or another, never were heard of. Why? "Ken's colt. De white one." happened. They got hurt, or Doc. Things said "Oh, the throwback!" "The one Ken thinks is going to be stale, or proved a flash in the pan, or unmanageable a racer. How's he comin' on?" "For you see," said Charley, "we "He runs right gude now," said know now he's got it in him. It's Gus. "Maybe they don't want him geld- there. But he's an unmanageable brute. He can't be depended on. ed." "De Captain wants him gelded all He needs a lot of training and disciright. Mebbe you cud wait a little, pline. Besides, he hasn't got his while I go down and help Tim wid growth yet. In another year, when de milkin'? Ken tuk de colt out a he's settled down, he'll be unbeatwhile back he might be home any able!" He gave Ken's back a resounding minnit." Doc and Bill took seats on the whack! "Young fellah, me lad, corral fence and rolled cigarettes you'll have a winner! How'll it feel and waited. to be the famous owner of a famous The shadows grew longer. They horse?" heard the cowbells as the cows, aft But Ken had a thought. "Super being milked, wandered out into pose," he said lugubriously, "we get the pasture; then the sound of the him all trained for a race, and then separator whirring in the milk house he runs away and we can't find as it cut the milk in half, pouring a him?" rich, foaming, white fluid into one Rob glanced at Ken, then at Nell. jar, a thick yellow cream into the His expression was sardonic. "Ken, other. take after your mother more At last Doc, told Bill to pack up you than any boy has a right to." the stuff. They got in the car and and Nell's eyes met Rob's drove away. She looked down and Ken felt almost awed when he clashed again. her sliced peaches. What arrived at the stables with Howard, finished matter with him? It wasn't the was havine driven the blacks home in of last night that the quarrel only from heard and the "jouncing cart," and cold toward hard him left had Gus what had happened. There now he was in a state-h- ad stood the seven gelded colts in the her, but all been evening ever since east corral, their heads hanging lifesince yes, ever since he arever with coveted hind their legs lessly, at the race track in that ridicublood. Thunderhead, said uus, naa rived what had he been doing cart lous come galloping in with Touch And Oh, before yes, he went out on uoc naa ten after some minutes Go out on Gypsy to see GypSywent and loft. He had unsaddled him ask if he was going and turned them both out into the home Bellamy the lease again this fall take to nasture. Ken stared at the geldings while Ah! She put down her spoon and sat the blood rushed through his body and sank again. This meant this motionless, staring a hole through meant Doc had made his trip to the the table her mind rushed forward. ranch! His father would never or Charley was shouting that with a der him up again to geld one colt! horse ofsuch potential value as Thunderhead, they would never Ken '.Griped in the air with whooD of triumph. dream of putting him out oa the "Gosh!" said Howard. "You're i rancro that winter? j (TO BE CONTINUED) shot in the head with luck!" two-yea- A -- r- ft Simple, Easily Made School Frock Patten 111!! I 1 m. No. 13SS is designed for . izes . .11. - f. oixe mjuircs 14 . A iu, 4 inn or jcvi. material. Send your order to: yards of 35 39-le- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. IO New Moataomery SI Saa ITucUco, Calit. Enclose 23 cents in coins for each pattern decireo. Pattern No. Size........ Planting of Winter Cover Crops Begins Production Aided by Legumes and Grasses Kama Address Winter cover crop time will soon e here. 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When winter cover crop follows a cash crop that has been well fertilized, it serves its best purpose, as the plants quickly take up the soluble plant food and hold it over the winter period for release to the next crop after turning under in the spring. ent SPRAINS AND STRAINS Muscular Achat and Pains 1 rrzsfMJ mm Stiff Joints Bruitos iifti njfiiinMiai'urr TlVTiJTiir I Postwar Machinery Speedsprayer three-year-o- V 3 It , Vs t Is? 1 1 le I tit The speedsprayer consists of a 500 gallon metal tank mounted with a large capacity centrifugal type pump operating at low pressure. The nozzles are spaced uniformly over the distributing head, controlled by a single valve. The air blast is developed by an airplane type propeller driven by a large six cylinder gasoline engine. The air propeller discharges 125,000 cubic feet of air per minute. This sprayer has proven practical in orchards of 50 acres or more, or as a community project. Manufactured by John Bean, Lansing, Mich. long ago, Russian armies N OT were lined up on the Oder, fac ing desperate Nazi resistance before Berlin. On the 14th of February, nearly 4,000 bombers and fighters, part British, part American, flew to that vital sector and smashed at enemy strong points and concentrations. Some planes actually their bombs only 12 miles in front of the Russian spearhead! That was Combined Operations. Chicken Legumes Are Wealthy in Vitamins Now is the time to prepare "chicken hay" for the winter laying flock. This is one of the most practical ways to provide those cold weather vitamins. Green oats, alfalfa, or any other legume makes good hay if it is cut when it is nine to ten inches high. After the hay is cut it must be In Burma, a British Admiral led tough U. S. Rangers, Tommies from all parts of the Empire, Indian Ghurkas and Sikhs, Chinese foot raked immediately and hauled to the barn to be cured, according to M. E. Jackson of Purdue. It should be spread out in barn so it may cure without spoiling. This method saves vitamins and leaves. The hay may be fed in rack to laying hens during the winter months when hens will enjoy some green feed. Some poultrymen run the hay through a feed grinder or chopper. It can then be mixed with the dry or wet mash if desired. soldiers, carrying weapons made in Bridgeport. All wore different uniforms. But all shared in their hearts a single determination to to condestroy the quer the common enemy. That is Combined Operations two words that affect the future of mankind. We have learned the lesson that to win this war we had to fight side by side with our allies, regardless of race, religion or politics. Storage of All Grains And now, with durable peace within our grasp, we cannot abandon that lesson. Unity, efficiency, fellowship, international cooperation must be continued. If grain and corn is to be saved from insect damage, they must bo put in bins that are tight enough for gas treatment or fumigation. Before the grain or corn is stored, the crib or container should be thor oughly cleaned of old Infested grain, even though it is planned to fumigate later. To kill insects in the or walls spray with an other reliable spray. Empty feed bags and clean or dispose of and destroy all spoiled gram. oil-ly- Every American citizen, every man and woman in the nation, has a definite contribution to make toward seeing that a permanent international body to maintain peace be made a going concern. e I We must add our strength to the surging movement toward unity in among all men of good-wievery part of the globe. We must pledge our unswerving support to that movement, give our statesmen and legislators the support they need to make it effective. We must determine to make the necessary start, even though the first step is not as altogether perfect as we might wish. ll Will you play your part in this greatest of all Combined Operations? Will you take your place in the ranks with your fellow men in the striving toward permanent peace? First, get and keep yourself informed about the specific proposals for peace and international cooperation which are now before us. Read and listen to the discussions of them. Ask your Public Library for material on them. Second, interest your friends in these questions. Get them discussed in any social, labor, business, religiou or other groups to which you belong. Third, say what you think for or against in writing, to your Congressman and Senators, to your newspaper. Declare yourself. Speak up. Work today for peace, that your, children may live tomorrow. iritPIHI 111 IT HE III IIHITItlll CIIICItlM |