The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1, Friday, January 24, 1947 Page: 2
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rounds vp the mini At Uit Thunder
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Hobs slight sardonic smile showed
line of while teeth beilde his pipe
Hen There still nature my boy
dont forget that I God made
horses you know Ken Not domes
tie tctses to labor and toll for men
Not race horses prima donnas In
tUtlcboudolrj with valets and
ladles maids and trainers But wild
horsest
Ken sighed deeply and wearily
codding his head Well he knew
about Nature now
And between you and me Ken
continued his father every horse
lover In the world has to take off
his hat to the wild horse a horse
that acts like a horse as God made
him not according to some cooked
up plans of men
Ken gave perfunctory attention to
what his father was saying but his
mind was on one thing only Where
exactly was Thunderhead now How
exactly could he be got back
We hunted up there at the far end
of the valley as long as we could
he said If Howard hadnt had to
get home we would have had
more time I wanted Howard to
take Fllcka and leave me up there
for a while But he wouldnt He
said we had to stick together
Quite rlgtt It would have been
dangerous Besides you had no
horse How would you have got
home
Ken averted his eyes ashamed to
say that his father or Cus would
have had to come for him I might
have got hold of Thunderhead
again
Ahl A pretty long chancel
There was a silence while Itob sat-
In thought Then he said Have
you any idea where he took the
mares
Well we went far enough up the
valley to see that It went out into
other valleys and then other valleys
branched oil of those There wasnt
any real rampart that volcanic
wall I told you about up at the oth-
er end Just a lot of mountains go-
ing up one behind the other higher
and higher That left a lot of places
where the horses could have gone
It Just looked like a a labyrinth
of mountains and draws and gorges
and valleys Ken turned his head
away again oppressed by the mem-
ory of the scene the clouds of snow
the blazing glaciers pockets of em-
erald grass the soaring grandeur of
the peaks He couldnt even try to
put It Into words
It was Just hopeless There
wasnt a sign of the marcs or Thun-
derhead We had trailed them an
the way up the valley of course It
was easy to see their tracks espe-
cially Thunderhcads But for the
last two hours it snowed I think
it snows every day up there And It
was getting dark
What time was It when Howard
found you after you fell olt Thun-
derhead
Ken thought a moment He wasnt
going to tell his father that he had
lain there sobbing his heort out for
an hour Well I dont know ex-
actly I was asleep
After you fell off nob glinted
a little looking at his son
Ken flushed Yes I was so dead
tired And and I Just lay there
When I felt Howard shaking me
end looked up and saw him and
Fllcka there I didnt know where
I was or what had happened for a
moment But X think it was about
noon
Knocked cold and didnt know it
thought Rob Aloud he said medita-
tively You sure can get yourself
Jn the damndest predlcamentsl You
must have as many lives as a catl
Anyone else would be dead If theyd
been caught In half the Jams youve
been in I First with Fllcka And
then the eagle got your gizzard Ard
now this
Kent s head swayed In complete
agreement
Itob smoked for a few moments
In hit mind the scene lived again
The hidden valley the fight of the
two stallloat
Id like to have seen that flghti
he exclaimed
The mere thought of It made Rob
get to hirfttt and walk around the
room Its the damnedest thing
that ever was Why KenI didnt
If occur la you that all he had to do
was throw out one paw the way he
did US We JUblno and It would have
goni through your head like but-
ter
But be wasnt mad t me He
didnt pay iny attention to me at
all
Rob dropjed In bis chair jgoln
< wis bursting with prlde > He
joined farwird and squeezed Kena
n f end tn of Wmieli the bey
whir
V
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mArv ohara
wnu features < zi
I suppose you know that it
doesnt often happen that a man
rides a stallion in the act of round-
ing up a band of mares and lives
to tell thetale
Ken nodded his head In bewilder-
ment He was awful queer He
didnt mind having me around or
on his back but Just didnt seem to
notice me or hear anything I said
And he wouldnt obey me at all any-
more This last was In an ag-
grieved tone
Rob shouted with laughter Obey
youl X should sayayay notl Who
are you to Interfere In a moment
like thatl
Ken tilted his head assentlngly
The joke was on him all right
He had a look Rob had seen on
him many times before always
caused by one q these soulstruggles
over horses He was white and hol
loweyed and looked as if hed lost
ten pounds
You look like a picked chicken
said Rob dryly You olwoys mon
oge to get yourself all run down Just
when Its time to go to school
School I
Yes But I suppose we ought to
be thankful that you came home
all in one piece
Something was choking In Kens
throat School agalnl Just schooll
After all the years hopes end the
work and the planning After hav-
ing been a racing manl Owner of
the wonder horse Practically over
with such childish things as schooll
And already possessed of his fathers
permission to stay out of school and
After you fell oft Rob asked
go to Saginaw Falls viilh Charley
Sargent
Hods oycf were running over him
critically You look pretty sick
Aside from dirt and scratches and
getting tuckered out nothing hap
pened to you this time did It No
claws in your belly No broken
bones
Ken raised his right arm carefully
and moved It about In an experi-
mental manner
What happened to that arm
When I slid off Thunderhead and
saw I was going to land on my face
I threw this arm up gave it a
crack
Rob examined the arm and shoul-
der Ken winced several times
Nothing broken Anything else
Well coming home on Fllcka I
couldnt straddle her my leg s ached
so 1 had to sit sidesaddle
Itob laughed Ive had that feel-
ing myself That came from riding
the stallion when he was snaking
It wrenched every muscle la your
body
Hobs eyes went over Ken minute-
ly noting the ragged filthy clothes
the hands with dirt ground Into the
hastily washed scratches and abra
slons a dark bruise down one side
of his face stains of blood inside
one leg of his blue jeans
I did think I was a goner once
said Ken
When was that
When I fell of Thunderhead and
the mares were coming right be-
hind
No horse will step on a living
thing if It can be avoided And 1
suppose they were pretty well scat-
tered
Well they werent spread
much
If they have time to see theyll
JumpThats
Thats what they did It was as
If the light went on and off li
would be light over me and then
dark and Td gel a squint of hoof
ahd belly then light again Hut
they sure spattered me all over with
dirt and gravel
Til say they did Whats that
blood on the inside vt your pantt
tor
That > pm Thuridcrhtdd sold
KenWas
Was he much cut up
VA ot of faW antf tJr A < ep
tone ui his side und thbtiUier Uiui I
got all this blood from It was the
very first wound of the battle Then
he got that bad one In his throat I
told you about but nothing seemed
to bother him He didnt act as If
he even knew he was wounded
Probably didnt And probably
the Albino didnt know he was killed
I often think pain and death dont
enter into the1 consciousness of
horses at all What about your
friend the onelegged eagle No
sign of him on this trip
He came down Six of them came
down to eat up the Albino
Ahl Theyll pick his bonesl A
true burial of the plains Hobs
face lit up A great old boyl Ive
always had a corner In my heart
for him even If he did nearly brain
meKen
Ken had forgotten this His fa-
ther showed him again the scar oyer
his temple where the Albinos hoof
had left its mark and it seemed to
draw them all Into a close little knot
What a great horsel said Rob
leaning back again Ken there are
outstanding individuals in the ani-
mal world as well as the human
The Albino was like Napoleon Or
like Caesarl To be close to one of
those Is like being close to a charge
of T N T
Yes sir said Ken wearily
He knew
Rob made a little gesture with
his hand Weill The king Is dead
Long live the king
You mean Thunderhead
Thunderhead The Throwback
And that took them both back to the
day three years ago when the un-
gainly little white foal had been born
and everyone had thrown at him
the epithet Throwback
Dad
Well
Ken hardly dared to say It Do
you suppose If you took a lot of
men maybe ten or twenty with
horses and lariats up to the valley
X could show you the way you could
get him back Because you see
theres only a little more than a
month before the race
Rob answered gravely It would
take a regiment of cavalry and
then they wouldnt get him
Ken was silent He was not sur-
prised Moreover deep within him
something revolted against the Idea
of taking such an expedition Into his
valley The band of mares broken
up some of them killed during the
roping colts stolen separated from
their dams coarse shouts and curses
and brutal acts desecrating that re-
mote Inviolate animal sanctuary
hed almost rather lose his horse
Ken lifted his white face with a
look of straight seeing courage and
resignation In his eyes Dad he
said again and paused For the
hundredth time In his tortured men-
tal processes he had come to the
same conclusion that there was
only one slim hope Wont he
come back dad
Of his own accord
He always has before This is
his home and hes oriented You
always said he would and he al-
ways did
There was a little sadness In Robs
sardonic smjle this time Kenl You
know horses Hes got a band of
mares now hasnt he7
Yes sir
Will he abandon them
The question needed no answer
Ken had reached that same conclu-
sion in his own thoughts every time
His head sank on his chest and
Rob saw that the boy was trembfing
all over He hadnt yet had a bath
or change or a nights sleep or a
solid meat
You go clean up now ion and
get ready for supper or youll be
keeling over Youve had a great
adventure It didnt end the way
you wanted It to and Im as disap-
pointed as you are about losing
Thunderhead
Oh are you dad Ken raised
his head and his eyes went to hfs
fathers face Somehow it eased the
pain to have his father disappoint-
ed too
Yes I am Ive worked with
him And I had vome to have con-
fidence in him and his future Hes
a great horse Besides you know
I needed the money
I know Kens face was almost
happy
But were both out of luck and
well just have to take it
With fortitude suggested Ken
with a gleam In his eye
Exactly No use crying over
spilt milk 1 can tell you this if Itll
make you feel any better They
both got to their feet Im damned
proud of youl
Of me
Of you My gosh Kenl You
rode a stallion at work No one
but a fool even goes near a stallion
when hes rounding up his marc
let alone tries to mount him or
coud > tick If hedldl
I didnt stick
Sure ypu did till he darned near
killed you You behaved with cour-
age You tried to get your colt back
You tried to master him You got
> n him and rode him to hell and
gone You did something Ive nev-
er done and Im proud as punch
Ken was overwhelmed Of
course added Rob I suppose all
this wua to be expected fronj a fel-
low who Mire pulled off such a stunt
u tu fel ft wen in English t nev
mt dW it u eithcrl
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HEMPHTIX COUNTY NEWS CANADIAN TEXAS
Kathleen Norris Says
What Is Ahead of You
Bn SrndicatWTra Tenure
I talttd o a job but couldnt bt spared at home Amanda talked o
Hollywood but as a minor couldnt try that
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
T IGHT in the middleof
l times so bad that they
JL X seemed absolutely
frightening writes Mrf
John Porter of Minneapolis
they suddenly grew worse I
know just how depressing this
sounds to many women who
are finding todays times hard
and puzzling enough but that
is the way it was with us and
will be with others One year
ago when prices began to sky-
rocket and we were practical-
ly evicted the nightmare of
househunting the pilingup of
bills the strain upon my hus-
band and the childrens dis-
content were giving me long
wakeful nights and anxious
fretted days
We have raised three children In
a city apartment Amanda is now
17 the boys 19 and 9 For long sum-
mers and many weekends we took
them to a mountain cabin where
they could have swimming fishing
and hospitality That hospitality It
doubled my bills of course but It
meant that the children could re-
turn winter favors theaters dances
skating parties We have beds tor
14 at the lake and all summer long
they were never empty I struggled
to keep up Amandas clothes must
be fresh and smart Jack needed
tennis rackets and college fees It
was too much or John and me yet
It wasnt enough
One car wasnt enough Jack
said One sitting room wasnt
enough for Amanda X talked of a
job but couldnt be spared at home
Amanda talked of Hollywood but as-
a minor couldnt try that It was
an Impasse with John and me roll-
ing away one stone only to have
another block our path
Disaster Struck
Then when meat and butter
were at their maximum little Jim-
my quarantined with mumps and
Amanda desperate because she was
not Included in a certain dancing
class the blow fell John was
brought home helpless never to be-
fit for work downtown again and
for a few weeks we were ship-
wrecked Indeed Jack was offered
his fathers Job as salesman In a
linoleum firm and accepted It bit-
terly only for vacation But he
has had to keep It his college days
are over for the present
I took a job In a hotel making
beds for 160 a month and well
we ate The children were so out
raged that they hardly spoke when
at home but we didnt die Amanda
cried for days then she got
ashamed and rose to the situation
calmly announced that she was quit-
ting school and took over at home
We were more than three thousand
dollars In debt and I showed her
just where the money had gone
Her comment was made gravely 1
think you and Dad were to blame
We klda arent halfwits
Last October I moved us out to
the country no not the smart coun-
try not tl > e lake either The lake
cabin Is rented Amanda teaches in
a private school five days a week
boards In town with an older teach-
er comes to us Fridays Jimmy
goes to public school and loves It
Jack Is doing nearly as well as his
father ever did and well be out o
debt in exactly 23 more months If
all goes well Amanda has boy-
friends boys who work hard and
know the value of money John Is
quietly busy all day with vegeta-
bles chickens cat dog flowers
plans I am happier than I have
ever been tn my life Our place was
an abandoned farm It will never
make money But It paya taxes and
tm happier than I have aptr t jn
MEETING TUB TEST
It is very hard and painful
for a prosperous upper mid
dleclass family to drop in the
scale to what seems a poterly
level It happened often in the
early years of the depression
in the 1930 but not many peo-
ple bate bad to face this crisis
during the war years The
Porter family of Minneapolis
however had to readjust their
living standard radically when
John Porter fell chronically ill
and bad to give up bis fob as-
a salesman
Mrs Porter had to make
swift stem decisions The chil-
dren bad to give up all the
glamorous social life all the
expensive frills that bad come
to be allimportant to them
Jack quit college and went to
work in bis fathers firm Mrs
Porter found a job in a hotel
Amanda left school and took
oier the housework They
bought a place in the country
a wornout farm that provides
a pleasant home with plenty
of fruit and vegetables
insurance and the children bring In
more than the little we need here
Went Through the Tire
We went through a terrible time
when we had to endure our chil
drens bitter disappointment and
suffering when we had to a t In a-
way that seemed to them nothing
short of cruel I had to make de-
cisions that even to John seemed
too sweeping Sweeping Thats the
word I had to sweep pride aside
sweep away pretense and show I
had to let our friends know that
we were ruined that we could
not do for our children what luckier
parents could do We went through
the fire and it was worth it The
whole thing to me was worthwhile
when I knew not at first but after
a while that my children had heroic
stuff In them that they had com-
mon sense that down In them was
affection ond loyalty to their father
and me
The private schools the tennis
rockets and college frats and smart
cotillions can be swept away Those
things leave no mark on their lives
except perhaps to weaken and spoil
them But to face the ultimate
questions of food ond shelter and
learn what they are worth that Is
a lesson they never will forget
I agree entirely with Mrs John
Porter We dont have to manufac
ture difficulties and sacrifices for
6ur children but If honor demands
them surely we are wronging those
children by refusing them their
share of the great battle that Is life
today And by honor I mean the
paying of bllU the
facing of
resoon
Ibllltles the adjustmenf of Sy
burdens 0 thatvone person does not
carry the whole load
Perhaps Mrs Porter
Is pe
mistlc In prophesying
that hard
time are ahead for
many of u
But good many wise voices are
reminding us that these are good
years fa which to harden the
young
sters of the family to realltv tm
should not be done JwtetM S
sporadic complaint about thl ex
travagance or that demand but
by a rational and serious d cu
slon of present assets and futiir
liabilities If 1
prov
n ce
AnTf wlu o harm
And If your Is a family tm fa
secure as to It financial ocSl
Prospect
Vanilla bean crop to Madagascar
which produces about
twothlrd ot
world crop Is forecast at 1100 000
potmd or 10
per cent larger than
last year1 outturn of 992000 pounds
according to reports
In line with French policy In re
centyears colonial mliljtry in Paris
ha proposed that quota of nj
I3
pound of vanilla brims b estab
Ushed U
foj S to cover peW
October 1 18 to
December 31
IM7 with at least onethl J
quota fMnoed
from Trance
FltlDAY JANUARY 24 J847
CLASSIFIED
DE PARTMENT
faiLms and ranches
OUTSTANDING catu and wheat ranch
3329 eerci detfed land In solid bodr In
Morthelt Wichita County Knnilt 400
acrei choice wheat land In cultlvaUont 600
acres more food level land can be broken
out 80 ncrel wild hay land fed by 40
eprinse that cuts 100 tons annually loo I
acrea Bood alfalfa land all bottom land 1
ublrrlxated balance palturcwlttuSwlnd
mUli well Improved large bam 40xS4
rood 7 room house partly modern with
water and electrlcltyf modern Ule chicken
houie 30x701 price S30 per seret excellent
terms no better balanced unit It stxt la
western Kaniaa
b c Kouau mn ieit cir xum
HELP WANTED MEN
CHAIN FOOD has openlnKi for several
ambitious men a I approved Writ
DLAKEMORH BROS fJUOCEKT CO
Liberal Kamai
HOME FURNISHINGS APFU
REPAIRSSEs
Ordmr through your DKALKR
MsTTZNKII STOVat KPURCO
MUIM4 > MO > Kmm CHr INw
NEED carpets ruxi throw rug hot
automatic Irons toaateri radio
Slate any appliance You let prompt
delivery from Stanleliehi lovvert prlcei
hlffhe duality Write 5TANLE1GI18
1S2S E Colfax Denver t CsUrade
INSTRUCTION
FOIt FUTURE SECURITY
LEARN A PROFESSION
enroll Now In
Kansag School of Cosmetology
Ql Approved
S07 W DooKlaa Ph M18
No appointment needed for beauty services
Memory Coarse Send post card and re
cefva preparatory lesson free Adjustment
Service Co 31 Castle Bldr Tulsa Okla
LIVESTOCK
IS RFOISTERED Polled Hereford bulls
and 23 heifers Domino breeding
MARK BROWN Wlltnere Kaniaa
MISCELLANEOUS
ARTHRITIS If you suffer the acontzlnr
Rains of arthritis and rheumatism let u
elp you Xtetults suar Send II to Morrla
Fred acts Bex SSI Uelllnsham Wash
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
NEW SPINET PIANOS
World Famous Mak t
CONVIN1INT CRIDIT TUMI
So of Write
OTVE MUSIC
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REAL ESTATE MISC
REAL ESTATE LOANS
Firm Ranch Suburban Lona Terra
Low Hates Quick Appraisal
See US First Cull or Wr
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WnEFLFIt KFLIY IHONY
TKUST COMPANY
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Bolivian Mines
Native Indians with bellow for
lungs work the tin ore of Bolivia
at levels of 13000 feet and more
where other people gasRwluCtlie ef-
fort of walking Cold and silver
which lured SpanUh conquerors to
the region four centuries ago art
still mined Copper lead ldc
tungsten wolfram antimony and
bismuth round out the list ofprln
dpal metal
Speed Sewlur
To peed up sewing and mak It
easier make a pin cushion wristlet
It 1 very simply dotle Slake a-
round cushion about two Inches
thick and three Inches wide and 811
It with hair or sawdtut Fastenthli
to on elastic band that win < llp over
the hand and wear It In tha position
of a wrlt Watch When plaj are
not In use they keep better In a tight
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