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Slim was certain there was time for
knight Errant to close the gap and
catch the Vanderbilt filly.
But suddenly Draper dropped
Knight Grants head! A loose horse,
the colt lost his stride and as they
passed the eighth pole he was ducking
and weaving.
He bumped first one colt and then
another, like careening billiard ball;
pocket billiards quite likely, too, for
Draper had him in all the pockets,
out of one and into another.
Completely out of Diapers control
the black colt swerved to the rail un-
Heather caught her breath, fearful
that Draper was going to fall off. He
that Draper was giong to fall off. He
managed to stay in the saddle but
Knight Errant sideswiped the fence
until the left side of his ebony coat
was camouflage of sudsy black hide
and rail whitewash.
Groggy and bewildered he stagger-
ed across the finish line seventeen
lengths behind Baking the winner!
Knight Errant had beaten one horse
to the wire. Thirteenth in a four
teen horse field!
It had all happened with such dra-
matte swiftness that Heather stood
confused.
Sprays of worthless mutuel tickets
on Knight Errant, flung in the air
through the crowd looked like a con-
fetti barrage in Rose Bowl half
time stunt.
"Yeah, he's like Coronado all right"
said a disgruntled two dollar bettor
nearby. "He reminds me of Coro-
nado in just one thing. He starts
stopping right about where Coronado
used to start running"
Heather heard but she felt the gen.
tie hand of Charles Howard on her
shoulder.
Don't mind, Miss Mills. They said
those things about Seabiscuit when he
was running his heart out up the
stretch against Rosemont. Knight Err
rant is all right"
Poor Knight Errant! He wanted
to run ...
Only a few moments Heather had
been wondering if Knight Errant, like
Coronado, would know when he won.
Now she saw the colt knew he had
lost.
Back to the stands he shuffled with
the travail of a Volga boatman, his
ears dropping and his head bowed.
He skunk along with weary, funeral
That agonizing moment after
Knight Grants defeat was scared in
to Heather's memory. She left the
rail and pushed her way to the exit.
The crowd now seemed cruel blur.
She was dimly conscious of the con-
cerned face of Slim who was hoping
to impart to her a comforting word
but she only walked the faster.
y
Heather's emotional despair over
Knight Grants defeat ended with
sleep on a tear moistened pillow, but
morning brought new hope. Her first
awakening thought was of her colt.
She ate hurried breakfast, anxious
to get out to Santa Anita to see
Knight Errant. She also wanted to
hear Charlie Bassitt's version of the
race.
But new fear struck Heather when
she arrived at the Bassitt stable to
find Knight Errant gone from his
stall.
Seemingly not the least bit con-
-
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CHAPTER z

Her eyes fastened eagerly to the
three-eighth mile chute, Heather look
ed on anxiously from the rail.
"HeIl wear himself out before the
race even gets started" she walled
After a moment, while Knight Err
rant still paved the air with his
foot, she made her way through the
throng to the judges stand.
Brushing by the guard at the Of
ficial's gate, and disregarding his
"Here, Miss, you can't go in there"
she ran up to Judge Roy Carruthers
and asked if the telephone in the
Judges room connected with the start
ers' stand.
eyes. Why?"
"Knight Errant just wants to shake
hands, Mr.. Carruthers, that's ALL" in
formed Heather. won't you please
phone Mr.. Thomas and ask him to tell
the man who tapped my colt on the
shoulder to go up and shake hands
with him? Then he'll be all right.
You'll see."
Open mouthed, Judge Carruthers
listened in amazement as Heather ex-
planned.
"You see, it's a trick Artichokes
and taught him up on the farm, to
put his foot up and shake hands when
we tap him on the shoulder.
Thomas took the message from the
judges stand and banged up the
phone.
"What is this, a horse race or a
circus? Thomas muttered in his
gruff way. But he was amused.
go shake hands with the colt in
No. stall, he wants to play" he bawl-
ed to the assistant starter.
And, to the raucous chortles of the
roustabouts gathered around the three
furlongs chute rail, the assistant obey
ed. Then Knight Errant put his foot
down and stood quiet and ready.
They were off!
What sounded like a tribute of wild
Comanches was only fourteen boys
with peach fuzz faces shrieking
"Hyee!" to these fourteen budding
equine squires and debutantes so new
to race track.
"What an unearthly noise"
thought Heather, alarmed.
She did not know the reason for
this strategy used only on baby 2
year-olds in their beginner races.
Since whip and spurs are not per-
mitted on a 2-year-old in it's first
three races, the noises was to brighten
them into action.
Instinctively when horse is fright
ened from the rear he runs straight,
: true and fast.
Strained and anxious, Heather's
eyes sought out the blue and gold silk
of Jockey Dimples Draper. Her
shoulders dropped and her features
frightened when she saw them far back
In the pack.
Draper had been caught mapping
and more alert riders had beaten him
away from the gate. It took the boy
nearly an eighth Of mile to get
"tied on"
"That kids mess" Slim told Snap
per, peering through his glasses. "Ab-
solutely no help to a horse. No more
help than load of COAL"
But Draper finally got command
Of the reins and Slim took heart.
1.-THE colts doing some running
now!" Slim cried as he measured in
his minds eye the distance between
the trailing Knight Errant and Balk-
ing, Vanderbilt entry which was
leading the pack and running straight
as string.
"He's making up lot of ground!'
Slim gasped as he watched knight
Errant fly over the ground with al
immense stride for a colt.
With an eighth of a mile yet to g
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ting novice rider like Dimples Drap-

ting novice rider like Dimples Drap-
er up.
These things he had done solely for
the purpose of getting high odds on
a colt which, off that lightning work
few days before, should have been
legitimate even money shot.
And he had thought, in spite Of
Diapers inexperience, Knight Errant
was good enough to win.
What he had underestimated was
the tremendous sentiment of the fans,
swinging to Knight Errant off Coro-
nado's breeding.
Bassitt had intended to make lot
of quick money with Knight Errant,
and had his coup been successful +.
But the coup had exploded ex-
ploded right in his pocketbook. Now
he was determined to get yesterdays
money back, and plenty more, too.
Bassitt was a good waiter" One Of
the best on the turf.
He realized now that he must run
Knight Errant "cold," in series of
losing races, to get the odds up.
It might take a little time for the
fans to cool their ardor on the son
of Coronado. But inevitably they
would have to, so long as he had
Draper around to ride to his instruc-
tions.
And when everyone else gave up on
Knight Errant, that's when Bassitt
would let him run.
This was his plan, and he grinned
as he thought it over. Meanwhile it
would cost him only the feed bill.
While Heather was despairing emo
tionally, Snapper was doing so to a
like degree financially.
81 wonder what the little man with
the mustache up in the Flood build
ing in San Francisco will think Of
my tips now?" he told Slim the morn
ing after the race.
81 told him Knight Errant was so
hot the jockey was going to have to
use a fireman's hat and carry fire
extinguisher in both hands while the
race was on"
"The way Draper rode he must
have carried all that and tied hook
and ladder wagon to knight Errant,
too," Slim answered glumly.
Something's been in your craw ever
since that race, Slim, what is it,"
IT went for five hundred, isn't that
enough?"
cts something else, Slim. saw
you drop fourteen grand in one lump
in Chicago and wake up next morn
ing whistling Say! It isn't that
little Red Riding Hood who owns the
horse is ir?"
Keep her out of i'll" Slim snapped,
and, bored with Snapper's chatter,
he walked down to the coffee shop
alone, telling himself Snapper would
never be anything but a race track
hustler and wondering why he bother
ed with him at all. ~
Sims thoughts went back long
way to his dads fashionable racing
stable of another day and he came to
the realization he was getting no
place on the turf fast with two old
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A MODERN MARTYR

In the opinion of many, the force
which will lead to the ultimate downfall
of Hitler may not be British or French
military power, but resentment among
Germans themselves, caused by racial and
religious persecution at his hands.
While this persecution has been di-
rected with particular fiendishness against
the Jews, it has also been directed against
both Catholics and Protestants through op-
preston of their clergy.
Perhaps the most potent opponent of
Hitler living today is Pastor Niemoeller,
now beginning his third year in solitary
confinement in a concentration camp, be-
cause he refused to bow to dictation in
religious matters. This courageous man,
who was submarine commander during
the World War, prefers to remain in pri-
son in protest, rather than accept Hitler's
control over the church.
As a result of Niemoeller's example,
many other Protestant ministers have late
ly grown holder in denouncing Hitler's reli-
gious dictatorship, and organized groups
are said to be forming throughout Ger
many to fight for Niemoeller and the
cause of free worship.
Speaking of this modern martyr, the
Philadelphia Record says: Hitler is
powerless against this man. He can kill
him, but that would avail him nothing.
For Niemoeller is now established in the
German mind as the symbol of the strug-
gle for freedom, and as that symbol he is
beyond the dictator's reach,
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TWO SANE SUGGESTIONS

In communication to the Monroe
County Commission the Key West Cham
Der of Commerce has made two sugges-
tons. First, it asks the county commission
for an ALLEGATION of $4,000 to the Key
West Chamber of Commerce for the pro-
motion of publicity. Second, the Chamber
seeks approval of an idea of requiring all
advertising solicitors to present their
propositions to one bureau.
Regarding the first proposal, The
Citizen believes that the County Commits
sion should allocate $4,000 of the tentative
$4,000 publicity fund in next years bud
get to the Key West Chamber of Com
merce. The Chamber has sent out thou
sands of booklets describing Key West and
its advantages, beauties and facilities 1t
is planned to send out other thousands.
Such work takes money for preparing,
handling, printing and mailing. Much of
this publicity material goes to persons and
agencies requesting it, so that there is no
waste. 1t goes to those interested in Key
West and anxious to learn something more
about the city before coming here.
The second suggestion of the Cham
Der for central advertising bureau is the
more important in some respects. Every
year our merchants and commercial in
terests are asked to advertise in a multi
tude of publications of all kinds. Some
of them are good, some smell. Every
month the city and the county are request
ed to support such publications with pub
lie funds. If all these advertising and pub
licity schemes were submitted to one bu-
reau for study and approval it would be
the means of saving our business interests
and our citizens substantial sums now ex-
pended for worthless, questionable or vir-
tually useless promotion.
In adopting the bureau plan of ham
ding advertising proposals, the County
Commission and the Chamber of Com
merce should make careful study of
such bureaus in other cities. A committee
of men who know the difference between
good and bad publicity should be selected
to run the bureau. This small body of men
may very well become the agency through
which the city, the county, the highway
commission and our hotel, transportation
and oil company interests may be brought
together in support of general Key West
publicity program.
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THE IDEAL CHURCH
is SERMON SUBJECT

Subject for the morning serv-
ice at Fleming Street Methodist
(Uptown) Church tomorrow will
be THE Ideal Church" preached
by Rev. Jim Lilly, pastor.
BY making comparison with
the churches of Revelations"
Rev. Lilly states, sit is possible
to think of the church Christ
would own.
1.-THE World OF Tomorrow" is
the subject of the sermon for the
evening worship hour, beginning
at 8 o'clock.
There are certain things prom
ised", the pastor says. land these
promises in time will be realized
Some are: The capacity to
love one despite his faults. A
complete understanding between
races and creeds. When brother
shall no longer rise-up against
brother and implements of war
fare shall become implements o1
the farm.
you are cordially invited.
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FLEMING STREET METHODIST
!Upfownl CHURCH
Rev. Jim Lilly, Pastor

Rev. Jim Lilly, Pastor
Fleming at William Street
Church school meets at Gas a
m. Norman J. Lowe, general
superintendent.
Morning worship, II o'clock
Sermon subject: 'The Ideal
Church..
Hi4League meets at $3.50 p. m.
Miss Frances Lowe, in charge.
Young Peoples Epworth
League meets at $50 p. m. Miss
Margaret Neff, president.
Evening service, 800 o'clock.
Sermon subject: "The World Oh
Tomorrow.
Mid-weck Prayer and Bible
Study. Wednesday, 800 p. m.
Choir rehearsal, Wednesday,
900 p. m. T. B. Klebsattel, di-
rector of music.
Tuesday evening, 7:45 o'clock
Brotherhood Banquet, 6l9 Viii.
liam street.
You are cordially invited to at
tend these services.
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SAINT PAuL's CHURCH
Duval and Eaton SITS.

Duval and Eaton SITS.
Services during the summer
and until further notice:
Morning Prayer, 6:45 o'clock.
Sung Mass with Communions,
TOO a. m.
Sung Mass with Catechism,
$50 a. m.
Evening Prayer, Sermon, Bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament
8 p. m.
Week Days-
Morning Prayer, GAS o'clock.
Evening Prayer, $50 o'clock.
Wednesday,
Low Mass, ZOO a. m.
Morning Prayer, GAS o'clock.
Low Mass, 8 a. m.
Evening prayer, $50 o'clock.
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This column has never been

This column has never been an adj
vmirer of Father Coughlin but it must be
admitted he knew what he was talking
about when he stated that men high in Ad-
ministrative Officialdom had 'sCommunis-
tic tendencies" Now Senator Bridges of
New Hampshire charges that "the Adj
ministration has encouraged and even con-
nived at the establishment of Communism"
in the United States and Mexico. It is
known that the Administration does not
hold the Dies Committee investigating I'M
Americanism in high favor and tried to
thwart its efforts to weed out subversive
elements. The Mephistophelian Stain,
hands dripping with human blood, may be
visaalized with satisfactory grimace at
the prospect of Communism taking root in
this country.
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Sunday School Lesson

Ahab to meet him. The king
came, greeting the prophet with
the question: Art thou he that
troubleth Israeli" How often do
human beings attribute their SUI
ferings to unreal causes? How
human it is to relieve our own
selves from responsibility for dis
asteri But, Elijah points out the
real trouble: Il have not troubled
Israel, but thou and thy fathers
house in that ye have forsaken
the commandments of the Lord.
Elijah, great prophet and cour-
ageous spokesman for righteous
ness, was not afraid to contest
with the forces of evil, and he
proposed to the king that the false
priests be summoned to Mount
Carmel where a contest could
demonstrate which god was the
greatest. The king agreed, and on
the appointed day there gathered
four hundred and fifty priests of
Jehovah. What a climax this
scene represents? Evil enthroned,
and in power, but about to be de-
feated by one brave, faithful and
daring spokesman for Jehovah.
Elijah placed the issue squarely
up to the assembled people: How
long halt We between two opin-
ions? If the Lord be God, fol-
low him., otherwise if Baal be
god, follow him.
The test was carried out. Two
affairs were erected and the priests
of Baal given an opportunity to
have their fire lighted by their
gods. In vain they pray and
petition. In vain they dance and
perform. In vain they cash them
selves, wound their bodies, in
jealous efforts, but no answering
spark comes. Elijah taunts them
until finally they cease their eff
forts and it is Elijah's opportun-
ity. This prophet has his altar
and the wood thoroughly wet but
in answer to his prayer that Je-
hovah demonstrate his power, the
fire strikes from the sky and the
offering is consumed.
Elijah was full of faith. He
knew the righteousness of his
cause and he did not hesitate to
challenge unto battle the hosts of
ignorance, superstition, and idol
airy. Odds meant nothing to his
supreme confidence in the power
and might of Jehovah. The world
F, needs today more of this great
faith and courage in the fight for
righteousness. Too often the
the forces of evil 60 unrebuked,
because the representative of God
lacks faith sufficient to stage the
contest. Not that such a primitive
combat as that on Mount Carmel
could be repeated, but there are
many modern ways in which the
superiority of love, service, and
righteousness can be demon
strated.
After his sacrifice had been
consumed, Elijah was ready to
announce the end of the drought.
It took seven visits to the brow
fof the hill before the expected
tidings of little clouds appear
ance to the west were brought to
Elijah. but patiently the prophet
waited. He then notified the
king to hurry home lest the rain
overtake him. A great cloud
came up and the first rain of
several years was soon falling
over the parched land.
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. oO . oooOOoOO soooeeeo0
KEY w EST

By CHARLES MENDOZA. SR.
,sssssssessssssssssssesss
If you are seking health and need
a rest,
Come spend your vacation at Old
Key West.
The 1 quaint, little island sur
rounded by the sea,
! Where there is room for you and
your family.
You can drink coconut water all
year round
That viii make your body healthy
and sound.
We always make friends and are
looking for more
There's a sign of welcome on
every door.
So if you think about coming,
don't delay,
And when you get mere you're
bound to stay.
If you like good fishing and want
the best,
Just pack up your trunk and
come to Key West.
Key west-the land of sunshine
and flowers,
Where / spent my happy chill
hood hours;
Where frost and snow are never
known
The Isle Of Enchantment, my
southern home.
Key West, Fla,
Aug. 5, 1889.
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ELIJAH: A LIFE OF COURAGE
international Sunday School Les
son for August 6, 1899
Golden Text: Jehovah is
far from wicked: but he
hears the prayer of the
righteous".-Prov. l5:2s.

Lesson Text: ] Kings 1915
Highly dramatic is the lesson
for the week. Spectacular and
high strung are the scenes in the
drama enacted from life as they
are retold in living words.
Approximately seventy five
years had passed since the divi-
sion of the kingdom. Judah had
been ruled by several kings and
lat this time by Jehosphat. Israel
had seen several dynasties and
Esseven kings until Ahab's day, and
JAN her leaders had been false to
Jehovah. The start towards ma
Itional hersy began with Jero-
lboam, the first king of Israel, who
| set up golden calves for political
reasons and these had led to
Iidolatry and the abandonment OF
Jehovah.
Ahad was even more wicked
than his predecessors and had for
his mate the Phoenician princess,
Jezebel, whose name has become
proverbial. She, at least, was Wig
orous and arduous in the support
iof her pagan and gods and god
Edesses. Eier influence with the
/ king had been such that the
priests of Baal were supreme and
the priests of Jehovah had been
killed, scattered, or were in hid
ing from the royal wrath. The
nation had forsaken its ancient
religion, although here and there
were those who still secretly
/ chung to their racial faith and
worship clandestinely.
+ Into this arena comes a strange
mystic figure, that of a rugged
priest, emerging out of the wilds
least of Jordan, dressed IN skins
and contrasting sharply with the
luxury and vice of the capital.
Before the amazed courts of Ahab
Elijah stalks upon the sceae,
representative of the ancient Is
raelitish Jehovah, and, in words
which were to be long remember
ed, fortells the drought of several
years: There shall not be dew
nor rain these years but accord
ing to my word. From them, the
land thirsted for water.
During this great suffering
Elijah remained in seclusion. In
the ravine Cherith, first where he
was miraculously fed either by
the ravens or the Arabians-some
difference exists as to the correct
! translation of the original He
| brew. This refuge afterwards
| suffered from the drought along
with the remainder of the coun-
| try and Elijah went into Phoeni-
cia, where again by miraculous
manifestations Jehovah testified
| to the credentials of his prophet.
At length the time came for the
final act of the play and Elijah
went back into Israel.
Encountering Obadiah, mem
Der of the court circle and a
faithful though tifnid believer in
Jehovah, a man who had saved q
hundred of Jehovah's priests
from death, Elijah sent word to
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D 90 . &c D . ne = . . 0o .
MY WIFE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

tFor Wife's Day. First Sunday
In August
Who took Lifetime chance or
me,
And linked to mine her destiny,
Ignoring all the good advice
IOf her own folks? Who shirked
no price
OF pain or pride or sacrifice?
My wife.
Who undertakes to cheer my soul
To designate her daily role,
And makes for me, without re-
quest,
My tea the way / like it best,
With bat the thought to bring me
rest?
My wife.
Who stays up late and waits for
me,
Though worn and weary as can
be?
Who bids me welcome at the
door?
Who makes my jaded spirit soar,
And proves she loves me more
and more?
My wife.
Who humcrs me in most do,
Forgets what she is going
through?
Who sanctions every move ]
make,
And looks upon my each mistake
As though it were a falling flake?
My wife.
Who strives to let the whole
world know,
Our lives has been a pleasant go,
And indicates in various ways
That we are living happy days,
And shall till death each hear
decays?
My wife.
DIR. ". A. AyAE1IAN.
l2710 E. 18th Street,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
tAug. 8, 1890
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LEY MEMORIAL. N. s.
CHURCH. SOUTH
20. C. lIowell. Pastor

o. C. Howell. Pastor
Corner Division and Georgia SITS.
Church school, 9:45 arm. Miss
Miriam Carey. superintendent.
Morning worship, IL o'clock
Sermon subject: Thee Brazen
Serpent. Lords Supper will be
observed. vs.
Intermediates meet at $50 p.
m. Mrs. o. c. Howell as leader.
Young peoples department
meets at TOO p. m. Miss Agnes
Thompson, president. A
Evening worship 3 { o'clock.
Sermon subject: What is Sin?'
prayer service, Wednesday,
800 p. m. aa
Choir practice after prayer
service. Mrs. j. Roland Adams
pianist.
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
WILL always seek the truth and print it

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue.
commend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that viii elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.