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sympathy there is a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say it and that identifying hallmark on the back well that says you cared enough to send the very best now hallmark playhouse presenting Kurt Carroll's the golden herd starring Bruce Cabot along the banks of the new races river in that portion of Texas which adjoins Mexico great cotton plantations had spread over the fertile miles big white manor houses echoed with a laughter of beautiful women from the finest old families of Louisiana and Virginia they were the rich immigrants but also there were the poor the very poor and one of them was Carl Miller cabin when I spotted him a wild steer I ended my lariat and started for him but he saw me too quick and plunged up the riverbank and into one of the cotton fields the rows of cotton around the barn at the carriage path and then right in the middle of somebody's front lawn I swung the place it just had to be because Julia Alaby was known as the prettiest girl in this part of Texas her dark hair tumbled in long braids down over her bare shoulders nothing ma'am I guess I was just having some fun did you hear yes tell me boy would you learn to throw a stair like that well sir I used to watch the vicaros when I was a kid the carers bad they've all gone back to Mexico we could do some of them to keep these critters out of our cotton by the way I'm Jesper Alaby before chicks along the pieces I'd be glad to pay for the damage I've done if I had the money you can pay for it Mr. Miller by bringing me a couple more of them stairs father beef is better eaten than pork Julia maybe some stakes will make those feel hands of ours get up and pick cotton for a change I'll have the stairs for you tonight Mr. Alaby you mean you got them already no sir but there are hundreds of them running wild all through the bottom lands then I'll make you a deal boy three head of cattle every week Mr. Miller yes you don't talk like a father well I was born in Germany my father and I settled across the river about 20 years ago and you don't like us newcomers I hadn't even thought about it one thing more where in the world did you buy such queer looking clothes I didn't buy them Miss Alaby I made them that's so much for the money is for a glimpse of Julia most the time she didn't even see me there were too many other men men with soft hands and fancy manners hovering and then one day she was alone Mr. Miller when are you going to teach me to ride what don't look so startled lady on horseback isn't so disgraceful as well not to me but perhaps your father and your friends will be shocked naturally how about tomorrow morning I would bought those store clothes well why sir well you just be trading them in for a uniform won't you uniform yeah Texas has succeeded joined a confederacy it'll be any day now Mr. Alaby if your daughter is then I didn't I say she was try out in the party you remember him three months yes you have you're even prettier the way you change quite a bit yourself I've changed somehow I never thought of you that was a trouble in Europe too many gentlemen and noblemen they thought their country was made for them alone be respected just for himself I feel pretty strongly about it Brian I think you've met car Miller yes it believes us just received a commission Kyle captain of the mountain volunteers my congratulations captain thank you by the way Miller I hear you're an excellent horseman I might be able to find a place for you in my company I'm sorry captain I'm not fighting oh you can't mean that but aside in your word Julia because I don't want to be a Yankee or a Southerner that's not a reason sir it's an excuse Julia you understand me don't you I do and I have no respect for weaklings or cards Julia I can give you my answer now it's yes I'll marry you whenever you say but head west I wanted new places new places which both north and south had been so sure I've retreated through 62 63 64 and finally 65 an exhaustion but she says that fella inside is don't you remember me Carl it isn't possible Carl son you got to come right home with me Julia's gonna be mighty glad to see you and how is she sir pretty as ever after yep blame fool is still fighting be thankful she didn't marry him after Mr. Alamy you can say that it looks like she's gonna be an old man so you came galloping across our lawn just as you did now the lawn is gone like everything else it doesn't matter Julia there's always another chance not here not for us we're going to sell the plantation no I knew Southwest forget you forget I'm still engaged to Brian Julia we decided to wait and laugh the war so whenever he comes home he can't use an outlaw he's deserted you what about you didn't you deserve to well Brian stayed and fought you ran off to the west still think I'm a coward I do if you've come back from the car it's useless go back to your way there might be other places but this is the land I grew up in I'm part of it and I'm gonna stay here and help make it great again and act of the Golden Herd starring Bruce Cabot is probably a better word to describe it and came across a quotation that seems particularly appropriate to our day and age even though it was first written centuries ago it's from the writings of that early Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca and it goes lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty difficulty comes from lack of confidence today we tend to call it morale but either word describes a spirit a feeling that actually can be transmitted from one person to another we can give another person heart and courage by our very voice or manner by not only what we say but by the way we say it and that's something to think about these days we have hallmark like to think our cards give more than a moment's pleasure to the sender and the receiver because you will never find a hallmark card that doesn't also give a lift to the spirits in fact you might call them couriers of courage the kind thoughts of one person being transmitted to another person and we all know that these days more than ever that's important now back to James Hilton in the second act of the Golden Herd starring Bruce Cabin year 1865 was drawing to a close Carl Miller had come home to find Texas broken by the war and confused by the peace some of Carl's friends had died others had drifted south to Mexico to fight for the French troops of Emperor Maximilian now it was up to Carl to build a new life a life still without Julia not a week it was early evening and I was puttering around my cabin trying to make place a little more livable I heard hook beats coming up the path almost before they hold it footsteps around on the porch light footsteps a woman's fill ride like the wind Julia Tom eating just stopped by the house I just came to tell you we won't accept charity we'll pay our own bills and Mr. Eaton store when for the last two years not your fair it was not argue about it you're just too late he's already taken my money it's no good call it won't work I won't play the great woman I won't turn against Brian I'd hope you thought better of me Julia listen your credit's good with eating now you can buy the supplies you need how we can't plant 6,000 acres of cotton without money you can raise can't no we can't not cattle cotton made this state important and beef is going to make it great that takes money again necessarily I'm afraid you've wasted your time now I'm taking Julia to Mexico with Mexico but Brian is the only way to him with the troops looking for me we can't stay in Texas and it means always running always hide not in Mexico my dear I'll give you everything you've had here a fine plantation servants man if Emperor Maximilian makes good his promises Boswell Maximilian what are you talking about simply that the French armies recruiting Americans to help put down the Mexican rebellion they're promising lands and money and you are going to join them behind me up he said he already had Boswell we have no right to take fives in their war Julia you're talking like Miller perhaps she doesn't want a plantation that's bought with a French bribe Mr. Miller you'll apologize for that I will not knock on our car stop it and there's only one way to settle this well that's up to you Boswell at sunrise the river bottom by the crossing I had to go through with it if I was ever to convince Julia that I wasn't a coward would you act as judge I intend to you stand back to back walk 20 faces as many times I knew the banners were barred but the walls were wood they just they just might be a chance find out you did this it won't matter I we like it in a way you understand how about coming in the house clean it up thank you sir without me you were here to stay I've counted on that ever forgive me Julia that night you helped Brian get away he came for me but I couldn't go because well because I would have been the coward to my own heart I were proposing here you haven't even told me that I love you I was trying to tell you so the day that memory memories will be ours Julia we're at the beginning of that see once again the charm of the old-fashioned garden variety flowers the pinks sweet peas flocks and merry goals maybe even morning glories and hollyhocks perhaps been down to catch an extra whiff of fragrance or to pick a carnation to wear I guess we all do but I was reminded of it particularly yesterday I was in the store that had just put up their new hallmark Valentine's and as I walked down the aisle for a moment it seems I was carried off to an old-fashioned garden everywhere I looked I saw color that was delicate and delightfully fresh while the starch lace decorating some of the Valentine's reminded me of the crisp white colors and cuffs mother wore of course was only an imaginative journey but it gave my old winter heart a lift nonetheless if you have that wintery feeling you'll enjoy a trip down the Valentine aisle of the store where you buy hallmark cards hallmark has really captured that old-fashioned charm on their Valentine's again this year and remember this year as always hallmark on the back of any card you send adds meaning it says you cared enough to send the very best here again is James Hilton thank you for a splendid performance on our hallmark playhouse tonight Bruce Cabot I understand you come from the great southwest so our story tonight probably brought back many memories for you it's certainly that Mr. Hilton and some of those memories were of a time few years ago when millions of Americans were safeguarding the future of our country and that's still important let's give the boys in the service all the help we can I remember when I was in the service it was really a thrilled answer the mail call and now when there's so many men in uniform again let's be extra sure that they'll all find something there for them when mail time call comes around good night Mr. Hilton good night Bruce Cabot and thanks again well Mr. Hilton before I leave I want to want you to know that I'll be listening next week I understand that hallmark playhouse is presenting your own story goodbye Mr. Chips next Thursday yes that's so Bruce and I must admit I'm looking forward to it because we're going to have Mrs. Chips tell the story in our version next week and I'm particularly happy that Deborah Carr will be with us to play Mrs. Chips and by the way talking of schools you realize that every year for the next six years there will be over one million children ready to start in the first grade of school what can you do to make sure your children will receive the proper education two things first join and work with civic groups and school boards in your own community and second encourage young people to take up elementary school teaching as a lifetime profession that's really important our hallmark playhouse is every Thursday our director producer is Bill Gay our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray and our script tonight was adapted by Leonard Sinclair until next Thursday then this is James Hilton saying good night stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service to send the very best Bruce Cabot can soon be seen in the RKO technical production the best of the bad men the part of Julia tonight was played by Lureen Tuttle Tom Tully was Jasper and Ted DeCorsi of Brian this is Frank Boss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when Hallmark Playhouse returns to present Deborah Carr in James Hilton's Goodbye Mr. Chips and the week following Irving Bachelor's story of Abraham Lincoln a man for the ages and the week after that the story of Cinderella starring Judy Garland on the Hallmark Playhouse this is KNBC Kansas City, Missouri