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Show CHAMP CLASH, A FARMER BOY. In Home Champ Clark tells pleasant little story of how when a boy of 10 he, working by the month on a stony, Kentucky farm, one day wss engaged in ploughing with balky oxen, when because of the heat, the atones, the perverseness of the team aad the torture of the occupation, he lifted up his voice and hurled a whole, torrent of swear words at the oxen; that while thus engaged the owner of the place and the oxen swooped down upon him and gave him a fearful castigation for swearing at his oxen j how he went away with a great sense of the outrage he had suffered, and a mighty resolution to sometime, somewhere, meet that man again and wipe out the injury and execute exe-cute justice upon the man who had so wronged him ; how thirteen years went by, how he had attained at-tained to six feet in height, ' when one day he abruptly met the man, old and feeble, face to face, whereupon his accumulated wrath all died out of him and he let the man go free. Some eastern newspapers make fun of the story. By doing that they give themselves away. They m-ke clear that they know very little of the pathos and the pain that is hidden in that story. A ten-year-old boy ploughing a stony field on a hot day With a yoke of lolling oxen is, to one who knows, but restoring a picture of the inferno. The torture of the situation situa-tion ; the injustice of putting such a burden upon a child of 10 years; the impossibility of ever getting even for suffering like that will linger in memory aa long as any life lasts. And then to b.6 flogged for. the brief respite of a healthy swear at the team, what wonder that in thJ child's soul there1 was a steadily ' growing desire for righteous e-venge. e-venge. The Story will awaken vivid memories in the souls of a thousand farmersVboys, which will be called up as often as. they hear, some book farmer farm-er calling out in .the impotence of ignorance for American boys to go back to the farm. There are many delights on some' farms: There are aa many kinds of torture on - some farms as there were plagues in Egypt. . I- |