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THE LAST OF HER > * ri The T>xas 3ui H ?odoo Battleship, Will 1 t S >on Be shut to Pit crs x r A TO IMPROVE THE NAVY r Site Will I'cfore lie llnml>ar?N j od l>y Our Own Friendly Shot and Nliell to Test I'p-to-dato Projeo- r tilt's nod Armor unci Will ( <> to | tIk* .Innit Heap. Of! Hampton Roads In April next H a battleship of the famous White * Squadron of twenty years ago will 'v meet a friendly fate at the hands t of the men behind the guns of ourjl modern Atlantic fit - t. The Texas, j c always a steel-sided hoodoo and long ^ a tar.pt for naval criticism, Is to c become it last a target for Atneri- 1 iv n gunners. She will he towed ' like a culprit lo a point off the Cues- s aj ea: ?-'s protecting capes, anchored t and s'.iot to pieces. When her bat- y tered funnel sliall liave disappeared beneath the great sea the final roe- I ord villi lu* made in the naval rec- ' ortis of the first battleship luiiit for * th" American navy, a vessel tliat 1 eosl the Government $2,500,000 in i 1802. !' It will lie the first time In the ( history of our navy that a real ves- 1 sel is used as a target for the big ' guns Heretofore targets made or ' canvas have been used, but as the 1 Te.v.us '"'s outlived her usefullness, ! high explosive projectiles will lie fired ngai.ist iter in order that the of- ! fleers inav study their action against ' the hull and superstructure at hat- ' tie ran s. Surely a fitting end for the unluekiest ship in tlie Ameri- 1 can Navy' For although she rov- ' ered herself with glory at the hit- 1 tie of Santia o, she was so unfortunate in tin e of peace as to earn the title of "The Hoodoo." Foreign navies for many years have used their obsolete battleships as targets, and the results have bo.'ii of great benefit in determining the relative value of high explosive projectiles. The old query, What would 11.ii>iii i an irresisiiiiie inrep came In contact with an immovable object? has almost been answered by these tests. At a recent test in the French Navy it was discovered that when a twelve or thirteen inch projectile hi's a turret such a terrific heat is developed that for twelve hours no human being could torn li the point of contact. Whether men could live in a turret pounded by 12inch pnjpct'les is doubtful, although experiments have shown that cats and chi'Uens have been able to withstand this terrific heat. For tiie past four or five years the Texas h s hern little more than a boating barracks.for enli-ted naval, men, stationed most of the time at Charle ton, S. C. Fver since the Spanish war she has done nothing hut era'*'* up and down the Atlantic coast, taking the midshipmen on their annuaV practice jaufits. to the N< w Fng'md regions, and steaming aronnd 11 a* terns J in all kinds of weather to lite fall and winter nianoeuvers in the tropics. She has not been considered good enough for a station ship. In fad, like tenr< th y fifty other men of war th't have.become obsolete, she is nothing more titan a pile of junk. She c >s' $2,500,000 less than twenty years ago, hut today site would hardly br'ng $50,000. The cruiser P"iroit, which cost the <I?>v? rnniont $1.2.tfl.o:i9 twenty yenrs ato, brought only Jl'O.OOO the other day. In short, the men-of-war of even 1 ."?* years n;o are little more than junk today. And 1'ncle Sam has a jnnk pile which cost between $140,000,000 and $1 r.0.000,000. The cruisers of the famous White Squadron that saib 1 the seas before the organization of the more famous fleet of the present time are all obsolete. They are worthless as fighters, useless as cruisers. The neassitv for more nowerfn! ships in the I'nlted St'tes Navy was demons!rated by the battle between the French and Chinese fleets in | A nrnis t, 1S^4. at the Pago.la Anchorage, Min River, where the Cliitiese shies v ere sunk in half an honr. It wa< decided that this country should have a modern defence force as scon as possible. In 1 8X(> President Cleveland approved a naval appropri 'ion bill which directed the building; of the Te\as, a hat Mesh, ip; the Maine, a sister ship, and sever .1 cruisers. A price was offered by the Secretary of the Navy for the best designs for a battleship to cost $2,500,000 Many naval architects competed, and the prize was awarded to an Ktmlishman. a Mr. John. With the exception of the protected cruisers Charleston and Baltimore, built later, the Texas was the only vessel built on designs purchased abroad. The Texas was constructed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, being: the first and only battleship ever built there. Work on her was so slow that although the keel was laid down in January. 1889. she was not launched until June, 1892, and hy that tlrr.e the plans had been altered so much that she was practically of .\merlcan design. From the start she showed up badly. In fact, she had such a cries of mishaps that she became t ;nown as the greatest landgoing hat- r ieship in the world. Not only did he sink twice, once right in her lock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. >ut she used to try the patience of he authorities at Washington by iolating the navy regulations and unning ashore four or five times l year. Her weakness for explorng shoals and mud flats made it ook as if she should have be-^n ransferred to the Coast and Geod tic Survey. However, she redeemed herself t >efore Santiago. She was really out 5 f date then, but her nose was ( hoved into the fight and she acHiitted herself nobly, nut so many t iccidents kept recurring that the tit- : e of the lloodoo of the Navy still j lung to her. < In fart, her ill luck beeon while ' lie was be'ng built. A dozen men vere fatally hurt on her while she ( vas in course of construction and wo men wen plunged to death from * ler deck. Her engines were scorch- : si in a fire at the Richmond Iron , . orks and her propeller was broken 1 >n the first trip to the yard. In i icr dock trial she swamjied a turn>er schootier with the wash from her f icrew. Heeled over by the wind and ? lie unequal weight of the patrially 1 et up turret, she nearly sank in her I lock at Norfolk before she was com- I deted. She was put in dry dock, i ind it was found that she was not drong enough to bear lier own , velght. i She proved herself a poor steamr, and burned great quantities of j "oril. On Nov. 9. 1S96. while she ivas lying at the Cob Dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard one of her sea ocks became unfastened and she sank. Had the accident occurred at ~en the ship would have been lost. On every one of her trial trips minething happened in the nature of a breakdown in some part of ! her machinery. Kitlier the eccentric str ip got hot or her condensers failed to work or the steering gear got out of order. The loss of four anchors was among the little thin s b it emphasized her reputation for ill luek. In February, 1S97, she went ashore on the Dry Tortungas, and i in the winter of the same year she mil nil III \ \ .1 I I .1 I X MI | v IlillllM'l. Ill Boston Harbor the same winter an engine in one of her launches exploded. injuring six men. Again while being drydocked at the BrookIvii Navy Yard an accident oreurred which showed alleged structural weaknes which cost $12a,000 to remedy. She scraped her liilge on th? sill of the dock and settled down like ,a hag of wheat in the basin. This was in November, lS'.tT. It was only chance that saved tae Texas from being rammed and sent to the bottom by the Brooklyn in the battle with Admiral Cervera s tleet off Santiago on .Inly 3, lS'.IS. Two weeks bef ?re that she had her first tight in Cuban waters and a narrow escape from a submarine none off the (Inantanamo batteries. When the Texas joined Admiral Sampson's squadron oT Santiago orders were issued that if the enemy tries to escape the ships were to j clo?e in and vi'gago as soon as pos- j sible and to sink the Spanish v.?s-j l is t-r s' n 1 tlu-nt a bie-e On the d v of the battle tb<> \merlean vessels moved toward the mouth of the li a rhor. When the Mario Teresa started to run for it. the Iowa gave the order "Knemv's ships escaping." then sieM itl. it rt.ei*. r.??- o^.i i gave a third order. "Close up." all 1 In ex.-eutlon of Admiral Sampson's 1 standing ordor. As tho Brooklyn steamed in toward the mouth of the harbor. Commodore Schley, who was ahoa'd h t, c plained to her commander, Oapt. Cook, that the "Close up" meant he was to keep somewhere within 1.000 yards from the enemy, so as to he outside of her broadside torpedo range Capl. Cook save ord rs to port the helm, ami the BrookIvn began to turn away from the battle line and presented her stern to the hostile cruisers. The Brooklyn ran. about 2.000 yards south and all hut came into collision with the Texas, ' which saved herself by reversing her engines. A hole was thus left in the! blockading line through which the, enemy promptly steamed. The late Capt. Philip of the Texas In describing this incident, wrote: "Suddenly a whiff of breeze and { a lull in the firing lifted the pall, and there hearing toward us and 1 across our bows, turning on her port helm, with big waves curling over her bows and great clouds of hla> k stnoitk pouring from her funnels, was the Brooklyn. She looked as big as half a dozen Great Easterns 'Back both engines hard!' went down the tube to the astonished engineers and in a twinkling the old ship was 1 racing against herself. Had the himmikivii airui'K us (lion lr would probably have been the end of the Texas and her half thousand men. ' Aside from this Incident the shate of the Texas In the fighting off Santiago was consplcioiiH. On June 22 ja shell from Santiago's Mooro pierced a six-inch hole in her bow under the anchor and killed Frank Itlakely. a first class apprentice. In the fighting on July 3 a shell from the Almtrante Oquendo pierced the starboard bulkhead under tho bridge, entered the smokestack and ex; ploded. For two years after the war the Texas had a peaceful and uneventual career. On Nov. 3.0. 1 902, however, when at target practice along he New England coast the discharge >f one of the big guns broke the re oils, with the result that the gun- : foundations were shattered, water ind steam pipes were crushed and ! in mage was done that was thought! it first to be impossible to repair. ' towever, she was repaired and as ;he left the drydock she came into ollislon with the collier Sterling, >endin? many of her forward plates, ind putting her out of commission 'or another six weeks. During the next two years she an aground no less than six times, '.he was hard aground at Dry Tor-! ngas twice inside of three months. 1'his trick was varied slightly a litle later in the same port when she an on a coral reef, suffering considerably from the scraping she re elved. On another occasion she be anie so firmly wedged in the mud at Newport that six tugs were required to pull her out. The hark dm ugh from one of her welve-lnch guns eauseil another bad iceld?*nt on April IS. 1905. And in \irll of the following year she was ?adly damaged by running into a iereliet off South Carolina Her elates were so badly twisted that . die had to be dry-docked for several weeks. In addition, a collision with the floating crane Hercules at he Brooklyn Navy Yard, loosened !ier how and kept her out of commission for some time. In luly, 1900. the cruising day :>f the in fated battleship ended, and die was tied up at the Charleston Saw Yard, where she became a floating house for enli.-ted men. The last active service of the warship was fl?? duty with the starred pennant of Rear-Admiral F. \V. DickIns, U. S. N.. afloat. That was in the spring of 1900. When the fleet returned from the nianeonvres off Charleston in .June, Roar-Admiral Dlckin's eoinniand was disbanded. The Texas was then docked at Rosfinil stripping of Its-hefor $eekRfltt ton and came to Charleston for final stripping of its six-inch guns. Rut the hoodoo followed her there oven after she was out of commissi .hi. She narrowly escaped being blown up by a careless visitor, who was found smoking a cigarette in int? powucr magazine. Now it has boon decided to shoot her to pieces. Early in April she will he towed from her moorings In the Navy Yard to the shoal water of the Chesapeake, where twelve and thirteen inch projectiles will soon finish her. The hoodoo of the navy will then he a hoodoo no longer. I'AUIHIX >111.1, STI I.I. < 111 N" I> 1 \<;. Coventor lllease Pardons Two I.ife Term Prisoners. Two prisoners serving life sentences at the State penitentiary were pardoned Thursday by Coventor Mease. A pardon was granted to Duncan O. Crant, a white man, formerly of the State of Florida, who was convicted in 1906 on the charge of killing Walker Swett, in Marlboro county. 'I'ln re were several petitions presented to Coventor Ansel for the pardon of Crant. Governor Ansel refused all petitions, and C lverncePh ci netln on the oi l petitions and 1 tiers granted a pardon. .Mary Fair, it Laurens county negress. was given her freedom by Coventor Mease. She was convicted itt ! ^"7 0j, the charge of killing llen.; ;ta Sullivan, and upon recomnten littiaii of the mercy of the Court, was sentenced to life imprisonment. ^ii v as r< mi. id a pardon i?y tio\ernor Ansel. shot whom; o\i: i ikst. \ Man Murders a (iirl and Then lie Commits Suicide. Driven 'o desperation, .1. \V. Powell. of Pnehanan, Va., Monday killed his sweetheart. Miss Maude West, is years old. and then turned the shotgun on himself and ende I ills life. The double tragedy was thought ;o have heen caused by jei'.ot.sv. "owell, l'S years of ago. called tn >n Miss West Sunday night and while at tit-- home met another young man. lie was heard to make tlii eats | as he was leavin t. While the young woman was on her way to a mail hox to pos :i let[ter Powell, who was in hi'lin.; on the side of the road, jumped from a (dump of hushes and open?.! fire on her with a shotgun. He empt'fcd two loads In her body and th >n pinei#-d tbo weapon to bis bead and bred. When found both of them were dead. . Flour Sent to China. Ten thousand sacks of Hour w*?re purchased in Chicago Thursday by Otto Koeni-'. of New York, to be sent j for the relief of the famine sufferers in China. The Hour is the contribution of the subscribers of The j Christian Herald. The Hour will bo j sent to Seattle, whence it will tie carried frtw? of charge on the l'nited States transport Muford to Chinklang. Finds t\ Mate. Oscar Kraus, of Pomona, Kan., the "Kansas giant," has decided that he does not want a job on any police I force, as was his ambition. Mr. Kraus. who is seven feet, four inches tall, has found a mate, a young lady of I.onvton, Kan., who is six feet, Ave inches tall herself. CLASSIFIED CaiUiVH For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed a Poultry Yard, Darlington, S. S. For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed a $1.00 per bushel. Address, J. J Llttlejohn, Jonesville. S. C. Cnl>t? .go Plants F. O. P. Young's Is land, S. C. 7 5 cents per thou sand. VV. J. Nunnery. Wedirefleld s. c. I wKiit ?H?ys in every town to sol Key Checks. Rubber Stamps. Ston cils Williams, Back Ray, P. O Box 122. Boston, Mass. For Sale?Rums from pure bret White Plymouth Rocks. Fishe strain. Price $1.50 per setting o 15. K. H. Patrick. White Oak S. C. You Can Make ltin Money sellin*. portable fence right. Every far mer needs it. Write B. T. Stain baugh. Woodsboro, Md., for par ticulars. Eleven Kentucky Jacks, twenty-oni Jennets for sale. All of my owi raisins, with guarantee as stroi.j as can be made. J. W. Riley Gracey, Ky. For Sale?Utility Rhode Island Ue< Cockerels, $1.50 to $2.00. Flm Cock, $5.00. One excellent lrisl Pointer Dor. $50.00. W. 11. Pear son. Strother. S. C. For Sale?S. U. R. 1. Reds, Whit and Brown Leghorns, Black Ran? sbang, Plymouth Rocks. Errs to seltinR, 15 for $1. M. B. Gran DnrllnRton, S. C. Full sti>?k Barred Plymouth Rocks Whito Sherwoods and Rhode Is land Red chickens and eRRs fo sale. Address Mrs. Mary E. Li! tlejohn, Jonesville, S. C. For Sale?At a bargain and on term a piani or woodworkinu inaclilr. erv, complete and niMiing, wit all the business it can handle. W K. Almun, Spartanburg. S. C. S. ('. Rhode Island Red anil Whit Leghorn eggs for hatching. Xon better, few as good. Sat isf actio guaranteed. Writo for price liayslde Poultry Farm, Guytoi Ga. The Little Tell Tale which tells ill Truth. A complete egg record ( the day. the week, the month, an the year. Price 10c. Addres Mrs. M. 11. Roberts, Dade Clt; Fla. For Sale?Fggs for hatching Sing Comb PutT Leghorn. From tim well-mated, heavy-laying stocl $1.00 for 1 r.; $ 1.7for HO; *r..?i for 100. T. Ii. Simpson, Societ Hill. S. C. Girl or Woman?ea h locality, goo pay made acting as represent. ti\e, addr? ss envelopes, told, me eircuhirs, material, stamps, fin nished free. Rex Mailing A en.-; London, Ontario. For Sale?\\ hippoorwill Peas, $J J per bushel; Clay Mixed Peas, per bushel; Ripper Mixed Pea SLLJo per bushel. Write for prici in large quantities. F. A. Bus Co., Preston, Ga. ,lopsv Cured?Shortness of breat relieved ir. :i ; to -IS hours. Hi duces swelling in 15 to Jo day Cull or write Colluni Dropsy Flen edv Company. Dept.. O 512 A^ste Rldg., Atlanta (la. Single < 'omli Rhode Islan Reds and "Crystal" White Orpinj tons win and lay when othei fail, stock and e.gs for sale. Sen for mating list. ft. A. Dohhs, lh H. 24, nainesville, (la. Wanted?Men and ladies to tali three months practical course. K pert management. High snlarit positions guaranteed. Write ft catalogue now. Charlotte Tel graph School. Charlotte. N. C. Wantetl?Men tt? take thirty daj practical course in our machli shops and learn automobile lun ness. Positions secured gratl ates, $25 per week and up. Cha lotte Auto School, Charlotte, N. Wanted?Rook keepers, stenogr pliers, clerks, write us if <i"sirii employment. We place compete business help and are not able supply demand. Carolina Aud i. Ceei ai? - - 1 ? ?v Ill v " . ">!* ? ?l I V OliII bin. S. C. For Sale?Milch cows, registered ,it sey colors, Golden Lad, Klyiite K< and st i.o:nhert strain. I'.ron Turkeys and eggs. Also eggs, I. Hods, \\ hite Leghorn, Harri Plymouth Rocks and Pit Cam one dollar ;>er do/,. White call puppies, registered. M. R. Sam Jonesville, S. C. (irnti Wanted?Make nig money ?In* photo pillow tops. if>c. h' mides, 25r; portraits, 35c; ollett* SOc. We produce works of ai guaranteed, lowest prices, larg^ studio, prompt service, credit gi en; samples; portrait and frac catalogue free. Ritter's Art 8t dio, 1218 Madison. Chicago, 111. 11 LEE'S HEADACHE & j | SAfELY. SURE ! Cures Headache and Neu cause. Numerous testimonia us out in this statement. Read the following: I have been j constant su! years and could not get an\ course or take morphine. 1 tri \$ ralgia Remedy and found pen 0 1 heartilv endorse it as the 1 i > 1 o t | Sold Everywhere. Price 2; 1 > ( . JI Manufact |j BIRWELL & ' > Chadottc i i I <iou(l Dive Agent* wanted tn ever} (1 town to sell n meritorious ltue o: medicines extensively advert is*, and used by every family atul li the stable. An cxconMonal m u tun it y for the right pr.rties t' make good money. Write at on", for proposition to L. B. Mart.iir Box 110. Richmond Va t In order to introduce my high gr\?J* - Succession Flat Dutch and W.iv? ' field Cabbago Plants to .hose w'have not used them before 1 W t' rive wttw each And order for -* thousand plants at a It.26. a <1* lar'n worth of veretsbl so?i <!."?* - seed absolutely free. W. R. Iu:^ 1S Plant (Imwdr Voter nrtae P. t I- a C Il licvi'l l-'arnis for Suit*?In Cordon County, Northwest Ceorgta. Write ? for free list. I have sold severa' e from the northern part of South e Carolina, farms over here, where " lands lie better, and are more pros' ductive. and ran he bought for half, and less the money your lands are selling for. Health and ? climate tie- best. T. M. Hoaz, Ro\ le MS, Calhoun, (la. )f d Wanted?hi Very tuna. worn** s> child in South Carolina to tsi". that the "Alco" hraud ?f Doors atul Dllndp are tb* k< ? ? irp made only h> Hip (>ig\t.' 'e I.umber Company, who mannf* B> tur? everything In I,umber tu * Millwork tind wh'>?? w<tchw?r?l ( 0 "Quality." Write Augusta l.um > ' bcr Company, Augusta, (leorg^ for prleec riu tnr order, tarr ? ! . 11 a ; v ' line* Marred IMymontb lin ks, Duff ;l Plymouth Rocks, Rose Comb i; i Di'ds. Acknowledged to be tlm 1 three best general pnrpo e fowl-, yet developed. Our pens are com posed of the cream of last year's ' Mock, all selected with the \;< v\ " ef V >ei jut' up our won 1 r al o g s* ylelrl of the past. Oar hinl < ir"s ried off a long string of prizes dur'' ing the past show so-im n an I we can giV" the h-st anility to he ~ found. l'lg-js for hatching. per 1 Send in orders now for future delivery. West Raleigh 3 Poultry Farms, It. M. Darker, Mgr. West Raleigh, N. C. 1 Ibirgaiiis in Sooth t; ????r ; i :i farm lands; 5,(100 acres of fine, level land, s miles from rnilroul; land productive and no waste; 'J" or s I more houses; flowing well, I 1 miles of fine fencing land, adapted ,x to general farming and stork raising. I'ric" $10 per acre. 3,100 ? acres lor-ted on railroad; 2,000 acres open, balance In woods; .land lies well and very producM' tive; dwelling, good barns. ."> ? ,r tenant houses, artesian wells. e~ ginnery, etc. Cheap at the price c?f $L'o per acre. 807 acres, 1 ? mile from railroad station; fiOo s' | acres in cultlv ition, balance in saw le timber; land productive, li s well d- i and no waste; dwellin . b irns. 1 I u- tenant houses, deep well with tank r- and gasoline engine. For c|itick C. sale*, can sell fur $12.50 jier .acre. If >f?11 a"0 in the marked for a <l. fine farm and mean business. ill , . to see us. I>o not delay, as the nt prices we have now are sure to to go higher. Address Allen .v CrockHI j ett. Am ricus. (ia. ntjuits tin* IOicc. ? John Keith, a white farmer living ir four miles west of Marlon, oomox miffed suicide Wednesday afternoon ;:e by shooting himself through th ? bee" K. i with a pistol. Mr. Keith was about ed ! 40 years of aire and no cause can e. he assigned for his rash deed, as ie t>oth his health and finances wee is, in cood shape. Tie is survived by three sisters and one brother. Death Separates Them. At Florence, Colo., Mrs. Francis Ksper, Ids years of a rc, said to be r the oldest woman in Colorado, died * in the arms of h<-r 1 1 1-vear-old husi* band Thursday nisrht from burns ren eelved wlicn her elothinz caught flrr ? from an open gra'e Mr. and Mrs. Ksper has been married 91 years. NFURAIGA REMEDY | \ LY. SI EEDILY f ralgia no matter what the $ Is 011 tile in our office hear v s A m ITerer from headache for 12 relief until it had run its v ed 1 .< : s Headache and Ncu- $ natient relief. best thing 1 have ever tried. % (Sgd.) II. A. (iandv, T Hartsville, S. C. i and 50c. : ured By <; DliNN CO, |j n. c. i. < * Manager Frank -T. Shaugh- * nessy, of the Virginia League Championa, found Noah's I Liniment best for A mm sore Muscles bruises, scratches, stillness. One trial will convince you. Noah's Liniment penetrates. Requires but little rubbing. Here's the Proof "T have hud occasion to use Nnah'? Unlment on two of nty players' arms, and the result was most gratifying, linth were Immediately relieveil of soreness and aide to resume throwing: with their former speed. Have also used It myself, and consider It the best liniment I ever tried. It Is line for bruises, scratches, stiffness, etc. Frank J. .. Shaimhnessv, Manager, ltoanoke Chain- rr plons, ltoanoke, Va." Xonh'a I.tnlnienf Is the host remedy for Itheumutlsm, Sciatica, I-a me Itack. SUIT Joints and Muscles, Sore Throat. Colds, Strains, Sprains, Cnt.s, Bruises. Colic. Cramps, ... rorsw ' Neuralgia. Tooth- fO^.^ ache a n d all fiv. Nerve, Hone and u / ~"1^1 Musclo Aches and l.\\ Pains. The gen- it* nine has Noahs Ark on every ? - c. V < ^ rflT.^jP^P medicine. s a m - L I W J * ? n plo by mull tree. W^V^/lAv^ Noah Itemed y Co., J J Klchmond. Vu. jL . I? h a (d'tlllc .f.t'l-. Mvcn a short man may have his lo'.a sail. t! t 1 s a ao' 1 judxe (?l w hi key to lot ii alone. It's hotter to lie correct than it is to ho corn cted. The phonograph heads the list of chat tor l>o\- s. Among others, the county recorder is a man of <1 eds. Not all politicians who study harmony arc musically inclined. It is hotter to forgive than it is to spend a week in the hospital. lint you can't ho sued for nonpayment of a debt of gratitude. In delivering i --pooch he careful no' to get the wron: address. <?j11 \ a fool h-'s peopl ?:?k?' him in after lie lias found them out. Ilovs far can yon net from homo before you hecom a stranger? y ? .r ,\tv ?*i ?kov hjs homo run after he reaches the plate. ? ?|. Is such a small sum that lie is sent to Jail. Want a Square Ileal. ('arryinr forward In. campaign for Cano'iin reciprici.y. President Taft is in iking a dir. i appeal to the Am r! in fanner oil that issue. ' II. declared thrt the impression which h t<l hro.nl that reciprocity with the Dominion would injuro ' the fanner was on ir- 1 \ without foundation, and by statistics and ar' Riiinent lie seeks to lend actual proof to his assertions. Mr. Taft in a reeent speech In Columbus, Ohio, asserted the reciprocal agreement with Canada would tie a benefit rather than a detriment i to the agricultural interest of this ' country. He said he stated this in % answer to the criticism which had \ been directed against the measure presumably 011 the part of the farmer. t We believe what President Taft says above is true, but still the farmer is entitle to and should have a square deal. If he is forced to sell his produce In a free market he should he given tile right to buy his clothes, his shoes, his hat, and 1 other thin .-a in a free market.