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The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19

served In the same capacity last
year; Mrs. Anthony, of Lake City,
was elected corresponding
secretary; Mrs Dean, of DeLand,
recording secretary and Mrs.
Doig, Of Gainesville, treasurer. A
number of district presidents were
appointed, Mrs Laycock Of TT.
Myers for our end of the state.
The TT. Myers union also was
presented a banner given for The
union making the largest increase
in membership for the past year.
Several of the superintendent
different departments were changed
owing to resignation or removal of
former superintendents. II was
noticeable that the state organi-
cation is now largely composed of
new material many of the old
officials, either having left the
state or resigned IN favor of
younger and more active members.
Prominent among the life long
workers who were in attendancelat
the Gainesville Convention were
Mrs. L, r. French, of Alachua
county, an eighty year old veteran
who is spryi and alert in thought
as any member who was there.
Mrs. Crews, another mother in
Israel, from Jacksonville, shed the
benediction of her presence, giving
words of help and comfort.
Perhaps the most important
resolution passed BY the Con
vention was the one concerning
the securing of temperance legis-
lators, the local unions being urged
to throw their influence to elect
men to the, next legislature who
will promise to vote for temperance
legislation. Another resolution of
almost equal Importance was one
asking the unions to donate ten
cents of each annual membership
fee to a fund for expenses in con
lducting temperance political
campaign, the said fund to be
placed in the, hands of state
president, Miss Neal, of DeLand,
who is also superintendent of the
temperance legislation department
of the w. c. u, A new editor
was chosen for the temperance
column in the Times Union Mrs.
adams, and the organization voted
to pay the presidents expenses to
the National Convention.
Many other measures Of i'm
portance came before the body,
but time and space forbids further
mention now. 7
The delegates left for their
homes on Friday feeling that the
meeting had been one Of the best
ever held in the state The spirit
of harmony and good fellowship
that prevailed was very noticeable.
The hospitality of the people, the
beauty of the city, and the good
work accomplished will not be
soon forgotten,
/
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19
Division.

The air seems to be full Of
division these days. 1t is division
north Of me and division south of
me. Some way or another ! am
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19

Either the writer has been gross
/ deceived on the subject or he is
be Of those who will not learn the
.uth because he has already made
his mind against it. We will
b believe the latter and in the
Ppe that he may see why division
not best for the people in gener-
and certainly not for himself in
brticular, we submit the follow
& facts that are true and can be
rihed by the county records.
Our correspondent is a man OF
mily who wants to see his family
foperly educated, and division as
will affect the schools of his
punty, providing he gets a new
Punty, should have a very promi-
|ent place in his mind. Now for
Re facts. The total assessment Of
Re property of DeSoto county as
stands is $40, 5es, of which over
$4,000 goes to the State fund.
his leaves less than $S7 900 due
Pr county uses. Part Of this will
lot be collected. The taxes PAID
\ this year one week after the
|Sual time Of the closing of the taS
'ooks amounted to less thar
|0o'oOo. After deducting tax col
Fc'or's and treasurer's commits
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19
BOUT DIVISION
DME LIGHT THROWN ON
THIS QUESTION.


Judging from two comniunica-
pms from Wauehula received at
Is Office some Of the citizens Of
at place are very ignorant of the
be facts about division We
lote one Of the letters;
wauchula, Florida, 4-l7th, 1906.
B. CHAMPION,
Arcadia.
BAR SIR:
Il seems that since the County Div
|on question has got up that you are
self only and not for the people at
fge, 50 I will ask YOU to discontinue
\ paper at once.
Yours Truly
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19
STATE w. G. 1TaU y.
AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MEET
INC AT GAINESVILLE.

The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Florida met in
annual session at Gainesville ON
April 1913. Fifty-four delegates
were in attendance every part of
the state being represented, from
Fl Myers to Tallahassee and
Jacksonville, 1.EN
The sessions were held in the
Baptist church each day and at
night in the large public school
auditorium. While the day meet
ings were largely occupied by the
business of the organization and
attended mainly by ladies inter
ested in temperance the night
meetings were more on the order
of instruction and entertainment,
and were largely attended by
ladies, children and gentlemen.
Very interesting programs were
given each of the three nights
during the session. The opening
night was devoted to addresses OF
welcome by the mayor and other
public men of Gainesville, re-
sponded to by the w c. 7. U,
workers, fine music by local
talent, etc, The second night
Mrs. Newton, of Virginia, made
an interesting address Mrs.
Newton is one of the National
Organizers who has been spending
the winter in Florida and hers
were words of wisdom eagerly
| listened to.
The last night was the most
largely attended by all for three
Young men and three young
women from the Gainesville public
school gave temperance recitations
for a w. c. T. U. Medal Contest.
THE Rotations of each of the
young people were applauded ano
each one was remembered by gifts
of lovely flowers. The son o
Tom McBeath-young Tom-woi
first prize of the boys. His worl
was excellent. A pleasant feature
of the evening was marching t
music of a band of thirty or Sc
white clad girls who waved white
flags and sang temperance song
Two little misses from Jackson
vile, aged eight and six recited to
the unbounded delight and APP
plause Of the large audience.
The elegant home of Mayor
Thomas was thrown open for a
reception to the w. c. I. U. dele
gates one afternoon, when a
couple of hours, from 4 to 6 p. M,
was spent in delightful social con
verse; light refreshments were
served. A carriage drive was also
rendered the visiting guests who
we're delighted with the many
elegant homes, the lovely shaded
streets and the substantial business
houses.
The Gainesville w. c. T. U. is
about sixty strong and by Their
efforts Gainesville is supplied with
public drinking fountain, at a
cost of over $500. This fountain
runs ice water during the summer,
the gentlemen of the city con
tributing to the ice fund. The
State Convention met at the
fountain at the close of the carriage
drive. and held little praise
service to commemorate the
placing of the fountain,
The Convention elected as state
officials the following: For presi
dent Miss Minnie + Neal, o
DeLand, whose annual address
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19

so blind / cannot see that 1t is best
That sometime it may be adj
visable do not question but that
il is time now l seriously doubt
l trust am self sacrificing
enough to be willing to pay some
additional taxes to benefit even a
goodly portion Of my neighbors
but so fat l have been unable to
see where il will benefit only a
very few and they, only where the
new county seats may be located.
In the first place neither Polk or
DeSoto are densely enough
populated to warrant a division.
We only have a reasonably dense
population on the western border
and it must be some years before
the eastern portion Of the county
is settled to any extent.
It does not seem to me it ought
to take very long or very deep
investigation to see that three sets
of county officers will cost greatly
more than one.
1t is said there will not be so
much to do. We can get cheaper
men, For one | have had enough
of cheap men and if any of you go
to sell piece of DeSoto county
land and get an abstract of title if
you don't see the trail of cheap
men all through the abstract Of
title then your experience will be
vastly different from mine. The
talk that the rate of taxation is
limited is only to mislead while it
is true the rate is limited the
valuation is not and it will be
found it takes more hard earned
dollars to settle the tax collectors
bill after division than before and
that to continue year after year.
Neither can see that an acre
Of my Florida sand will produce a
bushel more corn or potatoes OF
take a drop less sweat out of me OF
the old white mule or a pound
less fertilizer after division than
before. Iu
Though the new county might
be named Paradise and the county
seat Beulah to me these are some
of the facts that / have to face
squarely.
/ have been a tax payer here
now for nearly a quarter of
century and the tax receipts signed
bv the collector of Manatee county
which it was twenty-five years ago
and the same receipt signed by the
collector of DeSoto county, as i
now is, have a SOLDERING effect on 9
4 - II
man and there are good many OF
you that ought to be able to get
the same kind of evidence, lfyou
really enjoy paying taxes then OF
course you will vote for division.
/ get all of it l really enjoy as it is,
l live about as far from a county
seat as the most Of the citizens OF
DeSoto and l do not see that ]
have suffered greatly in flesh
morals or purse. If l get to where
l cannot go any further without
seeing the county seat the A. e.
IL. gives cheap excursions every
summer and l can go to Arcadia
and spend day or two and pay
railroad fare a good many times
over rather than settle the adj
ditiotal taxes that division will
mean to me and every other man
that is trying to get grits and
4 clothes out Of Florida sand. 81 h}I
IRVING KEcK.
\ Bowling Green, Fla.
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19
ladies' Friday Musicale.

The Ladies Friday Musicale
met with Mrs. ]. H. Treadwell
April Is. ai 9
Following was the program;
Pioneer, Vernar, ..o,...".",...""."...
Mrs. w. H. Seward
Silvery Showers...."....."....".,.,,
~ i Mrs. Mitchell
Duet, Melody Of Love, Engelman,
Mesdames Chollar and R L. Brown
Beautiful Star of Heaven,
Drumheller ...o.r"...r.",."'"'.
Mrs. r. r. Whidden
Rustic Dance, Howard..n"o,,..Y""'.
Mrs. J. N. Hollingsworth
Loves Lament, Eaton...v.".."...".'.,,
Mrs. R. E. Brown
After a short business session
the club adjourned to meet with
Mrs. Seward, April 20,
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-19

The weather is quite cool for
this time Of year,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
SPRING CLEANING DAY.

1t is greatly to be hoped that citizens
generally will observe the procIama-
tions issued by Governor cutler and
Mayor Thompson and take advantage
Of the holiday tomorrow for cleaning
up purposes. Much has been done
along this line since the Civic Improve
ment league inaugurated its campaign,
but much remains to be done. The pic
lures published in The Herald from day
to day last week gave abundant evil
dence of the necessity for cleaning the
city. It was impossible to show all the
bad places, or even all the worst places.
Those that We're shown were, however,
typical.
Now if every Salt Lake householder
will devote even half of tomorrow to
cleaning his premises, to putting them
in such shape that he would welcome
an inspection, the appearance of the
city would be vastly improved. The
work should be done not only for the
sake of appearances but for the sake
of the public health. Carelessness in
the matter of sanitary precautions be
gets disease. Disease means, at the
best, heavy expense; at the worst it
means bereavement which the stricken
ones will never forget
In no case is the maxim that "a
stitch in time saves nine more per-
tinent than in the case of private prem
ises. Three or four hours of work to-
morrow on your part may save you no
end Of anxiety and distress later on.
There may be a disease breeding spor
in your yard than you can remove with
very little effort. For the sake Of your
own family and the family of your
neighbor it is your duty as a citizen to
put your premises in first-class order
and keep them so.
Arrangements have been made with
the city health department whereby
refuse, if neatly piled, will be carted
away during the week. The Improve
ment league advises housekeepers 10
burn everything that can be burned.
The residue should be piled up in read
mess for the coming of the garbage
wagon. So be Industrious tomorrow.
You will find that the place looks so
well after it has been cleaned that you
will want to keep it clean from this
time forward.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
FASTER.

The anniversary of the greatest event
in the history of the Christian world
will be celebrated today in Christian
churches everywhere, the anniversary
OF the resurrection of Christ. Beautf-
full though the life of the Man or Sor-
rows was, marvellous the miracles He
performed, splendid the example He set
to those with whom He came in contact
when He was on the earth, the resur-
rection was essential to the life Of the
religion he preached. Christ might
have lived out His life among His fol-
lowers, He might have died on Cal
vary assuring them that He was or
fering Himself as an atonement ror
their sins and yet, if He had not risen
again as He promised the Christian
religion would today be buried, neglect
ed, forgotten, under the dust or the
ages; the Christ would be regarded, II
any regarded Him at all, as either an
entirely mythical parsonage or as
charlatan who deceived for few brief
years and then passed out of sight for
ever.
Christ had taught his disciples: The
Son of Man is delivered INTO the hands
Of men and they shall kin him; and
after that he is killed he shall rise the
third day" And the biographers tell
us that upon the first day or the week
after the crucifxion certain ones Wis
tied the sepulchre in which the broken
body had been laid. Though soldiers
had guarded the tomb the great stone
at its entrance had been rolled away
and the body of Christ was gone. In
its place stood two men "in shining
garments" And, as the faithful little
band drew back affrighted. this Won
derful message was given them:
why seek we the living among the
dead? He is not here, but is risen
So the singers in the great churches
and cathedrals, in the little mission
houses far out in the country will to-
day proclaim the risen Savior. IN
numbered congregations of worshipers
will devoutly give thanks for the way
that has been opened to their spiritual
salvation. It does not make the slight
est difference what the unbeIiever may
believe or disbelieve; it may even be
admitted that the life of Christ was
full of shams, that his divine origin
was a myth and his resurrection a
fraud, but the fact remains that no in
duence since the world began has ever
been so potent for good, so compelling
a factor in inspiring a universal belief
in the brotherhood of man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
bubble AND SQUEAK

Gratitude is the most temporary of
emotions.
man who cannot make love is a
nonentity-so the women think.
When one can analyze ones love, one
has Outgrown it.
A man with a healthy stomach has
no excuse for losing his soul; man
with bad stomach should be excused
anything and everything.
Some people are too well bred to be
original in anything.
She-I should like to see. you sue
coed, you try so hard.
He-I have done nothing for weeks
and weeks.
She-No; but you think so much of
what you are going to do when you
get more time.
HE'S that sarcasm?
She-Sarcasm? Why, 1 love you.
A woman cannot forgive an inten-
tional liberty; but she can forgive an
unintentionaI one-the boldness of love.
The pessimist and the optimist are
perhaps alike mistaken; but the opti-
mist is the more selfish of the two.
There is nothing as humanizing as a
good cigar.
A common adversary is a bond of
friendship between strangers.
1t takes practical people to make an
ideal world
He-YoU are a bright old girl.
She-I know have occasional fits of
| 'brilliancy.
He-Oh, no; you are chemically wise.
She-Indeedi But chronic is a
term applied to evils that it is impos-
sible to cure
He-Well, in this dull world wisdom
! itself is disease; for although it
| brings with it some happiness-intrinsic
| happiness-it antagOniZes all mankind.
The truth from others lips does not
| humiliate us, for we seldom recognize
! from ourselves that we learn some
thing about our littIeness and failings.
/ Walter Blackburn Hare.
''Afer exposure, what?" inquiries the
] Evening Post. Why, a hurried devel-
| Opment and then unlimited printing
! Any muddiness in the pictures may be
| traced to overeXposure.
The Independent, which champions
! spelling reform and advocates dropping
! unnecessary letters speaks of Alfred
Russell Wallace, but there is only
one ] in this Russell And Alfred Russell
Wallace isn't spelling reformer, eth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
THE MYSTERIES OF LITERATURE
The Author Chaser.

Literature did not begin with the
Author Chaser; the earliest records of
the chase make no mention of an au-
thor as the quarry. Nor did the Au-
thor Chaser begin with Literature; the
earliest records of publishing are equal
~ silent. The Author Chaser is a dis
tinctly modern product. Every large
publishing house maintains at least one,
and the guild are, for the most part,
q genial, wholesouled set, and good
sportsmen. When a pair of Author
Chasers get together and talk over the
seasons bag, the stories of their ex-
PLOTS are worth listening to.
While the Author Chaser hunts small
game-chipmunk authors and jaCkrab-
bit authOrs-his chief quarry is the
Best Seller To bag this rare and no.
BILE game he will travel thousands OF
miles, and beat the brush in the wild
est sections of the continent; frequent
ly he will cross the sea. And once he
has scented his prey he is tireless.
One of the best trailers in the guild
is Jimmie Macarthur of Harper's
His approach is practically noiseless,
and he is a capital shot. 1t is worth
while to watch him wing a Best Seller
on the jump. Hewett Rowland of
Bobbs-M Merrill company, has not been
has done effective work with his old
muzzIe-loading 10-gauge Royalty rifle,
and is deservedly popular.
The uncertainties of author chasing
make the sport fully as exciting as
Shark hunting. The Shark may turn
into a BOOjum, you know; so the prom
Using Best Seller may prove a False
Alarm. The woods are full of literary
Boojums.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
CITY OF MEXICO
AND RETURN 5000

April % to May the Colorado Mid
land will sell tickets Salt Lake to City
of Mexico and return for $69. so. Good
for stopovers up to sixty days. Your
choice of the three excellent routes
Through observation car to Denver. IL
Illustrated books on Mexico free. Tick
ct office a West Second South, Salt
Lake.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

inality, invite the development of the
individual and sift out the incompetent.
Finally, it wants, and will have, q sys-
TEN which leaves some chance for the
teacher to adapt her methods to the
children under her care
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

The newspaper cartoonist begins
business with one idea-the railroad
train and the obstruction on the track
He draws this all his life, and it is
copied into the Review of Reviews and
the Literary Digest. We are living in
hope that the man at the switch, who
sometimes figures in the picture, will
some day switch the train into the
chasm labeled oblivion" and that
among the passengers viii be the Jus
tice with the Scales, Labor in a Paper
Cap, the G.. O. P. Elephant and other
white-whiskered favorites. a cartoon
list with a new set of symbols-but no;
il wouldn't do.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

Esperanto has been recognized as a
language by the London Chamber of
Commerce Esperanto is now in line
for spelling reform.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
Epiarams While You Wait.

our valued acquaintance, Mr.. Worth
ington Piffe, informs us that he has
set up in the epigram business, and
has on hand a choice stock of pithy
and antithetical sayings, suitable for
novelists, presidential message writer's,
professional exposers and eXpOunders
of Success in the business world.
These epigrams" writes Mr. Piffe.
may be had in dozen lots or in strings
of 80, and are warranted to keep free
from mold, in any climate. Mr.. Roose-
welt employs them in his messages, and
Senator Beverage purchased two
strings for use in his book, The Young
Man and the World l inclose a spec
linen cluster. If you can divert any
business my way. 1 shall be grateful"
Following are the specimen epigrams:
Be serious. No man ever joked his
way to any large measure of financial
Success.
1t is wise to save the first dollar that
one makes in business, but wiser to
save the last.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Wear
your cloud with the lining outside
The young man who bitches his wag-
on to a star seldom gets to own an
automobile.
An ounce of commonplace is worth a
ton of subtlety-
Be obvious, and let who will be clev-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

King Edward has disposed of his
Whistler Etchings. He prefers Bouge-
reau. His mothers favorite author was
Marie Corelli. Cultured family, the
Guelphs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

To the Salt Lake Herald:
What is the correct solution of this
problem: Two boys have each day 30
papers apiece. One day A sells his pa
pers at for cent. making 10 cents. B
sells his 80 papers at for l cent. making
10 cents. Together they make % cents.
The next day a gets sick and turns his
papers over to 3. sells the 60 papers
at for cents, making "a cents. Where
does the difference of cent come in?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
the club is: When in doubt. write a
Rubaiyat1
with Bubble and Squeak's Publish
erS."

Don't you think the April issue of
Bubble and Squeak is perfectly splen
did? All of our staff think so. We
are pardonably proud of it. and are
thinking of raising the price. Will
you stand for it, dear readers?
Fiction makes a magazine import
ant Facts make it True. This is i'm
portant if true.
Our earnest endeavor is to make our
fiction read like facts and our facts
read like fiction. We are succeeding.
Our readers can scarcely tell them
apart, so they tell us.
Be cure to get the May issue of
Bubble and Squeak" David Graham
Phillips new Philippe. 1.-The Treason
of the Gulf Stream begins in that
number.
Verbum sat sapienti.
John Oliver Hobbies" AYERS that no
better writings than those of Edith
Wharton and Mary f. wilkins are ap-
pearing at the present time. John Oil
yer is also of the female sex.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

The public as well as the Salt Lake
Route officials will find reason for con-
graduation in the fact that the road
is again open and ready for business
Thus some sensational reports pub
lished when the washouts on the line
first occurred are shown to have been
almost utterly devoid of foundation ~
fact. The trouble was bad enough, in
all conscience, and the greatest energy
was needed in the work of getting the
road into shape again. The manage
ment proved itself equal to the task,
however, and Salt Lakers viii all join
heartily in hoping that from this time
forward there will be no more mishaps
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

SIegePs Modern Clothing House, 22s-
230 Main.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15

On the first day A sells papers at x of
a cent and B at y cent each. The aver
age price that day is SIP of a cent. This
makes the selling price of the so papers
p cents. On the next day the selling
price Is 2-5 of a cent for each paper. or "a
cents for the 60. The difference of 1 cent
is due to the change of Price.