The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-09-24

Lee County has put out ticket against the demo
Gratis to be voted for in the November general election
This seems to be good school year almost all over
Florida, according to the various local newspapers
And it is so If Arcadia may be taken fair sample
Our school never was prosperous and bids fair to
be even better than our fondest anticipatons
Editor H. c. Sparkman's Perry Herald came to
hand this week. and altho it comes from field with
which we are not familiar still it looks like an old
friend Here's wishing the Herald and its editor all
kinds of success, such as good editor and good
newspaper always deserve.
The news comes from Michigan that Florida took
first premium at the State Fair recently held there
for fruits, vegetables and tropical plants. The
exhibit was got together by J, c. Bale, and Mrs.
Florence P. Haden. of Cocoanut Grove near Miami,
had charge of the exhibit.
The Asiatic cholera has broken out in Russia, and
is attaining great virulence many deaths being re-
ported The Philippine Islands are infected and re-
port death rate of twenty day, at Manila There
is we'll grounded cause for fear that this dreadful
disease will spread throughout other sections of Asia
those 'na' are a..aeEse -na ready for y
Attic the t 5btf .'ast6 Fsi,w, was not until
htember %, thu section was afflicted wit3a three
Rays rain storm beginning on last Saturday and last
ing until Tuesday night, September 22. At no time
this season has there been SO much standing water
over the whole surface of the country in the past
few days. If this is sample of DeVoes fair weather
we are apprehensive of what his storm period, pre-
dicted for the last Of this week, will do for us.
Already the statesmen of the civilized world are
beginning to worry over international questions in
reference to the arships that will be navigating
the skies. If the air about us is to become high
way, then that element which has hitherto been free
to all who wish to it, will become merchantable
product and limits will be- doubtless shortly defined
beyond which foreign arships shall not penetrate,
without consent of the nations owning the land
beneath. The national boundaries are made to in
clude so many miles of the waters which surround
land and with successful air navigation probably
like boundaries will be defined in the skies.
The shocking accident which wrecked the Wright
arship last Friday killed Lieutenant Selfrdge and
seriously injured Orvie Wright, is one of those
lamentable accidents that almost certain to occur
in launching any new invention wherein so many
elemeptsRf d5nger are combined The history of
{ hAI90i dotted with death records, the use of
eIFicI<y 5<<m and oils motive powers have long
deeth rolls to their credit So the airship has its
victims. In time the science of building arships and
using them will have progressed so favoraby that
the elements of danger will be mostly removed Be-
fore that few lives must be sacrificed that humanity
may be benefited immeasurably
The Wright aeropane in unofficial flight made
at Fl Myer Washington, last Friday, broke its
propeller blades when at height Of about seventy
five feet and pSrcpitated to the ground killing
Lieutenant Selfridge who was by order Of the
government on the aeropane receive instruction in
its pending the purchase Of the aeroplane by the
government, which was to buy it at contract price
4of $4,000 if the official tests required by the
government were complied with before September 2s
II is understood that the government will extend the
time limit for the official test until such time as the
Wright Brothers may be ready. Orvle Wright, who
was steering the aeroplan> 4 ~ eight. was seriously