The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-08-13

Office Second Floor Espenlaub Building Oak Street, Arcad
The weather for the past week has been showery
cool and pleasant This section is getting all tn
rain needed now.
The A. c. L. is advertising the last Tampa excur
trip from Arcadia
Senator w. B. Allison, of Iowa, died at his home
in Dubuque on August sixth. He was seventy mine
years of age and had served his state in the U. S.
Senate continuously for thirty-fve years.
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The Times Unions new editor is Willis M. Ball,
who has for number of years been managing editor
of that daily The work is, therefore, not new to
him and he is emnently fitted both by ability and
training to fill the post made vacant by the death Of
Geo. w. Wilson.
More and more states are taking up the primary
system of elections. Illinois last week held her first
election under this system and nominated Adlai
Stevenson democratic governor of the state 1t will
be remembered that Mr. Stevenson was vice president
one term under Grover Cleveland.
The political representations in the republican
and democratic newspapers startlingy uniform as
to their confidence in the election of their own party
candidates for president. So far we have heard ef
no other astrologer who is so rash as to venture
prophecy of whether it will be Taft or Bryan.
Tampas carnival Of crime continues Seldom a
wees=ssszes SShdst: murder Or suicide, and outside
observers are inquiring the cause Of all this Not
prosperity surely, for the suicides always have All
excuse restitution business failures despair. The
murders generally can be traced to bad whiskey for
all whiskey is bad
We notice with pleasure that the bright young son
of the Hon J. NJ c. Stockton havyssse won the
Rhodes holaship at Princeton last year will shortly
leave for England to finish his education at Oxford
we believe. Such son with such prospects ought to
more than compensate J. N. c. for having to let the
governors chair he filed by bachelor
It is said that there is no known cure for the bite
of mad dog except the Pasteur treatment, but
recently noticed newspaper article which stated
that physician of standing said the effects of mad
dog bite could be prevented if the bite was instantly
washed with warm vinegar and water and afterward
what it is worth 1t surely could do no harm to try
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If times hard the thrifty cut off their luxuries
and buy only the necessities This is true except in
the case of the drinker AS times grow harder he
spends the more literally with the saloon man who
furnishes temporary cup of cheer, but poverty
distress and crime follow in the wake of the dram
drinkers shoEtG6f consolation. Cut it out friends
WithHn2 p you conquer hard times,
~ financial and bodily ruin
primary system of holding state elections is no
doubt an Improvement on the old convention methods
1t is not SO easily handled by grafters and fraud
but it is by perfect nor free
from these Objectionable citizens and their wicked
ways The first few elections are reasonably free
from the bad mans influence, bat so soon as he
learns the tricks that may be worked in primary
system then the peoples will and their majorities are
manipulated fradulently as of old.
The Wright Brothers, Of Dayton Ohio, really
seem to have solved the problem of ercl navigation
by heavier than-air machines. Tests were made last
week in Paris that convinced the most skeptical that
these American inventors were away in the lead Of
any Others in their line. The French who have been
throwing out surs in this direction say frankly now