The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-01-30
When Our Love Began.

In union fast and leal
We know it not in the sentient way
OF the passionate embrace,
For we had no ken of mortal things
Nor the form of mortal grace.
With the sweet and fleet bewderment
OF first beatude
We touched and passed in the whirling throng
Of the spirit multitude,
Then sped our ways in the wilderness
OF a human destiny,
With only the feel of faint
And mystic memory
But ever we heard mating CALL
And ever sang the note
Till the good God brought us eye to eye
And we spoke from throat to throat.
Now nothing matters of time or place
In mere mortality,
For the twain that loved in the Souls estate
Are one for eternity
Clarence Ousley in Uncle Remuss Magazine for
February.
Political announcements in THE CHAMPION this
year will cost $500 EACH You might just about as
we'll get in line and announce because it don't get
any cheaper by waiting.
The Charlotte Harbor & Northern Railway
Company has made arrangements for a daily boat
service between Boca Grande and all points on
Sanibel Island This will be very great convenience
for travellers to and from Sanbel who will thus make
the trip continuous one avoiding tedious stops
The editor acknowledges the receipt of a season
ticket to the Midwinter Exposition at Jacksonville
that opened last Saturday and will continue until
April IS. President Roosevelt sent his congraula
tons, Governor Broward made speech as did other
prominent citizens, and the opening was most ausp
cous We trust the attendance will be large and the
good the Exposition will do Florida immense
Florida has had governors and governors but
Governor Broward has come nearer living up TO his
campaign pledges than any governor that ever served
the state, and when his term expires it can be re.
corded that he accomplished more in the interests Of
The people than any that ever occupied the exec
itive chair Broward is bigger and nearer the people
o-day than any time in his life and notwithstanding
he slush and mud thrown at him by the corporate
'resS' his influence in state affairs will continue for
ears to come to the great discontinue of those who
lave special interests to subserve-Manatee Record
The heroic fight made by the temperance people of
laron county for the abolition of the saloon appears
have failed, but they the satisfaction of know
lg that they go down to defeat i'll good cause and
nat the majority of the white people of their country
re in favor of shutting the saloons out In Marion
ounty as in the other places where the saloons have
'on, the contest was decided by the negro vote.
hese results reading fast on each others heads
My tend to emphasize that John s. Beard was right
hen, months ago, he warned the people of the
angers of negro suffrage in the state The truth Of
IT, Boards prediction has. however come sooner
nd closer home than any Of us imagined it would.
epsacoa Journal.
Inc new ruling OF the Post Office Department that
inscriptions to all publications must be paid in
1vance is causing good deal of serious comment
nong our exchanges. OF course it will effect THE
HAMPTON too but perhaps to lesser extent than
most any weekly publication in the State because
u the past SIX months we have been putting that
lie INTO practice as fast as we can There are still
o"eVer few on our lists that we will have to hear
ON before April first or drop from our mailing list
re you one Of those few3