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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1908-10-22
Those Amendments.


ments, which are to be voted upon
at the coming election, should be
carefully studied by all voters be-
fore that day arrives.
One of them provides that the
salaries of the Justices Of the SUI
preme court, circuit judges and
Judges of criminal courts of record
shall be fixed by the legislature.
The second one, if ratified, will
place an annual tax of one mill on
the dollar upon all taxable proper
ty in Florida for the support Of
the State educational institutions.
Additional judicial circuits to be
created from time to time as may
become necessary is power that
the third proposed amendment
will give the legislature, If it is
ratified by the voters.
That the circuit Judges should
be paid better salaries and that
additional circuits should be Gre
ated, is evident; but THE HERALD
hasn't enough confidence in the
legislature to favor giving it the
power to fix the salaries. The
people should do this themselves.
We are in favor Of curtailing the
powers of the Legislature rather
than increasing them, but it will
probably be we'll to provide for
the creation of additional circuits
as contemplated in the third pro-
posed amendment.
We agree with the Times Union
in that the circuits should be so
created that the judges will all
have about the same amount of
work TO do, and that, in conse-
quence, their salaries should all
be equal. OF course their pay
should be in proportion to the
work connected with the Office.
The salaries received by circuit
Judges now, are not in such pro-
portion, and some of the judges
have more work to do than they
ought to have. But we should
not be too hasty in settling the
matter and not settle it right.
AS for the one-mil tax to sup
port the State educational institu.
tons as will be provided by the
ratification of the second proposed
amendment, this will not be suffi-
cient for the maintenance of said
institutions and additional appro-
priations will have to be made by
the Legislature from time TO time.
Would it be wise to settle this
matter in such halfway fash
ion"9 We should seek to reduce
taxation; and if we are going to
levy a special tax for the support
of the State institutions, let us
make it sufficient for their needs
and give the legislature no voice
whatever in the matter.
To conclude, the proposed
amendments have been discussed
but little and they deal with sub
jects of Importance to every citi.
zen of Florida. That the voters
may act intelligently, they should,
as stated at the beginning of this
article, give thoughtful considera-
ton to the propositions they en-
body.
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There are resources in Florida
which are practically yet undiscov-
cred, the development of which
with those that are already posi-
lively known to exist will make
her the Empire State of the South.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1908-10-22
THURSDAY, OCT. %, 1908.

From all indications Bryan will
be elected president by the largest
popular vote ever given a candi-
date for that exalted position.
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saONE l7-Both zealand Long Distance
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-20

that proper swizzlestick looks like
five pointed star. The sticks should be
cut in the dark of the moon by blue
gummed Obeah doctor. who should
carry the left hind foot of graveyard
rabbit in his trousers pocket. Some
expert swizzlers go so far as to assert
that the best swizzlesticks must be cut
on Friday the thirteenth of the month,
by an Obeah doctor who has previously
sacrificed a white chicken, soaking the
roots of the vine in blood, in order that
the stick shall be induced TO give it's
most satisfying and thirst quenching
results.
The most popular swizzle-the ia
nous green swizzle'--cannot be pro-
cured in San Francisco, because no one
has up to the present seen fit to I'M
port the ingredients and the swizzle-
sticks. Falernum, which is sort or
West Indian equivalent of vermouth, is
made of lines and sundry herbs dis
titled in rum spirits. Wormwood bit
ters is. as the name implies. made from
wormwood and is much like absinthe.
To make a green swizzle, pursued
the traveller, warming up to his sub
ject, take tall glass, three table,
spoonfuls of rum, two tablespoonfuls
of falernum, dash of wormwood Bit
ters; half fill the glass with shaved
not cracked-ice, twirl the swizzlestick
rapidly between the palms until the
shaved ice is melted and the beverage
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servant, Cha Tung," the old man made
haste to say. Does the pirate king de-
sire to feed further on the python's
prey?"
Tai Ting comes not as the pirate
the youth answered. Tonight he de-
sires but to do honor to the fawn Cha
Tung, as the lord of Tall, shall no
longer feel the fang of the wolf"
Tails eyes opened wide in wonder.
A great joy filled her innocent heart.
This youth, to whom she had given her
love unasked was the brave Tai Ting,
whose name was ever spoken at the
freside with bated breath; and he had
come, fearlessly setting at naught a
thousand deaths. Her prayers to the
river god had been surely heard.
On hearing the peaceful words of the
dreaded pirate Cha Tung's fear left him
and he beckoned the youth to his chair.
Filling himself great draught, he held
it toward the stranger.
'As the guest of Cha Tung, Tai Ting
shall be as safe as in his wolf lair" he
cried, then raised the fagon to his lips
and drank deeply.
Tall went tremblingly to her master
and bowed low before him. She dared
not look into the face of the wolf, else
the crafty Cha Tung might read in her
eyes the love she bore for this noble
youth.
Upon a table near the bridegroom s
chair there stood a huge bowl filled
with silver. the donations of the guests.
Tai Ting glanced at this with scornful
eyes, while the curious crowd awaited
in breathless silence to see the value
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on thy head?" Cha Tung asked.
'"Tai Ting has heard that the Illus
trious Cha Tung has ever been man
of honor. Such as he would not lose
face for a thousand times that puny
sum-
The bridegroom chuckled in his
beard.
How wouldst thou II Cha Tung be-
trayed thee?" he asked. craftiIy con-
cealing the earnestness in his mind.
eyes for an instant. Then 1t passed and
he answered careIeSsly:
Tai Ting believes in the promise of
Cha Tung, therefore he will not give
thought to g. betrayal"
The marriage feast was at it's height
Time and again had the great bowl of
samshu been filled and each time
emptied by the joyous crowd. The
drawn away from their lords. Many of
the guests had long since succumbed
to the fumes of the intoxicant. Her
heart filled with a sickening dread,
Tails eyes, dumbly appealing, fol-
lowed the fearless youth, ever wearing
smile on his thin straight lips. his
mocking laughter ringing knell like in
her ears. Then her anxious gaze would
turn to the crafty face of her husband.
his evil eyes ha8 veiled. while a cruel
smile passed and repassed over his
wrfnkled countenanCe.
For had not Tall seen within the
hour one OF her husbands henchmen
receive sign and steal unobserved
from the room? There could be but
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SfT LMOST all mixed drinks in the
~ West Indies are called swizzles
because almost all mixed drinks
are mixed with a swizzlestick," said
the returned traveller as he dropped
into his chair and shifted the cocktail
which had just been served. The
swizzlestick" he continued, makes the
best mixer invented because 1T blends
the ingredients more thoroughly than
is possible with a spoon or even a
shaker. A swizzled cocktail is colder,
milder and smoother than any other
kind. The average West Indian, ac-
customed to the almost frappe. perfect
ly blended swizzle would turn up his
nose at the cocktail as handed to US
across the bar" and he ordered an
other.
What is a swizzlestick, anyhow ?"
inquired the seeker of knowledge.
"Swizzlestick." replied the traveller,
lis made from a vine indigenous to the
West Indian islands; 1t has been classi-
fed by Barbadian botanists as Swizzle-
stickia celesta, or heavenly swizzle-
stick. At intervals of foot or more
this benefcient vine sends forth five
shoots at right angles to the stem, so
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A Wise Man Tells of SwizzIes and SwizzIesticks
into a cocktail

almost frappe: strain into a cocktail
glass and drink.
The dry or red swizzIe is made
in the same way, but the falernum is
omitted and small teaspoonful of an
gostura bitters is used instead of the
wormwood. An excellent swizzle which
is very satisfying in a tropical cli-
mate is called the long swizzle.' 1t is
made of the juice of two lines, Tom or
Holland gin, a couple of dashes of
angostura, and after the ingredients
have been well blended with the shaved
ice, pour in bottle of Schwepp's soda.
The Demerara swizzle Is much liked
by ladies and by some men who have
what is known as a sweet tooth Take
the juice of half an orange, three table
spoonfuls of rum or gin, as you prefer;
two tablespoonfuls of falernum, a dash
of angostura, swizzle them with shaved
ice and after straining into a smaller
glass twist the oil of the orange peel
on top.
AN egg swizzle is made with the
juice of lime, rum, dash of angos-
tura. a raw egg, and is swizzIed un-
til there is rich foam on the top.
Brandy swizzles. Scotch swizzles and
rye swiZzles admit of infinite variety
Some barmen add dash of curacao
or kummel to give a flavor; in fact
there is no limit to the delicious sum-
mer drinks which can be made on
swizzle lines, so to speak,
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lord. AS becoming a maiden, she cast
her sad dark eyes on the ground, not
daring to raise them amid such a COM
pany. The music, harsh. strident. of
Chinese band struck cruelty on her
ears. The noise of clinking glasses
and snatches of ribald songs made her
shudder with an overwhe Ginning fear.
The roistering crowd gave way before
her as she wended her way slowly to-
ward old Cha Tung, seated at the other
end of the great room. But there in
her path stood one, his robes magnifi-
Gently embroidered in gold and silver.
Tails timid heart almost stopnr
beating, for within the disguise Of tha :
gorgeous robe she knew was he Of
whom she had long dreamed. Why was
he here? What luckless fate had given
him to her now. when she, by the law
of the land, was the property of an
other? She raised her blushing face
and saw his fearless eyes were ur
her. She beheld him, mistily, his noble
head thrown back def1antly, towering
above the assemblage. She swayed u
steadily in her torturing shoes. abashed
under the searching gaze of the young
giant. while the room became hushed.
The doleful music had ceased In a wall
ing note. All eyes were upon the beau
tiful bride and the handsome stranger
fearlessly gazing upon forbidden
ground. Reluctantly the youth moved
away, and then, grasping great fiago1
of the marriage wine, held 1T nigh
above his head.
81 drink to 10000 years of joy for
Tall, the fawn, and Cha Tung, the
python" he cried in mocking tones
The silk merchants face grew black
as a storm cloud. How dared this in
truder insult Cha Tung, the most pow
erful Chinaman in the province, to
whom even the governor came for ad-
vice and aid? Yet his suspicious na-
ture counseled patience. Who was
this stranger? Princes in disguise had
been known to mingle with their sub
jects.
WHO art thou?" the bridegroom
asked in his shrill treble, that burst
insult Cha Tung on his marriage
day?'
II am he who feeds upon the catch
of the python" the youth answered
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IMPOSSIBLE Problems Men Work and Sometimes SOIy

whose researches in the field of low
temperature have brought out so many
new and startling facts, succeeded by
cooling down the rare gas helium by
the aid of liquefied hydrogen in regis
tering the almost inconceivable tenn
perature of 422 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit. But this is not absolute
zero, and the problem remains unsolved.
Here and there, in odd corners of the
earth, gray. bent men still pore over
crucibles, seeking the philosophers
stone-that mysterious and wonderful
substance that will, they believe, when
found, change the baser metals into
gold. 1t never will be found, of course,
for such a substance in the nature of
Nevertheless, for hundreds of years the
best brains and keenest intellects in
Christendom have sought it early and
late.
Nor were their Iabors wholly wasted,
for 1t was while searching for this myth
ical treasure that Bother stumbled on
the secret of manufacture of porcelain;
Roger Bacon on that of the composition
of gunpowder; Geber on the properties
Of acids; Van Helmont on the nature
of gas, and DR.. Glauber on the salts
which bear his name. After similar
fashion, too, the three century long
hunt for the elixir of life bequeathed
to us a whole host of valuable reme-
dial drugs and was the means in
directly of saving or. at all events,
prolonging literally millions of lives.
So also as the result of the vain
search after perpetual motion there
was evolved the greatest of all the
generalizations of modern physical
science, the principle of the conserva-
tion of energy. and even now more or
less important discoveries are being
constantly stumbled on by seekers aft
er the same perennial will o. the wisp.
For let it be by no means imagined
that the perpetual motion cranks are
all dead and gone. On the contrary,
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- HERE died in the year lSOz IN
st. Felix, small village in the
department of Haute Garonne,
France. says the Inter Ocean, q
wealthy octogenarian horticulturist.
who spent the last As years Of his
life and a sum variously estimated at
from $50. 900 to $4,000 in attempting
TO produce by artificial cultivation a
blue rose.
He failed. and that for the best Of
reasons-the task is one impossible of
accomplishment AS De Candolle, a
great authority on this subject. has
pointed out, yellow and blue are the
fundamental types of colors in flowers,
and these colors are antagonistic, mu-
tuaIly excluding each other Yellow
by culture may be changed into red or
white. but never into blue. On the
other hand. blue will pass into red,
but never into yellow. We have yell
low rose, hence there is no blue.
The pursuit of the absolute zero point
IS to chemists what the discovery OF
the north pole is TO geographers. Ever
since Fahrenheit, in 1924, broached
the problem. scientists innumerable
have strlven to reach the goal in vain.
although each in turn has succeeded
IN outdistancing the other, says the
Baltimore Sun.
Thus Fahrenheit boasted that no
one could ever attain artificially to a
greater degree of cold than he pro-
duccd with salt and ice-7 degrees be-
low zero-although. of course. he did
not suppose the cold ended there. Yet
within a few years of his death more
than 100 degrees below had been OBJ
tained, and Professor James Dewar,
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table computer. one Ludolph van Ceu-
len, continued his calculations as long
as ne lived. and at his death had
the result inscribed on his tombstone
at ST. Peters church, Leyden.
Yet third enthusiast worked out the
calculation to more than 700 places OF
decimals, and even then did not get so
near as Peter Metius. who guessed Mt
this answer This latter lucky gentle
man asserted that the diameter IA 70
the circumference as 113 is to 355. This
is so nearly right that the error wou1a
be less than a foot in a circle WITH
1000 mile radius.
For long time this approximate tiox
was as near as any one could get ~
In 1853 a women mathematician went
one better Here is her formula. From
three diameters deduct eight thou
sandths and sevep millionths of a diam
eter. and to the result add per cent -
We have then not quite enough. bur
the shortage Is only at the rate OF
about an inch and a sixteenth OF an
inch in $4,000 miles Finally, an Eng
lishnan named Shanks succeeded in re-
ducfng by more than one-half even
this wellnigh infnitesimal error. and
there for the present the matter rests.
1t may be of interest to note. how
ever, that some little while back a man
made great hubbub in London be-
cause he had not obtained the reward
which he alleged had been offered for
discovery of the correct solution. al
though he claimed TO have arrived at
It, He said he did it by actual meas
urement, and it was found on investfga-
ton that he had constructed lockwood
disk of twelve inches in diameter which
he rolled along a straight rail- The
man was joiner by trade and evident
ly knew well what he was about when
he measured. for his answer. 3140625.
Is wrong by less than l in 5000.
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1>& WEDDING FEAST q Tall

Of the robbers gift Drawing from his
inner girdle a small package, he care
fully unroIled its silken wrappings anu
flung carelessly about the neck or Ia
LII a necklace of priceless jade NO
other than a princess could wear sucil
a costly ornament. Cha Tungs ava
ricious eyes gloated on this wondrous
gift; its possession would Drins MN
fame throughout the empire.
Under the mellowins influence or
wine he conversed condignly with the
young pirate. whose wolfish clan had
robbed him these many years even 10
the half of his immense profits at the
English seaport.
Thou art indeed a brave man 10
trust thy life to my honor. Dost know
that there is a hundred thousand taeis
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Tails soft eyes filled with tears of
modification, yet her stepmother's
singing words rolled on an unstilled
torrent. Then for a f1eeting second
the tears were dried and there hared
forth a fierce hatred for this unkempt
old shrew who had sold her young
body to old Cha Tung.
Come. thou slovenl" the woman
cackled, and help thy sisters. Thou
canst dream after Cha Tung has taken
thee to his home"
The sinister mockery in her mirth
brought new terror to the heart of
little Tall.
There was plenty of work for her
delicate hands, unused as they were
to all save needlework taught her by
the sisters of the mission school, Many
varieties of meats were cooking in the
great ovens and the sweets were plen-
tiful and of as many colors as the plu-
mage of the water fowl on the river.
Then hours must be spent in the final
brewing of the vile samshu that all
Chinese gentlemen must partake of
lavishly at the wedding feast else the
bridegroom think that his friends are
not pleased at his choice.
Tails sisters, less fair than she,
sulked envious of the girl whose lucky
horoscope had been cast. to attract so
powerful and wealthy a man as old
CHd uHB, even though ne nd0 Dur1eQ
three wives and had grown for many
years on his wrinkled chin the wisps
Of hair worn by none save those who
can boast of children to the second gen.
Grafton.
After the highly spiced viands were
set to cool and the samshu was brewed
and standing in huge jugs against the
arrival of the bibulous guests it was
then time for Tall to retire to her
own room and be arrayed in the gaudy
finery of a Chinese bride. But first she
would bid farewell to the river and
her dream lover. whose image she
would from tonight pluck from her
thoughts.
The sun was as yet high ere Ia
Ii was decked in her embroidered bri-
dal silks, her luxuriant black hair
caught up fantastically and nodded
into the coiffure worn but once by a
Chinese virgin-the day Of her sale
to her future master. Her tiny feet
were encased in shoes of such cruel
size that the fair tortured must needs
lean for support upon her female at
tendants. The olive skin, with its
healthful bloom, was grotesquely paint
ed with red pigment even to the curves
of her arched lips.
The marriage feast was already in
progress as the bride was led to
"kotow" allegiance before her future
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Undoubtedly, however, OF all the now
admittedly unsolvable> figure problems
which have from time TO time occupied
the attention Of mathematician3 the
most famous is that generally known
as squaring the circle. The time and
energy thrown away upon it in days
gone by are simply amazing. Dutch
professor, Jacob Marcelis by name,
worked at it for 43 years and came at
last to the conclusion that the circum-
ference contained the diameter exactly
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boldly, sweeping scornful glance at
the cringing crowd.
The assembled guests recoiled In ter
ror, murmuring in low gutturals the
dread Tai Ting, the pirate chief!
while the children ran to their moth
ers in fear at the sound of the ominous
name, But In the anxious eyes of old
Cha Tung there awakened lustful
CLEAN.
Tai Ting does great honor to his
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ously remarked, was to find the proper
material for an interceptor Is 1T pos
sible to conceive of human folly 60
ing further than this?
Among mathematics the two most
famous unsolvable problems are the tri-
section of the angle and the duplication
of the cube Men have toiled at one or
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the other, sometimes at both, of these
for is. 20 and 80 years, only to re-
tire at last baff1ed and beaten. Their
calculations and methods OF work have
in many instances been published to
the world, but the subject is too alb
struse to attempt to do more than
merely touch upon it.
1t is somewhat startling. however. to
find that even figures, just plain. ordi-
nary arithmetical figures, such as are
easily understandable by any scholboy.
have given rise to problems quite as In
capable of solution as any of these
springing out of the higher mathe-
metics.
No one. for instance. has yet succeed
ed in extracting the square root of 2.
although DR.. w. II. Covill succeeded in
working it out to no fewer than 110
places of decimals. and. moreover, his
titanic sum has been proven TO be alb
solutely correct so far as 1t goes. Here
is the result, in case some reader should
be seized with an irresistible desire to
carry it a stage or two further.
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they are probably fully as numerous
and as sanguine today as they were in
the time of Leibnitz or Newton.
OF course, the thing is impossible,
and has been proved so over and over
again, but that does not deter them.
Only the other day man turned up
at the Office of a well known patent
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attorney with a model of perpetual
motion machine, which depended for It's
proper working upon the interception
Of gravitational attraction.
The principle of the invention, the
inventor was good enough to explain.
was simplicity itself The only thing
that remained to be done, he ingenu-
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