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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CRMOND is Ave miles north Of
Daytona, located on the western
bank Of the Halifax River. The To-
cation OF the town permits of good
drainage and perfect sanitation; the
elevation is superb and ideal for
: winter homes. A wide bridge con-
meets 0rmond with Ormond Beach.
Many fine residences are main
tanned on either side of the river.
most of them embellished with SUBJ
tropical fora and shrubbery, besides
thrifty orange and other citrus fruit
trees.
The town is very cosmopolitan,
has an excellent graded school, sew
eral churches, fine public library,
up-to-date places of business and
comfortable and convenient hotels
nd boarding houses.
Or-nond has many OF the Florida
att, -t:ons-hne fruit, good fishing
excellent autonobiling, safe boating,
salubricus climate and pleasant
WALKS and drives.
! At Ornond Beach is located the
large Hotel Orrnond, and its lesser
sister, Breton Inn. The former &C.
cupies position overlooking the
Halifax River, while the latter has as
its outlook the magnificent beach and
the broad Atlantic.
| The walks in all directions are
particularly attractive, and the ar
bo-s, shady and inviting spots and
romantic hooks are crowded with
rustic seats which are mute invita-
tons TO enter into the enioymen.
thereof.
Besides the broad, smooth ocean
beach there are many drives for car
riaSe or automobile-lons drives and
short drives; drives through groves
of golden oranges; drives through
dense tropical forests to Spanish
ruins; drives to the ancient Cause
way built by the slaves Of planters
of long ago, and drives to the planta-
tons of hospitable settlers, whose
places are replete with the Interest
of Southern fruits and flowers.
Oac q these interesting planta
tons is Number Nine, located on tbs
peninsula, Ave miles north of the
Hotel Orrnond. Here you see fin,
orange grove, together with great va
rieties Of other suo-t-opical fruit
and flowers.
Five miles further on you come t,
Moundsrove one of the finest orane
groves in this section of Florida
Moundsrove is on the headwaters o
The Halifax River and is amid prett,
surroundings. The place is reached
bv a good road Lpassing Numbe
Nlne1 and is drive all tourists ma
enjoy.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-05
DELAND, THE ATHENS OF FLORIDA
.DELAND, the county seat Of
---------- Volusia County.

3
is situated q miles southwest of
Daytona and is reached from the lat
ter city by an excellent hard-surface
road recently constructed.
At DeLand is located the John B.
Stetson University, one of the lead
ing educational institutions of the
South Because of the interest in
matters educational DeLand is known
as The Athens of Florida"
Stetson University has faculty of
so professors and instructors. There
are over 500 900 in buildings and
equipment; nearly 100000 endow-
nent; a Carnegie Library alone rep
resenting an investment IN building
endowment and books, Of more than
$40, 900. The library is the United
States Government depository for the
State of Florida, and contains over
is, 600 volumes. Science Hall, one
of the newest Of 16 buildings, with
its furnishings, represents an outlay
of $50, Elizabeth Hall is one of
the most beautiful college buildings
in the South.
The city has population Of about
$500, with thickly settled country
adjacent. DeLand proper is FIVE
miles east of the st. Johns River, con
the high, rolling pine land of the
great Orange Ridge" of Florida
The predominating products are
oranges and grapefruit, the estimated
crop from this vicinity being over
800, 900 boxes this year. Grapes,
peaches, pears, Japan persimmons,
plums, pecans, guavas, strawberries
and other fruits are grown in plenty.
In the way of public improvements
are many miles of fine shell roads, an
excellent high school, electric lights,
a system of waterworks that is owned
and operated by the city, supplying
the purest water at little cost.
Nine houses of worship testify that
DeLand is a church-g going commu.
nifty. Baptists, Episcopalians. Meth.
odists Northern and Southern, Pres.
byterians, Christians and Catholics
besides colored Baptists and Metho.
dists, are represented.
The graded school offers a ten
years course, and the building which
it occupies is newly furnished
throughout, and is one of the most
commodious and best equipped pub.
lie schools in the State.
The trip from Daytona to DeLand
is made by automobile in little
over an hour, and there are many
pretty drives in the vicinity of the
county site. A good road leads tc
DeLeon Springs, FIVE miles. historic
spot, where $4,000 gallons of water
bubble from the earth every minute
From DeLand automobiles 60 south
to Osteen, Is miles, on shell and
mari roads; the St. Johns is crossed by
ferry near Osteen and cars can ther
continue TO Sanford and Orlando by
hard road There is a shell roae
from DeLand to Orange City, hv,
miles, and good road from DeLane
to Lake Helen, like distance.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-05
BOND SANDSTONE BRICK Co.
Manufacturers
Light Granite, Buff, Red and
Drab Brick

Large Capacity Insures Prompt Ship
ments. Write for Booklet and Prices.
LAKE HELEN, FLA.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-05
PICTURESQUE PORT ORANGE

PORT ORANGE is pretty little
village situated FIVE miles south of
Daytona on the Daytona-New Smyrna
hard-surface road, the scenic highway
of the East Coast. The town is To-
Gated on the Halifax River, over
which spans a bridge from the town
to the peninsula opposite.
The town is we'll laid out and has
many pretty homes owned and occu-
pied by residents and winter tourists.
1t has several churches, one of the
best graded schools in Volusia
county, two general stores, a real
estate agency and two or three hotels.
A large number of tourists and
winter residents make Port Orange
winter headquarters, one of the sew
eral attractions being the excellent
fishing. Port Orange is in the orange
belt and a number Of very fine citrus
groves are nearby, where oranges,
tanserines and grapefruit hang in
profusion. Some of the best trucking
land in the State is to be found
thereabout and excellent crops are
raised.
West of Port Orange a short dis
lance are the remains of the old
Dunlawton sugar mill, a spot that is
visited every year by hundreds OF
tourists. At one time all the coun-
try west of Port Orange, surrounding
the old mill, was vast suear-cane
and indigo plantation. The mill was
operated extensively in those days
but has been in disuse for thirty OF
forty years.
A pretty automobile or carriage
drive from Daytona is via the ocear
beach to the approach of the Por
Orange bridge, across the bridge ane
then passing through Port Orange K
the ruins of the celebrated old susa
mill. returning to Daytona by tn
road on the mainland. This driv
affords \ very pleasing variety Q
scenery.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-05
CORONADO

Is situated on the peninsula opposite
New Smyrna and is connected by
good road aud bridge over the deep
current Of Indian River. Here you
can put aside your conventional
garb, breathe in large and deep the
SALTY tonic Of the sea and enjoy your
self to your hearts content with rod
and reel in row or sail boat or In the
ocean surf a short half-mi1e away.
The great varieties of fish inhabiting
the river and lagoon pass through the
channel from the sea beneath the
bridge. From verandas, upper bal
comics and windows you behold the
MAGNIFICENT river, the distant lagoons
and islands, the forest-covered pen
| insula and the vast reaches OF the
Atlantic Ocean.
HAWKS PARK
A pretty village located along the
ridge above the Indian River TWO
and one-half miles south OF Ne"
SMYRNA and connected with fine she'll
roads. There is the appearance OF
newness, comfort and seclusion about
the place which stamps it as the ABODE
of people who come here to ENJOY
the blessings of outdoor lie away
from places where crowds are APT &c
gather.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-05
PROGRESSIVE NEW SMYRNA
NEW SMYRNA Is .itu,tcd 6ft..n

49, - NS4sA = A>Ay = - SAIu4ICQ n1IcSu
miles south Of l)zytona and is an
ideal spot reached from Daytona by
hard surface re ad winding through
one OF the most picturesque parts of
Florida.
With its ancient ruins dating back
to time when the history Of man
runneth not, interlaced with wires of
the modern teies raph and telephone.
its miles Of shell streets as hard and
smooth as floor and over-arched by
hoary forest eiarts that grew in state
ly grandeur dur ing the lapse of by
gone centuries, ileu Smyrna is truly
a place of romance and rest.
All nature here is very inviting to
the tourist and fleasure-seeker. Here
too is to be found the best fishing and
hunting in the State of Florida.
The people are thrifty, the bust
ness men enterprising. and all unite
in extending the welcome hand of
hospitality to strangers. There are
Ave church edifices for white people
and an equal number for the colored
population; the town has an excellent
high school, splendid public lib
rary. aad up-to date business houses.
/ There are ary number of pretty
homes for the permanent population
which numbers close to 1000, and
some very ire winter residences.
There are kooe hotels and boarding
hodses where you can find accomo-
dations to meet your requirements.
/ Adjoining New Smyrna is as fine a
section Of vege table land as can be
found anywhere. This land has
been divided into small farms which
can be bought at reasonable pr ces
Some of the finest celery grown in
the State is raj sed on this land. AL.
other vegetables grow in abundance
and here, too, is the home of the fam
Gus Indian River oranges.
New Smyrna has no bonded in
debtedness and the tax levy is low
A point that no tourist should fai
to visit is the ruins of the Old Span
ish Mission which stand somber anc
alone about one and quarter mile.
southwest of New SmHna. A gooe
road leads to the place and the tril
can be easily made by an automobile
Silent, in the great pine fats by tn
margin of the forest, is this place o
pilgrimage for the pious; this rem
devious for the picnicker. The ruin
are extensive and while there is n
authentic history of their origin,
is presumed that the Mission wa
built by the Franciscans in the day
when the once powerful Kingdom c
Spain first planted its flag upon wha
| is now American soil. 1t was bull
| of coquina, the roof being of til
same material, cut into thin slab
| and covered with cement plastic
] Extensive gardens surrounded i
which were enclosed by ston
| wall, portions of which still remaiI
/ Visitors usually come in partie
/ merry and curious but the spell {
i the place soon falls upon them an
/ they separate to sit alone, silent an
| meditative, under the arches or b
/ side the ancient we'll.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21

walked into the small door. follow eu by all it's companions. and they re- mained there until MT. Manget gave the word for them to come out again.
 T train everything about me in this way" said he. 50 that there is per feet understanding upon the place. The land understands me. the horse understands me, the ducks understand me. my dog understands me"
 By this, time, having beenawalking toward the house during the conversa- ton, he reached the stable.
 ''I want you." said MT. Manget. ito see how this stable Is arranged. Here is a stall for my horse. You observe there Is a double window in 1t, that 1t Is perfectly clean and that there Is an abundance of food in the loft To a horse has been given the gift of sight and of the enjoyment of seen cry. After my horse has worked hard for me, he has earned a right to all the enjoyments which l can give back to him. and for this reason you see here a window washed as clean as the window in my house, so that the horse, while in his stall, can look out and see what is going on. The same thing is true in my COW stall here. + I expect God to reward my labor. must in return reward the labor of those who work for me"
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21

vain for a stranger. Mrs. Browns note had said: Mrs. Barlow will be with us."
 But which was that economical widow? Probably the lady in green silk near the piano. He could not re- member her face.
 Suddenly MT. Buskirk's doubts were set at rest. Mrs. Brown ejacalated:
 Dear me. where is Cousin Betsey? MT. Buskirk. you must be introduced to Mrs. Barlow"
 At these words something small and flat emerged from between two portly danes and stood before him. It was short and very slender little woman, with a remarkably pretty face. The sleeves of her dress were close and the skirt had perhaps three breadths in it. The dress itself was of very plain brown merino, and she wore neither brooch nor bow, only a white linen collar. Peter looked approval. Several of the ladies exchanged glances. and faint giggle was heard; and, as though by common consent, I11O LWO were iC1I IGl6-d-lGIC III d COl = ner
 Pleasant day" said Peter, to com mence the conversation. Pleasant day. but cold"
 An. yes. but I dislike cold wealth CT" said the lady.
 Don't agree with you. ma'am?"
 ''Oh. that's not 1t; I'm never i'll; but cold weather is so expensive. Lights early. and coal dear" proceed ed the lady. Money slips through ones fingers. and never waste things"
 My case exactly said Buskirk. Its astonishing how things cost. Now. there is butter-say pound a fortnight"
 "Oh. never eat butter-it costs too much" said the lady.
 An. and sugar, and tea and cof- fee"
 If you indulge in such luxuries. what can you expect?" said Mrs. Bar low.
 They are artificial wants, altogeth- CT so. they are," said Mir. Buskirk. But then. habit Is second nature"
 "Extravagant habits ruin many" said Mrs. Barlow. "Oh, I shudder when I look at those flounces. Such a waste of material"
 I've often thought so," said Peter. And you don't wear them"
 'I,'' said Mrs. Barlow, "I have my senses. sir. I have no wish to die in
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
THE RIVER OF LIFR

The more we live. more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; \ day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth. Ere passion yet disorders. Steals lingering like river smooth . Along-its gFassyv borders But as the careworn cheek grows wan. And sorrows shafts fly thicker. Ye stars. that measure life to man. Why seem your courses quicker? When joys have lost their bloom and
 breath
 And life itself is vapid. Why, as we near the Falls Of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid? It may be strange-yet who would
 change
 Times course to slower speeding. When one by one our friends have
 gone
 And left our bosoms bleeding? Heaven gives our years of falling
 strength
 1ndemnifying fleetness. And those of youth. a seeming length. Proportioned to their sweetness. Thomas Campbell
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
I've had this dress ten

a work-house I've had this dress ten years"
 ..Indeedl" said Peter, "and I sup pose some ladies buy one every month"
 Every ten days" said Mrs. Barlow. ''Oh, I blush for my sex, MT. Buskirk, do indeed"
 Peter was charmed. He began to think Mrs Brown was right. The cost of such a wife would be a mere trif1e, and what an eye she would keep to the expenses of a household!
 Ere the evening was over he had de- cided that it would be cheaper to marry than to remain single, were Mrs. Barlow his helpmate.
 Shed not only be saving herself, but she would check me in my little extravagances." said he. She would be invaluable to me. She wears one dress ten years. The fates must have sent her to earth for my special bene- fit"
 So after due deliberation, Peter re- solved to court the economical widow, and that lady being conveniently domiciled at Mrs. Browns he found every opportunity. It was a very in expensive courtship. He gave her not present. She expected none. He took her nowhere save to church, where neither of them ever saw the plate. and both were happy.
 At last he proposed. She blushed and hesitated, and begged time to con- slider. At last she said:
 I'm afraid to say yes, Mir Buskfrk. like you; but you are so terribly ex travagant. You drink tea and coffee, and eat butter, and really l should fear coming to want, should-in- deed,"
 IT Why. I'm the most economical soul living" said Peter.
 "Extravagant people always think that" said the lady. No, I'm afraid to say yes. unless, indeed, you were to make your property over to me, so that could be sure you would Not ruin yourself Of course that is i'm possible. and it would be such a care that really I could scarcely desire it, even for a gentleman 1 so much re- spect" And the economical relict -blushed and hesitated.
 It was Peters turn to pause and consider He went away to do so, and returning suddenly to his house, found his servant-maid selling drippings to a man. He dismissed her at once, and rushed back to the Widow Barlow's.
 My money would be safer in your hands than mine," he said, with a moan. Marry me, and keep me from being ruinedi"
 What the widows answer was may be judged from the fact that three
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
corean Women Great Swimmers.

The Corean women are the best swimmers in the world," said a life guard. The Corean pearl diving is in their hands.
 They swim-they don't boat-they swim out to the pearl fisheries of Quelpart, Juggling baskets with them. After this swim of half an hour, they dive down 50 feet and fetch up queer, one-shelled pearl oysters as big as ba- bies.
 They dive till their baskets are full-the baskets are corked to keep them afoat-and after three or four hours work they swim back home with their catch.
 The big one-shelled oysters are val uable as pearl mines and as food, too A half dozen Coreans will sit down to an oyster as gayly as you or 1 sit down to broiled lobster. Sometimes, when the great shellf1sh is eaten raw, 1t quivers and means slightly as the knife Is plunged into it."
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
FISHERMEN FOR LOCO YEARS.

Herring CatcherS Identical with
 Those of Crusnders' Time.
 The Lowestoft fishermen say that the method of catching herrings has scarcely changed during the last thou sand years or more. and that their nets must be the same in principle as those which were employed before Richard the Lionhearted and his cru saders sailed for the Holy Land. Wal ter Wood says in Scribner's. The state ment has much of truth in 1t. and when we drift at our nets on the lone ly sea, with our great lamplike rid ing light burning steadily amidships, we present much the same spectacle that could have been witnessed many centuries ago. It was at night when the herrings were caught, and night on the vast and melancholy waste of water hides that modernity which only day reveals. There are other riding lights, and here and there the mast head and sidelights of a steamer go- ing north or south but the steel and iron hulls are only guessed by some chance glimmer from a port or deck house.
 And the men have changed but little surely. Their dress for work Is primitive. hiding all that Is suggestive of the modern landsman. There is the jumper which the skipper and crew wear-a garment made of stout canvas and backed with the sail cloth. It covers the arms and trunk nearly to the knees, almost as the coarse smock garbed the serf of old and the men of his rank who would alone, in those days, go to sea to fish. The jumper in its long variety is like a nightdress. Its short form is gener ally favored, but shippers often use the long garment, as the covering keeps the cold out, and shippers. be- ing leaders, have spare time in which to feel the drafts that invade all un- protected crevices. There are rough, thick, woolen stockings and boots which may be thigh boots. or half boots, or clumpers, according to the weather and as for headdress, that is anything in the way of covering which comes handy; but mostly a cap, ex- cept in bad weather, when it is the sou'wester.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
&GlIzZIgy! 

Howard-Mrs. Holmes gets on much to. Coward-Same husband?-L!fs
 ''Is that your mother-in-law over there. smiling at you?" No. If she's smiling at me it isn't my mother-in-
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
Love of Animals.

Henry Manget, of Atlanta, trains animals wonderfully. Tn speaking of them recently, he said: When we call in dumb beasts to be our assist ants we should be kind to them. Love Is the great ruling power of the uni verse. If my dog loves me. my horse or my COW, I get from them a return which it is impossible to get from dumb driven beasts suffering under the brutal lash" Here, calling his collie dog, he told 1t to kiss the horse. a feat which 1t performed in most artistic manner Nor is that aH," said MT. Manget. Here is my flock of ducks. They understand English as well as you do. It is now noon day. Yet upon my word you will see them go to roost and to sleep"
 Then calling out to the ducks, about eighteen or twenty in number, he said: Go to bed" The order struck the ducks with some evident amaze ment, for while they stopped their plucking of grass and looked upon him as if in semi-revolt. yet upon ob- serving his steady gaze, the leading duck started of to the fowlhouse.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-21
Bravery.

Elton Hilton is just the bravest Joy you ever saw, mother. When we were playing this morning we saw a big snake, most as large as my arm. coming toward us, and We all ran as fast as we could-all but Elton He threw stone at it. Wasn't that brave?"
 There are different kinds of brav- ery,'' the little boys boys mother an- swered.
 ''Yes,' said Winfred. "and one day a big dog came along, with his tongue hanging out, and we thought it was mad, and scrambled over the fence, but Elton walked right along, as calm as ever. He says he isn't afraid of tramps or bears or anything. I wish I was as brave as Elton, but I'm afraid l never will be. He says he hopes there will be war when he grows a man, so he can go and fight"
 T heard a story about two boys the other day." said his mother. and thought one of them was very brave" !"
 Do tell me about it." said Winfred, eagerly.
 They went to school together, and one day they thought it would be great fun to hide frog in the teachers desk. but it did not turn out as they expected. That is the way with jokes. The frog tipped over an ink bottle and spoiled a number of examination pa pers and other things, and the teacher was very angry. He asked the guilty boy to own his fault like a man and take the punishment he deserved. He put him upon his honor, you see. We'll, the oldest boy, who found the frog and first thought of the joke, sat still in his seat, without blush; but the little boy, though he trembIed with fear. went to the desk before the whole school. and owned his fault. And he sat for an hour on the dunce's stool, target for fifty pairs of eyes"
 70 mother" cried Winfred, "I was so ashamed I'll never do anything so mean again as long as I live How did you know?"
 ''I heard two boys talking about 1t as I rode in the car. l was proud of my boy, Winfred, and I pitied Elton Tilton's mother, for l said to myself. My boy was brave, but her boy was a coward"
 Why, I never thought that was be- ing bravei" said Winfred-Youth's Companion.