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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1914-03-26

Our hearts prompt loving trib-
ute to your gentle motherhood.
/ On your page is written the dark
tale of those who in the long ago
flew the flag of death. Of dar-
ing adventures who in romatic
illusion vainly sought the secret
of life. Her sunny skies and
pleasant shores, ocean inlets and
inland waters were a tempting
refuge to those who sailed under
the black flag. Not less invit-
ing to the great sailor whose quest
SO golden in promise, yet lies in
some undiscovered world.
She comes to us as she came to
those of old, with the same kindly
smile, tending her unrivaled
charms and her endless wonders.
Nature, ever lavish with her
gifts, surely played her favorite
and left on her fair face the i'm
print of its sweetest kiss; extend
ing far into the hlae waters of the
sea, her shores washed by the
greatest of the rivers, the myste-
rious stream that deviates but the
once as if to caress--to turn oc-
ean-ward, tempering the elements
to the icy seas of the north.
On her wide plains and in her
gentle valleys are the oak, the
pine and the cypress. Her tran
quill waters are a labarynth OF
navigable highways and are OF
inestimable value to man. s indus
try.
They abound in myriad beauti-
es and teeming wonders to delight
the eye and charm the sense. The
palmetto, palm, cocoanut, sweet
magnolia and brilliant poinciana,
all in rich and varied hues and
undying green-silvery moss-like
mantle of shimmering lace falls
from limb and stem in clustered
streamers and graceful festoons-
leaf vine and fern hold the won
dering eye in undying interest.
Favored with a climate SO rare
and SO beneficent that many Of
the human ailments that battle
the skill of medical science yield
to its subtle influence.
The breezes laden with the per-
fume of the fruit, flower and vine,
mingled with the ozone of the oce-
an, are wine to famished life,
an elixir to sluggish blood. To
the weak and to the strong, the
aged and the afflicted, to those
burdened and weary laden are
her gifts freely rendered.
To man Is crude appeal, the res
ponse Of her soil staggers the i'm
agination and bewilders the COM
prehension at the immensity OF
its possibilities, her unequaled re-
sources, her marvellous gifts
have been decried, per-
haps distanced, i'll report or
sectional prejudice have cast their
biting influence.
But the seal Of approval long
sought and long deferred is found
everywhere in evidence, from the
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1914-03-26
Plant to Found Hospital.

Morton B. Plant, millionaire club
man and yachtsman Of New York,
has offered to give 500, 900 as an en-
dOwment to the hospital which will
be erected at Clearwater, Fla, pro-
vided $4,000 is raised for erection
of the building. More than half OF
the sum has been raised.