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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
Russians Have Rallied - Halt
a German Advance
BATTLE GOING ON
Russians Turn on Ausfro German
Forces at Tarnow and Stry
Winning a Victory

London, Observation-Disclosures n s
that the English, French and Bel
gians are assuming the offensive
in Flanders and that big and i'm
portant battle is in progress along
a considerable front; that the
Germans have been checked by the
Russians in their advance into the
Baltic provinces, and that the
Russians have won a victory over
the Austrian-German forces at
Tarnow and Stry, checking the
German offensive in that section,
are the most important phases of
the general war situation.
Reports from the forces attack
ing the Dardanelles by land and
sea indicate that progress is being
made toward the taking of Con-
stantinople, These reports state
that some $4,000 Turkish soldiers
have been killed or wounded by
the allies in their attacks ON the
Gallipoli peninsula. The reports
indicate that the attackers by land
have more than held their own.
Constantinople on the other
hand reports that the landing of
troops on the Gallipoli peninsula
by the Europeans has been met
with decisive defeats at the hands
of the Turks and that the penin-
sula is practically cleared of the
invaders.
There is keenest interest dis
played here in the position the u
nited States will take in regard to
the sinking of the Lusitania. As
to the Lusitania the latest check
ing up of lists shows that the loss
of life will be between 1,400 and
1900.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
TURKS LOSSES HEAVY
Allies Account for $4,000 Men in
Attack on Gallipoli Peninsula

London, England-The al lie d
troops on the Gallipoli peninsula
continued their advance Friday
and Saturday according to an
Athens dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company. They are re-
ported to have occupied impor-
tant positions in spite of the des-
'perate resistance offered by the
Turks, whose total losses are esti-
mated at $4,000 men. The hospi-
tails in Constantinople are said to
be so crowded that wounded are
being sent to Konieh in Asia
Minor.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
Russian Fleet Chases Enemy

London, England-A Reuter- s
Petrograd dispatch says a squad
ron of cruisers of the Russian Bal
tic fleet, while cruising in the
southern Baltic in the region of
Windau Ia seaport in Courland)
exchanged long distance fire with
a hostile cruiser and torpedo boats
which look advantage of their
superior speed to escape south
ward and avoid an engagement.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
Best Section for Farmers i'm the
United States
STATISTICS GIVEN
BY w. H. Manss of the Southern
Settlement and Development
Organization Significant

Western and Northwestern rail
roads, land agents, real estate
men and Cities, in a united effort
to stem the tide of the farmers
movement into the. South, are
broad-casting the statement that
the only thing the South has to
sell worth any consideration is It's
climate. They are using tons OF
printers ink to publish miles OF
statistics designed to prove that a
southern farmer cannot make a
profit because, they declare, he
must spend all he gets for his
crops in the fertilizers to raise
those crops.
w. H. Manss, Vice-President
and General Manager of the
Southern Settlement and Devel-
opment Organization, has taken
up the cudgel to refute these as
persions and has come back at the
prairie boosters with compila-
ton of statistics from the last u
nited States Census Reports,
which proves that the South is the
best money making section for
farmers in the United States.
Thousands of copies of the Manss
compilation have been sent out by
his Organization and it's allied as
sociations.
The tabulated statement, every
figure of which is taken from the
Census Reports, shows the total
land area in acres, the number OF
acres cultivated, the percentage Of
the total land area which is culti-
waited, the crop value, the amount
spent for labor and fertilizers, the
net returns from crops, the net re-
turns per acre, and the percentage
of net per acre to value per acre
of every state in the Union. The
statistics are so arranged that
comparison is easy.
In the net returns per acre, as
compared with the average land
value of farm land per acre
which indicates the value of farm
land as an investment-the twelve
states east of the Mississippi river
and south of Mason and Dixon s
line rank among the first twenty
six of the forty-eight states. Some
of western and northern states
with high priced land rank below
the lowest of the Southern states.
What is considered as one of the
most significant showings made by
Mr.. Manss is that the average
percentage of revenue per acre, as
compared with the average land
value per acre, in the states of
Maryland, West Virginia, Virgin
ia, North Carolina, South Carroll
ma, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee
and Kentucky is 1904 per cent.
This shows that farming, when
conducted along right lines, is
highly profitable in the South, as
the net returns equal each year
the average value of the land.
Backed by Uncle Sans figures
Mr.. Manss afirms that only the
South has extensive tracts of low
priced land in the humid belt
suitable for agriculture which is
near large markets; which is with
in the zone of civilization s actiyi-
ties; which has the finest agricul-
tural climate in the country with
abundant moisture and which is
adaptable to the growing of such
crops as northern and western
farmers are accustomed to raise.
He points to the fact that as only !
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
Russians Assume the Offensive

Geneva, Switzerland (via Par
.is),-A dispatch to the Tribune
says the Russians have begun a
strong offensive movement at Tar
now as well as in Courland and
on the Stry, driving back Aus
trian and German forces with
heavy losses.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
Missed Your Guess

Bet Jordan had something to do
with naming the proposed "Char-
lotte County" He's strong for any
thing feminine.-Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
Transactions of Board of County
Commissioners at May Meeting

odiu puDliC vi dlil colloCI uCICd dC
aording to plans and specifica
tions, and that said drain is amply
sufficient to effect the require
ments, etc. Whereupon youl
committee beg to submit the fol
lowing financial report of then
doings in the premises:
Geo. w. Gatewood, trustee attend
ed ten meetings at $4.00, $4,000.
l.. L. Barnhill, trustee, attended
six meetings at $4.00, $24.00; C
G. Morgan, trustee, attended
twelve meetings at $4.00, $48.00.-
Total $4,000
f. M. Cooper for script book
$500; Adam Silcox, team fol
trustees to inspect location OF
drain, $3.00.-Total $500
Cost of surveying, locating,
stalking, plating, profile, and as
sessing property within the dis
trict.
VIM. M. Whitten, civ. engineer,
$54.00; VIM. M. Whitten civ. en-
gineer $500; VIM. NJ. Whitten,
civ. engineer $500; Geo. A. Nc
Lane, assistant on survey $1,000
VIM. Barley, assistant on survey
$500; i. w. Read, assistant on
$5.00.-Total cost engineer
$4,000
Contractor Howard M. Read,
according to reports furnished the
trustees by Engineer VIM. NJ
removed Al 1927 and six
tenths cubic yards of soil at the
contract price of twenty-five
cents per cubic yard, which a
to $9092.70.
Engineer Whitten, auto hire to
inspect drainage work Jan. 4,
1915, $50; Jan. 80, Feb 28, April
), 1915, $4.50.-Total cost of drain
s9319.70.
Your committee beg to report
that a great portion of the soil ex-
cavated was found to be hard
flint rock and clay mari, etc,
which required considerable blast
ing with dynamite, before it could
be removed.
Most respectfully submitted,
Punta Gorda Drainage Trus-
ices,
BY c. c. MORGAN Sec ".
May 4, 1915.
Motion by Skipper that side
walk be constructed from west
loor of court house to sidewalk
IN Brevard avenue, under super
,ision Of Commissioners Wells.
The clerk was instructed to
write Hoehler, Cummings & Prud-
len that they would be advised
fifteen days prior to any time the
BOARD desired to avail itself of it's
option to retire any part of the
ounta Gorda special road and
bridge district bonds.
Clerk was instructed to write
he comptroller that the item in a
count for hire of convicts "13
prisoners 21 days." should be "12
prisoners q days." and to request
bill.
1t was ordered that duplicates
# warrants Nos. 1545 for 1926,
nd 1549 for 1885 be issued to
,olfo Springs Publishing Compa-
", and that the treasurer be no.
flied to stop payment on the orig
lals.
Application Of j. p. Murphy |
nd Dade burden for firearms |
ermits were rejected, on account
f no reason being given for the
ecessity therof.
j. S. Bannister, district engi-
eer for Punta Gorda special road
nd bridge district, presented re-
ort and complete description of
he several divisions of the system
f roads to be improved, together
18th specifications. Same was ac-
epted.
The following resolution was
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13

H. P. johnson of Bokeelia, was
in the city Tuesday transacting
business and greeting friends.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13

oolllllleololleIS llItI III regular SeS-
sion on Monday, May 3rd, with
Chairman L. w. Whitehurst pre-
siding, and Commissioners d. l..
Skipper, John Hagan, w. M.
Whitten and W. G. Welles present.
Minutes of last meeting were
read, corrected and approved.
Upon motion of D. L. Skipper,
d. O. Ratliff was allowed a reduc-
tion of $4,000 in the valuation
of sixteen acres of west side OF
northwest quarter of northeast
quarter and northeast quarter of
northwest quarter of northeast
quarter and south one half OF
northwest quarter of northeast
quarter and a strip one and one
half chains wide off north side OF
south one-half of northwest quar-
ter of northeast quarter, and a
strip of 3.S chains wide off south
side of south one-half of north
west quarter of northeast quarter
and southwest quarter of north
east quarter of section q, town
ship "a south, and range 25 east,
same being assessed as improved
land while in realty it is unim-
proved.
The following resolution was
presented by Commissioner W. M.
Whitten and adopted by the
board.
Be 1t Resolved: That the coun-
ty treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized to take on presentation
Nos. ! and 2 of the Punta Gorda
Drainage District bonds, paying
therefor full valuation and accru-
ed interest.
The treasurer was ordered to
$29.31 from road fund
No. 3 to road fund No. 4.
Firearms bonds of f. B. White,
J. Il. Glover, r. M. Stidham and
j. III. Selman were approved and
permits issued thereon.
The following preamble and re-
solution was adopted:
Whereas, f. Watkins and eigh-
teen others, citizens and freehold
ers living in the vicinity of the
proposed road, hereinafter de-
scribed, did file with the board of
county commissioners of this coun-
ty, at its December term, 1914, a
petition for a road described as
follows, to-wit: Beginning at the
southwest corner of lot No. /, in
section 26, township Al south,
ranges 90 east, and running
thence east to the southeast cor
ner of said lot No. /; thence
south on line between sections 26
and 27 to the present county road,
and
Whereas, this board at said
term made am order granting
said petition; Now, therefore,
Be 1t Resolved: That j. G.
Stokes, three disinterested free
holders of the county are hereby
ordered to view and mark out the
pest route for said road as requir-
ID by section 838 Revised Statu-
,es of Florida, and report to this
BOARD at the June term, 1915.
The clerk is directed to notify |
aid viewers of this action of the |
,oard.
70 the Honorable Board of Coun-
ty Comissioners of DeSoto
County, Florida, in Session As
sembled, May Term, A. d., 1915.
The trustees of the Punta Cor
la drainage district, duly appoint
d by your honorable board at the
November meeting, A d., 1914,
With directions, as provided by |
aw, to supervise the digging and
obstruction of a public drain as
heretofore established by order of
our honorable board, within the
district aforesaid, beg leave to
ubmit that we have to the best Of
ur ability performed the duty as
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-05-13
ALLIES ATTACKING THE
TEUTONS I'M FLANDERS

Ten ana adopted:
Resolved, That the report of
j. Sentz Banister, engineer of the
Punta Gorda special road and
bridge district, of location of the
several divisions of roads to be
opened and improved in said dis
trict, together with the specifca.
tions for clearing and grubbing
such portions of said roads as have
not heretofore been cleared and
grubbed.
Be and the same is hereby ap.
proved and confirmed, and the
clerk is hereby directed to publish
the following notice three times
in the Punta Gorda Herald, Area,
dia Enterprise, Daily News, Zolfc
Truth, Wauchula Advocate and
Fort Myers Press. Notice appears
elsewhere in this paper.)
The report of the trustees of the
Punta Gorda drainage district
was accepted and ordered placed
on file.
The county attorneys were in
structed to prepare a notice calling
for bids on special road and bridge
district bond, for district No. Lon
June Sth, and the clerk was inst
ructed to advertise the same in
the Arcadia Enterprise, Wauchula
Advocate and Manufacturers
Record.
The report of the committee of
the Arcadia drainage district who
were heretofore appointed with
power to employ a surveyor to
cause an accurate survey to be
made of the proposed bitches,
drains and canals, and to estab-
lish the commencement, route and
terminus of the same, and the
width, length and depth thereof,
and to prepare plans, specifca-
tions and profiles for the CON
struction of said bitches, drains or
canals, and to make an estimate
of the approximate cost of the
same, and the annual cost of
maintenance, was submitted by
said committee, and after due CON
sideration of the same it was the
opinion of the board that said re-
port was full and complete, and
furnished all information requir-
ed by law to be furnished by said
report, thereupon upon motion du-
ly made, seconded and carried, it
was ordered that said report be
received and filed, and be made a
part of the records of the Board
of County Commissioners.
The report of the committee of
the Arcadia drainage district re-
porting that said committee had
viewed the lands to be benefited
by the bitches, drains or canals
in said district, and as
sessing each parcel of land there
in contained according. to and in
the proportion that it will be ben
Gifted by said bitches, drains or
canals, was appearing from said
report that before viewing said
land the cost of the construction
of said system of drainage had
been ascertained and a report of
said cost, etc, reported to this
board, thereupon said report was
duly considered, and it was the
opinion of the said board that the
same was in due form required by
aw, and that the lands therein de-
'cribed had been assessed by said
committee as required by the laws
If Florida, and according to the
benefits to be derived from the
of said canals, ditch
IS or drains, and the expenses of
he establishment of the same and
he maintenance thereof, thereup-
N upon motion duly put and car
led, said report was accepted and
'rdered tobe filed by the clerk
# said board and made a part of
Continued on last page)
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
tyranny of Power.

No citizen can do a higher duty
than TO resist the majority when he
believes it wrong; to assert the right
of individual judgment, and to main
tain it; to cherish liberty of thought
and speech and action against the
tyranny of his own or any party. Till
that tyranny, yearly growing more
buTdensome as the main object Of an
old party becomes more and more the
retention or the regaining of pow
err, instead of the success Of the fresh,
vivid principles on which new parties
are always organized-till that tyranny
is in some measure broken, we shall
get few questions considered on their
merits. and fail-as we are falling
20 bring the strong men into the serv.
ice Of the state.-Whitelaw Reid.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
william MORRIS and PauI PoIret.

We pay homage daily TO Paul Poiret
as an apostle of good line and brilliant
color IN dress, but the world does not
half know or praise what William Nor
ris did in interior decoration. Working
as did Poiret he banished the superb
cial, artificial, superfiuous adornment
OF personal belongings. Down went
the spurious, up came the genuine, un-
der his teachings And yet, the most
that the many know Of him is that he
gave mis- name TO a reclining char.
The very phrase nottingham cur
tains" would discourage him in the
same way as il pains Poiret to see a
Soman wearing string OF pearls
with a tailored suit. as SO many hun
dreds u American women. unfortn-
nately. have . habit Of doing.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
Daily Housework Outline.

An outline of a system of house
work was the request made not long
ago by bride-to-be. who wished some
directions published for her guidance
in housekeeping. The variation in
the needs of different households
makes a universal rule impracticable,
as was suggested to the inquirer at
the time; but she may find some help
in a daily outline given by Miss Par
loa, noted authority on household
matters. Miss Parloa says: Make
the fires, air the dining room and hall.
Prepare the breakfast and set the
table. Air the bedrooms while the
family is at breakfast. Remove the
breakfast dishes; put away the food.
Sort the dishes and put to soak all
dishes and utensils that have had
food in them which is liable to stick.
Put dining room and sitting room in
order, airing them we'll Wash dishes,
put kitchen and pantries in order.
Prepare dishes that require slow
cooking and put them to cook. Make
beds and put sleeping rooms and bath
room in order. Trim lamps. Dust
halls and stairs; sweep piazzas."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
DEFENSE OF THE FAIRY TALE
Writer Points Out Its Importance in
the Scheme Of Education of
the Child.

Ignorance of fairyland is the pun
ishment of intellectual vanity-the
vanity of the average pedagogue, who
has forgotten that education means
leading forth and not stuffing in.
= Il is the vanity of the psychologist
who, forgetting that the germ-plasm
is a faculty Of influence and enter
prise, not an arrangement of mole
cules, thinks to create it in test
tube.
1t is the vanity Of the eugenist who
believes he will improve upon those
ancient ways of life which, for a few
ages before Mendel and Weissmann.
managed, all untutored, to evolve a
reverent man, something more mar
velous than these modern academic
things who seem SO ignorant of their
native virtues. 'Ss.,-sstss sSs~cs----
To the fairy tale we must often
look, if we are to mend our ways with
the child and lead him forth to find
that mighty world. that true self,
which is the idea of him laid up in
the heart of God.-New York Tele-
gram.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
LITTLE DANGER FROM BOOKS
infectious Diseases Not Likely to
Be Transmitted, Is Opinion Off
cially Expressed.

The fact that infectious diseases
may sometimes be conveyed by books
has led to exhaustive investigations to
determine Just how much danger there
may be from this source, particularly
in public libraries and waiting-rooms.
The particular disease investigated
as the one most likely to be transmit
ted, was tuberculosis, and the conclu-
sions reached are gratifying and reas-
surfing, as follows:
There is probably no material risk
involved in handling books recently
read by consumptives unless the books
are obviously soiled. Even then the
risks are slight. But in order to pro-
vide against possible infection it is
suggested that suspected books should
be placed in quarantine" for month
that is. placed in a room where
there is free circulation of air, such as
one with a window open. At the end
of 30 days all germs of tuberculosis,
and probably all other germs likely to
be found in the books, will have beer
killed.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
Air for the Human House.

Your body is a human house, the
place in which you live. Food alone
cannot make this house a healthy
place. The lungs, the ventilators of
the house, must be filled and refilleo
many times each minute with pure,
fresh air.
The air breathed deep into the tiny
cells of the lungs, meets and purifies
the blood which has been sent there by
the heart, the great pump in your hui
man house. This pump is kept busy
every moment. 1t must gather the
wasteladen blood from every part of
the body and send it to the lungs, then
it must take the purified blood back to
the farthest point of the human house.
Sometimes invisible enemies, the
microbes, creep into the human house
and try to steal our health away. Moth
ing can do more in the way of driving
these little enemies out than our ven
tilators, the lungs. when they are al
lowed an abundance of fresh air.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
BEAUTY AND GOOD HABITS
Too Few Seem to Recognize the Part
That Health Plays In Matter Of
Appearance.

II Is impossible to be beautiful with
out being healthy. Health is the foun-
dalton Of beauty. II one. wants to be
really beautiful. the beauty must be
more than skin deep. The trouble with
most people is that they are quite sat
isfied with a beauty that is superficial
enough to deceive the onlooker Beau
ty includes vigor and efficiency.
To be really beautiful one must have
not only beautiful face, but beautiful
hands as well: not simply good com
plexion all over. Not infrequently a
persons body is covered with pimples.
With such blemishes on the face one
would feel very badly. but so long as
they are out Of sight, they are not re
garded. However, they mean the same
thing as II they were face pimples.
They mean that the whole body is in
a state OF uncleanness and Of low re-
sistance because OF this uncleanness.
The only way to be really beautiful
is to live beautifully, to live rightly.
That means to live naturally. For ex-
ample, If one is aiming to be beauti-
full, one must eat beautiful things, be-
cause our bodies are made of what we
eat. II one eats corpses, how can one
expect to be beautiful? But If one
eats the beautiful fruits and nuts that
are hung from the trees, inviting us to
reach up and partake-if one eats
these and other natural foods that ma
ture has prepared for us, that are all
pure and sweet and good and clean,
then one may have normal, clean
blood, and the result of good, clean |
blood will be a clear skin and a good
A lady once asked the
writer what was good for her complex
ion, and we told her oatmeal. She
said, do you mean rub it on?" Yes
we said, rub it on, and rub 1t in
swallow i'll. II. kellogg, NJ. d., in
Good Health.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-11-18
A Gem In It's Nav

This, slightly deleted, is from the
erstwhile sedate outlook, which was
wont to frown upon leyity as severely
as the rest of us do on the deadly
upas tree of the tropics or the equally
dead singletree of the more temperate
zones:
You can get relief from Dunions by
walking pigeon-toed. A bad case of
pigeon-toes can be cured by walking
bow-legged. The remedy for chronic
bow-legs is to walk knock-kneed.
Should knock-knees bring pigeon-toes
again. one can, of course. always es
cape back to bunions.'