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hauled again 10 Its original quarter.
They held this tack for 20 minutes. Then
the Reeolute took the port tack and
Vanitie followed at once. on this tack
they we're heading southwest by south
and while Resolute was leading In the
direction In which they were sailing the
Nahitie had a position to windward and
Resolute had she tackled, could not have
crossed her bow.
The Vanitie sailed well on this talk
and she steadily overhauled tho Resolute
until she had crawled up on even terms
with that yacht and still held her wind
ward position. when OF Normandle, bu.
FAR out to sea, the first turning mari,
could be seen. But the vanitie held on
her course. forcing the Resolute to 20
with her. until al 3:i9 o'clock the Van
tile took the starboard tack and Resi-
lutte tackled hfteen seconds later. Tho
mark then bore southeast from the
yachts. 20 that both had overstood and
sheets were eased n trinc. on the Vanitie
the small tibtopsail was run down and n
larger one sent up In It's place.
Just before the mark was reached jlN.
topsails were run down on both yachts
and balloons were sent up ready to break
out at the mark. for the next log Of the
course was broad reach. Mr.. Wander
bilt did not waste any inches as the
the angle OF the course. and as she eased
on the balloon was broken out Mr.
Adams on the Resolute sailed just as
close AMI her big sail was broken out
smartly. The times at this mark were
Vanitie S:<3 :OS. Resolute a:i4: 100. II
had taken the Nanitie hour 81 minutes
81 seconds 10 sail the ten miles to wind
ward and Resolute had taken II seconds
longer.
The wind held very steady and on the
broad reach the Vanitie worked out
little to windward. thus holding the Res
olute safe. When they nearcd the ser
ond mark the wind hauled to west-south-
west and both yachts gibed their hooms
TO starboard. The change put the Reso.
lutte a little TO windwa'd OF the course
sailed by Vanite The change mean.
little. as they would have Gibel at the
marx had the wind held true.
The Nanitle passed tHe second mark
ct .55 II and the Reso'ute at SO :Os.
and these figures showed that each
yacht had made the same time fpr the
ten mile reach. I hour i2 minutes 3
seconds. The Nanitie's crew trimmed
the main sheet In smartly. bu, In trim
| rhnc down the balloon the shee, pulled
ont of the clew and the big Vece OF
canvas fiuttered out In the wind. II
was not allowed to get away. however
! End was run down quickly and a No. .
sent up In it's place. At first this was
| thought to he piece OF hard luck. but
| the change in the wind made the last leg
reach with the wind abcam, so that
sh" could not have carried the big
sail The Resolute's balloon was taken
IA and n reacher sent up. hut this sail
lid not draw well and had to be changed
for smaller one.
on this leg the wind freshened and
the yachts made fas. time. Vanitie
| CT ossed the finishing line AZ 5:iI :53
and Resolute followed nj 5.:i5 :55. II
bad taken the Nanitie 40 minutes 42
! seconds to make the rench of ten miles
and Resolute was 3 seconds longer. The
Nanitie's time was a fraction over twelve
nautical miles an hour The summary :
! SIOOPS-CLAsS H-COURsE TRIANGU.
LAR-s0 MILES
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ATHLETES TRAVEL IN STYLE.
start for Pacific Const To-day In
special sleeping Car.

The Irish American A. c. candidates
for the Panama-Pacinc championships
will leave to-day for san Francisco and
will travel TO the Pacific Coast in style
The Lehigh Valley Railroad will put one
OF It's newest and heaviest sixteen sec
ton all steel sleeping cars at the dis
posal of the athletes.
Lawson Robertson Is In charge Of the
party and among the athletes win he
lIannes Kolehmainen, Abel ltiviat, Tod
Meredith, Matt McGrath, Eddie REM,
Pat Ryan. Pat Mcdonald, Alvah T
Meyer. NJ. J. Fahey, Pat oConnor and
G.. Bronder. The athletes will leave
from the Jersey City station OF the Le-
high Valley on the Chicago Express at
noon. Most of the men are members Of
the Irish club,
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LONDON, July 14.--Solly Joels won
derful three-year-old romnern. which
easily won tho Two Thousand Guineas
and the substituted Derby. IL being kept
In special training for a big effort to be
made to win the ~. Leger in September,
which will add his name to the select
small list Of TRIPLE winners OF England's
three great classics. This win he his
last race, as he is booked for the stud.
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tho fallen horse with Top Hat follow
ing. Notter was just far enough be-
hind to escape the general pilinE up. but
his chances for victory were ruined. as
he was thrown out of his stride.
Ganer was free from all Interference
and Sharpshooter also avoided the crush
40 that he was able to sirsiRhten out
for home half n length behind gainer.
which already had shot his bolt.
Stromboli. a length and n half back.
made his run at the quarter pole and
quickly overhsuled sharpshooter. A new
contender loomed up then in the despsed
Sam Jackson. and with Stromboli a
length ahead the Park Row horse was
threatening when Butwell BEGAN to pull
up Sharpshooter at the regular judges
stand. McDermott followed suit on Sam
Jackson. but had enough momentum to
finish a length behind Stroinboli and half
a length In front of Sharpshooter. Hodge
came strong through the final sixteenth
and finished fourth. half n length behind
Sharpshooter and length In front OF
borrow. which had been forced to the
extreme outside.
clifford A. Cochran furnished the sur
rriscs In the two-year-old events. win
nins the Frivolity Stakes with Hands on
from the second choice. Success In the
final race of the day Mr.. Cochran's Air
Man, which started at ~ to l, got home
a nose in front OF L. s. Thompson's ODDS
on choice, Dominant. The summaries
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CHAMBERS TO PLAY PHILLIPS.
Each Takes Two Matches without
TrOuble Mt wOOdmerc Club.

woopMERE. l.. l.. July li.--Charlcs
Chambers and benjamin VI. Phillips
reached the fourth round In the invita-
tion singles at the Woodmere Club courts
here to-day. Roth had To play in two
matches and won each OF them IN
straight sets Chambers disposed of T..
Levison. at 6--3. 6--i. and Allen Tobey
the former Princeton player. at 6-l,
s-2. while Phillips beat NJ T. Acker-
land. at s-l s--3. and l.. J. Droyfuss
at 81. 6-l.
O. a. l.. Dionne who has two legs
on the cup. defauted in the first round
to Arthur NJ. Lovibond. This match was
started yesterday and Lovibond was
leading at Ga, 4---3 when rain stopped
1t. The summaries
woodmere Club Mems Invi!ati6n sinsles
feated q, A. T.. Dionne s-s. -. dcruli.
Second Round-M Goldman defeated J.
,,on. Jr. defeated Kenneth y Fisher. s--3.
IS, Ga. Arthur NJ. Lov.hond dete'tci
Henry y BalCh. 6---2 6-i. Charles cham
bcrs defeated r. Levlson, IS. 81 Allen
Tobey won from = Howard Noshel by de-
Third Round-Charles chambers de-
tented Allen Tohey I'll, 6-2. BENJAMIN
VI. Phillips defeated L. J. Dreytus. 6-I,
I'll
invitation Mems Douhiee-Firs, round =
r. T. Maynard and II II. swain won from
W Campbell and partner hy de'au'' /,
Arthur NJ Loubond ana J. H. sieinKtmn,i
asi.s'ca ka.. 90 fn'9nl?s s 5 . Burrows and W.
second Round--Ar,hur VI. Loyibond and
J IL stenkampf defeated n. 8. Maynard
and r II. swain. -. 6-'.
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LONDON. July li.-Danny Maher has
arrived back In England greatly hene-
fted from his long stay in South Africa,
where he was the guest OF Sir Abe
Bailey. II his health continues good he
Is ready to jump into the saddle directly
horse racing opens up again.
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coket Gamer won from Raymond d. Lt-
tie, by default.
Invitation Mems poubles-.Semi final
Round; Frederick c. 1nman and Edwin
=. Larned defeated Theodore r. Psl aud
Bernon s. Prentice. 81. as. SIS.
Final Round Frederick c. inman and
Edwin =. Lsrned defeated Raymond ~
Little and Robert lie Roy, CO. 6-2. The
point score:
FIRST SET.
n IN 4 n n d
barned .... o 6 3 1 s t-35 6
Little and
lie Roy 49,. sttbtt&3s 2-3s 4
SECOND SET.
Inman and Larned ~ 9 s $50 s
Little and f,e Roy &c =
Totals-inmnn and Larncd: 2 acts, IL
games. 50 aces, Little and lie Roy: 0 sets.
games. 81 aces
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Makes Rest Time OF Season on
Parkway Track.

The intense heat OF yesterday caused
many to draw their horses In the weekly
matinee OF light harness racing under
the auspices OF the Pleasure Drivers AS
ISOLATION on the half mile track Of the
Parkway Driving Club. but the three
rNces decided furnished good finishes. In
the second heat of the class a pace
Charles Rins's little bay aelding Andy
n. J. paced the fastest mile OF the season
on the track. His time was 2:15h. His
time OF 2:17 for the first heat also was
better than the previous best time. Andy
". ]. won the event In straight heats
with j. u. Nc and Nastine second and
,birJ The at,tftt
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POSSIBLE WINNERS AT
BELMONT PARK TO-DAY

First Rnce-virIir. Yodcles. Hedge.
second Race-Malachite. Miss
Puzzle. Bonnie Tess.
Third Race-Distant Shore. Roly,
saratoga.
Fourth Race-Bay berry Candle.
Pebbles, Charter Maid.
Fifth RnCe--t!Ood Counsel, Re.
cluse. DeVonshire Dolly.
Sixth Race--Palanquin. Fenmouse.
Giit Edge.
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DUNw00D1E BEST AT HOME.
Upper Montclaie Golf Team Beaten
1%--8, Nassau system.

YoNKsRs. July IA team OF eleven
golfers from the Upper Montclair Coun-
try Club visited the Dunw nwoodie Country
Club to-day and WAS beaten by Dun
woodie team. IL TO 8. The scoring was
by the Nassau system. The summary.
ut-NvVnnpru rfpr,ru Mo >.,rx,, 4. IN
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pes Moines, 7, Lincoln, /,
Sioux Cl,y, 4. Topeka, .
Omaha, \; wichita. I tseCond camel,
pen,sr-st JosephTFain.
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Portsmouth. y: Plattshurg, q.
Rocky Mount, ., Newport News, 4
Suffolk, 3, Norfolk, o,
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The Resolute won on corrected time
hy % seconds. hut noat for boat the
vGritie beat the Resolutc 10 seconds.
The third race will be sailed to-day
over a windward and leeward course
of thirty miles
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Good start; won handily. Hands ON, b. O.,
nv p,audit- Neddling Mary. owhed by Gi ford
a. Cochran: trained by W, X. Midsley.
FOURTH RACE.
The suburban Hshd"apt for ,hree'yeer.
nl,,s ard inward bv auhsrr,H,'"n 0f S2a with
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TrNas League.

Dallas. 4: Waco. 2.
Houston. Z. san Antonio I.
Shreveport. 7. Fort Worth, 2.
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For three. year olds and upward HiGhweight
Vandicap; by subscription OF $40. with $500
SECOND RACE.

Good start: won driving Polarius b. e.
by Astronomer--Her Majesty. owned by David
Gideon: trained by j. Whnlen.
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For four year olds and upward: selling. By
suhscription OF s., with $500 added; one mile
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coupled as Belmont entry tFcll
Time 06 %.
Good start; won DRIVING s,romholi. oh G.
by Fair Pay-St Priscilla: owned hy August
Belmont: trained hy : C. HildrTh
try.rf ~,
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THIRD RACE.

,ai,ins. by subscription OF 80. with fls addt
siona, TO start; guaranteed cash value $1,000
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country club OF westchester Mems Invi-
,afl1n Singies-First Round: q Coke.
carer 1tfea'ed Frederick 9. Bags I'll.
d. Theodore II. peIl defeated Cedric A.
Vi t11r. 6--t 81; $. Howard voshell de-
fsafod Alrick II. Man, Jr. I'll i2-io.
second Rourd--Dr william Rosenbaum
aefeatCd c. W MacMulon, Ga, Sc; a.
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STATE INCREASES
FORCES TO FIGHT
AGAINST INSECTS

A Result of the Passage OF the
Plant Act
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SOME FLORIDA GEOLOGY

the various shrubs and trees, until
finally the land has become high
and dry enough to grow the black
jack and turkey oak and spruce
pine.
During the mangrove sawmp
period, ! can imagine a scene such
| is so common now down among
the Ten Thousand Islands, when
Peace river, the Myakka, Shell
creek and Alligator creek were
winding passages between man.
grove swamps and islands and the
deposits of oyster and clam shells
which we find all over this town
ship after digging from about
fourteen to twenty-four inches,
show me that this was made the
same as the Ten Thousand Islands
are now making.
After each overflow by a tropi-
col storm down among the Ten
Thousand Islands,is left a deposit
of silt, which after becoming dry,
checks and breaks up and is found
to be from an inch to three inches
thick. This was shown me by a
friend on certain occasion about
a month after one of these storms
and after comparing this with the
older material we found it the
same and naturally decided that
lin this way was built the rich
lands found so extensively here.
These storms do not come fire.
quently, probably about twenty
years apart; and this makes us
think how slowly this country has
grown ana how long TINS part OF
it must have taken to arrive at its
present elevation and perfection.
One and a half inches in every
twenty or twenty-five years is not
getting there Eli much as compar-
ed with the way we get there now
with our automobiles and our time
killing trains and flying machines,
but with old Eternity this is but
a span, and who knows that the
shells of these same clans and oys-
ters which we now dig up under
the ground where we now raise
the finest fruits and vegetables,
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EDITOR THE HERALD

EDITOR THE HERALD -
Some time in the long, long ago
that part Of Florida which is occu.
pied by township Al south OF
range % east, Twas covered by the
ocean. Then deep down, the little
coral insect, the foundation builder
of islands and continents, was bus
lily at work placing the super,
structure of this favored spot in
the most favored of all the states
of the Union, and when he had
built up to the surface of the wa
tier thus accomplishing his task
because to build higher would
place him out of his element, he
went on south and down again tc
again build up to the surface hav.
ing ever at hand his never failing
supply of lime in his native element
which nature has SO ingeniouSly
taught him to extract from the
water to build for himself a home,
His forsaken home was then TAX
en- as d home for the clam, the oys-
ter and all the innumer&ble vari-
ties of shell fish which are native
to these tropical waters. After
the crevices and interstices had
been filled by the sediment and
sands washed up by old mother
ocean, and when they in like man
lner had lived, loved and died and
grown up to stage above their
element, along comes the man.
grove sprout, drifting with the
tide, lodging and taking root and
thus forming the first nucleus of
the vegetable kingdom. In the
tangled roots of the mangrove
then came the drift and lodgment
of everything imaginable which,
with the dropping and decay of
the foliage, the deposits of drifts
and overfows from the higher
lands, intermingling with the sedi-
ments left by inundations of tropi-
cal storms end built up again and
again in this manner until high e.
and purged of the salt to
nourish and sustain the Live Oak
first. Then the saw palmetto,
then the pine, the myrtle and all
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES---COST
OF MAINTAINING HEALTH BOARD

provided for the care and treat
ment of INDECENT crippled children
of the state, and this most splen-
did charity has wrought and is
working today an untold amount
|of good, but this provision was
made from the funds Of the State
Board of Health. The sum COM
|paratively is not large, certainly
it is small compared with the re-
suits accomplished, but it is a ma
terial tax upon the funds of the
State Board.
In its wisdom, some years ago,
the Legislature ruled that the
Board, from the fund at it's COM
mand, must furnish free to the
farmers of the state, hog cholera
serum. All the farmer had to do
was to say he wanted some of the
very expensive medicine, give a
general description of his family
of hogs, and the Board was re-
quired to supply his deamnd. 1t
cost close to $4,000 last year to
control a disease which affects
human beings not at all it affects
only the pocketbooks of a small
minority of the people of Florida,
the comparatively few who hap
pen to own hogs. Why should
the money raised by general taxa
ton be handed out to the swine
owner and not to the man who
owns diseased orange grovef If
state funds are properly to be ex-
pended for private interests, why
should it not be diverted from
the fund specifically raised for the
preservation of human health?
When a glandered animal is
killed under the authority of the
state for the protection of other
animals and of human life, why
should the $500 paid for such
slaughtered animal be taken from
the funds of the State Board of
HEALTH Why should it not be
taken from the funds of the De-
partment of Agriculture, or by a
special fund provided for the pur-
pose?
The Board pays for the Pasteur
treatment in INDECENT cases for
the prevention of hydrophobia in
human beings and about one-half.
OF the cases occurring in Florida
come under the INDECENT classifi-
Continued on last page)
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WORK ON CITRUS
DISEASES IN FLORIDA
TO BE INCREASED
Rumor of Disseminating Has nc
Foundation
The Entire Plan will Be Reorgan-
lied and Additional Men EN-
ployed-More Experiments to
Be Undertaken.

| Washington, d. CA rumor
has become current that the ex-
pertinent work of the United
States Department of Agriculture
on sour scab, foot-rot, melanose,
and other citrus diseases will be
discontinued. The plant experts
of the Department say that moth
ing of the kind is contemplated
and that instead of stopping work
upon these citrus diseases the
work will actually be very con-
siderably increased in the present
year. The entire plan of the
work will be reorganized, addi-
tional experts will be secured, and
more field experiments will be un-
upon the more trouble
some diseases, excepting that be-
cause of the danger of spreading
citrus canker no field experiments
with this disease will be carried
on. Investigations of the citrus
canker disease are now under way
in the Washington greenhouse
and will be maintained there un-
der strict quarantine control.
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GOOD ROADS MEETING
To Be Held at Lakeland, Thurs
day, Sept. 9th

The officials of the Central Flor
ida Highway Association have
sent out circular letters urging ev-
cry body in this section of the
state to attend a meeting of the
association which is to be held at
Lakeland on Thursday of next
week. DeSoto county should not
fail to be represented at this
meeting, and it is hoped that Pun
ia Gorda, Arcadia, Wauchula and
all other towns in the county will
send up a delegation Of their best
men to attend this meeting and
look after the interests of this
county.
No special credentials are re-
quired; any citizen who is inter-
ested in good roads, particularly
in the highway from Lakeland to
Fort Myers, will be recognized as
a delegate, whether he is elected,
appointed, specially invited, or
not. Every one who can should
GO to the Lakeland meeting.
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FOUNDER s DAY
Celebrated by Local Eastern Star
Chapter Tuesday Afternoon

Founders day was celebrated
by the Punta Gorda Chapter Or
der OF the Eastern Star, Tuesday
afternoon, Aug. 31st. when the
members of the chapter, with Ma
sons and their families, enjoyed
an open air function in the park
in front of Hotel Punta Gorda.
j. r. Elliott, custodian Of Hotel
Punta Gorda, generously permit
ted the use of the grounds for this
purpose; and the ladies of the or
der prepared a bounteous picnic
dlnner-there was plenty to eat
and to spare-and this was a fea-
ture that was thoroughly enjoyed
by all who were there.
A short program followed, A.
B. Tucker making an address in
which he touched briefly upon the
founding of the Order of the East
ern Star as the achievement of
Robert Morris, the anniversary of
whose birth was being observed
all over the country; little Bonni-
belle Boykin rendered two read
lngs in a very entertaining man
ner; and Harry C. Goldstein, ex-
pert violinist, played effectively
two selections.
Thus was Founders Day" OBJ
served in Punta Gorda, and it was
proved a very pleasant occasion
the way it was earried out.
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BY THE LATE LEGISLATURE
Which Provided for Such Service
in the State to be Doubled
Another Entomologist is Now
Employed

BY the passage Of the Plant Act
during the last session, the Legis-
Sature doubled the insect pest
service Of the state. Formerly
there was only one official ento-
mologist in Florida, the entomoio-
gist to the Experiment Station.
The Plant Act created another be-
cause of the increased demands
for service. DIR. Il. w. Berger is
filling the new position. }. II.
Watson is the Experiment Station
entomologist.
The work of each Office has been
clearly defined so that there will
be no Implications or conflicts. An
effort will be made by the Plant
Board Entomologist to discover,
and to pave the way toward cuiti-
waiting the various enemies of IN
sect pests. He will also make
surveys of the state, of other stat
es and of foreign countries to To-
cate other pests that might be lm-
ported.
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TEUTONS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE
AS RUSSIANS SLOWLY WITHDRAW

land wonder at the size of them,
were not eaten and enjoyed by the
lgrandsons and daughters of old
mother Eve and Father Adam.
We feel assured that even then
they possessed the same delicas
flavor and excellence, and can inn
agine these ancient kinsmen OF
Iours inviting their relatives from
the interior to meet them on the
mound at the mouth of Alligator
creek to enjoy a clam bake or a
fish fry and an oyster roast. There
are the shells, at least, in evidence
and what more could you require 7
They have not yet returned to tes-
tify, but | am still looking for
them and feel sure that some of
them will come, for surely these
lioys when once tasted will cause
them to return.
And, too, we can picture them
in our minds eye coquetting and
flirting with each other by day
under the shade of the wide
spreading mangrove, buttonwood
and seagrape trees, and strolling
and lolling on the sandy beaches,
singing their love songs and quot
ing sentimental poetry, arrayed in
their unique single fig leaf un-
dress uniform by night. Turn
backward, turn backward, 0 time
in your fight, make me child a
gain, just for tonight, = and take
me there, take me there.
| A prominent unmarried friend
lof mine has a most delightful
lplace on this very creek, and he
| has often confded in me his asso-
Citations with kind of a mythical
Sweetheart who meets him late at
eve on the banks of this enchanted
stream, and after cajoling him in
every possible manner, but never
allowing him to even touch her,
but just as "the shades of night
|are falling fast = she bids him
fond adieu and tells him that he
must always sing farewell, fare
well to Araby's daughter" /" or she
will never see him again.
1t seems that he must have kept
to this practice, for she has ever
been prompt to come to him when
he has appeared at the trysting
place alone and at the proper time.
This must be very fascinating,
but how unsatisfying, and it is
wonderful how some great men
can go through life none the wiser.
-CRETACEAN.