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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14

New Haven clock, Regulator style and
quality. Good time keeper and just the
thing for office. church or schoolhouse.
Cost SIS at wholesale. Will sell for sac.
Inquire at the Western Union Office. 41tf
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14
Cards OF Candidates for Town Offices
ECR MAYOR

We are authorized to announce that s.
r. J. Trabue will be q candidate for re-
election for Mayor Of Punta Gcrda at the
approaching election in November.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14
Help the United War Workers
Donate literally to the United
War Workers Campaign.

A patriot and his money gxo
soon parted. -Ocala Star
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14
FOR RENT

FOR RENT--Clean comfortable rooms
$500 per week. $500 per week for table
board. Plenty of the best the market
affords. Two blocks from Post Office,
Box 291. 42-4ts
FOR RENT-Office Rooms, neat, large
and well yentilated-over Coapers Hard
ware Store. Apply to THE HERALD. II
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14

FOR SALE-Four- room house with four
large lots ready for cultivation, fenced.
with barn and outhouses, one block from
town limits; several bearing fruit trees;
only $4,000 cash, If sold at once.--See
ADAM SILCOx, 2tf.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14

FOR SALE-Brood sows of good stock
w. DIVAL. Acline. Fla. 43-6ts
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-11-14
FoR SALE

six words counting line.
FOR SALE
FOR sALE-Brood sows OF good stock
w. DUVAL. Acline. Fla. 43-6tS
FOR SALE-Four- room house with four
large lots ready for cultivation, fenced.
with barn and outhouses. one block from
town limits: several bearing fruit trees;
only $4,000 cash. ii sold at once.-See
ADAM SILCOX, 2tf
FOR sALE-one eight-day. weight.
New Haven clock. Regulator style and
quality Good time keeper and just the
thing for office, church or schoolhouse.
Cost SIS at wholesale. viii sell for $40.
Inquire at the Western Union Office 4ltf
FOR SALE-Two-s story rooming house
furnished or unfurnished. Five sleep
ing rooms upstairs. Three suites of two
rooms each for light house keeping be-
low. Electric lights, large varandas, two
cisterns of rain water On Dixie High
way, two blocks from p. o. and rs miles
from aviation camps, Very asonable
terms. Address r. o. BOX $50, Punta
Gorda, Fla. 40tf.
FOR SALE - Choice location on the
new hard-surfaced county road in So-l
lana. facing 2G0 feet on Marian Avenue
and having a depth OF COG feet--streets
on three sldeS--splendldiy fenced, very
rich sol---frut trees all Of best nursery
gruwth--well built small dwelling. Moth
ing can excel the opportunity for RE-
turns on vegetables, fruits and poultry.
ApplN to Or, BUTI.AND, Box 26. Punts
Gorda. Fin.
FOR SALE OR RENT:-ITaving retired
from active business. am Offering for sale
or rent, one 5-acre place suitable for any
kind of crop, / mile from town. Has
good fence and tool building. Also 10
acre place near Acline, fenced and ditch
ed acres cultivated and s grubbed-
Good cottage, well, stable and shed. For
further particulars address W. M M,
Box 119, Punta Gorda. 39tf.
FOR SALEl-Best Orange and Truck
Lands at BARGAIN PRICES, viz: 5-acre
lot with cottage and barn, che mile from
Ftnta Gorda; also, IS acres on Shell
Creek, FINEST ORANGE LAND in the
Stat. seed also for truck To be sold to
wind up estate of Mary j. Buell. de-
ceased.--Further information given ON
application to John Robinson, 1873 e.
Hudson street, Elmira, N Y 469t
FOR SALE--Louisana Green Seed
Camel. j. PATRICK, Punta Gorda. 1t%
FOR SALE-Five-yea old mare. single
wagon and harness--for SIS, If sold with
in 80 days.--C. p. WILHELM. Punta
Gorda. 46-2te
FOR RENT
FOR RENT--Clean comfortable rooms
$500 per week. $500 per week for table
board. Plenty of the best the market
affords Two blocks from Post Office,
Box 291. 42-4ts
FOR RENT-Office Rooms, neat, large
and well ventilated-over Coepers Hard
ware Store. Apply to THE HERALD. II
MISCELLANEOUS
HELP WANTED or woman with
some knowledge OF seeds; gardening or
farming; market gardener preferred; am
excellent and unusual sales opportunity
THE WING SEED CO., Mechanicsburg,
Ohio. IT.
Political announcements
TOWN REGISTRATION NOTICE
Registration books will open November
6, 1918, at the Town Hall, and will re-
main open for ten days between the
hours of q. IN. and D. m. Sunday ex-
cepted closing November 16th.--L. u.
ROBINSON, Clerk.
Cards Of Candidates for Town Offices
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Economical Husband,

The conversation in the lobby Of a
Washington hotel turned to subject
Of wartime economy when fitting
anecdote was related by Congressman
Porter 81. Dale of Vermont.
Recently the Browns moved into a
new house, and not liking the wall
paper in the dining room, Mrs. Brown
decided to have it repapered at her
own expense. The work was done
while Brown was at the Office.
II want you to look at the dining
room, Jimmy" said little WHEY when
the old man returned at the dinner
hour and was proudly led into that
apartment. ''How do you like it?''
II like the paper all right" replied
Brown, just a little emotionally, ''but
why in the world did you use paste
in putting it on?"
"Paste ~ was the wondering rejoin-
er of the good woman. SLOW else
could I have put it on?"
''You should have put it on with
tacks," declared the economical hus-
band. "You don't suppose we are go
ing to live in this house forever, do
you?"-Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
German Subterfuqe.

The Almanach de Gotha, annually
'made in Germany" was well known
before the war as the social register
of Europe, kind Of ''Burke's Peer
age" of the continent. Naturally it
has been ostracized for some time from
the best allied society, and now it is
entirely, superseded by the Almanach
de Bruxelles, which, in first edition,
has recently met warm welcome in
France. The German publication, it
appears, has been a powerful channel
Of espionage. Officials Of every coun-
try in the world have innocently sup
piled it with information about promi-
nent people, family trees, armies, ma
vies, and what not. Some Of this in
formation was ostentatiously paraded
on the pages of the Almanach, but
one would like to know how much of
it went privately into the files Of the
German intelligence department.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Reforest Bare HilIsides.

The scarcity of lumber for mine pill
lars and other mine uses has led to
the creation of forestry department.
by several of the large mining COM
panies, one of which has just refor-
ested Bear creek watershed with 5000
white pine and 5000 Norway spruce
trees.
Thirty thousand more trees are In
process of cultivation at Hauto, Pa,
in the Panther Creek valley. When
timber is ready to cut in the vicinity
Of the mines troublesome waits and
long hauls will be eliminated.
More timber in the. anthracite re-
gion would stop doods, add to the
water supply, reduce the drought PEI
RODS and enable the anthracite indus
try to add to its output. Many thou
sands Of acres are available about the
mines for reforestat alton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Worlds Aluminium Supply.

Though Switzerland led the world in
the early electrolytic production Of
aluminium, France has been the chief
producing nation since 1895, and sup
piled as much as 1872 per cent of the
worlds annual total at the time Of the
outbreak of the war; The 10 plants
for electrolytic aluminium had III 1914
an aggregate of 100000 horsepower
with capacity Of 10000. tons year.
The three plants Of the United States
supplied 25.8 per cent Of the worlds
product; the two plants Of Switzer-
land, 12.4; the two English plants, 10;
the one Canadian plant, SO, and the
two plants Of Norway, 4.3. French
supremacy has been due to the supe-
rior quality Of the bauxite mined.
u = p
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Dried EqQs,

The high cost Of eggs in England
has led to the birth Of quite new big
business in dried eggs and eggs in so
luton. One large firm selling dried
eggs has undertaken an extensive adj
vertising campaign to push these eggs
upon the attention of retailers, who in
their turn are being enabled by other
advertising matter to attract their Gus
toners to the goods.
The dried eggs which they advertise
are entirely soluble and take, up the
water like lump of sugar and thus
give the perfect creamy liquid of a
beaten shell egg ready for instant use
on mixing. Dried eggs are no longer
to be regarded as war food; they have
come to stay. This firm predicts, that
in the near future the properly dried
eggs will have become one of the very
largest used and most important Of our
foods. s31
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
The Simple Liners.

Every sensible man and woman to-
day is simple Ifer. There are so
many things which are difficult to get,
so many controllers are hemming us
in with prohibitions that we are MAX
ing our lives simpler and more simple
every day. Curiously enough, the large
majority Of us are feeling all the bet
ter for it. We walk where we once
motored, and the exercise sets the
stagnant blood in our veins running
with fresh vigor. We eat less and di-
gest more. So little have we felt the
deprivation that most of us are de-
claring that for the future it is to be
the Simple life forever" There are,
of course, some who struggle in their
absurd vanity to keep the old life alive.
Their time is mainly spent in evading
the orders of the food controller, or in
discovering new sources of extrava-
gance. Some day they will realize
their mistake and join the happy army
of simple lifers." You cannot have
your cake and eat it. Our cake today
is victory in the great war for free
dom, truth and justice. That can only
be ours if we deny ourselves all the
other cakes we once loved so much.
The Simple lifer'' is doing his duty
and that is why he is happy. His
is the vision without which, as Solo
mon told us, "the people PERISH
London Express.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
English Meat Cards.

Meat can be purchased in metropoE
itan districts in England only under
the card system, which is to be extend
ed throughout the United Kingdom.
The child's meat card is for. children
under ten years Of age, who are emit
tied to only half as much meat as
adults. 5sga
Horse meat, bones, suet and offal
are included among the products for
the, purchase Of which cards are neces-
ssary. No one Isl exempt even the roy
al family is on a meat-card basis. The
rigdity Of control may be Judged from
the fact that forgery Of cards is pun
sishable by heavy fine and that in case
of death, the card must be surrender
ed before burial permit Is granted.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Munition Brass to Cost Less.

Perfection Of a new type of electric
melting furnace that will reduce ma
terially the cost Of making brass for
munitions, devised by 81. w. Gillett, a
government chemist, was announced
by the bureau of mines. Patents have
been assigned to Secretary of the Inte-
rior, Lane as trustee.
Cornell university and brass manu-
facturers were among those who as
sisted during five years of develop
ment of the device. It is intended to
supplant open crucibles in which zinc
and copper are melted by fuel heat
under present manufacturing methods.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Name German Shells.

. There are about 200 separate and
distinct kinds of shells fired from Ger
man guns, and each and every one Of
them has been given at least one nick
name by the English Tommies. Some
of them have been given several.
The biggest kind of high explosive
shells, for instance, are known indif-
ferently as "Dirty Dicks "Jacks John
sons" "Coal Boxes" "Flower-Pots, ;"
"Crumps,'' 'sBlatk Peters," or sWhis-
thing Willies.'
The smaller kind are .Black Marias''
or "Woolly Bears according to wheth-
er the smoke they emit when burst
ing is black or white with a yellowish
tinge.
High-explosive shrapnel and trench
mortar shells are respectively "whizz-
bangs" and "pip-squeaks," from their
habit Of giving only these warnings Of
their approach. "Archibalds" are anti
aircraft shells.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Navy Superstition.

A visitor on a British battleship
was dining with a group of officers
when his fork accidentally struck q
glass tumbler. AS the glass resounded
the officers shouted as one man, Hun"
On asking for an explanation the visit
or was told that the ringing Of a glass
meant bad luck. One officer declared
that on one ship he formerly COM
manded every time a glass was rung
"a man fell overheard. This is why
officers now cry "Hun" when table
accident occurs, they hoping to trans
fer their bad luck to the enemy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
ANDSHE||VN WONDERED |l|I|II||I|;'i|i i;
Mrs. BiIltops Really Doubted
Scales Accuracy.
Seemed Singular Thing Until Elk.
PLANTATION Dawned on the Pair II
Who Were Going Through the
Regular Program.

eve keep said Mr.. Billtops, ga
record of Mrs. Billtop's weight. There
is drug store in our neighborhood
which we pass in our daily walks
where they have a nice beam scale,
and about once in ten days or two
weeks we stop in there and weigh Mrs.
Billtops; and then, when we get
home, I set the weight down in the
record.
''The greatest difference between any
two weights taken so far this year is
two pounds; while the difference be-
tween the first weight and the one just
taken is only three ighths of pound.
So you can see her weight is running
very true.
1T might seem that all this was
rather humdrum commonplace per-
Torrance to go through, but really
there's a good deal of variety to it.
''For instance, in winter, when she
is wearing a heavy cloak, we weigh
Mrs. Billtops with that cloak on. Thus
the first weight we get is the gross
weight, and then from that we have
to deduct the tare, this being the
weight Of the cloak as previously as
certained at home, to arrive at the net,
which is what we set down in the rec
ord.
$50 you see it is not all quite so
simple as it seems; and this spring,
when Mrs. Billtops put on for the first
time her ighter-weight spring coat,
we ran into regular incident.
'sAfter weighing her, as usual, with
her coat on, we remembered that we
had forgotten to weigh this coat be-
fore starting out, but this was light
coat that could be easily removed and
handled, and so now Mrs. Billtops
removed her coat and we weighed her
with the coat off. But do you know,
she weighed precisely the same with
her coat off as she did with it on!
'Mrs. Billtops and I looked at each
other in mild amazement; but then at
the same moment we both made the
same discovery. Still standing on the
scale Mrs. Billtops was holding the
coat she had just removed!
II am not sure that Mrs. Billtops is
quite as much interested in all this
weighing business as I am, but we
both laughed at that; and really
should say that taking everything to-
gether we get let Of fun out Of weigh
ing Mrs. Bil1tops. NEW York Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
u VIVA USE IS Tit RAT7
Place 81 the Predatory Rodent ii Bal
ance Of Nature Perhaps In "a
Remote Past. &. 1. 81 HIRE

One Of the geological details connect
ed with the rat is its failure to sus-s
tain any discoYerable relation with
the balance Of nature. The balance
of nature seems remarkably even all
over the world, for no kind Of life can
become wholly extinct without affect
ing prejudicially the general environ
ment. t3 .l .s Sst
3s.t The rat seems the solitary excep-
ton to the general experience that In
reference with the fauna Of an envi-
ronment invites disaster through an
upset of the balance of nature, says
writer in Current Opinion. Other
forms of life, vegetable or animal, up
set it by their absence. It was thought
until recently that a peculiar species
of flea could thrive upon the rat alone,
but some doubt is thrown upon this
idea by reports Of plague investiga-
tors. f..S N .551 55
:. There is, however, another view Of
the connection of the rat with the
balance Of nature, according to the
Paris Revue Scientifque. The ro-
dent has achieved its task, performed
its duty. The work was accomplished
in past centuries, probably in Asia.
Rats will attack very large organisms.
Even the elephant is not respected. IT.
is widely known that certain varieties
Of Asiatic elephants have great dread
Of rats. Cases are recorded in which
a huge elephant has succumbed to
1e,v 10 S%e,-f NV, o%c,t'
rats gnaw the hoofs of horses when it
can get at them. It would exterminate
the pig if it could find a neutral in
man.
In brief, all the evidence suggests
that there has ragged in the past
great warfare between the rat and
certain gigantic forms of, life. The
brown rat seems to have had much to
do with the extinction of certain
great beasts in Asia. Perhaps the
mastodon was routed by the rat. In
any event, the rat may have played a
glorious part III eliminating the bulky
monsters that in time past kept man
down numerically just as today the
robin plays a glorious part in elm
mating from the soil the pests that
otherwise would keep the crops
down.
The very voracity Of the rat must
have been of great geological impor-
tance when it had to attack, perhaps,
a herd Of mastodons. The rats trav-
eled, then, evidently, in swarms. They
swan rivers in swarms. Nothing could
stand them or Withstand them. Having
eaten up everything that could not
run or fly or fight back, the rat turn
ed to Europe and had to satisfy itself
with new habits and different foods.
It's connection with the balance Of ma
ture was destroyed and it is today
meaningless survival with nothing but
a somewhat doubtful claim to char
acteristic flea.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Population of the Earth.

In 1887 the population Of the earth,
according to Busching, was about
I ZOO, O0O, 900; in 1900, according to
Fabri and Stein, only 900, 600, coo II "a.
1888, according to Stein and Horschel-
man, s72, OOO, 900. IN 1853 Dietrici es-
timated it at / ,266, 900, 600 and Kolb, in
1855, at 1920 OO, 900. According to
the latest calculations the earth is. In
habited by 2,4OO, 600 600 happy y hu-4
man beings.New York Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Worlds Need for Wheat.

Exports Of wheat from the United
States to the allies between July 4,
1914, and January 1, 1913, totaled more
than 389,OOO,O0O bushels. Wheat
-four exports exceeded 24,6OO, 600 bar
.rels. The total IN terms Of wheat
shows that the United States has sent
the allies nearly five bushels Of wheat
for every person II this country. On
til the next harvest the great need is
Tor wheat from the United States.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
Rabbits 4 Real Pest.

AS a fair illustration of the rabbit
pest in certain portions of New Zea-
land, and especially in the drier sec
lions Of the South island, it IS stated
that on an estate lately taken over BY
the New Zealand government, compris-
ing l2,446 acres Of freehold and pas
toral run Of 1920 acres, there were
killed or captured about 10000 rab-
bits in order to clear up the property
so as to make it suitable for the loca-
ton of returned soldiers
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-25
AMERlc CAN IS NOT Sol sTER
Seems That Real Musical instinct Has
Yet to Be Awakened in the
! United States. S5as

The last quarter Of a century the
general feeling has spread abroad that
America was quite musical nation,
and it is true that in the large cities
Of the eastern seaboard and quite far
into the middle West there is a good
deal Of listening to music in the form
OF opera and concerts, given, for the
most part, by imported musicians !; but
when we reach the great heart of the
country we find that the natural in
stincts Of the people are almost entire
" starved, or at any rate, very poorly
nourished. For musical nation is
not one which merely listens to music
made by others, any more than a peo-
pie is athletic if, instead Of exercising
themselves, they watch others indulge
in gymnastics. .$.a5s III
A musical people is one which con-
siders music such an Indispensable
food and tonic for their own spirits
and imaginations that they sing and
play in every activity of daily life just
as freely and naturally as they laugh
and speak. For many centuries this
has been true Of all the great European
nations Italians, French, Scotch,
Irish, Scandinavians, Russians and 9TH
ers-and the result is the great body
Of folk song and folk dance which is
the priceless heritage of all these ma
lions.
Just why the American has not vet
become singing animal Gas Aristotle
said everyone was a social animal) is
difficult matter to explain, although,
doubtless, if sufficient time were taken,
reasonable causes might be suggested !;
but, at any rate, it is a fact. Surely
one Of the most direct products Of
this war will be the bringing home to
the whole body polite of the value of
music, for by means Of the stress Of
war which is bringing the whole coun-
try together, love of music may be
carried into the most remote parts of
the country.
Good regimental bands have always
furnished one Of the most sympathetic
bonds between the body polite and
the government of any given country,
and we earnestly hope that more and
more, both during the war and after
it, we shall have in America a num-
Der of such bands which will consider
it their pleasure and duty to play at
all public and patriotic meetings, espe-
cially on national holidays, thus i'm
pressing upon all citizens the stimu-
lating effect of martial music.
In a number Of the camps in the
middle West and in Texas we were
told by officers and song leaders that
there were drafted men who had come
in from remote towns and settlements
who had never seen any musical in
struments, such as pianoforte and
violin, and who had no idea that men
could make, pleasing sounds with their
vocal organs in connection with the
uttering of words.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-23
Pastor Makes Blunder.

Rev. Karl Wettstein, pastor Of the
Mt Ida Presbyterian church, Daven-
port. stated through the newspapers
that he would make reply Sunday to
the address at the Coliseum fednes-
day evening by DR.. Hills. Rev. Welt
stein got himself in hot water for the
time being, many of those who read
has announcement suspecting that the
pastor was to take issue with the as
sertions of DR.. Hills with reference to
the atrocities committed Dy the Ger
mans. He was kept busy an entire day
answering telephone calls and home
visitors, to all of whom he gave assur-
ance that his intention is to endorse
everything that DR.. Hills said and
point out the only answer which our
nation can give to such tremendous
challenge is more united Christian
effort,