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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

FOR SALE-The following cards for
sale at this office: House for Kent
House for Sale, Furnished Rooms for
Rent, "Unfurnished Rooms for Rent.
Rooms and Board. Automobile for
Hire. Price 10 cents each or three Tor
25 cents. Call at THE HERALD on
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

FOR SALE or rent-Blacksmith Shop
fully equipped with all necessary tools.
HEWITT BROTHERS, Punta Gorda. 50tf,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

FOR SALE-Blooded Tamworth pigs.
eight weeks old, beauties. Phone or
write p. MALE, Woodrow, Fla. (8-2-tD
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-01-10

FOR SALE - Choice location on the
new hard surfaced county road in So
lana facing $50 feet on Marian Avenue
and having a depth of COG feet---streets
on three sdes-splendidly fenced, very
rich soil--fruit trees all of best nursery
growth-well built small dwelling. Moth
ing can excel the opportunity for re-
turns on vegetables, fruits and poultry,
Apply to DR.. BURLAND. Box &c, Punta
Gorda Fla. tdec1
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
THE KITCHEN GARDENS.

In comparison with other sections of the country New England is not quite as enthusiastic over home gar denins as she should be. It is apparent 10 every observer, even if Boston Common is devoted to garden plots, and lawns in all the cities have been turned into cornfieids and potato patches, that not one-half the vacant land has come under cultivation.
 The kitchen garden has in it more Of future promise than present gain. A gardener is not made in a minute. snd what land will do the pest in is not to be discovered in a single sea- son.
 The back yard garden. as a rule. is an awful amateurish looking patch of land which has been indifferently at tended to and closes the season with crop of weeds sufficient 10 seed all the land within a quarter of a mile.
 All gardens in southern New Eng land have suffered severely from the drouth. and many of item were be- yond redemption when the benefcent showers arrived; but the few that withstood the dry spell have beer greatly benefited.
 The kitchen garden campaign vii doubtless double the home gardens ir New England permanently, and prove Of considerable value for years afte, the war is over.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
PRoFITEERINe LANDLORDS.

Bridgeport is making war upon landlords who are increasing rents and excessively taxing tenants.
 There is no denial that rents should keep pace with the increased cost Of material and labor, as well as taxes: but the disposition to get the last drop of juice there is in the lemon is being condemned.
 The Bridgeport Standard American says: Taking ten per cent. as the standard, rents that are somewhere near ten per cent are rot unt eason- able. The figure cannot always be nit exactly and there are circum- stances that may modify the situa- tion.
 There are thousands of landlords in Bridgeport who are not getting more than a ten per cent. return on their property and we should admit their fairness and justice, just as We accuse the eighteen and twenty per cent. landlords of being hogs.
 Tn the bitterness of war times we should keep our heads clear"
 Of course, rents should he based upon the real, not the inflated value of the rented property; and in such times as these a clear income of per cent, or twice the interest paid by the savings banks, ought to be sat isfactory to both tenant and landlord
 fl repairs which wers $75 a yea, annually are now because of changed conditions made $50. the landlorl must look to the tenant for enough advance to give a satisfactory return upon his investment.
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PERHAPS wE NEED THEM.

There are so few people who are conscious of just what the patriotic duty of citizen is. it is more than probable that Jane O'Ryans Ten Commandments of Loyalty" written to the New York World. will find d welcome here in New England:
 1. You cannot serve both democ- racy and autocracy.
 2. Honor our allies, who have borne the brunt of the war so long and so valoriously.
 8. Griefs and privations you shall bear in a spirit becoming our great cause
 1. You shall give your best to your country in thought, word and deed.
 ,. You shall not make blood money.
 6. You shall write letters of cheer and appreciation to our men in the service.
 [. You shall conserve every way requested by the government to helE win the war
 8. Do not let prejudice blind yor to the accomplishments of your gov ernment and cause you to belittle its achievements.
 g. Remember to give generously and continually to the Red Cross.
 10. Remember to invest literally ir Liberty Bonds and in Thrift and War Savings Stamps. These are worthy of being honoret as well as being preserved.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
HARD TO SUIT

The only reason why offer my home for sale,". said the suburban resi- dent, who was showing a prospective purchaser over the place, Ifs the fact that I am obliged to move to another town. Whoever buys this place will have an ideal home. Just notice the view to the south
 T don't care two cents about the view to the south or the north, either" said the prospective pur chaser, gloomily. T always get sus- picious when man who wants to sell a house begins talking of the view. It looks to me as though he was trying to distract the customers attention from the real matter at is- sue. 1 am not in the market for a view; it's house 1 want, and I want to be sure that the roof doesn't leak and that the windows will work in their frames.
 "Of course you want to sidetrack me by talking of the view so 1 won't notice whether the plaster is in good shape. IL reminds me of a horse I bought several years ago. The man who sold me that horse kept bragging of the animals legs and got me so in terested in those legs that I never mo- ticed that the old plug was blind in both eyes I have no doubt you're try ing to work similar game; but I'm older and wiser than I was then"
 T have no game of any kind" said the house owner, with dignity You can say what you like, but when 8 man is buying a property for himself and his family he should consider the view. It takes more than boards and brick and mortar to make a real home and such an extensive view as we have here--'
 You're bound to work off your view on me. hey? I'm more interested ir this stairway. Whoever built it had his head on wrong. I never saw such a crooked stairway. 4 man would need to be contortionist to go UT and down it and a woman wouldn't have any show at all, unless she was a trapeze performer. If I owned this place I'd pay less attention to the view and have something done to the stairway
 "Oh, you may sheer at the view al you want to, if that's any satisfaction
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
A SHORT SIGHTED POLICY,

The newspapers and periodicals of this country are having a hard time because of conditions which congress should have had better sense than to have imposed upon this great indus try.
 Leslie's Weekly calls attention to he fact that during the past year over 1900 newspapers and periodicals were forced out of existence by the nigh cost of paper and production. On .op of this comes an increase in DOS tai rates ranging from 50 to 900 per ceBt. according to distance" The in quiry is made why congress revived the antiquated, sectionalizing zone system, abolished by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and denounced by President Wilson when governor of New Jersey. and by the postal Investigating com mission under the leadership of Charles E. Hughes in 1911?
 "The claim was that it was to as- sure the post office department cost of service The final result will be-" says The Weekly, Ito decrease reve- nue. just as the doubling of the price of postal cards has reduced the in come from that source. The incompe- tency of those who drafted the rider to the war revenue act of 1917 which provided the zone system is shown in the following anomalous condition: A quantity of newspapers or magazines, made up and billed through by the publisher to a point west of the Mis- sissinDi gill under the new law cost
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
BREAKING RECORDS.

The coal miners of all ages are be- ing called to service to meet the big demand for coal and new records are being made.
 With the week ending July 18th the coal production records found a new million mark to conjure with. thereby smashing all previous records of weekly output. According to the weekly report furnished the United States Fuel Administration by the Geological Survey the bitumfnous output GncIuding ignite and coal made into soke) is estimated at 13, O 243,009 net tons. an increase over the week of July 6 Give working days) of 2,9S7 900 net tons. or 20 Ter cent. and over the corresponding week of last year of 1,479.G0O net tons, or 125 per cent
 The average production per work ing day is estimated ~ 2.207 900 net tons, as against 2.051,C00 net tons during the week of July 6, or an tn- crease of IS per cent. and as com- pared with the average production par working day of I,961.O00 net tons dur ing the corresponding week of 1917
 The output during the week ended July 1S. of 1S.24S 000 net tons is ap- proXimately 1.0S1 900 net tons, or per cent above the average weekly re- quirements o. 12.211 800, estimated by l the United States Fuel Administra- | tior. However, the average weekly l production for the coal year to dat, is estimated at II .J6S 000 net tons, ol 5.3 per cent behind the weekly re 1 quirements In order to make up tho 1 deficit for the coal year from April 1 to date, of G4S.000 net tons per week or s.65l 900 Met tons. 1t will be nee. | essary to have approximately 10 more weeks Of production equivalent tt that of last week. or 1 production 0 | 12,472, 000 net tons during each Of thu 37 remaining weeks in the coal veal ending March 31, 1919 This hsurt | has only twice been attained-th'
 week Of June l5 and this week. It will require sobrie,y and a stric attention to business to make the ex
 tra hundred millions ,f tons of coa
 required to assure comfort for al 1 next winter.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

News from the crop growers of the west who have so important a part in this war continues to be encoura ging. July, the critical month when droughts and pests of various sorts wipe out the hard labor and hopes of the far mers has nearly gone, yet the des- truction has not been great. Corn in Texas suffered during the month but
 other crops of grain were not affected Montana and the north Pacific coast also suffered some loss because of un- favorable weather conditions.
 Winter wheat and rye have been
 harvested 600,0 600 900 bushels of the
 former and S0O000OO bushels of the
 latter. The spring wheat and oat crops are growing under most favor l able circumstances. Corn, with a i showery August. will produce a rec 1 ord crop. It is reported to be far in l advance of last years crop, which
 means superior quality. This is the ! only grain crop over which the far mers are bending with anxiety. Ii
 will be subject to August weather. I,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

the Queen he visited various factories in London engaged on war work.
 It was at the Army Clothing Factory that the King accepted the invitation to try his hand as a cutter. He used an electric machine, and in a few sec onds severed true to pattern, shirt lengths on pile of material 50 thick nesses deep. The cut material was then transferred to machines, on which the detail work of cutting out was finished.
 Among those who handed bouquets to the Queen was a Mrs. Gordon aged 70, who has been employed in the factory for 50 years. At second factory visited their Majesties were informed that here every week 30 miles of cloth are cut up for Army clothing purposes.-Len- ion Chronicle.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

to you, but venture to say that Ii your wife were along she would De enraptured with the magnificent view to the east. From that porch one can see the Des Plaines river for miles and the mud flats on this side of it. have seen men fairly moved to tears when gazing over that remarkable landscape, and hundreds have commented upon the view"
 You just can't get away from your blamed old view, can you? l wish you'd let the view slide along enough to tell me why the carpenter who built this shack didn't make the doors high enough. l have an uncle living with me, and he is rather tall. and he'd he pumping the top of his head off II he lived in this house. And yhy in the world did you have a trap door over the cellar stairway? A trap door is about the worst man trap yet ir1- vented. I lived in house that had one a couple of years ago, and some body was always leaving that door open, and then somebody else was all ways falling down into the cellar till I had to rig up a derrick to hoist the victims cut again. A house with a trap door in it needs something better than a fine view as an offset"
 I'm sorry you don't appreciate the view. You are the only man I ever met who could contemplate that view without emotion. If you look from the west window you can see the canning | factory and the stockyards in the dis l tance, while in the foreground you be- hold the largest brickyard in the state
 Many a happy hour have I spent at that window contemplating the view and musing upon the profitable in dustries which are building up this suburb. On the north side one has a l view of"
 T suppose it is an excellent view oi
 the arctic regions and one can see the natives eating gumdrops" said the GUS
 toner, but I guess there's no use talk l ing with you any longer. I don't seen
 able to convince you that I want tc buy a house, not a franchise to look at the surrounding landscape Int condition of the house shows that yol
 have spent too much time studying the views and not enough making re pairs. ."-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

approximately eight cents per copy. A single copy of the same periodical, dropped in a street box. collected and worked through the post office and delivered to the addressee. will cost but four cents!
 Tt is a curious situation when wholesale mailing by publishers costs double that Of single copy mailing by private citizen. particularly when the argument for the passage of the zone law was simply to secure cost of service.
 "This Is the patriotism of the press paralyzed by shortsighted legislators
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
OTHER VIEW POINTS

It is against the law to shoot pig cons, but even the violator of the law who thinks he can escape detection may still be a patriot Let him who is tempted think that today the pigeon is doing great war work. Today the carrier pigeon performs an important part in the transmission of messages in the intelligence bureaus, both at sea and on land furnishing one of the most valuable links of communications. The carrier bears information from the patrol boat to the shore, from the aero plane to the front, from the units of land forces to each Other.-New Haven Register.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

starts out for August, however, with every promise as welcome rains have poured over the corn belts. No more important war news could be given fer the consideration of the aIlieS.- Waterbury Republican.
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peen Gloan in Snots.

As was to be expected, the move ment to educate our singers at home instead of abroad suits everybody e1- cept the singers and the neighhorE- Kansan City Times. .... ...
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

They say there are wall papers which effect enc like an east wind on a hot day; but they do not come our way.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

We have 2514 flying machines on their way to France. or enough to put at least s3s more flyers into the air,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

MT. Hearst has tried his strength in America and discovered that he hasn't any.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

The German Frankenstein Is some thing more than literary creation. Ii is pulling the junlsers to their doom.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Why talk about the Kaiser's shock troops!" Uncle Ssn's troops are do- ing most of the shocking just now.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

The American troops have taken 1000 prisoners and $50 guns They'll have a fine collection before fall sets in
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Austria is trying hard to keep up with the times. She has a new pre- mier almost every week.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Kaiser William is trying to solve how a man who makes law can be a respecter of law.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

The German shock troops are not used to that little war game: "S times in and then nutl'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Since there is not food enough in Russia for the people and the German army, who is going to get it is no problem.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

What Germany wants to cali of the war, and what she will get at the fln- ish, are very dissimilar.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Germany pleads to have the air. planes held up. They do not like to have the St. Vitus dance thrust upon them.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

American troops have arrived on the Italian front just in time to help hold up the Austrian drive.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Where letter carriers are short pos tai maids are doing satisfactory ser vice.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

As military leader the Crown Prince has shown himself to be only pocket edition of Van Molte.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

A great many forts of folly" are falling these days. as well as the forts along the Marne.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

The prowess of the Northumberland Fusiliers in assisting to withstand the Austrian attack and capture 1000 pri- soners is well in keeping with the glorious traditions of the Fighting Fifth" Their record for prisoner taking is truly remarkable, for on one occasion the Northumberlands cap tured a whole infantry regiment of more than their own strength, and on
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

A real patriot never spends more than half his time arguing the point
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Why is Mackinsen sucbing for Hin- denburg if the General is not sick?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Kaiser notices -na1 the tug of war is still Going on.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
Say a prayer, cay q prayer, /"


 and off they capered like beetles on a tombstone.
 And at that minute. at Mount Yer non, the President of the United States was gravely saying to the rep resentatives of thirty nationalities, de- voted to the cause of liberty:
 The Past and Present are in dead ly grapple and the peoples of the world are being done to death between them"
 Now, in the second year of the war was at Les Stables dOlonne on the coast of France. At the Pavilion, there, one night a Parisian banker, no doubt a profiteer, gave party for his daughters birthday. The guests began to dance
 I would like to see a crowd from Broadway rise as rose those French fisher folk that night! I would like to see that merry mock widow and that tango lizard chased through the streets of New York as l saw those parisian merry makers hooted down the beach at Stables d'Olonne. Surely as the French say, "It is not the moment How many Americans must die in France before we stop dancing as usual|'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

"Just over 15o blind soldiers have been married since they lost their sight" remarked Sir Arthur Pearson yesterday at the Coal Exchange, at a meeting on behalf of the Blinded Sold iers' Children Fund.
 And a bonny lot of girls they have picked continued the speaker amid laughter. T have seen most of them. (Laughter.) What better guide for a blinded father could there be Nlan his own little boy or girl?" Among the articles sold by MT. George Graves at auction were the fol- lowing souvenirs:-
 Prime Ministers walking stick e100.
 MT. Bonar Laws favorite pipe Z 56. E5 note signed by MT. Asquith, e47 Cigar case and letter case from Lord | Milner, G42
 Lord Curzon's walking stick. { 22 2s Brassie. with initials "A. J. B." z 30
 Case of whiskey, G42. | Sir Edward Carson's blackthorn 1 e6S 5s.
 Four boxes of matches, ZIP 12s. A lady in the gallery accidentally dropped her umbrella from the gallery It fell on the auctioneer's desk. There were cries of Put it up for auction" the lady acquiesced, and the article was sold for e2. The buyer gallantIy returned the umbrella to the former owner.
 1 The second diamond ever out in Eng land, the work of a disabled soldier was presented by MT. John Hodge. NJ F. and withdrawn at e100, a private bid of s250 having been previously received. A lady's boudoir cap and nightdress, in bag, realized s15, and g signed photograph of Miss Ellen Terry framed by a blind soldier, was solo for G5 5s. "The giddiest fiapper WE have at the present time" was MT l GraVes's remark
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and the little imitation widow in her
 bogus weeds, merry parody of suffer- ing, jumped up and laid her hand oa
 the back of the lounge lizard, lean and 1.-the in his pinch back palm beach shit
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Trust the Y. M. C. A. to overcome difficulty. There are many little groups of soldiers and sailors doing duty on anti aircraft and other service in out of the way spots and practical ly cut of from the world. It is inn possible, of course, to erect Y. M. C. A. hut for these scattered units, but their needs have been overlooked, and within the past few weeks many of them have received miniature model hut costing about ten guineas. and containing stationery, games, &c., and small library of books.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

The King helped to cut soldiers shirts yesterday. when accompanied by
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

The newest tribute to the airman is to say that he has good hands" and to imply that he manipulates his ma chine as he would handle the reins of horse with sensitive mouth. The analogy is not very appropriate. The good hands" in the case are those of the motorist. Good hands, combined with light, quick feet prevent the motorists chopping and notching his gears; they prevent his starting away with jump, they enable him to change speed noiselessly, to let in his clutch so that the drive is taken up from having their studs stripped out, the transmission strained, and make gear-box and differential last as long as the car.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

A housewife writes: I read that tins of all kinds were in demand because they could be utilized in some unspeci- fled way to help in the winning of the war. So I collected tins. Nobody Of whom l could hear would have them and in desperation I have had to pay (pay. mark you) the dustman to re- move the lot.
 Similarly with bottles. I had col lection of 20 medicine bottles, large and small I offered them to four chemists in succession Three declin ed to make any offer saying they did not require any bottles. The fourth offered Cd We wonder what the Hackney Borough Council would say to this. They anticipate making s10,- GOO year from the ''valuables" found in household dustbins.
 The motto of one of the most re- nowned regiments in the Army, the Gordon Highlanders, often puzzles the uninitiated. It consists of one word "Bydand" This is not Gaelic, but the participial form of the old Northum- brian verb ito byde"-stiil found in Scotland under the form "bide'-and | signifies calmly awaiting standing fast. It thus recalls the famous slogan Of the Grants: Stand fast. Craigel- 1 lacnis" Only the Gordons claim that their device disdains the imperative. They don't need to tell us to stand l fast"; they know we're byding right enough" said an old colonel to his battalion. Certainly the record of the regiment from Waterloo to Armen- tieres has made good the boast.
 One effect of the war-a shortage of 1 leather-has affected the lawyer of | Lincoln's Inn and the Temple. Nc longer can they get their books bound with what Dickens described as "un- | derdone piecrust covers, technically known as law calf" Buckram is it's best substitute, which however, the l book binder love not, as it's stiffness requires an inordinate amount of soak
 ing and manipulating with paste which is now nearly worth it's weight in gold
 A fortune awaits the genius who car
 invent a method of binding book;
 without the use of paste glue, mill
 boards, or thread-all expensive things l now,