Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 20, 1910, Page 4

Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second- Class Matter. THE HERALD-REVIEW ISTHE Oficial Paper of Ir4s0 Counry, Rranp Raps, One) Fare Com asset. Keswa: @Misial Paper of Durnicr Couns in Beer ee ecesetings. ee Houtman, SHOULD BE RETAINED. The concensus of opinion through- out the district seems to be that Hon D.M.Gunn should be retained in his nt position as state senator. Aj large number of prominent men in the them- district have selves in favor of Mr. Gunn and state opinion ne man in the more to ad- openly declared it is their state senate tas dong vance the interests of northern Minne- sota. Senator Gunn’s collegiates have the greatest admiration for his busi- PESS and political sagacity and when he champions or works for or against a measure, he is always given an attentive hearing, for they acumen when he says anything it is al- pithy and to the point. A of the newspapers have al- | up the ery that Senator} Gunn be retained in his present ca- pacity and, although he has made no declaration as to his future political friends of northern know ways short, majority so taken ntentions, the Minnesota will not permit him to re- fuse There has been some the nomination, mention made by certain papers of Supt. A. J. McGuire, of the Northeast Experiment farm, for in favor the office, but when approached on the subject, Mr McGuire was undecid- ed as to whether or mot he would run and did not wish ito make any statement regarding the subject. In any event it is not anticipated that Senator Gunn will experience any dif- ficulty im being re-elected, if he so desires — THE BACK YARD GARDEN. now that the season Once again, when the spade should be applied to the soil is at hand, The Herald would commend to its readers the ba yard warden. feet in the back yard caltivated can be made to noticeably the household p lem of the cost of living. in the !:inds of the average house- aolder with whom gardening is a re- creation and net a business, bac yard gardening will nct spell wealth; but it will furnish a reasonable a- | mount of fresh,succulent garden truck for table, and every nickel’s worth of produce acquired that way much less to be acquired grocer’s “every And dont forget that little bit added to what you got make a little bit more’. So much for the economic feature of the back yard garden. Still more important, in many re- spects, are the you can get out of digging in your own garden, under the blue canopy of and out in the life-giving fresh air. There is something about contact with the freshly turned soil that seen Perhaps Wis mere fancy that it comes out of the tre: to give life and strength. soil; perhaps it is the exercise an But be assured that and strength in it, products have paid spade and the rake and the garden seed, the rest is that much » air that do the business. whatever there is the cause, health and when your for the to the good. And then the pleasure of it! The pleasure of cleaning away the debris from the back yard, of turning the fresh Bweet soil, of making neat, at- tractive beds, of the loving bestowal of the seeds in their proper places and at the right depths; the pleasure of watching the first pale green cot ledons poke inquiring bi-partite heads above the earth; the pleasure of spec it is a bean or a pigweed; pleasure of watching the young green things grow and take form and identity, so you can tell the weeds from the vegetables; the pleas- are of seeing them ripen to maturity and of having them on the table, the fruits of your own intelligence and Qabor—with a minor recognition of ulating whether the pleasure and health | | the handiwork of the soil, the sun an i spade a place in the corner, around | the edges that your wife will plant : blossoms in the greater glory of vivid 1 | visement. a the rain; these are very real pleas- ures indeed, and well worth cultivat- img. Besides, the back yard garden look ever so much better than the back yard debris heap. Probably you can flowers in and then the back yard colors. The back yard garden is good be- cause it helps cut the living expen- ses. It is good because the work of making it, with the fresh air and ex- ercise it involves, is healthful and invigorating. It is good because of the excitement and interest and pleas ure there is in it. It is good, finally, because it makes back yards sweeter and cleaner and sightlier. By all means have a back yard gar- den this year. Now is the time to begin makihg it—Duluth Herald. KNOCK-OUT FOR THE PATROL LAW Portion of State 2 Fire Warden Law of 1909 Is Ruled Against. Judges W. S. McClenahan, C. W. Si anton and B. F. Wright, the three judges for this fifteenth judicial dis- trict, hold that the patrol section of the state fire warden law of 1909 is unconstitional. The constitutionality of the patrol section of the state fire warden law attacked im several cases which were brought against railroads last fall wherein the state attempted to en- force that provision of the law which requires railroad companies to em- ploy at least! one patrolman for every mile of their railroad through land liable to be over-run by fires and discover and extinguish fires occuring near their lines by which i meant a distance within which a fire could usually be set by sparks from a passing locomotive. Judges| McClenahan, Stanton and Wright decided to sit en banc and jointly consider a test case, which was taken from the municipal court at Brainerd, the Northern Pacific Railway company being the defend- ants. The case was heard on Sept- ember 23, the state being represent- ed by County Attorney F. F. Price, of Grand Rapids and John P. Cole- man of Duluth, While C, A. Hart re- presented the Northern Pacific rail- way; W. H. Steel the Great Northern E. E. McDonald the Crookston Lumbe company; R. J. Powell the Minneapo- lis and Rainy River railway. The different features of the law were goue into pretty thoroughly and the judges took the matter under ad- To Judge Wright was de- legated the duty of writing the dec- ision, in which the other judges con- curred: Judge Wright warden statute is: void and that holds that the fire the is So | fire warden paragraph of the statute from the! is almost wholly composed of terms, | no practically exact definition of | which is known, and that the act i itself does not define it; that in case of a é¢rial, various witnesses would be unable to testify as to the season, | the nature of the land through which | the railroad passes and other materia | issues involved; that in submitting the case it would seem almost im- possible for the court to instruct the jury intelligently in the matter. An appeal will probably be taken that | the supreme court may finally ad- | judicate the matter. PALMQUIST GOT 3 YEARS IN PEN Attempted to Kill His Wife During Family Quarrel-Eagle Case Now On. The attention of the court for the -U2d useq svy Yoom ysvd oY} 10J UNOD tred upon the Palmquist assautl case and the Nashwauk Eagle case. In the case of Palmquist, who attempted to kill his wife when she threatened to leave home, the defence was bas- ed on the grounds that the defendant was attempting to committ suicide and did not intend to shoot his wife but the jury could not see it that way and brought in a verdict of guilty Palmquist was sentenced to 3 years! in the state penitentiary at Stillwater by Judge McClennahan and was tak- en to that place by Sheriff Riley this afternoon. The case of Abe Racine vs. the Eagle lodge, of Nashwauk, is now being heard and a large number of witnesses are being examined. It is thought the case {will go to the jury tomorrow afternoon. GRAND RAPIDS HERALDAEVIEW WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 1910 ‘1892' Cheapest Because Best ERE, at last, is the ideal kitchen and cooking utensil—“ THE WARE THAT WEARS”— made from Pure Spun Aluminum, and guaranteed by the makers to last 25 years with average usage. “Spun” Aluminum, mind you, not cast Aluminum, which will sometimes crack and scale. Spun Alumi- num Ware will never crack, peel, scale or brvak. Costs a trifle more than ordinary enamel ware, but is many times cheaper in the lonz run, because of its wonderful dura- bility and fuel saving. Enamel ware is iron coated with colored glass. Iron ex- pands with heat. Colored glass does not, but chips off into the food with dangerous results to those who eat it. That the use of enamel kitchen ware causes canter is a view held by some eminent medical authorities. Dr. William YH. Diefanbach of New York, in a paper en- titled “Observations on the Etiology of Cancer,” read before the Bureau of Sanitary Science and Public Health during the session of the International Homeopathic Congress at Atlantic City, discussed this subject. According to a special dispatch to the Philadelphia North American, Dr. Diefan- bach advanced the argument that chipping Will Not Rust, ust, Crack, eb: Pure Aluminum Ware Break, Scorch or Burn Will Last a Lifetime of the hard-coated dishes used in preparation of meals allowed minute but dangerous particles of foreign matter to become mixed with the foad, these being taken into the stomach, where the canceraus growth is caused by abrasions which they make in the walls of the organ. “1892" Pure Aluminum Ware doctors’ bills. indigestion. rust, or corrode. venient to handle. The original and only genuine Spun Aluminum Ware is made by the Pure Aluminum Co. at Lemont, Ill. piece bearing their trade-mark, the Maltese Cross, and marked “1892” Pure Aluminum Ware is absolutely pure, wholesome and hygienic, and guaranteed for 25 years. See that you get the right goods and accept no substitute, It enables you to bake bread, pies, pan cakes, etc., without grease, which is the great cause of dyspepsia and Aluminum griddles require no grease; hence are smokeless and odorless. “1892” Pure Aluminum Ware will not scorch or burn, is easily cleaned, will not Handsome in appearance. Looks like silver, but weighs only about one-fourth as much, and is light and con- saves Iinois Every Only a few of the “1892” Pure Aiuminum Cooking Utensils are shown here. Complete line will be found at HENRY HUGHES & CO., Grand Rapids THE PROBLEM OF CLEARING LAND (Continued from Page One.) blow it completely out of theground and break it up into pieces so that it can be readily piled and burned. The amount of dynamite required will vary with the size of and kind of stumps, the number of years it has been cut and with the kind and condition of soil. the farmer at wholesale price, the method of blasting is probably the cheapest, easiest and quickest way to {remove stumps. W: ith a cheap ex- its use among the farmers, the great! problem of clearing land would be} practically solved. The Price of Dynamite. Dynamite is a product that the busi ness men of Northeastern Minnesota should grant the farmers the privileg¢ | of buying at cost, for the more dyna-, mite the farmer can get for his mon- jey he thas ito expend for it, the more land he can clear, and it is the clear- ed land —land under cultivation, that, | will make the most business for moet | ern (Minnesota. Through a coopera-' tion movement for cheap dynamite, started a year ago, more land was ‘cleared up in different communities by the farmers who cooporated in ‘buying dynamite, than was cleared up in the five years previous. What Dynamite Can be Bought for at Wholesale. The prices given below are prices per 100 ibs. quoted by one of the large powder companies and include freight. It is possible that a lower price /than this may be secured, but this jis a big reduction over what farmers have been paying. Where a farmer could clear but an ‘acre at the former price, he can now clear from an acre and a half to two acres. And also note the saving in buying ‘a large amount. In buying by the ton there is a saving of over 70 cenjts per hundred and in buying in car | load lots, there is a saving of over $2.00 per one hundred pounds. |The Per Cent of Dynamite to Use. Forty per cent dynamite has been the grade most commonly used. Last year on’ Experiment Farm a test was conducted with different grades of dynamite, and in all about fifteen WILL YOU PAY $14 to $25.00 FOR A SUIT that has all the character and tone of the custom tailor’s usual $30 production? Well, that’s just what we will give you forfrom $14 to $25, with our gtarantee that the materials are just as good and the fit as perfect as you would get at the tailor’s. Hundreds of beautiful fabrics in a number of nifty models to select from. Be wise—see these “Peck’’ suits at from $14 to $25. You'll like them. We have the fanciest line of neck wear in town LANPHER HATS—AII the lat est styles; don’t forget the $3.00 Lanpher hat. Just received a fine line of the latest shirts. Fine summer un- derwear also. SHOES Fine Russia calf, three eyelets. . Gun Cadet calf, sailor toe, two eye- sailor toe, -- $4.00 metal calf, blucher ox- ‘ ! stumps on medium to heavy soil. ie loose sandy or swampy soil, | ahov e the freezing point of water. When dynamite can be bought by; ! fifty stumps lets, light flexible sole; just the thing for dancing. H. HUGHES & G0, hundred pounds of dynamite were used and the results obtained while not conclusive, do not indicate very much difference if any between twent five per cent, forty per cent and six- ty per cent dynamite for blowing out there bee be a great difference, but under | average conditions, the result ob- ! ph on the Experiment farm would | not warrant the expenditure of the difference in price between ‘the lower; land higher grades. It is well worth | | while to compare the twenty-five per} cent with the higher grades. It is, worth the test. One difficulty dynamite in the spring of the is the freezing of the dynamite. nemite freezes at a temperature fey: twenty to twenty-five degr encountered in using year Dy- of There ‘is a grade of dynamite now} being, used on the market known as ‘Red Cross’. This has about the same ficering temperature water, which is 1 most desirable advantage. Use of Dynamite, "he question is commonly asked as: lto the cost of clearing land “per jacre ’. The acre cannot be used as "the unite of cost, as it is the number} and size of the stumps that determine the cost. dred stumps will cost as much again} to clear, as an acre containing only Using the stumps as} a unit of cost, the cost may be quite ‘accurately estimated by counting “the number of stumps to be removed. Last season on the Experiment | farm over one thousand stumps were | blown out and a record made of the oyeration made on each stump as to size and kind of stump, amount and kind of dynamite used and the results obtained. In clearing No. 1 Jack Pine, Nor-! way and White Pine stumps averag- ing 14.3 inches in diameter cut in 1905, required 1.3 lbs. of dynamite per stump to remove. In clearing No 2 popple stumps averaging 14.1 inch in diameter cut in 1904 required .93 Ibs per stump to remove. Green stumps of the same diam- eter require nearly one hundred per cent more dynamite to remove than the stumps that have been cut four or more years. For this reason it ts} advisable to use newly cut over lands for pasture a few years before remov- | ing the stumps. The cost of the dy-, namite fuse and caps for clearing No. 1 was eighteen cents per stump. The! cost of labor of the entire operation including the piling and burning, a- side of the cost of the explosive, was nine cents per stump making the tot- al cost of removing stumps twenty- seven cents per stump. In three different clearings the] relative cost of the explosive and the on! An acre containing a hun- | This illustrates the importance of @ cheap explosive. The labor in con- nection with this method of removing stumps is not great. One experienc- ed man may blow out from farty to | ejshty stmiups a day, and this in- | cludes the making of the holes, Few Pointers in Use of Dynamite. Dynamite gives best results when placed directly underneath the cen- ter of the! stump and as deep im the ground below the bottom of the stum as the stump is inches wide in dia. , meter. If the dynamite is placed in too shallow a hole it will split the stump ‘and the force of the explosion will pass off into the air without lift- ing the piece out Placed deep in the ground, it gets under the roots ‘aad has the stump started out of the | ground before spliting it. plosive and a general knowledge of | The Cost of Removing Stumps by the the holes under the stumps there For makine of tools that be are a number may used, separately or in combination, the auger, bar, post-hole digger and spade. For a soil where there are no stones the auger gives best results |The auger used is a two inch carpen- ter’s auger with the shank length- ened to five feet. The other tools may be used to advantage under vari- ous conditions. 4 In placing the dynamite under the stump it should be placed as nearly ; the center as possible. By splitting the paper on the cartridge, they may be compressed at the bottom of the hole and in this way better centered. When more than three cartridges are used, it may be necessary to blow what is known as the pocket under ' the stump. This is done by exploding about one forth ofa stick of dy- namite fn the bottom of the hole. In a sandy soil more dynamite is required than in clay soil. Dynamite gives better results in la damp or wet soil than when the soil is dry. The more firmly the earth is com- presser and tamped over dinamite, the better the results. The Danger of Dynamite We should never forget that dy- namite is dangerous, but it is no mor dangerous than a shot gun or revol- ver is dangerous. Accidents with ! dynamite are generally the result of carelessness. When a charge fails to go off, don’t investigate until the nex week. There are generally plenty of other stumps to work on, Accidents are sometimes caused by ' children playing with caps that have been left in their way. Caps are more dangerous than dynamite itself and requires more precaution in their | handling and storage for safety. Yabor was practically the same, the cost of the explosive being about one hundred per cent more than the cost of the labor (labor being fixed at 15 cents per hour) the average farm wage of the state. The successful and economic use of dynamite depends upon the knowledg and care of the person using it. It can be made one of the most useful servants for the farmers of North- eastern Minnesota.