Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 14, 1913, Page 5

| GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY MAY 44, 1913. Grand Rapias Hheratds Review Published Every Wednesday By KILEY © SPENCER ‘TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap- ‘ds, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County giit, for flowers and books and daintiness left at your door in times of illness? Are you caerful to answer ordinary letters within a jreasonable length of time, and to) write often to the dear relatives on the frontier, or in the distant city? | |the one who is among strangers and whose heart yearns unspeak- | FUN IN FRAMING A TREATY. ably for news from home? Are you thoughtful about the feelings of little children; and, above all, do} DAZED THE MOROS Sights the Sultan’s Suit Saw on Board the Charleston. Ge | Bates Had a Sort of Circus on His Hands While Negotiating With The N. M. D. A. at Hinckley By the way, the spring conven- fon of the Northern Minnesota De-| xelopment association will be held ai Hinckley, Friday and Saturday June 5 and 6. it is time therefore, to be plan- ming to have every county and exery community in the territory ef the association represented there. Every county and every com- munity should be represented at Hinckley by its best boosters. A vast amount of good comes of these meetings. They help amazingly ta keep the association active and energetic and full ‘of purpose. The real work of the association se far as accomplishing tangible re- sults is concerned, is not done at the conventions. It is done at the sessions of the legislature, at the immigration headquarters, and all aver Northern Minnesota by the good roads committee. What is done at the conventions is to get Northern Minnesota to. gether to talk over its needs an advantages and to plan further cam- paigns for the common good of all Ms parts. The association’s work is done lly a storage battery, as it were, and the conventions are where this slorage battery is recharged twice a ye This keeps it going, full af vigor and purpose. Therefore the convention is im- portant. It should be attended by every Northern Minnesota booster who can get there. Matters with the association will be easier henceforth. The biggest aud hardest of its jobs—reappor- tionment—is achieved. The matter ai finance has been made smoother ky the enactment of a law permit- iémg the counties making up the as sociation to appropriate the mon- @y needed to keep it going. But there is much left to do. Bile acres must be settled. Roads amoust be built to make it possible é settle them. The problem of public aid in the clearing of cut- aver lands must be solved. ‘Those who have settled on Northern Min- mesota lands and are building up| the state must be encouraged and helped. You will be doing a good deed fsr Northern Minnesota if you will go to Hinckley next month and put your shoulder to the wheel.—Du- futh Herald. Courtesy in the Home The fact is, life would be for m@pore agreeable to many of us, if bome politeness were more assidu- @usly cultivated. We know how brutal the frankness of home can Be; how sensitive natures bleed and suffer, because of the inexcus- able candor of criticism which takcg to itself license in the privacy of She family circle. We vex our own With look and tone, Though we love our own the best. How are they to know that we feve them best if we never take pains to show it by small acts or atiention, by gentle words, by op- em admiration? “I never knew that wy father cared for me at all,” zeid a young girl, pathetically un- sware of the sadness of her speech, “tll once when I was very ill and wey thought I was dying, I heard im sob behind the curtain.” There % iar too much taking love for grauted in the Christian home. in a like manner some of us fail ‘show the courtesy we ought in ur intercourse with friends and ac gezintances. Do you tell the pas- ter how much you have enjoyed kis sermon or how greatly it has Relped you? If not you are missin am.epportunity of cheering and aid img the pastor, which he would prize and which woul react in Biessing yourself. Do you always amd promptly send a note of ac- Baowledgment in return for a little the Filipino Potentate For the Trans- jyou defer to those older than your- Noi ibt sha deladg to Sbncketbew) jself even when sure in your mind | ss they sh wspegy! ets tnd sen more interesting and ludicrous circum- | ight? Have a care, my friend, for, stances than those that attended the |these small genuine courtesies of | one made in 1899 between General | life. | Bates and the sultan of Moro. When, after much dillydallying, the Filipino potentate was finally induced The Country Newspaper. to come on board the Charleston, the “We repeat that advertising in| seneral’s headquarters, every effort le try newspd ; = aes | was made to put him in good humor. jcountry newspaper, properly ulil-| He and his suit partook freely of | ized, is the most valuable advertis | drink, but refused all food as coming | ing in the world for its cost,” says from the hands of Christians. Yet they ‘tha Now" Zobinitans «eugr,,| Were in no danger of starving, for | the New York Evening Journal. “We they had been careful to bring with urge advertisers to take advantage them enormous sacks of rice. of the opportunities offered by the) When the guests were conducted lsotintre ewspapers. We add inci-|°%™ the man-of-war they marveled kb yer e add INCi~| 3+ its mechanical mysteries. At the j dentally, that we don’t own and|suggestion of an officer the sultan | nev er expect to own any country | touched an electric button, way aire : : n in, | newspapers or to have any interest |{7 Boia cue ean pai jin a country paper. | the button twice, and a United States | “The country publisher alone is| marine stood in the doorway. ‘ | ‘ From that time every ornament ae through his columns to sell| js. oard the ship that in any way sug- |everything. His readers buy every | gested an electric button was pushed |thing that is for sale—from nails | by the sultan or by some member ie | to pianos, from pills to automobiles, Bis suit. An officer conducted him | eek i tu “into a dark room and showed him how hey buy paint and roofing and|to turn the button that adjusted the toves and lamps—hundreds of con, lighting apparatus. The flood of light | Sb ri . ea tees _. that resulted left him with gaping esazee that the city dweller nevea, miptith wie iiatellceek | buys. His wonderment continued to grow | “There is not a community in| throughout the afternoon, and when- | Jni Statac j z is ever an opportunity afforded he re- the United States oe any one of peated the performance of pushing | which ten or even fifty great Amer-' electric buttons and turning electric ican merchants and manufactureig'ights on and off. He even went So would not gladly hire at high pay | £2? when he thought himself unwatch- . ed, to try to appropriate one of the a competent, earnest representative | jjghted bulbs. able to talk to five hundred or| When ice water was brought in the "2 families lump of ice in the pitcher was imme- Ua sae a 7 c diately seized by his royal highness And every business-like, hard-|ang as quickly dropped to the floor. working country publisher is such an agent, able every day to reach Few treaties ever were negotiated in As the lump gradually diminished in size the sultan’s party looked at it in suspicion. the consumers that nobody else} mr, Shuck suggested to the sultan can reach. that he order one of his men aloft and “The country newspaper is the |Te¢@!! him when be reached the crow’s y, DER PDAEE Re te nest. The first order was easy to exe- best of all advertising mediums.” | eyte, put when a return was ordered, his voice having failed to carry, a megaphone was brought, and into this |the sultan ghouted for the man to re- j turn under penalty of instant death. Immediately the thoroughly frightened Moro dropped to the deck. The ruler took the dimensions of the strange | Must Pay Newspapers. The following is a synopsis of th United States supreme court deci- | 5 was aboard. They begged ahd implored to be taken ashore and, quite forgetful of their bags of rice, scurried down the gang ladder. At night the searchlight was brought to bear upon the Moro town of Bus Bus, and the instant desertion of the town followed, even the dogs leaving it. For many weeks thereafter no | amount of persuasion could induce the inhabitants to return. General Bates made his headquarters in the town of Jolo, and thither the sultan and his staff came on several occasions to discuss the treaty. Sub- sequently they made another visit to the Charleston. This time the mother of the sultan accompanied the party. and during the visit a phonograph own- ed by one of the officers rendered se- lections for the entertainment of the guests. The aged dame sat entranced throughout the performance, and it was not until the time came for her son to affix his signature to the treaty that she awakened. On one condition only would she permit the sultan to sign—the phonograph must become hers at once. For a time that phonograph threat- ened to be the means of upsetting all General Bates’ well laid plans for the amicable taking over of the islands, |sion regarding delinquent subscrib- ers:. mouthpiece and declared that he would | pin aienee ,. make one for himself. | 1 Subscribers who do not give! ‘The most amusing incident occurred ‘express notice to the contrary are | when the sultan upon invitation fired a ‘indice ishi: |Colt automatic gun. The explosion of considered as wishing t new gu DI their es i : . sleme acia the first discharge appeared to root heir subscriptions. him to. the spot. His hands gripped 2 If subseribers order the dis-|the trigger, with the result that shells continuance of their perodicals the | continued to pepper the surrounding . . waters. publisher may continue to send Again and again the royal gunner until all arrears are paid. begged the officers to stop the action of 3 If suvscribers neglect or refuse the infernal machine, not knowing that tb take thee iddiadia th the means of doing it lay in his own o ta en heir periodicals ee ®/hands. So thoroughly frightened was post office, they are responsible} he that it was impossible to make him until they settle their bills and es Precaeae his iy and an pas nerd Fes a pe . e tape cut, jus stopp! ie supply der their papers discontinued. itmatenabilsion: 4 If subscribers move to other; The one pounder was next brought |places without informing the pub- | into play, but the sultan refused to go ss ae Ae near one of the eight inch guns, which apie and papers are sent to the | ne nad been invited to fire. former address, subscribers are| Meantime the knives of his attend- responsible. . ants had been taken to the dynamo Gt ccs sa, |room and charged with electricity, The courts have decided that | with the result that the suit were of sing periodicals from the post/the opinion that the evil one himself |office or moving and leaving them | uncalled for, is prima facie evidence | of intentional fraud. Ii subscribers pay in advance the are bound to give notice at the end of the time if they do not want to continue taking it, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it, and the subscribers will be re- spousible until an express notice with payment of arrears is sent to the publisher. Se It will be generally regretted throughout Northern Minnesota tha Immigration Commissioner H. J. Maxwell has found it necessary to resign his important - office. It seems ‘that he could not agree with State Auditor Iverson and Secretary of State Schmahll as to the best method of conducting the affairs of the commission, and sooner than pursue a policy he considered wrong he quit. Mr. Maxwell was an able and energetic official and did much to make the work of his office of | practical value. phew ashe 7 ee brisstet Los Angetes, May 13.—William Lar- kum was fishing at the end of a pier at Redon Beach when he hooked a shark which pulled him overboard. Captain Charles Johnson of a ‘fishing launch dived off the pier and brought him ashore after a hard battle. but fortunately the owner was prevail- ed upon to part with the machine in the interests of his government. and the treaty was executed.—E. C. Rost in Century Magazine. } Result of His Resesrohes: Investigator—What, in your opinion, ts the secret of good roads? ¥ Downstate Chauffeur—The secret of good roads is to find ‘em:— Chicago Mf BASEBALL MAKING! — Materials and Methods Used In Building Up the Spheres. | ONLY ONE PROCESS BY HAND. That Is Sewing on the Covers, a Task to Which Machines Are Not Equal. The Yarns Are Wound by Machinery Because Hand Work Was a Failure. There are few fans who realize just how much work is required in the making of a regulation sized baseball. The centers of baseballs are made of pure Para rubber in most cases, but the cork center ball, which has been patented, is an exception. The idea of | the center piece of rubber, of course, is to give the ball resiliency. If a base- ball was made without this center piece it would be “dead”—that is, it would not have the desired bounding quali- ties, the “life.” The centerpieces are generally made to order for the base- | ball factories. The next process in the making of a ball is the winding on of pure woolen yarn. There was a time when the yarn was wound around the Para by hand, but soon it became nec- essary to get a machine which would do the work of man. It was found in the times when the yarn was wound by hand that the man coming to work at 9 o’clock in the morning was putting out better balls than he was in the aft- ernoon around 3 o’clock. Winding by hand was a tiresome job, and toward | the late afternoon the men began to get tired, and consequently the yarn was not wound around the ball tight enough. Many balls were returned to the factory because they did not pos- sess the resilient powers. Realizing that this personal defect was something which had to be over- come, a machine for the winding pur- pose was worked upon and perfected. Now all baseballs are wound by me- chanical power, and much better work than man did or can do is accom- plished. The yarn is wound around the Para under heavy tension, almost to the breaking point. Consequently when enough has been put on the ball is very strong and almost solid, due to the tight tension used. In the days of hand making many balls were soggy and soft because a uniform tension could not be kept by the person wind- ing. There are three layers of woolen yarn over the para. For about an inch in thickness three ply yarn of blue color is used, and over this is wound a thin layer of white two ply yarn. The blue yarn is again brought into use, but is only of one ply. Naturally it develops that something to cover the wool yarn must be used in order to keep it from unwinding. The ball must be solid, so that when it comes in contact with a bat the threads will not break or move out of place. It has been found that camel's hair stretched yarn is the best for cov- ering the ball after the wool has been put on and the ball is the size desired. This hair is put on wet, and when it dries a contraction takes place, mak- ing the ball more firm and at the same time solidifying it. Only a thin layer of the camel’s hair is used, just | enough to warrant the wool yarn keep- ing in position. After the drying proc- ess is over a very fine layer of spe- | cially made cement is applied by means of dipping the ball into the fluid. Then the ball is ready to cover. Most balls are covered with alum tan ; horsehide, the best material, it is claim- ed. which has been found to be of good use for the hammering which a base- ball gets. This is cut into its proper | shape by means of pin dies, which also punch small holes around the edge of the hide to be used in the sewing. The ball is sent to the men doing the sew- ing. which is now and always has been done by hand. Machines have been tried, but not one of them has proved equal to the task. The men who sew | on the covers must be experienced and very capable in their work. This sew- ing process must be done with great accuracy. The work appears to be tiresome and rather tedious, and so it do only two to three dozen a day. With the covers sewed on the finish- | ing up processes come next. Natural- i ly just after the sewing has been com- | pleted the seams are rather rough. A good baseball, if one will notice. is | smooth over the entire surface, includ- | ing the seams. A pitcher, if he had to use a ball with rough seams, would not be able to do his best work, as a bulge in the ball would be trying to him. The roughness would make the tingers sore’ from the continual rubbing. Therefore to do away with this the ball is put in a rolling machine, which presses out the rough seam and makes the ball smooth all over. This done, the trademark is stamped on, together with the guarantee, size and weight of the ball. The balls are then taken to the packing room, where they are wrapped in tissue paper and stil! fur- ther wrapped in tin foil. They are then sealed in pasteboard boxes and are ready for shipment. There are surprising numbers of baseballs used in this country and in other countries to some extent, but out of every 150 dozen it is claimed that but one ball comes back for being in bad cendition.—Springfield Republican. A Technical Move, “What did that young lawyer chap say, Matilda, when you told him it was time to go?” “He immediately began argument for a stay.”—Baltimore American. Fortune leaves always some door ouk ideumieatavrenebecicectaan. is. A man working at bis fastest can | Grand Rapids Village Lots over. They are for sale on easy terms. 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