The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-05-11
OIL STOVES.

phElHS III Fuel.
The season for oil stoves has come
round again, and perhaps few words as
to the merits of the little machine will not
be wholly without interest We happened
to drop into the hardware store of r. P.
Thompson e. Co., on Main street, oppo-
site the St. Croix Lumber company's
yard, the other day, and found Mr..
Thompson busy unpacking a. dozen or SO
Of Acorn Oil Stoves. Tom has evidently
found the 'eneny' to be hot stove in
bot weather and has been looking over
the broad field of different makes and has
decided to offer to a suffering public
stove that combines both beauty and
worth. These stoves are an improve
ment over the first made and in use and
the manufacturers have got them down
to perfection. The gentle housewife
should receive consideration and pity from
her dear ''hubby'' in hot weather. Even
if he is taxpayer, and though he
keeps books and has to ''charge it up
there are reasons for investing in one of
these stoves.
A correspondent writes to ask us
whether we consider gasoline stoves as
safe as oil stoves for family use. In either
case good management is the condition of
safety. So far as safety is concerned we
think we would as lief use one as the
other, and in neither case is the danger
great enough to deter us from using that
best suited to our purpose. So far as we
can see, the conditions of safety in stove
is much the same as in lamp. It is
popular fallacy that kerosene lamps ex-
plode So far as we can learn, such
thing never happened, and never will
happen, but it is matter of frequent
occurrence for glass globes to become so
hot that they crack, spilling the oil, which
takes fire and runs burning over the floor
or table if standing, or over the hands
and clothing if carried. In nearly every
case the mischief is intensified by the
efforts to put the fire out. Very often
the lamp is thrown across the room and
in one case which we know of, vigorous
but deluded volunteer kicked it pretty
much all over the house, following it
whenever it fell and giving it another lift
with his foot. Light volatile oils will
almost always burn without communica-
ting the fire to the surfaces on which they
are spilled, or giving rise to dangerous
confagrations if the person who under
takes to manage the fire keeps head cool
and does not try to accomplish impossi-
bilities. We would advise setting gaso-
line or kerosense stove in such position
that, if the reserve of fluid takes fire, it
can be left to burn uatil it burns itself out.
If any water is to be used, it had better
be put where it will do the most good,
and that is on the surrounding wood work
and inhammable materials; if thrown upon
the burning oil, it only spreads the mis-
chief, for the water, as it runs, will carry
the oil wherever it goes, and tho oil will
burn on top of the water as freely as on
top pine table. To return to the sub
jecs, recent Improvements in gasoline
stoves have provided all the safeguards
which the housekeeper need desire, and
unless simple rules of management, which
commend themselves to the common
sense of every one who reads them, are
wholly disregarded or recklessly violated,
the danger experienced is sreally not enough
to talk about.
We know of number of families in and
around Canton who use oil stoves sue
cessfully, for any and all kinds of cooking
the year round, and Mr.. Thompson in
forms us that he has sold nearly two
dozen of the little gems already this spring.
Those of our readers who want to save
little money in fuel, and at the same
time do away with the unbearable nui-
sance of hot stove in hot weather, should
call on T. P. Thompson & Co. s and buy
an oil stove by all means.
This firms stock is entirely new, as the
fire destroyed everything some weeks ago.
Goods are constantly arriving and the
Store is closely packed with the different
articles. The firm makes specially Of
selling nails of all sizes at close margin,
as it receives them in car load lots. Robt.
Laning is the foreman Of the tin shop and
is getting ready to do several jobs of lay
ing tin roofs. He does all kinds of tin,
copper and sheet iron work, in first class
order, and promptly. Farmers in need of
shovels, rakss, hoes, hand corn planters,
forks, wooden ware, ETC., should inspect
the store. The firm has large assort-
ment of cooking stoves and utensils and
is never behind the times as to what the
public needs at it's hand.
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