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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
RHUBARB PIES.

never did get so that l liked rhu-
barb until | had a garden of my own.
In my boyhood | used to be forcibly
treated with a spring tonic which con-
tanned a number of nauseous things,
amongst them rhubarb and onion
juice, This accounts for my long
prejudice against rhubarb. And l am
glad that ! got over 1t.
Every person with a garden or a
sunny spot in the back yard should
plant a few hills of rhubarb. 1t is
just as easy to grow as anything
could be, as there is nothing to do to
it but cut the crop after it is once
planted. And the pies are fine. Moth
ing can beat them in the spring I'M
less it be fresh cherry pie, and there
is no reason why we cannot have
both.
Rhubarb tastes like a fruit, looks
like a weed, acts like q tonic and real
ly is a vegetable. Every woman
knows the long pink and green stems
with the great burdock leaves on
them, and the rest of the family know
the pies, tarts and sauce that she
makes out of those same pink stems.
The dark green leaves come up very
early in the spring and they keep COM
ing nearly all summer, with a short
new crop in the fall. Every year they
do this and without any attention,
save that the seed stalks must be
nipped off as soon as they appear.
When planting rhubarb, select a
warm. mellow spot, sandy if possible,
and make it very rich with manure.
Then dig up an old hill and cut up
the roots into large chunks, having
from two or three buds on each one,
and plant them two inches deep and
three feet apart You can get the
roots all ready to plant at any seed
house
BE sure that the spot chosen is To-
Gated where it will not be too dry in
summer and pack the soil well around
the roots. Soon the leaves will push
through the soil, and if the roots are
planted early enough you may pull
few leaves the first season.
Along in March OF the next spring
it is a good plan to cover the bulbs
with baby cold frame covered with
glass and banked on the outside. This
will force the growth of the plants
month ahead and you will have pie
plant" to eat and sell while II is high
priced.
Every three or four years 1t is a
good plan to dig up the roots in the
spring, cut them up into sections and
plant them in a new place. This re-
juvenates the plant and keeps 1t from
dying out.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
THE BACK YARD AND THE BOY

In these enlightened and worrisome
days we hear great deal about the
boy Problem" Learned men spend
their time trying to devise educational
schemes which will keep the boys
headed in the right direction, and agi
tated feminine orators get the wo.
mems clubs all excited over every.
body else's boys, but things go on
about as before, and the police de-
partment is kept busy chasing down
youthful criminals.
Why is it that this boy problem
seems to be almost exclusively con-
fined to the cities? Are the boys in
the country places and on the farm
made of any better material than those
of the towns and cities?
The whole secret lies in the fact
that the boys are kept busy in the
country, while in the city they have
nothing to occupy their spare time ex-
body works most of the time, the boy
as well as his parents, and when he is
not working he is always within the
observance of someone who knows
him The result is that he has neither
time nor opportunity to go wrong.
TIE thing that we must accomplish
with the city boy is to keep him busy
during his spare time and keep him
in sight during his recreation. See
that he has work to do after school
and during vacation time, and every
body will be better off, especially the
boy.
Let It be of an interesting nature,
If possible, but keep him busy at some
thing II you love him.
The best place in the world for
your boy during the long vacation is
a farm where he will have the asso-
citation of good people and plenty Of
out-of-door work.
But IL this privilege be denied your
boy through force of circumstances,
you will have to put him in charge Of
the backyard farm. Make work for
him at home. Let him make the gar
den and cut the lawn. Have him
wash the windows and beat the rugs
Make his home so attractive that
the other boys will come there instead
of taking him away. Give them a ten
mis- court II you can, or a pony tennis
court II your lot is only fifty feet wide.
Let him have all the pets he wants
and make him absolutely responsible
for them, but whatever you do and in
whatever way. keep the boy busy.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
General Markets.

Apples-Steele Red, $6G650; Spy,
$4,000; Greening, $45O@5; Baldwin
S5.5OQ6 per Dbl.
Tomatoes-Florida, $4Q475 per
crate, 75c per basket.
Cabbage-S3q3.25 per Dbl; new, SO
per 100 lbs.
Dressed Hogs-Light. 11G11 1-2c;
heavy, sac 1-2c per 10.
New Potatoes-Bermuda, SO per bu
and $3.50 per Dbl.
Sweet Potatoes-Jersey Kindred,
slips per crate.
Dressed Calves-Fancy, 13@14c;
common, 11612c per 10.
Potstoes-In bulk, 62Q64c per bu;
in sacks. 66d67c per bu for CARROTS.
Ouions-S1.65 per bu. $3.25 per sack
of 100 10; Spanish S1.75 per small
crate. $3.50 per half crate, $4.75 per
crate.
Nuts-Shellbark hickory. &c per 10;
large hickory, 1Q1 1-2c per 10; Span
ish cbestnuts, Sq9c per 10; walnuts
and butternuts. 1d1 1-2c per 10.
Honey-Choice to fancy new white
comb. 15616c; amber, 10Q11c; ex-
tracted. 7Qsc per 10.
Dressed Poultry-Chickens. $50
19c; hens, 17d1sc; No. 2 hens, 12c;
old ROSTERS. 12c; ducks, 1S@19c;
geese. 15@16c; turkeys. 21G22c per
pound.
Cheese-Wholesale lots: Michigan
fats. 16 1907 1-2c; New York fats.
19@19 lie; brick, 1915 1-2c; linn
zurger, Ia 1-2d15c; imported Swiss.
24Q24 1-2c; domestic Swiss, 10 1-2Q
zoe; long horns, 20 lie; daisies. 10
1-2Q19c per 10.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
cUcUR8ITAcEAE.

The name is a hard one to spell and
a harder one to pronounce, but it
means melons and cucumbers and
squash and pumpkins and a lot of
other interesting vegetables that we
all like
Some of this jaw-breaking stomach
aching family are natives of almost
every cline in almost every country
on the globe and nearly all of them
are edible, either raw or cooked.
1t is an easy matter to see the fam
lily resemblance between these cous-
ins-much easier than with most Of
the botanical species. Who, for in
stance, would guess that the potato
and tomato are related? With the
cucurbits, which is short for the sci
entific name, we find many points of
resemblance All of them are vine
like plants, loving rich, warm, rather
light soil The flowers and leaves are
quite similar, although differing in
size and color. The fruit is borne in
a similar manner and the edible fruits
have the same general characteristics,
viz, a tough outer skin, with the edi-
BILE flesh adhering to it, the interior
of the fruit being divided into several
more or less distinct sections in which
the fiat, hard, pointed seeds are borne.
Cucumbers and melons are the va
rieties which are edible without cook
ing. while pumpkins and squashes re-
quire cooking to make them palat-
able.
Inasmuch as these vegetables have
the same general characteristics, the
same general rules cover their sue
cessful cultivation.
The soil should be light, well
drained, warm and in a sunny loca-
ton. The original home OF this val
liable family was in the tropical des-
erts, and sunshine is more important
than water. Plant them about corn
planting time, depending upon your
latitude, or If you wish to get an early
crop you can plant in pots in cold
frame and transplant to the hills when
warm weather is assured. A muslin
or glass covered box frame about the
hills will permit of early planting
right in the garden.
The soil must not be heavy or
lumpy. If your soil is of a gumbo OF
clay type, your best plan will be to
excavate to a depth of eighteen inches
under each hill, fill in with six inches
of rotted manure and cover that with
a foot of good rich sandy loan.
Plant eight or ten seeds in each hill,
the hills being eight feet apart in each
direction and the seeds one inch deep.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
TRANsPLANTlNo sHRUR5ERY.

Lawn shrubs should be planted
early in the spring, preferably before
the leaves have started. The plant is
then in its dormant state and the Sc
we're root and branch pruning that is
necessary does not set the plant back
materially.
Shrubs which come from a COM
mercial grower or dealer have a por-
ton of the dirt left on the roots, usu-
ally, and this is point that you
should insist on in ordering shrub
berry Remember that the shrub feeds
almost entirely through the tiny hair
like rootlets, and these are either torn
off or dry up if the moist soil is re-
moved. The more soil you pay
freight on the better are your chances
of having the shrubs live and -four
ish. In certain cases where the dis
tances are comparatively short and
the plants small, the roots may be
protected in a bag of moist sand or
wet sphagnum moss.
Have your shrubs located in the
yard before they arrive, and have the
holes dug, so that the roots can go
in the ground at the earliest possible
moment. The hole should be dug a
foot deeper than necessary and this
extra foot should be filled In with six
inches of well rotted stable manure,
covered by six inches of rich earth.
After trimming off broken or de-
cayed root ends, set the shrub in the
hole, having the roots about three
inches farther in than they previously
were. Cover the roots well with fine
earth mixed with a quarter pound of
bone meal, wet the soil down thor
oughly and fill the rest of the hole,
heaping the earth high to take care of
settling.
The earth should be trampled down
thoroughly to support the shrub and
to form a close connection between
the roots and the surrounding soil
particles.
After setting the new shrubs, the
tops must be Systematically pruned
back in just the same proportion that
the roots have been pruned in dig
ging the plant up. If this is not done,
the tops Will produce too many leaves
for the diminished root system to
feed, and the whole bush will suffer
and probably perish.
Ii circumstances make it necessary
to hold the bushes some time before
planting them, it will be necessary to
lay them down in a trench with the
roots covered with wet earth and keep
them watered.
Keep newly planted shrubs and
trees we'll watered during the first
growing season, flooding them with
water at night once or twice a week
In digging wild shrubs, make a cir
cular trench about the trunk, seeking
to avoid cutting off any more of the
roots than is absolutely necessary and
cut down under the plant with mat
took and AK. Leave a large ball of
earth containing the roots, and If
there is danger Of the earth shaking
off, tie up the ball with sacking
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09

Very Different
Were the fish biting on your last
country trip"
mo. but the dogs were"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
Grains, Etc.

Wheat-Cash No. red 81 3-4c;
May opened without change at 9S 3-4c,
declined to 9S 1-2c and advanced to
SO 3-4c; July opened at sec, declined
to IS 3-4c and advanced to SOC; No. l
white, 81 lac.
Corn-Cash No. 8, &c 1.2c; No. 3
yellow, 2 cars at IS 10; No 4 yellow.
l car at Sc lie.
Oats-StandaFd, car at 42c; No.
3 white, l car at IL lie; No. 4 white,
40 1-2Q41c.
Rye-Cash No. 2, 68 1-2c.
Beans-Immediate and prompt ship.
ment. $1.95; April. $19S; May, 81.
Cloverseed-Prime spot, so bags at
$775, so at $3.50; April, 90 bags at
$3.50; sample red, 20 bags at $3.50, IA
at 81; alsike. $1O.25.
Timothy-Prime spot, $3.50.
Alfalfa-Prime spot, 1925.
Hay-Carlots, track Detroit; No. !
timothy, $15q15.5O; standard, SAC
145e; No. 2 timothy, S12.5O613.5O;
light mixed, $14d145O; No. mixed
Sl2.5O0 10; No. l clover, S12H 1850
rye straw, $7G750 per ton.
Flour-In one-eighth paper sacks
per 1876 pounds, jobbing prices Best
patent. $3.50; second patent, 50;
straight, $4.75; spring patent, $50;
rye, $40 per bbl
Feed-In l00-tb sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, 500; coarse middlings, $2S; fine
middlings, $50; cracked corn, $50;
coarse cornmeal, 500; corn and oat
chop, $3.50 per ton.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Live Stock, Grain and General Farm
Produce.
Live Stock.

DETROIT-Cattle. receipts 1,464;
market steady; best steers and heif-
ers, $500 steers and heifers, 1000
to l,2OO lbs. s75O@775; steers and
heifers, 500 to 1000 lbs. $7@725;
steers and heifers that are fat, 500
to 700 lbs. $5.5O@65O; choice fat
cows, $G0625; good fat cows, $50
$50; common cows, $4.5O0475; can
ners, $3Q425 choice heavy bulls,
$@725; fair to good bologna, bulls,
$6.25q6.50; stock bulls, $550@6;
choice feeding steers, 500 to 100 lbs.
S67l@7; fair feeding sters, 500 to l..
600 lbs, S6.50@675; choice stockers,
500 to 700 lbs $6.50GG.75; fair stock
ers, 500 to 700 lbs. $6G625; stock
heifers, S5.50q6; mixers, large, young
and medium age, $60Q75; common
mixers. $4Oq5O.
Veal Receipts. $50; market
active and 75ca$1 higher; calves,
$11.50ql2; others. S7@1O.75.
Sheep and lambs-Receipts, 1852;
market steady; best lambs. SS.25;
fair to good lambs. S75Od8; light to
common lambs, S76Z25; yearlings,
S725q750; fair to good sheep, $5.75
06; culls and common, $4Q5; clip
lambs, 81.
Hogs Receipts, 6,373. None sold
up to noon; prospects loo higher; all
grades, $SS0QSS5.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
MAN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR
Eager for the Delights of the
Moving Picture Theater.

Going in?" queried the small boy
excitedly.
His question was put to the elderly
pedestrian. Behind the boy came
other boys, all peering eagerly into
the pedestrians puzzled face.
They hung to his footsteps until he
found himself, little further on, In
the midst of a numerous crowd of
youngsters. Each boy clamored for
the pedestrian to accept a flve-cent
piece.
What is all this?" demanded the
pedestrian sharply.
I'VE are too young to go In alone"
volunteered a ready spokesman. "If
you will buy our tickets for us we can
go in with you"
Then came a sudden light and the
old man smiled broadly. He went to
the ticket window of an adjacent
moving-picture theater, where he
paused to count faces.
Nine tickets" he said.
There is a law against children"
objected the ticket man. Are those
little people with you?"
"They are" declared the old man.
Come on, boys-going in?"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
Shy of Siuns,

The proprietor of the gents furnish
ing emporium always ate in the quick
lunch establishment next door, but the
owner of the latter had a grievance.
Il put out many signs" complained
he. II advertise lamb stew, beef hash
roast giblets ] watch you many times
Always you take something else"
Il guess that's So"
why is this?"
well, figure it this way ex'
planned the haberdasher. Whenever
l hang out a sign, it's for something
want to get rid Of
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09

EAST neutrality-suspicious.
1000; market Is to Csc lower; prime
steers, $S50@9:OO; best shipping
steers. $S.25@S50; best LOO to 1900
ID, $775qS.25; coarse and plain
weighty steers. $74O676O; fancy
yearings. $S25@S.5O; medium to
good, $75OQ775; choice handy steers,
S750Q8.25; fair TO good, $7l5074O;
extra good COWS, S67597O0; best
cows, $5.75G600; butcher cows, $50
5.S5; cutters. $425@45O; trimmers,
$4d 4.25; best heifers. S7Q725; med
ium heifers, $6d6.65; light heifers,
S6q6:l5; stock heifers, $5.75@600;
feeding steers. S62507OO: stock
steers, $5.5O@6.75; bulls, S5@725;
mixers and springers, $45QS5.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000; market
steady; heavy mixed and workers..
$3.50; pigs, $9@9lO.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; market
strong; top lambs, $S.75dSS5; year.
lings, S7.5O68.OO; wethers, $7Q725;
ewes, S6.25G665.
Calves-Receipts. 900; market
strong; tops, SIT; fair to good, 500
10; grassers, $6Q7.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09
Alert Perceptlon Needed.

You say that man who occupies
a position of serious public RESPONSE
bility needs a sense of humor?"
Certainly. The more grave and
dignified he assumes to be the more
he needs a sense of humor. lie must
be able to recognize humorous things
instantly, so as to avoid saying them.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09

Be happy. Use Red Cross Ball Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress All grocers. Adv.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09

When our own fingers close on
graft it generally feels like a reward
of merit.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09

Putnam Fadeless Dyes are the
brightest and fastest. Adv.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30
COMPETITION.

Instead of looking upon COM
petition as the baneful and anti
social principle which it is held
to be by the generality of So
cialists, conceive that even in
the present state of society and
industry every restriction of it is
an evil and every extension of
it, even if for a time injuriously
affecting some class of laborers,
is always an ultimate good. To
be protected against competition
is to be protected In idleness, in
mental dullness. to be saved the
necessity of being as active and
as intelligent as other people,
and, if it is also to be protected
against being underbid for en-
ployment by less highly paid
class of laborers. this is only
where old custom or local and
partial monopoly has placed some
particular class of artisans ina
privileged position as compared
with the rest, and the time has
come when the interest of uni
versal Improvement is no longer
promoted by prolonging the priv
ileges Of the few. John Stuart
Mill.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

the clippings from most of the dis
trict papers are in my files in Little
Falls. Consequently have been un-
able to use only those which were at
hand"
This is the richest thing ever put
in print. Had Mr.. Lindbergh desired
these clippings" he could have Sc
cured them in six days time with the
expenditure of few cents in postage.
If Mr.. Lindbergh is as great as he
claims to be, he should be running the
universe instead of fussing around
Washington, and if he is as good as
he, himself, admits he is, ne should be
in Heaven instead of being in Con-
gress.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Why do the press of the state
always refer to Farley Dare of the
Walker Pilot as the nephew of A. N.
Dare of Elk River. Why not speak OF
A. N. as the uncle of Farley, for ne
gets as much reputation out OF the
uncle biz. as Farley does of the
nephew stunt.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

president Wilson makes personal
appeal to John d. Rockefeller, Jr.,
to settle the Colorado STRIKE" an
nounce the city dailies. This is not
the course we would pursue if we were
President. We would settle John D.,
Jr., and make personal appeal to the
strikers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Notwithstanding Mr.. Lindbergh's
statements, he is not half as much
afraid that the newspapers of the dis
trict will lie about him as he is that
they will tell the truth about him.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

One thing is certain, If Jimmy
Arneson is elected Railroad and Ware
House Commissioner he will commisf
for the people.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

The Park Rapids Enterprise thinks
Mr.. Iindbergh must be good Repub-
lican !ssca& SO many Republicans
have voted for him. By the same
reasoning dhe late Governor Johnson
must have been, and Woodrow Wilson
must be good Republicans.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Mr.. Lee declaims against the office
holders but has held the office OF
candidate longer than any other man
in Minnesota.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Maxfeld is making his Congress
sional campaign on his merits; his
opponent is making his on his de-
merits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

An exchange says, Bob Dunn ought
to be muzzled." That may be true
Who will step forth and volunteer te
tie the muzzle?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Bernard Shaw says that every
mother should receive $4,000 for
every child born in lawful wedlock.
If such law is ever enacted we are
going in heavy for polygamy.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

How the new father will behave
excites almost as much interest among
married women as how the first baby
looks.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Mr.. Lindbergh states in his 81"
pamphlet, that eff l ever have time I
shall write a short treatise on Mime
sofa and its Development" He will
probably have time after the next
election.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT

This advertisement, to run til pri-
mary election, costing $1,000, is to be
paid for by w. E. Verify of Wadena,
Mimi, chairman of II. j. Maxfeld's
campaign committee.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

When a newspaper man becomes 8
candidate for a political office, as .
general rule, a good editor is spoiled
to make poor politician.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

The latest feminine fad is "votine
gown" 1t consists of a hobble skirt
for each limb and separate pockets fol
cigarettes, flask and a deck of cards
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

This announcement was prepared by
Nicholas Thomey for which the sum
of $500 has been paid for publication
until date of primary election, June
16, 1914.)
! hereby announce myself as a nom
partisan candidate for the nomination
to the office of County Auditor of
,Stearns County, June 18th, 1914, and
kindly request the support of the vot-t
ers of the County.
Nicholas Thomey.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Governor Eberhart is surely child
of fortune, he is luckier than a kid
living in the same town with two
grandmothers. Bill Rich is in charge
of the Lee headquarters, in the Mer-
chants Hotel, at st. Paul.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

In one of the southern Minnesota
legislative districts man is appealing
for support on the ground that he is
American born and of American par
entage. How foolish.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

The one great objection to CIV
ing young ladies the ballot and ad-
hitting them into full political fell
-lowship is they win all rush to get
into a new ring.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

You can always tell the sex OF q
baby by offering it stick of candy.
If it trys to swallow it whole, it's a
boy; if it holds it out and offers you
bite it's girl.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Subscribe for the HERALD.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

4 This announcement was prepared
by Chris Schmitt for which the sum
of $500 has been paid for publication
until date of the primaries, June 16,
1914.)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

s / hereby announce myself as non
partisan candidate for the nomination
to the office of County Treasurer of
Stearns County, June 10Th, 1914, and
respectfully solicit the support of
the voters Of the county.
Chris Schmitt.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-30

Men have become grandfathers ever
since the world began; but every new
grand-pop thinks he has the edge on
his fellow men.