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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

mi Y. Pat Weldon, r, thick:set, !. red-faced,
WITH an air of dignity, stood in front
Gofshis, saloon, an. >onlinjous f roiw,n, on
!. his face. : - - - -. FIX : p"
AS the political leader of the Ninth
ward, the pivotal ward Of that Assem-.
bly, district, Mr.. Weldon felt that he
was at all times entitled to the most
respectful treatment. It was certain
that, John Mcdowell, the principal
owner of the local, baseball club, had
acted IN a manner to. lacerate the po-
Ht1cal leaders self.esteem.. =
1T isn't his refusing, me season
passes" thought Pat, ""and it isn't
MS throwing me down when I asked
him as personal favor to give Tom
, Wilson try as pitcher on the nine;
IT'S the ingratitude of the man that
Jars me. After all the trouble i took
this, spring to see that his Sunday
baseball games wouldn't be interfered
Win and now he's trying to get up an
opposition party in the Ninth ward"
He was still wrathfully considering
the matter when the evening paper
was delivered. He glanced at 1t Ian.
gu1d1y. Among the local items was
one relating to a, meeting of the Min:
listers association. Ordinarily Pat
was little interested in the doings OF
this association. But the report OF
the Committee on Sunday Baseball
|" Games" caught his eye. He: read it
with increasing zest.
According to the paper, the Rev.
Ezekiel P. Jones, a young and ardent
leader in municipal reforms, had been
appointed an investigating committee
or one to attend the game scheduled
for the next afternoon, which was
Sunday. If Mr. Jones found that the
law was being violated he was to ap.
ply for warrants for the arrest of the
proprietor of the team and the play:
ers. AS he read the resolution passed
by the Ministers association CLEAN
OF qualification crept into the eyes OF
Pat Weldon, political leader.
"The good man who is after the
ball players means well, but he don't
know all the ropes" soliloquized Pat.
II can let him take the leading part,
while I fix things with Tommy Evans,
the police justice. The Rev. Ezekiel
p Jones, of the Third Church, and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24
LONDON714E CINDERELLA
I - or THE CITIES "
Story OF the Hall for the County Council and the
T. - a's.> New Embankment. r. -

:, For IL years the greatest, the
healthiest and the wealthiest city in
the world has been without civic
hab1tatfon worthy Of its ancient set
Element and honored name. The size
of London, it's power, utility and dig
nifty, have not yet secured adequate
expression in embodied brick, chiseled
stone, or fashioned bronze.
London has been too long the Gin
derella of the. cities in the matter of
municipal recognition. Like poor Gin
! derella, her county council had to
work and live in the basement dwell
1ngs of Spring Gardens. Her sisters,
the borough councils and the city cor
poration, feast or junket in the Guild
hall and Mansion house, or disport
themselves in the numerous town
halls and other. buildings that have
been granted to them by the grace of
parliament or the cheerful consent of
their constituent ratepayers. The
metropolitan asylums board and
! Thames conservancy without comment
have installed themselves in riparian
palaces, so that with greater ease they
can do lesser work. Only the council
is without home and exist in lodg.
| ings.
The bold policy of banks, insurance
Offices and large commercial houses
having prominent sites, adequate
space, handsome exteriors and inter
nal attractiveness, stimulates a JOY
of work in staff, an order in business
and a supreme command of organiza
ton impossible in low, mean and
disorderly habitations, which but fol-
high ideals of public duty would drag
down the average public man charged
by popular vote with a city's govern
ment.
This has been recognized and prac
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

! .ccotland Yard, and forming in the
new structural approaches, changed
amenities and nobler environment, a
great riverside establishment, useful,
yet ornamental. Ranking appropriate
ly, yet modestly, with Greenwich has
p1-al, Lambeth palace, the houses of
parliament, custom house, Chelsea
hospital, Hampton court-buildings
that survive to us as worthy and
monumental reminders of the days
when the River Thames was the chief,
as it was, and as it must again be, the
widest, cleanest, prettiest, quietest
thoroughfare in this great metropo-
lis
Looked at from the point of view of
great and beautiful riverside i'm
provement, the embankment of the
south side of the River Thames offer
ed opportunity for fine and bold
treatment of this present squalid
spot. The best embankment in the
world runs from Blackfriars to West
minister bridge and the houses of par
lament. This noble roadway has re-
celved a handsome frightening of it's
Victoria Tower gardens, fronting as
Tar as a new Lambeth bridge by a
new embankment wall and a riverside
promenade backed with fine Offices
| overlooking garden that will occup5
the land where the old houses and
wharves now stand facing Lambeth
palace on the north side. From this
garden there will be, when the county
hall is finished, finer view of houses
of parliament, Hospital, Lambeth pal
ace and council offices than that
which Toasted the eye of Canaletto
when he painted the Stangate shore
in the years that are gone; a better
view, even, than that which caught
the artistic eye of Sir Thomas More
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24
any discoveries made by others. b
fore his time. r. r. - q 1

any discoveries made by others be-
fore his. time. q ~ s.
DR.. c.; A. Schott, q pioneer magnetic
engineer, who assisted in surveying
and settling the new boundary line
between the United States and Mexi-
co in 1847 and then entered the coast
survey. service in 1848, made, in 1890.
a map of the region around the sup
posed north magnetic pole. This re
gion is shown by the elliptical figure
in the map. The crop mark at Boothia
Felix shows the spot discovered by
Capt James Clark Ross in June, 1881,
where the dip of the needle indicated
80 degrees, 591s minutes, or nearly
perpendicular to the earth's surface. =
Capt. Ross did not have the -oppor.
tunity to get any nearer to the nine.
tieth degree, and: Mr., Road Amund-
sen, the Norwegian, started for this
region in the spring of 1903, equipped
for a stay: of four years around this
spot His magnetic instruments were
especially constructed for this expe-
dition under the able superintendent
of Prof. Neumayer, director of the
German naval observatory at Ham.
burg, and DR.. Chree, superintendent
of Kew observatory, England.
1t was confidently expected that
Capt. Amundsen would be able to find
a spot where the dip angle would be
80 degrees, and he may have succeed
ed, as such spot could not be far
from Bo0thia Felix. But the greatest
difficulty arises from the fact that the
much-blamed spot moves. AS the sec.
ular change in the earth's magnetism
moves at present in a northwesterly
direction. at the rate of flve-eighths Of
a mile a year, the north magnetic
pole would be found further south.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24
FIRE RAN GERs4oFs CANADA. y
Millions Of Dollars Worth 81 Timber
AZ Saved Through Their Labors. *szas 4 !

The Canadi ian FIRE ranger goes into
the woods about May and stays till.
d October Il. Two men are always sent
4 Il oge ther as partners lsually q young.
man and onesoff mid die age. Their
duties sare First To ates and rum
aathlee, Sbounld Diary lines the domain
HHbla;ziing the way 90: trees and opening
a,rails then the tnugtt s. ravel the.
Stract once 81 81 often. lacing #5on con
]l sa5poicuous trees along the trails and
/ S portage the oYernment signs, print
va Oh liner warning against the Sreck
sless ffibuiiding 0ff ea and Cont aining1
sthes defnite rules To be B observed.
Hsuppose I eep watch
ca I'LL ping; ana people Jour
Sneying see that
these rules IRE pbeye and that thea
HlRsslns law u ale trans
Sc
sbaS sited ascert
MI Is s II II
1sll fsi1 ~ ~
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

rs THE MAGNETIC POLE Il.
OWING SOUTHWARK.
'cientsts at Washington Say 1t is, and that
s. Annundson Hasn't Located Only One. !: -:

4 L. al,
Scientists at Washington who have
made special study of the magnetic
pole are not ready to entirely credit
the claims Of Capt. Amundsen that
he has found or settled the: position
q the north magnetic pole, for IL he
has succeeded in finding one, there
are also others. 49,
nh IN fact, magnetic north poles are
q many an and they are the most persist
emily unsettled things at present
known. Of course, no one expects
to ind q north magnetic pole stick
Ing up, lying down fiat, or curving
51nrlWatrdly, improving, so to speak. It
- SUN Gent to find spot, or point,
OF which one can truly say that it is
the north magnetic pole or a north
magnetic pole, or even that it was
once: magnetic pole. -,
r. IN olden times such a point used to
lie presumed and calculated from a
very insufficient data. From three
points in the circumference of any cir.
Gle It is easy to find the center, and
this method was first tried as to the
magnetic pole; but it wouldn't work.
And now after many years accumula-
ton OF theory and fact the more
crooked that great circle, the imagin-
airy magnetic equator, seems to be-
come. In fact, the -proverbial dogs
hind leg is straight line in compar-
ison with it.
:. There nsed tn he talk aho,,t tho
magnetic meridians and parallel lines
perpendicular to the magnetic equa-
tor, but these are all now gone up. so
far as great circles go. They are ter.
r1bly devious and mixed up, although
exactly obedient to certain magnetic
laws.
Three hundred years ago the fact
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

For what we are going to wear in
the way of new furs, we have every
reason to be truly thankful; not only
to Dame Fashion herself, but to her
helpful allies as we'll, who in the en-
terprising fur dealers of the larger
cities of the country make 1t possible
for all of us to carry out her. latest
ed1cts to our own satisfaction and COM
fort, even though our purses may be
none of the deepest. .-,
Our cause for thankfalness is i'm
pressed more particularly upon us this
season by the fact, that sealskin will
be more generally and .fashionably
favored than it has been for many a
long day, and remembering-by hear
say or pictured and Photographic eyi-
dence-the shapeless and unbecoming
garment, which In the days of our
grandmothers and great-grandmothers
represented 'the sealskin'' which it
was the prevailing feminine ambition
to possess, we have the force OF con
trast to make us appreciate the de-
lightful smartness of design and detail
in the sealskin coat of to-day, with its
contrast of ermine or sable; or, again,
some deity introduced touch of silky
braid or broidered velvet. And as to
the new styles, every figure as well as
every purse can be suited. :.
There was a rumor that Dame Fash.
ion had pronounced a decree of Danish.
::ment on the bolero, but-luckily, as
many will consider-it is still very
much in evidence, though those who
do not consider it sufficiently protec.
tive for wintry weather can either
take advantage of new scheme which
allies it to- under-bodice of cloth to
match the fur, or can avail themselves
Of one of the many other shapes which
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24
81 $4SF,s
Rk 20 = Ia DYNAMITE +. ,s 9:*.
Not the S. febloMer or the Anarchist
II But the ofessi onal s5|}s 8 EH.

The fnished type Of the dynamtter
5is the man who has had the ability to
rise and the luck ito survive long
enough tto gradual e from the B plant.
zandNbec ome= All agentt. & says the Amer.
lean magazine IS his best embodi.
z5lm 1l,ean tie, explolosi YES agent His some
thing 2of " q hemist something
Sq,ularrir!yman, B elecs
strritcci an 81 good Zeal 9ot# q min ralogist
and, above q man Sc resource and
zz,cpooiness IS 1he who. the ~
'J.ssT re- actory, sets
|. ral Iroad that oIltractSIs open Tor
3the desstruc Ted rock
slwhich blocks lline adYance.
glAWaySg agent grips
Ssaek ofS ddessttrruetio Oh
stoa h dllaaWs
Iupon u detef
nine nature tds|
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

tlced by private enterprise, and every
where but in London municipal admin
istration has built a suitable habita-
ton, and in so doing founded public
spirited name.
But now London, through its county
council, is to have civic building, a
municipal home, an administrative Of
fee in which to strenuously carry on
the multiplex duties that are intrust-
ed to it for the good government OF
mighty London.
For over ten years the council
pressed it's claim; for all that period
the health, time, and fruitful energy
of it's councillors and staff were
"cribbed, cabined, confined" and to
some extent it's work has suffered by
the lack of centralized, spacious and
well-equipped Offices.
Patient, submissive, tolerant to an
intolerable degree, the council prac-
tically unanimously, irrespective OF
party, decided year ago, for the
good government of London, to Sc
cure a new home away from the old
site, which has been neither suitable,
sufficient, nor available, for it's ever
increasing work and its multiplying
responsibilities.
And, as the council was being evict-
ed from Spring Gardens, parliament
would not have it a. the Ade1phi site,
and the timid refused to have it in
Parliament street, where better could
it be placed than on the spacious plot
of ground occupied by dingy wharf,
none too pleasant factory.
The river on the north, a public
terrace intervening between a fine
embankment and the county hall.
This structure is solid, massive,
dignifed, useful building bounded on
the south by Belvedere road, i'm
proved as relief approach to Water
loo station from Westminster bridge
for the. western. traffic that now OBJ
structs the southeast corner, of
Bridge. On the west st. Thomas hos
pital, opposite to the house of parlia-
=ment, enhancing the beauty and view
of that great pile. LII. !. .::s. r. I: !.
In keeping with the abbey, New:
= = J.'
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

shattering blow case {, :of /: soft a rock
re lower grade supplies 4. & blast
which will pro- uce alwid der effect 81.
though ST Will not break the dislodged
rock into such small pieces: Il IS
S.ss' AIRY he consid.
ersAthe nature of the ledge ", and TIE
Indicated assures o. veins ana mans
yh dl drilling aiccor tl1ngl hon he
must U l'ls attend the drilling 81 III
holes the tamping ot charge a.: and
here II. hni If oWledge# Il
called HiI arrangeme ii, 81 t11a
bait eries: blasts Slel glyes
Stne railroad comp estimate
and tfSit 1ls' he may oversee
the himself
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24
tEAYvfI eNA83 -
. - - - - - - ~
MleAsFTnga

was discovered that the earth is a
great magnet. Before that time the
: pole star itself was supposed to at
; tract the magnetic needle. Even
Shakespeare was of this belief, which
L be expressed in the phrase true as
e>needle to the pole.", And Chris.
TOPPER Columbus did not know what
to- think when he could find by his
! rude apparatus that the needle did
not follow it's supposed law.
.-s{E;s Scientific observations are being
made now nearly all over the world,
j first as to the direction of tho mag
Hnetic needle, whether east or<west of
the polar direction; second, as to it's
+ dip or inclination toward the center
Of the earth, and, third, as to the in
$tensity of the force which draws the
needle downward or toward a fixed
point when disturbed. A magnetic
north pole is found whenever the
Smagnetic needle points perpendicular
@lys to the horizontal plane of the
earth's surface. This dip or. down
ward pointing of the needle was dis.
covered by Robert Norman, a seaman
and instrument maker, in 1876. The
discovery of the dip of the needle
helped the early, philosophers to
break away from the idea that the
attraction for the needle was in the
heavens, and especially in the region
Sof the polar star. =.
y The Chinese knew the attractive
power of the lodestone as early as the
second century of the Christian era,
and in the seventh century the Japa-
snese had a cart device on which was
10 magnetic figure pointing south,
# Norman left a drawing showing
both the variation needle and the dip
needle in. one view, the variation nee
die being in the horizontal position
and the dip needle pointing down
ward b almost vertically. <Norman's
book was published twice before Gill
bert, the Elizabethan electrician, pub.
5lished anything. He had the. modesty
sof true genius, while DR.: Gilbert was
Sa zboaster, who rarely gave. credit for
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

and agreeably for her. He has a
thousand amusing. and successful de-
vices for helping her to renew her
youth. He, projects unique and JOY
GUS sunday::sand holiday excursions.
He improvises dainty little banquets.
He is past master especially in the
art Of + >con15uring up amiable mysteries
and. preparing charming little sur
,prises. And in all these trivial enter
prises z5he Vindicates the old French
theory that true courtesy consists in
t+a al a certain amount of pains to
50 order our words and our manners
that others be content with us and
with themselves, :, Z r p y s# IA:
The. =< american husband is particu.
larry so]lIiicitous to do. the proper thing;
the French husband to do the agree
able thing independent. ii. +. ~ = 1
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

When the Rev. Ezekiel P. Jones
presented himself at the entrance to
the ball grounds on Sunday he. was
politely but firmly told that he would
not be admitted. Mcdowell had been
foreWarneds by the: action taken by
the Minister'S associa tion.s While Mr..
Jones stood in perplexity before the
gate he was astonished by ,jovia1, il
forcible slap on the back. Turning he
beheld the smiling Scountenance OF
Patrick Weldon, Of the Ninth: Pat
extended his: hand cheerily.
you seem to be, $up against it,
said Pat, beaming friendliness from
every line of his rotund figure ~"But
it's all right. I'm with you and we're
going in, and well get bunch OF
evidence that will make these Sunday
BASEBALL people think they. have run
against a brace faro game s IT, :.
'.It's##alI right. He's with me, !" said
Pat authoritatively, as they pushed
past the gate-tender into the baseball
grounds. d. q. III; - ...*@< -. z#5 +
You see" said Pat impressively be:
fore the astonished Mr.. Jones had
time to ask questions or regain his
presence OF mind, you see, lots: OF
times you people have tried to stop
the Sunday games; and; you 4 were
right, for the: law ought to be sobeyed
and people like Mcdowell taught a
lesson: But you didn't have some
body with you to. tell you how things
ought TO be- rum. And that's what I
am here to do: You and your friends
can put on the pious front and fur.
nish; the respectab lity; required, and i
will hustle around and see that the
police back you up. : And Pat brought
his hand down with: q; reassuring slap
on the knee Of Mr.. j tones, at the same
timesgiving him wink of the utmost
d-felloWship and. y mutual i under
standing q 8: zs * .v5 i s e
The events ,of the last few minutes
had@proceeded So rapid ly the Rev Mr..
Jones 1hads not had time quite to- com.
prehend what st all meant. He had
looked for some comma e dat ions OF his
attempt to- stop, sunda Az baseball; play
ing but. the genial lead r$ Of the Ninth
ward was the last person from hom
he had expected APPROX OF aid: s=!B1}If
soIminded Wel don would: certain.
BE- an ef1c tent ali Is q Sunday:
closing crusade a
81 brand snat ched from the burn
urmure ga the good man oftly.
here no occasio ling he
#a{abrand repli fed 81 some what
grieve But q ettz II ~ at.!tthat
derstandG each othler now q 2qn;
have played couple 5oi' 5S ini
zningss 80 i; Y uS MI hay seYide ncles:
Then 11l,istle ght veto e5Epoltca
aud Ecalll 5gon tainsfos
rest thssp / sure 1she arrests
sssss'. 'sikTe on cert ll;
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

include short sacques, smart little
short-basqued. coats with fitting backs
and double-breasted fronts, or longer
models which again display various
degrees of fitting. Then there are
boleros with cape sleeves, and capes
which initiate boleros by being held in
to the waist at the back, while not
able and welcome feature Of nearly all
the coats is the extension of the
sleeves. In many cases they reach to
the wrist, while in almost every case
the. elbow is well covered, and the
cuffs, which come below, can be turned
down when desired to give extra pro-
lection to the arms, all of which
means an increase in comfort and a
decrease in our glove expenditure.
Among the furs which will be most
worn, sable; will, as always, take the
premier place by right of it's exclusive
beauty, while sealskin, ais have. al
ready said, is to have a great vogue,
and ermine and mink, and the always
smart and seryiceable Persian lamb,
are also to be noted. Moleskin also,
which won so much favor last season,
has, on account of its prettiness and
its inexpensiveness, been given a
prominent place again this year, while
the moderate prices>of musquash and
squirrel in sable colorings, and, again,
of seal musquash, will make it pleas.
antly possible for every woman to in.
dulge in the furs for which we. one
and all, have a special weakness.
Pointed fox is being more used than
ever for the making of the ties and
muffs which represent another urgent
requirement, and many new effects
are being shown this season in the
arrangement of the heads, paws and
tails. =. ..:,.~.... .'.-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24

But for this movement the pole spot
should have been found near latitude
70 degrees minutes and II seconds
north, and longitude SO degrees as
minutes and 4S seconds west of Green
witch.
When Capt. Amundsen has succeed.
ed in making up his records, the re-
suits, ii correct, will show the present
location Of the supposed north mag
netic pole, and the distance it has
travelled since June, 1881; from which
also the rate of progress may be ap-
proximately made out, while at the
same time it will be understood that
the magnetic pole has been travelling
over an unblazed and perhaps very
crooked trail from long before 1881
to the present time, and leaving tenn
porary north magnetic pole by the
thousand all along the line. .
1t will be noticed from DR. Schott's
map that the magnetic North Pole. is
not to be found within 20 degrees Of
the geographical North Pole. There
fore, as the earth turns around on it's
axis, the magnetic North i Pole des.
cribes circle around the geographic
cal North L, Pole every. day. Conse-
Quently, in addition to its regular line
Of travel, the magnetic North Pole
may be said to "wobble around''s Il. !
But this need not be looked upon as
erratic, as the geographical pole lis
known also to wobble around an i'm.
aginary central line lying In the gen,
eral. direction Of the pole star. /. = \
After the magnetic pole has been
definitely located, the questions Will
arise as to how It got there, how long
it has been there, and, finally, what is
the. cause Of it, and why lis it any: