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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
HOW THE POLE "woBBLEs.'

Just to perpleX Cook INC Peary in
their efforts to prove they reached the
north pole, the scientists now soberly
declare that the pole does not stand
still. Instead, it moves frequently,
swaying back and forth enough to per
pick astronomers for more than a CEN
fury.
The movement is very slight-never
more than sixty feet-but even that
little bit throws the exact mathemat-
les of the heavens into error, and, of
course, a north pole ~discoverer cannot
attempt to say that he planted the
flag exactly at the pole, when he can
not for the life of him tell whether the
pole is where he stood or sixty feet
away.
After years Of observation Of the
mysterious movements from astronom-
ical stations in all parts of the earth,
the International Geodetic Association
incorporated in its report a diagram
showing the movements of the pole
from 1895 to 1899. This map shows
that the n of the earth's axis moved
in curves and ellipses, one inside an
other, without seeming regularity. At
no time is the pole more than thirty
feet from it's normal position, n the
diameter of it's course is never more
than sixty feet.
There have been various %explana-
lions of the movements of the pole.
Edwin B. Frost, of the Yerkes Observ-
atory, writing in the World To-day for
November, holds that an adequate
cause for part of the variations may
be found in the movement of the ice,
water and air from the pole toward
the equator and it's return.
Observations made simultaneously
at Honolulu and Berlin showed that
as the latitude at Honolulu decreased
that at Berlin increased with the move
ment of the pole. The reverse also
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
The EHete TNrenlOr.

A writer in Success Magazine says
The bull-fight of Spain is doomed. 1,
is not proposed to abolish it by law
because such an enactment might
cause a revolution, but restrictions are
being imposed, and a new law forbids
introducing into the ring for the sec
ond time a bull which has once killed
or injured a matador. Bull-fightine
has come to be a dangerous trade, anG
since it is manifestly impossible te
prescribe rules of etiquette for a bull
while he is being slaughtered, it is cyl
dent thai the noble sport has reach
ed the beginning of the end.
Anyway. if we are to believe 3
writer who describes the sport in :
Paris magazine, bull-fighting is no.
what it was in the good old days. The
profession of sticking rapiers into
wild bulls is sadly degenerating, the
fine traditions Of the past are vanish
ing. Formerly bu%ll-fighters had a pride
in their work; they were miracles O.
dexterity. they were "Napoleons O.
tauromachy." Now every village lac
thinks he is a mute, inglorious torea
dor and the fatalities are becoming
more numerous than on the Spanish
railways.
We suggest to our Spanish neigh
bors, if they must have their bull
fights, hat the animal have his from,
legs tied together and his horns GOV
cred with plush, while the matador be
armed with a gatling gun and a fuse
of nitro-glycerine. With proper pre-
safe and pleasant diversion for young
and DID.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

as the water dubbed and foamed
around them.
Jumping over the rail, he dived
head-first. cutting the water as clean
as a kingfsher. A second or two later
gone down. and treading water, waited
for them to reappear.
At last q hand was thrust out, and
just beneath the surface were the two
struggling in each others arms.
Hesitating no longer, with two or
three overland strokes to put him in
reach, he grasped the back of the wo.
mans collar and tried to pull her from
the others hold. The collar came loose
and they slowly sank lower until he
caught her by the arm and brought
the two, now quiet, to the surface.
Hearing a shout of warning, he
looked around and saw they had drift
ed within short distance of the dam,
toward which they were going faster
and faster.
The crew of the steamer were fran.
tically getting a skiff in the water,
but he knew they couldn't reach him,
loaded as he was, before he went over
And to go over the dam meant almost
sure death; for If he didn't get any
bones broken he was liable to be
knocked unconscious on the rocks and
drown without a struggle.
He could drop his burden and swim
back against the current, but the
nerve that Mary had derided would
not allow that
II guess Maryll have to marry a
lead hero if she marries me-" he
grimly thought.
Then a bright idea flashed through
his mind. With a few kicks, and his
free arm, he swung the two in front.
and his legs at an angle of ~forty-five
degrees with the surface of the water,
he struck the dam with a jolt that
shook him all over
AS the water was about two feet
deep on the crest, the pressure kept
him standing or a reclining position
on its upper face, and all he had to
do was to keep their mouths clear of
water and hold on until rescued.
When the crowd saw what had been
done they raised a greater cheer thar
any he had ever heard at a football
game.
Tying a ROPE to the end of the skiff,
so the suction of the dam wouldn't
draw it over, the captain and two men
drifted down and took all three
aboard; when many willing hands.
~grasping the rope, Don pulled them
out of danger.
After putting on some of the cap
tain's dry clothing jim left the reviv-
ing couple and started for the upper
deck amid the admiring glances and
remarks of his fellow passengers.
At the head of the stairs, where the
mate had kept the majority of the
crowd, he met Mary, who, with shin
ing eyes, slipped her hand under his
arm and whispered: I've reconsid-
cred, jim for your nerve is all
right" and before all she pulled his
face down and kissed him.-Pennsyl-
vania Grit
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

was true. This means positively thai
there is a shifting of the axis of the
earth.
A Japanese astronomer, Kimura, ar
CUES that the movement of the earth's
axis and the pole can be explained by
the theory h a the center Of gravity
Of the earth is not fixed, but moves
backward and forward five or six feet
every year. Mr.. Frost thinks, how
ever, that this explanation cannot be
considered as established by fact.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
A NEW LONDON.
h Big City Is Being Rebuilt as
Rapidly ns New York,

uSIul ~ WV Il
London is being rebuilt as rapidly
as New York; out it is SO much vaster
than the American city that the pro-
cess is less conspicuous. Nothing is
being done to-day that stands out so
prominently as the great bridges over
the East River; nor is there any ana
logue in London to the Eruption of
hotels and Office buildings above the
normal skyline in New York, the near
est approach to a 'sky-Scraper'-
Queen Anne's mansions, Westminster
varying in height from eleven to
fourteen stories only.
OF governmental projects perhaps
the greatest is the buying out of the
companies that supply London with
water. Their claims amounted to
about $3.50, 00O, 900, but radical cuts
were made by the court of arbitration
appointed to adjudicate them. 1t is
unlikely that the Metropolitan Water
Board will do as well, financially, as
eight companies. for the city's needs
are growing with it's population, while
one of the chief sources of s~upply-the
Thames-has been gradually dwin-
ding for the last twenty years, so
that it will be necessary to go far
afield. before long, for a supply of wa
ter that can be depended on in times
of drouth. Next comes the proposed
Improvement of the port, and its con-
troll by q single body exercising the
powers now divided between the
Thames conservancy and other author
tiles. h of London has
not grown IS rapidly of late as the
city itself. Lest it should continue to
lose ground, a royal commission has
reported, the river channel must be
widened to from 60 to 1000 feet, and
deepened to 80 feet at low water. The
estimated expense of this Improvement
is $12, 500 900; and new docks are rec
commended at a cost Of about $22 $780,
900.
The principal public improvements
of the last fifteen years have been due
to the county council, which suppressed
ed the Metropolitan Board of Works
under the local government act of
1883. One of the least conspicuous
but most costly Of its single under
takings is the Blackwell tunnel,
which, when opened in 1897, had swal-
lowed up $1,000, 900. The next under
taking of the sort (the tunnel from
Rotherhithe to Ratcliffe) is expected
to absorb nearly as much. The Tower
bridge, completed in 1894 at a cost Of
IS, 900, 0O0-the most conspicuous of
London bridges, the one farthest
down stream and the only one provid-
ed with a draw-was the work of the
corporation of the city of London; and
the same body is now widening Lon
don bridge, the most famous n still
the most travelled of the many roads
across the Thames. The cost Is esti-
mated at $500, 900. The corporation
before long will probably lower the
crown of the Southwark bridge-a
task which will virtually involve re-
building. and is expected to swallow
up SLIGO 900. The sway Of the coun-
ty council begins somewhat farther
up the river, where $1,000, 900 is being
spent to replace Vauxhall bridge with
a structure of steel.-Century.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

chance 1 have. I'll risk it even if it's
sure DEATH"
Il couldn't possibly marry a dead
smile. Come, let's go where the rest
of the crowd are and see if you can't
lose that solemn look"
"All right" he answered as he rose
from his chair. and taking her arm
started toward the others, but I don't
want you talking to Jack Brown too
much. He thinks he's a greater sol
der thar Napoleon since his company
shot those miners"
because h treats me like a gentle
man.
Huh! Like a gentleman he snort
ed. "a gentleman doesn't look at girls
like he could eat them up"
Didn't you say I was good enough
to eat, and you couldn't keep your
eyes away?"
Yves, but that's different because
we've promised to marry"
"Since when?" she asked as she
stopped and looked at him with a spar
kle in her eyes.
"since you said you love me. You
know that"
But l said 1 wouldn't marry until
YOU proved your courage. And the
way you're acting now, I don't think
I would then"
Miss Jackson he answered with
an accent on the miss, IF you'd rather
talk to Jack Brown than me, you can
do SO. / guess there are other girls
besides you"
Looking him calmly up and down,
she started forward while he silently
followed.
After a few words and EXPLANATIONS
with the others, she went to the OPP
posite side of tie deck looking almost
as gloomy as he had a few moments
before.
Seeing her alone he went over and
said: Mary, please forgive me. I
love you so much / hardly know what
1 say until it's said"
.Ill forgive you, Jim. but we had
better just be friends until you learn
to control your temper better"
"All right, just as you say; but I
can't stay close to you, for it'd be i'm
possible for us to Just be friends"
Saying this he walked to the rear deck
without another word. r.
AS the boat slowly drifted toward
the lock, rocking in her own waves,
there was a rush to the side nearest
the dam. This caused 1t to list to
that side, and in the excitement a wo-
man fell overheard dragging q man
after her.
Jim Halliday, In his abstraction,
didn't 1t first notice the uproar. but
nnally cries Of 'Man overheard! Wo-
nan nverhoard!" caused him to look
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
Governments. "Blue Book.

The United States official register or
blue book" which has been published
%biennially since 1917, was of over A.
600 pages in two large volumes In
1905, the Washington Post says. Be
fore 1917 the germ of the publication
had been appearing for over twenty
years in the shape of simple lists of
government clerks transmitted to con
gress by the secretaries, but in that
year provision was made for issuing
regularly a complete register. There
was a time when the blue book was a
convenient size for the pocket, Though
containing a full roster.
During Washington's administration
the secretaries of state, treasury and
war. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander
Hamilton and Henry Knox, trans
mitted the names of their clerks to
congress, and in 1893 Secretary Ham.
ilton forwarded to congress a general
list of clerks. agents and employees on
the government rolls. This latter. be-
ing printed, was the first blue book or
register. The government was then in
Philadelphia, and in the three DEPART
ments there we're less than $50 names
t~wo-thirds being In the treasury.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
A Question.
.. of Grit.


mo, Jim. I can't marry a mar that
has done nothing but go to school.
My future husband" she said, with
pride, must be a man who has proven
his bravery; for there Is nothing I
hate worse than a coward"
Mary Jackson, what do you mean
by bravery? believe l am counted
pretty nervy by the boys"
Yes, that's it. You and the boys
think because a man plays football
and does a few athletic stunts he's
brave. l don't count that to your
credit, for all you had to do was to
go to school and train while your
father paid the bills"
Looking gloomily across the sunlit,
sparkling river, he seemed "out Of
tune" with the gayety of the excursion
party; while her eyes watched him
with the sternness hat seventeen
gives to decisions OF the heart.
"Of our I love you, Jim, but a
woman must be sure she'll never re-
greet her choice in after life; and un-
til o do some brave act to prove
yOui OOu1dSc II lave W say 10.
You're o hard on a fellow. There's
nothing 1 can do to prove it unless
the old boat would blow up, or I'd go
to the Philippines; and then the
chances are I'd be detailed to some
clerical job"
1.-The chance will come when you're
least expecting It," she replied.
SWoJ1 fhprn'C nno fhir0 7 Worf uN,y
to remember, I'm going to be you hus-
band. You say you love me, but all I
lack is proof of my courage. The first
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

Taking oneself too seriously is sup
posed to be an American trait. At
any rate. it is found in America. The
late Edward Everett Hale, in I'VE, the
People" cites a remark Of Thomas
Carlyle apropos of this habit.
Margaret Fuller had perhaps taken
herself the least bit too seriously.
She had said that she had determined
ITO accept the universe"
she had better" said Carlyle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

all connection with love or justice. My heart sickens
as my minds eye surveys the world where every living
thing lives in some peril; and where the peril turns
to disaster as that or this tower of Sloan falls with
out distinction upon young and old, just and unjust,
valuable or worthless lives. Or so we say when the
tower falls upon ourselves or upon those whom we love
as we love ourselves.
Now and then something happens in the world to rid
us of one of these dangerous towers, these indifferent
agents of death or misery; and we breathe more freely.
For example, malaria and yellow fever are growing
daily less terrible. and whole countries over which that
tower always shook ard often fell are freeing them
selves from a death that slew indiscriminatingly, un.
lovingly, unjustly. At least this is what men say of it
when it smites them in some tender place.
There are not many of us, if there are any, who would
be so foolish as to mark out the boundary beyond which
our use and management of things will not be able to
pass, and our skill and prudence will not be able to
avoid catastrophe. Some of us even believe that we
may come to use our world skillfuny enough to ward
off all disease and bodily pain, so that life will last
much longer than it does now, and death come, for by
far the greater number, in the way of old age.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

OF his unholy, unselfsh joy? Once a man becomes a
husband. has he nothing to bear and forbear? Has the
compound word 'hen-pecked' crept uselessly into our
language? Has no mans individuality been sapped
or overwhelmed by an overpowering personality in pet
ticoats? Though it be true that a wife has no wages"
is a husband allowed to husband his? Though a wife
may be "a slave to her husband" has the converse
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

"A ALEXANDRA. X CHE ALEXANDRA VICTORIA.
1t seems that the wifehunting expedition of the minister Of King
Manuel If Portugal has cor to n end and that the boy King, without
being asked whether he likes it, will re made to marry Princess Alexandra
OF Fife. 1t is a nea political arrangement, but what about the feelings
oft the young couple? Manuel is IS years old; Alexandra is h same e.
Ter parents. She a presented att curt only a few months ago. She is
quick and even brilliant mentally, while Manuel is sluggish in brain n
body. If eve romance enters inoth the live Of this royal pair it Will be
arer marriage. Poor Cupid! He nay operate in the common, workaday
Worlda at will, but courts an thrones are forbidden him.
The Princess Alexandra of Fife is a granddaughter of King Edward
Hell mother. h Princess Louise Victoria, is his ajtyse eldest daughter,
and she married the Duke of Fife in 1889. In u Illustration b prospect
name Alexandra, tut is generally called by her first name.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
WHO GAINS MOST BY MARRIAGE?
BY Harold Owen.

AS to the comparative tribulations of the
married state, does the man who marries
give no hostages to fortune beyond those pro-
vided by his collaboration? Is it for his own
selfish creature comforts that he bolts his
breakfast, rushes for the morning train and
stews in the city-all to earn an income OF
which he personally spends only a fifth or a
tithe2 Are dressmakers' bills merely part
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
Ii sounded Hopeful.

A young man who was particularly
entertaining was monopolizing the
attention of a debutante with a lot of
uninteresting conversation.
Now, my brother" he remarked in
he course Of a dissertation on his
family, sis just the opposite of me in
every respect. Do you know my broth
err"
NO" the debutante replied demure-
", but 1 should like to."-Lippin-
COTS.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
A e v Writer.

Patrice-You say she is a c!eye,
writer?
Patience-very. Why, I've known
her to ~ a fountain pen without get
ting ink all yer her nngers!-Yonkers
Statesman.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
flowers OF SLOAN LESS IN NUMBER"
BY William Scott Palmer

providence and prudence said Sweden
borg, 'act as one | see earthquakes and
volcanoes, wrecked ships. innocent men suf-
fering while the guilty prosper. ! see micro
SCOPE parasites Staying their thousands and
mosquitoes more dangerous than quick-fring
guns. Disease, pain, misery, and the Incl
dence of death, working by a grim law which
is morally an Indifferent chance, seem out Of
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

rlation of Palestine who was possessed of six fingers.
II is reported that he was slain in battle.
Among the notions OF the middle ages which are now
almost forgotten was a belief that the faculty of pro-
phetic dreams was a sixth sense which was outwardly
indicated by the possession of six fingers or six toes.
No one except a searching critic may have discovered
that Pope Sixtus w, who is represented on Raphael's
Sistine Madonna, is possessed OF six fingers. Raphael
YVES too great a painter not to be able to render this
feature so inconspicuous as to make it difficult for q
casual observer to discover the sixth finger on the
Pope's hand, and yet it is plainly visible to everyone
who takes the trouble to look for 1t. t6@
The same is true of st. Joseph, who, according to the
reports Of the New Testament, receives his instructions
in dreams. He accordingly is a typical example OF a
person who in all his walks of life is guided by divine
commands rendered to him through dreams. He there
fore is represented with six toes.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17

You may imagine people give you
the worst Of 1t, but II your stomach
could talk, you would be abused Q
good deal more than you are.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
,UPERsTIT1ON IN EARLY ART.
By DR.. Paul Carus.

Psychologists are familiar with the fact
that six fingers are sometimes actually found
on one hand and that the popularity seems
to be hereditary in certain families, but such
instances are malformations and have not
justified the theory that they are indications
Of a superiority Of any kind. We have even
an instance in the Bible, where a case is
mentioned of a giant among the Gentle pop
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-17
REMARKABLE JAPANESE s,

REMARKABLE JAPANESE STRUCTURE IS OF WOOD AND STILL
.. SOLID aH#aafI 8 tN1# @h3&
The Iwakuni bridge, which is 200 years old crosses the i've Nishihi, in
the province of Suho This is said to be the only wooden bridge built in the
Characteristic style Of old Japan low remaining all the others being re-
placed by steel construction designed in the modern stye-Black and White.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-02
The CHICAGO WOOL MARKET.

Kansas City Stock Yards, Sept. 81.
1903. There was a large supply of
cattle from the range country here
last week, all sections being well rep
resented. Steers declined 10 to 20
cents for the week, including the stock
and feeding grades, but cow stuff
closed the week steady to Is higher.
The run is heavy at $4,000 head, and
prospects favor good run balance of
the week, stockers and feeders and
killing steers steady today, COWS weak
to 1Oc lower. Two trains of Old Mexi-
cos pastured this summer in Kansas
sold today at 1886 and $3.50, as COM
pared with 1910 to $685. for the same
cattle on Mondays in the last three or
four weeks. Offerings from the Pan
handle and New Mexico are liberal,
and include cows at $3.50 to $3.50 bulk
of the cows around 1925, bulls 1910,
| stockers and feeders $3.50 to $3.50,
stock cows and heifers $2.75 to $3.4O,
veal calves $500 to $725. Colorado
and Utah offerings include beef steers
at $4,25 to $3.50, cows 1910 to $500
stock steers 1886 to SAILS, feeders at
$3.50. Heavy wintered westerns from
Kansas touched $40 last week, high
est point of the season, and bulk OF
Kansas grazed westerns bring $3.50 to
$3.50, choice native feeders 1925 to
$500, and top corn steers 1925.
The supply of sheep and lambs is
small for the season, and prices are
running along on very high plane
although lambs are 25 to 40 cents be-
low a week ago, sheep and yearlings
steady. Run in 5000 here today, mar
ket Toe lower, the bulk of supply to-
| day composed of medium class Ne
vada lambs, $50 at $685., and Arizona
lambs at $500. Some good Utah lambs
were here Wednesday at $755, but
same quality lambs would sell around
1925 today, yearlings worth $500 tC
$535, wethers up to $500, ewes $425
to $475 Country demand is good and
buyers are paying 500 to $685. for
feeding lambs, up to $500 for year
lings and $4.25 to $50 for good breed
ing ewes, old ewes around 1925.
]. A. RICKART,