The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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Washington.—**r the ?*rp6**im
fixing the rates tor the imperial iMm
accident, old age and dies bill ty insur-
ance system^* the. district insurance
©ft c«s all over Germany are required
to establish, by careful investigation
at stated Intervals, the average
wages paid for unskilled labor in the
cities and rural communities of their
respective districts. The investiga-
tion recently completed tor the City of
NurerabetS# <>*»» of the § important
manufacturing centers of Europe, with,
a population of 356,000, showgj^'
I daily wages paid to male and female
Laborers, in specified age groups as
! Mlows, says a consular report: Over
twenty-one years of age—male, «»
cents; female, 50 cents; between ala-
strong that he really lent an atr ef re
spect&bility to any undertaking.
“We are going to put a line to the
’ stock y^rds down Maple avenue, Sam,*
began the attorney. •
___. ja s’ ii. sft
of David Kerr
“So it’s settled, is it?"
“Yes. You remember that vacant
tract beyond Benton Park? The one
that the Belden Brothers are thinking
of cutting up for a residence addition?
Weil, you can’t build a house in a
mile of it when the road’s through
there, but it’ll be worth a great deal
more for factory sites.
You’ll have railroad connections*
see?” explained Kerr.
By Harry King Tootle
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Illustrations by Ray Walters
Recent Happenings of import
ance Reported From Various
Points in This Country
andAbroad.
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) “What’s doing?” asked Sam> alwayp
keen for a dollar.
“Get an option on it,” continued
Gilbert, “and we’ll cash in big."
"How long an option?”
The attorney looked at Kerr.
“Sixty days,” said the lat|fc$: •
"In that time we can ram the Iran-
STRIKE HAS $UICK ENDING
Member of Federal Board of Media-
j, tlon and Cenciliation 8ettie» Trou-
ble on the Delaware and Hud-
son Railroad — Workers
Killed In Pennsyl-
vania Mines.
the world that we should meet here
of all places. What ax# you doing
atHoV^'Vrolr,Sheln|1uUtCMt of »lf*
dna-v after promising to takd the matter up
TfL the poln. ot he-
-as «m ~
death she centered everything on, me. aa^unced.
H wasn’t right, of courae, because l , Tu to see him," saW the
"So/’ ebSee Kerr, “hare him in. I
have time to consider what might be
the ethics of the owe. He listened to
his heart* which Bfcy have made him &
trade unionists to
a nonunion men
decided by the cou
ay arose wbenthe;
‘Tve been doing some magazine
writing and an occasional bit of news-
paper and similar work.” f
Had he been ashed he could not
lust as promptly that he was the own-
S&ZfttZSZjXLZ.
plain to himseif. Earlier in the eve?
Ste?hTlrM hte^otn^un^
the fire of a pair of laughing eyes
e*o^rB^dhism,^Tpt^1l^expl|j
AftSSftSJSf
SLJnS? Z22L J.h«
calcitrant employe, who, ags
ing to |oln the union, was di
’rV«T\
He couldn’t go oh, and Gloria, re-
acting his grief, was silent, tpo. > , i;
"Pm so glad she lived to «qe it *11
Winthrow. like the usual run of
reporters in a town the size of Bel-
mont, was not only a shrewd young
American, but he was also well atfare
of his.great shrewdness. He had
made as many poUtical prognostica-
tions as any young man in the coun-
try, and they were quite as misleading
in the main *s were any of the others.
Being on tMe machine paper an&§j|
loyal reporter, it followed,** of course
that he to# a loyal macfalife ip an. 014
Jerry Winthrow, the editor* Was.a dis-
tant relative, but friendly" enough and
interested enough .in the youth to ex-
plain to him some of the turnings of
the political wheels.
When Win throw saw Kerr closeted
with his legal adviser he could not
suppress a whistle of surprise.
“Evening, judge. Good evening, Mr.
'Kerr.” \l tf.'yf • ’ 'i ■ •' , \’’ I
| “How||ire you, Jim?” said Gilbert
The boss merely nodded an acknowl-
ed^geat^ the greeting. "What cad
1 “Some M^k-yard terminal rumors,
tion tak<
ixplanation of his tall
Paris, she found h*i§
have him once more
did you get Itr queried Gif
TaT
am- vnmWk*
Jten stock of life I
i In thswdrld—”
Foe.” She felt M
vous little spirit that
forced her tb say, “I
print a line; he’ll understand.”
f*Tbat was all. I* was an ordes. and
w,
lated that there wag no danger from
to the city editor of the Banner by the
reporter of that paper.
As Winthrow rose to depart, Kerr
asked,: “You have anything to do with
the society columns?”
^“¥'00^,tumble o».,tory“_
ton Union 18S ta the second lugect 1»
pssfes
ton, owing to the tact that Boston Ital-
ian Barbers’ Union 656 also has sov
era! hundred members.
IL*1
Kerr has returned from a trip around
WWthrow put it down, and then
asked With pencil poised: “Is she ai
for in
ted by
asked with pencil poised: “Is she at
Locust Lawn?” : • •* i • . V'f ■
"Yes,” said Kerr.
"Don*t write the Item Until I tele-
phone you later in the evening ” inter-
rupted Gilbert He had been plowing
and planning along social lines ever
since Kerr bad told him of Gloria’s
rpturn. Several things be kad already
thought of flashed through hi* mind.
The impossibility of I«ocust Lawn as
v&sfcszsrf'SSiX
fore haring the Bannerwritethe story
which would herald her return. “You
can add this, though. ’ Say that Judge
meeting of the union. The adva
awarded fcurtes from a fraction U
cent °*
iBHmse^Belginm.^ gr
tot * ot a to
was pass* by^hTcli
ber. That’s a jterp pmision
a very long servise apd uadergro
too late.”
“I Had Hoped to Meet You In Paris
Again.”
tlon which had for its them© the new
torn affairs had taken, when Dr.
Hayes passed through the hall on his
way out with Us wife, Sam Hayes
m'ot “™ be“me x&'zziwsrss!r“
it respect. If you “Tell me of your mother. I never he was always a member of the syndl- vou’ddoU tor the airf’i
her* knows every- “I loved hen” he began. Of his nounced the determinatioii to push the 7°
Mpwa father. I own affairs he seldom spoke, yet here franchise, a deal with which the core- * BE continued »
in a week.” was one who by her very pretence ner was already familiar. EMr more T ---
Caaid cautiously, wads him glad to ten hUkstopr. and than for any other reason Kerr was .The tobacco of New England goner
;ou been in Bel- ggMLthat it was a story he could tell always willing to include hha^becuse ally commends a higher price than
gpaSing to Satis- with pride. "Bon never loved mother his Belmont connections yrere so the average of the other states.
as leaving word with Greenwich
observatory to call one at 6:t0 o’clpQk.
The immediate question is rather that
of the extent to which a spark sent
out to All points simultaneously would
benefit the keepers of accurate time.
If It were worth while, a student of
the subject says, it would be perfectly
feasible to regulate any number of
clocks witMn the wireless radius by
means of half-minute spark inimilses.
An English clock maker has already
carried out the scheme on a small
seals la Us own horns. All the clocks
London, Eng.—At a meeting of mas-
ter plumbers at the Guildhall, a reso-
lution appealing to the government
to carry out the national registration
of plumbers to the interests of the
craft and the pabhe' wic carried.
Capetown, South Africn.—At the
end of 1013 there were employed te
the gold mines of the Transvaal 34,-
334 whites and 205.4U natives. *hs
aggregate wages paid out tor toe year
being 168,881,758.
Washington.—In Japan the big coat
barges are manned by women, who
imon the oodt to the ships, and
stand on the rungs of a ladder gad
pass the buckets to one another over
for the
we live la. That is to say, instead «f
each clock trying in its own stnnll
way to kaep exact step- to the march
•f the minute by means of Its own tit-
tle paraphernalia in pendulum, spring
and cog wheel, there will exist a sys-
tem of master clocks, one in every
great center, taking the time from
Greenwich observatory, minute by
munity of neighboring clocks by other
their heads.
New York.—Clothing nnd millinery
establishments In New York employ
In Boston.
Visitor—Put me off at the next cor
ner, please, conductor.
Conductor—Madam, I shouldn’t 0k«
to do that; but I will stop the set
and help you te get ofL--judge*
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Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1914, newspaper, February 6, 1914; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542595/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.