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The Glenwood post., 1923-04-05

pies. IN. and N. Smeitersf' he
asked
"Down seven points,"
rs. F. and D?"
Eight points off"
Santoine's hand, holding the tele.
phone, shook in its agitation; his head
was hot from the blood rushing
through 1t, his body was chilled. An
Idea so strange, so astounding, so In
credible as 1t first had come to him
that his feelings refused 1t though his
reason told him 1t was the only pos
sible condition which could account
for all the facts, now was being made
all but certain. He named stock after
stock; all were down-seriously de-
pressed or had been supported only by
desperate effort of their CHIEF
holders.
The blind man could write as we'll
as any other by following the position
of the lines with the fingers of his left
hand. He wrote short note swiftly
now, folded, sealed and addressed it
and handed 1t to the servant.
"Have that delivered by messen-
ger at once" he directed. "There
will be no written answer, I think;
only something sent back-a photo
graph. See that it Is brought to me
at once"
He heard the servants footsteps
going rapidly away. He was shaking
with anger, horror, resentment; he
was almost-not quite-sure now Of
all that had taken place; of why
Warden had been murdered, of what
vague shape had moved behind and
guided all that had happened since.
he recalled Eaton's voice as he had
heard 1t first on the train at Seattle:
and now he was almost sure-not
quite-that he could place that voice,
that he knew where he had heard 1t
before.
He lay with clenched hands, shak-
Ing with rage; then by effort of his
will he put these thoughts away. The
nurse reminded him again of his need
for food.
Il want nothing now," he said.
"Have 1t ready when 1 wake up.
When the doctor comes, tell him I am
going to get up today and dress"
He eurned and stretched himself
upon his bed; so, finally he slept.
The Glenwood post., 1923-04-05
T|MEp!ECE VARIES
Ones Watch Often Affected by
Moods of the Wearer.
Modern Vest-Pocket Machinery 50 Del
ieateIy Adjusted That 1t Responds
to Personal Magnetism.

1t Is not every one who can wear
watch, according to an article by
matchmaker, observes the North China
Herald. At least, not every watch
works with such regularity on one
body's person as on another. The
explanation Is simple. Modern vest
pocket machinery is often so delicately
adjusted that it becomes affected by
the temperament Of its wearer-that
Is, affected by personal magnetism.
For example, couple of months
back woman brought me her watch
as often as once every three days,
complaining 1t was either too fast or
too slow, the contributor continues.
Each time I tried it 1t ran beautiful
ly. but once on the woman's person
the irregularity of the watch was no.
ticeable.
On inquiry, l found that she was of
n highly nervous temperament while
at other times she suffered from at
tacks of melancholia. Whatever her
mental state, the watch recorded 1t.
When she was vivacious 1t worked
fast. When she was In low mood 1t
went slow.
Not only are mems watches simi-
larly affected, but the timepieces are
also greatly Influenced by excess bod
lily electricity. Even peculiar gait
necessitating an awkward movement
of the body Is responsible for the
throwing of some watches out of gear,
and more than one man has had to
abandon the watch-repairing business
because he magnetized the delicate
hair springs.
Engine drivers have often declared
their watches kept excellent time while
on a regular route. But once a new
route was being worked the accuracy
OF their watches suffered until accus-
toned to the change, while man who
worked on n long stretch follow ed by
n long rest failed to keep his watch
working with regularity.
Motorists watches are sometimes af-
fected in like manner. Even the simple
act Of changing the rosition-say,
from one pocket to the other-has
been known to disturb the delicate
mechanism Of an otherwise good watch
and Impair Its time-keeping qualities.
Very often 1t is Impoasible to regu.
late such watches unless the condI-
tions under which they went wrong
are known beforehand. If the TEN.
permanent Of each customer Is briefly
defined at the time, so much the bet
ter for the matchmaker and client
alike.
Another reason, why shop testing
sometimes fails is thai watches con.
nected with the same wall, or shelf,
nave such sympathetic effect in keep
Ing time that they stop those which
beat In an irregular time, and II any
are at rest they set n. going those which
beat accurately.
Commonly speaking, the autumn of
the year Is not favorable to the reg.
ularity Of most watches. This by
reason Of the extreme changes Of tenn
perature. A watch which has been
carried In ones POCKET all day, and
kept more or less warm, suffers the
enects Of shock when placed on a cold
marble slab at night, or where there
Is direct window draught.
So there you are next time anything
gees wrong!
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some Information that he needed, and
that to prevent Warden's giving him
this, Warden had been killed Then
Warden's death had caused Santoine
to go to Seattle and take charge OF
many OF Warden's affairs; Eaton had
thought that the information which
had been In Warden's possession
might now be in Santoine's; Eaton,
therefore, had followed Santoine onto
the train.
The inference was plain that some
thing which would have given San
toine the information Warden had had
and which Eaton now required had
been brought into Santoine's house
and put III Santoine's safe. It was
to get possession of this something"
before it had reached Santolne that
the safe had been forced.
Santoine put out his hand and
pressed bell. A servant came to
the door.
'Will you find Miss santoine," the
blind man directed, "and ask her to
come here?'
The servant withdrew.
Santoine waited. Presently the door
again opened, and he heard his daugh-
ter's step.
Have you listed what was taken
from the safe, HarrietT Santoipe
asked.
mot yet, Father"
The blind man thought an instant.
Harriet, something has been brought
into the house-or the manner of
The Glenwood post., 1923-04-05

tance from the bridge to the place
where the men he was following had
got out Of their motor, he had thought
to be about two miles; but when he
had been travelling more than an hour,
he had not yet reached It, Then,
suddenly he came upon the road for
which he was looking; somewhere to
the east along 1t was the place he
The Glenwood post., 1923-04-05
"Have You Listed What Was Taken
From the Safe, Harriet7" Santoine
Asked.

keeping something in the house has
been changed-within very few days
since the time. l think, when the
attempt to run Eaton down with the
motor car was made. What was that
something"
His daughter reflected. "The draft
of the new agreement about the La
trcn properties and the lists of stock
holders in the properties which came
through Mr.. Warden's Office" she re-
piled.
"Those were in the safe?'
"Yes; you had not given me any in
structions about them, so l had put
them in the other safe; but when I
went to get the correspondence I saw
them there and put them with the
correspondence in my own safe"
Santoine lay still.
"Who besides Donald knew that you
did that, Daughter?" he asked.
mo one"
''Thank you"
Harriet recognized this as dismissal
and went out. The blind man felt the
Dioou III temples
and at his finger-tips. 1t amazed, as
founded him to realize that Warden's
murder and all that had followed it
had sprung from the Lntron case. He
recOllected that he had been vaguely
conscious ever since Latrons murder
of something strained, something not
wholly open, in his relations with
fhpca mon whosa tptaraStS ho1 haax,
most closely allied with Latron's, It
had been nothing open, nothing pal
pable; 1t was only that he had felt
at times In them knowledge Of
some general condition governing
them which was not wholly known to
himself. Whoever Blatchford had seen
was someone well known to him.
whose presence had been so amazing
| that speech had failed Blatchford for
the moment and he had feared the
effect Of the announcement on San
tome This could have been only the
principal himself.
Some circu1 .ancA which Santoine
comprehended only imperfectly as yet
had forced this man to come out from
behind his agents and to act even at
| the risk Of revealing himself 1t was
probably he who, finding Blatchford's
| presence made revealment inevitable,
had killed Blatchford. But these cir
| cumstances gave Santoine no clew as
to who the man might he. The blind
man tried vainly to guess. The only
circumstance regarding the man of
which Santoine now felt sure was
that he was one Of the many con-
cerned in the Latron case or with the
LatrOn properties.
| what time Is it?' the blind man
suddenly asked the nurse.
at is nearly noon, Mr.. Santoine."
"Will you leave me alone for few
moments?" he directed.
He listened till he heard the door
close behind the nurse; then lie seized
the private phone beside his bed and
called his broker.
How is the market?'. he inquired.
There was something approaching
to panic on the stock exchange, II
appeared. Some movement. arising
from causes not yet clear, had dropped
the bottom out of score of Important
stocks.
"How is Pacific Mldlands?" San
toine asked.
ut led the decline"
! Snntoine felt the blood In his tenn
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
COAL MINERS
 HONOR MITCHELL
Have Holiday in Observance of Set
 tlement Made in 1900.

Hazelton, Pa, Nov. 2-Anthracite mining operations were at standstill
 Tuesday, the miners generally remain ing idle in observance of Mitchell Day." so called in honor of the sue cessfu1 terminotion of the hard coal strike of 1900 under the leadership of the late John Mitchell, then interna-
 tional president of the United Mine Workers.
 Proclamations calling on the work CTS to remain at home were issued by union officials of the three districts in the anthracite region and none of the employees except engineers, firemen, pump runners and others needed for the protection of property reported for duty.
 Football games, shooting matches and other outdoor events were on the holiday program. One of the features of the day this year was to have been the dedication of monument in Scranton in honor of Mitchell, but the ceremonies have been postponed owing to the inability of the contrac- tors to finish the work in time. It is expected the exercises will be held April I, next, the anniversary of the granting of the eight hour day.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Fair Haven Rally
 Of 26th and 18th Wards Sunday Night
Mayor FitzGerald and Rest of Ticket
 to Speak at Clinton Avenue School.

Plans have been completed for a mon ster joint rally of the 26th and 18th
 wards to be held Sunday evening in the
 hall of the Clinton Ave. School, at P
 NJ The rally was requested by the work CTS of the Both and 18th wards as 2 windup of one of the greates campaign
 ever staged in Fair Haven the interest of the Democratic Party. Arrange ments have been made to have the wohle Democratic ticket present and each can didate will present the issues of the cam paign, Senator Tone IS also expected to deliver one of the speeches of the even ing. Great consideration is due the work CTS in these wards for their untiring eff forts in the interest of the party to bring out in Fair Haven the largest Democrat ic vote ever boiled in the history of the wards next Tuesday. As these wards have always given a healthy majority in the past the party as whole is turn ing to Fair Haven as the real backbone from which they can depend on bic ma ajority to cover weaker wards. With this in mind the workers have been mak- inn house to house canvass of the dis tricts for the past two weeks and with the rally Sunday evening to bring the to a climax they believe their efforts will not have been in vain.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Government Price Fixing Opposed by
 Farm Bureau

Chicago, H., Nov. 2-Government price fixing of wheat holds no hope for the farmers, according to state ment on price fixing issued by officials of the American Farm Bureau Fed eration in controverting propaganda fro uncertain sections demanding a iuaranteed price based on cost of pro- duction plus profit,
 It would be impossible to fix price that would be just to both high cost and low cost prducers, says the stote- ment Moreover a government guar anteed price for wheat would inevit- ably lead to government price fixing of other commodities. The end would be government price-making commits sions in charge of production and dis tribution, which would be in effect a "kind of socialism"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
RAIL LABOR MAN UP FOR ALDERMAN
 IN BRIDGEPORT
John L. RoweSof Trainmen's Broth erlaood Candidate of
 Democrats.

Bridgeport. Nov. 2-Chosen as the Democratic nominee for alderman il, the Ninth district, John l.. Rowe, oi II5o Noble avenue, is a native of the city and for 40 years has lived in East Bridgeport.
 He has large experience in legis- lative matters having served I7 years as general chairman of the Brother hood of Railway Trainlnen on the New Haven road, and taking part in national conferences on problems concerning the goads.-
 MT. Rowe, in his candidacy, stands back of Mayor Fred Atwater's policy of economical administration and re duction oi the bonded indebtedness. Being taxpayer I feel that all people of the city irrespective. of po- litical belief vii lbenefit in the re- election of the present administration which has stood for reduction of city running expenses" the nominee declared
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
PECULIAR CASE IN COMPENSATION
 ON IN HARTFORD
H. Wales Lines Company Appeals Award Made Dependents of
 Killed Worker

Hartford, Nov "A unique view
 of Connecticut workmen' S compen- safIon law IS presented in the appeal of the H. Wales Lines company from
 the order of the compensation com
 missioner to pay So s4 a week for 3Iz weeks to the married daughter of the
 iured in this city last May by a fall while he was working on building for the Lines company.
 There appears to be little dispute about the facts, the question being as to the dependency of Mrs. Ellen Dal- ton Foran--now being considered by
 Judge Ma1tbie of the superior court Mrs Foran's husband, an employe of one of the large insurance companies, receives a salary of a little more than S3,ooo year Mir Dalton lived with his daughter and her husband and 1t appears that from time to time he made contributions to the payment of their expenses That IS the point on which the whole case hinges, as the supreme court has decided that where contributions such as these are relied on for support they constitute a de- phasized by the Lines company is that after Mir. Dalton's death the Forans moved into an apartment that costs them SIS a month more rent On the other hand it is shown that sometime prior to Mir Dalton's death the fam fly had been to heavy expense on ac- count of sickness and had relied on MT. Dalton's help financially.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Private School Keeper Brings Tn Gladstone and Lord Bryce to Help Run New Haven and Back Up His Scheme Against Free School Tuition and Books.

l If Mayor FitzGerald needed a I recommendation for his reelection he got it this week when George L. Fox
 tutoring school operator extraordin- l ary, came out with bIost in the Journal-Courier in opposition to Mayor FitzGerald'sl reelection. MT. Fox and his altitude are too we'll
 known to Labor men to need any re- view here but when he appeals to 1 Labor men, as he did, to defeat the mayor, it's time to call halt As everything Fox is for since his at ttempt to keep the children of work ingmen out of high school unless a
 tuition was paid, IS a boost for those
 he hits at The Labor News takes up | just few of the braodsides for an lalysis
 MT. Fox states he hopes Mayor
 FitzGerald Twill be defeated by an able and competent businessman" !" who perhaps Fox thinks will put over his scheme of tuition in the high schools and the abolishment of free text books in the higher schools.
 All classes of citizens, especially the wage earning classes, would be greatly benefited and have the bur den of heavy rents considerably frightened if the next may could administer the affairs of the city in the spirit that animated Gladstone in the opinion of Lord Bryce" says MT. Fox.
 Gladstone, Lord Bryce nor anyone else in or out of England is running New Haven despite Mr. Fox's anglo mania Mir Fox advocated a yearly tax of $40 a pupil in the high schools and pay for their books besides. Even if rents were raised an average of $3 month and the wage earner still held the privilege of sending his children to high school he would still bet ahead $4 at the end of the year on rent alone as against Mr. Fox's tuition fee plan. Then when books are consideerd even a $5 al month raise would not cover Mir. Fox's plan.
 From careful study of Mayor FitzGera1d's career from the start, I long ago reached the very positive conviction that he has been the most lawless and extravagant mayor of New Haven, that I have known since I first became a taxpayer and voter a half century ago. Therefore any campaign that is waged to end his sinister power to do harm to the citizens of New Haven, should be
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
NOMINEE PROMISES BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BUT FAILS TO
 ANSWER MAYOR AS TO HOW, OR WHY
Morning Newspaper Rusi1es to His Assistance With Editorial Declaring That He Shouldn't Be Held For What Chamber of Commerce
 Tried to Do to Labor While
 He Was President.

Who the candidate Republican ticket be vote for on Tuesday ynext2
 Charles M Walker the the but Mir Walker really the Major Louis M Umana Or the Chamber of Commerce with its penchant for putting the City Manager Plan be the Mir. Walker should beby mrace-elected? m B
 These questions public of New Haven especially Labor should weigh well between Tuesday And he weighs them well he will the polls and vote for the of Mayor David E. Fitzgerald for fourth Three have proved Mayor Fitzgerald and another will the along lesser than t Connecticut and the mea tandth orkersh to opayth that
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
WHITE COLLAR UNION STIRS T
 WALL STREET
Girl Organizers Go After 4oo, o,ooo Bookkeepers and Clerks to Join
 and Get Bricilayers' Wakes"

l New York, Nov "A score O young women members of the Book keepers and Stenographers' Unior
 posted themselves at bank doors ii the financial district Wednesday tc recruit clerks in the institutions fol their union. They distributed pam
 phlets comparing the hopeless indi
 gence of the bank clerk to the afflu ence of bricklayers and urging the recipient to join the union and the
 ranks of the wealthy
 Among those to whom pamphlets suggesting becoming union man were handed was Ebert H. Gary, oi the United States Steel Corporation
 Mr Gary, according to the story told by the young woman later, not only dropped the pamphlet without reading it but declined to bny a copy of "The EOfhce Worker" the unions magazine. She left him to his unambitious pow erty.
 Admitting that every banking insti- tuition had in its employ men who had stumbled into ruts and might be enticed by the pamphlets placed in their hands, bank officials pointed out that their employees were men of in telligence, conversant with current af- fairs and would be reluctant to sub init themselves to the leveling process of unionization and to forego their chances of advancement and privil- eges pertaining to their work
 The clerks were reminded in the recruiters pamphlet that bricklayers were getting $66 a week; carpenters, $55; stone masons, $66; building la borers, $45; newspaper competitors and photo-engravers, $55; bakers, $6o and cloak operators, $50 These wages, 1t was said, were due to the organization of the workers.
 With the aid of the union," it was said, you can have say in deter mining the conditions you work un- der. Through collective bargaining you can increase your salaries to the same standard that other organized workers receive and reduce your working hours"
 Each of the feminine recruiting of fcers wore yellow paper sash in- scribed, Office Workers, Join Your Union" At the noon hour several of them started to SOW the seed in front of Trinity church. The police broke up the effort there, dispersing the young women. The police averred they were littering the sidewalk and with noon service at the church.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
George [. Fox, With An Attack On Mayor, Makes
 Plea For His Election

based upon and confined to this
 note" Thus goes on MT. Fox.
 Mayor FitzGerald's sinister inuu-
 ence was used so successfully against MT. Fox and his tuition fee scheme that 1t never came to pass so no won der MT. Fox would have him re-
 moved so that by the tuition fee sys-
 tenn, pupils would perhaps be driven into his private school instead of into the high schools. 1-s. sk
 MT. Fox then harps back onto the rent proposition saying the amounts appropriated to the board of educa- 'tlon for junior high schools and teachers upkeep put a high levy on foreigners and do not understand and are not fitted to fathom the. tax prob lem" Simply another argument for the mayor and his colleagues for by the present system of education the children fthose foreigners are be- ing educated and able to pass the word along to their parents and if that isn't what the mayor and other city officials are for in this cosmo- politan town then the ordinary man hasn't chance at all.
 Fox continues his trade against the mayor and hangs it all on the board of education. The average worker in New Haven today wants his children to get educational ad- vantages he himself didn't enjoy. He's willing to pay for it and no pri- vate school teacher with an axe to grind against free tuition and text books is going to make him see any than to re-elect the man who is protecting his little ones in their schools.
 Anything MT. Fox is for in that line IS sufficient to make the worker be against and if he does his duty to his children nxt Tusday he will vote to continue Mayor FitzGerald in ! office if for no other reason than to 1 upset MT. Fox's private school plans. l
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03
Torrington Music
 Union Has Election

Torrington, Nov. g. Raymond F. Hop kins has been reelected president of the Torrington Musical association. The other officers elected were: vice-presi- dent, Arthur Futile; treasurer, Frank M Boldwin; secretary, William Reed ]; autitors, Thomas Hall and Earl T. Jar ris; registrar, Harry Hail and Charles F. Stickles; directors, Mrs. c. M. Key holds, Mrs. H. A. Hall, Mrs. William Reed, Mrs. Johni Calhoun, Miss Julia Carol, C. E. Bennett, J. G. Futile, L. P Morton, Waiter Ho1comb and E. Aust
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03

gram because they will not think the matter through and because they do not know what else to attempt Doesn't Oppose Name.
 am not opposed to state social ism or to any other kind of socialism, or even to any other kind of ism am opposed 10 moulding the life of our people under state direction and under constantly ss sT. .,s .szs,ss ss,ssss:uau- cracy. l am opposed to the thing, not to the name; and I am opposed to the thing because of its inherent 
 Henry Ford, in a burst of candor, stated his belief that history is bunk" MT. Ford is right about much that passes as history, but he is wrong about real history. Our people of to-
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03

There be unity within ranks unless fhe that have such For satisfaction result nothing of benefit natural that newly elect ed legislators should think all be cured but let hope will legislators that absence of be least helpful the laws Samuel President of the A F. of L. New York World. Within and suggested everything under the The troubles mining
 
 all be solved by actmen of laws,