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I coughed suggestively, and Friard came slipping in my direction again. "This is what I want. How much?" I inquired. How much?" "Fifty cents; it has never been worn." I drew out my wallet. I had arrived in town too late to go to the bank, and I was carrying an uncomfortably large sum in gold-bills. As I opened the wallet to extract a small bill, I saw the stranger eying me quietly.
The need of money was merely the natural expression of Mr. Stamps's nature. He had needed money when he was born, and had laid infant schemes to secure cents from his relatives and their neighbours before he was four years old. But he had never needed it as he did now. The claim for governmental restitution of the value of the daily increasing herds had become the centre of his being.
I've got two hundred dollars and seventy-five cents saved up in the county bank, and I've not got fifty cents in the house. I can't get the money out I'd be afraid to go there Monday. Oh, Lord!" He began to dress in wild haste.
Pete's face was lively and eloquent under his shock of dead-black hair dead black but for half a dozen gray or grayish strands, for Pete's eighty years have told upon him, even if he is not yet sufficiently gray at the temples to be a hero in a magazine costing over fifteen cents.
The overcoat he had pawned at Uncle Sam's, and he and Saxon had eaten drearily at a Japanese restaurant which in some miraculous way managed to set a semi-satisfying meal for ten cents. After eating, they started on their way to spend an additional five cents each on a moving picture show. At the Central Bank Building, two striking teamsters accosted Billy and took him away with them.
The pay was thirty pfennigs or six cents a day. We volunteered and were accepted without cavil. They thought our spirit gone and that we had accepted the inevitable. We reasoned that if we worked hard while we studied the lie of the land we might be asked for again, could go prepared, and make a break for it. And so it fell out.
What's to guarantee me, I says, ''s your rooster won't take it into his head to go a-promenadin' on the railway track? I says. He begin to tell 's how, even dead, the rooster was worth more 'n ten cents.
"Jasper, you are a true friend," said Frank, warmly; "but it wouldn't be right for me to accept your kind offer, though I shan't forget it. You have been a good friend to me." "And you to me, Frank. I'll look out for you. Perhaps I may hear of something for you." Small as Frank's income was, he had managed to live within it. It will be remembered that he had paid but fifty cents a week for a room.
Thomas Kidd, secretary of the Wood-Workers' International Union, was largely responsible for the agreement made with the manufacturers in 1897 for the establishment of a minimum wage of fifteen cents an hour for a ten-hour day, a considerable advance over the average wage paid up to that time.
Shall we come to the day when in spending the money which has been earned in business we shall say: "Such and such a per cent. to food; and such and such a per cent. to clothes; and such and such a per cent. to shelter; and such and such a per cent. to health and recreation; and such and such a per cent. to good works; and such and such other per cents. to various other purposes?"
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