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Arthur Stanwo. d Peer
Copyright Boughton Mifflin Company by epootal arrangement with Thos. Allen,
Toronto
CHAPTER V.--(Contel.)
Like mese of the other men, Jerry
• turned away in silence. Buy it was
-not the silence of stolidity or o
apathetic despair; anger was burning
hot within him, the anger of the op
pressed. The Purroy Works had al
ways made money for their owners
the avarice that prompted a. scaling
down of the working force and an in
crease of the working ]tours was in
human, That was the crude general
ization that presented itself after th
first moment in more concrete terra—
in
ermin a fanciful contrast of Benjamin
Desmond, a beneficiary, no doubt,
the new scheme, and of himself, a suf
fere? from it. There would be Des
mond, deriving from the increased
toil of Jerry's hands the price of a
case 'of ch
traded women, and distracted women
had visited her; the sight of them,
'she explained to Jerry, had made her
resolve not to go "lepping" into the
le
like sire was a wild creature. Now
that she knew ghat the worst was to
-;be, she wasn't afraid of it; of course,
twelve hours a day in an iron mill was
;' too much for flesh and blued to stand
for a whole lifetime, but for a short
`i, while now, till he did be getting hold
of a better job, it might be borne;
and if not, there was always the
e washing to fall back on. And as for
1, their home, well, i was themselves
of that mane it, themselves and a few
_1 things they prized—not the four galls
e house; if they had to move
away, they could take the spirit of
their home with them. It wasn't as
if they would be worse off, more un-
lucky, than anybody else; trouble
wouldn't seem nearly so bad when all
s their friends and acquaintances had
e to share it. She reinforced this
cheerful philosophy with an un-
usually good supper: "We may be
economizing soon on our victuals,
i, Jerry, but not to -night."
el So it was a hearty, well-fed, op-
timistic young man that sallied forth
, to the mass meeting. That proved
- less exciting than he had anticipated;,
there was no dissent from Dobbins's
grateruuy
received and publicly acknowledged
subscription to a charity, or a month'
rent of a pew in his aristocrati
church; and there would be Jerry
Donohue, deprived of all his youthful
pleasures, of the freedom to enjoy
life that he bad thought he woul
share with his bride, of the cheerfu
leisure that had always marked th
latter and best portion of each day—
nothing left him but to drudge, to eat
to sleep. Oh, that would he permit
ted him; he would not be one of those
to be dropped; that would be the fate:
of the old, half -broken men.
He came up abreast of one of these •
who was plodding with slow steps,
head sunk on his breast. It was Jim,
Dobbins, a friend of his father's, and
at the sight of his haggard face
Jerry's wrath was submerged in pity.
For more than a year Dobbins had
been in .failing health; his flushed
skin, drawn tight over his cheek-
nra
bones, was that of the consumptive; -_ ri'fyd u.. ..
his wife yeas wasting away with the
same disease. He had three children, LTSE VEGETABLI3S AND SAVE WHEAT.
i
proposal that a committee be appoint-
ed to confer with the management
and plead for a revocation of the new
order. The emnmittee wit inetrueted
to eontrast the efficiency of the em-
ployees of the Purroy 'Werke with
three shown in any other mills in the
eountry; to point out that this Ohm-
eney was due to the homagtneuue
character of the working force, com-
pesed as it was n/ men of straight
English or Irish descent, and not of
Crete., Lithuanians, and "Polei-ks"; to
declare that the imposition of greater
burdens upon a reduced force must
decrease the eft'imency of labor, and
that the over-working of employees
meant economic waste; and finally to'
convey the warning that if the order
was not withdrawn a general strike
of all employees would be called, Dob-
bins was appointed chairman of the
committee that was to present these
considerations to the management.
Then began the series of confer-
ences that were prolonged for ten
days unavailingly. The manage-
ment disputed the claims of the em-,
ployees, yet professed reluctance to'
adopt so severe a policy of retrench-'
meat; that, however, had been dietet-`
eel by the directors, Dobbins and his
committee sought an interview with'
-Benjamin Desmond, who was re-
cognized as the controlling forces in
the Purvey Company's affairs. Des
mond referred them back to the man -1
agement. The management depi .
cited the idea of a strike; all parties
would be sorry, very sorry, if any
such development took place. Not
because of the threat, but because the
management was sincerely desirous
of holding the good -will of its em-,
ployees it would endeavor to reopen
the question with the board of direc-'
tors.
Meanwhile, Roger Trask, without
the knowledge of the workmen, had
been pleading their cause. At the
the eldest a girl of fifteen.
"They've watered the stock, and
we've got to pay six per cent. on it,"
said Dobbins. "It's for you young
fellows, Jerry, to decide whether
you'll fight or submit. We old ones
are about done anytvay.. We're all
in the hands of bloodsuckers."
He turned aside into the open-
hearth mill where he worked.
In the rod mill, Tim Brophy of the
night shift, whom Jerry relieved, had
just heard the news. He was a few
years older than Jerry and had a wife
and two babies. His usually wel-
coming face was now scowling and
sullen; he hardly looked at Jerry, but
put on his coat, picked up his dinner
pail, and walked off silently.
All the morning Jerry plied his
tongs, caught and drew the. hissing,
white-hot, wriehing serpents of metal
out across the rolls. More mechanical-
ly than usual he was performing his
task; his mind was preoccupied with
his problems, What should he do?
Implanted in him by his father was
the sturdy principle that a man ought
to stick to his job—that to seek to
better one's self by change was to
gamble reeklessiy. And it wasn't as
if a choice were open to ]rim; the
twelvehour day ruled in all the other
iron nulls, and iron working v:as the
only thing he knew. He could learn
something else, but to do that would
take time and would mean a great re-
duction of income; it would mean the
indeileite postponement of marriage,
and the surrender of the house that
had so long been his mother's home.
He thought of all these things, and he
thought, too, of the effect that the
nets would be likely to have on his
mother and on Nora, and unaccus-
tomed lines of worry and care far-
rowed his young brow.
In the neon intermission, while he
was eating his luncheon, Dave Scan-
lan calve in from open-hearth 'mill
lumber two. "Going to have a mass
meeting in YetlI C.A. Ilall to -night,"
he said. "Bc on hand, Jerry; tell
every one to come."
Dave bustled ori:, a 'Miele important
emissary; his manner and his mes-
sage were encouraging. To Jerry
and, no chalice to many other young
men cheerfulness returned; the sound
of a mass meeting was hopeful; at
least it prorelsed excitement. So
Jerry deferred censideration of his
problems; hers chief concern during
the afternoon was the condition in
which he should find his mother. He
hastened home at five o'clock, appre-
hensive lest site had collapsed utter-
ly, yet not unprep?.ed to discover that
she had already dismantled the house
and was avraitinh him in a tearful
triumph of reeignetien.
To his greet relief she had com-
mitted neither of thee° excesses; in
® fact, she was sowing in her rocking -
chair and greeted him calmly, She
had heard all the news; she had gone
abbut the neihbcrhood, visiting die-
-r's
xi�nStti .. ti ,-,;
The patriotism of Madame House
wife is measured these days by th
kind of meals she prepares for he
family. The youngest child will tak
' what is put before him, provided th
food is well cooked. There is no
thing in the menu that lends itself t
more variety or constant use than d
vegetables. Twice a day vegetable
can be used in one form or another, if
they are judiciously handled by th
housewife.
Vegetables have different character
istics. For instance green vegetable
are valuable mainly because they con
tain substances which purify the blood
and assist digestion. Roots and tubers
are heat and energy -giving foods. Al
vegetables supply bulk and all contain
a considerable amount of water i
which are the salts so valuable to
health. We are still within the sea
son when we need the properties of
the routs and tubers. It will be
some time before the fresh vegetables
are on the market. Let us clean up
the one kind before we begin to use
the other.
The first and most immediate need
is to release wheat for overseas. Every
potato, carrot and onion that we eat is
helping towards that end. Don't ne-
glect to be in the vegetable -eating
ranks.
weekly drill he had heard from 'Jere
and /ram Dave e Scanl nn and othe
vrgurees stetements of their griev
alive -mud°, he well knew, with an
understanding of his relations wit
the men whom they held Reesman -le
for their plight, Trask did m
intimate to them that his sympathies
were enlisted with their cause, but the
next day he called upon Desmond at
his office and relieved himself of all
the arguments that he had heard and
that had appeared to him sound. Des-
mond, a dark, wiry little' man with
x: Foal Control Corner
h Enforcement of the Canada food
eBoard's regulations as to food con-
e; servation has been plaeed in the hands
of the pelice machinery of the ntunici-
palitios and of the different Provinces
,throughout the Dominion,
It is the duly and privilege of the
j provinces to enforce federal laws and
al the Orders of the Canada food Board
sharp nese and an aggressive unde
t'
jaw, shook his hero] decisively at in-
tervals during Trask's protest.
"You're dealing with intelligent
English-speaking workingmen," urg-
ed Trask, "That means, your mills
have an advantage over those that
employ largely foreign -barn, ignorant,
half -skilled men---"
"Americans don't work in the mills
nowadays; it's only the foreign -born
who think of doing that," said Des-
mond. "Americans prefer to be
plumbers, gasfitters, carpenters,
electricians, clerks, and labor agita-
tors. If Americans want to work
in the mills, they must accept the con-
ditions that the foreign -born impose."
"I think that these Americans will
not accept such conditions."
"In that event I have no doubt that
their places will soon be filled."
"To me it seems a short-sighted
policy --to refuse to American work-
men fair wages and reasonable hour
and fill their places with miserabl
aliens who have never known eith
fair wages or reasonable hours. It'
a horrible economic blunder. Yo
can't think that mon are mere sub
sidiaries of machinery. You mus
believe that machinery should be a
auxiliary to men."
"If a mill were an institution lilt
a hospital or an art museum, support
ed partly by private contributions
there might be something in what you
say. Pcl a geed deal rather m. -
see the men accept the conditions tha
are enforced on us and make the bes
of them. But so far as they them
selves are concerned --well, I don'
know that it wouldn't be better for
them to clear out—seek other oc
cupations, Improved machinery in
these mills has rendered a man's worl
less arduous and wearing than it used
to be—also less interesting. Men
can work longer hours—and dt isn't
nonv work for Amer•
.have the effect of federal law, being
passed upon authority of Orders is -
se el
s-sued by the Privy Council and publish.
ed in the Canada Gazette. It, there-
fore, becomes the duty of police of -
,'leers throughout the Dominion to
ncqua.dut bhomselves with those re-
gulations regarding our food supply
i and to see to it that they are obeyed.
At this stage of the world's food situa-
tion, when 4,750,000 people in Europe
!have starved to death as compared to
4,250,000 soldiers who have died as
1 the direct result of battle, it is beyond
j cavil or dispute that these food re-
gulations are absolutely necessary. In-
deed many people in communication
with friends in England or in France
think our Canadian regulations mild
in view of what people on the other
side are undergoing. Patriotism as
well as duty should inspire submission
s to these restrictions by the public and
e vigilant enforcement of them by the
err officers of the law.
In cases of convictions secured by
u the municipal police officers, it should
t be noted that where these convictions
n result in the imposition of fineg, the
money frum these fines is to be paid to
e the municipal treasuries, and similar-
- ly in the cases where Provincial of-
, ficers secure convictions. The Canada
Food Board has circularized these
t Orders in official form throughout the
t police machinery of the various prov-
inces, beginning tvith the Attorneys -
t General and continuing through the
lists of Crown Attorneys and Crown
-I Prosecutors. In some provinces the
Chief Constables have also received
t copies of the various Orders affecting
the public, As a result, throughout
I Canada of recent weeks, there has
been a crop of convictions, In all
cases the Magistrates have stood
firmly behind the regulations and im-
posed the penalties as provided. These
run from $100, to $1000 in fines or im-
prisonment up to three months or
both. Restaurant keepers, who have
served meat on prohibited drys and
hours, served sugar on the tables or
wasted food, have been brought to
task and the wide spread publicity this
has entailed will do a great deal more
to assure conservation of food in pub-
lic eating places than anything else.
The Anti -Loafing Law, also bearing
upon our war -time food production,
has likewise been enforced. Magis-
trates have seized the opportunity of
dealing with loafers, tramps and
"sports" by putting them to work on
the farms. "Non-essential" industries
have 'been interpreted by some Magis-
trates into more or less definite groups
ing a dull, stupid monotonous job day
n and day out, I dant want alt
American; I want a Slav or a Hun-
garian."
He was scarcely less frank in ex-
pressing his views when the com-
mittee of workingmen waited upon
him for the second time. Their
persistency and. their intimation that
punitive measures must follow if the
management adhered to its published
ntention annoyed him; he remarked
arcastically, "You men at the Purroy
Works seem to feel that you are the
aristocracy of labor."
From that interview the committee
returned discouraged and indignant.
At the mass meeting called to hear
their report Dobbins mounted the plat-
orm . IIe narrated the efforts that
had ended in the failure of all nego-
tiations; his recital of Desmond's
ynical speech provoked a wrathful,
narticnlate roar. Dobbins, haggard,
rd,
feverish-eyed, made an impati-
nt gesture imploring quiet.
(To be continued.)
might be used to advantage. There i
e, is nothing new or elaborate about
✓ them but so few people think of try-
e'ing them out.
e! Potato Bonder'.—Place a greased
mould on platter. Build around it a
o I wall of hot mashed potatoes, using
o nine potatoes, three and one-half
s; inches high by one inch deep. Smooth
and crease with case knife. Remove. r
e mould. Fill with creamed left -over s
meat or fish and reheat in oven be-
_ • fore serving.
al Escalloped Potatoes.—Wash, pare,
soak and cut four potatoes in one-
fourth inch slices. Put a layer in
• baking dish, sprinkle with salt and f
1' pepper dredge with cornmeal or flour
and dot over with one-half tablespoon
n of butter substitute. Repeat. Add c
trot milk until it may be seen through i
i top layer. Bake one and one-fourth e
One harried housewife moaned the
other day: "I never want to see an
onion again as long as I live, We are
sick of them."
"How many ways have you tried to
cook them?" she was asked. "Oh I
always fry them." No wonder she
was sick of them. Every vegetable
car be cooked in a satiety of•ways and
it is poor policy on ti e part of the
hcneewife to tire her lemily with re-
petition. She may use the same vege-
table nearly every day and by a fre-
quent change in the manner of cook-
ing or serving she may achieve con-
stant variety.
How many families have boiled po-
taboes day in and day uut? It is
safe to guess that only about five per
cent, of the women in Canada cook
potatoes habitually in more than two
ways. One of the simplest and easiest
of dishes to prepare is riced potatoes.
If the housewife is boiling them, any-
way, she might as well vary them by
putting them through a potato ricer
or coarse strainer. Then they will
be flaky, light and delicious. .
Here are some other recipes that
System as a Housekeeping Aid,
For many ,years before becoining a
farmer's wife, I was one of fifty
teachers in a large school whose head
teacher was a woman bT remarkable
executive ability. Methodical, order -
y, statistical, she demanded that each
xfa`rllAiilna�'i3w`Pj
t
teacher provide for her use and guld-
mew a general outline of work for
the term, a general program of work
for each week, and a detailed program
of the work for each day. These
daily schedules must be elastic to al-
low of seizing unforeseen opportun-
ities or for unexpected occurrences,
My first few weeks at houeekeeping
were a horrible tangle till S bethought
me to apply to my housework the same
method of preparing a program, so to
speak, of the proposed or necessary
activities of the day, and it has meant
untold comfort, pleasure, and ease in
the accomplishment of the day's dut-
ies. It requires thought, planning
and judgment to make things dovetail
to beat advantage and like the school
program, it must tatm sufficient elas-
ticity to admit of being altered more
(pounds fish (use moderate -priced vari- ,
ties such as cod, haddock or flat -fish),
, 9 potatoes, peeled and eut in small
i pieces, 1 onion, sliced, 2 cups carrots
cut in pieces, 3 cups milk, pepper, 1: e
tablespoon fat,. 111 tablespoons corn P
� ti 1 ra n
starch. Cook vegetables until tender.. t
,Add fat, mix cornstarch with one-
half cup of the cold milk and stir in
the liquid in the pot to thicken, Add
the rest of the milk and the fish
which has been removed from the
bone and cut in small piece.;. Cook un-
til the fish is tender, itheut 10 mi-
nutes, Serve hot.
hours or until potato is soft.
i Potatoes a la Hollandaise.—Wash,
'pare, soak and cut potatoes in one-
• fourth inch slices. Cut in cubes.
• Cover three cups potato with white
stock, cook until soft and drain. Cream
four tablespoons butter substitute,
add one tablespoon lemon juice, one-
half teaspoon salt and a few grains of
cayenne. Add the potatoes, cook
three minutes and add one-half table-
spoon finely chopped parsley.
Duchess Potatoes.—To two cups hot
riced potatoes, add two tablespoons
butter substitute, one-half teaspoons
salt and yolks of two eggs slightly /
beaten. Shape in form of cone or;
any desired shape. Brush over with;
beaten egg diluted with one teaspoon'/
Crater and brown in hot oven.
With the aid of vegetables it is quite
possible to have an entire dinner in
one dish—a dinner that is wholesome,
nutritious and very palatable. How'
many people are familiar with fish
chowder? Here is the recipe; it is'
enough for a family of five: 1r/ i
Pull Your Weight.
The billows are heaving behind,
The breakers are foaming before;
We need all the strength we eau
find—
Each ounce you can put to the oar.
Are you doing the best that you can
To keep the old galley afloat?
Are you power or freight?
Are you pulling your weight—
Are you pulling ,your weight in
boat?
t isn't the task of the few—
The pick of the brave and
strong;
is he and it's I and it's you.
Must drive the good vessel along.
1Vili you save? Will you -work? Will
you fight?
Are you ready to take off your coat?
Are you serving the State?
Are you pulling your weight—
Are you pulling your weight in the
boat?
To Prevent Fading.
The delicate shades of colored lie-
ns can be kept from finding by using
lenty of pulverized borax in the we-
er in which they are washed and
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the
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or less as tic -melon demancle. An in-
terruption, a fire slower than we had
expected, a telephone visit may diger-
range our well laid plans, but some
way, if the have it written clown in tab-
ulated form it is a little reefer than if
we are anxiously thinking, "what was
it I was planning to do next?" or to
have to say, "Dear me, I intended to
do so and so but I forgot."
I find a school slate hung on the wall
with pencil hung Beside it the easiest
place on which to jot my daily pro-
gram. Of course, the general plan of
routinecluties changes little from day
today, but I have found it well to have
it 'put down in writing," especially
for the guidance of hired help some-
what as follows: After breakfast: 1,
clear table; 2, put sitting -room in
0 ,1
dishes, b, prepare vegetables, etc.
The daily program, must be more
ageeific, indicating what must be done
while something else is doing, for it is
this fitting of duties 'into their proper
niched which lightens and ehortens la-
bor and makes the difference between
insed. —
Use a brash dipped in whiting to
hine up your bookcase doors, min-
ors and cut glass. Polish with news -
aper.
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able, The place is full of vermin and
rats and filthy dirty. I don't think
we had four good nights' sleep out
of twenty-four I was there,
"'We have eaten very little of Ger-
man camp food since 1915..We have
always relied on our parcels, I have
often had a bit of bread and dripping
for all three meals rather than touch
that horrible soup. Oh, the soup!
I actually saw a dead dog being taken
into the kitchen to be put in the
prisoners' soup, That's absolutely
true,
"Whilst I was at Acchen I saw
thousands of their wounded coming in
from Armentieres, and they did
look wrecks. German wounded would
ask us for soup. That's the state of
affairs, and yet they try to 'kid' the
people they are winning. What a
Impel In some of their big cities 'I
have been asked by their women and
children for bread. Just imagine
civilians in England asking German
prisoners for bread.
Tilted to Escape.
"I made several attempts to get
out of the country and was either
caught or the weather was too bad.
In July, 1915, I got away from a
Otommando' near Wiesbaden, and
made for Switzerland, but only had a
map torn out of a notebook and
watch chain compass. I was only a
few clays out when a forester caught
me with my boots off. IIe lead a ra-
ther nasty -looking rifle, so I did not
carry on any farther,
"In December, 1910, a chap from
the 7th Battalion and myself got out
of the camp at Giesen and made for
the Holland frontier by efunster. We
had to go through Westphalia, one of
the most mountainous parts of Ger-
many, and, after wandering about
for nine days in snow up to our
waists, we had to give 'ourselves up.
The snow was so deep that we could
not keep to the roads and kept wan-
dering into fields and falling into
streams. We used to travel by night
and sleep in the woods by day.
Ran From Farm.
"In March, 1917, we volunteered for
work, and were sent to a farm at
Prath, a little south of Coblenz. The
people there were very decent to us,,
but we only stayed two clays, and
then beat it out of the window dur-
ing the night. We made a bit of noise
and wakened the people; and all the
dogs in the village were after us be-
fore we had gone a hundred yards,
We got away all right, crossed the
Rhine in a boat that night, crossed
the Moselle two days later by the
Public ferry, and after a pretty hard
trip made the frontier at Aachen. We
got lost on the last lap, and walked
right into the frontier guard.
Saw Dutch Guards.
"The next morning wl5m we were
brought out of the guard -room wa
could see the Dutch sentries, who
waved their ]rands to us. Say, it
nearly broke my heart to see that.
We did three weeks in jail and were
sent to Meschede, where we started
digging a tunnel out of the camp.
After working at that for six weeks,
we hadit completed ust coin u
j p , one of or
own men and a senior sergeant at
that, gave us away to the Germane,
Well, we were 'jugged' again and sent
to Soltau command, and now I am
here."
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Tricks of Animal Humbugs.
In military stables horses are
known to have pretended to be lan:q ,
in order to avoid going to a military
exercise. A chimpanzee had been feel
on cake when sick. After his recov-
ery he often feigned coughing in or-
der to procure dainties.
The cuckoo, as is well known, lays
its eggs in another bird's nest, and,
to make the deception surer, it takes
away one of the other bird's egge.
Animals are conscious of their deceit,
as ie shown by the fact that they try
to act secretly and noiselessly; they
show a sense of guilt if detected; they ,
take precautions in advance to avoid
discovery; in some cases they mani-
fest regret and repentance. Thus,
bees which steal hesitate often be-
fore and after their exploits, as if
they feared punishment.
A naturalist described how his mon-
koy committed theft, While he pre-
tended to sleep the animal regarded
him with hesitation, and stopped .
every time his master moved or seem-
ed on the point of awakening.
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Since 1018 the number of horses in
Prance has declined by IIe per cent,
cattle by 1:0 per cent,, sheop by 95
per cent., and pigs by 41 per cent,
The best potato can be spoiled by a
poor cook. Legend has it that ti
famous Meg in history tested each
cook before hiring hint by asking hira
to boil a potato,