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Maple Sugar ,Dishes.
Maple Syrup Custards,—Mix thor-
oughly four well -beaten eggs, a pinch
tof salt, three cupfuls 0 sweet milk
and dne cupful of maple syrup. Pour
7 it into buttered individual moulds and
set them in hot water. Bake the mix
•
ture slowly until it is firm. Chill
them, turn the orustard out of the
moulds and serve it. ••
Hot Maple Nougat. —toil together
. two cupfuls of maple syrup and one
, teaspoonful O butter until they reach
- the soft -ball stage -288 degrees, Add
one-hulf cupful of chopped pecan nuts
, and stir the whole wall. Use it as a
sauce fur ice cream. When the hot
syrup comein contact with the cold
• cream, it for a delicious caramel.
• Maple Parfait. --Sweeten cream with
maple syrup and whip it until it i$
•- very thick. Pour the cream into a
• mould that has beea sprinkled with
nut inee.ts chopped fine. Cover the
• top of the mould with wrapping paper,
and press the lid down securely and tie
It \vith a shiut cord. Bury the mould
in crushed ice and salt and leave it
for our hours.
Maple Whip.—Mix and bring ta the
boiling point one4m.1f cupful cf white
" sugar, the yolks of two eggs, orie cup-
ful of maple sugar and two cupfuls of
cold water, Add a pinch of salt and
two tablespconfuls or cornstarch ills -
solved in a little cold water. Cook
the 'whole until it is thick and remove
it from the fire. When it is cold, ade
• the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs.
Serve it with creatni and sugar.
Maple Nut Fudge,—Boil two cupfuls
of maple sugar and one cupful of milk
until a bit from the mass will form a
soft ball in cold water. Add one
tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoon-
ful or vanilla extract, and ene-half
leinind of EnglisIx walnuts chopped
very flue. Remove the mixture from
the flre and beat it mitt' it is thick;
F-
than add the beaten white of one egg
and beet the whole until it is very stilt.
Pour it into buttered tins. When it
Is cold mark it into squares.
Maple Dellght.—Beat the yolks of
four eggs until they are light, Add
gTadually three-qua.rters of &Mtn'
of maple syrup, then one pint of Mk*,
sweet cream: Cook the whole it a
double boiler until It is thick enough
to eat with a spoon, Repove it from
the /Ire and beat it with an egg whip
until it is light. When it is cold, whip
in the w011 eaten whites of four eggs
been added one-half cup-
, fel of grated--..meple sugar, Pack it in
ifee and salt and leave ftfor four hour
Maple Mousse.—To oili-r•ca.pful
maple syrup add the well -beaten yolks
of four eggs. Cook the liquid in a
double boiler, stirring it constantly, for
fifteen minutes. Remove it from the
fire and beat it until it is quite cold,
Stir in two table.spoonfule of ilnely
chopped candied ginger, then add one
pint of cream, whipped. Pour the
mass into a mould, cover it with Pap-
er, and put the ltd of the mould in
p/ace, making sure that it is very tight.
Pack the whoie in ice and add salt and
leave it for four hours.
Maple Butteracotch Ple.—Beat to- I
getter one ouptel of sweet milk, one
egg, one heaping tablespoonful of flour
and a •pinch ef salt. Melt threemuare
ere oe a eupful of butter with one Cup-
ful of grated maple sugar. Combine
the two mixtures and cook the whole
in a double boiler untii it is thick,
Whe.a. it Is cool, peer It iato a baked
• Pastry shell and eover it with a zner- t
. limes made of the stiff.), beaten white
of one egg to whim( has been added 1
oar: tablespoonful of maple syrup
•,Brown it in the oven and serve it cold. 11
• Maple Tapioea.—Soak font. heaping
tallies mitt I I; our s
, home it. Suilicitnt cold water to cover v
it well. Drain off all the water that t
( remains add one quart of sweet milk
and ,a wince of ealt, and cook the b
ivlicile until the tapioca. is clear. Then s
add the yonce of four eggs beaten with t
one cupful of grated maple sugar COok
It until it is thick. 'Add oae tectsPoola it
ful of vanilla and pour the mixture s
'into a baking pan. Cover it with a u
meringue made from the whites of the
eggs and two tableepoonfule of maple
sugar, Brown it and serve It cold
with plain eream.
•
Miscellaneous Recipes.
A savory dumpling may be made
as !allows: Take a quarter of a
pound of suet and half a pound of
flour, a teaspoonful of salt and
enough cold wider to mix, into which
stir three finely sliaved onions. Aleld
with the hands into a ball and tie
up in a floured, elotb, room being al-
lowed for its swelling, and boil three
hours. When done, turn out, cut in
slices and cover with a brown sauce
made from plain drawn butter, to
which a cup of gravy a.nd a dish of
table sauce has been added.
• One way to cook beef tongue so as
to make it palatable, cover a tongue
with cold water and add a sliced onion
and two cloves. Simmer until ten-
der, drain and take off the skin. Pour
a oupful of retrained tomato juice and
two cupfuls ot meat stock into a ces-
serole, and put the tongue in. Cover,
and cook 'slowly in the oven tor about
half an hour, Serve 'with spinach,
which has beet\ boiled, chopped, sea-
soned with salt and pepper and melted
butter, and garnish with egg. Thicken
the gravy M which the apinaoh was
cooked in the caserote, and serve as
'a, graver.
This recipe for gingerbread is said
to be very good: Stir together one
large cupful of molaases, half a oup•
ful of butter and lard, dripping, or
any good commercial shortening, ozie
egg, half a cupful of milk, one level
teaspoonful of baktug-soda, half a
teaspoonful ot salt, one teaspoonful
of ginger, half a teaspoonful of cin-
namon, and three cupfuls of flour.
This le a geed way to use the left
overs of fried or cold boiled ham.
Run one cup of cold ham through the
grinder and add to it ono eaP of cream
sauce made by melting one tablespoon-
ful of butter and stirring into it one
tablespoonful of flour until thick. Add
to the ham and 'cream sance three
hard-boiled eggs, -which have been
chopped flne, and one-half a eup of
breadcrumbs. Put in a buttered dish
and bake until brown.
This is a good white cake recipe ;
Whites of four eggs, me-lialf oup but.
ter, one cup sugar, two cups pastry or
cake flour, two round teaspoons bak-
ing powder, one-half cup water with
Juice of onetalf lemon in one cup
atm Cream butter and sugar, then
aa Atter and flour alternately (hav-
ing sifted the -bailie powder In flour);
lastly fold in the Whites. and flavor as
desired. Bake in a slow ovelleand ice
with white icing.
- Useful Hints.
It Is Wr011g to Oook the vegetables
in an iron kettle.
Practice alone gives the confidence
and experience necessary to turn out
good pastry.
To clean lamp burners wash them
e wood ashes and water and they will
come out Mean and bright.
Wine the kitchen. oilcloth with Odin-
med milk, This treatment is almost
as beneficial to the cloth as a coat ef
vernish.
To clean bamboo funature use a
Welsh dipped in warm water and salt.
The salt prevents the bamboo from
urning color.
To make an eiceellent dressing for
Mole= take equal parM of linseed
ioroughly together, negai an mix them! fa
If you eub a little butter under the' °
Pout ot the cream pitcher it will pre-
ent a drop of cream running down
he side of the pitcher.
Coffee and tea stains, if rubbed with
utter and afterwards washed in bet
eap-suds, will come out, leaving the
able linen quite fresh and \Oita,
Ruh cornstarch on a grease SPOt Rad
will absorb tee grease. Rub off in
Wo hours. If not all gene repeat um
11 the spot is cleared of grease.
A Tenderfoot's Wooing
By CLIVE PHIL,LIPP8 WOLLEY
(Author of "Gold, Gold In Cariboo," .Etc.),
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CHAPTER X1.—(Contal).
.."In the bar of the Ideal. Or, no
stay! You won't get the doctor there
to -day neither. Ile's away up to Snow
Gulch."
Snow Gulch was fifteen miles out -
'Side Soda Creek, and Jim fretted at
this new delay.
"What is he doing up there?"
'Guese he's gone as one of a re-
ception committee to old man Hayes'
place. The old man's gob a raise."
I thought he always -was unne man'
ager. he owner now? Got the
mine for his wages?" -
"No, thaught that wouldn't make
him a bloated millionaire, by all ace
counts. The old man raised lihnself
gsoiarrtto,,f informal, with a stick of
"Blown himself up? Is he much
hurt?"
"Don't complain any, and I don't
know as he ought to. He's only blow
-
ed the roof off his hesid, and that was
never any good to him, even for car-
rying his liquor.'
"Do you mean to say he's dead?"
'Dead as mutton."
"Then why as the doctor gone out?"
"Give that chunk of ice a boost
with the pole will you? Thdt's
as the great cake slid down the side
of the boat with a dull rasping sound.
"Well, I don't know, I'm sure, why the
doe's gone, 'cept that Sody is slower
just now than a funeral. It's nothing
here now but bug juice all day, and
more bug juice all night, with inter-
ludes for crib.? Not as a man really,
tires of bug juice, but it's monobonous
even the way as the doe fixes it." I
"How does the doctor fix it?" asked
Jim, humoring Idm•
"Wall, the doe, he's got a sort of
lay helper, what the gospel sharks
back east mill- a dealdn, and they've
arranged to snake what the' doe calls'
a concession to the conveniences, They
does it this way—doe he takes morn-;
ing watch and the bottle, dealtin, he
takes the patients. Then doe and the'
deakin take dog watch together,. both '
drunk for a spell. Then doe comes
in for night watch, and in general
manages to sober up before any of
the boys get around. Drunk or sob-
er, he's better nor the lay helper, se
guess year friend had better hit Mtn
a lick in the night watch."
"Cheerful for an invalid," comment-
ed Jim, as the ferry touched the bank.
"Ole it's all right. This country
ain't meant for cripples. I'll come
itlong," and the philosopher who had
really hit the nail on the head, tied
up his boat, and loafed after .Titn for
his morning eye-opener.
The town (alone among its peers it
never aspired to be a city), had onee
in the good old days of the Caribou
excitement, been a place of some im-
portance. Its grass -grown streets
worn bare by many feet, but since then
it had fallen a prey to stagnation. p
The houses were mean and far
.apart,,and except for stray; dogs, tind t
one or two melancholy looking horses Is
tied to a rail, there was no outward et
visible sign of life. t
As the horses were tied in front of f
the Ideal, Jim followed the ferryman's 1
edvice, and made his way into that r
high-sounding hostelry, a wooden
building apparently of two stories,
though its appearance wad as decep-
tive as its name. Closer inspection
revealed the fact that its top story was
O "bluff," being only a board exten-
sion of the front with nothing but the
free air behind it.
But if the outside of the Ideal was
dull and gloomy, iuside the gloom was
intensified. A. more sordid interior
than tlint of this saloon no man ever
saw. A giveat stove which made a red
glow in the middle of the bar room,
and raised the temperature to 00010 -
thing nearly tropical', was the only
apaarent apology for any man's com-
ing inside.
The floor, whieh had not been swepb
for weeks, was a chaos of dead eikar
ends, and a table at which three men
sat thumping down their aces in a
game of Steamer whist, was foul with
kerosene oil, whilst the small win-
dows wore blinds to keep °tit any ray
of sunlight, which might he deluded .
alto entering the place.
A drowsy bar tender leaned on his
elbow across the bar, Watching the
game lietlessly, spitting and encour-
ging the players by turns, and in
rent of the stove a middle-aged man
1 immense brawn, sat hunched up,
looking wearily into the glow. •las
,Tim, who knew the man's story, I ra
wondered what he saw in the fire. A hi
few years ago the loafer had been a th
steady and prosperous rancher in a se
• small way, but his wife had (lied do
child birth, and since than the Ideal
had been his borne. „ • I im
Unless he Heed only in his work the , th
Ideal would have to be Jim ((maim's gr
home in the future. For lone 'men ,
with nothing to look forward to there wi
are only two alternatives in the West,' did
work or drink, and Jim knew it. With th
a shudder he pulled himself together , to
and turned to the bartender, who had tha
begun mechanically to polish up cer- in
bain solid little tumblere at.the advent the
of a newcomer, whilst the whisa play- lee
ers moved restlesely in their theirs, • the
ready to "line up" to the him at the I
first eound of those magic words, ' AB
"What shall it he, gentl ern en ?" Bub awl
Jim did not titter them, and the hope cov
died out in their face. Instead, he elu
asked civilly where the doctor was. 1
"Gene to a buryine" the bar man re- ing
plied. "Ib's all deadheads to -day," he At
added with a sneer, which invited the wot
proval of the disappointed whist
p ers. •
lay
bee
Waft
the
Benne," broke in one of the plaYeee
iiiciiaprirotysingly. "There's no call for a
demean himself if he doet live
in Body Crilt. Old man Hayes was a
'decewill; took his glass reeler, an' paid
nt citizen, fix it which way you
. for it whee he had any dust, and if
he owes you a blanked mire say so,
ad I'll foot the bill," and ,the speak-
er, who looked anathing but opulent,
eyed the bar tender fiercely, and pull-
ed out a greasy deer-ekit seek.
"No Jake the old man didn't owe
,
me nothine 1.ditinit say as he did."
"An' you heidn'a better) you slab-
sidecl cross .betWeen a gialoot and a
buck nigger. i say ae old man Hayes
has a right to all ehe trills he hat
mind to (when it oleos to buryin', and
I'd like to heat' from the gett •ai
thinks contrary."
o pabeh up the breech, ,Tim stood
drinks. It is the only civility yott ektt
show to your neighbor in some plane,
and then foe went a/ anything elee to
do, rathee than intim hope of hurrying
a funeral procession, Jim borrowed
Jake's cayuse, and rode out to meet
the burying party. ;
' *CHAPTER XII. •
On a steep bluff, 'through the heavy
brush of which a name, trail had
been 'roughly cut, Jim found a party
of about a dozen men, half ot whom
wore black coats. They 'were altnett
the only black coats. in Caribou, end
had been collected with infinite trou-
ble to give tone to the preoeedings.
There was also one top tat. That be-
longed to the doctor, and eves worn by
him. The bottle, too large for a medi-
eine bottle, whith paotruded.from his
coat poelcet, belonged to the party.
When Jim first mighted them, the
proper spirit of their occupation pos-
Booed them. Two and two they paced
behind a sorry nag, at whose head
paced the doctor end another. All
had their hats off, and theh- coats on,
and no one spoke.
Upon the horse's back was all that
remained of old man Hayee, a white
handkerchief bound reeerenbly over
his face, and his body .deeently dis-
posed in a blanket.
Te a corner of this, unfortunately,
was caught one of those sharp -ended
boughs which B.0, people call a ram -
peke. Gently and without a %wird the
doctor wrestled with the impediment,
and the horse „stood still whilst he did
so.
At the next step a small bough
caught the handkerchief and lifted it
off the face. It was recovered and re-
placed without a word. As soon cie
tide had been done the horse stumbled
over an unseen log, and its pack
moved tip a foot nearer to its neck,
The doctor's companion caught the
beast by the head al jerked at its
, as a halt to it to take more car
rid at the same _moment another ram
ike caught in the blanket. This the
the horse could riot stand still, ne
her would the rempike loose its hold.
or nearly thirty seconds the two at
he horse's head did their best bo undo
he tangle, then the horse plunged
orwarti, the blanket tore, some of the
aehings gave, and old man Hayes
oiled oat with a thump, brandishieg
one stiffened limb in ghastly fashion
as he fell.
The doctor's mate swore, and his
fluency .inade up for hie former
silence.
"This is a positive scandal, boys.
It's irreverent to the dead," Jim heard
the doctor eay.
' "It's blanked poor packing, that's
what it is," retorted one Of them.
"Ed. don't know enough to tie a gran-
ny knot let alone the diamond hitch."
"You tie it better yourself, you web-
footed blue nose."
"That's dead easy, and III ble your
blamed neck in a knot when Ian
through with it," said the other an-
grily, taking off his coat to work and
swear more easily. But he did not
find it "dead easy."
"Cinch the beggar good and bight,"
suggested one. "Corpses ain't got
no feelin's," and putting his foot
against th • eiorse he threw his weight'
into the rope
"Hold on, Mo; you'll break him all
"Not much. He's stiff enough.
There, gib up now," and be gave the
horse slap on its quarter,
Frightened by its miehap, or more
conscious of the dead nature of its
burden than its masters th
"Hush!" sale one. "What are you'
giving els? That ain't no way to talk
before corpses." e
•"Corpse or no corpse," said a hold-
er spirit, "it's a long time between
debate, and this burying is a mighty
dry entertainment. Doe! Let's have
a look at that bottle." s
The 'doctor produced the medicine,'
which Was labelled Scoet and Mae
-
key's Special, and in turn each of the
mutes drank to their old companion.
"Guess he'll travel mdre eoelable
now',' Mid Al, wipieg his meuth With
his coat sleeve. "But tee'll have to
pack him ourselvee. 00t) it? take me
our frills for that business," and with
a sigh of relief ever?, man took off
his coat, and tied it in a pack. on hie
back.
(To be continued.)
Pirate Who Single -Handed Captured
• British Ship.
, Ernest Schiller, the German "pirate"
who single-handed captured the Brit-
ish steatnship "IVIatapo," has been
brought bo New York, the authorities
fearing his being reseued. Schiller
now admits his name is Clarence Hud-
son, his father being English, his
mother German; he being born in
Petrograd. With four other men he
plotted to board an English steamer
and capture treaciure on board, but
having taken too much intoxicating
liquor, he boarded the IVIatatio and
held Up the captain and crew when the
vessel was well out at sem He was
so clisgested with the meagre loot on
board that when off the Delaware
eoasb he ordered the captain to put
him ashore; whe.re upon landing he
was disarmed and arrested. Schiller's
or Hudson's only fear is that he be
turned over to the British authorities
who he is convinced would hang him
from a geed arm for piracy on the
high seas.
A "ROYAL RELIEF FUND."
Mrs. C. Vanderbilt Raising Gift for
Queen, Czarina and President.
With a plan of war relief that is
unique even in these clays, Mrs. Cor-
e Belisle Vanderbilt has been going
' among her friends in New Yorlc and
; Philadelphia inviting them to contri-
bube toward what might be called a
royal relief fund."
Mrs. Vanderbilt is endeavoring to
collect $800,000, which she intends
to present—in gold, in equel shares
—to Queen Malw of England, the
Czarina of Russia and Presictott Poin-
care of France, those rulers to be at
liberty to devote the money to what-
ever purpose they choose.
Contributions of $10,000—no more,
no less—are being asked for.
Only those of unquestioned eocial
position—and, naturally, of ample
means—have been asked by the pro-
moter of the plan to subscribe. It is
undersbood that the fund has reached
$140,000, Mrs. Vanderbilt and ' her
husband started the fund with $10,-
000 each.
The rulers are to receive their re-
spective else hundred thousands in
gold coin. The coin, it is said, will
be sent to them in gold bags.
Most striking of all bhe elements of
Mrs. Vanderbilt's project is a "Book
of Gold" idea. It is her purpose to
have three volumes made of the pre -1
cious metal, in which shall be ha
scribed the names of the contributors
Mitt is full
rstood there are to be
smaller "Books of Gold" of the size
of a card case. In these there will
be the autograph of the Qtmen or
Czarina or the French Plasident.
Some of the contributors, it is said,
have been cherishing the hope that
possibly a decoration of some :met
might be sent along with the auto- I
graph of the sovereign-
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rse eoltecl, gallopiel through the
lige of timber, and on to the open
ilside, where Jim was standing, and
ere with two or three vicious bucks
nt the body of Me. Reyes rolling
wn the slope.
Thie denouement evoked a volley of
(precations from the mutes, but even
at had no apparent effect upon the
avity of the late Mr. Hayes.
Never in his life had he proceeded
th more delibeeate dignity than he
then in.his death, The leech of
e hillside was only just steep enough
induce a bale of geode to roll, so
t the swathed body went down it
slow One, with grave pauses, whilst(
limbs of it, which had broken
se, swung in solemn moekery as
body rolled over,
n spite of pauses, it would not stop.
soon as 011.0 moved to catch it, it
mg its arms and started again re-
aring its momentum suffidently to
de its woeld-be captors,
t was as if the dead men was play-.
a grim game with his old cronies,
last it reached the road, which
id round the base of the hill,
Well, VM blanked, If that don't
t eveeything. The old man aiways
• pipmheaeed, but who'd have
ugt/t he'd hey° kicked like that at
teg packed, and he' e a commie
iefit be *Mks lie mu; telm Care
„Plf n9lY (elPe atl he Mug did,
e oseitf OA ,trAl nutpi a llight
'r.)hp llapinq Li/1i' more tense than
keial7/
e fi, Uswpf of hile bedy brought
e f the old feelieg of awe.
"Will he be back aeon?" -
"It all depends Mister, on how tlea
corpse travels. Corpses ain't gay on
' the hoof, es yea may have heard, a
its all of fifteen miles to allow GisItIl, 9
Donal see why they couldn't have lett
the old man where he was. , One Ii149
is as geed, ac anothee to be planted An,
to my mind." _• ;
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BEFUSE SUBSTITUTES,
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WAR BREEDS MANY LEGENDS...
Two Examples in the Present Conflict
are Cited.
Wars are fruitful breederoe le-
gends, and alWays have been, or
is the present vete any exception, to
the rule, says London Arnewere.
Everybody, to cite but two in.
stancee, will i3e able to recall the stoll
of the on angels, and that other one
About the Basilian soldiers who Mae
through England from 4xel:141101e
" Poseibler these yarns, and other
similar ones, will be incorporateftk
the history books of the future, Wt le
O fact that stories ,equally without
foundation are taught in our schools
to -day.
Take, for example, the one about
the Black Hole of Calcutta. Every
sehoolboy and nearly every grown
up person is familiar with the details
of tisat ghastly story, It Telabes how
the Nabob Suraja Dowleth shut up 146
Britons, captured by him in Calcutta
Fort, in a small, unv-entilabed dungeon
and how, after a night of agony from
heat, thirst, and lack of air, only
twenty-three were found alive next
morning.
For more than 150 years the story
has been implieitily believed. Yet now
along comes Mr. Little, and proeek
In his "Bengal, Past and Present,"
pot only that it is not true, but that
it could nob possibly be true.
Nine persons only were, it appears
from contemporary records, confined
In the "black -hole," which was really
the common prison, and none of these
suffered any very great inconveni-
ence. The remainder of the garrison
numbering some 120, were either kill-
ed or wounded in the fighting, and the
latter were treated by their conquer-
ors with every consideration.
Similarly, Wellington never said,
"1/p Guards, and at 'ern!" at Water-
loo, nor did 331ucher exclaim, on first
seeing London, "What( a place to
sack!" While the phrase, "Providence.
favors the big battalions," which is
usually attributed to Napoleon, is
found in the writings of Cicero.
There rimier was a person named
William Tell, and coneequently he
never shot an apple from his son's
head at the bidding of the Austrian
tyrant, Gessler.
At Waterloo, the commander of
Napoleon's Old Guard is said to have
replied to the challenge of surrender
pompously; "The Old Guard dies, but
it does not surrender!" In the French
army, however, itt is a tradition that
his answer consisted of but one word,
not at all fitted for ears polite.
Similarly, the Girondins had no last
supper together. Columbus could not
have foretold an eclipse of the moon
ht order bo frighten the natives of
Jamaica into submission, as has been
asserted, for the simple reason that
75,000 WORKERS
AT ARMSTRONG'
EIGHT THOUSAND OF THEM ARE
WOMEN.
---e
Production of One Plant Indicateifi
Activity of British Munition
• Factoriee.
Anyone who goes through the vast
armament works—which are nowe
eituated in/Imre than one part of Eng -.1
land—of Messrs. Armstrong, White
worth & Company must be sbruck byl
the general steadiness of the e0,0001
or 80,000 men and women at work.'
There is no slackness in any branch
or in any shop, and in some depart-
ments the work is strenuous in the emi
treme. The effort of this firm is a
fine example of the quicicening of the;
production brought about by the war
and the adaptability of a great en-
gineering establishment to war condi.,
tions.
Formerly, while an enotmous busi-!
ness in armaments was done by the
firm, bhey were also engaged in gen-
eral engineering work. On the out-
break of war their worksheas were
immediately transformed; bridge -
making machinery was scrapped for
gun -making plant, motor car works
gave way to gauge factories, old
workshops were enlarged and new
ones built, new machinery of the lat-'
est type'in many cases automatic,'
was installed, and a general speeda
ing-up process adopted. Foreign war,
work ltd to be side-tracked in favor,
of British requirements.
By a aartunate coincidence Arm.,
strongs were putting down new:
equipment and making arrangements'
for increased output just before the,
war began.. Their new shipbuilding;
yard, which cost over a million, was,
just ready. This company was there-
fore able to produce munitions on. an
increased scale before other private
firms Ib was not long before the -
whole establishment was thoroughly'
reorganized atd equipped ready to
cope with large scale production. The(
reeult is that the output of certain
articles of war equipment has been
increased by two or three hundred
per cent.
Dilution of Labor.
There has been no trouble at Arm-
strong's on the question of the diluw
tion of labor. The scheme put before
the workers by the members of the
special commission appointed by the
Government to deal with this question,
Sir George Croydon Marks, the Rt.
Hon. George N. Barnes, and Mr. D. j.
the moon was not in eclipse during the Shackleton, wits accepted with general
time the famous explorer was on that unanimity as an emergency measure;
island,
I The employers agreed to Me condi-
loos associated with the dilution.
that no workman was to be prejudiced
- by the spurt that he might make or
MAKING UP AFTER THE WAR. -
the greater energy that he might show
in this time of national stress to in -
Deadly Conflicts Closed in Feasting crease the output beyond that which
and Merrymakfng, could be expected from an ordinary
an working for like operations. As
r Croydon Marks told the men, the
oney to be paid is a secondary cons
iteration, it being a ease of outpub
d speed rather than economy and
oney saving—rather life saving than
oney saving. He explained that:
"It followed that any man who was
ansferred, or any woman who was
ansferred, to take the place of an -
100 person having higher wages
an the one who was about to take
e place of the more skilled opera -
e must be paid for the saine put-
t the same wages, otherwise there
uld he benefit to the employer by
ploying cheaper labor."
So far as Armstrongs are con-
ned, dilution is proceeding with -
t ion, anc it s opecl that the
ieulty in getting more labor, should
msiyasaurders iecimase, may thus be
Women Workers.
.Tust how the present war win end ene
nobody knows, but it is unlikely that m
it will finish in a feast of friendship m
/ between the belligerents. Si
I Yet this—nothing less—has mark- an
Ied the conclusion of many a con08flict;
tin days gene by. The first Baez In
/ war, for instance, was closed by a
banquet at which General Cronie--the ti
seine who surrendered at Paardeberg 're
twenty 3'60.8'5 later—entertained the I"'
British 01111010-5 and ofilelals In fine
style, the quantity of champagne con-
sumth
ed being, in the words of otte who I
Was there "truly surprising" Po
Tbe American Civil War ended und- Ie°
er an apple tree In a garden at Apern
- -
Detente; a village in the State of VIM -
glide, Lee, rerrandered his sword to occur
Grant. it Was at once retureed to cliff
him, and the two men pledged each
ar
other in a flagon of cider, the only av
drink available, after whieh they and
their staffs breakfaated amicable to-
gether ou bacon and beans, and "flap- T
jacks sweetened with maple anger." we
On the eve 0 the last day of the el
wranemGerman War of 187071 1313. wo
muesli gave a supper to celebrate ed.
the event, at winch, besides the mem- oe
bers of the German Headquarter Staff, the
there were present several French of- car
(leers. In deference to his guests, the mei
elerraan• Chancellor had arranged that to
the last shot in the war should be fired chi
by the Fret) eh •
A dinner given by General Nogi and exa
his officers to the Russian Headquart be
et- Staff celebrated the conelusion of mu
the Reese -Japanese War of 1905. 13ut gau
as -hits akeady been said, it is ininos- all-
sible that any dinner civilities will alm
gau
Art
era
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test
and
pert
is a
ear]
wee
este
000
here are 8,000 women engaged at
mstrongs' shell factory, and sever -
hundred at the geeeral engineeesing
rks; women of all ages are employ -
They undertake a great variety
work, but the great majority of
m are engaged in finishing shell
Midge cases and making fuses. We-
t have adapted themselves readily
machine work, and handle the ma.
nes deftly and with care.
he making of munitions must be
di at all points. All material must
carefully tested; the finished article
st comply with the most minute
go measurements, and stand .an
round test. In the making of fuses
10 there are no fewer than 200
go tests. The gauge testing at
nstronge runs into millions of op-
tions a week. When sbells ot any
er munitions are fi»ished they are
ed by the firm's own exainthers,
again by the Government's 100-
e, before they can leave the works.
he manufacture of machine tools
nothee highly Wiled business.
aturally, the men and women
1 exceptionally high wages. The
kly wage bill of Avineteongs'
blishment 'is a little under 1200e
a week.
mark tee close of the present world
war. Tee 1(1 deeds of the Hue, wrie
ten in Mood and fire, are too terrible
10 180 so quickly forgotten or so easily
forgivem
Bad a .Better Chance.
"I assure you, madame, my ances-
tors eame over with the first settlers,"
"Very likely. We had no immigra-
tion laws then."
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