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The Brussels Post, 1917-8-9, Page 6BetweenCousins; OR, A DECLARATION OF WAR. CHAPTER 1V.—(Cont'd.) "Him is to lose his eyesight, then surely death would be the better o the two," remarked Albert, in a ton that was not pearly so cruel as th words, "As to the eyes, the doctor can say nt.thing for at least a week, --that Is supposing -e--" "Supposing there remains any ne cessity for saying anything," finished Julia, with business -like directness "Is he suffering much?" "He doesn't say so, but the doctoi does, I'm told it's about the wore sort of pain there is: and yet he man ages not even to groan. Ile dic groan just at first but when he notie ed how mad it made Duncan, he stop ped himself, and now he pretends that he's feeling comfertable, with the skin off hisface mind, and his eyes swollen shut!" "Are Duncan's hands very bad?" "Not so very. He'll be able to use them again quite soon, though for the moment. I believe, the pain is about as bad as his father's. But this also I gather only from what the doctor says. Duncan doesn't talk about it; he talks only of bringing the Company and Mr. Berrell to their knees, for it's them he makes responsible for the ac- cident." "He had better not tackle Mr. Ber- rell " put in Albert, with an audible sharpening of tone, "Can't you keep him quiet, father?" "I ant preaching patience as hard as I can," said John with his faint smile; "but Duncan is no easy sub- ject to deal with. It's good-bye till Saturday, is it not, Bertie? Don't mind about keeping any luncheon for me, Julia, Ill get a bit at Adam's." While the talk went on Fenella had sat silent, her work dropped to her lap, her eyes fixed wistfully upon her father's face. That half -remorseful feeling which had touched her last night as, standing there in all her gay finery, she had seen him go off, solitary, upon"his errand of pain and sorrow, had come over her again. His fingers were on the handle al- ready, when she started from her chair. "Father!" she cried impulsively. "Let me go with you!" John looked back at his daughter in an astonishment which verged on incomprehension. "Eh, my dear? With me? But I'm going to A.dam's cottage." "Yes, I know. But couldn't I go too? Perhaps I might be of some use. They must be in such distress, and perhaps it might please poor Adam." "Please him? It would enchant him. But are you sure? It is a very distressing sight; and---" "I'm not afraid of that," said Fenella quickly. "And perhaps if we are two of us, we won't be so much distressed. "Fenella, you're mad!" ejaeulated Julia, recovering from an astonish- ment which had kept her dumb, for the idea was unprecedented. "After yes- terday—and without having had your proper night's rest. It's preposter ous! Isn't it, Bertie?" "What is there preposterous about paying a sick call? argued Fenella, whose eagerness was growing at sight of the new radiance dawning in her father's eyes—an incredulous hope which she had never seen there before, "Don't people go into hospital wards every day? and usen't Mrs. Gordon to sit for hours beside tho old women's beds?" "She certainly used to," admitted Albert, who, though quite as astonish- ed as Julia, was rarely in denger of losing his head. "If it was not for last night's fatigue, I should really see no objection to your accompany- ing er, Andyou promise to be back for luncheon, and to lie down afterwards----" "Yes, yes; I promise," argeed. Fenella, making a rather reckless heap of her bail -dress on the bed, before proceeding to dash through her pre- parations. "Well, I suppose there's ro particul- ar harm in it," was all that Julia could be got to concede. "Plarm in it?" said Albert to her a few minutes later, having lingered ex. pressely to make the remark en tete- a-tete "The harm would h been to make a forbidden fruit of this new idea. Why shouldn't Fenella play at philanthropy if it amuses her? Sick calls are quite legitimate, you know. It's a pity it should lust be •Adain, on account of the relationship; but that can't be helped. I've a notion that, for all her docility, once Fenella be - gine to think for herself, she will re- quire careful handling; and to thwart her in trifles is the way to make her think for herself." By which it will be seen that Al- bert's horizon was wider and his per- ceptions keener than those of the mat- ter-of-fact Julia, "IVORY" NUTS. Many Articles of "Ivory" Aro 11/fade From South American Nuts. The present prosperity of Earner - aides, in South America, is entirely de - Pendent on note which are as herd as bone and as impossible to digest as a piecb of chromium steel. These tagua '" nuts are called ivory nuts in America, out the fresh sprouts ef the alder and and it is from them that most of the hazel bushes, while down to the left t buttons and "ivory" we nee are made. drew gleams from the fields, of sea- The ivory nut, when shelled, looks weed, freshly left bare, washed by the and even from like a Brazil nut except that it ie e grass beyond larg the wet , ' er, and when it has been through the e high tides, and upon whose flattened and salt -encrusted tufts the cows were drying process at the button factory greedily feeding, el it looks like ivory and is just as hard. Adam's croft lay in the glen beyond Large articles cannot be made from the village, the historical glen in the nuts, because they are too small, - whose shadow the massacre which had ' yet $1,500,000 worth of them was im- shaped the future of the 1VPDonnell ported into the 'United States last year • clan had taken place, and at whose Imitation ivory in larger pieces is entrance a Celtic cross reared its tall, white neck in memory of the murder- 1 made from rubber that has been treat- ' t ed chief, It was not until she had ed with chloroform. - crossed the stone bridge spanning the! Still another substitute is made 1 river, whose green and white waters: from milk, but this has not been pro- - tumbled seawards, and were fairly in' /laced on a commercial scale, - the glen, that Fenelia's tongue loosen- To distinguish vegetable ivory from ed. jthe genuine material allow the doubt - "Don you think that Adam will die, father?" she timidly asked., Id article to soak for fifteen minutes John drew a breath which seemed to in a little concentrated sulphuric acid, be a sigh. If it is a product of the ivory nut it "I still hope he may not. There is will become rose tinted. Real ivory , no vitalinj iy, it seams. ' shock to the heart which the doctor is the is untouched by the acid. The tint can fears. Ile was thrown nearly ten yards, you keow." I "Was the accident really his own fault?" Photographic defects, spot e; stains, "It's difficult to say. Duncan says etc. are often due to inadequate it was the fault of the iron tools. But washing. In the common method of it is possible that Adam pushed the washing negatives or prints under the I done. The whistle had sounded, it tap, in a dish, the water is not ehang- ldresser harder than he should have seems, and e was in y to get ed quickly enough. If the negatives I the powder in. The blast went off in are placed film downward and sup - his face. It is a very painful sight. Ported at the edges, the washing is , I hope that you—that you won't find quicker and more thorough. Films as it too much for you." well as glass negatives are in the be washed off with water. Kinks in Negatives. (To be continued.) Given plenty of range turkeys find ;grasshoppers and other insects, green vegetation, weed seeds, waste grains, acorns and nuts of various kinds. The cost of raising them where they can have proper range is small and the profits are satisfactory. Grain and stock farms are particularly well adapted to turkey raising. same class in the matter of washing. Films should not stick together, and the sharp edges must not be permit- ted to cause scratches. The Opposite of Green Houses. Calcutta has a botanical garden in which plants of the temperate zone are kept alive in cold houses, much as tropical plants are preserved in hot- houses in this climate. DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT HOME. Fifth Lesson.—Combustibles. Proteins are necessary for building participant in the blood stream and and repairing of tissues. Carbohyd- also regulates the temperature of the rates, which consist of starches and sugar, are needed for heat and energy. Fats are needed for energy, and lubri- cation. Mineral salts are necessary for regulating the body processes. Water is necessary for the blood stream and the elimination of the waste. The necessity for each of these food elements in our daily diet will readily be seen when it is understood that if a person eats a large amount of thi food containing an overabundance of protein the excess will not be retained m the body, but only the amount that is needed and actur.11y necessary for tLe body. The excess is eliminated, and frequently overtaxes the liver and kidneys, whereas if too little protein is provided the body will lose weight and the person will become anemic. Carbohydrates, which are starches and sugars, come chiefly from vege- tables, and if they are supplied to the body in larger amount than the body requires for its daily use they are stored in the form of fat. Fats, while they furnish heat, en- ergy and lubrication, should be eaten very sparingly during the hot weather. Mineral salts are necessary for the teeth and bone structure. For this rea- son they are provided for in the pro- per amounts in a well-balanced diet. The necessary for water can best be understood by the statement that it comprises nearly three-fifths of the weight of the body, it is an active body. Age, condition and occupation play a very important part in the amount of food that must be supplied for com- bustion. The young and growing child will need the largest amount of food. Persons at heavy outdoor oc- cupations will need a greater amount of food than those people whose duties entail less physical exertion. The middle-aged and elderly person re- quir,s less food than the pooh. of the above-mentioned type. The avbrage adult will require daily frotis 2500 to 3000 caloriesheat units of food. A calorie is a term used in food chemistry to designate the amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of water four degrees Fahrenheit. One-tenth of the total amount of food required by tha human body for daily consumption should be protein. Food required by the body is burn- ed; 1. e., united with oxygen. That this may be accomplished, the food, by the process of digestion, is render- ed entirely soluble. It is then, in this soluble form, absorbed by the intes- tines. The blood also carries oxygen, -which we breathe from the air; this is car- ried by the blood to all parts of the body. That the processes of the body may be satisfactorily accomplished, it is necessary that the adult drink three pints or six glasses of water each day, It is by this combustion and assimila- tion of food in the body that we live, How To Can Corn. Select young, tender ears of corn, (husk and remove the silk from the ear by brushing with a wisp broom. Plunge into boiling water and cook for six minutes, Now dip into cold water at once. With a sharp knife cut the corn from the cob, Using the back of the knife, press the milk from the Icob, Pack at once into sterilized jars, have a fork to assist with the filling. Fill only to the neck of the jar with the corn. Care must be used so I that the torn is not packed tightly in the jar. I Now fill it to overflowing with boil. ing salt water. Place the rubber and lid in position and partly tighten; proeess in hot-water bath for three and a half hours after the boiling starts. ; Remember that peas, beans, corn and asparagus are vegetables that must be worked up very carefully, ow- ing .to the fact that the proteins of them foods will turn sour and start fermenting under certain conditions. Thls causes the flat, seer taste that occurs frequently and is called ladle Field ferment, So, to have eimeess with canning open, the work must be done in a quick and thorough way, The kitchen should be kept as cool as possible. The corn 1 should be stored In a place where it e,will not beeoitie heated while waiting , for tho canning proem, When starting to blanch, place the corn in a piece of clam muslin or CHAPTER V. Along the wide village street, /drag- gling with the line of the shore, Penella and her father walked almost in silence. The situation was too new to bo accepted by either of them with- out ft flavor of embarrasement, With only an occasional remark exchanged, they passed by many slate -roofed cot- tages and a few thatched ones, down whose white wane the moisture lay in streaks as vividly green es though the color had run out 09 the grass - tufts flourishing above,.—by the little bay about which the sea -gulls wore perpetually busy,—the old pier built of slate -refuse and marking the spot of the erstwhile ferry, now no more than the startieg-point of the water- side funerals, The sky was as blue es a Highlend April sky knows how to be, the Mlle acroee the loeli as deal as the reniains of winter mot/Auto— woven into wonderful filmy veils -- could permit, Tho incline rising steeply above the cottage row to tho right—the "green hill," as it was call ecll in contradistinction to its grinimer neighbors,—was barely beginning to live uP to Re Milne Only here and there the sunshine delicately picked cheesecloth and plunge into boiling water, Cook for six minutes after the boiling starts and then remove and plunge into cold water. Cut the corn from the cob at once. Pack into jars as soon as a sufficient amount of corn is cut. Finish each jar separate- ly, placing it at onee into the prepared water bath. Pint jars are best for corn, peas and beans. NEV LIMITING NOVELTIES DEVICES INVENTED FOR THE SUBMARINE ZONE. Description of Some of the New Life- boats and Preservers for the U.S. Transports. That German LT -boats try their best to sink transports carrying troops to Europe, even at utmost risk to them- selves, goes without saying. It is marvellous that our Canadian troops have, up to the present time, been transported in safety. The United States, fully alive to the great peril, is introdueing some new life-saving devices for the use of their troops. As a first precautionary measure, the United States War Department is getting ready to provide for each transport a sufficient number of life- boats to hold all hands in the event of a sinking. The vessel will be con- voyed by warships, which, it is thought, can at least prevent the Huns from shelling the boats. The lifeboats will be of a new pat- tern, of steel and collapsible. That is to say the steel hull (remarkably flat) is supplemented by a canvas "freeboard," or bulwark, that folds like an accordion, The arrangement does not make the craft any better, but it keeps out the waves, These boats will' be of different sizes, so as to fit conveniently in such places on board as happen to be most suitable for their stowage.. Tho small- est, twenty-two feet long, will hold twenty persons; the largest, twenty- eight feet long, will hold fifty-four comfortably. Along the gunwales hang outboard a series of rope loops (with cork floats attalhed) which may in an emergency be grabbed and held on to by men who cannot be taken aboard a crowded boat, A lifeboat of this pattern cannot be sunk. Before the U.S. War Depart- ment will accept one of them, it is tested by throwing it overboard from a ship, and, if it does not right itself instantly in the water, it is rejected. Its hull, being of metal, may be bent more or less out of shape, but is not easily punctured or broken. The twenty-eight foot size costs $300. Life -rafts As Well A serious difficulty about lifeboats of any kind is that if a sinking vessel is heeled over to port or starboard (as is likely to happen), the boats on her uplifted side cannot be lowered from the davits. But, to overcome this trouble, our transports ,will have tracks laid athwart their decks (or in some instances overhead trolleys)) so that they can be run across if neces- sary and dropped overboard on the opposite side. The U.S. War Department, however, is not content with providing life. boats. There willalso rafts, likewise of a new -pattern; two hollow -steel cylinderserving 88 floats, with a wooden grating extend- ing between them on top and bottom. Thus either side (top or bottom) is right side up, no matter how the raft may chance to land upon the water when thrown overboard. Such a raft, eleven feet long, will carry twelve persons; a larger size, eighteen feet long, will accommodate twenty-three. On board a transport they take up little room, several be- ing stacked on top of another and lashed securely. In case of emergency the lashing can bs cut at a moment's notice, and, even though the ship were to sink before they could be thrown overboard, they would float free on the surface of the sea. Life -Preserver Mattresses. But this is by no meane all. Every mattress on each transport will be availpble for instant use as a life preserver, being filled with a peculiar kind of vegetable fibre called "kapok,,, which, derived from a palm of the Philippines, serves the purpose of cork and much better. In calm water a man can stand on one of these mat- tresses without submerging it, or it will sustain three or four men cling- ing to it. Every soldier's and sailor's pillow on each transport will be stuffed with "kapok" and will be utilizable as a life preserver., How excellent for the purpose such a pillow is may be judg- ed from the fact that (as proved by experiment) one of them will float for! Usually four ears will fill a pint jar if they are a good Sing, so that when blanching if this amount of corn is placed in the cloth at one time, there need be no delay in filling the jars, After processing, remove them at once from the bath and fasten the lid //calmly. Invert to test for Make. Remove the jars to a cool room, free from draughts, to lot them cool. Label and date them, then store them hi a cool, dry place. When canning vegetables, success depends on speed and thoroughness. Keep the temperature of the room in which the preparing of the vegetables is clone below 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and then promptly remove the jars from the water bath when the time limit expires, Do not use any pre. servatiems as they are dangerous. Foods containing them cannot be sold, Do not stretch the jar rubbers. This will ruin them. When ready to use the rubbers, pour over them plenty of boiling water to sterilize them. This also permits the rubber to slip over tE6 jar without stretching, r),ON'T think your homo will always bo spared the danger of destructive fiance. Lightning and the straying spark show no favors to fine buildings and love -abiding homes. Unless your roof hoof inflammable meterial, o..y =moat lightning or Are may envelop all you roma* gad on. denser the Ayes of thane the hoorthstono cannot unarm Fulfill the duty of.guardianship tho horne-follre have placed in you by ....us to it otopoq your loved ones, your property, aro fully protected from tins sr/gr- im:sent menace of 1)p. Pedlar'. "Oshawa Shingles mean oafe, and pr,,teetioa i the moat practical, meet dependable form. Media of enact metol each shingle Interlocks on A LI., FOUR al DM forming aoingle sitat okstool the t io procticallYindestrualbi.• 05- 31 tam their beauty and aorvicovithout repoiro ..300O_.. Your home hat. Wri tafor "The Right Root" Booldee, TI/LI PEDLAR PEOPLE Limited (Entabllabed 1801) Officce and Factories: Ophowo. Ont. Brougham liontroof,Ottowo,Torong0 wanusog • HELP WIN ITE WA It is the duty of every subject of the Allies to help win the WAR, and they can best do it by preventing WASTE and .storing up for the COMING WINTER all 'food products, especially those perishable foods such as fruits and vegetables. This can be accomplished easily by using one of the NATIONAL CANNING OUTFITS. With the aid of one‘ of these all kinds of fruits, corn, peas, tomatoes, and beans can be cooked, which will keep indefinitely when properly prepared. Our No. 1 JUNIOR NATIONAL for family use has a capacity of from 200 to 400 cans daily or glass jars of proportionate amount. These outfits can be put right on a cook stove. Price s25.00, f.o.b. Hamilton. We have larger sizes for hotel use, and still larger sizes for commercial use, We have also Evaporators of various sizes for evaporating every kind of fruit, apples, peaches, pears, berries, potatoes, etc, Write for full particulars, giving size required, to The Brown, Boggs Co., Limited, Hamilton, Ont. forty-eight hours with a 160 -pound sounding lead attached to it! Acetylene Life Buoys. The transports will also carry acety- lene life buoys—a novel and most in- genious contrivance consisting of a large hollow ring of copper •with a small pipe hinged on each of the two opposite sides, each pipe terminating in a cylinder filled with calcium car- bide. Suppose that a man falls overboard at night. One of these buoys is quick- ly thrown into the sea. The ring of course floats horizontal on the waves. But the weight of the cylinders causes the pipes to stand vertical. Mean- while water has found its way into the cylinders, causing the carbide to give oft acetylene gas, whichtakes fire of its own accord, The drowning man sees two jets of flame burning brilliantly 'at the top of the two pipes, He swims toward the buoy and gains it, clinging to it while the transport lowers a boat and the latter, guided by the acetylene lights, comes to his rescue. THE FLAG THAT ALWAYS WAVES Clever Electrical Device To Impart a Waving Motion to Flag. One of the most talked of features at the recent electric railway conven- tion at Atlantic City, N. j., was a waving flag which fluttered from a twenty -seven -foot flagstaff in front of the General Electric Company's booth inside the spacious convention hall. Not a breath of air was stirring, yet the flag stood out on the pole as if a thirty -mile gale was blowing. The flag pole was of ordinary dimen- sion and there was nothing visible to betray the source of the breeze. The base of the pole was surrounded with banked palms. The whole device is really quite simple in construction and easily ex- plained, for the flagpole is a metal tube and an electric blower at the base shoots a strong current of air through the flagstaff . The air escapes through perforations in the top of the flagpole and imparts a waving motion to the • 'lg. There is only one chance in 17,000,- 000,000 for a mistake in finger prints, according to a French scientist, I POWER FROM IRISH RIVERS. A Plan to Harness the Shannon and Erne and Strangford Lough. Is eland, driven to act by war prices for coal, is figuring an cheaper power by developing the rivers of the island. One plan•proposed is to utilize the flow of the Rivers Shannon and Erne. A second is to harness the tidal move- ments of Strangford Lough. The rivers would each, it is believed, furnish 50,000 horse power for eight months of the year and 20,000 to 40,- 000 horse power for four months, and it would be a simple engineering mat- ter to transmit the power from the Shannon to Dublin and Limerick, or from Erne to Belfast and Derry. The tidal scheme for Strangford Lough is a different matter. The lough is an east coast arm of the sea with an area of about twenty square miles and a narrow inlet, varying from one- ' fourth to one-half mile in width for four milee, This channel is swept by tides of from eleven and one-half to fourteen and one-half feet rise, run- ning about 811C hours each way. With a storage system for slack hours 82,- 000 horse power could be developed. The scheme calla for an expenditure of $5,000,000. Plenty of silage and good legume hay wilt help keep the high feed bills away. A fraternal and Insurance society that funcral benefits optlodo . elects Its members Inpaccerdance with the nlarlo Government tandord. Sicig and Authorized to obtain members and charter lodges in ovary Provlbeeln C.anada, Purely Canadloa, cafe, sound and °COPP. micah If thorn is no local lodge of Chosen Friends in your district, OM}, direct to any of laa following officers; Dr.J.W.Edwarcls, hl.P. W. 17, Montagtle, Grand Cohncillor. Grand Recorder W. R. Compton. .1. 51. Be% 141.1)„ Grand Oronntagg. Grand Medical Rx. HAMILTON - orti.Amo has never' been offered as "just as good" as some more famous brand ; for Sixty Years it has itself been that more famous brand.—and deservedly« "Let Recipath Sweeten it." 13 100 20,80 andl 100 lb. Bagek Made in one grade only the Mghest 1 2. end 5 lb. Cartons— -. UP-TO-DATE HAND GRENADES LATEST STYLES IN THIS OLD. TIME WEAPON, Notes on the Development of This Very Essential Instrument of Modern Warfare. Those enterprising 'diem the Japa. nese, were first to hit upon the notion of reserreating the hand grenade, a back number and obsolete weapon, and using it for modern war purposes, The idea was really originated and develop. ed by one of their staff officers, Colonel Amazawa, who, during the siege of Port Arthur, set a lot of his men to work at converting empty provision tins into bombs, hammering them into any sort of shape that would serve the purpose, and filling them with the pic- ric -acid explosive called "shimose." He fired these queer projectiles out of primitive cannon, likewise of his own devising, which were simply hol- lowed logs, re -enforced with -wrap- pings of bamboo rope. By this means he could throw them far enough to reach the Russian trenches, and they proved highly effective, The Spaniards took up the idea, and a few years later, when lighting the Arabs of Morocco, did frightful execu- tion with such bombs thrown by the hand. But in the meantime they had developed this type of projectile along more scientific lines, making it of steel and providing it with a rope tail by which it could be cast with accuracy of aim. Result of Experiments. At Madrid experimental tests were made. In one of these ninety dummy men were placed inside of a fenced in- closure,ct orty yards in diameter and a grenade was tossed into it. Inspection to ascert in results disclosed the fact that nine of the dummies were "kill- ed," forty-seven were so badly wound- ed as td be hors de combat, and the , rest were presumably so demoralized as to be.hardly capable of further fighting, No secret was made of these experi- ments, and, as a matter of course, other nations jumped eagerly at ao valuable a suggestion for killing pur- poses. The United States War De- partment took it up, and already, when the present war began, they had grenades of their own. The extent to which such missiles have been employ- ed in the great conflict abroad is suf- ficiently well known. Naturally they have undergone much• differentiation. A distinct variety is the "rifle grenade," which is a high -explosive container on the end of a steel rod that fits into the bore of ,the eoldier'a gun. There is even the giant grenade, weighing 200 pounds and carrying sixty pounds of explo- sive, which is fired from a short mor- tar. Types of Grenades. But one type merges into another. It is hard to say 'where the grenade ends and the projectile, properly speaking, begins. A trench mortar of the above-mentioned kind is a "mine thrower"—what the Germans, who originated it, call a "rninenwerfer," Some grenades for hand throwing are spherical, like baseballs, ancifnot niuch bigger, Since the war began the U.S. mili- tary authorities have been working hard on the grfluide problem. Mil- lions of grenades of different patterna have been turned out at their arsenals, The Patterns are, in the main, a. secret, but one of them has been photograph. ed. It ;thews a cylinder of metal that is meant to contain four ounces of a high explosive (a picric acid compound called "clunnite"), and which Is pro- vided with a rope -tail for throwing, On striking the target It is exploded by a fulminate mercury cap. Until wanted for use it is kept in a mois, ture-proof container of tinned Iron, the top of 'which can be removed at A mdinent's natio by twisting a piece oe metal. OUT THERE. Somewhere, Out There, he is—just Ek boy, that's all— (Laughter sparkled in his eyes—he was always singing!) Just a boy who answered when he heard his country call; (Somewhere, Out There, he is—how my thoughts go whigingl) Acmclyto do or dare, (Like Bullfight was his heirl) Just a boy, a smiling boy, Somewhere, Out There , Idle my wheel, to -day, hushed is my spinning— (A)i; bat his eyes were blue—blue as the seal) ° Somewhere Out There he is—toeing or winning? (Boy with the carefree heart, come back to mei) Blood red the cannons flare, (God, can you hear niy prayer?) Keep him, my boy, from harm-- Soinewhero,Put There. --Margaret.E. Sangster, jr, It //Multi never be forgotten that fruit and vegetable salts are abse. hatoly necessary to the human eye - tem. The servants of the rich Chhiese receive salary, but are paid in peg, niiisys, which always aztioutt to mo*' thanthe wages paid in modest hour*,