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Coprrlcht Houghton MIflllo Cumpany br apeclal arranKement with Tboi. AU*& Toroato CHAPTKR v.â€" (Cont'd.) I tractod womt'ii, and ili.strncUid women I had visited her; the ni^ht of them, Like most of the other men, Jerry , , . , . â-  t i. i i« i,„- turncl away in silence. But it was "'"' f^P'^'f- ^ J«:V,'y ^"J " «'« her rot the silence of stolidity or of "^^il" ""* '° "f" •Mepp.nK' into the •pathetic despair; anger was burning f^ ''^' ^'^ ""'' t Tit '''^^ Tt^ Z hot within him, the an^er of the op- ^''"^^'^^ '^"'-"^ w-hat the worst was to press-d. The I'urroy Works had al- ' ^' *hf wasn't afra.d of .t ; of course way, mad« money for their owners; r^"'^^" ^""" VT" tn"'"'} ft3 the avarice that prompted a scaling^/"' '""'^ \"\^^f} ""'l ^'j^f '" 'l^"*^ down of the working force and an in- ^"^ " '^'^"'^ lifetime, but for a short rrease of the working hours was in- human. That, was the crude general- ization that presented itself after the first moment in more concrete form â€" in a fanciful contrast of Benjamnn Desmond, a beneficiary, no doubt, of the new scheme, and of himself, a suf- ferer from it. There would be Des- mond, deriving from the toil of .lerry's hands the price of a ca ' â-  re subscription to a charity, or a month's rent of a pew in his aristocratic church; and there would be Jerry Dunohue, deprived of all his youthful f Measures, of the freedom to enjoy ife that he had thought he would vhare with his bride, of the cheerful lersure that had always marked the latter and best, portion of each day while now, till he did be getting hold of a better job, it might be borne; and if not, there was always the washing to fall back on. And as for their home, well, it was themselves that made it, themselves and a few thini?3 they prizedâ€" not the four walls of tile house; if they had to move ^ away, they could take the spirit of increased ^j^gjp home with them. It wasn't as their friends and acquaintances had to share it. She reinforced this cheerful philosophy with an un- usually good supper: "We may be economizing soon on our victuals. Jerry, but not to-night." proposal that a committee be appoint- j ed to confer with the management and plead for a revocation of the new order. The committee wa instructed to contrast the efficiency of the em- ployees of the Purroy Works with that shown in any other mills in the country; to point out that this effici- ency was due to the homogeneous character of the working force, com- posed as it was of men of straight Knglish or Irish descent, and not of ('rotes, Lithuanians, and "Polacks"; to declare that the imposition of greater burdens upon a reduced force must decrease the efficiency of labor, and that the over-worjting of employees | j meant economic waste; and finally to ' convey the warning that if the order i was not withdrawn a general strike j of all employees would be called. Dob- 1 I bins was appointed chairman of the I committee that was to present these considerations to the management. Then began the series of confer- j 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-, ment; that, however, had been dictat-i ed by the directors. Dobbins and his j committee sought an interview with Benjamin Desmond, who was re- cognized a.s the controlling forces in' the Purroy Company's affairs. Des-| mond referred them back to the man- agement. The management depre-! cated the idea of a strike; all parties would be sorry, very sorry, if any such development took place. Not becau.?e 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-j So it was a hearty, well-fed, op limistic young man that sallied forth! tors nothing left him" but to drudge, to eat,' to the mass meeting. That proved: Meanwhile, Roger Trask, without | to sleep. Oh, that would be permit- le»8 exciting than he had anticipated; ; the knowledge of the workmen, had: ted him; he would not be one of those there was no dissent from Dobbins'sj been pleading their cause. At the to be dropped; that would be the fatei of the old, half-broken men. | He came up abreast of one of these' who was plo<l<ling with slow steps, ' head sunk on his breast. It was Jim, Dobbins, a friend of his father's, and i at the sight of his haggard face Jerry's wrath was submerged in pity. I For more than a year Dobbins had been in failing health; his flushed! skin, drawn tight over his cheek- J bones, was that of the consumptive;' his wife was wa.sling away witTi the' same disease. He had three children,' the^ldest a girl of fifteen. ( Tlie JJbqut the U.SE VEGETABLES A.ND SAVE WHEAT. patriotism of Madame House- \ might be used to advantage. There •They've watered the stock, and y,\f^ j, measured these days by the ' is nothing new or elaborate about V^Mt}2.^''^ ^i^-yf''t: "".I'^kind of meals she prepares for her ' them but so fev "It's for you young.,.. few people think of try- we said Dobbins. .^ ., »v,, jv,u Yv.uiiit.r •, .^ , .,..-,, fellows, Jerry, to decide whether! ^"""'y- The youngest child will take >ng them out you'll fight or submit. We old ones'*'"'* '* P"* before him, provided the- Potato Border. -Place a greased; are about done anyway. We're all ^ood is well cooked. There is no- j mould on platter. Build around it a in the hand.s of bloodsuckers." He turned aside into the hearth mill where he worked. open- Escalloped Potatoes. â€" Wash, pare, soak and cut four potatoes in one- fourth inch slices. Put a layer in thing in the menu that lends itself to ' wall of hot mashed potatoes, using more variety or constant use than do ' nine potatoes, three and one-half vegetables. Twice a day vegetables i inches high by one inch deep. Smooth In the rod mill, Tim Brophy of the! can be u.ijed in one form or another, if i and crease with case knife. Remove night shift, whom Jerry relieved, had; they are judiciously handled by the] mould. Fill with creamed left-over Ju.<rt heard the news. He was a few ; housewife. meat or fish and reheat in oven be- years older than Jerry and had a wife 1 ,. ^ , , , ,._ , . I f„ro corvino. and two babies. His usually wel- . yeg^tables have different character- i»re serving coming face was now scowling and '"tics. For instance green vegetables â- ullen; he hardly looked at Jerry, but *""e valuable mainly because they con- put on his coat, picked up his dinner j tain substances which purify the blood, pail, and walked off silently. and assist digestion. Rootrand tubers • ^"'''"K dish, sprinkle with salt and ^ All the morning Jerrv plied his are heat and energy-giving foods All] PePPer dredge with cornme-.l or flour, tongs, caught and drew the hissing,! vegetables supply bulk and all contain «"<! ^ot over with one-half tablespoon white hot, wrihing serpents of metal 1 considerable amount of water in ' of Gutter substitute. Repeat. Add out across the rolls. More mechanical- ^j, ^j, ."e the saHs so vairWe o ' hot milk until it may be' seen through ly tlfcin. usual he was performing his Suh . vfe are still wXin tile sel-^ l-yr. Bake one and one-fourth eon when we need the properties of , hours or until potato is soft, the roots and tubers. It will be I Potatoes a la Hollandalse.â€"Wash, some time before the fresh vegetables ' P"'"''' ^o^k and cut potatoes in one- are on the market. Ut us clean up!fo"'"th 'n*'h ^'ifes. Cut in cubes, 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. One harried housewife moaned the other day: "I never want to see an tat v.; his mind was preoccupied with his problems What should he do? I'mplanted in him by his father was the sturdy principle that a man ought to stick to his Job â€" that to seek to better one's self by change was to gamble recklessly. And it wasn't as If a choice were open to him; the twelvehour day ruled in all the other iron mills, and iron working was the only tiling 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 indefinite postponement of marriage, and the surrender of the house that hud no long been his mother's home. He thought of all these things, and he| onion again as long as I live thought, too, of the effect that the | sick of them." news would be likely to have on his mother and on Nora, and unaccus- tomed lines of worry and care fur- rowed his young brow. In the noon intermission, while he was eating his luncheon, Dave Scan- Ian came in from open-hearth mill I Cover three cups potato with white j stock, cook until soft and drain. Cream ' four tablespoons butter substitute, add one tablespoon lemon juice, pne- I half teaspoon aaJt and a few grains of I cayenne. Add the potatoes, cook three minutes ami add one-half table- spoon finely chopped parsley. Duchess Potatoes. â€" To two cups hot riced potatoes, add two tablespoons number two. "(ioing to have a mass | housewife to tlr,» her /anilly with re meeting in Y.M.C.A. Hall to-night,"'--'-'-â€" ""^ he said. "Be on hand, Jerry; ten' table nearly every day and by a fre- every one to come. I quent change in the manner of cook- Dave bu.stlcd off, a brisk, important . . , , . emissary; his manner and his mes-i'"^ °'" *"J''"''' «l'e may achieve con- kage were encouraging. To Jerry *'t'*''t variety. and, no doubt, to many other young, ''ow many families have boiled po- nien cheerfulness returned: the sound j tatoes day In and day out? It is of a mass mooting was nopeful; at; safe to guess that only about five per least it promised excitement. So • cent, of the women in Canada cook Jerry deferred consideration of his | potatoes habitually in more than two problems; hi. chief concern during 1 ^, One of the simplest and easiest tile afternoon was the condition in „, j. , , , . " ^«= â- Â«;•'• which ho should find his mother. He I "J .•^'"h'** ^ prepare is need potatoes, hastened home -at five o'clock, appre-i '^ the housewife is lioiling them, any- hensive lest ahe had collapsed utter- way, she might as well vary them by ly, yet not unpropare<i to discover that putting them through a potato rl(>er she had already dismantled the house or coarse strainer. Then they will and was awaiting him in a tearful' be fiaky, light and delicious. ^ butter substitute, one-half teaspoon We are gait and yolks of two eggs slightly beaten. Shape in form of cone or "How many way« have you tried to' any desired shape. Brush over with cook them?" she was asked "Oh I , beaten egg diluted with one teaspoon always fry them." No wonder she water and brown in hot oven. was sick of them . Every vegetable i With the aid of vegetables it is quite can be cooked Ir a \aiiety of ways and] possible to have an entire dinner in It is poor policy on tie part of the j one dish -a dinner that is wholesome, nutritious and very palatable. How triumph of ^â- eslgnatlon To his great relief slie had com- mitted neiuier of these excesses; in fact, she was sewing in her rocking- chair and greeted him calmly. She had heard all the news; she had gone about the neighlwrhood, visiting dia- petition. She may use the same vege- many people are familiar with flsh chowder? Here is the recipe; it is enough for a family of five: 1V4 pounds fish (use moderate-priced varl- ties such as cod, haddock or flat-ftsh), 9 potatoes, peele<l and cut in small pieces, 1 onion, slice<l, 2 cups carrots cut in pieces, 3 nips milk, pepper, 1 tablespoon fat, 1V4 tablespoons corn- starch. Cook vegetables until tender. 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 flsh which has lieen removed from the , bone and cut in small pieces. Cook un- 1 til the fish Is tender, about 10 mi- \ nutes. Serve hot. | weekly drill he had heard from Jerry and from Dave Scanlan and others vigoroua vtatements of their griev- ance â€" m«de, he wril knew, wiUi an understanding of hia relatione with the men whom they held accountable for their plight. Trask did not Intimate to them that his sympathies were enlisted with their cause, but the next day he called upon Desmond at hia office and relieve*! himself of all the arguments that he had heard and that had appeared to him sound. Des- mond, a dark, wiry little man with a sharp nose and an aggressive under jaw, shook his head 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 Uiose that employ largely foreign-born, ignorant, half-skilled menâ€"" "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-bom 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 policyâ€"to refuse to American work- men fair wages and reasonable hours and fill their places with miserable aliens who have never known either fair wages or reasonable hours. It's a horrible economic blunder. You can't think that men are mere sub- sidiaries of machinery. You must believe that machinery should be an auxiliary to men." "If a mill were an institution like a hospital or an art museum, support- ed partly by private contributions, there might l>e something in what you say. I'd a good deal rather myself see the men accept the conditions that are enforced on us and make the best of them. But so far as they them- selves are concerned â€" well, I don't know that it wouldn't be better for them to clear out â€" seek other oc- cupations. Improved machinery In these mills has rendered a man's work less arduous and wearing than it used to be â€" also less Interesting. Men can work longer hoars â€" and it isn't now work for Americans. For do- ing a dull, stupid monotonous job day in and day out, I don't want an 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 intention annoyed him; he remarked sarcastically, "You men at the Purroy Works seem to feel that you are the aristocracy of labor." From that interview the eommittee returned discouraged and indignant. At the mass meeting called to hear their report Dobbins mounted the plat- form. He narrated the efforts that had ended in the failure of all nego- tiations; his recital of Desmond's cynical speech provoked a wrathful, inarticulate roar. Dobbins, haggard, tired, feverish-eyed, made an impati- ent gesture imploring quiet. (To be continued.) <> • Pull Your Weight. The billows are heaving behind. The breakers are foaming before; We need all the strength we can 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 â€" Are you pulling your weight in the boat? It Isn't the task of the fewâ€" The piclt of the brave and the strong; It's he and It's I and it's you Must drive the good vessel along. Will 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 â€" Are you pulling your weight in the boat? ♦ To Prevent Fading. The delicate shades of colored lin- ens can be kept from fading by using plenty of pulverized borax in the wa- ter in which they are washed and rinsed. Food Control Corner Enforcement of the Canada Food Board's regulations as to food con- servation has been placed in the hands of the police machinery of the munici- palities and of the different Provinces throughout the Dominion. It is the duty and privilege of the provinces to enforce federal laws and the Orders of the Canada Food Board have the effect of federal law, being passed upon authority of Orders is- 8U2d by the Privy Council and publish- ed in the Canada Gazette. It, there- fore, becomes the duty of police of- ficers throughout the Dominion to acquaint themselves with these re- flations regarding our food supply 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 sarved to death as compared to 4,250,000 soldiers who have died as the direct result of battle, it is beyond 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 to these resti'ictions by the public and vigilant enforcement of them by the officers of the law. In cases of convictions secured by the municipal police officers, it should be noted that where these convictions result in the imposition of fines, the money from these fines is to be paid to the niunicipai treasuries, and similar- ly in the cases where Provincial of- ficers secure convictions. The Canada Food Board has circularized these Orders in official form throughout the police machinery of the various prov- inces, beginning with the .Attorneys- General and continuing through the lists of Crown Attorneys and Crown Prosecutors. In some provinces the Chief Constables have also received copies of the various Orders affecting the public. As a result, throughout 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 diys 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 Cream Wanted SWKIT OR CHURNING CREAM â- y* aapply eaaa, pay azpraaa charsM and ramlt dally. Our price next week forty-eight eeatc ...,f"SS^ %*T«'^ OrwimaiT Oo. 743-8 Xta« at. W«rt VoNBt* and men who had no better excuse than employment in said questionable industries have been ordered to giet into more useful occupations. In Winnipeg a great change has been observed in the streets since this law went into effect. The idlers and loafers have disappeared. Great Britain is to allot ten pounds of sugar per head of the household t« private fruit growers this season for preserving fruit. The war garden is to be popular is London in 1918. 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