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THEFT 1$ CHECKED t Insurance Embargoes on South American Shipments. " TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS AND W AR Drawings Olvs Leaders a Comprebsn- sivs Vlsw of tha Important Geographic Rotations. It hss beei^sald that many o f the battles o f the,Civil war would haver have been fought had there been topo graphic maps, for those In command Pilfering Formerly Wee Credited to could hâve studied a map o f tha coun t»M Canal Zone but Has Been Re. try about them and they would never t o Minimum. have subjected their men to such marches as were made and then have Pilfering le still s greet problem In expected their men to light, atntoo n tbe case o f merchandise «hipped to student o f military engineering. Bat ports on the west coast of South Amer topography In Its general sense and ns ica. At several ports the extent o f the It Is shown today on the maps o f the evil has been greatly lessened as a re geological survey was little known In sult o f Insurance embargoed on goods the sixties. The engineer corpe o f the destined for those ports or In response army was highly efficient, even at that to constant complaint on the part of time, but the topographic engineer did tbe consignees, according to Commerce not appear In the American army until Reports. In Mollendo pilfering, so far August 6, 1881, when an act o f con as Bolivian goods are concerned, has gress authorized the enlistment o f ooe been reduced to small proportions In consequence of an agreement between company o f topographic engineers. the Peruvian and Bolivian govern Thla company was afterward merged Into the corps o f engineers. _ ments which provides for tbe prompter Today within the wide boundaries of dispatch of merchandise for Bolivian destination. Nevertheless, the prob our country, which embraces more than lem of pilfering remains a sertoug one 8,000.000 square miles, there are a hun at practically every port on the West ; dred million people. They live on fa r m . In villages and In towns and coast. Formerly l r whs the fashion to say cities. ¿Their dwelling places may be that much of the pllferlng/ took place sepirated by broad rivers and rugged In the Panama Canal Zone, and there mountains, but the use o f the topo was probably some basis for the state graphic map Is gradually knitting ment In the days when traffic through them systematically together, and at the canal was stopped by the slides In any time that this widespread popula Galllard cut and freight was badly tion may be requited to move In con congested at Colon and Balboa. It Is certed action for a common cause the probably true, however, that even In topographic map will give the leaders those times much of the loss attributed a comprehensive view o f the geo to pilfering was due to unusual hand graphic relations, so that the problem ling or exposure. 81 nee traffic through of moving can be Rolved more qnlckly the canal has been resumed on a nor and with better Judgment. The topo mal basis the loss from pilfering In graphic map. It Is pointed ont by ex the Canal Zone has been reduced to an perts o f the survey, like the telephone and the typewriter, has become a ne almost negligible point. Goods trans-shipped to Colon and cessity, and we wonder now how we Balboa are stored In pier sheds Imme have ever done without It. The “ man in the street" may have diately upon discharge. The sheds are large, well built, fireproof, and can be thought little of the value o f the work easily guarded and protected. Both In o f the topographic engineer, and to him »the discharge from ship to pier and In and others who have not considered the reloading from p ie r' to ship the the lm|s>rtance of that work some Il Panama Itallrond company exercises lustrations o f Its value might be In atrlct supervision over all nj»eratlons. teresting, A well-known author, soldier and Since It hss charge of all port facili ties and does most of the stevedoring. topographic engineer found the topo T o protect Itself against claims for loss graphic maps of the survey Indispensa the railroad company long slncp tnaH. ble In every branch o f his work. By tuted an elaborate checking system. studying a country before going Into Checkers not only take account of the It he became so familiar with the de number and weight of cases and -pack tails of man}' Interesting features of ages loaded or unloaded on the piers which the natives had never heard that but also note the condition of the con his stories acquired a realism that tainers as they pass over the plerFand could not have been infused Into them pat aside for careful ^Inspection cases had he dwelt Itvthe country a lifetime. Again, 15 cents spent by a reclama that a p p n r to be underweight or to have been tampered with. In many In tion engineer In connection* with a stances pilfering can be detected by a private engineering project saved his difference In the recorded weight and company 88.000 and established a pro the weight o ff arrival In Panama, ject which would never have seemed though pilferers nre clever enough, as possible had not the three to{H>graphlc rule, to substitute articles of the maps he purchased given him a com weight for those they have ab prehensive view o f several hundred stracted. squnre mile* of country, where the Moreover, a number o f watchmen drainage prohlems are moat Intricate and defectives are employed by the and delicate^ Many such examples nre Panama Railroad company. Home of cited by officiala o f the survey. the detectives work as dock laborers. The watchmen cannot be In all parts Need Parcel Post Facilities. o f the pier sheds, and In a far corner One o f the moat urgent necessities o f a shed or s hold the stevedores may In behalf o f the American export handle a case with such roughness as trade with Paraguay Is the establish to cause It to break open, enabling Its ment o f a large parcel post system contents to be easily carried off. De with this country, writes Consul Henry tectives can exert an effective restrain H. Balch. Asuncion. As there are very ing Influence In such cases. few large distributing houses In Par It Is clear, then, that the precautions aguay practically all the Important against pilfering In the Panama Ganal mercantile establishments Import their Zone are extensive and effective and fond* direct from the foreign mar that the source o f the pilfering must be kets, and as many o f the orders are sought for elsewhere. small or for good* that do not occupy much space the parcel post Is exten Salaries Are Increased. sively used by the average Paraguay Owing to the great advance In the an Importer. coat of living, the local government A good percentage of the large trade has Increased the salaries of all Its em that Oermany. Kngland. and France ployees who were paid under 1.800 had with this country at the beginning eacudos ($1.045) per annum. The In o f the war was developed through the creases In some cases have amounted parcel post system that those coun to 45 per cent, writes Consul John F. tries maintain with Paraguay. Mer Jewell, Lourenco Marques, Portuguese chants frequently state that they ■sat Africa. would turn much of their trade to the The resultant excess of expenditure United States which has hitherto gone over the budget estimate for salaries to Europe If there were a parcel poaj la In round figures $313,200. As the convenience. In fact, parcel post or budget could not hear any additional der* from the United States are rath expenditure without a deficit that er frequently received by Asuncion would embarrass at present and In fu merchants through third parties lo- ture hinder the development nnd the rated In Buenos Aires. progress of the province o f Mozam ------------ »------ Holland’s Foreign Trade. bique, to meet thla new expense Item The “ In- en Ultvoer” N publishes tbe government has Increased the fees for licenses for bars, canteens, kiosks, the following analysis of Dutch for etc., the telegraph and telephone rates, eign trade during the first half of and the export tax on sugar and ha* 1917: The valne o f the lending articles established a “ military" tax. Increased revalue Is expected from these meas Imported Into Holland from Germany, ures as fo llow s: Export tax on sugar. or rather, o f those articles which are $216.000; telegraph and telephone Included In the official figures o f the rates, $27,000; other taxes and fees, central bureau o f statistics ("Maand- stattstlek van den In- en Ultvoer en 846,000. van bet Entrepotvet-keer"). In the first quarter of the year Was 25,365,107 flor Bermuda Potato Crop. It la estimated that the Triumph or ins (about $10,400,000 at exchange of fall crop of potatoes which will be $0.41), and. In the second quarter, 46,- reaped In Bermuda will l»e 82,50(1 284.006 florins (about $18.567.000), a bushels, according to Vice Consul Still total o f 76,849,713 florins In the first man W. Ellis, Hamilton. This la less six months of 1917. The value o f the by 8,000 bushels than the fall crop of chief articles exported to Germany was 1918, In aplte o f the fact that more 49.247,575 florins (about $20,191,600) acreage was planted to potatoes the In the first qusrter nnd 52,841,202 flor past year. The reason given for this ins (about $21.065.000) In the second, by the director of agriculture la that or 102,088,777 florins for the half year. "the earlier planting* have been a f Thus, In the flrst quarter Holland sent fected by unfavorable seasons and will almost twice as much to Germany as not produce a normal crop. The fields It received, bnt In the second quarter planted later give promise o f good the Import trade with Oermany almost balanced the export trade. yields.” RAISINS AND WINE Important Products of the Fa mous Malaga District. Vinos Not Trained on Arteora, but Pruned to Form Buehee Cover ing About One Square The two principal varieties at grapeo grown In the Malaga district are the muscatel and the Pedro XImen. Rais ins and wine are both made hero from tbe muscat«! and wine from the Pedro Xlwen, observes a correspondent The vines are not trained on arbors, but are pruned to form bushes that eover an area of about one square yard at.harvest time. The vine« are set out In rows ten feet apart. During the spring and summer they are carefully cultivated and sprayed with sulphate o f copper to destroy Insects. The grapes begin to ripen about the first of August. Laborer* with large fldt baskets or trays gather the fruit. It Is not alWcut ou t at one time, but tbe field la gone over periodically and only t ie ripe clusters are cut from the vine with scissors. The raisins produced near Malaga are not treated with sulphur, lye, or oil, as Is the practice In other parts of Spain. In or near the grape field there la thrown up an earth terrace Inclined toward the setting sun. Thla is divided Into sections about ten yards long und twelve yards wide, around which a low brick or stone wall la built, to protect the ralalns and to sup port the canvas stretched -over them at night or during Inclement weather. The object o f this slanting surface la to keep the sun constantly shining upon It. The bottoms o f the drying beds are covered with fine gravel to retain the heat. . Immediately after being gathered, the graj>e* are spread out on the beds for exposure to the burning sun. At nightfall the raisins are covered with canvas to protect the fruit from the heavy dew, and, as stated, the canvas is also spread over them In the event o f rain. There Is rarely any rain In this section during May, June, July, August and September. Daring tbe process" o f drylHg“ the p f f H Ih a t re- raaln green or become spoiled are care fully removed, and the clusters are turned from time to time In order that they may color uniformly. Tbe drying process takes about three week«, so that the •first raisins o f the season are ready for packing about the end of August. Heaviest shipments go for ward In September. Before packing the raisins are sort ed and graded. A fter small and im perfect raisins have been cut off tbe clusters are laid in boxes lined with white paper and containing usually 22 or 25 pounds of fruit. Good fruit which has become detached from clusters through shaking and raisins cut from small and Irregular clusters are sepa rated from the rejected fruit and are also packed for shipment. The boxes o f raisins are then brought to Malaga by the growers for disposal to the ship-, per* and dealers. The prices realized vary considerably according to the quality o f the fruit and the quantity o f the crop, also according to the con dition of the Industry in the other countries where raisins sre produced and the general demand In the world markets. ----------- 1 --------- Coats Rica’s Coffea Exports. Official statistics o f Costa Rlca’a coffee exports for the past season show shipment* totaling 27,044,550 pounds gross— 10,080.630 pounds less than during 1915-16. Of Beneflctado or full milled coffee 24.749.135 poynds were exported, and 2.295,415 pounds o f the Pergamino (parchment) grade, these quantities being respectively. 91.51 per cent and 8.49 per cent of the total. The United States took 53.16 per cent of the shipment*, the United Kingdom 40.14 per cent, and Panama the hulk o f the remainder. Some cof fee was sent to France, Italy, Spain nnd Chile. The province o f 8an Jose supplied 46.34 per cent of the exports, Heredia 16.32 per cent, Cartago 13.22 per cent. and'AlaJuela 12.98 per cent. The estimated value o f the coffee ex- l»orted was 8.128,489 colones. (A t nor mal exchange the colon la worth $0.4653; exchange now fluctuating.) The 1917-18 crop Is placed at 30,000,- 000 pounds, hut the season Is not far enough advanced to mnke any definite esttmnte. FINDING A D ES IR A B LE W IFE Lonoly Young Pioneer Who Old Not Know How, Found It Woe Really Rather Simple. In a new settlement In the thick forest, 20 miles or more from a city and ten inllya from a railway, were located a sawmill and a few scattered homesteaders who worked at the mill when It was running and attended their little clearings at other times, relates a writer In the Chicago Trib une. One day In tbe cook’s camp, connect ed with the mill, the man and his w ife In charge began Joking tbe homestead er about being the only settler in the whole community without a w ife and family. “ Ilow can I help it?" said he. “There are no marriageable women that I know.” “ Oh, there are lots o f them that would be glad of a good home such as you could furnish," said they. "Well, you Just find me one,” aald the homesteader, “ and I will make you a present of the beat cow oo the place.” Not to be bluffed, they accepted bla proposition. Then they got huay, run ning over their list o f acquaintances In the city, finally selecting, for their matchmaking expedient, an estimable lady of their acquaintance, living with her married sister In the dty. The vrctlm selected for thé sacrifice had reached that age when unmarried women cease to celebrate birthday* and begin to regard the tapering end of statistical possibility with more or less concern. The homesteader was about the same age, and, evidently. Just as much concerned about his fu ture on earth. À friendly Invitation was .forthwith extended to the lady to spend a week with the cook’s family at the camp. It waq. innocently ac cepted. The homesteader was conveniently Invited to a Sunday dinner with the cook's family, and the tragedy was staged. A case o f love and desperation et first sight. In the afternoon, chap eroned by the cook and his wife, the party casually strolled over to the homesteader's hungatow, where they found everything "spick and Apan,” with just enough Incongruity In the arrangement to imike the flqgers o f an orderly housekeeper tingle with ambi tion to put things in their proper cor ners. A few months later the records In the county clerk's office gave a hint of further developments, which were staged at the sister’s home liv the city. The happy coufde at once settled in their new home “ and lived happily ever afterward,”- --------- — In the excitement the poor cow was crowded off the stage and forgotten by the matchmakers, but a short time later, looking out one morning, they saw Mr. Homesteader driving a cow Into camp— as good as his word. Soiith African Shoe Trad«. Cape Province has numerous firms which manufacture boots and shqes. Many of these are engaged In the pro duction of high-class footwear though, aa a rule, the better class of footwear that Is popular In this country. Is ob tained from overseas, writes Consul General George H. Murphy. Cqpe Town. The foreign producer, with his highly specialized factories. Is able, with the aid o f the Importing merchant, to flood the market here with enormous quan tities of boots and shoes, either made for the South African trade, or form ing a part o f his surplus output. The result Is that the South African pro ducer is unable to command a suffi cient market to warrant extensions of his plant to meet large calls which may be made by the wholesaler. He must content himself with producing high-grade footwear In small quanti ties for the retailer. Large quantities of hoots nnd shoes are being received from the United States, partly us a result o f the Im possibility of obtaining adequate sup plies elsewhere. When the Doctors Despaired. There have been recorded during the war many being cured by accidental means, such a* a sudden noise or an unexpected visitor, or as a startling question, and In one case at least a midnight »fall out of bed. But one of the strangest cases belongs to a for mer war. observes a correspondent, where a soldier lay 15 months under the Influence o f rntalepsy. Finally. In despair, the doctors ordered the bag pipes to be played near the patient's bed. ThaJ did the trick. Aa Effective as Tanka. There Is a story fold of a skipper Cyprus, the founder o f the Persian empire, first put Into practice the who had a medicine-cheat containing Idea o f equipping the wooden ammu cure« nntnherod one to seven. For dys nition carts o f ancient Romans and pepsia he administered a stiff dose of Egyptians with sharp scythe-llke No. 7. For sprains. No. 2 was the bot knives. These were fastened to the tle. end for rheumatism. No. 5 seemed body and wheels o f chariots, and were to work the oracle. But on a lengthy effective' In charging among massed voyage the skipper ran out of No. 7. so when next a member of the crew troops. In the mtddje ages the modest had a pain In his middle he dosed him knlvsd chariot was transformed Into with a mixture of 2 plus 5. Nobody a movable tower, covered with sur had another pain during that voyage, face armor, affording protection to men or, at any rate, confessed to hevln* Inside. These were moved during a ooe. siege over the moats surrounding cas Will Purchase Foreign Hides. tles. From them a platform was let down on the top o f the walls, which 11 Sole, published at Milan, contain* served aa a bridge for the attacking an article on the formatldh of an as troop«. sociation for the purchase of foreign Record Year for Kingston. Utilise Burning Mine’ s Blast. raw hides. The directing committee Consul Felix 8. 8. Johnson of King At Zwickau, In Saxony, a Ore la still It states, mot at Home mid nominated Switzerland'a Llve Stock P ri cos. burning, or was burning when war was ston, Ontario, reports that on the basis The pries of oxen hought at a re as president Oommeodntore Gennaro declared, which began In the fifteenth o f business already done the declared century. Thla also Is a burning coal exports frdm that Canadian district to cent sale ranged from $440 to $480 Maffetone of Naples. The seat of the mine, and as long ngo ns 1837 that Ger the United 8tatea during the past cal the pair; huila were sold for $160 to association In Home was fixed at the man thoroughness which the world la endar year will approximate $5,000,000 $180 each ; cows. $240 to $280 each ; Hotel Splendid, where the wool asso learning so sadly-to understand put I t value, as contrasted with $2,484,- young cowa. $160 to *200 each; goata, elation I* Installed. It has been possi 642 In 1916 and $1.288,281 In 1916. In $12 to $16 each ; amall porks. $12 to ble to enable the office to begin with even a burning mine to use. by convey Ing the hot air through pipes to con 1910 Kingston had an export trade $16 each ; medium-sized porks, $40 to out delay the admission of associate* servatories of vast extent and produc with the United States o f less thau $00 the palf* fat porks. 32 cent* per and the organization of purchase:, finances, Insurance, freight*, etc. $800.000. pound : sheep. $12 to *6 each. tiveness. HOW C A M EL WAS PER S U AD ED TOO MANYTONGOES Language of the United States It Urged for All. Suggestion le Offered That AM e f the Earth’s People Learn to Speak English. Beast, Resented Carrying Bush (Wan’ s Teakettle, and Was Lead to Be lieve Rider Did the Work. In 1866 camels from India were brought to Australis for general Ice. says Norman Duncan In hia book. “ Australian Byways.", It was a happy experiment. A herd of more than 600 arrived with their Afghan masters In 1884. It is estimated that there are now 10,000 camels at labor In the dry, beck regions of thq commonwealth. An Australian loves a horse end respects the sturdy worth o f a bullock; he re gards a camel, however, with tolerance rather than approbation, and will not employ so outlandish and perverse • beast except to the great advantage o f his needs. “ We used to think,” said Jerry, thw camel driver employed by the author, “ that we couldn’t get along without the ’Ghana." “ Surely they know how to ta^g cere of tamela?" I asked. / “ No fe a r!“ Jerry scoffed. “They had. a lot of superstitions—like coring a camel with a necklace o f bine bend« • and that’s about ell. The government breeds better camels now. That’s only natural; we’ re white. I don’t mean to say. though, that we’ve bred the devil out o f our camels. Sometimes I lose patience with the brutes. “ A couple of year* ago I wa# travel ing to tbe north of this with a train of four pack camels. One morning when I was packing I found that I had forgotten to stow away a billy can (bushnmn’s teakettle). When I picked that little hilly can up and made for the nearest camel, meaning to hang it on his pack, he began to doable and groan, as If It wasn't his billy can, and he wasn't going to carry more than hia share, and what did I mean anyhow by proposing to overload a poor camel that way? So to make things easy I switched off to the next camel. And he began to groan. They alt groaned. Not one o f them would have that little billy can on his hack. “ Well, I was disgusted. Instead of hanging It on a pack I mounted my riding camel, with tbe hilly can In my hands. He was horrified. Goodness, how he bawled! When he got np he was bawling still.« Wouldn’t move a step! And then I leaned forward and shook that hilly cad In his face. And that satisfied him. Off he went with out a murmur. Why? I reckon he i thought I was carrying that billy can.” The next thing that must be done In the way o f world efficiency la to get rtd o f a lot o f languages that are float ing around to the restraint of trade. It will be tbe most difficult feet of all, bat It mast be done, Ja*t the seme. This thing o f every bunCh of people across a river or over a mountain •peaking a different language from their near nelghhoiSi la the biggest handicap the world has to contend with today, asserts a writer In the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Moreover, this surplus of languages la the one thing, above all others, that has caused misunderstandings, wars, strategies, spoils, hell-raising, and hatreds generally. The Idggest bur against the friendly relations o f one people with another has been the difference In their mode of human speech. It started with the building o f the Tower of Babel when the Lord confused the people on pur pose because o f their wickedness, and he took the best way possible to a«v compllsh the result o f the divine will. But. now that God’s people have been making a fairly good stab* at getting right with him again— all o f ua, and oar fathers before ns for centuries— It la reasonable to suppose that God will let ns ditch that Tower of Babel stuff i f we make a real good honest try at 1L America Itself— the melting pot of nations— Is a striking proof that the thing can be done. Here have they come from every land and all the aeveo seas, the children of all races, speak ing every tongue known tp man, and before they know It they are all speak ing good United States. Then, why not start a serious move ment to get the whole world, here and elsewhere, speaking United States— or English, i f that’s a better wny to gay It? It won’t he easy, but It certainly can be done. And when It la done, thla^wlll be a happier, a more peaceful, and a more prosperous earth on which to live. We recommend English— that Is to say, the way we speak It here in Amer Ship of Mystery. ica— as the universal language, because The manufacture o f a large part o f R is, without doubt, the best language | machinery to replace anything broken o f all. If only for the reason that It la i la almost Impossible, In the limited tnade up of almost all th e others. space o f the battleship’s machine In French. Russian. German. Span shops. But wondrous feats are per ish, Italian, and all foreign tongues It formed In the repair shlps~"that ac usually requires 17 words or more to company fleets on stations remote from say what we say In one. The Welsh, dock facilities, states a British war fo r Instance, have a word with 19 let correspondent. ters in it that we can put In four let The repair ship Is a huge floating ters. These other folks fog up their smithy and machine shop packed with larynges and wear out their nasal pas everything that the wit o f man can sages saying things what we say better concentrate Into the space for treating with a mere breath and a touch o f the wounded battleships. These ships em tongue against the teeth. ploy some o f the best artificers from Unless you were born to It. or unless oar naval dock yards, and are scat they caught you very young, you might tered In every quarter in which the as well try to learn to he a circus British fleet Is stationed remote from tumbler as to learn French or German dock facilities. The Boche has noth and earn a living In the bargain. The ing like them, and It has been stated thing will take up all your time while ; that no Inquisitive Roche has ever the potatoes go to pot and the cobwebs been allowed to Intrude his nose grow across the sgore door. And. In abonrd one to Investigate Its myster the end. you will And that you haven't ies nhd take the information to his learned these lines of talk, anyway. employers o f how the strange feat* The thing to do Is to make yourself performed by the repair ship are e f as nearly a master of English as pos fected. The repair ship I* tbe abode sible. and then force the other fellows of secret*. to speak our language for their own good. Stoppm- the Ex-Czar’s Express. The ex-czarina's belief in the un Horae Breeding In Brazil. Any project which has for Its pur- speakable Rasputin proves that she pose the betterment o f animal breed was of a strongly superstitions turn ing is certain to attract attention In of mind, and she Is generally regarded Brazil, since the country has come to as the true maker of the revolution In realize Its full possibilities In ranch Russia, but an incident which occurred ing and similar o|>erations, writes Con whilst the ex-czar was traveling from sul General Alfred L. M. Rottsehalk. Petrograd to Moscow proves that the Rio de Janeiro. The development has superstition is not all on her side. It appears, says a writer, that the been going on slowly and almost im ex-czar wears a ring In which he be perceptibly for several years. Some ranch owners at their own expense lieves is embedded a fragment of the have Imported various types of cattle true cross. It was originally one o f and experimented Individually with the treasures o f the Vatican and was crossbreeding. Work In this direction presented to one of the czar's prede also has been done hy the National So cessors for diplomatic reasons. The ciety o f Agriculture In Rio de Ja value he places on this suppositions neiro, seconded hy state cattle asso- relic was proved when he accidentally left It behind him when traveling to clatlons and ranchmen's leagues. Recently a commlslon appointed by Moscow. He had the train atopped the president of Brazil for the study instantly, a special express chartered, and conservation of the national re and a trusty messenger sent post-haste sources has been at work on a census back to fetch the missing ring, nor of live stock, taken from the reports would he allow the train to budge an Inch till his messenger returned, hours of municipalities. afterward, with the relic! J Oil-Yielding Plant* In Denmark. At a large meeting of farmers' as sociations recently held In ropenha- gen, there was much discussion about the planting o f oil-yielding plants, such as flax and hemp. There has been a general tendency toward Inereaatng the areas planted to grain, hut on account of the growing acarclty of fats and edible oils. It now seems to he desir able to grow more oll-ylelding planta. especially as the residue left after pressing out the oil (oil cakes) will help to supply ihe great deficiency In cattle feed«. Pay Shoeworkar* Mere. The female machine operator* em ployed in the Birmingham and Walsall leather trades huve been awarded ad vances in wages as from last October. Female machine operators fifteen years of age and over are to receive 10 per cent bonus on their actual earn ing*. The minimum rate for those of eighteen year* and over, who have Iteen engaged a* machine operator* for more than one year. Is to be 13 cent* an hour for hot-wax machines, and 11 cent* for dry-thread machines. The time rate for female operator* between the age* of fifteen and eighteen la to Irish Crop ReporL. According to the agricultural statls remuin aa at present, provided tha tlca o f Ireland the total acreage under after being engaged on machines fo< crop« In 1910 was 4,806,575. The acre one year the time rate shall not be age under crops the past year was less than eight cents per hour. Time 5*570,453. showing an Increase of 763,- and a halt has been settled aa the -— 878 acres, or 16 |>er cent. The total overtime rate. area under potatoes In 1917 was 709.- Win Truth by Strength. 263 ncrea, aa comi>ared with 586.3tV> acres In 1916. an lncr»*ase o f 122,955. or We think that we shall win truth by 21 per cent: under hny. 2,582.7*23 acres, striving after strength. Instead of as compared with 2.460,247 acres tu knowing that we «hall gain strength 1916, an Increase of 128,476 acres, or Just In the degree that we becoie*» 5.3 per cent. tm «^ PhllHp« Brook*.
