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STEADFASTLY REFUSE "ig
SU M S1 + I' 71JTES
Black, Mixed or Natural Green.
13205
&onentie Value of Vegetables. spring lamb,• broiling chickens, .early
strawberries, early vegetables, etc.
Bey sparingly the foods which are
procured more for their taste than
their nourishment, e.g:, boillon, many
relishes and condiments, many lin-
ported hothouse fruits and vegetables.
Buy Canadian grown and Canadian
manufactured foods. There are too
many imported jams and canned foods
on our gropers' shelves. Leave them
there and they will disappear.
People with a garden and the ne-
cessary time can greatly lessen the
food cost by canning their own fruits
and vegetables. Meats also may be
canned to advantage when prices are
low.
Excessive tea and coffee is costly in
nerves as well as money.
Use all the cereal foods possible.
Potatoes 385 Their protein is quite as valuable as
The great value of fresh vegetables animal food protein and much cheaper.
lies in the mineral salts which they Cheese is especially valuable as a
contain. Among these are salts of flavoring for combination with breads
and more neutra' flavored foods.
Use leftovers attractively.
Too often leftovers are served un-
attractively. There are many simple
able substances are soluable in, water
ways of converting them into dishes
and when vegetables are boiled in the the family welcomes,
ordinary way the water dissolves a Use more time and lower heat in
cookery to develop flavors and secure
all the goodness in the foods. This
means forethought in marketing. and
planning for the work.
Housewife's Helps.
Overcooked fish is dry and tasteless,
and undercooked fish is not safe.
"Natural 'sugars" are rnost whole-
some for children—dates, raisins, figs,
honey.
If meat is overcooked it is waste and
nourishment is lacking.
An -excellent gift to a neiv house-
keeper is a kitchen bookshelf, with all
the necessary cookery books on it.
• The bones that are in the rib.roast,
even after being roasted, will make
Vegetables like onions, cabbage,
cauliflower, lettuce, turnips and car-
rots provide very little energy for the
body, as compared with bread, corn
meal, rice, dried beans and potatoes,
as may be seen from the following
table.'s' (Vegetables—Food unit per
pound not counting waste in prepara-
tion for the table);
Celery 85
Cucumbers 80
Lettuce 90
Onion 225
Carrots 210
Cauliflower 140
Cabbage 146
Bread 1215
' Corn meal 1650
Rice 1630
Dried Beans 1620
iron, phosphorus and lime, a liberal
supply of.which is necessary to health
although life may be sustained for
months without them. These valu-
greater part of the material and the
vegetable itself is left in a compara-
tively worthless condition. Vegetables
should be cooked in such a way that
all their soluble mineral constituents
may be used for food. If vegetables
lyre boiled in a large quantity of water
their water should be added to soup
or boiled down and added to stews and
similar dishes. Vegetables may be
steamed in their own juices without
the addition of water. The liquids
that come out of them in the process
of cooking should be served with them
as sauce. Carrots, turnips, radishes,
outside stalks of celery, cut into short
lengths, may be cooked in a covered
dish in the oven with meat of any
kind. The cheaper cuts of meats
lend themselves particularly well to
this treatment. Beet tops, radish
tops, turnip tops and carrot tops may
be used as spinach. Even parts of
green vegetables that are too dry or
too tough to be beaten by themselves,
may be cut into small pieces with the cheaper than extracts. -
scissors and boiled in water, which is The paused doorway makes an ef-
then drained and added to soup or fective bookcase. The door should
be locked and treated as the back • of
the case. Shelves can be set in the
entire door space or the lower half.
Take coarse salt, wet with gaso-
line, sprinkle on the rug or carpet,
then sweep back and forth across the
THROUGH THE DARK S1ADOWS
of The Sunlight 01 i ov0
CHAPTER XXIV,T(Cont'd).
Almoot immediately Lord Hamlin.
suer appeared, accomyyanted' by
Mortimer Shelton. Hanker rose re-
spectfully and rather nervously, but
Lord Barminster, et once put him at
his ease.
'Pray be seated' Mr, Harker," he
said politely, as✓lieand Shelton set the
example.�. "This is my son's friend,
Mr. Sheton, and I should like him to
be present at our interview."
Mr. Harker bowed,
I presume you are the Mr. Harker
into whose possession came the forged
bill?" continued his lordship,
"As a mere servant—yes my lord,"
answered Mr. Harker. "I have be-
come aware of the identity of the man
whb committed the actual forgery, and
also of the fact that he is now pre-
paring to bring further trouble on
yourself and Mr. Adrien Leroy.
Lord Barminster etarted es if to
speak, but Mr. Harker continued:
"Fortunately, I am able to avert
this, because I have brought the for-
ged bills with me; and I will explain
all fully, if your lordship will hear me
through. It will take some little time,
but I ask your patience."
Lord Barminster nodded and said
quietly:
, "Go on," "
With a dry cough, ` Mr. Harker
opened the little black bag he in-
variably carried with him, and drew
from it a roll of papers. With slow
Said Lord Barminster quietly. "It
haance patdo fpr ethatto
will have
ceniidell9e in you& and you shall have
no cause to regret this day's work, I.
assure you."
Mr. Harker looked at him grate
.fully
"Thank yoµ, my lord " he said,
"Your confidence is net misplaced' in.
deed' it is not my fault. diet you have
not Veen 'placed in possession of the
real facts of the case before this. 7'
certainly think it would be beat for me
to retain them for -the present. 8
would suggest now that we arrange a
plan by which Jasper Vermont shall
expose his villainy in the actual pre-
sence of your son; otherwise, we shall
have difficulty, perhaps, to convince
him on my bare words'
"That's true enough," put in
Mortimer Shelton, "Adrian is so set
on the man that even with these
proofs we stall hardly convince him
of his treachery other than from Ver-
mont's own mouth."
"Yes," said Lord Barminster with
a sigh. "I think you are riht, But
how is this to be managed?"
"I have brought with me the girl,
Jessica, to whom I referred just now,
and her aunt, Miss Ada Lester," said.
Mr. Harker. "Both of them will be
able to assist us, and I would suggest
to your lordship that they be sent for,
and brought into the Castle quietly.
We should then be able to confront
" _
V o..,aont.
precision, the old man unfastened it "Certainly," agreed Lord Barmin-
.
and looked across at his listeners,
"Fiveyears ago,"he commenced, ster^ and, crossing the room, he rang
"my for his own confidential man.
my master—fpr, as I said before, I "Simpson," he said, when the ser -
was merely a servant, a machine, act- vent appeared, "I want you to drive
ing under instructions—ordered me to down, yourself, to'the station."
buy up any hills bearing your son's "The Windleham Hotel, your lorcl-
name, Furthermore, I was to lend „
ship, interrupted Mr. Harker, re -
the moeen's credit any amount within my sr. ctfully. "I think, too, if your lord -
master's to those who brought ship would have no object, a shorhis name as gurantee. It
soa
every bill and liaa 1 ty whichiwas,
connote from me would be advisable." I a year and a half more than Germany
traded either in his own name or in! Certdinly, agreed Lord Barmin- had achieved in forty years. In the
step He directed opce er to a small (
yours, my lord, by Mr. Leroy, fell into desk, then turned once mora to the first year, of the war, before the Bre-
then turned of this man, who carried on waiting servant, "Bring• the ladies
the business under cover of my name. back with you. Take them into the
He posed as the friend of Mr. Leroy, Octagon room, and ask them to wait
and by means of forgeries, and cooked
accounts, he has managed to acquire there." Then;, as Mr, Harker came
control of your entire revenue.",forward with the note, he added,
ve this to a Mies Lester."
"Jasper Vermont!" exclaimed Shel-1 "Yes, my lord," said Simpson, and
ton involuntarily; while Lord Barmin-i..talcing the letter with a deep bow, lie
star leaned forward eagerly. I departed on his"mission.
(To be cont:*:ued).
11 -ACRE BRITISH
SHELL FACTORY
HUGE OUTPUT OF HEAVY ARTIL-
LERY AND SHELLS. •
Britain Has Accomplished More in 18
Months Than Germany in"
Forty Years.
As a part of the vast organization
for making munitions, the British
Government began the building of im-
mense Government arsenals. There
are about a snore of these, entirely
outside of the thousands of private
factories under Government control
for war -work. When the history of the
war comes to be written, no phase of
it will be more worthy of eulogy—ex-
cept the stuanchness of the Entente
soldiers and sailors under heavy hand!•
caps—than the wonderful energy and
capacity shown by the Munitions De-
partment of Britain in getting done in
Mr. Harker bowed his head, "You
are aware," he continued, "that all
natters of business, even the trades-
men's bills, passed through his hands.
That confidence he has"abused, to how
great an extent I alone can prove; for i •
I was his tool and slave, and held his; Frost out and grass land not too
secrets. Not a bill was paid with-; wet? Time for the roller then,
out his receiving his commission and; Get up a little club among your
adding to. -its amount. He it was' neighbors to buyour lime,rass-
who lent the money to Mr..Leroy s g y g
fiends, after he had procured his name seed and fertilizer.
with which to back them; and he it• It is a good thing to follow the pro -
was, who, behind the screen which I cession when the procession is headed
supplied, gradually, yet surely, drew the right way,
WORDS OF WISDOM. -
some stock if they are boiled for n your son into his net. What object We know of folks who pay a hon -
he had, besides that of gain, I know
long time. I dred-fold more attention to the bed of
not; but he certainly desired his utter
It will aid greatly in cleaning the ruin in wealth and honor, and compell- lettuce and garden sass than they do
painted walls -if :they are gone over ed me to help him in his schemes, to the trundle -bed and the little chap
with thin uncooked starched water. Among other bills we held was one, that sleeps and grows in it. That
Never throw away the skins• of presumably, indorsed by Mr. Mortimer isn't you, though, is it? '
oranges. - The grated yellow rind is a Shelton—' When he was well along in years a
good flavoring for cakes, etc., and it is Shelton started up; but Lord Bar-
minster said quietly:
"Let us hear the whole story first,
Mortimer."
"That signature was a forgery,"
continued Mr, Harker, "double forgery
indeed; for it imitated Mr: Leroy's
handwriting as well as that of Mr,
Shelton."
"I knew it," murmured his lordship
in a low tone. "But pray continue,
Mr. Harker."
stew. Not an inch of any sort of
vegetable shouldbe wasted,
Three Fish Dishes.
Creamed Mackerel—Mackerel should
be soaked for twenty-four hours with
the skin side on top. Place on a fabric. You must sweep real hard;
saucepan, cover with milk and simmer this kills any moths'or germs; also
for fifteen or twenty minutes. Re- cleans and brightens the rug.
move the fish and place on a shallow
baking dish in the, over.. Rub togeth,
er one tablespoonful of butter with one
teaspoonful of flour, add slowly the
hot milk in Which the fish- las been
cooked, season with a little pepper.
Baked Codfish.—One cupful- of Tice, The newest submarines must be
four `.cupfuls of milk, one cupful of able to sink to a depth of 150 feet, or
flaked codfish; two eggs, two table- more. At such a depth the pressure
spoonfuls of butter, salt, pepper, bread is tremendous, and if the joints are
crumbs. Cook'the rice in the milk un-
til it is creamy. Then add the flak- not perfect, water squirts in as
enago
ed fish, butter, well -beaten eggs and testinghgaane vsepipe. submarine wasaas dan-
gerous job. Site might not he water-.
tight. Her balance might not be per-
fect, or, again, the air system might
not be equal to blowing out the water
from her tanks.
Terrible accidents have occurred in
testing new under -water boats during
of butter half the size of an egg, 1 actual submergence, but to -day all
pint of milk. Mix all together, and that is a thing of the past. A testing -
bake in a moderate oven, 30 minutes. dock is used, which was invented by
an. Italian engineer, Major Laurenti.
Food Economy Hints. It is a huge cylinder, into which the
submarine is floated. A caisson at the
Learn the real cost -not how little. end is closed and hermetically sealed,
did it cost, but how much real 'nourish- 'The cylinder is built so as to stand
cent was secured with the money tremendous pressures, and pressure is
spent. - !slowly applied until it equals some -
Plan the meals ahead so that onelthing far greater than the submarine
may dovetail with another, and the herself will ever be called on to en -
leftovers be satisfactorily used in dure.
, acceeding meals, and so that you may The men inside are in communica-
avoid constant small orders to the tion- with those outside by means of
tradesmen. Remember that the sus- telephone, so that if anything goes
tomer pays for paper bags, string, andwrong the trial can at once cease.
delivery.
Avoid the expensive meats and oth-
er foods, the price of which is high in
TESTING SUBMARINES.
Terrible Accidents of Former Years
Now a Thing of the Past.
seasoning. Butter the dish and pour
in the mixture. Sprinkle bread crumbs•
on top and dot with butter. Bake un-
til nicely browned,
Baked Salmon,—One tin of .salmon.
Take a fork and beat up fine. Take
about <i soda crackers, and roll fine: 1
egg, salt and pepper to teeth, A piece
Everybody wants something for
nothing, yet very few people are sat..
the early season and lowers later, e.g., isfied with things they get that way.
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PARKER SERVICE
Known Everywhere Available Everywhere
Just because there is sot a "Parker" Agency near
you is no reason why you should do without "Parker
Service."
The excellence of our work is so well known that
it need only be mentioned here.
But the convenience of our service by mail to distant
customers is not. Articles of any sort can be sent us
either by parcels post or express, and returned in the
same manner. We pay the carriage charges one
way, Every precaution is taken to ensure their
safety in transit,
So many things can be "rescued" by cleaning or dye.
lug that the value of this scrvtco will be apparent to
everyone,
When yon think of ofoanteg of dyeing, think of PARKER'S,
5rrtrl Ar e PRfe,tg copy 11/ Our walla tend entefalr'ng
book on cleaning and dy�eing,
Do sure to address yolk wool Ilesoly to a celviea dot,
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"The double forgery," went on the young and old, meet in the family
dry voice, I now know was executed
by my employer's hand; but instruc- circle before bedtime. The boys and
tions were given in the name of the girls grown old will forget som:
firm to charge Mr. Adrien Leroy with things, but they always will remember
the crime. The particular day was this •little trysting place in the home
fixed on the twenty-second simply be- when things were talked over to -
cause my master had found out that gather heart to heart, and when the and have husbands in the army. They to two.
Mr. Leroy had been somewhere else, the gravel -stones emitted a spark as
and in the company of a lady whom thoughts turned toward the beat 1 help themselves •os flnanciallY y —•:• the rollers crushed it, In an instant
he knew Mr. Leroy would never be- things.. by so working, but, mora important, PAISLEY SHAWL IS BACK. , there was a flash and a roar,
tray. But this part you already know A pretty good thing for noighbob- they also help to beat the enemy, and 1 and the building great flan cared, 'flares
from yesterday's trial. False evid- ing farmers to do is to band them- to save British soldiers—perhaps their Kind Gragdmot1,ei Used' to Wear is blackened and mangled eai'edea were
once was brought to bear, in the;tate- selves together to help one another own husbands. Women are in the Again in Favor. � picked up. In order to save. them-
ment that your son had been in our out about butchering and marketing roof controlling the overhead electric
Have you noticed thatthePaisley solves from rebuke and perhaps from
office, and it was only owing to a anything in the meat line which is to traveling cranes that command every shawl is coming barkt And what discharge, two hall sae i -
plea of illness that T escaped being be turned off. Atmost there foot of the floor space. Each has a
made a witness also. This was but will be some in the t always}t who rope to 'slide down to the floor with,
does that mean to you? fieed the lives of three other faithful
men and the lives of thaaithf s -
nue forgery, and i have here large are competent to do this work in ex- and for practice she is obliged to slide The Paisley shawl is the shawl that placede
numbers of bills all forged by the p down once a week. Octroi worsen grandmother used to wear. It is the in jeopardy.
same hand, and whish; if presented, celled shape.direct descendant in the Scotch line of In another plant a young man
will amount to more than the sale of Sometimes it is necessary to cut a drive electric carriages 00 the lions it- industry of the famous and costly , operatinga cutting machine, in which
three such estates as this could joint of stovepipe, and it is usually a elf ratios of line—sitting in a sort of g
liquidate." very 'difficult task.Try this method: eaa); chair, slid p1111t11g levers. Six
facture wasmir tone of long and patient la-' css of menu- utintoicshorter spieces. sew powder arc iron
Lord Barminster uttered an creta- Take the measure of the pipe and and nine -inch shells cannot be lightly bor. The material that went into it nail comingdown with the Powder. He
cation of horror. mark it where it is to be cut, and then thrown about. The latter weigh more
"I will leave them here with you," take a can -opener, drive it in and f 01- titan a man, and either electricity or was the fine and flossy underwool of did not have time to stop the machine
wenteat If
on Mr-Harker,e"and when the low the alalic. By gohrg.very slowly two men are required to move them, the goat that Tibet inhabited a delicate he trioti to snatch it out hore the knives steuck e mhe lrht lose
scotutdrel has been unmasked, you Electricity does 410 per cent. Many regio6
mood have' no fear, of•any future dan- you will find that you can do a very aerial •to work teat care was ex- a hand. If he let itgo uothin but a
ger. In my master's chain of villainy, satisfactory job. othol' 'women are in peg -top trousers,
andg g
there was a single. flaw; but that flaw Seed -corn can be very easily spoil- but these do mol hide the fomitllnities I done flet The
eel so production
patience ar l miracle soffit} prevent an explosion,
off
that alpine from the delicate stress, or 1 for the nail would bo sure to
has broken the whole ithain. The poor ed betivea! now and planting time, the blouse and tie, or the flowers in care and toil that $1'2 a pound was not a spark if struck by the knife..
tool whom he had had so long beneath During warm and damp days corn There was only histhumbawhom he had trodden under will absorb considerable 'moisture vases decorating the immediate neigh- an uncommon price. Not infrequently a ,fraction 05 a sec-
his foot remorselessly, suddaily re-1antl then a cold snap will injure the bmbaod,
tht,manufacture of a single shawl re- and in which to decide, With the
gained itis freedom—which he had'germ. If possible it should be mov- Compllcaicd �}'orlc. gltpr°ti the time of three inert for one1 coolness that characteri::e,p chase who
bartered for the safety of }tis only year, and such shawls very often spend their lives in the presence of child." ed to a warm place now; this is even The factory creates its own else- brought prices of 8000 and $1,000, danger, he snatched the nail from un-
der the knife and put it into his smok-
ily into the•stet'n eyes of. Lord Bar -lovas last fall. Plan to Last your seed- In some seetione hydraulic power is The gigantic banyan under which let, So quickly did he move that not
minder. corn. used, inside the factory, aro the Alexander is said to have camped with oven the skin of his hand was broken.
"Myf red f and •he chainsh thea "are' It for t a lotf of time tol sort over s forges which receive steel ingots of 7,000 men now measures nearly 1,000
now freed front the that ybre- quart or two of nails of eburs, 1 ,sizes 850 pounds each. Each ingot is feet across the head, coniaim: about . ___.s. ---
us,
and are willing to bear any re- every ti you want a partieulsr size;• dropped rola u hydraulic tiiaclltne in 8,000 trunks, and forms a dense canopy A Frenchman has invented an ap-
poslur•ohatBesides the a bills ow from myslor•d ' but if you nialte a nail carrier out of which e. pressure of 750 tons is ap- through which sunshine never genet- Iparatus to cdmpress air in a reservoir
I have additional proof. A. young a little box, say ten inches or a foot plied, and cocoa out in the shape of rotas. Severin] other species also pin- as the doors of.s. house are emceed and
girl whom I have brought with me was long slid eight inches wide, with snail' 'ninedneh shells. These are pal. pagate in like Panner, utilize it to wind clocics,
fortunate enough to see Mr. Vermont Compartments for each size of nail,
and than keep each compartment free
Lord Barminster's face shone with from any but the enniticitlar size it is
triumph, ap the actual name of his noels. to 'Contain, you will gain a• good
master at last fell from Harker's lips. mann ntinutos that would otherwise
"—My master—drop a roll tri be wasted hunting for what may not
papers, These she picked up, and be in the box;'
later, when by a 'strange coincidence
she was befriended by my daughter," ----• •;•-----
shoved them to me. They clearly
prove, by the many atempts to imitate) The Batik of England.
the writing', whose hand it was who 1
eventually committed these forgeries,' I The Bank of England is not a Gov -
"I. knew it!" cred Shelton, unable to er'nmettt institution, Tt . is a very
keep silence any longer,' "I knew wet flourishing private company, founded
should catch the 'snake! But, pardon in 1694, which owes much of its sec -
my interrupting you, Mr. Harker; you' miss to the fact that it .is actually
see, Mi'. Leroy Is my best friend." I Britain's banker. A ,yearly salary is
Mr, Harker inclinded his head and' mild the Bank for management of the
proceeded steadily
'"These forged deeds, I will now, , National Debt of ll;ngland—•$1,625 per
my lord, hand over to your charge, if nitlltoe pounds of such a debt up to
you prefer it. But if you will have five hundred million, end at the rate
sufficient confidence in my effot'te to' of $500 for every million portntls
save you from further trouble I will 1 above this amount, Assuming, then,
held thein at your command until after that a War Loan realties $i2,fi00,000,-
Vermant 15 clealth with, in order not 000, the Bank of England would re-
to implicate you in any Way; for, of ' ee}ve an annual sum of $1,250;0011 for
dOutse, these bilis belong to Vermont, I this work alone, to say nothing of the
until either gives theta up volun-
arllY, or they are confiscated by incatn0 derived frons manaa'ntf;.thc old
arv1' National Debt, which, on the ofithreek
"Beep thorn in your pose eetion," of hestilitios, was $8,250,000,000,
Be Proud of
Your &'Company" Cake
Made with Five Roses Flour, .t
keeps its freshness and flavour
longer. Light, but firm of texture,
it won't crumble under the keen -
edged knife. Your guests are sure to
praise it.
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to
barrier ng ninatl,rcdo 'oanitoal, ne well as small ,,clip.. 1o1,
nus bottom ,rhos No. g—Intormedmtm xn, 13 wk.—made
by eta (loon /loatetrroom which Ilma mad atbartratahava
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Tho tlorysYoi{•,e, Il wire inns. O, eat. 6.tdy
frtnnlp.., p@n., linm,iton, Ont,
tish people woke up to the vast
seriousness of their position, the pro-
duction of heavy guns and shells was through a score of minor operations, PERILS .0F POWDER WORKERS.
not speeded up in any noteworthy de -
Cool
which the. rough carcass is can-
gree, With all his' foresight, Kitchen- tred," its nose bored, cavity bored, Cool Daring and Great Carefuln spw
er did not realize the need of high ex- screw -thread milled in the cavity, the
plosives, and immense howitzers. He channels cut in the part where the Necessary for Safety.
concentrated attention upon shrapnel. ' Copper band goes, the base plug is Smokeless powder is made in sticks,
In the Spring of 1915 the British army fitted, the inside polished and varnish- something like macaroni, It goes
was in a serious plight, owing 10 lack ed, the varnish dried, and the base is through a number of processes, and
of ammunition, At nue time it did not faced. Then comes the fastening on for the sake of safety those processes
have a week's supply, of the copper band, and when this !m- are conducted in small buildings re -
A Big Creation. portant operation is completed, the mote from one another•,
shell goes to the painting department• In a United States plant the powder
But in May, 1915, when. Lloyd George The paint Is sprayed on, the shell-case1
became Minister of Munitions, thep is conveyed from one buildingnto an- ale-,
real work of organizing a tremendous pt intonthen sen awayafos for ing. other on rat cars drawn byelectric
supply of heavy artillery and shells ling, and then sunt for loading, motor cars. Six one -hundred -pound
The steel -making and the loading are open boxes are loaded on each flat
began. Immense new arsenals were • far -away mysteries eo far ae this car. The wheel trucks have to be
planned. One of these, which is des -'large factory is concerned, blocked by- a wooden bar, which the
cribed by Arnold Bennett, the well -
Careful Testing Necessary. brakeman adjusts before the motor
known English writer, is a sample of
what British engineering genius has Some of the operations which dif- starts.
been able to accomplish. The pro- fer for the 6 -inch shell from those One day last spring a brakeman
posnlfor the factory was made on July for the 9 -inch, are conducted only by failed to adjust his wooden bar pro-
s, 1915, and was sanctioned on August
men, as in the forging department: perky. The car derailed, and the pow -
17. The land used was then adump-
Painting is done exclusively by we- der was spilled down an embankment
Ing Bound. Part of it being subjected men. Women excel in briefer opera- No guard happened to be near, and as
to flooding, foundations of the arsenal tions demanding close concentration, quickly as possible the brakeman and
were laid on piles The ironwork was the men in the longer processes. A the motorman shoveled up the powder
very important part of the work is and put it back on the car. Hr a few
the checking. Every shell has a par- moments the load was delivered at the
ticular biography on a card that tra- grinding house, and no one except the
vets with it. Every one is gauged, and 'two men knew of the accident. Un -
weighed, and periodically tested. A fortunately, they had shovelled up
certain percentage are deliberately some gravel with the powder. The
sawn to pieces, and samples turned three men in the grinding house heard
into bars, and the steel tested for the harsh crunching of the small
stones as they passed throrgh the
rollers.
Every powder -mill employee re-
ceives minute instructions about `what
to do when anything goes wrong, teed
Of the five tlrousend men and women seutble of the factory is wonderful, one of the throe, following instruc-
who labor unceasingly in this 11 -acre Not a foot of space Is wasted or out of tions, threw open the door to make a
factory, nearly one-half tire wome, joint in the whole eleven acres. Tho way of escape.
IA large proportion of them are young, women work in three shifts, the men Type crunching continued. One of
notonly e p nems t
farmer said: "I have grown some big started by September 25, and by
crops in my life, but the crop that March 26, 1916, power was installed.
has brought me the most satisfaction In the first week of June, 127 shells
has been the crop which came from were made. Within a year of the
sowing kind words and doing good sanctioning, August 17, 48,549 shells
things as I went along. Frost never had been delivered. Tho output now
cuts that crop down. No blight ever is 10,000 a week, and they are big
strikes it. The harvest is sure and shells. The factory covers 11 acres—
big.
In every home there is no more de-
lightful hour than when the folks,
think of the area—and it is all under tensile strength by machines of such
one roof, a wonderful example 01 can- potter that they pull fragments apart:
structive and engineering s1111. Nothing Is neglected to ensure the ar-
tilleryman a shell that performs cora
Woman's Effective Work. redly to the finest fraction. The en-
taWATEI..a.....+a .,,w ca. r.»,.,�..7s..anrA, IRIRTra.,era.,
No one ever doubts REDPATH quality, because
in its Sixty Years of use no one has ever bought a
barrel, bag or carton of poor Redpath sugar. It is
niade in one grade only --the highest.
"Let, Redpath 3weeteri, it. 12
i:. and $ lb, y� Cartons-- •�!
10, 20, 50 and 100 Ib, nags. C wilt Sugar Refining Col Limited) Montreal.
treaal.
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