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1a ". CHAPTER VI.--(Cont'd.¥ : Jerry nodded cheerfully, but when * his mother turned away, his brow wrinkled. Already they were almost at the end of his savings; to be sure, . there was still to his mother's credit the thousand dollars from his father's life insurance, but he did not like think fhey must draw on that. stood looking out of the window; presently he saw Nora Scanlan ap- Roach and went out to meet her. y walked on together for a little way, talking in subdued voices. "That means we'll never be mar- ried," she said listlessly, when he told her of the responsibility that he and his mother had undertaken, "Oh, yes, we will," he declared. "Why, Nora, 2 won't get tired wait- ing, will you?" "I don't know. Maybe I'm tired now." "Oh, Nora, don't say that." "Y guess it's true. You can't go on caring very much for a person when you're always worried and anxious and unhappy." . "Why don't you all give in and take the hard Nora asked listlessly. altogether ? carrying on this siege?" "It's justice we're fi Nora. for his own good, when he's fighting for justice." "There's no use in being obstinate. Dave and father are just as obstinate s you. "You'll be glad we were when it's all over. I don't believe you'd want to marry me if I quit, Nora." "I don't believe I want to anyway. We might as well stop talking about that, We both of us have too much else on our minds." Jerry was silent. He felt disheart- If Nora wasn't ened and crushed." ting for, willing to give him in the struggle sive effort to assert their authority very well in many districts where an such support as his mother gave him, she was no doubt right in breaking the engagement. Yet after a while he resumed desperately the effort to convince her that she was wrong. "Oh, Jerry," she answered, "don't try to throw dust in my eyes--and ur own. There's dust enought fly- ng to-day without that. I should like to get #way from this town." She set her lips and narrowed her eyes against the puff of wind that caught up the dirt of the roadway and gent it swirling. upon her. . "Such a filthy, = shabby, nasty little JFlaceld she said. © "Don't you hate it, Jerry?" "I never have," he answered mood- ily. "I don't know but what I may." "I'm tired of walking," she declared after a few moments of silence. "I'm going home now. And if you knew how I hate my home!" At the steps of her houge she bade him good-bye. "Don't come to see me any more, Jerry. For the present at least." "I've never liked anything the way I've liked loving you, Nora. I can't "op it off short, you know." "Y wouldn't have you do that, Jerry. Perhaps it will be some help to me to, anyway you'll feel that for a whi 1 to still go on caring for me--al yourself." She shook hands with him and turn- ed away. It was a long time be- fore he spoke with her again. CHAPTER VIL In the last week of July a notice was posted at the entrance to the Purroy Steel Works announcing that the mills would resume operations on the first Monday in August, and that the places of those sinployees who had not by that day signed the new wage scale would be filled. Dobbins called a meeting of the men; they voted, with no dissenting voice, to remain firm. Most of them held the opin- jon that the threat on the part of the management to introduce new work- men would not be executed; neverthe- | less, thexe was earnest discussion of the tactics to be employed for the frustration of such a measure. Dob- bins made a bitter speech. "You'll not let any outsiders get a foothold in the Works!" he-cried. "You'll kee them out--by force, but not by viol- ence!" The distinction appealed to the audience. "ing sardonically, ejaculating, some of them, with pleasurable anticipation, "Force, but no violence!" . At seven o'clock on the morning de- signated fity men hired by the Purroy management arrived by train. Th were of various nationalities and vari- with the entrance. the hostile ga Yeo every one of you men, if you'll come it 4 there's old Job no- reseed hur Stanwood o| treatment stiffened his life that's ered foal 4 'Or else go triumph, but when Drayton again, probabilities are that this increase away dnd, stant in fresh somewhere, strove to advance they blocked hin off| will be double that amount and it is at's to be gained by! stoutly. There was a lull in the fight-| {5 be hoped such indeed will be the A man hates to quit, even| They went home, chuckl- | P® . i: Pier faces in silence; there was not one that was not forbidding. r "Step aside, fellows--tall back! Fr now," He advanc motioning to those in the front rank to clear a path i ; LITY | Covrrignt Houghton Mifflin Company by #pecial arranguggut with Thos Allens in One young man quailed eye and stepped aside, only to be flung back into place by his neighbors. The courage, - | he resisted when Drayton pres against him." - ' you mef!" "Come on, yon shouted. Break a way through" | The example that he set, burrowing with his own broad shoulders into the mass, thrusting with his powe arms, inspired his hitherto hesitant followers; in a moment there was a | lively scrimmage, which soon dete-| , riorated into 4 number of separate fights, Jerry, back in the middle of the throng, did not see clearly what was happening, but with an ardor equal to that which filled him when he took part in football games he heaved and pushed and struggled, and pres- ently to his astonishment found im-| self with three or four others free of: the "throng and rushing Drayton across the street, They all desisted with a somewhat chastened sense of i ing; the strikers obviously held the upper hand. "] warn you men," said Drayton, breathing hard, "you'd better open up, a ageway."' Pent let you go through any time you want, Mr. Drayton," said Dob- ins. "But we won't let you take that gang of Huns with you." Resenting the epithet, one of the invaders stooped and hurled a brick. ! outraged Anglo-Saxon nature rose to that brick. Fists only--no brick-! bats; those were the weapons of, | uns. In the course of the disorder {the town police dutifully made their, 'appearance and after an unimpres-, f re deprived of their clubs and} ood-naturedly told to go about their usiness; they rémained, interested! and not unsympathetic spectators of the final triumph of the defenders. It was soon achieved. The Huns, were unorganized and offered a spirit-, less resistance; their leader, isolated, against a house wall and firmly held] there by four sturdy young men, of whom Jerry was one, vainly shouted! adjurations and imprecations. In a few moments the invading force was! retreating down the road, pursued merely with threats of dire punish. ment in the event of another attack. | Jerry and his comrades released the superintendent. "We've sorry to have to hold you up tis way, Mr. Drayton," Jerry said. The superintendent looked sternly in the eye. "You will learn, young man, that! lawlessness never wins." "Not even when practiced u porations?* Jerry asked, still spectful. Drayton kep | we: him | cor- re- t his eyes on him. "I'm not likely to forget you. And you'll have reason to remember me" He stepped forward and again addressed the mob, which out of interest in what he might have to say, ceased for a few moments its uproar of jubila- tion. "You men have done a very foolish thing. You may realize it by to-mor- row, and if in that case you disperse uietly and make no further trouble, if shall be willing to let the matter drop. But one fact you have got to | recognize: you can't bully the com- pany. The next morning Drayton and another trainload of workingmen ar- | rived and marched up to the Pu Mills, under the escort of the sher and his deputies, At the gates an even stronger guard was assembled to oppose them. The sheriff read a proclamation calling on the mob to disperse under penalty of fine and imprisonment. e mob remained stubborn and sullen; the sheriff call- ed on his deputies and the strike- breakers to follow himj the clash of the preceding day was reenacted. But the resistance of the strikers was of a rougher character; instead of hustling and shoving, they battered freely with fists; clubs made Shelf ap- arance in Abe hands of the atts a ing party. eputy, feel at his weapon was being wrested from him by one ruffian while another seemed bent on throttling him, dropped the club and drew a revolver. ddenly, then, in the midst of the throng there xplosion; a striker et his ', ol threatening ried to their houses near by had re- turned with guns. Their example in- spired others; in a few minutes it was a form! armed mob that con- fronted the officers of the law. ~ (To be ued.) his com! \ 1 closed round him and by secured half mn Billionand 1n 1914 about a of e and in Winnipeg. rful 6d mates received from a large | of points throughout the, three Prov- inces as well as upon the personal observation of Mr. McGregor himself. If the a acreage amounts to only ten bushels of wheat per acre, which is a very low estimate indeed, the average being more like twenty bushels, it would mean 20,000,000 bushels of wheat. The average consumption of wheat in the wheat consuming coun- fries the world over runs about five ushels per capita per year, so that the increased crop which Canada ex- pects to produce this-summer would feed 4,000,000 people for twelve months. At a most conservative cal- culation, that is to say it would feed the bulk of the British army. The case, as there is need of every bushel. Dr. J. W. Robertson, who made & tour of Eastern Canada, in the pro- duction campaign on behalf of the Food Board and the Minister of Agri- culture estimates an increased acre- age of cultivated crops for the five Provinces, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, of 2,000,000 acres. Compared with formér years, there will be quite an increase in wheat acreage in these Provinces but what this amounts to it is impossible to say, as the fall wheat did not winter attempt 4vas made to grow it. Some of these areas, however, have been re- placed by spring wheat. The Eastern Provinces will grow also increased amounts of fodder for livestock, so that the meat supply will benefit as well as the dairy output. Canadian farmers are responding magnificiently to the call for increas- ed production, despite the many other calls that have been heard and ans- wered. The world is at the greatest crisis in its history and the farmers of Canada have realized the fact and shown the true Canadian spirit. It remains now for the people 'of the towns and cities to organize and sacri- fice personal interests in a wholeheart- ed campaign to save these crops, which have been so success- fully planted despite difficulties, so that the harvest will be as great in proportion as the acreage sown. This summer and autumn will mean a long pull and a strong pull for all hands. -------------- RAIDING INFORMATION. Londoners Stand an Even Chance With German Bombs for 32 Years. An ingenious person has calculated the chances of the average Londoner being hurt by enemy bombs, "Taking the area of London as 100 square miles," he says, "with a circle 60 yards in diameter as the' area in which a bomb would cause serious in- convenience, and assuming the enemy succeeds in dropping 200 bombs in London every month . all round; assuming also that there is an equal likelihood of a bomb dropping at any one point as at any other, the war will have to last thirty-two years for it to be likely that a bomb will drop within one's own circle. "In other words, in thirty-two years of such bombing there would be an even chance for and against such an event happening. Again, the chances would be against a direct hit on one's roof of ten yards square if warfare of this intensity were to continue 894 years." isnt Great War Loans. The following are the greatest war Joans made by various belligerent na- tions: British Victory Loan early in 1917, 5 per cent. Total subscriptions, §5,~ 096,245,320. United States Second Liberty Loan, 4 per cent. Total 616,000,000. " Eighth cent. and 6 ptr cent. Total subscrip- 'tions, $8,600,000,000 ~ French war cent. "Fotal ~ subscriptions, 1, Austrian seventh' war loan, 5 per| cent. Total subscriptions, $1,150, Total subscriptions, $1,000,000,000. nt. Total 1017, 6% per cent. Total subscrip- rr td erage crop from this increas-| the year | subscriptions, $1; ; German war loan, 4% per i: Joan of 1015, 5. per|use 3 ; Italian fourth war loan, 6 per cent. ] Hungary gr ios, ooo for] ; Victory Loan, November, | a men can easily make | Tether gE for you from Tops and of primary importance. bers last y were of very uh spoilage puter. rubber should ever be used twice. When a can of fruit or vegetables is opened, the rubber should be discard! ed and saved for the "rubber man. To test new rubbers pull and jerk them. They should spring back to their original shape. Valuable tests for the tops of jars are: Screw on the top without the rubber. I the thumb nail can be in- serted between the top and the glass, the top is usually defective. Put on a glass top without the rubber. Tap the top edge. The top should not rock Sometimes jars are defective at the top. This can only be ascer- tained by running the fingers over the spirals. H they are smooth the jar is probably good. Just a word heye. Don't throw away defective glass jars, those which will not serew tight. Use them to hold cereals, dried beans, peas, and the like; or use them for jelly and jam. Every available piece of glass- ware should be used this year. Small- necked bottles cam be used to hold fruit juices. if It may save time and trouble later to test jars by tempering them, not on the day they aré to be used, as 'is sometimes directed, but before the canning rush begins. To temper jars they are put in cold water, brought to a boiling point, and boiled twenty minutes. If they are imper- fect they will probably break in the tempering instead of the canning. It is not a pleasant experience to have the jars break after the hot food has been poured into them. It may hap- pen anyhow, but it is not so likely to do so if this test has been made with success. We will assume that you have tested jars and tops, purchased and tested! new rubbers. So much for canning. You will want to dry--especially vegetables. A special apparatus fis very helpful. If this can be got ready before the rush season com- mences you will bless your foresight many times. In order to conserve your strength in the most efficient manner, you should plan to do a little of the work each day. It is wise to gather from the garden and the orchard not just the amount of vegetables and fruit which you happen. to need for the meal, but rather to take all the to- matoes, beans, peas, etc, which are ready for picking and which will spoil if left on the vines. You can get the surplus ready for the drier or can it in odd minutes while you are getting dinner. It would be impossible as well as very foolish for one to attempt to preserve all fruits and vegetables in the same way. Drying and the vari- ous methods(of canning should all be used. One Will fit into the other, so that no time need be wasted and more than one thing can be donel/at once. It may as well be admitted that, while greens, asparagus, beans, and peas are more desirable canned than dried, the sure canning of these'takes considerable time unless you have a pressure canner. Corn' is also difficult to can by ordinary methods, but this need bother no one, since dried corn is so delicious. Preservation by drying is so satis-|" factory for navy beans, pumpkin, and squash that it would be unwise to use up glass containers by canning them to any great extent. Some fruits dry very well. No woman/can be excused for wasting apples when! they are so easily dried Extra peaches, pears, and plums may also be preserved by this method. i In general, canning is most desir- able for tomatoes, flower, rhubarby grapes, berries, and the other fruits. = Each housewife will have to decide for herself what she is going to do about string beans, | bea and ' asparagus. | | peas, should not be wasted. ALL. 2 Bai A rubbers for your jars are s, Many rub-{ eggplant, cauli-| minutes. : ; Scalding and blanching is absol- utely necessary in preparing vege- tables and some fruits for the cold It consists in immersing the prepared vegetable into boiling wa- ter or steam and leaving it there for a few minutes. This process shrinks the material. The ecold-dip process should always immediately follow the scalding and blanching: It consists merely in dipping the blanched material into very cold water. If the sack contain- ing the material to be blanched is fastened on the end of a stick there will be no' danger of burning the hands. Syrups are usually added to. fruits and brines to vegetables, en the jar is tightly packed with material, the brine or syrup should be poured into"the jar until it is completely full. Canning syrups are prepared by mixing two cupfuls of sugar and three cupfuls of water and boiling for dif- ferent lengths of time. ( Thin syrup is just brought to a boil, medium thin is boiled two or three mints medium thick is boiled six to eigh minutes, and thick syrup is boiled eight to twelve minutes. With the present sugar shortage, corn syrup should take the place of at least part of the sugar. Brine for vegetables is made by adding one level teaspoonful of salt to a pint of water. Jars filled for the cold-pack process should be closed lightly--not sealed tight--during the processing. If a wash boiler with a false bottom is to be used for the processing, the jars should be cov- ered with water. : Count time after the water begins to boil and see to it that the water is kept boiling vigorously until the time is up. Directions for operating the pressure cooker come with it. These should be followed carefully. a SHRAPNEL TAKEN FROM HEART, Soldier Successful. A remarkable operation has = been performed on a soldier at Leeds In- firmary, says a London despatch. A piece of shrapnel weighing sixty-one grains was Skacted from the anter- jor walls of the heart. The patient is Private John Brit- land, who was wounded at Arras on April 11 last year. After receiving treatment in several hospitals he was taken to Leeds Infirmary, where a radiograph established the fact that he had a piece of metal'in the wall of the heart itself. He is making steady progress to recovery. } wm-- rst. Stick to your business with the glue Remarkable Operation on British]. soon only use that is made of these pests" is to reduce them for their and for fertilizer. . Such | ling are sold as cod, and the it the canned sardines sold in Canada really not sardines at all, but small herrings. Again, there are certain fish that have "made names for themselves This is one reason why such a com« paratively small number of species of fish are used as food. Everyond knows that salmon and halibut flounder have the name of being fish and so everyone buys them. I would be to the advantage of - cus tomers to remember that dogfish ox catfish, or other ill-named fish, are not necessarily objectionable as food. At e same time, dealers might profit ably apply new and more attractive names to hitherto unused food fish as a step toward making them more at tractive to the consumer. REN of industry.