Common salt, thoroughly dried, is
then thrown or sprinkled onto- the in
candescent fuel bed in a quantity de
pending entirely on the size of the
furnace. In the case of a house heat
ing furnace, one pound at a time is
ample in the case of a large power
plant boiler, four or five scoopsful
may be required. The dampers are
kept openv
so as to maintain the fur
nace temperature and the salt is al
lowed to remain until the fumes have
entirely disappeared.
Immediately upon charging the
salt, the furnace becomes filled with
dense white fumes which may re
quire as much as half an hour to en
tirely disappear. If results are not
on the first application, it
should be repeated as many tiroes as
necessary.
Once the heating surface is thor
oughly cleaned a small application
everv few davs is usually sufficient
to keep it so.
Everyone using soft coal is urged
bv the administration to use this re
markably simple and cheap process
frr retting rid of the soot, cleaning
and heating surfaces of boilers, thus
saving large amounts of coal, pre
venting fires from chimneys and gen
erally conserving all along the line of
heating and the production of power.
FROM WITHIN
By E. W. Gilles
is from
A great deal of growth
within.
This is true intellectually as well
as otherwise.
Bennv Brooks had the foolish idea
that in some way or other the school
was going to pour education into him
without much effort on his part.
We honor "self made" men, but
vitally everv man is self made if he
is reallv made at all.
