CASTLES. Tho tottering walls, the crumbling arch, The columns, tho works of art, Are mingled with briars and weeds and grime— A fitting counterpart, In telling tho tales of the long ago. Of the oostles where lord and liege The legions defied, but that fell before Old Time's relentless siego. But the cornerstones were deeply laid, Below the rage of tho storm. And mark the spot that will tell the tale To the ages yet unborn. But nothing remains of the loves and hopes Of the princely dwellers thero, No pillars are left, no fragments are found, Of their castles in the uir. Yet the castles of Lovo, and the templos of Hope. And Ambition's gorgeous goal, Dave aisles as broad and domes as high As the concept of tho Soul. Delusions may como and Illusions may go, Tho mirage may bring despair, Yet pheer to the soul, and joy to the heart, Are castles in the air. They take us away from the plod and tho grind, Away from life's wearisome road, And promise that somehow, in days to come, We shall bear us a llghtor load. Hope's anchor Is fastened within the veil Of the faith abiding there; We smile at care and banish grief From our castles in the air. Our castles may vanish, but never decay, Like the castles wo have seen. With moss-covered ruin—the jeer of tho winds, And the sport of the lvv green. But grander and higher we build anew 80 high that we seem to be where Tho songs of the angels fill the dome Of our castles in tho air. —Will Cumback, in Indianapolis Journal. | REFORMATION OF SHEPHERD. | || By R. CLYDE FORD. Si HEDGE No. 4 was stationed ono summer on the J*)-! ran ''etween J8 gfftKVjy Hay Mills all d Point aux Pius. for the hands, .M" "Sibeery," tlie night men called it from the time it had been so christened by Joe Shep herd in a fit of melancholy and despair, was anchored in a little sandy cove on tho Canadian side of the river near the Point. The gouge in the shore line here was due wholly to the removal of sand by a "sand sucker," a contrivance fitted up by the Canadians to get sand for their new locks at the Soo. How ever much the night men said they disliked the constant wheezing anil puffings of tho sucker, and the un couth machine itself, which they claimed had set fire to their last year's quarter-boat and compelled them to crawl out of a sound sleep in the mid dle of the forenoon, leaving watches and clothes behind, still, in reality, they did not object very much to the eucker after all. It was their only re laxation, their only excitement in the lonesome hours of their quarter-boat life. "Mighty hotSibeery, ain't it, boys?" Joe would remark, when about 10 o'clock the men came down from their hot rooms to sit in disconsolate groups in the shade of tho house on broken anchor chnins nud dredge machinery. "Might jest about ns well bo a Canuck and run a sand-sucker," he would grumble on, peering through clouds of smoke from his corn-cob pipe out into the clear water, where, forty or fifty feet away, the long pipe of the sucker was feeling about 011 the bot tom aud pulling a steady stream of sand and water up into the big scow which served as a sort of stomach for it. And then some late comer would appear with suspenders dragging, and after contemplating the progress of the pumping, would call out to the imper turbable sanj-sncker men, "That's right, fellei-3, dig away, you need sand, you fellers do!" And, in spite of Joe's expostulating snort thut tho night crew needed sand, too, this continued to be the regular daily joke whioh the for saken party on Hibeery hurled at her majesty's subjects 011 tho sucker. It was a strange sort of regimen which prevailed 011 the dredge. When thero were plnces to be filled anybody who offered himself was accepted. No questions were asked. It was, how ever, expected that no one would get drunk while 011 duty. What one did when off duty was of 110 consequence. The great channel between Dululh and Buffalo was strictly international, and anybody could help dig it, be be Jew or Gentile, white or black. Per sonal history counted for nothing, for pedigree and past jife were never made subjects of study 011 tho l iver. The river is one place in this democratic land, at any rate, where, as the poet says, "There ain't 110 ancient history to bother you nor me." The make-up of tho night crew was remarkable, and it had some striking characters in it. But the most re markable man of all who sat down to midnight dinner on No. 4 was Joe Shepherd. He was tall and slim, al most lathy indeed, and not very old. He stooped slightly with the languor ous stoop of a scholar, but was not one. His face, turned a dusky brown by the wind and weather of the chan nel, was marked by a nose, large and plump, and burned a still fiercer red than the rest of his face. Joe's nose was a flaming promontory in a parched Sahara. Surmount his face by a soft wool hat, and imagine him dressed in fairly good clothes, and 3'ou have Joe Shepherd, the person. But it would take long acquaintance to know Joe Shepherd, the man, the real personal ity, which was at onee the life and soul—what little there was—of the night crew. Joe was the boss at night, the "run ner" in the vernacular of the dredge. He presided over the maohinery in the engine room and regulated the great orane and .dipper. In the ghostly electric light he presented n strange ] appearance, as seen from a tug or' passing barge, his tall, gaunt figure bending over the lever, which he pushed forward or backward at a mo tion from the oranesman till tlio crane groaned or creaked. Occasionally his hand would reach up to the whistle signal, and a hoarse, bellowing blast would warn some passing steamer where it was to go. Sometimes, too, lie would sing at his work, for he had a good voice. His favorite song was a kind of river lyric: "An* the waters sweep on As we dig away At the bottom of the rivor bod; An' the boats creep on AH WO list away— That's how we earn 'r bread. "Rattle an' creak o' the crane, An' up #itl\ 'e anchor post; On with the work again, 'Tis a dreary life at most, 'Tis a dreary life at most. An' tho days swoop on As we work away Wherever falls tho lead; An' our lives creep on Till our hearts gi' way— That's how we earn 'r bread. "Rattle an' creak o' the crane. An' up with 'e anchor post; On with tho work again, 'Tis a weary life at most, 'Tis a weary life at most." If the night crew had stopped to think they could have seen that Joe was their superior in everything but morals. Morally dredge men are pretty much alike. He swore like the rest, he talked illiterately like the rest, but now aud then there would flash into liis conversation an expression beautifully turned,some illusion foreign to his surroundings, indicating a life and history not quite covered up by the ooze of the river. But whatever he might have been, it was evident that he bad shaped himself so long to his environment that the adaptation had become real life with him. Joe's besetting sin was drink. In this he did not differ any from the rest, but one noticed it more in him because the gentleman was not quite rubbed out of him. Whenever the tug went to the Soo in the day time, Joe went along if he could get passage from Si berry, and he always came back with gourd-like nose colored a more pro nounced red. Joe bad a wife, too,who lived in a little house in the Soo, but she did not see much of him. He went to town over Sunday, but ho spent most of Saturday night with the bons vivants of Water street, and he did not rest Sundays. Of course he ought not to have been able to And liquor on a Sunday, but whoever knows the river and the river world, will see nothing remavkable in this. The men said Joe's wife took his dissipation very much to heart for she waa young and an utter stranger in the town. And of course a wife who looks forward through a long week of lone someness to seeing her husband Sat urday night, is wretched and cries from disappointment if he does not come home till Sunday afternoon, and drunk at that. Women are so peculiar about such things. The Fourth of July came that year in the middle of the week, and at four o'clock in the morning of the eventful day Joe blew a long blast of the whistle, and tlie dredge stopped work. As soon as the men could wash tip the tug took them down to Sibeery, where a few hoarse shrieks brought out the "exiles" who could sleep nights "as white orter," said Joe. Everybody put on his best clothes and took all the money he had. The term "best clothes" among dredge men does not mean much; a $lO suit at most, a white shirt with a few tobacco stains on the bosom, a collar laundered once or twice in the course of tbo summer, and a necktie of glaring colors—such it is to bh well dressed on the river. By six o'clock the tug was puffing away toward the Soo with almost the whole population of No. 4 aboard of her. Thero is no need to particularize specially as to tho adventures of the day. Everybody celebrated with a will; celebrated us only river meu whose minds are filled with the sig nificance of tho day can celebrate. The night fireman of the dredge was drunk by ten o'clock. Bill Sykes, the day oranesman, was in the lock-up by noon. Beddy, fireman of the tug, took part in three fights in the course of the day and was worsted in all of them. But Joe Shepherd was unusu ally methodical aud moderate iu his jollification. He drank copiously at, his own and other people's expense; but he combined exercise aud pleasure so carefully that he was "still 011 the range" at noon. But his nose showed certain telltale signs. Joe's nose was liko the water gauge of a boiler. One could tell about how he was tilling up by it. At four o'clock tlie day runner went to the tug and blew a few short whistles, the rallying whistle for the men. And soon they came—those that were coming at all—but with steps very measured and slow. Now and then some of them would be moved to tears from patriotic fervor and stop to embrace one another and thank heaven tliey were citizens of our great repub lic—all of this within a step of the cannl. East of all came Joe, somewhat per turbed in mnuner, but still enduring. He was singing with all his might the refrain of bis favorite song, with some variations: "Rattle 'n' creak o' the crane. An' up with 'e anchor post; On with the work agnlu, "lisa blamed hard life at most— 'iTis a blamed hard life at most." He had just started on this for the third or fourth time when a little wo man turned the corner and enme up by the side of him. The song died on his lips. "'Tis a blamed hard life," was the end of it. "Joe," said the woman, "you haven't been home this week now and— " "Mrß. Shepherd," inter rupted Joe oratorically, "this is the day we celebrate. The nation's wel fare is—" Here he stumbled and did not finish his sentence. "But Joe, you didn't como home last Sunday, either, and I git HO lono some all alone," and the woman began to cry. By this time the two were up near the tug. "01i, come, now, Mrs. Shepherd, Julia dear, guess you'd bettor go back, you'll be hiuderiu' proper navigation on the canal here." "I don't care, I won't go back, not now anyway. If you're goin' off I'm goin' to see you a minut," and she fastened resolutely to Joe's arm with one hand, and wiped her eyes with the other. Joe was embarrassed and conscience-smitten. And it was an ordeal to appear like this before the men, some of whom did not even know he was married. While the pro visions were being put aboard and the last stragglers collected, Joe sat near by on a stick of timber, with his wife holding to his arm. When all was ready the captain yelled "all aboard," and blow the whistle. Joe rose to go. "Give me a kiss, Joe, please," said his wife, and he hesitatingly aud awk wardly kissed her. Then he stepped on the tug and the woman was alone by the caual. Joe was sobering up fast, but he talked with nobody and during tho run back to the dredge stood by him self on the bow and let the cool breeze clear the cobwebs from his brain. That night the dredge started up again with Joe running. For several hours he scarcely spoke, but toward midnight he turned to the inspector, who stood near. "Mr. Hunter, a man who gets drunk is a fool, ain't he?" he asked, liilf in question, half in meditation. "Yes," answered the in spector tersely. "Then I'll quit it," said Joe, and he kept his word. A Mercurial Monarch. To those who are accustomed to look upon Oriental potentates and dig nitaries as the iinpersonification of re pose and decorous gravity, most of them being so impassive that it is per fectly impossible to interpret their feelings, the King of 9fam is a perfect revelation, says a correspondent. He is literally bubbling over with enthus iasm, excitement, curiosity and de light and impresses everybody that ha 3 met him since his arrival in Eu rope as being the jolliest little fellow imaginable. He is always smiling when he is not laughing outright, never hows without a smile of such broadness that it is almost a full fledged grin, and dashes off his hat with such n grand and vehement ges ture that he almost knocks over the people nearest him. He can do noth ing calmly, and managed, by his an tics, to keep the somber and unhappy looking King Humbert in altogether abnormally good spirits throughout his entire stay at Home. He made a per fect show of himself at the capitol. He ran from statue to statue, looking at them all round, in front, at tho back and even underneath. When he saw the capitol Venus his enthusiasm knew no bounds, and he actually jumped, shouted and slapped his thighs with admiration. In fact, he is so lively that the stately biased officials of the various courts of Europe, where he is visiting, are in a great state of pertur bation. Ho has already been nick named "King Quicksilver," owing to the rapidity with which he does every thing, eveu his speaking of the Eng lish language. Desperate llide of a Wheelman. Only desperate necessity could urge a wheelman to take such chances as were faced one day recently by Joseph E. Everett of Brick Church, N. J. Mr. Everett is a lawyer, and having a most important engagement in a neigh boring town, determined to take the morning train to the place in question. Ho miscalculated the time, and did not discover his error until warned by the train whistle. He is elderly, but is an expert wheelman, aud, jumping into the saddle, he dashed off to the depot. Just as the train started per sons on the platform saw him riding with head down and feet moving like piston rods down Harrison street to tho railroad. At the crossing the cy clist turned on to the gravel track be tween the rails and scorched down the road after the fast-receding train. As the last car passed Evergreen place, moving at a speed which would have caused an experienced train jumper to hesitate, tho cyclist rode abreast of the rear platform. Still pedaling with one foot and grasping tlio bar with one hand, tho scorcher reached over and clutched the railing on the plat form. With a quick movement he swung himself clear of the saddle, .drawing his wheel after him by twin ing his other foot around the frame, and landed safely on tho steps of the car Tho feat was witnessed by at least twenty persons, and all agreed that it had beat the record for any trick riding any of them had ever seen.—Washington Star. Wooing ami Wedding in Alaska. Wooing and wedding in Alaska among tho natives are interesting and peculiar rites. When a young man is of a suitable age to marry, his mother, his aunt or his sister looks up a wife for him. He seldom marries a woman younger than himself; she is much old er, and sometimes is double his age, and even more. She is selected from a family whose position equals his, or is eveu higher. When n suitable wo man is found the young man' is asked how many blankets and animal skins he is willing to pay for her. When that important question is settled, a feast is arranged in the home of the bride and the friends of both families are invited. When the company is as sembled the woman's people extol the greatness of their family. The young man's marriage gifts are spread ont where they will make a fine show, and then his family sound their praises. The ceremony lasts from one to two days, and finally the man takes his wife to his own abwde. HOUSEHOLDJVIATTERS, Care of Old Churns. Wo would advise buying a new ; cliurn rather than trying to sweeten j the old one after live years use. Aftei to long a timo exposure to sudden ; changes of temperature, as from cold water to scalding hot, the churn is sure to have cracks in it which will harbor impurities that it is hard to find germicides to remove. A very small particle of cream lodged in the I crevices of an old churn very quickly I swarms with bacteria. In caring for churns it is far too common to use • scalding water first. This sets the j albumen in milk, which is deposited | in a thin film which scalding water | will not remove. The true way is to i thoroughly wash out the inside of the j churn so as to remove every particle of j milk, which by churning lias been ; made into an emulsion, and is finely ! divided as the butter fats are 3epar | ated from it. Then use water moder ately warm at first, and increasing in heat until the hand cannot comfortably be borne in it. This will be a tem- i perature of 160 to 165 degrees, and will clear out all traces of bacteria, so long as the inside is free from crev- 1 ices. When a churn begins to show crevices it is time to throw it aside ami get a new one. iWlmt to Eat oil Hot Days. "During the hot months," writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer in the Ladies' Home Journal, "the diet should consist largely of dainty, cold, lean meat, green, succulent vegetables, and fruits. I It is a popular fallacy that the free ; use of sub-acid fruits during hot weather causes disturbances of the j bowels. No diet is more healthful j thau ripe fruit provided it lis properly masticated nnd swallowed before 01 after bread and butter, but nevei : with it. "The lighter wheat preparations, such as farina, wheatlet and gluten, should be substituted for the heat giving oatmeal for breakfast. Cook enough one morning to last two, as I they are just as palatable cold as they ] j are hot. While fried food may seem ! a little out of place in warm weather i there are certain little dishes that may | ihe utilized for breakfast. Cornmenl or hominy croquettes, or even rice | croquettes, may be made the day be -1 fore and simply fried at serving time. | Squash and cucumbers may be dipped and fried. In the clialing-dish one I may have chipped beef, cream or I fricasseed barbecued beef, cold mut- | ton warmed in a little tomato sauce, | ! and dishes of eggs, snch as omelets, •crumbled eggs, creamed eggs or poached eggs. "Fruit should be served in a flat dish, with, if the weather is particu larly hot, a little chopped ice sprinkled over it. Fruit that is very acid should not be served too cold. Powdered I Bugar and cream should accompany the fruit course. In the place of chops lor steaks we may have egg plant, broiled or fried tomatoes, panned to matoes, a dainty omelet with peas, omelet with asparagus • tips, or with parsley following the fruit. Corn oysters and corn fritters may also take j the jclace of meat. Coffee, tea, choco- i late and milk are, of course, in sum mer, as in winter the breakfast hover j ages." To Tlandlo Lettuce. i Lettuce Salad—Lettuce forms n good j , crisp salad that is easily obtained at all j limes, and it should be found upon i the table once or twice a week from j early spring until frost; and there are j ' numerous methods of preparing it in appetizing manner. If tho lettuce j seems withered soak it in cold water ! an hour before using, or half its flavor j will be lost, and an otherwise tempt- J ing dish will bo spoiled. Many pre- ■ fer to eat it only with a little salt, as one would n radish, and for this the ; tender bleached inner leaves of the head should he used. Chopped | coarsely and covered with a dressing of sugar and cream it is delicious; sprinkle a little sugar over the top to | give a tempting look and in dishing bo sure to give each one a gjv>4 sup ply of the oream. Hot Lettuce Salad—lf lettuce be- 1 comes too wilted to make a tempting i dish when served cold, pick the leaves j j over carefully, wash nnd place in a I vegetable dish nnd cut across a few times. Fry a small piece of ham un , til well browned, cut in very small I pieces; then pour into the frying-pan I with the ham, half a cupful of good 1 vinegar, half a cupful of water and a | pinch of salt. Let it boil up and pour quickly over the lettuce. Cover close- I ly and serve hot. | Lettuce With Cold Dressings—Two | ways of preparing the lettuce with i cold dressings are as follows: Take | tho yolks of two hard boiled eggs, two ! j tablespoons anch of sweet cream and i sugar, a teaspoonful each of salt and prepared mustard and half a teaspoon fill of pepper. Rub together and let j the dressing stand for five ten minutes, add half a cupful of vinegar and pour it over the lettuce. Garnish with thin slices of pickled beet or hard-boiled | CJR- Wash the lettuce, chop and place in 1 the salad bowl. Slice three or four hard-boiled eggs over the top. Take [ one cupful of vinegar, (either sweet or | sour), three tablespoonfuls of sugar, a j teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper; mix thoroughly and pour over. Fine shredded cabbage is excellent with this same dressing. Lettuce and Lemon—Wash the let tuce and chop rnther tine. Slice a lem on very thin after peeling, removing all the seeds. Mix the sliced lemon thoroughly through the salad, with two sliced hard-boilded eggs; sprinkle a handful of sugar over the top and serve very oold.—St. Louis Star. * Tartley to Correct Onion llreath. If a sprig of parsley be dipped in vinegar and eaten after an onion, no unpleasant odor from the breath be detected. Home Doctor. * A Just Claim. I "Miss Grabbs declares fcer girl friends can't deny that her attachment | to that gentleman with a title was a i case of love at first sight." I "That's very true," replied Miss Cay enne. "She saw him first."—Washing ton Star. Corpses on a Ship. When dead bodies are entered as cargo on a ship, they are recorded on the invoices as "statuary" or "natural history specimens," to allay the super stitious fears of the crew. Camphor is now exclusively n product of Japan, since the annexation >t Formosa to that country. The cam phor tree thrives only In particular lo :alities, where tho average yearly tem perature is above 35 degrees C. It is ; !ound In Shikoku, Kioshiu and a por don of Izu and Kli provinces. A cam phor tree grows at the rate of about >ne and a half inches a year and at tains a great size, forty feet in circum ference not being unusual. The quan | :ity of camphor produced by a tree in ureases as the tree grows older, and is much as eight pounds of cainphoi ins been obtained at one time from tcos between 50 and 150 years old. Crude camphor is made by steaming ' '.be thin chips of the wood in n wooden rask set over an iron pot, tho camphoi in a gaseous state being conveyed through a bamboo pipe to a set of twe rectangular wooden receptacles placed jne within the other. In these the itream is condensed and solidified. The chips are steamed foi twenty-four hours and then replaced by fresh chips, this process continuing for from ten to fifteen days. Wheal the receptacles become thoroughly cooled the solid camphor deposited in the lower compartments of the uppei ! receptacle Is scraped off and put lntc a dripping tub, where it is left forthree lays to separate water nnd oils from the crude camphor. According to Informa tion gathered by the National Associa tion of American Manufacturers, the i cultivation of camphor trees is con sidered very profitable in Japan.— | New York Times. ! Twenty-five years ago scientists pre dicted that abundant coal fields would be found on both sides of the British channel, and the predictions have been fulfilled. Besides the groat Kentish pelda discovered several years ago and yielding bountifully ever since im mense tracts of coal have been recently found between Calais and Cape Grls noz. Tho French diseovciles wore the result of those In England, geologists ■ being sure that the same belt of coal i extended under the water from ono , country to the other. This last discov ery is of the greatest imparunoe to in dustrial France. Every one believes he does not "get the credit" he deserves. New Hails for the B- & 0. The new 85-pound steel rails that the receivers of the B. & O. purchased several months ago, at an exceedingly low figure, are now being delivered nt i the rate of 5,000 tons a month. As | fast as it comes It is being laid, and It the weather continues good at least 1 20.000 tons of It will be In tho track by Christmas. Nearly a million cross ties have been bought In the last year and placed in the track ready for the new rail. Ballast trains have been kept busy up and down the line, and the work has progressed with such rapidity that when tho new rail is ! down the tracks will be practically ! new from Wheeling to Baltimore. There are lots of good rail in the old ; tracks, not heavy enough for tho new i motive power, which will be taken up 1 and laid on divisions where traffic is not as great as it is on the main line. About ten thousand tons of new steel I will he laid on the lines west of the Ohio river this fall, if weather permits. There is a Class of People Who are injured by tho uso of coffee. Re cently there has been placed In all the grocery stores a new preparation called Omiii-O.mtulo l of pure grains, that takes tho place of coffee. 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The B. & O. officials are very much pleased with certain statistics that have recently been prepared of the performance of freight trains on the Second division, which handles all the east and west-bound traffic between Baltimore and Cumberland. Before the new freight engines wore pur chased, and the improvements made in the track, in the way of straighten ing curves and reducing grades, the | average number of cars to the train was 28*s. Now. with more powerful and modern motive power and a better track, the average is 40 cars per train, an increase of 41 per cent. The ave age east-bound movement per day for the first ten days of August was 1.123 loaded cars. On the Third division, Cumberland to Grafton, where there are grades of 125 feet to the mile, the engines used haul 19*fc loads to the train. Now the average Is 25% loads per train, an increase of 31 per cent. 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