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.
I Tho most delicate stomach receives it. without
I distress, and hut few can tell it from coffee,
j It does not. cost over one-quarter as much,
j Children may drink it with great benefit. 15
cts. and 25 eta. per package. Try it. Ask for
Uraiu-O.
! Fits permanently cured. No fltsor nervous
; ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
; Nerve Uestorer. trial bottle nnd treatise freo
; Da. It. 11. Ki.i.m:, Ltd.. U3l Arch St.,Phila.,l J a.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens tho gums.rcuuefnginllftmma
tiou, allays pain, cures wind colic. msc.& bottle.
If nHllctedwith sore eyesuse Br.TsanrThnmn
bou's Eye-water.Druggisfcsseil ul&c.per bottle.
"S ALL'S _ _ |
Vegetable Sicilian I
HAIR REN EWER 1
Beautifies and restores Gray ■
Hair to its original color and I
| vitality; prevents baldness; I
j cures itching and dandruff. I
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Sold by all Druggists.
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The fact that $14,225, the largest
amount ever paid at one time into the
"conscience fund" of the United States
Government, has been received within
the last year, is a cheering Indication
that some men are growing bettor in
stead of worse.
No Inducement.
Castleton—How few girls go in bath
ing here this season!
Dlllback—'Yes. The grand stand !
back of the bathing beach has been
washed away.—Judge.
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.
It would certainly appear that the
money spent in improvements on the
B. & O. is being amply justified and
that the cost of operation is being very
materially reduced.
Beware of Ointment* for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
ns mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entoring it th rough the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions I'roin reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten lold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hud's catarrh
Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney A- Co.,
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mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
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It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo,
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Hall's Family Fills are the best.
Shake Into Your Hliocs
Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It
cures painful, swollen, smart in,' font, an t in
stantly takes the sting out of corns ant bun
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the ace. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fit
ting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain
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ing feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists
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Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olui-
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Wo think Piso's Cure for Consumption is
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Mr. Gladstone denies he has taken to
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She says:—l have been using your
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I have been a sufferer for the last four
ly able to do my
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