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FIDELITY. Never forsa1e friend When enc.
mics gather thick and fast around-when sickness
falls heavy OH his heart-when the world is dark
and cherries, this is the time to try true friend
ship. They who turn from the scene of distress or
offer reasons why they should be excused from ex-
tending their sympathy and aid, betray their hy-
pocrisy and prove that selfish motives only prompt
and move them. If you have friend who loves
you-who has studied your interest and happiness
defended you when prosecuted and troubled. be
sure to sustain him in his adversely. Let him feel
that his former kindness is appreciated, and that
his friendship was not lavished on you for naught.
Real fidelity may be rare; but it exists-in the
heart. Who has not seen and felt its power They
only deny its worth and power who have never
loved friend, or labored to make friend happy.
The good and the kind, the affectonate and the
vrtuous, and feel this heavenly principle, for
heavenly it is; it is fruit gathered from sacred
germ implanted by heaven in mans bosom.
And true fidelity has its reward. 1t may be
sighted by some, overlooked by others but pure-
minded men cultivate and cherish fond and indy
ing love for it.
As the diamond is found in the darkness of the
mine. as the lightning shoots with most vivid fash
es from the gloomiest cloud so does fidelity proceed
from heart susceptible to the calls of deepest mel
ancholy and shows itself brighter and STR niger in
the adversely Of friend-Mirror of the I mes.
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A BED-BUG Story. you see [ went to bed
pretty all frnd used up afer hull day on the old
road before the plank was laid. kalkaatn on a
good snooze. Waal. just as the shivers began to
ease off | kinder felt sumthn tryin to pull off my
shirt and diggin their feet into the small of my
back to get hold Wigged and twisted and
doubled and puckered-all no use kept agoin' it
like all sin. Bimeby got up and struck light to
look around a spell found about peck of bed
bugs scattered around and more dr0ppin' off my
shirt and runnin down my legs every minnit.
Swept Oft place on the floor, shook out quilt,
lay down and kivered up in it for nap. No use
mounted right me like passel of rats on meal
tub dug hole through the kverlid and crawed
through and give me fits for tryn to hide. Got
up agn; went down stairs got the slushbucket
from the wagon; brought it up and made circle
of tar on the floor lay down on the floor in the
inside and felt comfortable that time anyhow. Left
the light burnin' and watched em. See em get
together and have q campmeetin bout it, and
then they went off in squad, with an old grey
headed he one at the top right up the wall on the
ceiling till they got to the right spot, then dropped
right plum into my face: fact, by thunder! Waal,
swept EN- up agin and made circle of tar on
the ceiling too Thought | had em foul that time;
but swan to man if they didn't pull straws out of
the bed and build reg lar bridge over it," Seeing
an incredible expression our visage he clinched
the story thus ats so whether you believe it or
not. and some of em walked across on stills Bed
bugs critters and no mistake, specially
the Kalamazoo kind
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"THE THuNDERER" ON THE MAINE LAW The
London Times of June 1st. has leading article Of
column in length in regard to the proposed intro
duction of the Maine Law into England The fol-
lowing arc extracts from the article
GOOD intentions without Judgment have occa-
stoned considerable mischief ere this. and are likely
to be the cause of more, if we may judge from the
report OF the temperance meeting held the day be-
fore yesterday at Exeter Hall. It is far from our
thought to cast any ridcule upon the chief actors
in the scene. We give them credit for the very
purest motives, however Quixotic may be the un-
drrtaking in which they have engaged. This is
United Kingdom of the sale of fermented liquors
in any shape. They wish to introduce into the
islands the provisions of the measure which is
known in the United States of America as the
Name Liquor Law Now, the attempt to hy in
the face OF human nature on questions Of this kind
is simply idle. 1t is thing to introduce slight
modification in the sale of Intoxicating drinks, and
quite another to aim at total suppression of it by
prohibitoly law.
There is - great improvement in English socie
ty in regard to temperance. Thirty years ago gen.
temen habtualy staggered home from dinner par
ties in a condition which would expose any of their
descendants to universal and well deserved con-
tempt. The improvement has persaded more or
less, all degrees of society, although we are far
from denying that drunkenness is still the fruitful
Cause OF crime. The question only is how to deal
with it. 1t is by combination Of remedies and
not by any single remedy. that the desirable result
will be obtained. The idea Of dealing with a bad
habit by endcavoring remove the means of its
indulgence, without the power of doing 50, is cer
tainly the most clumsy and preposterous that ever
crossed the human mind
with regard to tins enforced temperance move
ment, we can have no hesitation whatever in saying
that it is entirely opposed to the genius and wishes
OF the English people is visionary in conception,
and impossible Of execution We believe. as well
as our Exeter Hall cousins. that intemperance is
the fruitful parent of vice. We think temperance
should and must be promoted by all practical
means. For remedy We look for the spread of
religion education, and the thousand wholesome
influences Of an increasing civilization--not to
defamation nor to dreams -
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"Why do folks make such to.do about their
four tathers2" said Mrs. Partington to the school
master who was asking her genealogy. She stop.
ped rolling out the crust for pie as she spoke, and
with her hands still upon the rolling pin. she looked
at him over her left shoulder "Why should folks
try so hard to find out their four fathers when it's
full as much as many want to do to find out that
they have had one 2" The schoolmaster explained
that people were looking more to pedigree than
formerly. Looking more for fdde-ye-dee!u ~ ex.
caimed the old lady, giving the pin vigorous and
emphatic roll as she spoke What makes the diff.
ference how folks get here long as they are here!
Why am | any better. now, because my great
grandfather was one of the Juggernauts that left
France on account of their religious notions q''
He never once dreamed that the antiquated dame
before him could have had grandfather, much
more that she could have descended from the HUI.
guenots Are you, indeed, a scion of that illus.
trious stock" said he deghedly, whose sufferings
and fidelity to their professions are monuments to
their memory "He did suffer terribly, poor
man." replied she, towards the last of it., with
neurology in his head and as you say was faithful
to his profession, for a more honest tinker never
soddered teapot" The school-master was foored
by simplicity that looked not to ancestry for glo-
ry, depending upon its own intrinsic excellence for
reputation. And who would not, in the days to
come, rather be that estimablc woman standing
there in times expanse holding that rolling pin,
than the grimest Huguenot of em all That pie
beneath her hand becomes food for gods--that roll.
ing pin golden sceptre.
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WOMEN IN JAPAN. AS might be imagined from
the character OF the government woman plays no
part in the history of Japan, though, allowing for
Oriental usages she is treated, on the whole. with
tolerable leniency. She occupies better position
in the family, from not entailing any charge at her
marriage, as bride receives no dowry, but, on the
contrary, is presented by her husband with hand
some donation, which is invariably appropriated by
her father. In Japan. therefore, 1t is considered
more fortunate to have daughters than the
former ultimately prove very profitable invest
ment, On the birth of son, the event is
memorated by planting tree. which if the little
stranger lives is carefully tended to the day of his
marriage, when it is cut down and furnishes mate
rial for chest, designed expressly to hold the
wardrobe of the new ywedded couple The mar
rage as in China and Tartary. is affair between
the parents; and the wishes of the young people
themselves are consulted. The bride is usu-
ally in her fifteenth year; but maturity being early
developed wedlock may be contracted at a still
younger age and the mother is often child her.
self. Marriage is religious ceremony, and is cell
ebrated with great pomp and many forms. in
public temple, in presence of the priests and idols,
and the friends and kindred of both parties The
priest blackens the pearly teeth of the bride using
for this purpose the ndelible lacquer applied
to coal scuttles and other similar japan ware and
this serves, from that time to her DEATH to notify,
like the weddng-ring of Europe that she has en-
tered the marriage GodeyS Ladys Book.
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DocToR AS IS DoCToR. self sufficient hum
bug who took up the business Of physician and
pretended to deep knowledge Of the healing art,
was once called upon to visit young man with
apoplexy Bolus gazed long and hard, felt his
pulse and pocket, looked at his tongue and his
wife, and finally gave vent to the following sublime
opinion:
II think he's gone fellow"
"No no." exclaimed the sorrowing wife, do not
say that
"Yes" returned Bolus, lifting up his hat and
eyes heavenwaid at the same time, yes | do say
So there arnt any hope, not the leastest mte-he S
got an attack Of nibl fit in his lose frontis-"
Where ~ cried the startled wife
"In his loose frontis and can't be cured without
some trouble and great deal of pains. Yon see
his whole paletary system is deranged fustly his
vox populy is pressin on his advalorum; secondly
his cutacarpal cutaneous has swelled considerably
if not more thirdly. and lastly his solar ribs are
in concussed state, and he amt got any money
consequently he's bound to die
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ERIAL SCENERY. MIR. Bannster, the daring
@ronaut, who recently travelled three hundred and
fifty miles, from Adrian, Michigan. to Red Bank
in Pennsylvania, in about four hours time sailed
during portion of his journey at height of
more than three miles above the surface Of the
earth. Near Cleveland he passed over wide
bank of Clouds which shut the earth from his view
The scenery OF these clouds, he SAYS, was mngnif-
cent. Their tops rolled AMI surged in the wind
like an ocean of watery billows and lit up by the
clear above they flushed and glowed in /, man
ner indescribably beautiful During his trip above
the clouds, Mir 5annster passed over a heavy thun-
der storm, which was raging two miles below him.
crests Of the cloud waves with red glare of terri
SO loud lis when one hears it upon the earth" The
air, at the great height to which the voyager as
cended, was as cold is usual upon cold winters
day, and by the time that his feet were pretty
thoroughly frozen, he thought it was high time to
descend The people of the neighborhood where
he came down--simple, honest rustcs- thought
that the balloon was great apparltion. One old
lady, whose ideas of heavenly mattors must have
been very peculiar, took it INTO her head that it
was an angel and two hunters actually chased it
some miles, IN order to get shot at what they
supposed was a strange monster of a bird MIR
Bannister, nevertheless, finally alighted in the up
per branches of high tree, and safely rescued
and Hospitality treated by the farmers who wit
messed his descent. His balloon, however, valued
at thousand dollars, was torn to pieces and he
himself was much affected by the cold which he
had passed through that he was unable to leave
the vicinity for several days.
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GREELEY IN PARIS In Horace Greeloys last
letter to the N, Y. Tribune he gives long account
of Paris and its sights, in terms of much approba-
tion: but is inclined to look with disavor upon the
l'arisian method of observing the Sabbath. He
says:
Il am no Journalist. and would not have Sunday
kept absolutely from labor and recreatons with all
the strictuess enjoned in the Mosaic ritual | be-
lieve the cramped and weary toiler through six
days of each week, may better walk out Or ride
with his children and breathe fresh, pure air on
Sunday than not all yet this French use of the
Christian Sabbath as a mere fete day. or holiday,
impresses me very unfavorably Half the stores
are open on that day; men cutting stone and
doing all manner of work. as on other days; the
journals are published Offices are open. business
transacted only there is more harity. more dane
ing, more theater-going more dissipation than on
any other day of the week. | suspect that Labor
gets no more pay in the long run for seven days
work per week than it would for six, and that Mo,
rality suffers and Philanthropy is more languid
than it would be if one day in each week were
generally welcomed as day of rest and worship"
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CHANGE OF CLIMATE. The following, from the
Scientific american, contains some interesting facts,
and treats of very telling subject worthy of care
full investigation:
History informs us that many of the countries Of
Europe, which now possess very mild winters, ut
one time experienced severe cold during this season
OF the year. The Tiber, at Rome, was often frozen
| over, and snow at one time lay for forty days in
that city. The Euxine sea was frozen over every
winter during the time of Ovid and the rivers
Rhine and Rhone used to be frozen so deep that
the ice sustained loaded wagons. The waters of
the Iiber, Rhine and Rhone, now flow freely every
winter; ice is unknown in Rome, and the waves OF
the Euzine dash their wintry foam uncrystalized
upon the rocks Some have ascribed these climate
changes to agriculture; the cutting down of dense
Forests the exposure of upturned soil to the sum-
mer> sun; and the draining of great marshes We
do not believe that such great changes could have
been produced on the climate of any country by
agriculture, and are certain that no such theory
can account for the contrary change of climate
from warm to cold winters--which history tells us
has taken place in otter countries than those lust
| named. Greenland received its name from the
emerald herbage which once clothed its valleys and
mountains; and its east coast which is now inac-
cessible on account of perpetual ice heaped upon
its shores was in the eleventh century the seat of
Furnishing Scandinavian colonies, all trace of which
is now lost Cold Labrador was named Vnand
by the Northmen. who visited it A D. 1000 and
were charmed with its then mild climate.
Inc cause OF these changes is an important in
quiry. A pamphlet by John Murray. civil engin-
eer, has recently been published in London, in
which he endeavors to attribute these changes of
climate to the changeablc position of the magnetic
poles The magnetic variation or declination of
the needle is we'll known At the present time it
amounts in London to % degrees west north while
in 1858, the line of variation passed through Eng.
land and moved gradually west until 1916 In
that year great removal of ice took place on the
coast of Greenland hence it is inferred that the
cold meridian, which now passes through Canada
and Siberia may at one time have passed through
Italy, and that, if the magnetic meridian returns
as it is now doing. to its old lines in Europe, Rome
may once more see her Tiber frozen over and the
merry Rhnelander drive his team on the ice of his
classic river. Whether the changes of climate
mentioned are caused by the change of the mag
netc meridian OF not we have too few facts before
us at present to decide concusively: but the idea
once spread abroad, will soon lead to such investi-
cations as will no doubt soon remove every obscu.
rity, and settle the question.
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The SHORTEST SERMON ON RECORD The short
est sermon on record was preached by probably one
of the most eloquent preachers who ever adorned
pulpit. the late Dean Krwan He was pressed
(while suffering from a severe cold) to preach in
the church of st. Peters in Dublin, for, | believe
the orphan children in the parish school he tried
to excuse himself hut at last yielded. i'll as he was
After mounting the pulpit, while the church was
crowded to suffncation and having given out the
text he merely pointed with his hand to the orphan
children in the aisle, and said There they are" 1t
is said the collection that occasion exceeded all
belief. Dean Kirwan left son, the present elo-
quent Dean of Limerick.-Notes and Queries.
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Never be ashamed Of confessing your ignorance
for the wisest man upon earth is ignorant of many
things in so much that what he knows is a mere
nnthing in comparison with what he does not know.
There can not be greater folly in the world, than
to suppose that we know every thing. Even an ed
itor doesn't know euery thing.
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like making fire. Every body supposes he can
do it "a little better than any body else.' We
have seen people doubt their fitness for apple ped
ding driving oxen, or counting ath but in all our
experience we never yet met with that individual
who did not think he would double the crcula
ton" of any paper in two months
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"Hanse, where was you born 2" ION de Halder.
barrack" "What always!" Yaw. and before
too" How old are you then ?" IVY, when the
old school house is plt was two weeks more nor a
year, what is painted red you go home nit your
pack pehind you on de rite hant side, by de black
smith shop. what stans where it was purnt down
next year will pc two weeks"
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shad fisherman sends line tn the Philadelphia
Inquirer complaining that 'the stembotes that traf
fck in the delawur spe the shaddin bisnes, with
there splashin and runin in shoar." Our piscatory
friend demonstrates against this and takes the in
disputable position that ''shaddn were invented
afore stemebotes"
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THE POETS WINGED STEED.

By PROF. LoNGFELLow.
Once into quiet village,
Without haste and without heed,
In the golden prime of morning,
Strayed the poets winged steed.
1t was autumn, and incessant
Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
And, like living GOALS, the apples
Burned among the whitening leaves.
Loud the clamorous bell was ringing
From its belfry gaunt and grim:
Twas the daily call of labor,
Not triumph meant for him.
Not the less he saw the landscape
In its cleaning vapor veiled
Not the less he breathed the odors
That the dying leaves exhaled.
Thus, upon the village common,
BY the school-boys he was found!
And the wise men, in their wisdom,
Put him straightway into pound.
Then the sombre village crier
Ringing loud his brazen bell,
Wandered down the street proclaiming
There was an Estray to sell.
And the curious country people,
Rich and poor, and young and old,
Came in haste 10 see this wOndr0us
Winged steed, with name Of gold.
Thus the day passed, and the evening
Fell with vapOrs cold and dim,
But it brought no food nor shelter,
Brought no straw nor stall, for him.
Patiently, and still expectant,
Looked he through The wooden bars,
Saw the moon rise DER the landscape,
Saw the tranquil, patient stars.
Till at length the bell at midnight
Sounded from its dark abode,
And, from out q neghboring farm.yard
Loud the cock Alectryou crowed.
Then with nostrils wide expanding,
Breaking from its iron chain,
And, unfolding fair his pinions,
To the stars he scared again.
On the morrow, when the village
Woke to all its toll and care,
Lo, the strange steed had departed,
And they knew not when or where.
But they found upon the greensward,
Where his struggling hoofs had trod,
Pure and bright fountain flowing
From the hoof prints in the sod.
From that hour the fount unfaiing
Gladdens the whole region round,
Strengthening all who drink the waters,
While i. soothes them with its sound.
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The Albany Knickerbocker says that there is a
man in Greenbush who believes in rotation of crops.
One year he raises nothing, the next year weeds.
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Barnum, it is said, is now making arrangements
for an exhibition of the genus homo The idea is
to collect living specimens, male and female of
every nation on the gobe-all in their native cos.
tunes If they have any.
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Women are seldom sailors, but they sometimes
command smacks
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Every woman is in the wrong until she cries
and then she is in the right instantly.
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RUcC' 'NNELL& Il CO., Agents of Wells, Fargo& Co.
WI Express, Main street, Cooma.