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PORTRY.

TY OF OLD AG

THE BEAU

I often think each tottering form
That limps along in life’s decline,
Once bore a heart us young, 2s warin,
As full of idle faults as mine!
And each has had its dream of joy,
Its own unequaled, pure romance;
Commencing when the blushing boy
First thrill’d at lovely woman's glance.

And each could tell his tale of youth,
Would think its scenes of love evince
More passion, more unearthly truth
Than any tale before or since.
Yes! they could tell of tender lays,
At midnight penn’d in classic shades,
Of days more bright than modern days—
And maids fairer than modern maids,

Of whispers ina willing car;
Of kisses on a blushing cheek,
Mach kiss, each whisper far too dear
Our modern lips to give or speak.
Of passions too untimely cross’d—
Of passions slighted or*betrayed—

side, Prince Edward Island

the waters; but whether from nearat hand
or far away they could not tell,

‘She men stood up in their boat and lis-
tened, ‘The night was cloudy and dark ;
but the line between sea and sky was
ficiently distinct to show to their 7
vision the form of their own vessel, which
only three miles away; but no sail
is visible on that part of the horizon
from whence the sound appeared to come,
‘Thinking it possible, however, that some
shipwrecked boat’s crew might be in their
neighborhood, they joined together ina
shout; but there was no response audible,
All at once, however, some tlashes of light
glemmed across the distant darknass, aud
wbiuish glue shone out for a minute or
two, flickered and disappeared. At the
sume moment, a distant piercing ery, fol-
lowed by moanings similar to the first they
had heard, rose on the night air, Ino all
their experience, whether on sea or lund,
they had never heard sounds like them,
sand, wand and startled, and with all the
supersticious fears excited to which sailors
are prone, the men in the boat whispered
their conjectures to cach other,

There’s nothing as Uknow of that swims,
the sea or flies in the air, could make those
sounds,’ said one, ‘It there was any cralt
any where within miles, we could see her
sills plain enough; we are too fur out at
sea for any coasters carrying cattle, Be-
sides, there’s no such fe on this coast,
and we're a good cight hundred miles
from it.’

‘If it’s from a boat, what kind of a crew
must she have? That's what I want to
know,’ said a second, ¢ LT know what it is
to be adrift and perishing, 1 was once on
a ralt with twenty more, lor two-wnd-thirty
days, and a whole lot of them went mad
and dicd raging, from drinking the salt
water, and yelled and fought, and throttled
each other till they were pitched overboard ;
but then, these here sounds aren't human
like.’

*Couldit be a whale,
that mounin’ noise? asked another of the
boat-steerers, who was a veteran salt, hay-
ing followed his calling as a sealer and
whaler in all parts of the world,

‘Well, it might be—that those mi;
though twaren’t exactly like it neithe
I've heard tum too not to know em, Sperin
whale don’t roar much; butvight black, or
enland species, common all over the
world, you can hear at times miles
T remember once, when IT wasin New Ze
land—we was a Bay whaling near [Lokian-
ga—we killed a cow whale and her cally,
and towed’ em into the bay. Well, the old
bull, he came in at night-tul, and kep* up
such a moanin’ and roarin’ it was pitiful to
hearhim. Ie knowed his missus had come
in there, you sce, and he was a callin? on
her to come out; and for nigh-hand on to
a week, every night, hed tack about in
the offing, until daylight, waitin’? and call-
Th ei n't till we stripped the
blubber off her, and towed the careass out
to sea. that he gave in and left.’

For some time the men Itstened; but
nothing more was heard or seen, hoy
also rowed for some distance in the direc-
tion of the sounds, and again shouted, but
got no reply; and an hourafterwards they
were picked up and taken on board. ‘Che
captain, when he heard their story, swept
the horizon with his night glass; but de-
tecting no sail, he concluded that the yes-
sel trom whieh the light had proceeded
(if they really had seen it) had passed out
of sightin the interval; and as for the
sounds which had started them, he made
light of them,

‘You hearda grampus grunting, or some
seals snorting, or, maybe, some penguins
trimnpetingy hesaid. + Youwere all knock-
edup and halfasteep. Turnin, the
lot of you, and take a snooze till day
for we must finish stripping and try
out this fish. A set of lubbers you were,
to loose that other whale!

The men did as they were ordered, but
were perfectly couyvinced that the sounds.
they had heard were not caused by any
such agencies as their commander had
mentioned, ‘The light, strange as it was,
eorliinly might have come from a
ing ship, although, in that ease, it was odd
they could not see it. Each of the noises
seperately also might be thus accounted
for, perhaps; but the whole occurring: to-
gether, and proceeding from one quarter,
vis to them inexplicable,

They had been asleep some hours, and
day was about to break. The breeze had
slightly freshened ; but the ship, alter hay-
ing picked up the boats, had been hove to,
and consequently had remained nearly
stitionary during the night, the care of
the while having been placed alongside,
secured hy tackles, prepatory to stripping
the blubber, or ‘blanketpicee, as it is
technically called. Some of this had al-
ready been taken off, hoisted on deck, cut
up, aud placed in the huge coppers, used
in the sperm whale fishery for bottling (or
‘trying ont,’ tis termed) the oil—these
coppers being embedded in brick work, on
the upper or open deck. The fires beneath
them being laid: ready for ti the
mate was husy with his preparations when
the captain, who had been in bed turned
out and came on deck,

‘Do you know,’ said he, (that T really
think that there ho mistake in what
the hands said? ‘There’s something out of
the way going on, or afloat nearus. My
eabin window was open-—the head of my
bunk is close to it—and as L lay there—1
heard something—I can’t make out-what?
Did you hear anything,’

‘No; we've been tisy knocking about
the decks, What was it like?

‘Well, at first it was like what the men
sitid — deep groaning, moaning, and

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sill, that made

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rumbling kind of noises, a good distance
he

ofapparently, ‘Phen I rd a seream :
then some one laughing rum sort of
laugh it Was too.—1 should have thought
myself @veaming, only for what the men
had said.’

‘How long since was this?’ asked the
mate,

‘Within this last quarter of an hour,
But is everything ready for trying out,
Mr. Smart?) And the captain examined
the prepatations made, ‘Call the wateh
as soon as it is light elyough, and set all
hands to work, ‘The coppers are charged,

you may as well light the fives} and then
‘s the word along for silence fore and
aft. IT want to listen, and try and make
out what those noises mean.’

J went and stood by the taffrail, while
the men on deck, ceasing their work, went

g}ofa lonely wreck

- Charlottetown—W. Vi. Dawson, va Ocoben 1a) a Oe en ae sae aa
4 Henry Harvie, Esq. ‘ an ; r And buds that blossvine. 0 fade,
ij Centreville—Major Wright, Esq i JAS. WILLIA MSON, Orbennine ales

Upper Bedeque—Wim, G, Strong, Esq Choe bean eyes and tresses gay,
7'ryon—George Muttart, Esq Commission Merchant, Elastic form and noble brow,

St. Hleanor's—W. 'T, Hunt & Co CA dn And forms that have all passed away,

Casewapec—Benjamin Rogers, Esq MONTREAL, Ad Toy Ghent wiilewe see Ee i
Margate—Reuben ‘Tuplin, Msg i ; ‘ # y A iC ue we see them now,
New London—Vidgeon & Stewart is prepared to receive all orders for And is it thus—is human love
CURT &P Ae Flour, Cornmeal, Leather Tobacco, &e. So very light and frail a thing?

y t—Henry Beer, Es : Ac nn
eG anit A iukeee on on Lteasonable Lerms. aay niust poutie Driiglitost Walon We
Georgetown—Andrew LeBrocyue, Esq a Forever on Time's restless wing ?

Port Hill—David Ramsay, Esq. REFERENCES: ae ; He

Tignish—Benjamin Uaywood, Esq D. Rogers, ---Suminerside, P, EI. | Must all the eyes that still are wright
Miscouche—Joseph B. Perry, John P. Thargar, sq., -- St. John, N.B, And all the lips that talk ot bliss,
Crapaud—Charles Collit. Messrs. B. Douglas & Co., Ainherst, N.S., | And all the forms so fair to sight,

July 186: th ILereafter only come to this?
> Nia bi ee 3 ?
JOB PRINTING on eRe. Then what are allearth’s treasures worth,
of every description, performed with neatness James Gree nough, Ifwe nt longth must tose thei tus
and despatch, and at moderate rates, F L O U R Thall wo value most on-cneth
at the Jounnat Ollice. Clo ission Merchant Ere long must fade away froin us?
Summerside Markets. 1 Ceti i. :
Suamensipe, Noy. 22, 1866, No 47 Commercial Street 8 tl tct 4 l t Oe t Wis,
Oats per bush - ----+---2s Sda 2s 6d] Corner of Clinton Street - - - - - BOSTON
sy per bush 3s a Bs 6d : :

Bea nc uude cece: Wella eed Hi. J. RICHARDSON, A NIGHT ADVENTURE AT SEA.
Dirnibs Per VWI esses ss ee Isa Is ld COMMISSION Me ROmANT | Af tov tine cincut happened to bo in
Buiter perth by Tub >< = veut Valparaiso. where Linade the acquaintance
Lard per tb 9d a 10d : aN SSA ORB OR LI OinGts ane
: allow per lb. - -- -- Oda 10d Auctioneer. of in American, one of the officers 0 the
Higgs per doz -- - -- 9d a lod United States whaling-ship Nantucket,
7 eta Se. -- 8da dd AV eole 2 i Sean which had run in from her fishing grounds
Bee voce 7 a gu Dealer in Flour, Ciroceries, and Pacitic, to obtain a supply of water
Pork per lb by careass ; bd a od Dry Goods. i resh la . we one ayn i
jeese euch -*+---- >> s 6d a Is % % *y rect . ees syside, | GUbing over the different cyents o 1
Since bbe eee >= <= - $03 1 608 Water Street He Summerside iW which had lasted two years, he
Oatmeal per ewt. - > ~~ . T4s a 158 YA RW IO YP Te Rs rated the following curious incident

JIGY Nar WON sis as ¥ Naini CARVELL BROTHERS, which had belallen then,
Straw per cwt -------° § OU 2s One morning at daybreak, when lying
Dine pods iy adel he ee he A U ay I O N E E R 8 > | beealmed, thoy found themselves in the
Spruce Boards + ------ : . tat midst of a shoal of sperm whales, and all
seen escort —a Commission Merchants, tour of their boats were speedily lowered
. 7 and chase given. ‘Two of them proved
a WHINo S| (Uf ay dl a, And General Agents, successful, and by the afternoon had re-
Doe eee a aa eneeau RET ACRORTGT OT ae HLDING, QUEEN STREET, | tuned to the ship, towing their eaptured
DANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. | DANE SONaING eee Ie, Tata, | PECY Dut the others were not so fortunate,
Corner of Queen § Water Sts., Charlottetown |” Mea oe “}having by some blunder missed their first
: i , r D chance, it was not until after an arduous
Girouldént—Hox, noms 1, May ILAND. WiLLIAM DODD, chase of many hours that. their leading
tashier—WiuLLtamM CUNDALL, esquire, boa , eae nals eva cient
DHeeane Diy WeMonilia © araaly, Jommission Merchant, boat at last succeeded in’ overtaking and
Hours of Business—Ioin 10a.n, to 1 p.m. ; making fast to the whale. A long and
from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. And Auctioneer, desperat REE ted, Ay none

a crew quickly coming to the assistance o

UNION BANK. a a a oo mae ‘ _,, | the first; but line alter line from both was

Grafton St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown CHARLOTTETOWN ~~~ DP. B. ISLAND pe iM ICG UN Ae eae to
i 4 ‘ saul Touadivol | : TTA pe of the Jirgest size, and ol immense
ETT nen: Bene PHOMAS HANK OKD, strength and tenacity of life. It tried
ee eM e senda Andi nEdiye y ineans to escape, sometimes * sound-
Discount Day Se a AUCTIONEER inv,’ that is, descending perpendicularly to
i ‘Ont i ooh a vast depth into the recesses of the ocean

JIours of Business—From 10 a.m to lpm i ; ” VeVi : :
from 2 panto 4 pin until the cnormous pressure of the super-

ES OS neta eee a ha Comuission Merchant, incumbent waters was more than even its

SUMMERSIDE BANK. ST. JOUN, N. B. huge strength could bear, and it was foreed
Central Street, Swnmerside, P. By Tsland. Noy 1, 1805 ly to ea to Me ae Aone aie i
President—Hon, Joun R. Ganpiner, Ea 7 K saa Tienes ane ae ie rite ye
CN th ae tee na . Archibald Me ay divided by the sharp bows, curled high in
TES eo uM oa Med 1 tivo solid walls on atelier hand, At leneth
ui ‘ isc: st bein before 11 wo solid walls ‘itherhand., At leneth,
OA Me a Wien nee : MONCTON, N. B., however, its speed began to slacken, ‘and
Hours of Business—10 a. m., to 1 p.m.,| Contractor and Agent for the purchase and the whilemen, anxious to secure their
from 2 p. m,, to 4 pin, siule of prize betore a ‘ss set in, ee to
ae ee en ee eee Ces i i Masts, Plank, House finish him, and four more linces were
PRICE Ship tuubets : hei rapidly hurled into the body of the mon-

DR. y ’ apidly hurled into the hody ot the mon
Physician & Surgeon, |xa~ Orie or shnent vil secive prom [Ser Wich apparently eshuwel by: is
Loin proceeding eiforts, Tay ve a
Orvick—aAt the Summersip: Drug Store, ee REFERENCES: water, No sooner, howey » had the last

next door to Bank, Central Street MHOMAB Antnyy Genie steel penctrated, than, as if the stimu’

re ; vomas Airy, Esquire HM AtATAe Wi HOLiBGeL ITeAW AIL Lhe: ClGlL GEER OIL
SUMMERSIDE, » 0... P. BE. ISLAND sing Bansann, Hsquire, } Charlottetown, He eee Mae Nie ee at
October 12, 1865, ly May 17, 1866. Isl. Nhe tie noderane Mikes LENO
ging its ponderous flukes high up in
ae rain, struck tivo tremendous blows in

2 J Ti, GI BSON the air, strack two ( |
Medic ‘ ¥ a quick succession, one of which fell upon
‘

the foremost boat, entting it completely in

R. MeNEILL, latel Bellevue Hospital, | yj * Dh y hehe mnie pata ihn aiiits :

i i ow “n= ‘4 eS ‘ + fee ‘
Hoe AE a aad hi eee ah: ately HOUSE &S SIGN tions, After doing this mischief, it again
on ee yy Te Ky Bridge, sounded; and, hastily picked up their com-
fturiehy raed Ty) where he ?P & x WN y we R panions, and placing the wounded min in
may be Consulted ip thd/variyds departments JQ 9 on heed ol the nae ue rest, | LN he

this Profession, @ hefirs—day or night. HY wee. De By Island. \ ed, impationtly awaited the coming up o
ae stanley Bridge, New J,ondon, } Ey as Ly Hy tet the animal to breathe, ory waited in

Oct. 18, 1866. —tt , Seer ey Luu: vain; their prey had eseaped them, — In his
oF : AS A CARD last desperate effort to free himsell, he had,

N HOMER : so L was told, at least) divided so deeply,

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MEDIC! Ae subseriber having purchased the | that, with his strength exhausted, he was

OVER GREEN & STOCK IN TRADE of James L. Houmas gain to rise, and dying below,
“4 TER STREET, S at St. Eleanor’s, the business in future will be deeper, The disappointed wha-
We aria SSID aN conducted by him, As it is his intention to it in silence, watching their lines
7 sry keep constantly on hand a variety g000s | disappearing fathom alter fathom, until
B.D. STAIR, adapted for thoreohntry trade; herrPspecttully Healt list yard was one whut the how.
CABINET-MAKER, solicits a share of Pe Te Oey man, Who held his tomahawk uplitted
AND ALBERT TL. ANDERSON, | yeady to strike, was compelled to letit full
; _ St Hleanor's, April 10, 1860, on and sever the rope, lest the weight of the
I Jnudertaker. JOHN ANDREW MACDONALD, | descending body should drag the boats
pee ‘ SINDS MADE / y . of Diy G 1 down with it into the abyss.

FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS ADE Jinpo ter oO. ry Goods, Wearted with thet long day of fruitless
TO ORDER. Hardware, Crockeryware, Groceries, | toil, and depressed at their ill-fortune, the

i ieee ees C telown ; a ae men prepared to return to their ship, which

fg a a an ieaeadld, stoves, Furniture, &e, &e. had long before sunk beneath the horizon ;
Sept. 1866. 6m. Summerside, «+--+ ---- P. 2. Island. | for, being calm, she could not mike sail
7 SKE les ae ——.—.---. | to follow them. After pulling for some
crating are ww A. W. ANDRE'S hours, HbA Gh they felt a breeze spring
ister - at - La up, which they knew would bring her

Barr ed down ; and, after awhile, a rocket ascend:

pale 7 ling showed her position; and. this. signal

NOTARY PUBLIC, &o, Point Du Chene, Shediac, was repeated every halt hour, u il the
SUMMERSIDE, - - - - P. B, ISLAND vessel was bad afew miles. ‘They had
aug. 9, 1866 ly tah) eave. | been resting on their oars for some time,
— : 5) - Li ATI EY —| Monuments, Tombs, Grave but had once more resumed them upon
GEORGE ALLEY, stones, &c, noticing that the breeze was dying Aa
BARRISTER AND Amertoan & Italian Marble con- and their ship likely to be beeal med, whn

Att ev-a t-Law all at once a sound struck upon their ears,
orney ’ stanily on hand, which made each man panse in astonish-

NOTARY PUBLIC, &c. Sold at a less price than at any other estab-| ment. It was a groan, or rather a hoarse,

Telegraph Buildings, Water Street, lishment in the Provinces, heayy, smothered kind of moan, which
Charlottetown enecnaneeseenee «+P, E. Island.| Point Du cheno, N. B., oct. 18, 1865. seemed to be borne to them from aaross

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of 29, 1866,

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: Thursday, November 22, 1866,

Fora short time they remained thus,
looking and listening, when the captain,
hearing a deep moaning he had
described, raised the speaking trumpet he
held, and hailed. As the hoarse sound
died away, a startling reply was given.
A bu of strange, harsh laughter came
ringing across the water, gradually chan g-
ing into a wild ery, which rose upon the
night air, sounding inexpressibly sad and
mournful, At that moment, as the sea-
men, thrilled and awe-struck, listened,
the fires which had been lit beneath the
coppers, and which had been fed) with
of refuse blubber, began to burn np
whtly, the flames presently shooting: up
half way to the tops, and casting a broad
red glive over the surrounding waters,
And, as if this flame had been a spell to
conjure up to the demons of the deep,
from the thick darkness beyond the verge
of the circle of light issued a succession
of sounds of the most extraordin: cha-
racter, Yells and howls, shrill screams
and roars—now commingled, now sepiar-
ate—at times dying away, and again, as
the flames shot up fiercely, rising in hide-
ous chorus—assailed the ears of the as-
tounded whalers, while at intervals,
mingled with the uproar, was what seemed
to some on board to be the sound, indis-
tinct'y heard, of human voices. ‘Vhis had
continued until the yessel had passed on
her way some distance, when the noise
had become more and more faint aud
finally died away,

Betore the fires had been lit, the ship
had been put before the wind, in’ order
that the smoke and fiame might pass for-
ward and not endanger the rigging or in-
commode the men at their labor Some
of the latter, alarmed at the sounds, would
willingly have had her continue her course
and leave the vicinity; but this Yankee
skipper s not so superstitious; and,
being determined to ascertain their cause,
he ordered the fires to be put out, (so that
the vessel might sai tinst the wind.)
and veturned. While the lookouts alote
were trying to catch sight of any vessl or
other object: in the neighborhood, the
sounds again reached them; and, stecring:
in their direction, the ship was hove to and
av bout lowered; but the men hung back
when the captain ordered aw crew in, and
wished to wait for daylight.

‘Why, what are you afraid of, me
No you think there are evil spirits cruis-
ing?’

Ife pansed in snyprise, and al hands
vttered a ery, Ao strange phenomenon
Was presented to their view; a pale-blue
phosphorescent light) suddenly gleamed
out of the darkness, and showed them a
wreck, dismasted and drifting, ‘Through
the open ports and) breaches in the bul-
warks, broken by the waves, the unearthly-
looking radiance shone, glimmering i
lickering on the stump of the mainmast,
the only fragment of a spar left standing.
Its bows were towards them, and from
their own mastheads they could at times,
when it pitched and rolled, see down on
toits deck, Close to the after hatchway
burned a blue tremulous flame,
times shooting up vividly, at other:
ing until nearly extingnished, by the light
of which all on deck was vendere Lyisible,
All hands looked eagerly for signs of a
erew ? but nothing in the shape of aman
was to be seen, ‘The deck was elonred,
the long-bout and spars gone; there was
nothing to Conceal them from view, had
any men been on board,

Jut although nothing in the guise of
mortal man was visible, other objects pre-
sented theniselves to the view of the awe-
rick sailors, Gaunt and weird-looking
shapes of hideous animals were plainly
seen fitting restlessly to and froin’ the
ghastly light ofthat unnatural illumination,
at sea.

‘Tenn tell you, sir,’ said my informant,
at this portion of his narrative, ‘that L for
one was seared, and no mistake about it.

I was brought up on a part of New
England where a belicfin the supernatural
prevails. [had heard that evil: spirits ap-
peared at times in the form of beasts, and
haunted the places where they had when
on earth conunitted their crimes; and we
were off that coast where, for two hundred
years, the desperadoes of every clime—
pirates and buccaneers —had pursued,
when in life, their horrid calling. As
the blue light flickered, and the yells
ouce more broke out, these tales of my
early days might have made me fancy
myself in the presence of some phantom
ship with its ghastly erew,

‘But daylight soon came, the blue lig
went ont, and we then saw that the wreek
Was a real one, and that a boat was towing
astern; and when we pulled to it and
hailed, voices from the cabia att, replied,
and we rowed round and oman with
his head and shoulders projecting out of
the window,

‘LT say, stranger!’ he shouted, ‘don't
none of vou offer to come aboard,—Some
ofthe critters got loose last night, and

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they're dangerous.’ And dangerous
cnowzh they appeared to be, for at that
moment came to the talfrail, and) looked

down on us, several hyenas, whose eyes,
sparkling with fumine, glared inost fero-
viously; and no wonder; they had no
(ood for nearly a week,

‘The brig was in fret a complete me-
nagerie, which a speculative American was
taking to California, visiting all the South
Ameriean portson his way. He had been
blown out to sea by a hurricane, which at
last cari way his mas nd he had
hoon « about eve ice, till his
beasts nearly starved. He had a
miserable erew, half of them being his
showmen, and he himself was his own
captain, trusting to his mate to navigate
for him. They had prepared the long-
boat for leaving, should io vessel fall in
with them, but had made repeated abortive
efforts to rig jury-masts as well, In their
last attempt the spar had fallen, and the
heel of it smashed the cage containing the
hyenas, and all hands* had to make a
speedy retreat to the alt reabin, and keep
below till daylight should enable thear to
shoot, or otherwise secure them, Our
lire, by exciting the beasts, attracting
their notice, and at first they thought it
was a byrning ship. She light seen by
the boat early in the night was made by
burning some spirits of wine out of the
cabin window, and they now prepared to
repent the signal, hoping to attract our at-
tention; but this time, instead of hanging
it out of the cabin window, they managed
to open the hatchway and push it out on

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and she pointed to th
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astings,” road

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the deck, where the beasts were prowling
about, restless with the hunger which tor-
mented them,

‘he crew. stayed three days with us;
we rigged them up jury-masts, and, what
was of greater consequen supplied the
captain with plenty of the beef trom the
whale for his animals, and thus saved
him from ruin; for the poor man had it
vested all he bad in the menagerie, We
heard afterwards that he got sate to Callao,
und I suppose is in Calitornia long before
this,

HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES,

The Paris correspondent of the London
Star tells this horrible story :—

A subject of deep interest is now dis-
cussed at the Prench Academy of Medicine,
to which I have already alluded—namely,
the frighttul mortality among French
children, according to the fashion of this
country put out to muse, Every year
twenty thousand babies are sent’ out of
Paris under the care of peasant nurses,
and of that number five thousand on an
average, wre returned to their mothers,
the other fifteen thousand haying died of
cold, starvation and bad treatment. Since
1546, it has been caleulated that in the
neighborhood of Paris alone, three hun-
dred thousand of the murslings have died
in the hands of their foster mothers. | Why
should such barbarous murder be allowed
to depopulate the country? It is entirely
owing to the bad management of tie
burcawe de nourrices over Which govern-
Ment has not, till now, exercised a proper
amount of survcilkince. ‘There offices re-
ceive indiseriminately every woman who
applies to them for employment,

A frightful trade is ear
lators of the lowest cl:
utencis, Who enroll counter
pay, convey them to Pius in carts justly
called“ purgtories,” obtain for “them
babies whose mothers have applicd at the
offices for a nurse for their child, and con-
vey them and the children back to. the
country. ‘The horrors that take place
during the journey to Paris and) back in
the vehicle of the weaeur are of so. start-
ling wnatire that one conld hardly he-
Heve them to be true. were it not for the
undoubted proots which have been laid
before the Academy of Medicine, ‘Lhus
the countrywomen make no seruple in ex-
changing the babies entrusted to. them,
and several among them undertake to
hurse two or three childrenat atime, 1
have seen,” exclaimed M, Chevalier, ad-
dressing the Academy, one woman pro-
fossing to nurse seven infants, and yet she
herself had neither milk nor a cow.¥

Fed with bad broth, exposed to every
species of dirt and negleet, the miserable
infant sickcus and dies. The nurse how-
ever, writes to its mother that her baby is
prospering, that ithas grown ont of) its
clothes and requires a fresh supply. ‘The
mothernaturally spends her month's wages
in supplying her child’s wants, and goes
on paying its board for months alter it has
been lying in the villtge cemetery, A
considerable number of nurses come an-
noally to Paris aud carry back a supply of
children, aud not one has ever been known
to bring a child back to the capital. In
their the children simply appear
and disappear, Dr, Brochard cited in his
speech to the Academy two comimunes ot
the Eure et Leire Department, where the
nurselings invariably die.

Tt appears there are women among tha
nurses Whose reputation is well known,

ed on by specu.
denominated
women in their

and he 0 refercas, these nurses are es-
pecially t for by certain ill-famed
houses. Entrusting a new-born intant to

one of then: is wmonnt to infanticide,
Dr, Brochard read several copies of lying
letters written by nurses to the children’s
parents, describing in’ pathetic language
the rosy cheeks and inereasing charms of
their infants, dead weeks betore the epistle
was indited,

A GOOD WIFE.

A translation of a Welsh triad ;

She is modest, void of decvit, and obedi-
ent,

Pure of conscience, gracious of tongue,
and true to her husband.

Her heart not proud, her manners aifa-
ble, and ber bosom tull of compassion tor
the poor.

Laboring to be tidy, skilful of hand, and
fond of praying to God.

Her conversation amiable, her dress de-
eent, and her house order

Quick of hand, quick of eye, and quick
of understanding.

Jlev person tidy, her mannersagreoable,
and her heart innocent.

Her tace benignant, her head intelligent,
and provident.

Loving her husband, loving peace, and
loving God,

Happy the man who possesses such a
wile,

“REE? THE GATE SHUT.”

A Farmer was one day walking in his
fields, when he saw a party of huntsmen
riding on his farm, He had one field
which he was anxious they should not ride
over, if they did, it would be likely to do
vut deal of harm to the crop that was
growing init. He called ane of the boys

and told him to gu

who worked tor him,
and fasten the gate of that field, and) then
keep wateh there, wud en no aecount to
let the huntsimen in, ;

The boy did as he was told. Soon one
of the huntsmen rode up, and asked him
to open the gate; but the hoy refused,
saying. ‘No, sir; master told me to keep
it shut.” The gentleman tried to pursuade
him to open it, as he wanted very much to
go throngh the field; Wat the boy returned
the sume answer, * Master told me to keep
it shut.” ‘Phen same more ol the hunters
came, and joined with the first, telllng the
boy hemust open the gate, Still, however
he firmly but politely refused, returning
the same answer, ** Master told me to keep
it shut.” At last a noble-looking rider
cane up; ‘Come, my boy, open the gate.”
‘No sir, master told me to Keep it shut.”
“Oh, ponsense! you must open it.” Still
the boy refused. a of the buntsmen
said, ‘* Do you know who you are speakin
to? it is dhe Duke of Wallington st Tear
not help it sir; master told me to keep the
gate shut.” [tis said that the duke was
so well pleased with the boys firmness, that

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