Summerside Journal -- 1867-01-17 -- Page 2

ety ee ee rr ee tee AER
in ame Saint rr Setienhieeh’ ‘weenmenemeannel

hors helped coch other
and in certaia tarmiag operations, ns a
matter of coarse, Evevy faracr bas each
year a field of larger ap smaller dimen-
sions to etump., Now, stumping single:
handed is very doll and very heavy work,
and hired dabor is almost” impossible tal
be procured, Ile goes round anony hist *
neighbors, and asks them to come on a. °
certain day to ‘ lend hima hand.” On)?
the day pamed iiiteou or twenty agizhbors |

come ard help kim to pull out and “pile! .

At certein seasons,

he stump: 4 give ein ¢ od} :
Up the stumps, He gives them a’ good! smoke in her pre

dinner and a few glasses of whiskey. In
the evening a few of the neighboriyg las- |p
eos drop in, and the hard day’s work is,

ended by a dance of louger or shorter con-; 4

tinuanee. ‘This is the suauping irulic gi’ (ol wonk

* the good old times.” |

As every one gives trotics,
govsto them. And then the tb?
or fulling trolies. ‘Phese wero for a long
time ty thy conntyy p- ye nt this Island!
what balls afd evening partics are to the |
more refined circles of towns and cities. |
The ostopsible business of the gathering |
wasto full the piote of home sun—ine |
yariably blue jn those d. yearly spun
and woven by evary ‘armer’s family. |
But, besides this, there were done at the
social gathering’s ning-tenths of the court- |
ing and flirtias that the lids and lasses of
those times were guilty of Many a happy
miarriago has spfung up from mn nequant-
anoe first made ata fulling frolic, As we}
sid beiorve, the cloth mauutactured by the
farmers’ wives and daughters was fulled)
by hand at these ivolics. ‘This is the way
in which it was done, A long and strong
table of rough boards, firmly braced, was
erected in the largest room thatthe house
contained. ‘The web being unrolled, and
tha ends sewed together. it was laid on
this table like an endless chain. It had
been previously soaked in water tor some
tine, ‘Lhe boys and virls—there were no
ig ladies in those days—ranged them-
Jos of the table, and
Kwards and forwards
at the sane time shoving
it along on one sis towards the top, and
Vhose opposite towards the bottom of ths
tuble,
with a strong solution of soap. As th
was pretty hard work there were gener-
ally relays of bands, one ready lo take its
turn when the other was tired. The
young men shewed their gallantry by
offering to relieve their fiir companions ;
und a pretty girl might be seen shyly offer-
ing to take a young man’s plice—not her
lover's, you may depend—who 1 done
what she considered a fair share of the
work. ‘his work went on merrily with
song, aed Jangh, and jest. ‘Lhe merri-
ment might not have been v refined,
but it jwas, fur the most part, pure and
hearty, ‘Dhose who were not atthe hoard,
were not byany means idle. Eyory chair
and bench in the house had its burden of
loving couples, whispering the tender
nothings that have such a charin on young
tolks all the world over, ‘Fhe scarcity of
seats rendered it necessary for the young

seni

both smoking and drinking anil vet an exam-

erry for the drunkard to give up drinking as it ts |
SY y-one, : bes vg |
Hior me to vive up smoking then I 2

j

At intervals the cloth was wetted}

dreds of thousands, it also appeared to him, to
be the diny ef the Charch, now thet smoking
is keepiny pace with its elder bect
perance, to setup a like stdndandagainstit, | ¢

oY |

10, "Phat for the Church wholly to abandons

i. would remove two freat hindrances
at of the way of a mare general outpouring

—

—~vof absenteeism from paternal and maternal |
le of total abstinence to the worl, it iene oat is a growing one and threatens to in-

we may expect,

LOOK AFTER LADS.
Tn our cithes, wheve trade drives and is ex
iting, and wiereamasement und fashion bold |
ach despotic sway, this evil—for it is an evil)

ure both individuals and soviety more “plan
Murried lifo-—life too excie-

communicn tions.

Sunnerside Gournal,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1807

pF No notice can be taken of anonymous
We must know the names
and addresses of oyr correspondents ae @ gua-
anty of their good faith, We cannot under.

tthe Spirit of God, gad hasten the latter day | sively confined to the counting-room ; fife with | race to return communications that are not used

‘of glory it

he crowd in the boarding house or the hotel;

11. Often wher, smoking lie would ask him- | life that is restless and gay to the verge of

elt, “IP Victoria were here now could 1p

1 Enghynd’s Queen her
vect hor more than the King of Heaten ?”

Lmath wie

cept the incense of tobacco.

18. That

hould hi
more feeling for the poor drunkard”; and how,
he asked, I contiséeatly advouate total ab- |
stinence from drinking while Laia iuiemperate
in smokir

CANADIAN NEWS,

The Grand Trunk Railway Compaay hare
in process of erection a new freight heuse, a
iv southeast of the passenger depot, Its
sions are to be 300 by 40 feet; and its)
un is consequent upon the inconvenient
ilistance from the heart of the city: at which |
ihe old freight-house is situated-—Loadon
Free Press.

"There wa3a heavy snow-storm at Toronto on
Sunday, Dee. 16th, With the exception of a
sprinkling in November, this is the first snow
there this winter,

A Prorrraniz Business!—The returns of
the customs departinent of the government for
1s

es are paid to officials where very little

the collections in miny instances, At some
ofthe ports there have been no collections
made. At Salt Ste Marie, although the place
has been a free port for a number of years
$1,000 salary for the year was paid to the
lector, and $59U each to Wo landing waiters.
At Sangeon, the returns show $500 paid as
[salary to collector, and $25.40 amount of
‘ collections. —Ltsley sldvocate.
j Great Werr.—On Vriday last the largest
flowing well ia or near rolia commenced to
flow, ut the rate of about 800 barrels per ¢
The well is situated on Lot 11, 1tth Conce:
sion of this towneh is 880 feet deep from
the surface. 290 feet in the rock, which is not,
about 100 feet, the depth of the » ae of
Is in this vicinity; and is owned by the
| North tern Oil Company, of St. Catherines.
| When the vein was struck from which the flow
| proceeds, there was ne means at Innd to save
the precious fluid, anda siderable quantity
was lost, until at last it formed a perfect creek
of oil, about 109 yards inlength by 12 in width,
and trom 14 to $ fect deep, where. on Sunday
last, it still and was inspected by hundreds
from our villige. ‘Uhere tas been so much
talk about big owing wells lately, which turn-
ed out s0 much less than at first stated, that
we had some doubt about the trath of the
above until we had seen for ourselves. We
have scen and believed, as the tank, which
was constructed as soon after the strike as

men to accommodate their sweet-hearts
with a seat on their knees, which, to tell
the truth, was not feund to bea very
great inconvenience by any of the parties
concerned, Lhe work done, and the web
rolled up in due form, all sit down toa
substantial hot supper; after which, the
chairs and tables. gging cleared away, the
youngsters either danced away the re

maining honrs of the night, or when the!

old folks would not ailow dancing, amused
themselves with forfeits and other games
jor an hour or two before breaking up.
The young men, of course, eseorted the
girls to their homos, and those long walks
over the erisp snow in the bright starlight
were by no means the most unpleasant of
one’s life experiences,

If we were disposed to be philosophical,
we would piuse here to write a disquisi-
tion on the changes that have been made
in the soefal habits of the people of this
country by the introduction of Falling
Mills.” The change is, we verily believe,
notanimprovement, People in thuse days
were much more sociable thin in these.
‘Chere were fewer jealousies, bickerings
and heart-burnings, wd intinitely more
enjoyment. ‘here are now too few social
rings among the people in the rural
ts—too little amusement—too Mttle
healthy excitement. People, not knowing

enough of cach other, do not understand
one ancther,
conviction, that not only would the amount
of enjoyment be greater, but that the tone
of general morality would be raised if we
eould gob: to the gogd old days of
Thickening Frolics, when all well-behaved
people met on an equality, and before
young ladies and young ladyism were in-
vented,

We hare'much moro to say, but we have
ready gone beyond the limits assigned
us; and have also we fear, trespassed on
the patience of our readers. But we think
that we have said gnongh to convince
them thet very great changes have taken
place in our Island lomo within the Jast
thirty years; and that if any one who
left it at that time, or even ten years later,
were now to return, there is not a single
settlementin the country that he would
recognize; end that he would observe
almost as great changes in the condition
and manners of the people as in the gen-
eral appearance of the country.

AUIRTEEN REASONS WHY MR, ———
GAVE UP SMOKING.

1. When he saw Church mombers paying
from $6 to $12 for tobnceo, and only from: $2
to $4 for the Gospe! per year, he thoucht that
ifa man will rob of his tithes anil offerings
from love to his pipe, it was high time to east
to the moles and baty thy * idul” that claimed
such a supremicy.

2. It oven seemed to him that smoking he-
clouded the light of God's conmenance in
Christian experience, and dampened the fire
of love and zeal in God’s cause.

3. When he saw professors of religion
.@ woking while going to and ftom meeting.—
ne felt a disgust at the practice both in them
and jnhinself, When he say preachers seok-
ing a secret plave to * pull,” he would think if
the deed, were justifithle, why notdo tt puvlic-
ly; or was it that they fei guilty and ashamed
to be seen.

4. Every time he aaw the pipe and tobacco
in the window of a grog-shop on one side, and
the decahter and glass on the other, his con-
svience woultl smite him.

5. When he say boys and young men, and
women too, smoking the pipe, he felt he could

not consistently say anght against it; and when
sho beheld the dratikard and the profane like-
wise, he would say, ‘Lam the brother and
«companion of these charagters inthe pipe nt
Joast,” and then again his conscience would
amite him. i
6. Whew he read and heard so muchagoinst
amoking he would feel shat he ought to give it

up. oe
3 Thatasin drinking s0 in smoking, it was

possible, aud is a 259-barrel one, was filled in
‘the short space of seven hours,
| of gas that continually pours forth is scarcely
conceivable, and the force with which it comes
joutis prodigious, set of tools, weighing
| 1,000 Ibs., were lifted completely upandthrown
some distanoe from the pipe by the force with
| which the gas comesup. ‘Che noise which the
gig makes on issuing irom the pipe is like the
i blowing off of steam, Experienced oil men
| from Pennsylvania say that they have never
| anything like ip before in connection with
joi. ‘They also have the opinion that where
j the mas lias exhausted itsell, the flow of pure
} oil wall be correspondingly increased. —Petra-
[Uta Soutinent.

Wari T1097 wit. sor Drown.—All travel-

j lors, writes a correspondent, have mentioned
\ with astonishment the peculiar buoyancy ofthe
water of Great Salt Lake, and it is truly sur-
| prising. No danger of shipwreck need ever
} cross the mind of those who navigate the lake,
| for it would be rimply impossible for them to
drown if thrown overboard. With my hands
i elaxped together under my head, and my feet
| crossed, I Hoated on the very surfice of the
‘lake with at least one-third of my body above
| the witer, Upon a warm sumin day there
| would not be thy slightest difliculty in going to
| sleep upon the like, and allowing yourselt’ to
| be blown about Upon the lake as the wind per-
mitted; ohiy one would need an umbrella to
‘keep off the raya of the san.—It has been
| been stated that three buckets of this water

It is, besides, onr honest] will yield one bucket of solid salt, but inas- | his judgment may be relied on.

much as water will not hold above twenty-flve
per cent, of saline matter in solution, and if
amore be wided it is instantly deposited upon
the bottom, this estiinate irk, of course, too
large. On enquiring of the Mormons engayed
in procuring salt, they unanimously stated
that for every five buekets of water they ob-
tained one bucket of salt, which gives the pro-
portion as no less than twenty per cent. No
visitor to the Inke should omit the bath; the
sensation in the water is most Inxurious, and
leads one to think hiinself floating in the air.
On the way back to the city it would be as
well for the bather to stop at the supero sul-
‘pher baths just outside the town, and remove
‘the saline inerustations whieh will have form-
into the fine swim-
| ming bath, whose only objection is its peculiar
| olor and its great heat, which requires a great
Fadmixtuce of cold wiier,

Fed upon him, by a plunge

he contributions of Canada to the Paris
Exhibition, besides a variety of other articles
include samples of winter wheat, spring wheat,
rye, barley, outs, pcas, corn, timothy seed,
flax seed, hops, tares, buckwheat, millet, Hun-
gaviin grass seed, oatineal, groats, wheat flour,
bu -kwheat flour, cornmeal, chickory, prepared
‘spices, turnip seed, carrot seed, combined
mower and reaper, iron ploughs, wood ploughs,
chiif cutter, root cutee and slicer, seythes,
hay forks, hove, rakes, draining tiles, mus-
tardseed, maingel wurtzel, fanning mill, nugers,
haminers, razors, adzes, and otlier edged tools,
excringe and cutter stuff, blankets, farniture
of various kinds, ladies’ saddles, typography
roots and plants, refrigerator, Grea still, pet-
rolenin oils, sewing machine, resin and tur-
pentine, theodlite, compass, cainera, cotton
goods, nuls and bolts of various kinds, car-
tinga springs and pumps, hinges, cut and
pressed n . lames, boots and shoes. locks
and hardware, mailing machine, linseed oil
cake and celors, account and letter-press
hooks, wallets aml diaries, cooking stoves and
hallow-ware, cirenliur and other saws. knitted
yvooda, tinon and flax goods, paper hangings,
card Clothing, 500 diflevent specimens Canadi-
an birds. 100 specimen of fish from Canadian
rivers and lakes, 1,200 insects, ete.,

On Friday, 21st December, Mr. Robertson, |
who is a merchant in Moncton, N B., arrived
in St. John by the evening train, and imme-
diately proceeded to the American House, in
King Street, Ile was shown to a room hy the
boy in attendance: . At first ho objected to jt,
as the lock was notin good working condition,
but latterly agreed to accept it. Before re-
tiring, he deposited all his money, which eon-
sisted of 81100 in gold (held in a canvas bag),
and the balince in paper @meld in a wallet),—
in all, $1600,-—nnder his pillow, Ho then
latched the door and went to bed. When he
awoke in the morning, he observed the door

nlmoet impossible to keep temperate, dt was
better to abstain totally. .

8. When the fafiily newspapets would de-
nounee ‘“smuking,” he often observed that
émokers would shut theit eyes, or if they read
tho atticles, they waiild feel annoyed, and jus-
tify themelvos in the pravtice, anit so smoke
on in apite of all the arguments against it.

9. Adit appeared evidently to: be gow the
Aaty af the Chaceh to set up a standard of to-
‘el a'etinonce against the floods of intempe-

stunding ajar, and, 01 feeling for his money,
the wliole sum had mysteriously disappeared,
‘The police have been matie acquainted with
thu facts as stated.

Symptoms of worms in children are often
overloukéd. Wornis in thd stomach cause irri-
tation, which can be removed only by the use
ofa sure remedy. Brown's Wermifuge Com:

ual.

timee, whiek is amonally desmoying its bus-

business is done, and that the expenses exceed | grooms, coachmen, and other servants.

The amount}

lissipation—this sort of life, with its obvique- |

nee? ardis not a greater! ly demoralizing eflects upon America in its}
and shall [ res- i"
| properly be snid that parties have no moral
14. Phan when he smelt bis own smoky \ right to be married and have the * olive plants”
at his devotions—he wondered if) spring up around any table but the table in

their own domicile, where they can and re |
rit be as hard (he would say)! anxious to look after the welfare, the growth,
and the culture of their offspring.

teens, is quite too common. Verily, itmight

The Psalmist tells us that ** God setteth the |
solitary ta fianities,” which means, we suppose
that the way people ought to live is in house-
holds, where the natural relations and the
natural afivetions shall have the privacy, the
separation, froin the great bustling world and
the concourse of people they require for thei
right enjoyment and their pure and healthful
»; yethow sadly is this ordination of
vidvace interfered with and disregarded,
ominously so, in our great and multitudinons
towns! Indeed itis, oris becoming a very
serious question, how what are assumed to be
the imperative demands of business, and what

| are felt to be the alinost irresistible solicitations

uf + society,” can be reconciled with a decent-
ly faithful regard to‘domestic life. fe

" * * * We dread the streets, and the
gutter for the little chaps; we talk of the
premature old-headedness of the shoeblite'
newsboys, and other vagahond youngsters ;
but really it admits of a doubt whether rags
or rowdyism in blind alleys are worse in their

65 show that at several ports of entry, high | influence on the rising generation than hotel

entries and ball-rooms and the company of
The
contagion of vicious and luose hahiis is. not
warded off by fine clothes, and little gentlem: a
may get infected by it quite as easily, perch-
ance, as litthe gemins, Certainly, * terrible
infants” in costly astire are about as frequent-
ly met with as those whose chief garment is a
coating ofdirt. Itis, therefore, tor the rich
as well as the poor, very desirable, that well
ordered family living should not pass away, as
it seems to be passing away; and that the in

tercourse and associations between parents
and their children should become less inter-
mittentand closer. Of what advantage will
it be to innke a for®ane for one’s heirs and to
seat them in luxury, if meanwhile they are
lett without careful watching, without special
and solicitous care for their moral training,—
‘a watching and care that cannot fe intrusied
to hirelings? It would be well for some mer-
chants and professional men to put this inquiry
to themselves, as they remember how’ they
| daily come ont of their front doors in the morn-
ing not to re-enter them again until night, and

the night to engagements in which home mat-

ters lave no lot or part.
* *

* * * * *

Keep your boy, whilst he is a boy; a well-
behaved boy, a polite boy; a manly boy; 4
courageous self-reliant boy; ne milksop boy,
tied to his mother’s skirts, but still aboy; not
alittle weakling fop, a precocions snob, a
conceited monkey aping the airs and acquiring
the habits of grown-up dandies and fast charac-
ters. Don't make a self-indulgent small
gentleman of him. Teach him to wait upon
andt care of himself, and to respeet his
interiors and to treat them courteously and
kindly.
a cane and kid gloves and garments that are
not suited tor downright hearty play. It may
be pretty and aristocratic and a sign of your

opulence to dress him up in the height of
fushion; but in so doing you run the risk of

spoiling him for any robust and useful living.
NTS OF NEW

On this sutject the New York Times
says:

“We had oeeasion recently to employ an
agent to look for those drifting waits of so-
ciety, the street boys, at night visiting the
theatres and low lodging-houses. He went
on an evening last week tothe ‘Old Bowery.’
Going rather too hastily into the ‘pit,’ he
found himself caught in a sweliing throng of
‘bummers,’ petty thieves, pickpockets, little
pediers, strect boys, and young roughs of all
ages from to twenty. [lis watch-pockets
were speedily tried for, but he was well pre-
pared, and soon took refuge in the orchestra
to watch this singulty miss of young humani-
ty below. After carefully counting he esti-
mated that there were seven hundred young
Jads in the house of the vagrant and house-
}less class, and as he is an ‘expert’ with boys
They were
mainly about ten or twelve years of age,
ragged, verminous, dirty, shock- headed, with-
out shoes or proper clothing tor the approach-
ing winter. Some three hundred he estimated
had no shirtsatall. here they were,—sore
quarrelling, and some swearing, thieving,
ready for any crime which could give them a
living; some simply neglected, ill-elad, poorly
clad, even hungry, preferring the shows of
the theatre to the bread they might have
bought.

Here, as the police well know, are concoct-
el the bur, gs and thieveries, end other
crimes which these yonthinl ruftians so con-
stuntly commit. Here they meet the older
thieves, who use them in crowds as‘ receivers,’
oras aids in burglaries, or as ‘decoys,’ or
pretended beggars. Here they find the * po-
licy dealers’ and gamblers, who indage them
to waste their hard-earned pennies on lotteries
or cards, Mere, too, the older meet with the
young girls as abandoned as thomselves.
Such ptuces, as the guardians of the law well
know, beconie the worst schools of yice for
this class.

Our agent, while witching this secthing
mass of wretched childhood, was suddenly
startled by screams from the gailery. He
looked, and saw perhaps a dozen young girls.
mera children, of some nine or ten years of
age. Some boys a little older had crept
over, and were using improper faniliarities,
and the efforts to escape of some of the less
vicious had caused the outery. This portion
of the entertainment, he thought, fairly came
within the province of the police, and he at
once went out for nf officer to puta stop to
it.

He afterwards went to the other theatres
and places of resort of these lads, and made
a rough estimate that there were some thou-
sands of them thus amusing themselves on a
single evening, :

YORK.

TUE VAGRA

We are informed that a commencement was
made on Wednesday last on the railway to
connect this city with Annapolis. The Chief
Commissioner of Railways, assisted by two of
the Railway Commissioners, the menibers for
King’s County, and several others, were pre-
sent atthe opening. As the Press were not
invited, wo have no opportunity of giving par-
ticulars, Jn connection with this extension of
the Railway to Annapolis, we are informed
that the following have been appointed a Board
of Commissioners .—Jas. Oxley, Esq., Chair-
man, W, M, Harrington, and I’. D. Ruggles,
of Annapolis. The appointinents have not
yet been gazetted. —//2. xpress,

areal icapl nr Athastticinntibaisnially

A lady livingin the ninth wari, reoently
ave birth to four children at onge. The
sane lady, on a former occasion, gave birth
to triplets, and on a still former oecasion pre-
sented her husband with twins,

Over one hundsed pounds domestic wool
were sold in the market during the week.
Manufacturers are now willing to purchase at
prices which they would not pay a fortnight
since,

At Chiengo, Il, 403 vessels are laid up for
the winter, including 3 steamers, 19 propel-

‘Aca, or Worm Lozenges, are simple and effuct: } lore, 83 tugs, 48 burques, 18 brigs, and 89 | ¢

schooners.

then only to prepare to give a good portion of

Pray save him trom the absurdity of

METEQROLOGY,

Ir we were asked on what subject
have men made the greatest number of
observations for the longest period of |
time, we would, without hesitation, an-|

and again, if we were asked which is the
youngest and the least developed of the
sciences, our answer would be Meteor-
ology. Mankind have for the last six
thousand years—some say much longer—
been making observations on the weather;
the wise and the simple, the learned and
the ignorant, have for all the ages been
watching the skies, noting the winds,
and marking the motions and changes of
the heavenly bodies, and what after all,
until very recently, did their knowledge
of the various atmospherical changes
amount to? ‘The sum total of this know-
ledge was contained in a few shepherd's
and sailor's maxims, a rhyming predic-
tion or two and a number of wise saws
about lunar influence which modern en-
quiry have shown to be utterly fallacious.
‘The wisest among us might predict with
tolerable certainty that the coming winter
would be cold, that spring would be mild
and more rainy than the winter, that|
the summer would be hotter and drier
thau the spring, and that autumn would
prove colder and more boisterous than
the summer; they might too, from the ap-

winds, and the movements and cries of
the lower animals, foretell withsome ap-
proach to certainty what Sort of weather
we would have for the next few hours;
-but further than this, all was blind con-
jecture or impudent bare-faced charla-
tanism. ‘The causes of the various at-
mospherical phenomena have hitherto
been a profound secret toall men. Why
this winter should have been milder than
last, why one summer should be blessed
with copious and frequent showers, and
the next cursed with killing drought, or
even why the wind blows trom the north
to-day, and from the east to-morrow, is
beyond the kenof the most profound
philosopher of the present century. Yet
we all know, thatis all who think, that
there is nosuch thing as chance or acci-
dent in nature, that the winds with all
their fickleness and the clouds in all
their wanderings are governed by laws
as fixed and as immutable as those
which regulate the movements of the
heavenly bodies, or direct the operations
of nature in the world of animal and
vegetable life by which we are surround-
ed. We must never forget that every
change of weather, evenin our own vari-
able climate; is the result of certain
physical laws. That men have but a
very dim notion as to what these laws
are, and that they have hitherto failed to
reduce them toa system, by no means
prove that they do not exist. ‘The plain-
est truths now known to every one were
ones the profoundest mysteries even to
the learned and thinking few. It is for
the mind of a Newton to reveal, in all
their sublime simplicity, laws which in-
ferior men were for ages blindly groping to
discover. Itisnot at alllikely in thisage of
enquiry and scepticism with all the means
and appliances of science at their com-
mand, that men would be content im-
plicitly to rely on the wisdom of thoir an-
cestors in this very important matter of
the weather. Mankind in all ages have
believed that the moon by some occult
means exercises a great influence on the
weather. Modern philosophers have had
the hardihood to examine whether their
forefathers had reasonable grounds for
this belief or not, and their irreverent ob-
servations and ruthless experiments have
violently shaken many men’s faith in
lunar influences. A Dr. Marect cxamin-
ed aregister of the weather kept at Geneva
for thirty-four years, for the purpose of
finding out if such changes did actually,
as most men believe, take place at or
near a change of the moon. ‘Lhe results
of his examination seemed, on the whole,
to lend some support to the vulgar opin-
ion of the influence of the new and fall
mogn, but none, whatever, to any special
influence of the first and third quarters.
A series of observations made at the
Greenwich Obseryatory since 1840 have
had the dire result of demonstrating ‘that
changes of wheather have been found to be
as frequent at cyery age of the moon as
when she is seven, fourteen, twenty-one,
or twenty-cight days old.’

Men of keen intellect and patient obser-
vation are all over the civilized world every
day noting the changes of the weather with
a view to discover ti:e soundness of men’s
faith in the moon, and we may hope in
some fifty or a hundred years henee to see
that faith thrown aside as one of the super-
stittons of the barbarous ages, or estab-
lished as a fixed law in nature whose
workings may be enleulated by the Tearn-
ed with the nicest accuracy. When we
come to consider that the atmosphere is an
immense ocean of an exceedingly mobile
fluid, having the most complete connec-
tion between all parts of its extent, we
will see that the causes of the changes of
the weuther must operate very widely, and
that if we wish to establish a rational en-
quiry into those causes,observations should
be made at many and distant points of the
earth’s surface, and also that the result of
those observations be quickly transmitted
to any given point. The telegraph affords
an excellent means of doing this with
speed and certainty. The observer in
Grecnwich may now know at any given
hour of the day what kind of weather there
is at that moment, not only in every part

from so many different and distant points,
and having by means of instruments of the |»

somothing like a ration
_ | sort of weather there will be in his own | of Charlottetown, were exceedingly suc-
Leountry for the next twe or three days, at) cessful last summer

pearance of the clouds, the direction of! out the winds of heaven,

=

al opinion asto what |

}

least. Me will, at any rate, be in a anuch

better position to search into the laws |

whieh regulate atospherical phenomena

than any of his predecessors nearor remote. | of.

And when this observer of ours is assisted
by hundreds of coadjutors in, all parts of

for hoping thot in the course of time our
knowledge of atmospherical phenomena
willindeed become a nee; and that
the clerk of the weather will no longer be

iswer that the Weather was that subject; mythical personage, first cousin to the

man in the moon, but an emightened and
substantial gentleman, clad in terrestrial
broad cloth, whose unerring utterances
will be the means of saving thousands of
precious lives and millions worth otf valu-
able property, yearly. His office has al-
ready been opsned in Great Britain, and
his predictions, though by no means in-
fallible, are already held in great respect
by those who go down into the seain ships.
Weather forecasts and storm signils have
been made in England since 1801, Though
these forecasts are by no means to be im-
plicitly relied upon, yet they contain
enough of certainty to be of egnsiderable
use to miuriners, eae in the Queen's
andin the merchant service have been
furnished with instruments and haye made
observations ip all parts of the world. As
many as 559,000 sets of observations have
been made and collected, From these
abundant materials much valuable infor-
mation has been obtained, Lieut. Maury,
the distinguished American, not only char-
ted the currents of the ocean, but mapped
By his aid. men
not only know something of the law of
Storms, but also of the speeciest and safest
courses to their ports of destination. We
think that we cannot better conclude this
hastily written article than by quoting the
following eloquent passage from a late
number of the Edinburgh Revicw:—
«Though science may never hope actual-
ly to sway the seeptre of the winds, or to
imprison them in rocky cells, or to direct
their courses, yel by forseving and foretel-
ling, by evading and escaping, by measur-
ing force and anticipating rage,she may so
far understand them as by human sagacity
to control orayoid the miulice ofthe fiercest
winds. ‘To science, prospectively, wo may
apply the words in which the poet depicts
the restraining power of King olus :—
Mollitque animos et temperat iras.
Ni faciat, maria ac terras cwlumque protun-
dum,
Quippe ferant rapidi
auras,

secum verantque per

3 We happened to be present at a
political meeting held in Fortune Coye,
Cascumpec, on Tuesday evening last.
Mr. James Gallant, senr., an intelligent
and venerable looking Frenchman, occu-
pied the chair, Messrs. Howlan, Bell
and Clark addressed the meeting. The
conduct of all, both speakers end hearers,
was admirable. We were never present
at amore orderly or a better conducted
political meeting. The principal topic
of discussion was the granting of Boun-
ties to persons engaged in the fishing
business. Mr. Howlan was accused of
having used his influence against a peti-
tion praying that a bounty of one dollar
for every barrel of mackerel exported
‘should be granted by the legislature.
This dollar a barrel would of course come
out of the pockets of the taxpayers of the
culony, and we think that Mr. Howlan
did his duty not only to his constituency,
but to every constituency on the Island,
by opposing it. ‘lhe granting of boun-
tics is opposed to the plainest principles
of political economy. If the fishing
business is worth carrying on at all, it
will thrive without the aid of bounties,
and if it cannot be made to pay without
such artificial helps as bounties, the
fewer people that throw away their own
jlibor, and the money of their country-
jmen in catching fish, the better. Who
lare the fish exporters that they should
receive pensions out of the public purse
more than any other class of business
men in the country. If it is right to
give bounties to fishermen, why not give
them to farmers, ship-builders, carriage
makers, printers, &c., &c., &c, ‘Mr.
ILowlan’s opposition to the . bounty sys-
tem is all the more creditable to him as
a politician, as he himself has a large
amount of capital invested in the fishing
business, and would consequently be
personally a great gainer if such a policy
were once established.

We make the above remarks irrespoc-
tive of any party bis. ‘This question of
bounties is one which we consider our-
selves free to discuss, no matter by whom
advocated or by, whom opposed. We
may as well say that we advocate Free
Trade, and an equitable distribution of
public burdens, We will again return to
the subject of bounties at an early day.

kee Iv is rumored that the following
gentlemen have been selected to contest
the next general election for the Virst
Electoral District of Prince County :—

Nicholas Conroy, Esq., George W.
Howlan, Esq., Ifon. 8, I. Perry, Her-
bert Bell, Msq., Dr. C. R. O'La2ary; all
Liberals.

he" Mars are received here at pre-
sent four times a week from Charlotte-
town. Ov Wednesday and Saturday a
mail arrives via Centreville, Bedeque.

fw" Iv is the intention of the Post-
master, Genefal to despatch two mails
each week, (on Monday and Thursday
mornings,) to ‘Traveller's Rest, Kensing-|
ton, Princetawn, and New London.
They wiil confer a vast benefit both upon
the people of those places and of Sum-
merside.

te Ax the tea under the auspices of the

of the British Isles, utalso in Russia, Ger-| Wesleyan Choir in Charlottetown, which
many, Italy, France, and Americn, Being | 48 held on Wednesday evening, the 2nd

thus ailrised of the state of the weather |inet., the respectable sum of about £50/ tainment, and the Acts in quest
was realized.
pended in making alteritions and improve-

This amount is to be ex-

ments in the Gallery occupied by the Choir,

nicest construction a complete knowledge

fe TRAVELLING upon the jee with horses

of the coniition of the atmosphere in his/ has commenced botweon this place and
jown locality, ha isin a situation to form, Centreville.

SN

SUMMERSIDE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1897,

—s Bea sone asa

we The Mechanic's Fishing Company

They have at pre-
sent on hand, we hear, something over 200,
barrels best Bay Island Herring, be-
sides a large quantity having been disposed

ré Tim erew were net lost with the
Bark ** Alma,” which was reported in a

he civilized world we have some grounds sinking condition outside the Straits of
They were resoucd by a schooner.

Canso.
from Newfoundland,

fa ON next Lord's Day, the 20th inst., ©
(D.V.) D. Crawford will preach in the
Christian Meeting House, Summerside, at
lL o'clock a, m., and 6 o'clock, p. m,

ty" Iv is the earnost beljef of all parties
we have cohversed with that a good
spacious Hall containing twa canvenient
rooms would yield a return of 20 per cent
per annum in Summerside,

ter ‘Tue times” are particularly dull
here at present. Funds are tight, and
laboris very low. Last winter over twenty
vessels were on the stocks, but this year
there are searcely half-a-dozen.

tem To show the extreme procuctiveness
and fertility of our P. E. Island soil, we

Commissioner of Roads, Lot 17, last sum-
mer raised npon.a piece of ground 2f x 48°
feet, 23 large heads. cabbage, 20 pushels
earrots, 3 bushels beets, 2 bushels parsnips,
and 2 do, turnips. The largest beet was
18 inches long and weighed 81bs. Corrse-
ponding carrot 15 inches, weighed 6 Ibs...
and turnip 11 ths. ‘The best head of eab~
bage weighed 17 lis. In the centre wasa
bed two yards square, containing rhnbarb..

et Walittle expected when we acknow-
ledgzed the receipt of that fat ‘Rurkey at
Christmas, that our liiends would continue
to supply us with geese ever since. Wo:
were truly much indebted to.the triend who
left us that large basket full of carrots and:
beets last week.

te Tux Rev. Mr. Freeman will preachy
(D.V.) in the Summerside Grammar School
on Sunday next, at 10 o'clock, a. m., and
in the Court House at St, Etennor’s, at 3
o'clock, p.m, :

We have not received a single Foreign
or Coloninl mail this week, in consequence
ot which we are not able to give our read~
ers the usual ameunt of the tatest news,

arr Wr had the pleasure during the past
week, of visiting many parts of the * Bar
West,” and of meeting many old friends.
‘The roads were splendid and we glided along
ata two-forty rate. We were really nston-
ished to see the large tracts of land that have
been cleared and settled along the Western
road during the past few years. Buta short
time ago the traveller found it hard to find »
respectable Hotel at which to get accommoda-
tion for himself and beast, but now there are
many of them, It may be invidious to pan-
ticularize, but we cannot help saying a word
or two in favor of the Ilotel kept by Mr. M.
Gavin, at Bloomfield. We spent a night in
it, and received the greatest kindness and at-
tention, and the charges were very moderate.
Mr. Gavin emigrated to this Island, from
Canada, some four years since, and has ex-
pended a large sum of money in making his
place what it now is, and we trust his enter-
prise and labor will be appreciated, and that
he will be amply repaid. Several other per-
sons have recently settled in this neighbor-
hood, most of whom are -from Canada, and
Bloomfield bids fair to became one of the most
flourishing settlements in this Island. There
are hundreds of acres of good landin this
part of the [sland yet unsettled, and we be-
lieve that if our Govermnent would adopt
some means of emigration, many more such
[Rerens as thoge above referred to would be

induced to malgf this theirhome. We passed
through ‘Tignish—whepgt political meetings
seem to be the orerof the diy-—Miminigash,
Campbelton, &c., and improvements, meet our
eye in every direction’ ‘The axe of the wood-
nian has done its work, and the dense forests
are fast disappearing and cultivated fields are
to be seen instead, Last full many of the
settlers in those places paid the first instul~
ment on the purchase of their Farms, and
they are looking forward with joy to the day
when they shall be nble to call their Innds
their own, and when they shall no longer fear
the landlord or his agent. We hope the day
is not far distant when in every part of our
Island the leaschold system will be among the
things of the past. ‘

We added a large number to the list of our
subscribers on our round, and we sincerely
tender our thanks to the inhabitants of the
above places for the kindness shown us and
good wishes expressed for the future welfare
ofthe Western d4oneer.

SUPREME COURT.

The Ililary Term of the Supreme Court
for Queen’s County was opened on Tuesday.
The following gentlemen compose the Grand
Jury— Ue . i

Thomas W. Dodd, Esq., Charlottetown,
Foreman} John Hyde, Cornwall; John
Simpson, Cavendish; Malcolm Murchison,
North Riyer; William 1. Wilson, Charlotte-
town; James White, do.; W.S. Longworth,
Royalty; Bdwin Locke, Crapaud; ‘Thomas
Alley, Charlottetown; Henry J. Cundail,
do.; Thomas Beers, Cherry Valley; Angus
McAulay, ‘I'racadic¢; Alfred Lepage, Royalty ;
Samuel Drake, Lot 49; Thomas DesBrisay,
Charlottetown; Johmif, Gates, do. ; John A,
McDonnell, do; Willigmm Brown, do; George
Dogherty, do.j; and W. ©. Dawson, do.;
Esquires. "4

Having been sworn in, Ulis Lordship the
Chief Justice addressed them, and said:

Mr, Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand
Jury: ’ : ae

You will he gratified to. learn that the crim-
inat cases for your consideration at this Term,
in so fur as the Court is informed, are only
three in number, two larcenies, and a case of
assault and battery, upon, and rescue trom, «
Small Debt Court Bailiff, of a party in his
custody under Bxecution.

The state of-the Criminal Calendar of the
most populous County in the Colony,
period of time extending over nearl é
year, is most eatisfactury as regards the pau-
city of crimes of magnitude; but cannot be
taken asa correct index of the state of the
County in regard to the lesser duscription of
offences, such as larcenies, the receipt of
stolen goods, and assaults and batteriés, many
of which aré tried and disposed of by the City
Policy Court, wader local Acts, giving it sum-
mary jurisdiction in certain oases, :
The locgl statistics relating to the issue of
liceneos, authorizing the sale of spirituous
and fermented liquors, require you to present
all’ persons guilty‘of retailing such liquors
without licence, and under these Acts you
have the power of suspending or anhulling
the Licence of any Inn or /favern Keepor of-
fending agginst these provisions in the man-
agement of big house, a8 one of it enter-
irect the
Court to bring these nigtters to the notice of
the Grand Jury at every Term.

At this term nlgo you are reqnifed by. law
to present to the Court tests of competent por.
sons to fill the offices of Fence Viewers, and
Constables for the several Settlements in your
County; and it is necessary’ that inthe ex.

may mention that John Townsend, Esq.