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May 9, 1867.

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Nov 1, 186

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Ch’town, Feb. 14, 1867. tf

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June 6, 1867. 3m

R. M. GIBSON,
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I AVING worked several Seasona ander

the instructions of some of the most
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Ns a Provinces, wishes to announce to the
public that he has opened a PAINT SHOP,
oud commenced in that line of trade, at
SUMMERSIDE, where he is prepared to
execute all kinds of Plain and Ornamental
House and Sign

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Ccilings and Walls painted and decorated in
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Store, will receive prompt attention, and be
done at moderate rites,

Suumerside, April 11, 1867.

JAMES L. WEATHERBY,
PAINTER,
Summerside ..5 2... 2. H. Island.
PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, HOUSE & SIGN
PAINTING, GRAINING, PAPER
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Done in the latest and most improved manner.

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rounding country, that he is prepared to

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Plain and Ornamental Lettering, Gilding,
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Painting on Canvas, Penciling and
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Staining in its various branches.
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Carriage Factory !!
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public that, having entered into a Co-
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OR
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Saddle and Harness Shop.

TPNUE Subscriber begs leave to inform the
inhabitants of NEW LONDON am

Opetied’a Saddl
Clifton, New
where he hopes, by strict aft
tion to his business, and mod
merit & share of public patron
, . JAS, SE
Clifton, New London,
Oct..2h, 1866.—tf.

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Jounwat OFFIC,

Summerside, Prince Edwad Island, Thursday, June 13, 1867.

No. 36.

POBTRY.

THE WOLF AT THS DOOR.

Finnce and gaunt is the hungry wolf,
And he utters a savage growl,

When forth from his secret lair he starts
Through the forest wilds to prowl;

And the echoes answer the dreary sound

From the lonely rocks and cave around .

Sharp and white are his gleaming teeth,
And his yellow eyeballs glow
Like coals of fire through the darkness round,
And hig step"is soft and lov—
A stealthy step that you scarce can hear
Hath the hungry wolf when he draweth near.

In the silent hours of the night he comes
To the fold where are gathered the sheep;
A famished flock from their hidden lairs,
When the sheperd is fast asleep ;
And his faithful dogs are overpowered,
The meck ewes slain and their lambs devoured.

Afar where the settler’s cabin stands,
On the edge of the forest drear,
When hunger hath made ths gaunt wolf bold,
Ile will oftentimes draw near,
And howl through the long and dismal night
Bor the settler's babes that ery with fright.

Yet not in his distant forest haunts
May the wolf alone be found,
But abroad in the city’s crowded streets,
Where fashion and wealth abound,
In the hollow visage, half starved and lean,
A starling likeness to him is seen,

And the work-girl, high in her garret room,
As shie toils with bended head,
On weary gusset and band and seam,
Plies faster her needle and thread,
Lest the hungry wolf should come once more
With his stealthy tread to her chamber door,

And the beggar-child in her squalid rags,
And naked, shueless feet,
Hears the ery of wolf in the sound of wheels,
And the ¢limor of the street;
| And at night lies down in her narrow place
In the grim old monster’s lean embrace,

Fierce and gaunt is the hungry wolf,
And he utters a savage growl,

When forth from his secret lair he starts
Through the forest wilds to prowl;

But the othor that lurss outside the door

Is the gaunt wolf Hunger that haunts the poor.

Select Hiterature,

THE BEAUTIFUL SUICIDE.
ATALE OF WOMAN'S FOLLY.

T was travelling in Italy in the year —
and had letters of introduction to several
good families in different parts of the
country, Among the rest was one to the
Marquis of Spezzia, who had at one time
liyed about three years in England, as a
Minister trom the Court of Florence. On
his return he had gone to Milan, where 1
had expected to find him; but on inquiring
for him in that city, L found that he had
since inherited some property in Tuseany,
and living in the Via Chibbelina, in
Florence. On my arrival in the capital ot
Tuscany, I went to a hotel on the Lung
Arne, and in the evening proceeded to
deliver my letters, The Palazzo Speazia
was a very handsome building, surround-
ing a quadrangle. In fact, all that side of
the street is built in the same manner, with
houses fit for princes, and very often beg-
garslivinginthem. ‘The Marquis, indeed,
Was not reputed so poor as many of the
Italian nobility ; but yet not rich enough to
occupy the whole of so large a building.
Ile consequently reserved to himself the
tirst floor (the second as they call it there)
und let the rest of the house to an English
family, more noble by ame than by na-
ture,

To make my tale clear, I may as well
say, that this family consisted of a younger
brother of Lord Conway, as I shail call
him (though that was not his name), his
wile, and two or three young children,
The whole of the Conway tamily had made
themselves somewhat notorious for loose-
ness of morals; but [ never heard this
gentleman particularly ill-spoken of; and
his wile, though apparently caring very
little about her husband’s conduct, was
without reproach in regard to her own.
Ie was a man of thirty-three or thirty-four
at this time, tolerably well looking, though
not remarkably so, but with a sleepy blue
eye, and quiet, insinuating manner, which
Lhave often remiurked in men more sue-
cessful than serupulous in the pursuit of
pleasure, I had met him once or twice in
London, and always looked upon him as
the best of his family,

But let me return tomy tale. On mount-
ing the stairs from the great entrance,
under what they would call the porte
cochere in France, I found a pair of enor-
mous doors, with a bell handle hanging
trom along thick wire, and, on my ringing.
one valve of these doors was opened by a
black-looking Italian s.rvant, who admit-
ted me into 2 great hall, round the top of
which ran a gallery, ornamented with
twelve very well executed marble statues,
and serving as a communication from one
side of the house to the other, without
passing the entrance staircase, which
might be considered as/almost a part of
the street. In this large hall, almost big
enough to contain a modern house, I was
left by the servant, while he went past to
ask if his master would reevive me; and
the blinds being all shut, with but a faint
light without, there was something ghastly
and sinister in the aspect ol the place, with
the white statues gleaming like ghosts
above, that marked my first steps into the
Pinzza Spezzia with a feeling akin toawe.
[ stood still, with my arms folded on my
breast, gazing round me; but L had hard.
ly been there a minute, when I heard steps
apparently approaching, and I tancied it
wus the servant returning, but no door
opened.

Soon a sound of murmuring voices suc-
ceeded — voices apparently in low and
earnest conversation-—and the eye, guided
by the ear, turned toward the gallery,

two figures slowly pass along trom oue
side of the house tothe other, They were
these of a man and woman; but no teatare
sould I distinguish, and even the outline
vithe form of each was fhint and indistinct.
They were
however
whoe
minding in person, while the man,
seemed to have his arm around her waist,

height,
my earas vague avd indefinite seunds
but still, the two speakers did not appar
ently know that any one was there below ;

ed away, [ believe, by the sudden appe:
ance of a light,

ff

pitality, and a Warmth of manner not
usual in the [tslian nobility. He had been
under reat obligations, he said, to the
friend who introduced me, and he was
delighted to have the opportunity, it not
to return his kindness, to show his seuse
of it in some degree,
own little library, or study, where T tound
he bad surrounded himselt with objects of
vertu—which are equal to Paradise in the
eyes of an Ttalian—and after sitting chat-

meinbrances, he begged the pleasure of
introducing me to his daughters.
saloon to which he led me, we found the
one young lady present, a davk-eyed beau-
ial girl, of perhaps nineteen, very deli-
eately formed, and small in her propor-
tions, ‘PH@ Marquis asked where her
sister wast and ste replied, somewhat
languidly, she did not know; but being
Introduced, and comlortably seated I soon
contrived to rouse her from her sort of
apathetic mood, She spoke Engtish al-
most its her native language, aud my It
ian being viliainously bad, the conversa-
tion was speedily carried on in no other
tongue butmy own. I never met with
any other Italian but herself who had a
real heartfelt tondaess for England. Its

ting for some time over old scenes and re- |

In the}

in very lover-like proximity, not of
and Teould see that the jady, jmind are like things torned in clay, or
she was, must be tall and com. | cast in iron, and they require time to cool
who/and harden them. I

for they paused for a few moments in the | ments spoken or writte
middle of the gallery, aud were oaly scar-!for where there is deliberation there is

where, in the spcetre-like gloom, L saw, better understanding between them than

was consistent with her salety and his
position, Twas still, asit were, astranger,
jalthough intimacy had rapie'y grown up
jbetween myself and the Merqais of Spea-
gin, It was the triendship of feeling, bat
rears; and such affections of the

liked him much,
Thin and pale, and anxious-looking as he

was hardly, if at all, above the middle | was, there was something exccedingly
The murmured words reached | prepossessing it
; conduct throug!

lis countenance, lis:
rreproacha-

ble, and h
be a very accompli
ten deceive us,

| Hise but where sentiments are accidently

iLe led me into his!

discovered, or instinets suddenly betrayed,

This time it was the servant who appeur-| there is less chance of a keen observer
ed; buthe came lighting tn the Marquis| being deceived.
himsel’ who welcome ime with great hos: | friendship was very late, and I did not feel

Sull the date of our

myself justified fn calling the father’s
notice to the danger of his daughter, feel-
ing the dilliculty increased perhaps by a
belief that he might haye averted the peril.
The standard of morality is not yery high
in Italy, itis true, and we find few in that
land) who can even conceive its being
placed so high asin England; but yet,
many a chance word and casual observa-
tion showed that my Italian friend deeply
regretted the very general depravity of
morals which prevailed in his own country,
Still L hesitated—still I thought 1 might
be mistuken—still 1 considered delicacy
and prudence perhaps more than justice
and right. Let

me confess the whole
truth, however, while I am telling this
dark tale. ‘The beauty and the grace, the
gentleness and the frankness of Be:
di Spe had produced upon me an im~
pression not easily to be shaken off; and,
not knowing what might be the result if I
ventured to call her father’s attention to
her sister's eonduet toward Mr, Conway,
my hesitation was increased by considera-
tion for her, 2 mus not say that I was
actually in love withher, She wasa great
deal young than I was—some ten or
twelve yews at least—and Twas still in

that stage of passion wherein the dreams

olten weeping skies themselves she loved, |of Plato became tavgible realities, and we
and described how deligiited she would be | fancy that something deeper, though colder
sometimes to drive out ina spring-shower, |than love, can exist between two persons
when the drops were mingled with sun- | of different sexes, even in the early spring
shine, and the whole eaith put on a joytul|of life, A little incident may have had
treshaness of aspect, which itrarely, itever, {some share in determining my conduct.
knows in Italy, She had, in short, beeome Vans Marquis hada villa on the slope of
completely imbued with the spirit of raral | the Appennines, a little below the small
English life, which requires early initia-| hotel of ‘Phree Masks, and not very far
tion and long habit, I believe, for its full) distant fromm the vilivge of Gherini, The
appreciation, Sympathies were speedily | summer was coming on. The family were
awakened, and, while 1 did tall justi ty | soon about to remove thither from Florence,,

i¢e
her own beautiful country, 1 s very and we all went out. in the

much charmed at the rarity of finding ite spring time " nents
[lian do justic to mine, Finade and order some 3. The house

Her father mingled in the coversation, | Was Het in the best order ; but the weather
but 1 With COAL EL US summer-like and serene, and the

thought, some
Something seemed to embarass and pre-
vecupy hin; but at length the door opened,

greater part of our time was past out of
doc One party consisted of the Mar-

and a Gul, marvelously handsome girl en-
tured, perhaps two or three years older
than the other, Her whole countenance
was queen-like and majestic, notwithstand-
ing a somewhat Hushed aud agitated look,
and her figure was remarkably tin
I could not help thinking that ther
remarkable resemblance between that
id one of the two phantoms which
1 along the gallery to the hall,

was the ele daughter of the
md she received me with a dis-
h soon made me fall
back upon the conversation of her sister
The elder did not seem at all displeased at
being lett to her own thoughts, and 1 re-
mained more than an hour in very agree-
able conversation with Signora Beatrice
and her father, while the other labored
through a small portion of some lal
ornamental-work, seeming to exert herselt
very diligently, and yet make small pro-
rress, I then took my leave; but the
Marquis came to call upon me on the tol-
lowing day, bearing with hin an invitation
to dinner, and did all he could to: show
kind and hospitable attention to a stranger,
In short, 1 almost became domesticated
in the family, Every day some expedition
was proposed, something to be done,
something to be seen, and the time
away very pleasantly and very swiltly.
My new triend had an excellent knowledg
and appreciation of art, and took care that
1 should see all the marvels of the pencil
or the chisel which the city of Florence
contains, nor were any objects of interest
in the neighborhood omitte:t, nor any his-
torical monuments. But as 1 am not
Writing a guide-book, T must onit all de-
tails, dwelling merely upon that which
affected me as & man, rather thanas a
man of taste, Olten, when we went forth
for a stroll through the city, or passed the
morning at the Petti, or in the great gal-
lery, we were accompanied by Beatrice,
though her stately sister generally thought
fit to remain at home on these occasions.
When we made any more distant expedi-
tions, however, sometimes spending one
or two or more days out of Tlorence,
Signora Narcissa always accompanied us,
evidently greatly against her will, and she

This
Margu
tant statcliness wh

Was nota personage at all to conceal her
distaste for anything that did not please

her, She contrived to diminish our enjoy-
ment very greatly; sometimes by petulant
sallies, which IT wondered that her father
bore with patience ; sometimes by a cold,
sauntering sort of indifference, still more
provoking.

Thad hardly been in Florence a fort-
night, however, betore I began to gain
some insight into the eause of her conduct. |
At first it came us a mere suspicion, very
painful; but not definite. Mr Conway
was frequently of our parties—Mrs, Con-
way rarely; and [ remarked two things
which soon led me right to distressing con+
glusions. Our English acquaintance never
in the presence of her father paid any
very great marked attention to the beauti-
ful Nareissa; but-when the Marquis him-
self was absent, even for a moment, he
was sure to be at her side, avith his soft
and somewhat sleepy manner, and low
toned musical voice, Av other times, an
ogcasional low-spokenword,.a. glance of
quick intelligence, or a look of tender
meaning, were the only sigis.ofeoncealed
intimacy between them. ‘This was what
first roused dowbts in my mind. Tho
second thing was that whenever Conway
was of the party, the young Indy was per-
teotly gay and cheeérlul. Comb nin ios
facts with the glimpse I had Bbtatned ol
them in the gallery on my first visit, 1

gould not help bolieving that there was

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jed,

quis, his two daughters and myself, and

Mr. Conway and his wife had not been
invited. Monsieur di Spazzia had a
notion of laying out a garden near the
villa in the English style; but I easily
showed a man of his real taste that, when
done, it would not harmonize at all with
the character of the building and the
scene, and he applied bimselt to finish anit
restore a handsome but formal Italian
warden laid out by some lormer proprictor.
He was thus occupied a great part of each
day. Narcissa was in one of her dull and
solitary moods, and remained all the
morning in her own ehamber, Beatrice
went ont with me—not to any distance
from the house, but toa little spot just
below the plain of the garden, where we
were within some eighty or a hundred
yards of the spot where her father sat,
superintending the labors of his workmen,
Thad taken a book of English poems, to
beguile my dull moments pleasantly, and
it very pleasant and sweet to hear
that beautiCul girl syllable the lines of
English verse, with a strong Italian ac-
cent, but a full appreciation of the words,
It wasa very difficult thing, in such a
scene and such a moment, to avoid -what
is called falling in love, and, indeed, I did
not try it very much; for 1 was my own
, and there was no law against my
picking up a gem wherever I night find
one, Lhad done reading & passage, and
dropped the book upon my knee, to. dwell
upon the thoughts which the t suggest-
Beatrice was sitting a little farther
down, with her head leaning baek against
the bank, and her beautiful small teet
crossed over each other, when, suddenly,
I saw something move slowly through the
low myrtles which carpeted that part of
the ground, and a moment after, a snake
of that species called the black viper—the
most venomous in Italy—raised its head,
close by her feet, as if surprised and irri-
tated by the obstacles in its way, aud about
to bite her, Ll rose instantly, took one step
forward, and at the second, set the heel of
my boot upon the reptile’s head.

** What is the matter?” she cried, seeing
me press ny foot hard into the sand,

“Only a viper.” Lanswered; and then
without meaning any particular allusion,
Ladded, “I really know not whether it
was most rash or reasonable to: kill, him
thus at your very leet, where, if I had
missed my ticad, he might have stung
you.” .

Oh, right, right,” she exclaimed, enger-
ly; but then she rose and elasped her
hands together, saying, aftera pause; It
is always right to set your foot upon a
serpent’s head—doubtless you have sayed
my life.”

She spoke very slowly and earnestly;
but the next moment she resumed an easier
it not lighter tone, explained to me that
the creature lying there was exceedingly
poisonous, and that she had often known
domestic animals and even young children
die from the bite; but all my common-
places could not obliterate from my mind
the earnestness with which she had said:
“Itis always right to set your foot upon
a serpent’s head.”  T fanciec Leould hardly
doubt that those Words had some latent
meaning, and the suddenness with which
she changed her tene. only served to cons
firm the Tohpression.

1 resolved to watch more élogely than
ver, and | thought to have an opportunity
at yery day, for Mr. Conway rode out,
just to sée how his friend, the Marquis,
was going on, he said. To my surprise,
and not greatly to my satisfaction, his at-
tentions were how turned toward Beatrice,

Thero were the same quict low-toned