TILE DATLY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 16, 1897

vo a HEN AND A KITTEN,

Tre Story vf & Singularly Remarkable Family Connection,

Puring my residence on our Burlington gonnty (arm I had the rare opportunity of making the following interesting observa- Tone of our barnyard fowls had been taying her daily egg in an uthused man-

“ which sh@had evidently selected as a yatching place, and she was now ready ta hein the ordained three weeks’ labor of “gtting.’’ At the same time the barn cat had found the manger very inviting for her hours of repose, and it thus happened qhar Tabby and old Cluck had become friends and agreed to occupy the manger jn joint possesston

Things went along smoothly in this gnique but happy family for several days, during which the hen faithfully plucke d her breast, feathered her nest and no doubt believed that she was hatching, while in truch she was sitting on stale pest ecas, from which all the warmth ef herdom could never bring a chick. Still she sat, plucked her breast and turned her oges, while pussy came and went at will, spending. at least half her time with the hen and in asclose proximi- tr as if they had been sister cats. But the ghree weeks’ hatching process was destined go be very much shortened.

Je was, in fact, nearer three deys than three weeks when the hen awoke one morning to find the nest filled with young. Young what? Perhaps she thought that they were chickens, but if she was wise enough to know the truth she was got honest cnough tv acknowledge it, for gre innocently assumed that they were ghickens and her own offspring, whercas they were pussy’s kittens.

The cat wu! the hen, however, seemed to remember ticir compact. They were friends, notwit:standing the advent of children, the maternity of which was equally claimed by the biped and the quadtuped. Nay, their bond of friendship gemed to be strengthened by the union of their efforts to give the little ones a proper bringing up.

Inexorabdle fate, however, decreed that the poor little kittens should have no nat-

ura: mother. About the time that it was posible for them to live without her an wcident caused the death of the old cat, and a home was found for all but one. To thatone the hen devoted her undivided attention for the whole summer, and sc assiduously that the kitten must surely have believed the hen to be her true and tatural mother.

Tie hen going about between the house and barn clucking for the kitten was indeed @ funny sight and attracted very general attention, and it was equally re- markable to see the kitten run to her when de made # peculiar call that chickens so well understand means something to eat. At night and during the restirg hours of the day kittie would crawl under the warm wings of her foster mother, and the brooding hen and her nestling kitten were

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they were so far from being related to .each @her.—Our Animal Friends.

AN EXPERT DRAFTSMAN.

How He Succeeds In Drawing Half Dollars From Charitable Pockets.

“Sir,” said the well dressed man with

Se te pale face, “Iam an expert draftsman

metofwork. My tools are held at the ho-

where ] lodged last night. I need 50 MMs to get them out, and I have been But I can't Mmwtk without my tools. Wiil you assist mei”

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the drafteman. “This is the best I can do,"’ he said. @ “lam sorry.”’ said the unfortunate, re- Wetming the silver piece, ‘and Iam obliged Se your good intention, but that amount gh not do me any good at all. I owe the 7g tel man balf a dollar.” 4. ¥hy,”” said the man about town, I've got another garter, Yes, here it is.’’ And he pro- 7] teed shal. @ With muttered thanks the draftsman away. “That's the last you will see of him,’’ eg id an amused friend. ‘I’ve been work- 9%. That same fellow told me his hard ny tek story day before yesterday. i know Peps tlt dozen men who have been victim- “al tet. There are five in the gang, and they | Work in the down town districts, mainly : Adams and Dearborn streets. I didn’t interfere because it is a new dodge, T wanted to see how it would go with

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The man about towr. credited his lost tents tothe sum total of experience.— $9 Chronicle.

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= HILD SLAVERY IN FRANCE. + * Concerning the Sale of Italian Boys to Agents of Glass Works. Public attention has been turned to a orm of slave trade now carried on in aiee and Italy by disclosures which * being made on the subject. The vic- “us are Italian children who are bought m their parents by padrones and ato work in glass factories, chiefly central part of France. Formerly numbers of these children were into virtual slavery as beggars, ‘i mutilations were practiced upon m to excite sympathy, as musicians a8 chimney sweeps. That slave ~. ¥a8 Suppressed, but the law does ech the present form. children bring from 100 to 150 °8 ($206 to $30) and are sold for a wee of three years. It is so much = d and a mouth less to fill, Peasants say. The contracts are du- eeuted before a notary, and the . 8° Priest blesses the departing con- of little ones. There are no statis- mot the mortality among them, but Caleulated formerly that of 100 _ n from their homes by pa- returned home at the end of of slavery, 30 scttled per- in their new surroundings, » the other 50 died, and in view of 8 in which they find thein- . at the glass worl:s there is no sales ®ppose that the mortality is “Sow. Their ages varv fim 14

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‘farer metal, iridium, are found in min-

to 18“years. The French law frbids

the employment of ehildren less than 18 years old at such work, but that is | evaded easily. Their services are sold to the manufacturers at from &7 to $13 | a month, according to the locality, and | they work ten hours a day. The pa- | drones pocket all their wages and some- times even the gratuities that may be | distributed among the employees of an establishment upon special occasions. | Their condition in the factories is de- , scribed as shocking. They work in a | superheated atmosphere, charged in ad- | dition with noxious gases, and*are con- | stantly exposed to severe accidents, | while their injuries do not receive prop- | er treatment. They are especially sub- ject to lung troubles. Bad as their nor- | mal state is, in many cases it is aggra- vated by the brutality of the regular workmen, who hate them both for being | Italians and for working at far below | the regular scale of wages. They are ! waturally ill fed. A magistrate who ) !

was called upon to make an investiga- tion in avertain case found that their chief fare was soupe aux legumes and bread, with occasionally a bit of cheese and some wine, but never any meat. It is estimated that the cost of sustenance of these children rangesfrom 5 to 8 cents a day each to the padrone. In one case the cost of feeding 13 of the little slaves was found to be 40 cents a day. The children are as wretched in appear- ance as is to be expected. They are lodged in ill smelling tenements, three and four on a mattress of sodden straw, with rarely any covering, even in win- ter. They are clothed in rags, for the padrones do not permit them to carry any luggage from their homes to save expense.

Phe number of these children can only be guessed at. It is estimated that in two departments 1,300 are employ- ed. More children are constantly being brought into France from Italy to take the place of those who die or become incapacitated for work and to supply the increasing demand for cheap labor. So great has the demand become of late thet girls as well as boys are being sold by their parents. The attention of the French and the Italian governments has been called to the matter, and the trade will be regulated if not suppressed. — Exchange.

Platinum.

A report issued by the Russian gov- ernment on the production of platinum in that country shows that Russia stands first in the world in the yield of that metal, the amount reaching some 40 times the product obtained by all the rest of the world. It appears that in the year 1880 the quantity produced was reckoned at nearly 3,000 kilos. In 1895 it reached more than 4,400, the amount increasing up to the last year, when it diminished on account of the unfavor- ably wet weather in summer. Curious- ly enough, though this strange metal is found in the southern Ural, the manner of its being worked up is unknown in This isdone in Germany, to which country the platinum is exported in a crude state, and whatever Russia requires of the worked up article it has to buy back of Germany. The price at present named is 900 marks, or about $225, for one kilo of crude platinum in Russia. Small quantities of the still

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SEEBACH AND THE AGENT.

A German Story of an American Attempt to Boom a Sewing Machine.

The following story, which was pub- lished in German in connection with the death of Marie Seebach, the noted German actress, shows very well the conception of American affairs which still prevails in Germany to a certain extent. Seebach was here more than 20 years ago, aud it is scarcely possible that such an incident as is described would have taken place then, but many such stories are told in Germany today as illustrative of American enterprise.

According to this reminiscence Mario Seebach one day received a message that a gentleman wished to see her. Shs told the servant to send him to her drawing room in the hotel, and when he arrived he introduced himself asa certain Colonel Smith. Then he plunged at the object of his visit and said that he represented a certain well known | make of sewing machines.

*“*‘T have already heard,’’ he said, **that you are a great artist. I want to

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find out if you are a good’ business ‘Wod- man a3 well, Do you want to make some money?’’

*Oh, Pve no objecticns to make to is possible in a

| perfectly correct and dignified way.”’

“Oh, it’s in the most correct way possible that I propose,’’ the visitor continued, ‘‘and I offer you $10,000 for doing it.’

‘*“What have I to do in return?’ ask- ed Seebach,

‘“‘Nothing in the world,’’ the colonel replied, and as he noticed the expres- sion of astonishment on her face he went on: ‘I told you that I came from & SeWing machine company—one of the largest in the world. All that I demand of you in return for the $10,000 is that as Marguerite in the spinning wheel scene from ‘Faust’ you will use one of our sewing machines instead of the wheel, and just keep it in motion for a few seconds. ‘Then we would les hand- bills drop from the gallery, saying that used by Marie Seebach was made by our firm.’’

The actress is said to have hesitated for a second, but, in the end, her re- spect. for Goethe's tragedy is described as the feeling which saved her artistic reputation.

This story is of a type that disap. peared from general use 40 years ago. itis of the kind told about P. T. Bar- num in the earlier days of his career, but stories of the kind still pass muster in Europe, although a press agent whs attempted anything of the kind in this country would soon lose his job.—New York Sun.

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“TI guess I’ve been victim- ized.” That’s the guess of many a hard. working man, who, worn-ont, p-nervous and Sleepless, has been for months paying exhorbi- tant bills to a | high - priced | doctor withort ' a dollar’s worth of benefit. Fre- quently the guess isentirely correct. There are too many ; _ doctors who are only lifted out of obscurity by the size of their bills.

The business man or working man who gets run-down and in ill-health from over. work, needs the advice and treatment of a physician who is famous for the thousands of cases he has cured, and not for the thousands of dollars he has charged. In Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., he will find that kind of a physician. For thirty years Dr. Pierce has been chief consultins physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgi- cal Institute, at Buffalo.

He is the discoverer of a wonderful medicine known as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is a marvelous med- icine fur broken down men and women. It whets the appetite, purifies the blood, makes the digestion perfect and the liver active. Through the blood it acts directly on every organ of the body, driving out imourities and disease germs. It is the great blood- maker, flesh-builder and nerve-tonic. It ctffes mervous prostration and exhaustion. malaria, liver troubles, rheumatism, blood and skin diseases and 98 per cent. of all cases of consumption, weak lungs, spitting of blood, lingering coughs and kindred ail- ments. When you ask a dealer for the ‘**Golden Medical Discovery’’ insist upon having it. A dealer is not a physician and has no right to advise some substitute.

When the trouble is of long standing write to Dr. Pierce, who will answer let- ters from sufferers without charge. Very serious or complicated cases, or those need- ing surgical treatment, sometimes find it necessary to come to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, for per- sonal treatment and care. Dr, Pierce can be addressed there.

INDIA NEWSPAPERS.

Dally and Weekly Publications Flourished There Before the European Conquest. India can jointly claim to have a share

—a very considerable share—in the birth of the newspaper. Ages before the Euro- pean conquest every court had a weekly, sometimes a daily, news Ictter, which was sent out to ihe principal towns and read with diligent attention by wealthy people, nobles and especially by all officials. It was not, however, until after the English conquest that the newspaper, as the word is now understood, was established in In- dia, the first English journal in that coun- try appearing about 1818, and not until the middle of the country did the Indian natives begin to publish papers in their owe language,

The Indian press may be roughly di- vided into three classes. The first consists of English newspapers published in the large cities, such as Calcutta and Bombay, generally very creditable productions, con-

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Gucteu vy schnoimriy COgiUsnimen or ago Indians. The second class is composed of papers edited and published by natives, the matter being generally half in Eng- lish and half in a native language, though the proportion varies. The third class con- stitutes those journals which are publish- ed entirely in a native language, this class being by far the most numerous of all.

The oriental is fond of parade, even in language, and the longer the words the moro attractive in his eyes and to his earg is the style. It is not at all remarkable, therefore, that, considering his imperfect Knowledge of English, the long words of which the Indian native editor is so fond should sometimes be misplaced or incor- rectly employed, nor that the metaphors in which be delights should frequently be grotesquely mixed. Most of the natives whoread English are familiar with the literature which is distributed in enor. mous quantities by the missionaries, and have adopted from it many pious expres- sions that, appropriate enough ina homily or prayer, are ridiculously out of place in @ leading article. —Exchangs,

A sad accident occurred at Lake Larase a short distance from Annapolis last weer by which Mand, the 18-year old dangtrer of Mr. George Mailman, lost her !if- While skating on the lake the ice gave way precipitat ng herinto the water A boat was speedily procured and after grapp ling for a short time the body was recover- ed,

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