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SO 0 low, White, who Wee rdireet-Iretra Istiliston on taw •s011gt- to of 'the elientleseees, The 'Sign the4 at`
On 'end POlitillell. et the Exeter Clinton en the north, thus dividing rested the tee -veil -014S attentioa- He
at tee period When Sir John the tleent17 into the townshIPP or„ asked „Mr. White it he cote,* be .given
, 411son wee these eat that paper as, Usborue and Huron At one point on a Jen To tine question It he 'mew
n j..apprekit„tee, -Mr. White was cons this bighway is the village of Bruce- anything about the printing alit, 'he
.x..0,0vd. *14 the Dominion 1.1111nigra- field, threctly to the west of which is rePlied that he didn't knew the first
eeieli Department est Ottewa for three the village of Baytield, about eight thing about it, het was willing to
sdeeadea, ciluring which time be swaS miles away. learn He was open for an engage-
) eetneelein ben:tact livith, Sir John, when. Had the watcher followed to ac- neut.
' they Often talked over the episodes tons of the young rain, who, at the
in the Exeter 'Times office and the early hour. had been packing up his
day ote whites Sir John set out 071 the belongings, ,44t the Brucefield corner,
hlgh, roatitto follow the gleam.") he would have seen a stalwart, well-
- .• built fellow, bundle on his shoulders,
The Village of Bayfield is some- coming along the Bayfiel+Brucefield
thingorethan a hamlet, located on Road—walking, of course, and with
the shores of Lake Huron, and but a a stride made with determination.
short distance, from the Town of God- Could his mind have been read, that
• erich. During the summer months it of the traveller, it would have been
is one of the many places on the seen that every step must lead him
shores of the lake that have become, into a world of which at the moment
famous as resorts for those who have be knew very little, but in which lay
the means and inclination. -There is his future.
fishing of a sort in the streams in At the Cross -Roads
the neighborhood. The lake itself at- At the Corner, which had now been
fords ample sport for those piscator- reached, the corner that led to the One of tbe junior members of the
tally inclined. Beyond 'this, and in north, or to the south, according to firm, with an observant eye, felt that
the fact that it is the centre of a inclination, he stood, but a few mine the„"printees devil" had literary mer-
• splendid agricultural d4strict—fruit- Utes, looking in either direction, evi- it and that should not be lost in the
grOwing being a favorite and success- dently debating which to take. "Shall work of cleaning type and roller, a
ful occupation—it has to -its credit I take the one to the north or the fact that the senior member of tike
the honor of being the birthplace and one leading south?" appeared to be firm did not apparently appreciate.
playground of one of Canada's noted the subject of his mental delibera-, The discovery of his literary merit
authors and a journalist who became tionThe southern direction won. 1 was made by his writing of an article
internationally famous. Neither the excessive heat nor the describing his trip from Bayfield to
His educational opportunities were dust from the heat -burdened soil, Exeter. It was written in a style
confined to those the ordinary cora-, now drifting in clouds, seemed toI and of a character that showed that
mon school afforded. He, had an in- have any effect on the traveller.1 he possessed something that placed
tense desire to secure more than Along that dusty road. at a four mile' him in a -class where his literary abil-
• could be secured in this way. Use an hour gait, went the young roan. ity would eventually shine. Although.
was made of the village librap. He did, however, divest himself of the senior member felt that there was
From time to time, volumes of clas- coat and vest, adding these to the ability of no mean order, he insisted
sics were borrowed from the more butdle that he was carrying on his 1 that the boy should do the more or
extensive library in Goderich. The shoulder. On he went, southward. He less menial work that was expected
• 'eve of books took precedence to his was on his way to a future, with no of an apprentice. He was directed to
• - inclination to assist in the - work on idea evhere that future lay, or what. wash the rollers, scrub the type, and
the arra. ,For this he exhibited no it had in, store for him. 1 continue in the, role of "'devil,"
fondness. His preference was to bide Mile after mile his steps carried A day or two passed, with occas-
• in the hay -loft, with his beloved hira. There was not a sign of falter- Tonal signs of dislike for this class of
books. .ing. Just at the noon tour he arriv- labor. He bad been given a down -
One day in'a June of the last cen- ed at Exeter, the most important stairs room in the house of his em-
- Wry, in the early hours a watcher place between Bayfield andLondon, ployer, a room facing the family gar-
" might have seen the -boy—or should a nice little town, situated inone of den.
it be said, the young man—for he the best agricultural sections of • Took "French Leave"
• had now reached his eighteenth spar Western Ontario. The distance trav-I The morning of the third day ar-
- —packing up his belongings. '#' I elled was about twenty miles. He had 1 rived_ Breakfast at 6.30. AU were
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Deltald Culrelee Reattie IkeigielN Digglit)
•"The most 'Marvelouse atom in the
World, excel* the 0wMan. *min."
'at' p What Charles Darwin said of
ant% "Brainleee antentatons," an• .
severed Bethe, bine Gertnan scientist.
the artifielai neat beCanee it was eantp
(ante sew) dile in dry Seeth) and dark
as 1 wisely kept the top covered Mitt
• blank Chitin Auto hate sunlight and
the dark cloth should stay on all the
• Some observers have not blushed time the creatures aren't actually be -
to tell fanciful talee about ants ing spied upon. When, sealed„the
..marching in platoone, obeying ant nest may be moved about.
genie:de:and captains. Burt the truth My first venture wase't a comelete
about ante is ;startling enough. Trent- success, •because I had net eesured
cal ante do go an irreeistible march- the queen and offspring. Without
them ants see no •whit in existence
and their habits become- destetoey;
they may even die. So 1 went back
and carefully dug up the queen, known
by her enormous size, and a lot of
winged drones or male consorts, and
lean right, we want an_appeweeee es, inn themselves.into a single great
ball'etenight; others --sow, -cultivate
—otherwise "printer's devil." ',A. ver-
bal contract, which bound the youth- and harvest eertain fungi in regular
ful applicant to a three -years service laul'slirger°' cellars.. - The v a u n t e d
as apprentice, was entered into, the "(111'7°42'" are ' actually' priamters,
first year's salary to be twenty -live scarcely more than ege.laying ma -
dollars, with board and lodging, each chines.. Actually ants have.,omething
Ike a 'Communistic totalitarian state,
subseqeent year to bring a elight in-
crease, In these days the newspaper and the penalties paid in loss of in -
owner generally boarded the appren- dividuat initiative are theeght-peorok-
tice at his home. His duties were to ilag.
take care of the fires, clean up the I wanted to see some of all this
office, wash type and rollers, do the for myself and ,so did my little boyss
less menial ceder. He started his du- nests, can be bought ready-made from
errands and other work of a more or Aut Palaces, or glass observation
ties the same afternoon, neater dealers, but I wanted the fun
of making a nest of nay own conetrue-
time
It was easy and cheap: two sheSts
of glass, measuring one by one and a
half feet, laid flat and held about an
inch apart by strips of thicker glass
on three sides'a sort of enclosed ant
sandwich -hound around the edges
by adhesive tape, which also serves
to seal the fourth side or door.
I filled the nest half full of sand,
and `placed • it on a table, the legs of
which were in cute of water:- The
children and I then dug up an ant
neat, and spread it out thinly on the
tablet so that the sand soon. dried.
The disgruntled little citizens storm-
ed around a while, but finally entered
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RON MOSITOR
Established 1869
MettfA)NJIROS., Puliishers, SEAPORT11
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plenty: of se -called ant eggs (they
are really' pupal cases, corresoonding
to the chrysalis stag of .buttertlies). fr
Ant ' larvae are' tiny grubs, and the
true ant eggs are •little pear -like
specks. I secured some in various
stages and, playing Santa Claus.
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sestenielennelseseesesess,
a2,1e-eleessusgseseieSe:Til,elee
cowae I"
esereeesrewiriem
en -Million -Dollar F ox Tale
(By Melvin N. Taylor in Reader's
Digest)
mine my household colony wildly
happy by, dumping these delights' out
of nay sack.
The normal life of an ant palace is
more fascinating than any sadistic
battle scenes, which most people seem
to look for. Watch your sturdy lit-
tle citizens fall to excavate streets
and tunnels, storerooms, sanitary
"tanks," royal chambers for the queen
and nurseries, sometimes day and
night nurseries, for their chSkIren.
See how they care for their young,
literally "touch" one another for a
bit of food, ceremoniously communi-
eate by playing knock -knock with
their antennae or feelers. With a
band lens you can see how carefully
ants clean themselves, like Persian
cats proud of their fur.
Ants dn your artificial nest will
eat dead beetles, earthworms, files,
scraps of meat. A few like cereal
seated, but John, the- apprentice. grains. They are mad for sweets,
He was called, but no answer. A and take to them like drink; doubt -
visit was made to hiss room. It was less the sugar 'does give them an al -
vacant. The raised windoW, foot- coholic reaction. They get enough
marks on the soft earth outside, and water if the soil is gently moistened.
the disappearance of the bundle, gave A tuft of sponge, with water on- it
mute evidence that John had taken renewed often, suffices.
"French leave." The work of the Many ants keep "cows." These are
"devil" was not to his liking, and he aphids or plant lice that cluster on
took this method of showing it. juicy weeds. Pluck an aphid -covered
The next word that came of him stem and give it to the ants. They
was that he was. "cub" reporter on a will lead their cows out to pasture
London. (Ont.) paper. Shortly after- on weeds every day. if you allow them
wards, it was learned that he was on and with a magnifier you can see
the Toronto Globe. This was follew- them milking their cows, stroking the
ed by the inforthation that he was soft bodies to •squenze out drops of
promoted to the positiOn of editor -in- sweet
chief.' He became a close friend of When you dig up your nest you
Sir Wilfrid Laurier,' and wrote the may•find that youhavebrought along
life of that' great statesman. queer little blind, beetles and tiny
Later, he hinieelf, received a title. caterpillass. There may even be
This was Sir John Willison, the minute ants of quite another kind.
Bayfield -Exeter adventurer and one- Don't try to exterminate these. They
time "Minter's devil" in the office of are all ant "guests" who raid their
a small paper in a small Ontario !hosts' larders, snatch their offspring
county town. or rush in between one ant feeding
another and steal the morsel. True,
they are mood:tete, gold-diggers,
racketeers, but they add to' the ;ex-
citement of the ant city.
Ants work like -Trojans. But you'll
find many resting. Much ant activ-
ity has a WPA look about it. But
eerhaps we don't understand it. The
lame, the diseased (Grey get fungus
troubles. as We do bacterial diseases),
and Iffie dead are unceremoniously
dumped out on the hill above ground.
The wounded for whom there Is still
hope are, however, fed, licked, and
stroked by their friends.
A REALTI1 SERVICE OP
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION AND UPS
INSURANCE COMPANIES
MI CANADA
BOILS Observe the sanitary measures.
• Waste matter is cleaned out of the
The unbroken healthy skin is an streets and especiallyout of the
effective barrier to the entrance, in- nurseries, and packed down in the
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tames $15,000 foe a single silver fox.
la 1929 the largest check for furs
in history—$13l1,67935—was paid to
four brothers Of Hamburg, Wiscon-
slue for ons-. sthipixtent of silver -fox
furs. But 111 1932 the entire silver -
fox industry collapsed, and along with
it, the $10,000,000 business of the
Fromm Brothers, biggest breeders of
silver foxes in, the. world.
The brothers—solid German-A/nee-
can farm boys—cared little for the
world of fashion. But quiet Ed.
Fromm had an idea, and he took a
boat for Paris. Trudging around to
fashion previews, he interviewed de-
eignens, fur dealers, cutter. A good
silver -fox scarf took two pelts and
cost hundreds of dollars; wraps cost
more hundreds. People in the de-
pression. were not paying such mon-
ey. Yet, after all, silver fax was still
'something unique. You could suc-
cessfully counterfeit 119 of the 120
furs used in apparel, but you could
not counterfeit the silver fox. There -
fere since it would always be a mark
of distinction, why not try cutting the
pelts for use as trimming?
The idea clicked). Soon suits,
gowns, muffs and capes blossomed
with silver -fox trimming Ed. Fromm
went home to a surpri ngly revived
busines,s.
This feat in outfoeing inlashion does
not seem surprising. For, from boy-
hood, the FDO01.711S have enjoyed tack-
ling tough problems. including the vio-
lent opposition of Papa Fromm. They
got their start, after many failures,
raising ginseng. This curious root,
for which the Chinese were paying
$15 to $20 a pound. is about the most
difficult thing in t'he world to culti-
vate. Although recently ginseng has
bought the From me as Inure. as $100-
000 a crop, it was not very profitable
in those early days. But it did yield
a little cash, which they decided to
Put into fox farniing. In 1909 they
bought a red fox and vixen. Later
their traps yielded a rare silver, and
they began corresponding with own-
ers of other silvers.
Finally a trapper agreed to enter
into a partnership • in a silver -fox -
breeding venture. The experiment
was not successful, only a cross and
a red resulting from the mating. The
Fromm then realized that only. by
controlled breeding through genera-
tions could a permanent silver strain
be esta,blished.
Meanwhile ether fox breeders ar-
rived at the same conclusion; prices
soared to speculative heights, some-
Tihroughout the From= have 'been
extravagant in pouring money back
into foxes. They keep a record of •
the pedigree and • breeding qualities
of each animal; identifying it when.
the pelts are sorted by numbers tat-
tooed on its ear. Every phase in the.
fox's life is followed—its health, fe-
cundity, quality of fur. Fox farming
is primarily a faot-finding job.
Kennels at the Fromm farms are•
haised off the damn) ground, the in-
side eontainin,g a 50 -gallon barrel with
a six-inrAhs hoses cut in tbe farthest
end from the opening. Mr. Fox
reaches his nest of hay by travelling
through a tunnel between the outer
walls sof the kennel and the barrel.
It is absolutely •diark in his nest, but
the fox sees perfectly. The kennel ie
completely weatherproofed with
straw insulation Two identical ken-
nels are placed in ?ash 40 -by -40 foot
wire enclosure. When the young fox-
es arrive, in litters of 2 to 7, the
• mother, seeking a safer hiding place,
discovers the second kennel, reeves
her family by the scruff of the neck,
and contentedly settles down Food
(Costing $30(1,000 a year) is edentates -
ally balanced, prepared in a spotless-
ly clean packing house, and served in
sterilized dishes on elevated plat-
forms.
For three months the pups ran, wild
in 40 end SO -acre timber trats. Pape
from the three breedring raeehess 200
miles south of Hamburg are trans-
ferred' by truck. to these ranges early
each fall. The fur, which becomes
brownish from the sun • and coarse
from life in a pen, acquires, on the(
wooded range, a clear-cut silver ef-
fect that distinguishes a fine pelt.
Woven -wire fencing, eight feet
high, a two -foot guard on -the top,
slanted -inward, encloses the 12,000-
acre ranges. An identical second in-
ner feces is a, precaution against
falling tree§ or„ Possible escape. On
the eany lunges the fence extended
four feet into the ground. This was
costly, and it was disiovered that 11
fencing three feet wide were laid
fiat on the ground adjoining the fence
it would prevent tunneling.
After three months) of buffeting
snows and winds, foxes are ready fos
pelting. ' The animals are driven in-
to V-shaped corrals which lead into
boies. The nese of eaoh fox Is touch-
ed with a' piece of cotton saturated
with ether. He instantly succumbs
—and become, a scarf around
milady's neck. ,
Sseventose
nve per cen. or the pulite
raised each year are pelted; the re-
maining 25 per cent are kept for
breeding purposes. The furs of the
Young foxes are the finest and bring
the bigheet prices.
To care for 36,000 foxes, the Fromm
Brothers employ 180 men, mast of
whom live in a large dormitory, while
others come from nearby farms. In
order that the fox cowboys may bave
a good time, a log -hewn club house ta
etted with all sorts or recreational
equipment, Including bowling alleys.
TheFromms sponsor football and
to the bode, of the numerous
germs dirt and covered witb clean sand. In 1913 the Fromm learned of a
fine sliver, trapped by a man some
60 miles away. He wanted $3,000 for
it. Papa Fromm finally agreed to sun -
ply the money, but clanged'his mind
after viewing the scrawny little ani-
mal. The boys' disappointment turn-
ed to elation when they discovered
later that the fox was a "Samson'
without the characteristic guard hair
valee'h distinguishes the silver. It
wes not worth more than $25. 'Phis
was their first knowledge of the sil-
ver pariah whose fur, when closely
examined, lacks the sheeneand luster
of a true silver.
By 1914 the Fromine thad 20 pairs
of foxes, nearly all showing red, with
the exception of a few three-quarter
silvers. That summer the boys de -
• on a bold step. When Pana
Fromm was away, they persuaded
their mothee to mortgage the farm
for $6,700. With this they purohas-
ed three full silvers, two vixens and
a fox.
From then on, reds were culled out
and by 1917 the brothers had 50 pairs
of 'valuable silvers. In 1921 the
Fromm farm bred 500 silver foxes.
The fox le a highly sensitive ani-
mal, and- the mortality rate makes
fox farming hazardous. At one time
the 'Fromms lost about half of their
foxes each, year by encephalitis, a
disease that weakens the walls of
blood vessels of the brain. Later,
great losses were caused by distem-
per. To -day the loss is five per cent
annually or les. The answer is that
the Frmmit, who, until recently, nev-
er took more than $5,000 a year from
their business, never saved at tthe
expense of their foxee. They have
contributed $150,000 to tbe researches
of Dr. R. G. Green, of the University
Of Minnesota. and others, who de-
velope0 sentros that reduce deaths
flrom theee elseases.
with, which the skia is brought We, Try experiments on "the mankind
contact. !of insects." With the table on whsich
There are germs, commonly called your palace stands, connect one or
disease germs, which cause certain more tables by 'paper bridges. On
specific diseases, such as diphtheria one of the tables place a bit of hon -
and typhoid fever. There are other ev. or better, several pupae (eggs).
germs which are very common; some Take the first ant that comes out
of these are probably always present and put her at the prize. While she
ntheeki
but as long as the skin examines the find, daub iher back
unbrokenhiosmh.that you can recognize her. Presently
ss•
kill'and healthy, they do no with a tiny speck of white paint so
n, may be broken in manyshe will go borne and lead out some
witys such as when it is cut, scratch-; frereds. Meanwhile, renlaee the first
ed, or binned. The skin is an im- bridge by another. Probably she will
portant part of the body and, as has
already been mentioned:, if one part
of the body is 'upset, other parts- are
apt to suffer. The healthy condition
of the skin is lost and its power to
resist the action of germs is more or
less decreased in the presence of ac-
tual diseases, such as diabetes. The
skin is also injured by upsets of the
digestive tract by faulty diet, and by
an unhygienic life wthich starves the more inelined to go over the bridge
body of fresia•air. Uncleanliness and she originally crossed (that now, of
overelothing whih, results in exces- course, leads to nothing interesting),
sive perspiration and irritation of the whielerwould seen% to show they sim-
skin, lewer its resistance. ply track by smell. All f can assume
As a, result of the occurrence of that the exeited ant had communicat-
pe or more of the aboye conditions, ed to her friends was some sort of
the normal resistance of the akin is summons to come out. But there
lost or decreased; then, the germs are litindreds of kinds of ants, each
present pt the skin are enabled to with different habits. Perhaps others
gain a foothold,. The result of their can devise experiments to correct my
activity is inflammation — redness, conclusions,
swelling, pain and the production of Ants, with their queer compoend
pus. eyes, are more eensitive to color than
Boils are infectious in the sense we. If, through the used of colored
that they are caused by living germs. glees, you let blue -Or violet rays in -
In the treatment of boil, this, fact to the nrseries, the nurses usually
must be kept in mine, and the boil rush their °barges away as if there
should be treated with the sanie were a the in the orphanage. If you
strict cleanliness that is used in all lay different colored' Neese of gime
surgical treatments. • all over the nest, your ants, if they
Considerable harm -,may follow the behave like mine, will shift to the
squeezing of boils,. The individual's, low -vibration end of the spectrum,
hands should be kept away from the the dark red. Experiments show
boil, and it should be opened and that they steem agonized be ultra -v1 -
treated at the proper time by a phyl- let and happy under sinfra-red.
clan. To test the theory that ants tell
In Berne cases, vaccines are used to direction by the sea, I captured an
raise the resistance—lighting power— ant iout of the nest in the morning,
against the germ. In all cases, the shrutnit in a bolt till afternoon anindOdt
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general health must be corusidered. it out. The stundee
ts ithift hae
Proper diet, exerobte, freak air, body deceived the poor working girl. (For•
cleanlineits, regular elimination, all go int tvOrkere or wingless ante are real -
to maketnp a hygienic life. ' ly females grown to full stature but
The occurrenee of boils in most never attained to sex matuilty.)
cases meant; that the suffeter hie not also teptured an ant on its Way borne,
been giving the reasonable care to put it in a dark box and earried It
his body that is required if a condi- over, its own nest and beyond. Re-
nton of health is te be maittailied. leased, it kept on going the way it
7'o have a healthy skin It is tenet- bad started. I didn't Wait to see if
sexy to keep the 'Whole body in a It -got home by way of '
Stater of health by ltehig a „hygienic We arititirde that ants bele each
Ue, ' oth , My Magnifying Oat* smuts 1.0
Questions. concerning Isitith, ft Oti The idea,. tlullv feet
dreseed to the- Cataditut Inedleal /42
ecleiation 18 011ege 14tret, Tore*
Ito. will bit atiatteired Perttleat
Were
make .straight for the prize remem-
bering the way. If she (has been able
to give her friends a Pteeise idea of
what they are to look for and where
it is, they should go straight after her
and' find it. In my experience they
don't- do this. They wander languid-
ly all over and no more of them find
the pnize than might do so by sheer-
est chance. If anything, they are
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learn from experience and adapt be-
havior for betterment, the ants are
Only slightly, Or be exception, fatal-
:ignsentte.adrstinet takes care of there,
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The more you watcle the leas yon
nmy cattle to think of our ann. *wet -
d intelligence. Among the ants ev-
eatebode works, exel* the xlatues,
and they ttio Mire their aPPcinted
tak.- Etrerybody *hares, thaugh by
no 'means alike•--Vonien (the queen)
and children come dint. There are
aimed never any reolts, or sit4lown
Strikes; gangstere, Pittalteni, &tette.
nein profiteeta and ItiOutitmeto are
riot klitteenentallg thethiIlna Of in-
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baseball teams.
Last year the brothers pulled a
surprise on bhe fur industry. Fax
farmers shave always shipped their
pelts to auction firms to selL The
Fromm- suddenly announced that
they.ewould auction '7,500 pelts at
their Hamburg headquarters, instead
sof shipping to New York.
• "It cant be dome," said veteran
furriers. "Who will travel to north-
ern Wiseonsin in Fehruaary to buy
their fins?"
It turned out that scores of fur
buyens would. A special train brought
many from New York; they seemed
to enjoy the junket into forty -be-
low weather and seem banks 15 feet
high. Others came from Los An-
geles, Seattle, Chicago, • ItunanaPulis
and St. Louis.
The buyers were royally entertain -
e. Unlimited food and drink was
-served in the clubhouse, including
Venison from the brothers' own herd
of 300 deft- and kosher food for Jew-
ish buyers. Music, cards and bowl-
ing beguiled teem in the evening.
Every one of the 7,500 pelts offer-
ed was said. They brought $540,000
,high price for post -depression
years. The top price for a, single
skin was $555, the highest since 1928.
At a second auction the Fromms
sold pelts for other Cox farmers; al-
so. A new $75,000 section building
permitted inspecticet of the furs un-
der the clear, natural northern light.
This sale was equally successful, end
the little Wierconsin, (hamlet may be-
come the silver -fox capital of Nrth,
America.
This year about 150,00(1 silver -fox
peits wilr be sold to America,
for aroundi $8000,000. Some 4,000
families operate silver -fox ranches ha
the United States. Canada ha e 6,000
termites, and the Ileited States has
imposied a 50 per cent duty on the
silver fon--the only fur whielt Pays
any duty.
Most fur-wie people believe that
some day ell tura used for clothing
will be produced on farms. So de the
Proteins. But When asked about
rospects, they pOint out that the
diver fox fill a high-priced animal be-
cause there are more headwater§ IN
the busimege that% the average head
ean endure.
Doctor (ecstatically): "Sir, SCurS
is a ease With% will enrich medical
• science!" „,
talent: dear. and I though*
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