The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27

| ments. They could read it in the paper
| all the seals in existence was divided
| up among the inhabitants of the State
| of Kansas there would be only .OOO62
seals to an inhabitant. Also they could
see in Sunday paper how the Secre-
| tary of Commerce and Labor gives out
an interview that the United States is
keeping a line of battleships in Alaska
to prevent pOachers from killing seals,
Birsky, but that owing to the high
price of sealskins in New York, the
pOachers takes chance on getting
shot, starved, frozen and drowned and
sometimes catches as many as twenty
eight and half seals in season,
understand, and yet, Birsky, when a
concern by the name of the Paris and
San Francisco Fur Importing Company
advertises fur overcOats with Baffin
Bay Seal lining and genwine PruSSian
Lamb collars at from $3.50 to $21.50
apiece, them newspaper readers figure
what does Secretary of Commerce
and Labor know about seals anyway"
Maybe they figure that way, and
maybe they figure that the Teller which
is running the Paris and San Francisco
Fur Importing Company is just some
poor goose that has got ahold of line
of seal overcoats and don't know their
real value, Zapp, and never mind if
the Teller WOULD have wife and
family depending on him, Zapp, that's
HIS lookout. If he is fool enough to
let them seal-lined OvercOats go at
from $3.50 to $21.50, he shouldn't be
in the fur business if he don't know no
more about furs than that; so they
buy an overcoat off of him, Zapp, just
to teach him lesson as it WERE"
Sometimes they also figure that the
reason why the Paris and San Fran
cisco Fur Importing Company could
| sell genwine sealskins at $3.50 is that
the Overcoats was stolen, Birsky,"
Zapp said, $50 they go to work and buy
| 'em on the principle of what the eye
don't see it, what is it the hearts bust
ness"
''Then what is the use of newspapers
protecting them crooks by not printing
! fake advertisements"
Il don't know, Birsky," Zapp said.
"In fact, Birsky, l amt got no SYM
patty for bargain hunter anyway.
"And quite right too" Birsky said.
"It's always joke to stick bargain
hunter, Zapp, because if he wasn't out
to stick somebody himself bargain
hunter wouldn't be a bargain hunter.
There is fellers in this town, Zapp,-
millionaires and college gradgewates
which when they talk about quack
stores gets so red in the face that
you'd think they was discussing labor
unions, Zapp, and in the very next
breath, understand, they'll tell how
they was motoring in the mountains of
West Virginia and how they come
across log cabin where an old Teller
and his wife was raising a little corn
for living and eating it off broken
down mahogany table NIT handy legs.
club feet and all the other deformities
which turns human being into help
less cripple and a table into a ST.
600 antique, Zapp. Then they'll tell
you how they bought the table from
the poor mountaineer for $2.35 and
brought it back to New York and had
it polished for $1.O3 and sold it to an
antique dealer for $1,275.6O; and they
never stop to consider that while a
quack store proprietor may sell fur
Overcoat for $21.50 by representing
that the lining is genwine seal, the gar