Middletown transcript., 1916-10-28

ments. They could read it in the paper
how seals hAs become so scarce that if
all the seals in existence was divided
up among the inhabitants of the State
Of Kansas there would be only -00062
seals to an iIshabitant. Also they could
see in a 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 seglskins in New York, the
poachers takes a chance on getting
shot, starved, frozen and drowned and
sometimes catches as many as twenty
eight and half seals in a season,
understand, and yet, Birsky, when
concern by the name of the Paris and
San Francisco Fur Importing Company
advertises fur overcoats with Bafin
Bay Seal lining and genwine Prussian
Lamb collars at from 5000 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 feller which
is running the Paris and San Francisco
Fur Importing Company is just some
poor goose that has got ahold Of line
of seal overeoats and don't know their
real value, Zapp, and never mind If
the feller 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 5000 to $2150, he shouldn't be
In the fur business # he don't know no
more about furs than that; so they
buy an overcoat OFF Of him, Zapp, just
to teach him a 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 $1999 is that
the overcoafs was stolen, Birsky."
Zapp said, $50 they 60 to work and buy
'em on the principle Of what the eye
don't see 1t, what is 1t the hearts busi-
nessa''
| Then what is the use of newspapers
protecting them crooks by not printing
! fake advertisements? p
Il don't know, Birsky," zapp said.
'sIn fact, Birsky, / amt got no sym
pathy for a bargain hunter anyway.
And quite right too,g Birsky said.
ssItis always joke 10 stick bargain
hunter, Zapp,s because if he wasn't out
to stick somebody himself a bargain
hunter wouldn't be bargain hunter.
There is feIlers In this town, zapp,-
millionalres 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, y.understand, they'll tell how
they was motoring In the mountains Of
West Virginia and how they come
across log cabin where an old feIler
/ and his wife was raising a little corn
for a living and eating it off broken
down mahogany table nit handy legs,
club feet and ali the other deformities
which turns human being into help
| less cripple and table into ST.
600 antique, zapp. Then they'll tell
you how they bought the table from
the poor mountaineer for S2S5 and
brought.tt back TO New York and had
lit polished for $1.03 and sold it to an
antique dealer for 1875. go: and they
never stop to consider that while a
tquaek store proprietor may sell fur
overcoat for S2k50 By representing
that the lining Is genwine seal, the gar