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nection here and is not understood. You
might get a deck of heroin.
Don't get angry when knocked down by
an automobile. The fellow driving it will
explain to you that you were at fault,
and will get angry enough for both of
you; if you'll only wait a minute.
Don't long audibly for nature and ''the
open''-its beastly bromide up here-talk
small talk and smile.
Don't get the idea that three cocktails
transform you into an absolutely unique
parsonage. Try to remember that we
have thousands of places here where cock
tails are obtainable and where they have
been obtained for many, many years. You
may then get realization of the fact
that due provision has been made to care
for the fellow who gets that idea.
Don't be careless where femininity, I'M
known to you, is concerned. Use judg-
ment, cold, hard judgment; go back and
use your judgment all over again, and
then steer clear of trouble-whieh Tn
sure you will not, as Kipling once ex-
pressed it.
Don't be too eager to rush UP and
throw your arms around every fellow
whom you happen to have met in some
other town. He may not be exactly in
the same mood you are. It's lonely, OF
course, but if you must have converse
ton, enter a gin mill. You see, the
touch is so prevalent here that such
well meant outbursts are frequently mis-
understood.
Don't tell the New York maid that
the prettiest girls on earth are in Dixie
What's the use to cast away an avail
able opportunity just because you cant
get exactly what you want. What?
Don't be afraid to ask questions, but
ask the policemen.
Don't extend courtesy to strangers tc
the point where it may be mistaken fol
familiarity or freshness-there are lots
of them lying in wait to take advantage
of that
Don't try any stunts" on the people
here, which you have learned elsewhere
If there is anything of the kind thai
hasn't been tried out in New York city
it is because such STUNT has not yei
been conceived.
Don't let noise congestion, excitement
and the general rush, get your nerve.
on edge. Remember the great throngs-
no matter how great-are made UP o!
human intergers, each one of whom vol
have an equal chance with.
This list of Manhattan ''donts'
might be heightened great deal, ant
perhaps it may be at some future date
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e. - ISTUR EDDITUR: What man lives today
iA\Ml who would not give half he has, and mort
U\vII gage the luther haf-includng his wifes
lasions-if he could live moor for a
few breef days only, thro sum of the sceens of his
childhood. If he could enjoy those rare thrills that
cum to the boy-or used to cum to him-when the
srcus came to town; the prospects of viewing the
zig peerade and going into the side shows before the
dig show commensed and then staying till after the
consurt All those weer happy days-yet they did not
seem SO blamed happy at the time, when weer
wishing for them to we could wear long pants
and grow a mustache, and they drug along all
too slowly for u.s. Yet pleasures then, picncs
then our romanses then, air Registered in mem
meries as no uther pleasures uther pcnics and
romanses air recorded. They furnished moor reel
thrills and gratur exsitement than ennything that
could possibly happen to theese cold and caeulat
ing days
Quite resently visited the geological park in this
city; Washington quite interesting geological
park where almost menny reel live curriossites
may be viewed by the cassuel visstuf to the city
will be found in emmy phase; also when Congress is
in session 1t provides amusement for the tourists
that in measure offsets the loss of the gratur at
tractsion.
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provided | am forgiven for these. But
there are just few dos" which might
be attacked to your advantage:
Be your natural self, proud, but not
Unfortunately or EXCEPTIONALLY SO. of
your home land.
Express your likes and refrain from
voicing your dislikes
Give New York and it's people the
praise you think due them, but with
hold your adverse criticisms, unless
certain of their obstructive quality.
Remember how often you've heard
New Workers say how nice your own
little home town was.
Dream of home and mother-but not
while on the street. While there keep
moving, for your own sake as well as
that of the other fellow.
Remember what you can afford to
spend-no matter what you may see
others spending-and count your
change.
Get a suite of rooms at the Plaza
provided you have an income of $780,
900 or so per annum.
Tip your barber-tip the taxi driver
and-er-play safe and tip everybody.
Use the ash receiver on the thea
ire seats-but not for drinking cups or
cuspidores--it isn't regular.
Remember that while you are watch
ing the cabaret, the waiter is watch
ing you-and waiting.
Keep your mind on the most pleas
ant thoughts when the subway train
is stalled under the bottom of East
river.
Take it for granted that every one
you see is a human being, but be care
ful about warming up to any of them
Do not be afraid-but be cautious.
If you find yourself in the line of
fire, between the two opposing elements
of a gang fight, remember, you are in
New York, and it is considered a great
privilege to live here.
Give money to every person who begs
for it--he may need just that amount
of change to round out his next 500
600 or so.
Remember your friends back home
they are easier to touch than these
people, probably.
Whenever you get on any kind of a
train or surface car, get newspaper
otherwise you will be considered as a
waster of valuable time.
Whenever any one advances an ar
gument, always begin your reply with
II know, but 1t is SO much used
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ways, not until after you have lived here
six months-after that time, you will
not even feel that way about it all.
Don't say you have seen better shows
in the south-it can't be done, even at
a higher figure, and then. you will be
unable to explain why if the shows you
saw We're really bettery, they did not
come to Broadway. And the same holds
good, as a rule, where individual talent,
or genius is concerned. The idea pre-
walls here that he or she will get to
New York sooner or later if only he or
she is good enough.
Don't try to initiate the Manhattan
speech. They like you better when you
are natural, and, besides, you can't do
it any more than they can get the south
ern swing of language.
Don't be afraid to look up as high as
you please, as low as you please, or in
any direction you please. Nobody will
notice you--if they do, you are prob
ably odd enough to make a living in
vaudeville
Don't belittle the big things you see
They are not little, you know, and the
New Yorker knows it.
Don nluG your interest III OF eillHu-
siasm for anything.
Don't call New York the wickedest
city on earth-that only indicates that
you have made speciality of it's wicked
side. Besides, you know as we'll as
do that Bessemer can go some herself
Don't set sore in the subway-that' a
dead give-away, anyhow. Object to moth
ing below ground this side of the loss
of an eye or an ear, it isn't customary
Don't under and circumstances, forget
that there are something like 6000,00t
other people here-it may get you into
an embarrassing situation-or the Tornbs
Don't wear your silk hat into the dives
on the lower East Side after nightfall
Don't carry your hands in your trous-
ers pockets. AS a sure cure for this
habit, study the men you see doing it.
Don't refer to the locality around the
statue of Columbus, just north of Fifty
ninth street and Broadway, as 'Colum-
bus Circle" 1t is done here frequently
but it is really taboo among the elect
you know.
Don't try to cross Fifth avenue al
Forty-second street while the traffic Is
being permitted to move north and south
This. however, is perhaps unnecessary
1t is as one should say--dont leap from
the Woolworth tower-the result wout
be about the same
Don't say dope, when you want coca-
cola-the term is never used in that con
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Copyright, 1915. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
Fairbanks.
IN URING the past few weeks
have so visited on a Of the sss
are altogether. perhaps, 10 or
IL in the territory. There are sew
eral along the Yukon river and some
not far from Prince William sound
There Is one at Copper Center on the
trail between Fairbanks and Valdez,
which is said to have 200 foxes and to
have sold three lives ones not long ago
for just about $4,000. There is farm
at Baker Hot Springs which has paid
as high as $500 apiece to the Indians
for black fox pups and one near here
which has interested eastern capital
to the amount of $500, 900. Judge
Moran. a member of the Alaska legis-
lature. has established fox farm at
Shungnak on the Kobuk river in
arctic Alaska. He is raising white
foxes as well as blacks reds and
crosses and says that these animals
can be reared just as easily as cattle
and hogs.
During my stay in the Klondike, I
had talk with Albert f. Lamb about
the fox farms at White Horse and
Dawson. MIR. Lamb is the registrar of
Yukon territory and secretary of one
of the fox farming companies. He says
there are four fox farms in that vicin-
ity and that the furs they produce are
Tar superior to those of eastern Cam
ada aya Prince Edward Island. Alaska
and IN furs Of all kinds are quoted
by n houses at 20 per cent higher
than those of eastern America, and fox
skins from this region are worth 40
per cent more than those caught
around Hudson bay. Indeed, the best
furs OF the world come from the very
cold climates, such as Siberia and
Alaska, and the day will come when
the fur farming industry of these lat-
tudes will be one of the great cloth
ing industries of the world
The business of fur farming was be-
gun by the Canadians about 25 years
ago. The first fox ranches were on
Prince Edward Island and that lit
tie island TODAY has the largest and
most profitable farms in the world.
There are 2l0 dinerent companies en-
gagged in the business and their capt.
talization is about $30.0O0000. The
most of the companies are paying divi-
dends and their net profits in 1913 were
over $4,O00.00O The island has about
600 fox ranches and the business has
spread to other parts of Canada. Over
400 companies are engaged in 1t in
Nova Scotia. Newfoundland and New
Brunswick and farms have been start
"A also In Quebec Ontario and western
Canada, There are several fox farms
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IN
IM cial>-1n the vast majority of US
il Nj there appears to be an inherent
aversion to being told what to
do and what not to do.
You admit it?
Thanks
If you are an employer. 1t is safe to
say that you have at one time or another
seen displeasure upon the countenance
Of an employee when wou told him what
to do. You have also seen displeasure
upon the same countenance when you
told him what not to do-only 1t was
probably more marked.
But it does seem odd that SO many WIS.,
itors to New York feel displeased when
told what to do and what not to do In
this city. The tendency, however, is sur
prisingly general.
Many friends whom / have attempted
to entertain, even to the extent of the
lavishness of a 25-cent outlay, seem ut
terly unwilling to do what I tell them.
and yet 1 have often had a peculiar feel
ing that they wanted to do it, but were
embarrassed.
Not very long ago two of us were walk
ing through the downtown section-you
know the. section that is all skyscrapers
and l was telling my friend that this
building was so-and-so, and that one was
probably even so-and-soer. He kept muir
muring "uh-huh," or something to that
effect, and seldom If ever raising his eyes
above the third story of the structure re-
ferred to.
1t finally penetrated-the fellow didn't
want to appear as if a real skyscraper
were something new to him. He wanted
to walk along in sort of local looking
manner, and let people think he was ac-
customed to downtown New York, and
yet he couldn't say, Brooklyn bridge"
without giving it a curve that put every
one wise who was within earshot of
his voice. But he didn't know that.
OF course, it is a lot of pleasure to
show a fellow like that around; he al
ways makes you feel how delightfully."-
little Importance attaches to what you
tell him; makes you realize he is not try
ing to take 1t in, and that, therefore. you
need have no regard for accuracy of
statement.
He u.s. to begin with. making the mis-
take that people will notice him if he
looks at the tall buildings-ln fact, he
mistakes if he thinks they would notice
him, even though he stood on his head,
so long as. he did not interfere with
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wire about a tennis court. The wire is
sunk about four feet in the ground and is
then bent over so that it runs under
the ground for about two feet. This is
to prevent the foxes from burrnwing out
from under the wire. At the TOP the wire
has an overhang of two feet. forming a
little roof of that width all around the
coop. This is to prevent the foxes climb
ing over the wire.A Each pen has its own
kennel made of boards This is a house
like dog kennel. 1t is entered by a
board chute up which the fox runs when
it goes in, and in some cases wooden
pipes a foot square serve as an entrance.
The foxes run in and out of these pipes
and they usually carry their food inside
to eat it.
There is but one pair of foxes in each
pen. The animals are very tinlid and
they have to be handled carefully. Most
of the fox farmers will not permit Wis
itors to enter their property for fear
they will brighten the foxes. The ami
mails grow crazy when excited and they
sometimes eat their young. On the other
hand, they get acquainted with theii
keepers and there are some which, be-
come so tame that strangers can handle
them During my visit to fox farm on
the Tanana river. my daughter, who is
with me- picked up two little silver gray
fellows of the size of kittens and hugsed
them to her while made snapshot.
do not know what those foxes are worth
at this writing, but three years ago they
would have brought thousand dollars
apiece
The farm where the foxes are SO tame
is near Hot Springs, about three OF
four miles from the river. 1t was started
by men who have been in the business
of fox raising on Prince Edward Island
They have gotten their breeding stock
from the Indians, paying from 500 *
1880 apiece for the animals. The latter
price was for jet black fox whose Skin
would have brought almost as much as
the price paid for it. That farm covers
about six acres divided up into wover
wire pens. The wire is of steel and the
mesh is about an inch in diameter.
Another farm on the Tanana is tina
belonging to two brothers named Va
chon. 1t is situated at Tolovana abou
1856 miles from Fairbanks, and its higf
wire fences can be plainly seen from
the steamer. The farm proper covers
five acres all fenced with steel wir
and divided UP into compartments Theirs
are also small pens or cages rooted witt
chicken wire outside the main inclosurs
and near the bank of the river. Amont
the older foxes there are seventeen fin
silver grays and a number of blacks
The cages near the river seem to be de-
voted mostly to babies. The latter ar,
the size of kittens and are far more cum.
ming and pretty.
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The stew is fed cold morning and even
ing. The foxes will come out of their
dens and grab it and carry it inside with
them. After a while they come back
and get more. McCreary, who owns a
fox farm at Copper Center. varies his
fox food between rabbits and meat and
fish. He gives them two cooked meals
a day and third meal of raw rabbits,
throwing in as many as so rabbits for
single feed The farmers of Prince Ed
ward Island have found that foxes must
have plant food or vegetables. In their
wild state they eat not only flesh, but
grass and berries and if the latter is
withheld they become wormy Other
good foods outside of flesh are biscuits,
yeast bread porridge, apples, milk and
eggs. The animals will eat dog biscuit,
but they prefer plain hardtaik. Bread IS
liked better if grease rdrippngs are pour
ed upon it. Some farmers use tallow
as butter. Ground bone is sometimes
given, and a little limewater is fed to
foxes are fed all they will eat When
they get older it is not we'll for their
fur to make them too fat.
on the farm at Fairbanks / saw one
litter of foxes that was being nrothered
by a cat. She had three baby foxes
which, when grown, will be worth from
$500 to $1,000 apiece, and possibly more.
The mother of these foxes was a. very
nervous animal and the farmers feared
she might kill her young So they We're
taken away and given to the cat in place
of her kittens. The cat adopted them
and she plays with them as though they
were her real baby kittens. The thou
sand-dollar foxes seem to like their new
mother quite as well as their old one.
The managers tell me it is necessary
to have cats around a fox farm for
such complications. They say that one
man in eastern Canada lost a litter OF
silver Foxes because he would not pay
high price for cat. The mother of
the foxes had died, and in looking around
to find a cat in the proper condition,
the farmer discovered but one only. The
owner of the cat appreciated his need
and refused to sell his cat for less than
$500. The fox farmer was indignant and
refused. The result was that he lost five
little foxes that might have been worth
$s5C0o and all for five-hundred-d dollar
cat One fox. raised by cat here at
Fairbanks had pelt which was valued
at $500.
The breeding of the foxes is very
carefully handled. At mating time the
animals are sensitive to strange
sights. noises and smells and the
ranches are closed to every one but
the Keepers. Dogs and other ANNA Is
are kept out OF the neighborhood and
thet keepers sometimes watch the pens
from a dark chamber, out Of which
they look through small window. 1t
takes so days or more after mating
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before the animals bear. They have
only one litter year. and a litter may
consist of from one to nine pups \
fox will continue to bear up to 10 or
IL years of age and will mate at eight
months of age. The young look like
dog pups and play and bark just like
dogs. l am told that silver gray foxes
usually breed true to their color and
that cross foxes will sometimes throw
black foxes. A cross fox is the mar
riage of the black and the red.
There is a great demand among the
fox farmers for wild. foxes for breed
ing. When the Fairbanks farm was
started they paid as high as $1,000
apiece for black foxes and 500 and
upward for red ones. The Indians
brought them in for sale and they are
doing so now. There is a closed sea-
son for killing foxes. but some of the
farmers have been paying the Indians
for the live young they catch and
shipping them to the east as ranch
bred. The other day the government
fur warden here found AZ live young
in the hands of Indians and turned
eiiShA diA iOOSt.f his HGlnDtT lHCluuSu
Is blacks. worth at least $1,000 or more
apiece. When they let the foxes go
from $4,000 to $4,000 fled off into
the woods. The Indians could not help
themselves for fear of the law.
In the Yukon, whene an Indian finds
rox nest he watches it until the
closed season is over and then tries
TO trap the foxes with traps so pro-
tected by wrappings that they will
hold the animals without iniuring
them.
There has been great change in the
prices OF foxes and fox skins since the
breaking out of the great war IN Eu-
rope. Immediately following that time
the great firm of Lampson's in London,
which handled practically all of the
furs Of the world. closed it's doors and
declared it would hold no sales during
the war. This knocked the life out of
the fur trade and prices fell. This was
SO during 1914 and 1915. ordinary fox
skins dropped to one-third their value
and the fine ones were put away.
Beavers brought less than half price
and marten and lynx skins We're a drug
in the market. In the latter part Of
1915 furs began to go UP and they are
now fast coming back to their old
figures. They will continue to advance
and silver fox skins will probably be
worth more than ever before.
AS 1T is now a good black or a sill
yer fox skin brings an enormous price
The firm at Fairbanks has average ed
1883 for skins of that kind sold in
London. have shown how Dalton got
an average of SITS for EOS skins At one
time he got $4,000 for "a silver fox
pelts. and of those three brought over
$500 apiece. One sold for more than
$4,000 and the average for the whole
rs was more than $1400 apiece. In
March. 1910. 476 silver fox skins We're
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THE FUR FARMS OF ALASKA-By Frank c. Carpenter

They have long, bushy tails, little sharp
noses, and their eyes sparkle like jet.
In the same pens are baby martens. with
heads not bigger than the fist of baby
and eyes the size of black-headed pin.
The marten has a gorgeous yellow throat.
The rest of it's fur is a rich brown. 1t is
really a sable, and is sometimes known as
the Alaska sable, the best of which are
equal to the sables of Russia.
To return to the big 1O-acre fox farm
at Fairbanks, it belongs to men who
live here in Alaska, and to others in New
York and New Jersey Tt was started
a year or so ago with a capitalization of
about 100000. So far, about $4,000 has
been invested, and this includes the cost
of the farm and the equipment and the
breeding animals. The land, kennels and
all the machinery cost $4,000, and the
breeding animals $4,000. There are, alto
gether, about 200 animals. including foxes
and others, and all that is needed to care
for them is two men.
The Alaskan owners became interested
in fox farming by visit from some OF
the farmers of Prince Edward Island.
These men came here to buy live foxes
from the Indians and trappers. They
purchased number, and after they left
it was currently reported that they had
made $4,000 out of their sales. Mr.
Joseph Stirling, one of the owners of the
farm, then went east to look into fox
farming. He arrived there in 1914 and
learned of the profits of the industry and
it's possibilities He thought it ridiculous
that the farmers of Alaska should not
be able to do as well as those of Canada
especially as this country has better foxes
and makes better fur. When he came
back he aided in organizing the COM
pany.
The Fairbanks fox farm is making a
scientific study of the rearing OF fur
bearing animals. 1t keeps records OF
the results of breeding. The animals
will be pedigreed and registered, ard
all crosses will be carefully reported
The effect of different kinds of food or
the fur will be noted, and the life ms
tory of each pair of foves carefully kept
The company keeps a cOst-accountinl
sheet, just like factory, and it watches
everything connected with the raising Of
artificial furs as far as it's own farm il
concerned.
/ have asked number of the man
ayers as to the food used for their fur
bearing animals. On the fox farm hers
it costs s1l year to feed a fox, S tt
feed mink and $3.50 to feed marter
or sable The animals are given salmon
moose meat, horse meat and rabbits
and also carrots and turnips. On the
fox farm near Dawson a common feet
Is rice and rabbits cooked together into
stew. One farm there feeds 16 rabbits
and Is pounds of rice day to AZ foxes
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paign writer at national democratic
Headquarters. is to be made one OF the
editorial writer's of the New York
Morning World.
This financial game In New York is
funny proposition any way you take
lit isn't half SO funny II you let
the other fellow take it from you.
That's just a little Wall street bull.
but as paragraph, it's a bear, don't
Won think?