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rurrier. In tbis.new, fact. called ssh M.1o,'f tbs coats appear with- oug stripes in a rich ooeos brown. withssoft. lustrollslook.'I1Leskiris m dyed Into an alllwbr effect, be- fore outtlnm "'5 ti” 11"" Wit 0111! the extreme antar back is used. with opinion being extremely var- ied in the trade as to the return of iong-haired furs. Id Walker is one or their strongest protllouists. "watch the next six months for long-haired fur." he said. adding that he finds definite interest in customers having furs of this type remodelled into capes and stolei. In his range, he shows a natural swedlsh blue for bolero with skins diagonally worked to make- an at- tractive

A feeling that long-haired furs are on the way in. is also evidenced in skunk costs by Bchlpper-Ilireb ma Co., manufacturers. A num- ber of these costs have been made in 32- to 36-inch lengths. with vol- vet inserts forming one to three box pleats at the back. The velvet reducm .the bulk of the coat and in rnovunent this limit” H1 "P icresting flared effect.

Diematlc pillow muffs, some four or five skins in width. and made of blue or plstinis fox are the ac- cessoryx features at B. wcllman dz Bros, New York. In line with the return of fox, this house spotllshts a tiny fox bciero worked crosswise in back and topped with wins col- lsr.

The Hudson's Bay Compani- Montreal, will hold a special sale on Friday, october Nth. They will mgr g,ooo silver fox and muta- tions, 1.000 his: tax and 0.000 white to... This sale is being eagerly look- ed forward to by ranchers as an in- dication of the uptrend in prices tor silver fox. .

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Canadian Pur Auction Sales comipiny (Quebec) Ltd. announces a two-day sale in Montreal. Octo- ber 23-24., In addition to beaver muskrst. whim fox. squirrel and other such furs they will make an offering of silver fox and muta- tlons. These will be mostly M531 good quality. The word above does not mean that they are this seasons skins but that they are pelts whit-'1 have not been offered before.

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Board of !ur Farmers. willaidn. Sheldon, chairman of the stetis-l 'lM1d0barr.meot.savsereporton, the numbers and production of -3 foxes in the United states n-ems whichthesearesnts-acts....0var the years alien in ranchers led .- tlrewsyinincreasingbothinniun-; ber-ofranehesendinnumberofl animals until . ' prices caused a very sharp decline, reducing the number of ranches to one-fifth and the numb: of animals to less than one-tenth. While most of the for ranchers were forced out prior to 1049 there were are more fox ranches closed in the United states during the last season. Looking back we consider 1948 as the high point in the number of mink ranches. The all time peak in av- erage prices for mink pelts came in ms and th no doubt influ- enced many Maple to start ranches during 1946 and 1947.

However, during the IM8-40 sea- son the tide turned. Prices for mink pelts were off sharply and while 790 new mink ranches started dur-

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President Truman and Gen. Mac- Arthur are shown as they rode from the airstrip-on-tiny--We

land in the Pacific to the small building where they held their recent.historic conference. The meeting lasted two hours, after

which President Truman left for 'Washlngion and the General re- -turned to his urgent business -in Tokyo. The conference was term- ed "highly satisfactory" and a blue- print for "peace and security" in the Far East was in the making

ing the 1943-49 season, there were 1.0M pelted out for a net loss of 288 mink ranches. During the fiscal year 1960-50. 439 new mink ranches were started while 1.l'1'l peltedfor is net loss of 738 mink ranches This makes a net loss of over 1.000 mink ranches during the past two seasons. The 1909 pa d ctlon of silver foxes only t to 4291: of those produced in 1968 and the 1950 production will at least be cut in half again. '

The 190 production of mink was under the I948 figure but not as small as some people had proph- esied. There were some' large losses causediby heat In several states but these were largely offset by increases in other states and by better production on some ranches where disease had taken a big toll in 1948. The average pro- duction per female for the entire United States was the lowest in the last five years. Nevertheless some states made their best showing in I940. In 1948 there were only two western states among the first fif- teen in mink production per fe- male and in 1949 there were seven western states among the first fif- teen.

W.C.T.U. NOTES

WHY NOT GAMBLE?

What is gambling?

Gambling is an agreement where- by the transfer of something of value is made dependent on chance. some lose -what the few win. in the case of the Irish sweepstakes hundreds of thousands have to lose that. a few may win.

Why is gambling called a com-

' " unsound practice?

There are three reasons that jus- tify a man accepting money from another: (1) forservices rendered or money earned; (2). for goods xe- ceived or value xchanged; (3) ns an expression of kindness or sp- preclatlon - The law of love.

Under which heading shoud we place the money which changes hands in gambling? Is it passed on as a. gift or for value received.

Do we read of many persons ers- rlched by gambling?

A few people may be emiched. but we never hear anything about the losers. The bell-boy or mechan- ic who galns 310.000 gets a headline in the newspapers. but who hears about the thousands who gambled often with money needed for food and clothing for their children.

Do not the Irish Hospitals receive money from the Sweepstakes that they would not eive otherwise?

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I have been asked questions as to the imports, of fox and mink pelts and I can answer that there have been very few imports of silver fox pelts but there has been a very large increase in the import of mink. During the calendar year of ms the imports of em mink pelts amounted to 638.830. while in 1949 there were 1,300,286 dark mink pelts imported into the United states i'I'hisisaniricrossoofB8w inim- ports in one year and this does not include the 485.1” oriental mink imported in 1940. ' -

Be the above importation we may say that one reason why there

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gard this movement to have Hos- pital Sweepstakes?

....The Canadian Hospital Council, representing thirteen Hospital As- sociations in Canada, is opposed to sweepstakes method of financing hospitals. .

Do not Service Clubs In Canada many charities by gamb- ing schemes.

They have in war years, but this is becoming increasingly rare. In Ottawa, September 20. 1946. the lational Advisory Council of the Service Clubs in Canada, represent- ing lwtary, Gyro, Lions, Kiwanians. Optimists, Progress. Zonta Kins- men, and Boroptimit Clubs. pass- ed a unanimous resolution: "It is the considered opinion of the Na- tionsl Advisory Council of the Ser- vice Clubs in Canada that the hold- lng of lotteries and raffles-a wide- ly developed prscice in the war years- has proven exceedingly at- tractive from a financial point of view, but has become a promotion not in the ulimate interest of any group or groups in our communities. as lending to encourage a false sense of values on the part of the public." l

Why is horse race betting eon- demned? ,

Horse race bettlrig is condemned because much crookedness has been connected with such betting; also this form of betting tends to be- come a degenerate habit.

A woman entored a shoe store in a certain city, and as she opened her handbag she said to the clerk: "I've been playing every day for the last three weeks. and you can't fool me: I know my horses." she then ordered new shoes for her two small children and in payment handed to the surprised " rekeep-

bearer of this note is entitled to two pairs of children's shoes. at 82 a pair." Signed, Public Relief Headquarters. .

What is the danger of the gamb- ling impulse that is so general .to- day?

The chief aim of any gambling scheme is to stimulate in the minds of the public the hope of getting something for nothing. All forms of gambling have a great attrac- tion to those who most need money. as a short out 0 increased posses- sions. Unforiunstely, ,most of those who -lose are people who, can least afford to lose.

What is really wrong about gambling? Canon Green says: Gambling

is. 1. a sin against God; 2. a sin against self; 3. a sin Ilssinst our

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The northern Psruls Warbler was observed by ornitboiogist Dwight when on the Island in the summer of rm. and that is the last record of the Psrula thsi I have been able to find. It is men- tioned as fairly common in the New Brunswick list of ms and there is no reason to suppose that it is less common now. The Paruln prefers a woodland habitat and if by chance it is swampty too, so much the better. In such places the trees are usually covered with the "Spanish Moss" (Usnea. s lichen) among which it builds its nest.

As the Warblers are entirely in- sectivorous, they contribute great- ly to the prosperity of Canada's woodlands. They keep down the various species of moths and beetles which infest and injure the trees.

It is said that the Northern Parula is more brightly colored than the typical Paruls. Aou 648., Northern Psrula Warbler. Aou 648-s. Summer resident - 1918 list; No later particulars. Male plumage: upper parts blue, a yel- low tinge on the back not very conspicuous: wing with two white wing-bars; outer tail feathers with a white patch near the end: throat and breast yellow, more or less marked rufous. a rich brown or blackish mark across the breast; belly white. Female similar but duller. throat and back patches in- distinct or absent. Length of adult 4.5 inches.

NATURE NOTES

The poet William Cowper. whose life alternated between periods of gay humor and deep melancholia, was in his lighter moods greatly taken up with his animal friends. Eight pairs of pigeons were ac- customed to sit on his garden wall daily, waiting for -him to feed them. His kitten he calls "the drollest creature that ever wore a cat's skin.” His devoted spaniel, Beau, inspired his poem. "The Dog and the Water-Lily". But. his three hares. "Puss, Tlny' and Bess" provided him amusement and study in his moods of convales- cence. He gave them the run of the house too! a rather venture- some proceeding. More than this. he studied their characters and put the results on paper. "Pus” was, in the language of today, on extrovert, "familiar. and happier in human society than when shut up with his natural companions." Was "Tiny" an introverl? "Tho kindest treatment had not the least effect: he was however very entertaining in his way . . . even hLs surliness was a matter of mirth." Bess was "a here of great humor and drollery."

Up to a certain point the pre- sent writer has some sympathy with Cowper's feelings for birds and animals. In by-gone days, when I was better able to travel, I have seen some very rough treatment handed out to farm ani- -mairr "Veryi-ofew--of -them-are respo We to kindness, and these few were very probably. ill-irest- ed in their formative days.

All domestic animals and birds like to be spoken to - in a friend- ly way, I mean - and have vari- ous modes of expressing their ap- preciation. In this matter dogs and cats stand first. Cats inter- est me much as hares interested William Cowper!

To begin with, cats have the edge on us in the matter of the wealherftheir behavior often lets me know when a storm or gale is coming. I hesitate to believe. however, as some do, that their prescience extends to things hid- den from mere men.

Though not demonstrative, cats have considereble affection for those who treat them well. Our oldest cat - we have four -puts

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now been with grass. and is used as a gust pasture.

We know that great changes of climate have been produced by the slow, secular tipping of the earth's axis. Now man himself is introducing other factors which as yet do not seem to .have been evaluited. Rivers have been dam- med and next. produced, in p cc of dry land: ir- serts into ferille more, that subtle fluid. electricity. free in nature for untold ages. has been pinloned and put to work as never before. these thing can take place with- out changing cliinatc and weather?

A good neighbor has sent in a bottle which I identify as the Sil- phs Americana. one of the Carrion Beetles. cord of this Silpha, and also of Sllphas noveboracensis. whi pear to have popular names. They all merit. the title of carrlon beetles because they lay their eggs on the caresses of small animals lllce mice. etc.. and when the eggs batch the emerging grubs eat the carrion If the animal is a small one the beetles remove the soil from be- neath it, so that it is gradually buried in a kind of grave. In size .the Silphas run from one-half to three-quarters of an inch long. and are flat and disc-like in body.

I was glad to receive a "new" plant. that is, new to the Island Flora, from Mr. G.-A. Leard, of Souris, P.E.I. lucida of Linnaeus, now known as Coelopleurum lucldum of Fernald. Seeing that it has no popular name we may call it the "Shining An- gelica" and thus honor the great botanist. Norris Pond.

Another enclosure is a well-pre- pared specimen of Sorbaria sabl- folia, commonly known as "False Spiraea." those of the Mountain Ash (or Roilan Tree). The flower is a fluffy panicle resembling that of a.Spiraea. I have sen this cultivat- ed as a garden plant locally and therefore did not our "New Flora". Gray's Manual. 1950. says it from cultivation.

- NEWSY NOTES - '

Ivksflcale

origin.

There is no affectaiion in using the Latin name of a plant; it is the only way to make sure one is understood. be very misleading. when a Scot talks of a "Bluebell" he means a species of Campanula. The Vir- ginian calls the Mertensia his Blue- bell. and the Englishman has his Bluebell -- too - a kind of wild Scllla. On the other hand the Briton talks of the Cornflower. the Canadian calls it the Bachelor's