The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 22, 1920, Image 11
UT MUSEf FOXES
pus s Proved Hood Foster Mother
to Valuable Cubs.
pgr Fmi"er Wll Afraid to Takt a
Chance, 80 Ho Called In Tubby and
the Difficulty Wa? Solved,
to Hl? Advantage.
There are perhaps 10 or 12 of the fa
fiou8 fur farms of Alaska. Oue of
UKin. situated ,n tl,w Tonuana valley,
? m|le and a half from Fairbanks, cou
nts of ten acres of cleared land, the
#m?ter I""'* of 1* Covered with
,tl)t in which- 1 ho animals live. From
? ,im in<v the fox fdriii looks like a
oiijcjkeii yard with wfflli' of wovei)
t mikI hyneddpa of various sizes in
luich ttl'li !* \?0 feet Jong. 8 feet
vitli' iiihI about 10 feet high,
The .wlro In of tough steel and Is
j.4tjk iiSout I'Olir feet In the ground,
( !i [I,,, in hi s<? that It runs Inward
niiflor the ground for about .two feet,
> [Ire. vent t ho foxes from digging oilt.
\t the top the wire has au overhang
of itto feet lo prevent the captives
jjriMii elimhlng over. Kueh pen ban a
k,. iimI. The entrooco to which la a
chute or a wooden pipe a foot square.
Only <?ue pair cf foxes live In each
1*% They are very timid and must be
handled carefully. Most of the fox
former* will not permit strangers to
wHor their property for fear they will
frighten the animals. Some foxes,
however, become so tame that strangers
,tit) handle them..
The fox babies are the slue of klt
{ojis.. and have long, bushy tails, little
sharp noses,. and eyes that sparkle like
, One litter of foxes was, it Is
fold, mothered by a. cat. There were
ihive of the babies, each of which,
when grown, was worth from $300. to
$1,000. Their mother was so nervous
that the fanner feared she might kill
hfr'.vomm : and so he had them taken
d??iy from her and given to- the en I
In place of her kittens. The eat had
adopted then) and played with them
?,? if they were really her own. For
Mich emergencies It Is necessary to
have eat* about a fox farm.
Because he would not pay tt_ high
price for a cut one man In eastern
faniidnj b?st five little foxes that might
have proved worth a small fortune.
The fox ntot her had died and the own
er of the only cnt In the vicinity de
clined to sell her for leas than $f?00.
Tie unreasonable price" angered the
fox fanner and he refused to pay It.
The foxes are fed with jjtalmon, moose
meat, horse meat, rabbits, carrots
and turnips. A common feed is rice
<nui rabbit cooked together in a stew.
Oue fulfil feeds 10 rabbits and l.r>
pminds of rlee n day to 52 foxes. The
?ti'\v is given cold morning and eve
ning. The foxes qome out of their
kernels, seize the food, carry It In
side with them and afterword return
for more.
The lan,d. kennels and machinery of
(he fa rni near Fairbanks cost $18,000
snd the breeding animals $87,000.
There are always about 200 animals,
foxed, martens and others, and only
two men nre_ needed to cure for them.
?New York Hvening Post.
Maternal Impressions In Canaries.
An Interesting contribution to the
wlurainous literature on the subject
?f "maternal impressions" Is made by
Dr. W. F. Schrader, of Fort Wayne.
Ind.. in clinical Magazine for Decem
ber, Mini. I>r. Schradet* has been breed
ing canaries <p?ite extensively for eight
jears. I.'ntll Inst July no crippled or
deformed ehlck had ever been found
arnonj: his nestlings. At that time
dally flights of an army airplane over
tbf city invariably threw the birds
into n simp of excitement and terror,
and during tl?lH period twelve eggs were
laid. Only seven of the eggs hatch
ed. ?nd every chick of the seven was
deformed ; three had no anal vents,
two hn?l extra pairs of wings, and two
tad twist#.. | legs held at full length
hen?-H ? h the bodies. The same parent
birds have since raised two broods
^ach. and there was not a single crip.
plM or deformed bird among thetn! ?
SHentlflf American. ?
Mapt? Sugar Industry.
hi 1??1 0 the maple trees In the pror
of Q>n?hee yielded niore than 12,
flOO.OOft pounds of sugar and nearly
l5G0.0nn irnllon" of sirup, and the esti
mate) vn'ne of these maple products
reached H t dt n I of $6,396,535. The sap.
?ne tnijfb * s )i v . coen on flowing In pack
tin* bottles, and never
more wldi i\ than at present, for eight
r*arv the woodlands of the prov
too w?r.. trlbuting 2.000,000 pounds
fat all4j ?|>0ut 400.000 fewer
> ,,f Hinip; one leaver It fo
*"nie ii?>i ? t? * ri on? statistician. with
''"'hint in ff, estimate ihe
"iTit.cr ,,<? rakes thus provb ed
"t ?!,. .i nt(Mi?ton? of the Imagi'mry
Rrot,.; ,, griddle cuke that
r>- iiM rlat maple sirup a'
??fl'V
C<" s'.cbal ? Growing Port.
Tlio ?. ? i , 1 1 ,,f nil expensive office
^iwiitis f"rivtob;?5 '-anal zone, b.v
Rrt'hh o.-.|,p:r.p th is evidence of
'V crow rw "numrti, nee attached to
;?irt This U I he fourth building
faf ,,m<-e? In Cristobal, ihe
those of American
, ;tlUiu lines.
Group. r^g the Population.
Th* {v>Mi'stlon <<f this country 1*
||, four'- groups.' con
v ??f those who nuik**
aM r iromohil?s. those who buv
?M ttio>ip who produce mor
** picture ?nd those who pay t>
?** d fin ?h ?*n. ? Albar.y Journal.
LOOKING TO SOUTH PACii:IC
White Men Planning Complete Poieee
?lon of Fertile leUnde e?f That
< Far Away Qoean.
| With Europe u seething mass of un?
I rwi and discontent and uncertainty,
! your Britisher j| looking to the' Inland*
Of the South PtdllCi a I rt'Htl v invunl h\
tli*' empire, as the next place to go?
i ami to exnloit. to use the expression
of a lot of people who do not know the
j meaning of the word. Already corpo
| rations are beiug formed (o colonist*
! tlx' Islands. tunl beautiful word pic
turw of the advantages of u residence
I upon them are being painted. - \
The truth is, for some years the
(White tuan has beeu gradually getting
a foothold In the region. The delight
ful pictures which one sees of the na
tives, gives n Utile Idea of what Is
really to ho seen in the country. They
I aro not the wild, naked people roam
ing at large, eating each other and
the missionaries. Kuhher plantations,
coconut groves, phosphate mines and
other industries are .operated by Eu
ropeans, And schools and churches
are encountered on every hand, with
fho honk of the horn of the automo
bile heard In the shade of the ptilms.
| The white man will not reach the
end of his road until there I* no more
country to be settled up, and there
are si ill vast areas to be brought un
der his domain. Iu Africa, and upon
the Islands of the sea, he Is setting his
foot and clearing up the Jungles and
conquering the pests and beaming ac
climated. But the end Is not y*lt ;
there Is still much to be done, and
the chances are that the next' few
years will see an exodus to these far
away places where a beginning has
already been made. ? Columbus Dis
patch.
MADE HIT WITH RECITATION
Prlnce'e Speech Consisted of Vfcrsea
From the Koran, but Audience
Didn't Know It.
It Is Interesting to recall that dur
ing the recent European tour of Prince
Feisal of the new kingdom of Syria,
his memory of the Koranic verses
stood him In good slead. In London,
at a dinner In the Guildhall, the prince;
w^io was the guest of honor, and who
knew little French and less English,
was called upon to reply to the toast
of his health. Reside him sat his
friend and mentor, Colonel Lawrence,
Oxford professor and oriental scholar,
to whom he whispered as he rose to
acknowledge the lord mayor's speech.
Colonel Lawrence nridded his assent,
and the prince addressed his audi
ence in flowing AraMc periods, win
ning appreciation and applause.
When the guest of honor had re
sumed his seat, Colonel Lawrence, as
his Interpreter, rose to express In Eng
lish the prince's sentiments of '?rati*
fude for his reception, and to voice
his devotion to the principles of democ
racy and allied solidarity. It was
not until many days had gone by
that Colonel Lawrence allowed It to be
known among his friends that^what
the prince had whispered to him was:
"I'll recite the verses from the
Koran about the cow."
Thus did the? diplomatic professor
deceive the unwitting ears of his Guild
hall friends. ? Munsey's Magazine.
Country'# Motive Energy.-'
The gauge of a nation's industrial
might is the amount of motive energy
which it can command for the mani
fold fluids of production nnd the es
sentia! contributory activities. We
have maintained our supremacy in
manufactured output very largely he
cause of the vast amount of power
which we could call Into service, Rob
ert G. Skfrrett wrote In the Scientific
American. Modern nations expend
far more energy thaji the combined
muscular ability of their population
and beasts of burden. The margin Is
covered by the employment of me
chanical energy in the form of p?wer.
To accomplish the work done annually
In the United States, would require
the labor of 3,000,000,000 hard-working
slaves. The use of power gives to
each man, woman and child In this
country the service equivalent of thir
ty servants.
Why Orchlda Were Caged.
Visitors to the flower show held re
cently In the Royal Horticultural hall
at Westminster, England, were sur
prised to find a number of rare orch
ids confined, like so many wild ani
mals in the zoo, within a heavy wire
cage. It was explained that as the
flowers represented a new addition to
the orchid family, the grower was nat
urally anxious that his fellow dealers
should not share his triumph. Had it
not been for the cage, an .unscrupulous
competitor might have stolen some
of the powdery pollen from the
blooms, and used It to fertilize plants
of his own. Normally adhering to the
bodies of visiting Insects, the pollen
might easily have adhered to the tip
of th* thief's flqgt'r. ? Popular Mechan
ics Msf.^rlne.
United in Bonds of Peace
In the presence of the chief execu
tives of Ecuador and Colombia, the
corner sione of a monument commem
orative of th#? happy termination of the
boundary dispute between the two
countries, was recently laid at the
bridge of Tfumlchaca on the frontier.
President Alfredo Maquerizo Moreno
of Ecuador and President Fidel Snare?
met ftalf way on the bridge nnd greet
ed each other amid a salute of artil
lery and cheers of spectators of both
nationalities. The presidents delivered
address* referring to th<? monument
?? a symbol of peace nnd friendship
t??t\vee?t their respective count rir*.
itprWtt BtUrt.
Preps reports tell us that prlcve are
beginning t? coin? down, and some
small evidence of the g<K>d news tun
Ih> found in a few liuea of nlerclittudito
In they local markets. folvver* are
KfUiug for kss, sugar 1mm tak?n a
tumble, It is Haiti that olothlpg and
shoes will be cheaper.
Hut the thing in which the pub
lisher is uiout lut created Is paper, and
those who 7 claim to and should know
say that will be one of the last commo
dities to drop. The reason they give
la shortage of world supply. The usual
supply carried by |bt> tulUs has uot
ln?eu lu evidence for the paat two years
at In pliof of a surplus from
which to fill order* the mllla ure from
three months to a y?*ar behind on or
der*. ?Thoft1 art? practically no stook*
lu llu' IuiimIn of thr JoMu'i* Houses
that uudrr uoiuivl condition* would !*?
Carrying heavy \,tock have practically
nothing on their shelves at the potent
time, iind for mouths have Iuhmi using
every shipment they could get to fill
hack orders, in the saint' way tin*
stocks lu the hands of prluters of Hie
<*ount?\v aVe d^pMt'd. In five blgN print*
Ill* v* < a b I M 1 1 1 1 ' ' n l * lu tit foi^ll to
thf stock room for paper when tho press
In ready to run. they art' holding p rosso*
waiting for tb*? stock to route tn.
And the wlw oi^s ?ay tint I even wit h
a demand. should (lint do
Closed ?lt inuiul t on**'. It will !>?? scv
vrul mouth# before th? mills can catch
up ;i ml a^aln glv<> us n normal COndi
tlon Hi the paper market. Until that
time. they any, wo cannot hop? for', a in
appreciable lit tho ?prW'O of
paper.
Am) In the meantime the spot mar
ket oil print paper is, if changing at
all. voi"K up Instead of down. ? Pub
lishers AuxlUlary.
rhiUll?'.ss roll pi rs wUl tW> oxcluded
from tin* houses of u prominent luu.t
lord i u si. Joifph, Mo
An A. R. b\ iuan convicted ot crime
received a reduction from the usual
sentence, l bo reduction Wing one year
for every wound lie received,
The fruit of a certain Ceylon tree
grows with an Indentation In Its side
as If It had been hit ten by a persou.
The fruit Is oranw red hut po'souous.
The species litis been named "Bve's tip
ple tree."
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s&nd wherever it may be found.
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sporting blood in his veins. It will indicate in clearest
uaSiis the difference between "old schooF mechanics and the
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your own satisfaction.
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Camden, S. C.