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Foxy  Pets  and  Projects 
A  Group  of  Pet  Foxes 
Perhaps  it  is  fair  to  judge  people  by 
their  pets.  You  can  judge  a  farmer  by 
his  horse,  a  dairyman  usually  by  bis  colt, 
an  editor  by  the  kind  of  hat  he  wears,  and 
a  cook  by  the  family  doctor’s  bill,  so  per¬ 
haps  the  pet  test  is  as  fair  as  any.  With 
this  introduction  we  can  call  attention  to 
the  picture  herewith  which  shows  Mrs. 
Clyde  Hartman  and  her  son  of  I.ycomiug 
County,  Pa.,  with  their  pet  foxes.  It. 
seems  that  Mr.  Ilartman  is  a  hunter,  and 
he  caught  the  baby  foxes  in  a  hollow  tree 
and  brought  them  home  for  the  family. 
Mrs.  Hartman  has  so  won  the  confidence 
of  these  wild  creatures  that  she  can  han¬ 
dle  them  at  all  times.  They  are  very 
tame  in  her  hands,  but  whenever  a  stran¬ 
the  paper  and  postage  they  offer  a  foun¬ 
tain  pen  or  a  jackknife  or  other  stuff. 
The  object  is  to  get  your  name  on  their 
list  and  then  claim  to  an  advertiser  that 
you  ordered  the  paper.  Thus  you  become 
“sucker  bait"  and  help  keep  fake  or  un¬ 
clean  advertising  before  the  people. 
In  other  cases,  a  "combi nation"  is 
made  with  some  reputable  daily  on  such 
terms  that  this  daily  pays  only  eight 
or  10  cents  for  an  entire  year’s  subscrip¬ 
tion!  It  will  surprise  you  to  know  that 
some  old  farm  papers  supposed  to  he 
highly  respectable  are  doing  this,  and 
actually  deliver  a  year’s  subscription  for 
a  few  cents  a  year.  They  do  this  in  or¬ 
der  to  make  a  showing  to  tile  advertisers.' 
hut  anyone  can  see  what  the  result  is. 
They  hold  their  si:  •c.  I  hers  so  cheaply 
Pet  Foxes  on  a  Pennsylvania  Farm 
ger  a  pears  they  wisely  become  excited 
and  try  to  get  out  of  the  way.  Person¬ 
ally  we  should  not  from  choice  select  a 
fox  as  a  pet.  hut  there  is  no  accounting 
for  tastes,  and  the  fact  that  Mrs.  Ilart¬ 
man  has  been  aide  to  tame  these  wild 
things  and  obtain  their  confidence  is  a 
great  compliment  to  her.  Fur  farming  is 
-«ow  being  considered  by  many  people  as 
a  gainful  occupation.  While  the  hide  nf 
the  ordinary  f<>x  is  not  of  great  value  the 
black  and  silver  gray  foxes  carry  a  pelt 
that  is  worth  considerable  money,  and  Mrs. 
Hartman’s  success  in  gaining  tlie  confi¬ 
dence  of  these  wild  foxes  should  certainly 
fit  her  for  a  successful  career  as  a  fox 
breeder. 
The  Cheap-John  Paper  Fake 
We  take  the  ftoi'hoslrr  /Vv/-A,Vynv.v, s 
daily,  $“  per  year.  After  renewal  this 
year  four  extra  periodicals  have  been  sent 
at  the  same  old  price,  Now  I  am  an 
anti-faker  with  a  job  on  my  hands.  In 
order  to  do  it  up  as  brown  as  possible 
I  want  to  know  what  sort,  of  bargain 
these  fake  subscription  list  people  make 
with  tile  bona-fide  fellows?  I  know  it  is 
just  a  game  to  get  around  the  govern¬ 
ment’s  efforts  to  exclude  these  fakes  from 
the  mail.  One  of  these  precious  fakes 
is  telling  the  farm  women  how  to  do  it. 
One  of  these  farm  women  is  primed  to 
tell  that  particular  fake  how  not  to  do 
it.  When  that  is  done  I’ll  turn  my  at¬ 
tention  to  the  next.  I  have  been  too 
busy  to  keep  up  with  the  doings  of  tin' 
Anti-Fake  ('lull.  I  seem  to  have  heard 
of  some  Anti-Fake  stickers.  This  seems 
a  good  place  to  use  them.  Send  some 
along.  If  Justice  Hughes  might  get 
after  these  fakes  with  their  intention  to 
deceive  as  lie  got  after  the  doper  gang 
wouldn’t  it  be  refreshing? 
JKSSlK  K.  (  t.OSK. 
There  are  a  dozen  or  more  schemes  for 
keeping  these  fake  papers  alive.  Reput¬ 
able  advertisers  are  now  insisting  upon 
full  information  about  circulation  and 
tlle.v  have  ways  of  finding  out.  One  sub¬ 
scription  scheme  is  outlined  in  the  fol¬ 
lowing  note  from  an  Ohio  subscriber: 
Upon  entering  the  Wadsworth  poultry 
show,  I  was  accosted  by  the  "solicitor" 
of  four  magazines  that  wanted  to  increase 
their  circulation,  pay  tile  postage  was 
till.  Is  it  the  general  custom  of  poultry 
associations  to  allow  these  fakes  to  prey 
upon  those  interested  in  the  poultry,  or 
is  it  only  the  weaker  associations?  A 
little  liouseelenning  along  this  line 
would  be  desired.  I  have  been  stopped 
time  and  again  on  the  street,  hut  I  pre¬ 
fer  to  have  the  publisher  pay  the  postage. 
Ohio.  K.  w.  M. 
Sometimes  in  addition  to  giving  you 
that  naturally  they  spend  their  energies 
trying  to  please  the  advertisers,  ami  ns 
the  readers  come  to  know  it  they  have  no 
real  confidence  in  the  paper.  The  siugu-  | 
lar  tiling  is  that  these  big  daily  papers 
do  not  seem  to  understand  what  they 
are  doing.  They  evidently  expect  their 
readers  will  lie  pleased  to  have  these 
cheap  fakes  for  nothing,  when  the  fact 
is  that  readers  begin  to  lose  faith  in  the 
respectable  old  daily  for  tying  itself  up 
to  these  chenp-jolm  frauds.  Another 
scheme  now  being  worked  is  for  two  pa¬ 
pers  tu  c.rchungr  subscribers.  ()ue  paper 
sends  the  other  10.000  or  more  names  and 
the  other  reciprocates.  Then  they  each 
claim  a  great  gain  in  circulation  !  These 
are  hut  a  few  of  the  tricks  now  being 
played  to  fool  the  advertisers  and  the 
public.  They  will  all  fail  in  time  be¬ 
cause  advertising  is  getting  to  he  more 
ami  more  au  honorable  science  and  pa¬ 
lters  which  expect  to  do  a  reputable  bus¬ 
iness  must  have  a  legitimate  subscrip¬ 
tion  list.  Many  papers  now  practicing 
those  and  other  schemes  will  lie  detected, 
forced  out  of  respectable  company  and 
either  die  or  go  where  they  belong  -open¬ 
ly  into  the  ranks  of  fakes  ami  snides. 
You  want  to  remember  that  whenever 
one  of  these  cheap  fakes  comes  into  your 
house  you  become  part  of  a  conspiracy 
to  deceive  and  defraud  the  public.  hi 
the  end  you  pay  tin*  damage,  and  by  ac¬ 
cepting  such  things  you  make  it  possible 
for  these  fraudulent  schemes  to  keep 
alive,  'there  are  more  and  more  people 
who  shut  the  fakes  and  immoral  pur¬ 
veyors  out  of  their  homes  as  best  they 
can.  When,  however,  the  paper  which 
they  trust  makes  such  an  alliance  with 
the  elieap  fakes  the  very  tiling  they  have 
been  trying  to  avoid  is  thrust  upon  them. 
Here  is  work  for  the  friends  of  decency 
and  honest  journalism  to  do.  The  wom¬ 
en  on  the  farm  can  do  it  better  than  the 
men.  When  they  understand  how  these 
cheap  fake  games  are  being  played  their 
(test  plan  is  to  cut  out  every  party  to 
the  game,  and  make  the  one  respectable 
paper  in  the  group  understand  why, 
'Women  do  this  better  lban  men  and  they 
little  know  how  much  they  can  help  de¬ 
cent  journalism  by  shutting  the  door  of 
(heir  home  against  such  frauds. 
’Fi.i.kx,  listen  to  this!”  said  Mr. 
James,  as  he  unfolded  his  newspaper. 
"This  article  states  that  in  some  of  the 
old  Roman  prisons  that  have  been  un¬ 
earthed  they  found  the  petrified  remains 
of  the  prisoners.”  “Gracious!”  exclaimed 
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