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Show TRACK THAT 18 EXTINCT. Tha Dealer Say There' No Longer a Demand for HI Leeches. The leeches like hairless black caterpillars, cat-erpillars, clung to slim reeds that protruded pro-truded above the water In the aqtta-rtum. aqtta-rtum. They were torpid, as though hyp-notlsed, hyp-notlsed, but when the dealer put one o& Ms finger tt fell to work as busily a Baratarla mosquito. It could be een swelling and 'flushing. "That'll do, you little rascal." And the dealer removed the leech hurried-ly. hurried-ly. then sighed. ' ' ' "Hta is as extinct trade," he said. "Ilk that of the armorer or the siin-dial siin-dial maker, and I can't make a living out of t any more. But In the past why, great Scott. In the past leeches were so much used by doctors that a doctor .used to be called a leech. "I used to sell to one hospital in this town 50,000 leeches a year. That hospital now takes 50 or 60 yearly. I had on ray books !00 doctors, each of whom I supplied rJgularlyevetT morning with a dozen leeches. They carried them about In little poeket t-as-js. as they now carry hypodermic eyi'nges, "My father had n leech rami for some years He raised the Hungarian epdHclod leech that's the lust In a New Jersuy pond out Matawan way. He did fair. He got an annn.il crop of 25,000. "Leer-lies are no longer used be. cause, bleeding Is no longer believed la. You couldn't boost bleeding a bit, could you, In the papor? I might make It worth your while " Philadelphia Bulletin. i |