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Show DEMAND HAS RAISED PRICE. Largely Increased Returns for the Breeders of Ostriches. "I'ndyed and uncurled ostrich feath crs feathers In the natural state will be a good deal wom fiom now on." nld the salesman. "In conse-queiKe conse-queiKe the price hns gone up. ' It has gone up nil along tho lino. The eggs, the chicks, the birds, tho feathers, all have risen. "The crop plucked from one bird was worth $7i" last year, but It Is now worth $110. "Kggs that uteil lo roll for two dollars dol-lars apiece bring three dollars to-day and. by the way. In buying ostrich eggs whack them with a key nnd seo that they- give forth a clear, ringing round, for If the sound Is dull they are those papier macho eggs that have fooled so many of us lately. "Chicks nnd mature bltds. If tho do-niniid do-niniid keeps up. will nearly go back to their old-time prices. In the old days a good pair of adults was worth $5,000, and chicks brought $fiOO npleco. The price dropped to $150 a pair for adults and $:!0 a pair for chl ks. Now. though It has risen 20 per cent. "I have hceu wild ostilclics In that cinnamon-colored waste of sand and stono that Is called tho Sahara desert a clnnnmon-coloied wnste encircled by llnme-red mountains and I have chased them many a time on a lleet Arab. Hut what Is it Meet Arab beside an ostrich? It is a mule cart besldo a 90 horse-power racer." |