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NZ Truth, Issue 105, 22 June 1907, Page 4

__Orby- .w_Qn,_ the English D6rby. He is owned % Richard. Croker. Some of our boss croakers should now arise and lecture on the audacity of .Boss Croker winning the blue ribbond of England. Light literature, light journalism, lisht entertainments, light conversation, light furniture, light treatment of even the exceptionally serious ; on almost every side to-day the tendency is towards the light. From a scientific paper : "It is a fact well known to a few skilled workmen that is not known to all the world at large, that human skin can be prepared, tanned, and made into durable articles quite as successfully as can the skin of our four-footed friends; and if you examine these articles you will find that the leather is very much like dog-skin or pig-skin. The largest article yet made of human skin is a beautifully pure white saddle," and anyone examining it .would be at a loss to tell the kind of skin from which it is made." By and by, when Capital gets the toiler where it wants him— as it is making strontr, and practically poli-sically-assistcd efforts to do so m this colony, some cattle or sheep l(insj will establish a syndicate to I establish a fondling hospital m which to raise youngsters for their skins..