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PELT OF THE RARE BLACK FOX
Only About Five Are Brought Down
Each Year FrOIl the Far Noreh.

Only AOOuC rive arc OtouShI l'o"A
Each Year FroEl the Far Noreh.
. In the estimation OF trappers Of
the Canadian Northland, as well as
in the eyes of the nobility OF Russia.
there is only one king Of beasts
the highly priced black fox. On an
average FIVE perfect pelts Of this rare
f%ur-bearer are. brought down from
the Northland each year, and in rare
years as many as ten or twelve.
though each year Thousands OF men
make a living trapping and the
yearly catch Of fox skins amounts
to over 10000 from Canada alone.
In no way except in color does the
black fox differ from the red fox,
whose pelt sells for about 81, or
from the grey fox, whose winter coat
is valued at from $3.50 to $500; but
whenever a hunter can secure a black
fox and remove it's skin without a
ring the fur he is sure OF receiving
from $500 to $500 for his trophy.
Not only is every black fox pelt
bought as soon as taken, but a dozen
Russian noblemen nave paid agents,
travelling in North America all
through the winter seeking out re-
mote hillside farms and abandoned
logging camps where it is possible
that a shy and elusive black fox may
have been seen.
Within the Lass twenty years a
number of wealthy, men VINO have
owned fenced game preserves have
spent vast sums Of money in buying
young foxes alive and turning them
loose within private enclosures. BY
and by it may be that some skilled or
fortunate breeder will y"oducc a
black pup or perhaps a pair of black
foxes may be captured alive and from
these a new breed of black foxes will
arise and cause a great panic among
the men who hunt for black foxes.
He who can Wrest the secret OF breed
ing black foxes from nature is as
sured of riches past counting and can
command the worshipful homage o.
the Russian nobility and aristocracy,
VINO seem willing to sacrifice untold
wealth for the pleasure OF wearing
o]yercoats made from the pelts or
American black foxes.-EGuonton
Correspondence Toronto GLOBE.
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THE RECOMi'ENSE.

In Tunis,, once. I rambled down
A winding Arab street.
When suddenly broke upon the wind
, A strain of music sweet.
If Pan had tuned his tabled pipes,
And blown them in my ear,
They had not made a SONG so sweet,
And fine and true and clear.
~What hand has touched so rare a chord
What lip has charmed the air
To music so divine" said,
so wistful and so fair"
~They must have looked into the flowers
And twined each fragant face
Into the melodies they play,
10 give them such Il grace!
And every bud that has a birth,
And every rose that dies.
Has breathed her first and last sweet
breath
Into their soulful eyes,
'"They must have stood at Dido's tomb,
Above the lonely plain
Where Carthage lies in tears of dust.
Thrice r:Sen-and thrice slain.
@How must they con the songs of old.
Of Sappho, Schiller. Poe.
To sing so well the canticles
Of freedom, love and wo!"
I found them playing on the curb
\ humble Arab band
With want on every magic viol,
= And age in every hand!
I dropt a coin upon the plate,
For thanks of heart and mind.
Eight grateful eyes were turned 10 me-
And all Of them were blind!
-Aloysius Coll, in Youths Companion.
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OLDEST LONDON POLICE CELL.
Supposed to BE More Than zoo Years
OId-Underground Passage.

Supposed to BE More Than zoo Years
OId-Underground Passage.
Beneath a building known as the
Old Court House, Wellclose square.
Stepney, stand what are said to be
the oldest police cells in London, and
under these is the entrance to a sub
way believed to have once led to the
Tower, nearly a mile distant.
This subterranean passage is now
blocked up, and at the entrance there
stands a skeleton.
The building was formerly known
as the High Court of Liberty and is
supposed to be over 500 years old.
The court house is now the home Of
the German Oak Club, and the fine
apartment in which trials took place
is used for dancing, while tie adjoin-
ing rooms provide accommodation
for billiards.
A winding stone staircase leads to
the two cells at the ear Of the court
house. At the top of, the stairs is a
massive and strongly barred door,
with a peephole in it. This leads to
the first of the apartments. The only
light which penetrates these dirty
dens comes through gratings high up
against the ceiling, and each is fitted
with a shutter, by mean of which
the cells can be plunged into dark
ness.
Nearly half the floor space IN each
room is filled by a wooden bed, and
attached to the walls are the rusty
chains with which the prisoners were
manacled. Another object to be seen
is a straitiacket made of stiff canvas.
with iron rings which can be fastened
to the chains.
Many names, inscriptions and pic
lures are carved on the wooden walls.
One can still read the name of Edward
Burk, who is said to have been
hanged for murder. Close by is
carved Edward. Ray. December 27,
1885," and another inscription runs
Francis Britain, June 81, 1855,
Pray remember the poor Debtors"
On the floor of the first cell can be
distinguished the squares Of a chess
board, cut in the solid oak. Over the
door between the two cells can be
traced the words, THE rule of the
house is a gallon of beer" and just
below, in heater character, are the
words, John Burn came in April IL,
ISL"
One prisoner broke into verse thus:
The cup is empty,
10 our sorrow;
But hope it will
Be filled tomorrow.
Another prisoner signed himself
James Carr, smuggler, 1887" The
pictorial efforts include churches, a
crude representation of tine Tower
of London, an armchair and the
triple emblem of the rose, shamrock
and thistle.
Running under the roadway of
Wellclose square is a dungeon lined
with %brickwork a foot thick.-London
Evening Standard.
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devoted his whole time and thought
to their execution. Although the
task ia not yet complete, there are
but few vacant spaces on the walls
of the little building. Very nearly
two hundred paintings, illustrating
the Scriptures, have emanated from
the fertile brain and gifted brush Of
this artist.
The chapel was finished in 1894,
after considerable difficulty had been
experienced by Mrs. Quincy in find
ing a site that suited her. In that
year Mr.. Shields began work on his
paintings. The little building has
been open for a few weeks now to
tho general public. AS one enters
and looks around 4one may see the
whole story of the'Bible told by the
pictures on the four rails. The
scheme begins over the gallery arch
with the creation Of man, followed
by the union of nan and woman. On
the south wall is pictured "The Good
,ly Fellowship Of the Prophets" be-
ginning with Enoch,, caught up and
delivered from a violent world flow
ing with rivers Of blood, ending with
Malachi, who looks back on his pre-
decessors and points across the space
of the channel to the north wall to
John the Baptist and his successors,
'The Glorious Company of the
Apostles" Some r preaching,
others praying, p~rophesying, confess
ing sins, beholding the beatifc Wis
ions, or standing triumphant as mar
tyrs. Below the Prophets and the
Apostles are small subject pictures;
above, in intimate relation with these
figures, are angels performing mis-
sions of mercy and judgment; while
alternating the figures are large
paintings, giving spiritual renderings
of the familiar stories of the Gospels
and Of the incidents Of the Acts of
the Apostles.
But it is to the east wall where
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ENEMIES OF ARIZONA CHICKENS
BulIsnakes and Big Frogs Get Into
the Poultry Houses.

About four days ago T. L. Clifford,
who owns a fine lot of poultry, was
out in the yard engaged in doing the
chores when he heard an unusual
commotion in his hen house. On
opening the door and lighting up the
building he was astonished to see a
large bullsnake lying in the middle OF
the floor with its body coiled around
two chickens, which were yet alive.
Mr.. Clifford struck at the reptile,
landing a blow on it's head, when 1t
Immediately frightened its coils and
crushed the chickens. The snake
measured between three and one-half
and four feet in length.
On Saturday evening the owner was
again disturbed by a noise among his
fowls, and this time the cause for
alarm in the hen house was made by
a large frog who had just finished
making an evening meal of one of the
broilers. Mr.. Clifford killed the frog.
Arizona Republican.
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His Kisses a Cure.

In accordance with a belief OF
many of the old residents here that
the kiss Of a colored person will cure
a child of whooping cough, or will act
as a sure preventative of the disease
Charles Miller, a we'll known negro,
is kept busy just now, owing to the
prevalence of the disease. Miller's
kisses are said to be especially ben
efcial as a cure, and during the past
week more than thirty white babies
have been brought to him to be
kissed. Many cures are reported.
Miller is a kindly, cheerful darby,
about sixty-ive years old, and charges
nothing for his services.
Il love 'em, bless EN-" he said to-
day, land even il my kissing 'em
didn't do 'em good, it couldn't do
'em any harm. I'm willin' to kiss all
the babies that are brought to me-"
philadelphia Record.
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Power From the Mines.

A central plant of 5000 horse-pow.
er is about to be erected in the midst
of the bituminous coal fields of 1ndi'
ana. 1t is believed that a large saw.
ing of expense, especially for trans
portation of coal, can thus be effect
ed. 1t is intended to distribute the
power over a wide territory direct
from the mouth of the mines. The
distance from the plant to 1ndianap-
oils will be about 100 miles. This
will involve a small loss Of power IN
transmission, requiring, according to
the calculation, an increase of about
ten per cent. in the amount OF coal
consumed above what it would be il
the coal were burned at the points
where the power is used. But the
saving in other respects is expected
to much more than counterbalance
this slight disadvantage. Youths
Companion.
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Miser's Gold is Melted.

Afraid of banks, Frank Marks, a
farmer, of Berea, Ohio, converted all
his money into gold coin and hid the
metal under the floor of his pig pen.
While he and his wife were in
Cleveland, a robber searched his
house, ripping mattresses and up
holstery to locate the hidden wealth.
The thief set fire to the barn and
pig pen. Upon his return home. Marks
surprised his friends by digging in
the ruins of the pig pen and drawing
forth a huge lump of gold. The coins
had been melted by the heat.
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ESRME@
1@&EeEyfzk

ever experience a stage robber!"
Once I asked a chorus girl out to
lunch. philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Heiress-aoh, papa! The earl
mas proposed" Papa Bigwadd-
him! What's his proposition?"-..
Puck.
."Mrs. Bildad says that she talks in
her sleep" "That isn't the worst OF
it, either. She talks when she is
Life.
Seryant-"Please, ma'am, there's
a burglar down stairs" Mistress
(sleepily)-"Tell him, Not at home
Observation-Disclosures. Y
Wigg-"Sillicus says, he is working
for all he is worth" Wagg-"1s that
so? Then I suppose he is getting 81
a week."-Philadelphia Record.
OF all the "white lies" the one white lie
That most deserves the crown
Is that atrocious stuff we buy
For country milk" in town:
Catholic Standard and Times. y
Perks-aI'd like to have you help
Us out at bridge. Play?" Lane
Not a very good game" $50 much
the better. We play for money. -
Life. ga
l'Caller-"Is the cashier In" Bank
President-"Yes, I think he is, but
we don't know how much yet. The
examiner is going over the books
Puck.
Blobbs-"A politician always re-
minds, me of a piano" Slobbs-
How so?" Blobbs-"If he's square
he's considered old fashioned
Philadelphia Record. {%E2
Tommy-aPop, what is -etribu.
tion?" Tommy's Pop-"Retribution,
my son, is something that we are sure
will eventually overtake other peo-
pie. "-Philadelphia Record.
Golfer-"You've caddied for me
before. VIII you give me some hints
before we start?""% Sandy-"Weef;Sah
yell just no dae what ye're gaean' to
dae, yell no dae sac bad!"-Funch.
The man who drinks "to beat the Dutch.
And guzzles wine and stuff, f,
First thinks enough is not too much
Then calls too much enough;
-Philadelphia Press.
"Gee whiz! here's the rain comma
down again, and somebody's stolen
my umbrella" Somebody's stolen
WHAT" "Well, the umbrella I've
been carrying for the past Two
weeks. "-Philadelphia Press.
T.. Sassenach Humorist (amusing him.
self at expense Of Highland caddie)
-"Hoots, ye ken, ma wee bit laddie.
YOU was nae so muckle bad a shot
the moo. What think ye?" The Bit
Laddie-"Eh! Ah'm thinker yell
learn Scotch quicker'n yell ever learn
gouf!"-Punch.
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The cup is empty,
To our sorrow;
But hope it will
Be filled tomorrow.
Japa"'s Hair Export.

Japanese hair now foods the hui
man-hair market. In 1904 this ex-
port totalled but 6075 pounds, val
ued at $1,000. In 1905 these figures
had risen to $4,000 pounds, worth
$4,000. France-Japan's chief us
tomer-in 1905 bought $4,000
pounds of hair, while the United
States in that year purchased 42,5OO
pounds.
Such bales of human hair are not,
however, the luXuriant tresses of the
mousme sacrificed to benefit her fam
lily, but constitute comDings.-Har.
per's Weekly.
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eyes are first directed: and are held
by the pictures which give the key
note to the whole of the designs
the conceptions of the Crucifxion and
of the Ascension. Subject paintings
surround them, and many figures,
such as those of Faith, Hope, Love
and Patience-the fEal virtue.
Mr.. Shields began his career as an
apprentice to a firm Of photographers,
and went through a long period of
the direst poverty. Finally n day
while in the deeps of despair, he wan
dered into an exhibition Of paintings
in Manchester and decided to become
an artist. He Immediately went home
and made a water color sketch which
not only sold for s45. but brought
another commission to the needy
youth.
A few years of this work brought
him an order to illustrate 1.-THE Pill
grim's Progress" He took the con
tract at so low a figure that he soon
found that he was reduced to a bread
and water diet. A little later he *
cuted some designs for an edition Of
VANITY Fair" which so pleased Rus
kin that he said to him: 81 do not
know of any artist in England who
could have done these pictures but
yourself. You may become more
celebrated than any painter Of the
day"
From this time on the path Of the
young artist toward success and
fame was q smooth one. He came to
London in 1874, when his reproduce
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The smallest electric motor in the
world was made by a Texan electrl-
clan and matchmaker, who uses it as
a scarfpin and drives it with a tiny
chloride of silver battery.
Experiments are being made in
Europe with a m%icrophone for the
discovery of the presence of shoals
of fish. The instrument is sunk into
the water, and the constant tapping
of the fish against it as they pass
warns the fishermen.
DR.. Alexander Schaefer, a noted
scientist, says cattle have the sharp
est sight, the second place being by
man and the horse which have nearly
equal visual power. Sheep do moi
see as we'll as cattle or horses. Owls
and buzzards possess great ~acuteness
of vision. Dogs have such poor sight
that, as a rule, they are not able to
recognize their masters by sight
alone.
-
A recent re-discovery in the cnemi-
cal world was a liquid preparation to
prevent the bottom Of ships from
rusting or gathering marine groWtns.
Although the secret was known to the
Romans, it was lost about 600 years
ago.
Professor Louis Agassiz. many
years ago, first announced that the
ice sheet, or glacial flow, at the north
west of Maine could not have been
less than a mile deep; while later
biologists have confirmed his state
ment, adding the more recent conclu-
sion that the ice was of that thick
ness at least over the larger part OF
New England.
Green is a mixture Of blue and vel
low. In this green light Of shallow
water all seaweeds grow, and, for
want of the red rays, they have gold
en- and tawney leaves. Green and
red seaweeds r the exception, and
blue seaweeds are as rare as blue tree
leaves. At this rate, land plants
grown under green glass ought to
turn golden brown, like ssaweee.
They do. Experiment has shown that
under green glass plants grow near
ly as we'll as under clear sunlight.
A petrifed forest covering an area
OF one hundred square miles mas ex-
listed for centuries in Arizona. Thou
sands and thousands of petrifeq logs
strew the ground, and represent beau
tiful shades of pink, purple, red
gray, blue and yellow. One of the
stone trees spans a gully Of forty feet
wide.
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Fear OF the Law.

Gin Switzerland this sumns:,'
said a Philadelphia, "InearG Charlie
mango Tower describe the stringent
police regulations OF Berlin.
"Mr. Tower, by way OF illustra'
ton, concluded wi. little sto:y.
Schmidt and Krauss met ONT
morning in the park.
Have you heard says Schmidt
the sad news about Muller""'
".No,' says Krauss. WHAT is it"
""Well, poor Muller weni boating
on the river yesterday. The boat cap
sized and he was drowned. TIE wat
er was ten feet deep
but couldn't ne SWIM"
Swim? Don't you E;now that all
persons are strictly forbidden by the
police to swim in the river:"'"--
Washington Tar.
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Russia Supplies Japan.

Vice-Consul Harry Suslow. of Mos
cow, writes that the administration
of the Russian Dn~ieprovskiy Metal
lurgic Company recently signed a con-
tract in st. Petersburg with the Jap
2nese Government for the supply of
100000 pools (5S06 tons) of steel
rails. The weight of the rails is to
be twenty-four pounds to the current
foot. The rails are to be delivered
at Port Dalny for the southern parts
of the Manchurian Railway.-United
States Consular and Trade Reports
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WHO AM +?

{ come from many a maiden's lips, 49,.
I fly through airy spaces:
Between two hearts / make quick trips;
l linger on sweet faces.
I bind loves bargain many a time;
7 heal up many a quarrel,
Adorn a tale, inspire q rhyme,
And blot out many a moral. b
Nv first is better than my last;
With age / grow much colder;
[ linger often in the past,
My memory makes men holder.
I may be false, I may be true,
I may be sweet or sour;
For me the kings of earth may SUE,
While babies WELD my power. I
I'm nothing; yet I'm everything;
From death to life once more 7 spring,
With loves sweet message freighted.
No rule for me beneath the sun!
I scorn, all mathematics;
With one and one, why,.l make one; -,.
True only to ecstatics.
Dividing two, then one I've made
By adding still another; :,
The best laid plans men have essayed
I lightly touch, and smother.
[ add, subtract and multiply,
I've never been refuted; .
Yet my sum totals always die
As soon as they're computed.
I'm full of sadness, full Of bliss, J.
And everything that bliss is;
Yet, though I've never made a miss,
I've made too many, Mrs.
Thomas l.. Mason, in Life.
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Fine Ruling.

The finest rulings thus far pro-
duced by any of the machines are at
the rate of something like 100000
lines to the inch. Some idea of the
~closeness of these ruled lines can be
obtained from considering that 1000
such lines would occupy only the
pace included in the thickness of a
sheet of ordinary writing paper.-The
American.
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WORLDS OLDEST CHAPEL.

lions of his drawings Of town and
rustic children were very popular. In
1886, when Mrs. Russell Quincy was
looking for an artist capable Of carry
ing out her ideas for the decoration
of the chapel which she was to build,
it was to MIR. Shields that she turned.
Five years later, when the little house
of rest and communion was complet-
ed, he set to work on his fourteen
veal task.-New York Press.
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A Hairbreadth Adventure.

Small Sister (politely) - Il am
afraid it will be some time before Sis
ter will be down."
Suitor (anyiously) r. isn't she
well?"
Small Sister - ooh, she's well
enough, but Tommy hid the rat for
her hair, and it was the longest time
before she could find it,"
Suitor (smiling) But you say
she has found it,"
Small Sister - Eyes, but Tommy
lid her hair, too, and she is looking
for that now."-New York Times.
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Preferred Mercy.

"you needn't De afraid said tina
defendants lawyer, reassuringly.
But the fellows got a pull" grum-
bled the defendant.
But we've got sufficient pull to
get prompt Justice
Huh! that's Just what I don't
want to get."-Philadeltnia Press.
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Here's Balm For Fat Men.

According to Prof. Berthold, OF VI"
emma, a mans intelligence, honesty
and good nature are in proportion
TO his portliness. His brain expands
with his body, so that a stout man Is,
as a rule, more intelligent than a
thin man.-Kansas City Journal.
All over the world there has been
since 1890 a decided increase in the
lumber of female pupils in school.
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Seaweed may be planted in the
Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania as
an experiment to attempt to filter the
water which is used for drinking mr.
poses in Philadelphia.
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Tobacco was successfully grown
under Government supervision in
Ireland last year, but as the crop has
not yet been marketed the financial
result will not be known for some
time.
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A pair OF robins nave built a nest
and Matched a family in the pocket
of an old waistcoaI which had been
left hanging on the wall of an unoc.
cupied cottage at LodsTorth. Eag'
land
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having open ends and gates to permit
an animal to be driven in at one end
and out at the other. In the bottom,
top and sides of the cabinet is a Sc
ries of pipes. Each pipe contains per-
forations through which a liquid So
luton can be projected in a small jet
or stream against the animal in The
cabinet,
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For Treating Animals.

FOr dl1IIIlHfS'
A novel apparatus for treating anil
mails has been invented by a North
Dakota man. It consists of a cabinet
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A Weird Carriage.

To a world accustomed to ride In
Its automobiles, there is something
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Experiments are being made in
Europe with a ~microphone for the
discovery of the presence of shoals
of fish. The instrument is sunk into
the water, and the constant tapping
of the fish against it as they pass
warns the fishermen.
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nHKoPUKEkR
6scIEMM6E

The smallest electric motor in the
world was made by a Texan electro
clan and matchmaker, who uses 1t as
a scarfpin and drives it with a tiny
chloride of silver battery.