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Show TWO GREAT BEAUTIES. ' Defective Franks Adds to His force bjr an Importation From Texas. Captain E. A. Franks, chief of the detective detec-tive force here has just made a valuable ac. (juisition to his force. It is Bruno and Kate a brother and sister from Huntsvlllc, Texas, who boast of a gencaulogy that extends hack "befo' the, wall." They are a pair of bloodhounds whose ancestors in by-gone days were thoroughly tralued to tauut fugitive fugi-tive negroes In the dar k swamps of the unuy south. These bounds are of excellent breeding and show the marks of "thorough" in every lineament and feature. Bruno is the beauty, lie is larger than Kate, Is l months old and weighs about ninety pound, which he will probably increase to 115 or 12. pounds when full grown. Bruno Is a picture; ho Is swayed lu the back with bristling mane, dark, winsome eyes that can grow tierce in. a second, and has a breadth of chest that Is simply wonderful. His color 's black and tan, and bis Jaws hsng down half way to his chest, giving to bis otherwise massive and square head and added force and penalties. His big black ears bang over like ledges of flesh and his throat is full and wide. When be speaks, which he does at command, there Issues Is-sues from some hidden depth a sound as deep as thunder, as musical as a born, and yet conveying somehow a sense of fear that makes oue tremble to think of bearing it la pursuit. Bruno, along with Kate secured his early education In the Texas penitentiary and It Is clalnW that he can go in the midst of scores of track and with his nose to the ground follow a criminal to the end of time. It is when Bruno is In his softer moods that he is most beauti. fill, as he sits upon his great haunches with a tender and rostful light In his eyes and seems to query "what can I do for you old fellow?" Then there Is something about him that makes one long to know hlra more familiarly, but the desire somehow dil's aborning. With Kale it is quite different. She has the soft appealing nature of her sex, and while she is equally Intelligent on a trail she Is never so tierce as her big brother. This makes a pack of six bloodhounds owned by Franks now, and he expects to perforin wonders with them. As soon as the warm weather dissolves the snow Franks intends giving an exhibition of their prowess. |