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Show Owl's Devotion to Dead Mate. A reninrkabto Instnnco of bird Instinct In-stinct nnd devotion Is reported from (Junker Neck. Ilurly last week Henry Drown, a farmer there, set sovcral Jump traps about his farm to catch prowlers, ot whatever nature, that had been playing play-ing havoc Willi his flock of fowls. A day or two lolor ha missed ono ot tho Imps Yesterday IUrtus Trow, a neighboring farmer, discovered two owls In on npplo tree. One, a largo horned owl, was In ovldcnt distress, tr)lng to shield nnd worm Its mate. To a leg of tha dead bird was hanging hang-ing Drown' Jump-trap with chain attached. at-tached. Klkton correspondence Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Ilccord. |