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Show Fox a God In Japan. Hiet Takahashi, the quaint son of I S'ippon. who attends William Jewell j .-ol'.ege and labors betimes in the I Advance office, is always talking in- j .eresiingly to his fellow employes j ibout his country and its customs nd superstitions. Chief among the . superstitions is the fear of the fox. j hich is believed to have superna- j :ural powers. Thrones called "Inari i linsha," In which the fox is enshrined ! is a deity, are numberless. The name j if it 3 deity written in Japanese char- j actors signifies fox, and fr'.-r this it came to be believpj that the deity really was a fox. Its natural cunning cun-ning is greatly enlarged upon and it, is believed to be capable of misleading mis-leading and deceiving human beings. Liberty Advance. |