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thing, Colonel. You're q veteran, while
am but greenhorn in the business.
aTell me, Joslyn, how you happened
to be in that house, and knew of the
three officers lying in waltz"
/ gave him the story almost straight,
telling how had entered the house be-
lieying it to be empty, and heard the
officers coming and hidden, listening to
their short conversation before they Sc!
creted themselves.
Then went on to tell how had man.
aged to back out as far as the kitchen,
when the door opened and another police
officer appeared, flashing his bull's-eye
upon me.
This was too much for me, and had
made up my mind to cut through at any
cost when. upon o little investigation,
the last conner had proved to be com.
rade instead of q deadly foe.
NV story was 80 frank and my manner
so engaging that he could not help be-
lieving all l said.
In return, he told me what already
/ knew with regard to his arrangements
with the man left in charge OF the Madi.
son avenue palace, and who had betrayed
was looking around me all the TING
in an interested way. Not that there
was much to, see,. but I was determined
that nothing should escape my observa-
tion that might serve as clew in the
case was engaged on.
Was this the man who had entered the
house of DR.. Seabury by means Of the
pantry window?
Looking at him, l tried to imagine
what cause he could have for the bitter
hatred against the old Doctor.
He was swarthy enough to have been
under an Indian sun, and his hair was
black as the strand found in the dead
mans clasp, but not SO long by half.
had some hopes. 1t was plain to me
that Mr.. Ketcham believed the man who
, had entered that house intent on burg
larry could tell something Of the crime,
but, on my part, hoped he would prove
the author of it himself.
~ had built up new theory. The
man from India was pursuing him on
account of some private wrong, and he
it was who had been it at the death.
| Colonel Cain was my man.
| He had all the appearance Of muscu-
lar fellow, and might have been match
| for stronger man than the old Doctor.
| Strange, though. that either Leonore
or Theodore would not know of him, for
the former must have some connection
with the case, else why those words on
the photograph?
| Was this Sable-haired Colonel Cain
her father? 1t might be possible, since
| she was only ward of the Doctors.
This thought brought new trouble.
| looked my man over again, and was
ready to say there seemed no actual flaw
! in the chain as yet.
Blipdly l shut my eyes to tho main
facts, and would only see what was
| pleasing.
This was human nature. Wo very
often do this same thing in ordinary life
| Meanwhile, the burglar was making
himself ut home. From hole in the
wall, which served him as closet, he
took bottle and q couple of glasses.
"You must excuse the lack Of style, my
! friend. 1t is hardly possible to live in the
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Queen SIctoria's Dogs.

Dogs were frst admitted to the
:oCrt of England in the reign OF
Henry Will Under the present
reign three dogs have been elevated
to the highest canine dignities on &C
count of their aristocratic families
and their own peculiar merits. The
names of the aristocratic trio are
Marco, Roy, and Spot. Marco is the
Queens favorite. and he used to be
very Jealous Of John Brown. HIS an.
cestry can be traced back to the cru
saders. He is what they call in En-
land a Pomeranian, and at one OF the
recent dog shows won the first prize,
tine mug Of honor. The other ia
forite Roy, is a collie, and Spot Is a
fox terrier with a record OF twenty
two rats in quarter Of an hour.
These canine lords have their resi-
dences with their special names Her
maiesty's dog place is divided into
three parts, the Queens veranda,
collie court. and umbrella court. The
veranda is the principal one. 1t Is
a covered gallery around the kennel
and the Queen likes to walk there.
Each kennel has dinlng-room and
bedroom. The floor Of the dining
room is separeted from the verapda
by an iron grating. It is paved with
red and.blue bricks, and the furniture
consists Of a trough, always full OF
fresh water. The bedrooms have
two large windows generally kept
open for the purpose of ventilation,
and in a snug corner in each room
there is low bed with mattress OF
fresh straw.
Umbrella court gets its name from
the big umbrella in the middle OF 1t,
under which the dogs can shelter
[ themselves from the sun and rain.
A host OF servants wait upon the
I canine nobility, and the Queen is
very severe with the officials who do
not pay proper attention to her dogs
A chef is provided for them. and his
instructions are to vary the menu OF
the dinners OF her majesty's pets
and to consult their tastes
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same thing, yet as q matter OF actuality
the two storms are essentially different.
The path Of the cyclone is parabolic
curve. Thus commencing, for instance,
IN the West Indies, it trends north
westward until it reaches. latitude thirty
degrees north, when it curves to the
northeast and continues in that direction
until it finally disappears oceanward in
the vicinity of parallel fifty degrees
north. The diameter of the path varies,
from several hundred to over 1000 miles.
At the immediate centre of the storm
there is a dead calm, a most fatal place
for ships to be caught. Atno point with
in the storms centre does the air
actually move or whirl in circle, but
there is a cyclonic tendency of the at
-mosphere about the region where the
barometer is lowest. The wind of a
cyclone rarely reaches velocity OF a
hundred miles an hour, the maximum
being generally from sixty to eighty
miles, and its approach is invariably
marked by the action Of the barometer.
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CHAPTER XVII.

As I walked away with this man OF
dark methods I felt that the part which
dreaded most had been carried through
in a very satisfactory manner
Fortune had smiled upon me. had
high hopes Of attaining my object,
whether this would prove satisfactory to
me or otherwise.
We walked away like old friends.
The Colonel felt himself under great
obligations to me. That suited my ideas
exactly, as had some use to make OF
this feeling on his part
We walked along until he finally
turned and asked if had objection to
accompanying him to retreat OF his
which he only used when he desired the
utmost secrecy.
OF course was dreadfully tIckled to
hear him speak thus, but it was not &C.
cording to my plan that he should leaxn
my willingness. :
agreed to go with him, however.
We were not in the fashionable quar-
ter Of the city at this time. Squalor
surrounded US, and vice stalked rampant
through the narrow streets we now
traversed.
At this hour Of the night it would be
as much as respectable mans life was
worth to walk these dirty streets where
the toughest of New York's citizens were
congregatcd.
Colonel Cain evidently had a hiding
place somewhere in this locality, to
which he retired perhaps to ponder
over his plans and perfect them in soli'
tude.
To this den he was now taking the
man who had just saved him from fall.
ing into the hands of the police, in order
to get better acquainted.
i had no suspicion of foul play. The
manner in which had made this mans
acquaintance was against such thing
as arousing suspicion in his mind with
regard to me, and I believed things were
just what they appeared to be on the
surface.
"Here we are"
He had stopped in front of 8 building
that seemed laden down with years-in-
decd, it was only question " tbs
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The tornado, differing from the cJ'
clone, is always a land storm, and it
follows path varying from a few yards
to eighty rods in width. The general
direction of movement of tornado is
invariably from the southwest to the
northeast. The tornado cloud assumes
the form OF funnel, the small end
drawing near or resting upon the earth.
This cloud, or the moving air OF which
it is the embodiment, revolves about a
central vertical axis with inconcsivaoie
rapidity aud always in direction from
right to left. The destructive violence
of the storm is sometimes confined to the
immediate path Of the cloud, as when
the small end just touches the earth.
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When the body of the cloud lowers and
more of it rests upon the earth the vio-
lence increases and the path widens to
the extreme limit.
The tornado with hardly an exception
occurs in the afternoon, just after the
hottest part of the day, and generally
disappears before the going down of the
sun. The hour of greatest frequency is
from 8 to 4 p. M, though they fire.
qusntly last until as late 90 8 p. m.
Along the immediate pathway of the
storm, even'to the shortest distances, the
smallest objects often remain undls-
turbe1, although few yards distant the
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was carried 1ntO Lne Hr anu tuofo Cdnio
in contact with a horse whose tail he
seized and was thus carried along for q
considerable distance and finally dropped
to the ground comparatively uninjured. /.
A two horse wagon with one live horse !
attached to it, the other having been
killed and torn away, was sesn at q
height OF. q hundred feet in the air. A
hog. weighing 800 pounds had a timber
seven feet long and six inches square
driven directly through it's body. The
wheel OF wagon was carried q mile,
while chickens were stripped OF their
feathers and their bodles carried three
miles from home. u % Fl
In Jackson County, No., In 1879, a
tornado carried away house, no part
of which was ever found. The carpet, !,
of part of the house, however, was
pulled from the floor and left on the
ground uninjured. Several garments
that had been in the house Wore found
at distance of five or six miles. A large
trunk, was tern to pieces and the lock
was found half mile away driven into
the rail of fence. Two heavy quarter
inch wagon tires were twisted literally
into knots. .-
In Marshall County, Kan, the same
wear that the two storms already referred
to occurred, another tornado tore down
a massive iron bridge. 1t lifted the
heavy structure squarely from the piers
and dropped it into the river. The RODS
and beams were twisted into all sorts OF
shapes. Rods two and one.half inches
in diameter were broken squacely of.
The structure was lifted from the abut-
ments so easily that but two stones OF
the three piers that supported it were
disturbed in any way.
In April, 1879, there was severe
tornado near Waterboroush,S. s. c., which
was signalized by many peculiar occur.
rences. 4 hickory tree ifty.four inches
in circumference was lifted bodily out
of the ground and carried some. distance
up a steep bank. An iron chisel was
carried ninety feet and driven two inches
into log. A basket OF books weighing
fftv pounds was carried two and half
miles, and found hanging In tree, with
the contents intact. Gerauiums in pots
were carried q mile aud found unin.
ured. Letters and books were carried
six miles, and articles Of clothing were
found ten miles from their owners
! houses. =,
At q storm in Missouri an entire rail-
road train, with the exception OF the en-
oine. was thrown from the track, the
cars being deposited in all sorts OF Po-
sitions at varying distances from the
track. In recent storm in Kansas
harm with horse inside of it was lifted
bv the wind aud deposited on the roof
Of two story building, while trees were
driven through the walls of houses and
mapy other strange occurrences were
noted. In fact volumes could be filed
with the bare recital OF the strange
freaks of tornadoes.
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tornado is seen approaching, stand facing
it as it dra#s,near. Then If it appears
to be going to the right, run to the left.
and vice versa. Always run to the
northward or southwark at right angle
from the storm, giving the benefit Of tho;
doubt in favor Of the north. The PatnJ
way of tornado is usually so contracted
in its width that an ordinary PERSON can
readily put himself beyond It's reach. On
level land, as on open prairies, the storm
can be seen at distance Of 6ye or teni
miles, and this gives sufficient time for
self-possessed observer to get out Of
the way in full time. 4
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attacked. Sometimes there appears to De
almost human intelligence guiding the
storm and discriminating between OBJ
iects to be destroyed and those wnlch
are not to be injured.
By due attention to the appearances
which invariably precede the coming OF
tornado one may, if he retain his pres
ence of mind, be prepar ed to avoid dan
ger to his life by seeking safety IN hight.
Thus, the pathway of a tornado, as al
ready stated, is always from the south
west to the northeast. If III house or
other building from which egress is i'm
possible always seek the west side, to,
ward the storm, and invariably AVOID
the east eide. If in tue open air and a
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The awful force Of q tornado cannot
be realized by anyone who has not had
an opportunity to become personally:
familiar Herewith. The history Of tbese
disasters is replete with examples Of the
most extraordinary character. Thus an
account of storm which took place inl
Kansas in 1879 relates that q sulky pIowi
weighing 700 pounds was carried long
distance, and one of the axles, one and
three-euarter inches in diameter, was
snapped squarely off. Wagon wheels
were broken into splinters and the tires.
twisted into all sorts Of shapes. Aman
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largest and strongest buildings are crushed

largest and strongest buildings are crushed
to atoms. 2s
Observations with the barometer are
of little practical value in determining
the approach of tornado, no matter
how near to the point OF the storms in
ception. The tornado season is embraced
between March and October, the months
of greatest frequency being May and
July. There are exceptional instances in
a long series of years when tornadoes
have bren reported in every month Of
the year. They may and sometimes do
occur in the Southern States during the
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- 8f4p6yXxN fatal and destruc-
~ &I.. tive convulsions of
S@s1 nature and disasters
of various kinds than almost any other
on record. During the first six months
of the year the total loss Of life in the
United States alone from these causes
was upward of 5000, while the disasters
in ottsr parts of the world will double
or treble this appalling total. OF the
large list of casualties in this country NO
less than 400 deaths were caused by tor
nadoes and thunder storms, there having
been four of the first named disasters Of
unusual violence and large number OF
less severity. ..>'.'.. .. .....-,. =.
Happily for Californians, they live In q
region where. loss of life or property from
tornadoes is absolutely unknown and
even the most destructive win5s-the
infreauent northers-do not inflct 1.-THE
of the damage in an entire year that is
caused by a single whirlwind such as
there have been 30 many Of in the East
during the present season. The people
Of this coast, nevertheless, take deep
interest in these direful phenomena Of
nature, enhanced, undoubtedly, by the
security they feel that they are in no
danger of ever being exposed to their
fury, ' ''
It is to the peculiar physical formation
of the great interior basin of the Miss.
issippi and Missouri valleys that this
country owes the fact that tornadoes are
more frequent and destructive than in
amy other part Of the world With no
Egreat mountain ranges between the Rocky
+ Mountains and the Appalachian system,
it follows that there is no natural
obstruction to the sweep of the wind
across that vast territory, and hence it is
that here is found the home of the
terrible phenomenon. ,..
In Lieutenant FinlaJ's inter esting
little work upon 'Tornadoes" are em.
bodied facts and deductions made from
the examination Of over thousand of
these occurrences, from which certain
rules in regard thereto are laid down
with measurable accuracy. Ordinarily
cyclones and tornadoes are spoken OF in
dlscrjminately, as being one and the
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CHAPTER XVIII.

DLAD 10 meeI you,
Joslyn."
"And I'm proud to
take you by the hon.
lest b an d, Colonel.
|Snch q meeting is
likely to faD to q man
|once in a lifetime,
and / feel as though
fate had more to do
with it than we
know"
"Perhaps it was in.
tended that we work
together from this
on"
"I'd hardly venture
to suggest such a
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..TORNAD0ES
WE'RE VERY DESTRUCTIVE IN
THIS COUNTRY LAST YEAR.
The Causes Which Produce Them
How They Differ From hurricanes
-RemarkabIe Phenomena of
Their Occurrence.

he year 1892, says
the San Francisco
Chronicle, W a s
signalized by the
occurrence OF q
greater number OF
: fatal and destruc-
tive convulsions of
-o&,,~o o,rI Iseoa%oro
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corRT CALENDARS FOR TO-DAY.

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satisfied that the seventh angel OF the and Anal
ST. John (xi 15) IL to sound inc seNen cd hut
mre, which Iifts the veil from the mystery VI , os
s,.h !. not to be confused with the "hnai trump -
eommonIv understood spite Of msrepre ,v,
h contrary do not anticipate the end Oh s"e WIZ,
o heg,nninu OF new and better dIspcnsatioh' a"~..
,",o crisis "tomoriow" and the millennium 'no s '
anern I expect the first resurrection VIZ ' hvo
NOV tho second until thousand years OF goiueh age ""''
sped away nina, ,,o ,-u,h ard who Will
road IN, XVIIth and XVIllh chapters Oh h'''"
or,os,lv and with his thinking cap OF history Oh
MI, hod m come near enough 10 the same conclusions !"
,onyincc him that VIC not far from the l-oo'N s
,o human proc,css encountered It's very worst seI-
heck" and thanks a certain phase Oh onri'"a".y
felsoy socallcd went into tho "dark ana dsMnl ""''
,ccs Gentle Pabylon's allotted span was 2'oIo years
and over since O37 A. D., they have oceh uP'h Vic ~
Grade II we take the era in Its usual DIVISION No W.
Of AGO years to day, the 800 years or II oay Vi
povolatons xviii e. d1tes from an event III Niars'i
Iubcrs ufc But take all this as you VIII uere u pu'
one consenting in the cNcgess 81 Prophe'E W
THAT we are absolutely AZ the Midnight Hour ana 'na'
It's 10Th stroke is sounding.
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SUNDAY MQrOR SELLING DENOrNcED

In The prelude TO his sermon. at the Bloonlncdac
Reformed Church yesterday morning, the Rev VIZ son
G. Peters, said. In part "Our rul,rs--thc rirnsc lcrs-
80 per cent OF whom foreigners and their repre-
sen'ativcs ut Albany. MAILING desperate efforts 10
submit TO vote OF the people, In cities having more.
than 100000 population, the question OF lcgaizng
llquor-scllng OH sundays. II such proposition were
carried by majority Of responsible citizens. there
could be no objections on American grounds. but the
voters Of the slum Districts who would go unanimously
for Sunday opening are poor specimens 10 determine
Il question OF home rule. II man sells liquor on
Sundays candcsiiney. and feels that th.>.udgmcnt
OF the law condemns him. high moral end Is gained.
To legalizo Sunday liquor selling would make II
respectable. The Christian people will desperately
sist Sunday qnor-senG, and VIII arouse public
sentiment that will Stay and bury the liquor traffic
with It's face downward. the Welsh woman proposed
TO Jury the devil 30 that II II should chance ~ come
TO life again and try 10 scratch It's out IL would
only bury Itself the deeper"
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all alike. and includes vast number OF e ean-
nontIv respectable business men VINO nave par
S laval 70 politicians: OF Republicans who have
dickered with Democratic leaders: OF l iau
entail private citizens who have Kept away 1[o
~ pnn ,nav Int voted another In the past history
ONE S %ay state "s It is true that Legislatures under
Republican control have been decent, ana thoSe
under Democratic control the reverse nme IN IN ~
m n,i they have not sent their strong men to
the front of battle and that they have been on,y
too ready dine, tickle and excuse 10 cor.
nnrotion connections The reform movement
Which now seems well under way must therefore,
IL. conducted with the object OF getting necr r
~ dnstruction of the shameless ring which con.
trolls the Dcmocratic party in the state must s
NOT b: made less thorough because It may also also
deprive some Republicans Of vaiuaoie D"''"'''
alliances.