Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-27

 is free and can go with you, you win get your moose with the sixty inch horns. ] understand that he has eu. tered into some sort Of contract with the provincial police"
 with the pollceT l repeated.
 "Nes. He is tO help them in such cases as may lie within the scope of his special experience. He is, indeed, the very last person 1 should like to have upon my trail had I committed a murder. He is a most skilled and minute observer. and you must not for get that the speciality of a Sherlock Holmes is the everyday routine of woOdsman. Observation and deduc- ton are part and parcel of his daily existence He literally reads as he runs The floor of che forest is his page. And when a crime is committed in the woods these facts are very for tunate. There nature is the criminals best ally. She seems to league herself with him fin many ways. Often she delays the discovery of his ill doing; she covers bis deeds with her leaves and her snow; his track she washes away with her rain. and more than an she provides him with a vast area of refuge, over which she sends the appointed hours of darkness. during which he can travel fast and far"
 "Au things considered. 1t is surpris- ing that 70 many woods crimes gre brought home to their perpetrators"
 There you are forgetting one very important point l have been present at many trials and the most dangerous witnesses that l have ever seen have been men of the November Joe type that is, practically illitorate woodsmen. Their evidence has quality of terrible simplicity They give minute but un- answerable details All their expert ences are first hand. They bring for ward naked facts with sledge hammer results Where a town bred man would see nothing but a series of blur red footsteps in the morning dew, an ordinary dwellcr in the woods cOuld learn something from them, but No vember Joe can often reconstruct the man who made them, sometimes in a manner and with an exactitude that ] has struck me as little short Of mar velous."
 "I see he has interested you," said l !, half smiling
 "I confess he has. Looked at from a scientific standpoint l consider him l the perfect product Of bis environ ment There are few things l would enjoy more than to watch November using his experience and his super normal senses fin the uuraveling of some crime of the woods" threw the stump Of my cigar into the fire.
 1 "You have persuaded me-" l said. "1 l will try to make a start by the end of the week Where is Joe to be found|
 AS to that. l believe you might get into touch with him at Hardlng's farm, silent Water. Beauce."
 "Ill write 10 him."
 "Not much use. He only calls for ! letters when he feels inclined"
 Then IH go to Harding's and ar range the trip by word of mouth" That would certainly be the best plan. and, anyhow. the sooner you get into the woods the better Besides, you win be more likely to secure Joe by doing that, as he is inclined to be | shy of strangers"
 rose and shook hands with my host
 Remember me to Joe," said he. "l like that young man. Goodby and good luck"
 Along the borders of Beauce and Maine. between the United States and | Canada, lies a land Of spruce forest and Of hardwood ridges Here little farms stand on the edge of the big timber, and far beyond them. in the . depths of the woodlands, lie lumber camps and the wide flung paths of uappers and pelt hunters.
 left the cars at Silent Water and rode or at once to Harding's, the house of the Beauce farmer where l meant tO put up for the night Mrs. Hard. ing received me genlally and placed an excellent supper before me. While
 [ was eating it a squall blew up with the fall of darkness. and l was glad 1 enough to find myself in safe shelter. Outside the wind was swishing among the pines which inclosed the
 farmhouse. when inside the telephone
 bell rang. which connected us with
 St. George, forty miles distant, rang
 suddenly and incongruously high
 above the clamor of the forest noises
 Mrs Harding took up the receiver, and this is what ] heard.