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;A WEIRD MYSTERY Tracing a Dark Grime. BY ALEXANDER ROBINSON, M. D. CHAPTER m If any of my more fasoien&ble acquaintances had met me at this hour, tfcey would have given me wide room. My appearance was not prepossessing. In fact, to toll the honest truth, I had succeeded In giving my face a rather Villainous look that would be a passport tn my favor considering the locality "where I expected to carry on my operations. My gait, too, was slouchy. It was aay desire to appear as much as possible like a man whose greatest fear would be to meet the police in daylight f ^^OflH T folt T AAlll/) Ho. I JL1IUO lllDgUIOCU JL AVIV VMWV A VVUIV* MV pend upon my natural talents for getting me through any scrape. It was not long before I was in the neighborhood of the place to which I had been directed by the detective. My idea was to find Colonel Cain and keep a watch on him, trusting .to chance to throw myself in his way. The den I entered was known to the police, but those who frequented it were evidently not wanted as yet, for few ealfe were made here by the blue coats. Now and then a detective prowled bout in disguise, looking for his man, on the whole, it was a quiet resort I soon discovered that my man was in the place. The photograph gave him away. He seemed to keep apart from the ieet, and several times I saw him examining something he had written upon a small piece of paper. I made up my mind that this was the plan, of a house he Intended to enter. It was after midnight when be left the place, but in the meantime I had seen the paper slip from his pocket' and fall npon the floor under his chair. Watching my opportunity I had picked ft up, photographed It on my mind, and then dropped it again, so that when he came to look for it he found It I bad found, just as might have been expected, the diagram of the ground floor of a house on Madison avenue, with kis method of procedure marked. When he went out I knew that he intended to burglarize that house. Here was a chance to make his acquaintance, and at the same time gain his good-will. A bold move and the game was mine. Did I have the grit to try it? Subsequent events would prove that I did not lack the necessary nerve. I followed him out, but it was not my Intention to pursue, but to get ahead. IThis I managed to accomplish, and arrived at the house on Madison avenue long before he came upon the spot A feeling of repulsion passed over me the part I was about to play. For a / physician In good standing to be caught ; or shot in the act of burglarizing a private residence would ruin me. I relied on two things, and the thought of Leonore carried me through. Should anything happen, Mr. Eetcham would see that I did not come out with discredit Then again, I took it for granted that so shrewd a man as this burglar would not fix his eye upon a house that was well protected as a base of operations. These things quickly decided me. 1 remembered what his plan had been in the matter of gaining'an entrance. 80 I made my way over fences to the rear of tbe house I had marked >s the ono he intended working. It was a new experience to me, this climbing about among back yards in the solemn boars of sight, running the risk of a shot from some person who might happen to be on the watch. My nerves were pretty well strung by thQ time I landed in the yard for which I had ail along been aiming. Bore I made as rigid an examination as the time and circumstances would permit, and was pleased to find that it all compared favorably with iihe little plan the cracksman had possessed. There could be no doubt that 1 was in the right place. Ov?r in one quarter I saw the door leading to the kitchen. This was in the shape of a storm-door. Accpn|ing to Colonel Cain's idea, this door-should be readily opened?it bad been fixed for or by him. a 1 it id it r Sure enough, there was no resistance as I turned the knob. Beforo me was inky darkness?the interior of the room. What lay there I could not guess, but I the venturesome burglar takes many risks, and as for a good cause I was now serving in that role, I must do likewise. So 1 stenDed within and closed the door. Groping my way step by step across . the room I finally came to the stove. ^ Behind this I crouched, revolver in V hand, and awaited results. W All was silent as death in the house, w and J soap came to the conclusion that I the family .oust be awav, and that the ' burglar had known this fact -My game was to hoodwink him, and I did not intend aiding in sacking the hopsc either. If my plans carried out, the owners of the house ought to feel obliged to me for Hearing a burglar away who would have -- ransacked the premises. Under sucn pecu lar circumstances the minutes seemed terribly long to me, and I was really relieved to hear a sound at the door. My man had come. 1 prepared to rccieve him in the manner 1 had planned. When the door opened I heard rather than saw a man enter. Almost on the point of rising, I suddenly became frozen -with astonishment. * 11 ? ' - in 1 Vi rnr crVi Anoiuer muu unu (nuvu *** the open door. The came#. third. 3 felt a chill run over me. A dark lantern was cautiously openeB for a moment, and I was almost petrified to see the blue uniforms of police officers. Were they after me? 1 confess I* began to wish myself well out of the scrape. Mr. Ketcham might be able to clear me, it was true, but the thought of being caught in the kitchen of a private residence was anything but pleasant to my mind. The three policemen closed the dooi after them, and I could bear them talking. "He must be here soon," said one. "Yes. if the man didn't lie. We'll nat Aim in uie act, " remariteu a uewiiu.' "He's a slippery customer, and wt ain't a-going to get him without trouble. Mind, lioys, he's to be carried to the station if he refuses to be led." "Where shall wo hide?" "The dining-room, Curry said. That'! where he aims for. You see, the familj forgot to send some of their plato .to th< t?an k when they sailed in "such a Hurry, and this fellow approached Curry with a proposition to tie up and make away with it, and they could divvy afterward." "Curry was playing him, eh?" "Well, I don't know. It's ray opinloi She man meant to co in with hi?, hot II I MO??? ??A??i??? i- K when he got~ thTnkTng~it ovor, lie "got scared, and peached." "Weoughtn't to wait here, boys." "Right, sergeant. Let's get in hiding." They moved toward the door leading to the regular kitchen, passing so close to me that I could have put out my hand and touch thein. It may be set down for certain that ] held my breath as they passed by. When they were gone, I realized what a close shave I had had. All became quiet again. The house was like a tomb. Once or twice I heard a venturesome rat gnawing under the floor, and the sound seemed doubly loud. What kept the burglar? Bad he been on the ground in time to see the three policemen enter? If so, then * my little game was knocked on the head. I began to grow impatient. Something must happen soon, or I would leave the premises, unable to hold out. Ah! had my ears deceived me, or was that some one at the aoor? I listened intently, filled with the hopo that the crisis was at hand. Yes, there was no mistake this time. The sound was repeated. It was exactly what I had heard when the three police officers were about entering. This time it must be the burglar. 1 only hoped, that when .the.scene occurred ne would not give" the alarm. Such a piece of business would bring the three officers swooping down upon us, and we would, in all probability, find ourselves scooped in. The door opened again. A man glided into the room. I could hear him breathing hard, and feeling assured that it was my burglar I prepared to spring upon him the smartest trap he had ever touched. I moved out from behind the stove and crouched there as If I haC just come through the door leading into the house. My appearance was intended to represent a man who had been balked In some nefarious design, and now found himself caged. To render this stage effect, I called up every atom of my powers, but I had confidence, and that would go a great ways. I was none to soon. The burglar was getting hii lantern into shape, and all at once this light fell upon me. I instantly covered Colonel Cain, at the same time saying in a low, tenae. whisper: "Not a word on your life, man. I swear J will not be caught alive. A cry, and you are a dead man!" The bait took. My words astonished the burglar more than did my presence, for while he had on the second jumped to the conclusion that I was a detective lying in wait for/a worthy about his ouua ana matte up, ne realized at once that I believed him to be the same. ? My threatening attitude kept him quiet, at the same time he was busy examining me with his keen eyes. I spoke again: "You can't hold me?there ain't no man on earth can run me in. I'm going to get out of here if I have to walk over you." "Hold up, pard; there's a mistake here." "I knpw It; that's why I'm backing out like a crab. There's some fellers in here I ain't longing to meet; oh, no!" "I tell you we're both here on the same business?to crack this crib." "Do you mean that?" "I swear it. Com^ what's the use ot leaving? We can clean it out and divvy." "Well, yon see, there's some fellows in yonder I don't care to meet." "In this house?" "Yes; three of them." "Yon are mistaken. Curry said there wasn't a soul here." "Curry! That's the name they used as they came in. They said he had made a deal with them." "A deal! Jerusalem! Who are they?" "Bluecoats." "Police, and in this house?" "They're in hiding in the dining-room , now, waiting for some one. I thought It was me, but now I see it's you they want." . "Impossible!" "Is it, though? Just step through that door yonder, and see how qujck they gobble you up." "This beats the deuce! Curry betray me! I'll pay him up for this." "Do what you please. As for me, I'm going to get out of this place in a deuced hurry. Make way there." "Npt so fast, my friend. If this be true, you have done me a service I shall try hard to repay." "I want .bo reward. If you doubt my word we can easily prove it Go out with me and see for yourself.n He had no inclination to remain, and: iReihei 1 'eft the outer kitchen wBich our whispered conversation ha3 taken place. By my direction he climbed up to the window of the dining-room, and both watched and listened, until some of the impatient men within, changing their positions, betrayed their presence to Cain. When he joined me again he wrung my hand savagely. "My dear fellow, I am under heavy \ obligations to you. Command me." I felt some satisfaction in my work. Here the burglar had fallen into my snare. The game had opened brilliantly?how would it end? I was ready for further work. CHAPTER XVII. _is I walked away with this man of dark methods I felt tb%t the part which I dreaded most had been carried through in a very satisfactory manner. Fortune had smiled upon me. I had high hopes of attaining my object, whether this would prove satisfactory to me or otherwise. We walkod away like old friends. The Colonel felt himse'ft under great obligations to me. That suited my idea9, I exactly, as I had some use to make of \ this feeling on his part. We walked along until he finally turned and asked if I had objection to accompanying him to a retreat of hi? which he only used when he desired the utmost secrecy. Of course I was dreadfully tickled to hear him speak thus, but it wae not according to my plan that he should leau my willingness. \ I agreed to go with him, however. 1 We were not in the fashionable quarter of the city at this time. Squalor surrounded us, and vice stalked rampant through the narrow streets we now traversed. 1 At this hour of the night it would be as much as a respectable man's life was ' worth to walk these dirty streets where the toughest of New York's citizens were congregated. Colonel Cain evidently had a hiding place somewhere in this locality, to which he retired perhaps to ponder 1 over his plans and perfect them in solitude. Tn V?ic Ac>n Via wnc nnw t.Q r> rr t.ho man who had just savecl IiTm' Tronf falling into the hands of the police, in order to get better acquainted. , 1 had no suspicion of foul play. The j manner in which I had made this man's , acquaintance was against such a thing as arousing suspicion in his mind with ' regard to ine, and I believed things were ' just what they app(iared to be on the 1 surface. "Here we are." He had stopped in front of a building ; , that seemed laden down with years?in- j doed, it was only a question " " th9 when It must bo" coriclcrimed by the city authorities and torn down. Through sheer custom the man, before he entered here, turned and looked up and down the dingy, ill-smelling street T AO KoKi'inol nantinn J. ills X UJUii ncu ao uuy nuui vumi u?<wu cf the old thief. Used to being hunted like a beast of prey, he never knew a minute's peace, and yet the excitement of such a life had its fascination for his dwarfed and distorted mind. I held my breath as we entered the hallway of this tenement. It was indeed a noisome place, and I could not but believe the building had a9 tenants a number of Chinese. Mott street was near at hand. He ascended ever so many, flights of narrow stairs, until I groaned over the work and the difficulty-of groping one's way through inky. darkness. All that saved me from speedy disaster was the fact that with one hand I had seized hold of the Colonel's coat. At last, when we could go no further, my guide condescended to halt. We were on the top floor of the tenement, with the roof almost within reach of an outstretched hand. This I saw after a jingling of keys had told me that my companion was opening a door of which he possessed the open sesame, and then a match starting into life was applied to a candle. The room into which he led me was a dingy-looking place. From the walla the plaster had fallen until half of the naked laths were grinning at one as if in derision. As for the low celling, it was never guilty o{ being plastered, but showed forth in all the hideous colors of age. In ?the middle-was a trap or scuttle, nAPnreri on the inside. This could read ily be reached by means of a box that stood directly beneath it I saw at a glance that it was meant to be the burglar's means of escape from the rear should his castle be assaulted in front When I had looked around for a chair, I found a relic near me, upon which I rested my weary frame with not a little suspicion regarding its integrity. Meanwhile Colonel Cain, the cracksman, had closed and barred the door against all possible intrusion. This done, he seated himself upon the box and breathed fast Those narrow and steep stairs were certainly enough to lay one out and my knees felt as though,they would nevprcome into shape agai^. I could not remember a worse climb in my calendar,' unless it was at the Bunker Hill monument We were on deck now, and the time had about come for diplomacy. All that I had ever i*e%d or heard about men of this dark profession must stand me in good stead now, for I had a part to play that every man could not carry out I had determined to make out to be a rather new band at the business, and one who, although not up to all the tricks of the trade, was willing to learn. In this role, any lack of the requisites with which your true burglar is supposed to be supplied would be forgiven. Having taken his seat on the box, the burglar lit his pipe, and then, folding bis hands around his knees, proceeded to look me over. "Who might you be, comrade, not meaning to be rude?" he finally said. "Seeing that you are the host, it is but fair that you should introduce yourself first." "By Jovo! you're right, now. Wfcat a giddy ox I am to. forget. I'm known as Colonel Cain, and over the water they do say I'm the bloomin'est trump that evei drew breath." "Glad to meet you, Colonel. Joslyn'i my handle?Joe Joslyn at home." We shook hands gravely. CHAPTER XVIII. to meet you, ffm "And I'm proud to M ngtake you by the honHeSt hand, Colonel. ;'^^^H|^^P|li?ely to fall to a man once in a lifetime, and I feel as though fate had more to do with it than we "Perhaps it was intended that we work together from thie ju WanuV "I'd hardly venture || to suggest such a thing, Colonel. You're a veteran, while I am but a greenhorn in the business." "Tell me, Joslyn, how you happened to be in that house, and knew of the three officers lying in wait?" 1 gave him the story.almost straight, telling how I had entered the house believing it to be empty, and heard the officers coming and hidden, listening to M oVtsi?*+ />ArtVA1*Q(lf{An hfifnw1 thfiV SP? lliCU OUVIV WM ?Vi OMTVCVM WW* ? ~ ? creted themselves. Then I went on to tell how I had managed to back out as far as the kitchen, when the doo} opened and another police officer appeared, flashing his bull's-eye upon me. Tliis was too much for me, and I had made up my mind to cut through at anj cost when, upon a little investigation, .the last comer had proved to be a comrade instead of a deadly foe. My story was so frank and my mannei so engaging that he could not help beMoving all I said. In return, he told me what I alreadj knew with regard to his arrangement) with the man left in charge of the Madi' son avenue palace, and who had betrayed him. i was looking around me all the time In an interested way. Not that there was much to, see, but I was determined that nothing should escape my observation that might serve as a clew in the case I was engaged on. Was this the man who had entered the . house of Dr. Seabury by means of the pantry window? Looking at him, I tried to Imagine what cause he could have for the bittei hatred against the old Doctor. He was swarthy enough to have beer uuder an Indian sun, and his hair wai black as the strand found in the deac man's clasp, but not so long by half. I bad some hopes. It was plain to me that Mr. Ketcham believed the man whe 4Vm4 in+Ant. nr? hnrc. IllttU UIIVCJUU luau **v/Uvi\j ill wu V VM lary could tell something of the crime but, on my part, I hoped he would prove the author of it himself. I had built up a new theory. Th< man from India was . pursuing him or account of some private wrong, and h< it was who had been It at the death. Colonel Cain was my man. He had all the appearance of a muscu lar fellow, and might have been a matei for a stronger man than tbe old Doctor Strange, though, that either Leonon or Theodore would not know of him. foi the former must have some connoctioi with the case, else why those words 01 the photograph? Was this sable-haired Colonel Cair her father? It might be possible, sinci she was only a ward of the Doctor's. This thought brought new trouble. I looked my man over again, and wai ready to say there seemed no actual fla* in the chain as yet. I'lindly I shut my eyes to the mair facts, and would only see what wai pleasing. This was human nature. Wo veri often do this same thing in ordinary life Meanwhile, the burglar was making himself at home. From a hole in th< wall, which served him as a closet, h< took a bottle and a couple of glassos. "You must excuse the lack of style, mi friend. It is hardly possible to liye in th< r 1 hunted manner I'do and keep np wit the reigning fashions. Like all others, hope some day to make a fine haul, an 1 retire on an independent fortune." "Let us hope that the day of our r< tiring is not far distant," I said, and fc 1 of course misunderstood me. ' We drank to the retirement. I am i , very moderate drinker, and I said so 1 > I my new friend. I had been exceeding] careful to let him take the first sip 1 1 prove that the liquor was not drugge* for I was on tne lookout that such * game should not be played on me. As I raised my tumbler to sip the coi tents again, I received an electric shod It was as though my system had sut denly come in contact with the positi\ and negative poles of a battery. At the same time a great feeling < satisfaction came over me.-J, realize that a step forward, bad been taken i proving the innocence of Leonore. Upon the wall hung a knife. It was < peculiar mold, and I recognized the fats Malay creese! This signified a great deall "When my eyes'bad fallen upoh th: blade, hope was revived in my soul to a astonishing degree. A b Wits Slug UJttl UUW UU UUU VUC seemed to have to do with the case, ac we had simply to follow the clews pi forth by the one who perpetrated tl i crime in order to reach the end. i Of course I was too wise to betray mj self, and after making sure that my ey< had not deceived mo, I kept my attentic away from the blade as much as posa 1 ble. After a time, however, in getting up 1 stretch my .limbs, my hand happened 1 touch it. "Hallo! what's this, anyhow?'' 1 aske< i with seeming curiosity. "A knife," he replied, and I saw som sign of uneasiness In his manner. "Well, that's the queerest knife I ev? set eyes on. What do you call it, ColoneH I was examining It as I spoke. Tl blade was far from bright Dingy-lool lng spots that might come from rust < dried blood marred its surface. It was ouite a contrast*0cree< used as a pr#er cutter by Leonoi-6, ar ' yet both were built on the same patten "It is called a creese. They are u? by the thugs out in India." "I hope you are not a thug," I laughe< i "Nonsense. I picked the blade v i, .from beside the-.body of a friend.who lot his life at the.hands of those cursed iai atics. Yes, .that crease has seen'terrlh work." An unnatural glow came over his fa< i at the words, and I could see, witnoi appearing to notice, that he had shut h ; teeth hard while he spoke. i I did not ask for particulars, i They were already before mj? mil better than he could give them. * Replacing the creese on the wall, 1 n , sumed our conversation at the poii I where I had broken it off. 4 i There was one thing I wa9 very an: ious to do now. This was to search tl i room. If the Colonel would,only leave n alone there for a time I believed I won! i be able to tell positively whether'he w< i the man we wanted or not. i Fortune favored me. He was a heavy drinker, and con: i stand more 1 kjuor .than most men I kne\ The black bottle was now empty, ai i by the way in which he took it up sc ! eral times and looked into it I knew 1 bad not had enough yet So I finally threw a half-dollar on tl [ table with a jingle. N i "Colonel, isn't there some place net by where you can get that replenished I'll stand treat, and by the time you g< i back I'll have finished what is in a glass and be ready for more." "Yes, I know of a den near at ham It'll take me five or ten minutes to gi back. Amuse yourself as best you cai comrade." Seizing the black Dottle, ne was gon > I heard him descending the stairs, ai ' when he had reached the second 'fligl belo.w-I concluded it'was time for me i i begin my operations. I [TO B? OOWTIHUBD. I Qoe?o Victoria's Dog*. i Cogs were first admitted to tt :ocrt of England in the reign < Henry VIIL Under the preseu reign three dogs have been elevate 1 to the highest canine dignities on a< ( ;ount of their aristocratic famili< and their own peculiar merits. Tl , Dames of the aristocratic trio ai Marco, Roy, and Spot. Marco is th I Queen's favorite, and he used to t ' very jealous of John Brown. . His ai cestry can be traced back to the cri saders. He is what they call in Ei | land a Pomeranian, and at one of tt , recent dog shows won the first priz< ,, tne mug of honor. The other U forite, JRoy, is a collie, and Spot is fox terrier with a record of twentj > two rats in a quarter of an hour. 1 These canine lords have their res dences with their special names. H< "loiaaf.o's rlnor is divided int IUJ(H|VUVJ u vtvf^ - ? three parts, the Queen's verand? collie court, and umbrella court. X* veranda is the principal one. It a covered gallery around the kenne and the Queen likes to walk there. ' Bach kennel has a dining-room an a bed-room. The floor of the dininf room is separeted from the veraod by an iron grating. It is paved wit red and.blue bricks, and the furnitui consists of a trough, always full < fresh water. The bed-rooms hai two large windows generally kej open for the purpose of ventilatioi and in a snug corner in each rooi there is a low bed with a matress < fresh straw. Umbrella court gets its name fro the big umbrella in the middle of i under which the dogs can shelto [ themselves from the sun and rail A host ot servants wait upon tt sanine nobility, and the Queen verv severe with the officials who c not pay proper attention to her dog A chef is provided for them, and h instructions are to vary the menu < the dinners of her majestyrs pe and to consult their tastes. A Singular Superstition. In regard to the habit of paitridg* of flying into civilization and a popi lar superstition regarding them, a Augusta man says: "One flew on 01 premises and was captured. The came the question whether we shoul it ill the hird or allow it to live. A r that time there was a general supe * Btition that, if a partridge came t 1 the house where a sick person lay an the bird was killed and the sick pe j son ate the broth, it would effect cure. There was a eirl sick at 01 house ana the doctors had given u i the case as hoDcless. Some -of tt f family 6aid, kill the partridge an give the sick girl the broth. But tt 1 6ick girl and others were for permi 3 ting the partridge to live. We we] equally divided and agreed to let or of the neighbors whom we saw con l ing to the house decide whether tt a partridge should be killed or no s He said, kill it, and we did, and tt sick girl ate the broth and get well. J ?Bangor (M$.) Cpm?s;cl&J. 9 /TORNADOES d WERE VERY DESTRUCTIVE 1 9- THIS COUNTRY LAST YEAR. >e a The Causes Which Produce Then M How They Differ From Hurricanes l7 ?Remarkable Phenomena of Their Occnrrence. 3, a HE year 1892, u i" -v j. ^e ?aD 1- .LwTjr_ _j.. Chronicle, w i e B'f?nalized by t occurrence of 3': greater ntmber ld' fatal and destra D .jL tire convulsions . ^ nature aid disaati kl of various kind? than almost any ott on record. During the first six mont of the year the total loss of life in t is United States alone from these cam 1 was upward of 3600, while the diaasti in other parts of the world will donl * or treble this appalling total. Of t large list of casualities in this country 1 less than 460 deaths were caused by b nadoes and thunder storms, there havi f. been four of the first named disasters 38 unusual violence and a large number in less severity. 1- Bappily for Californians, they live in region .^heie.loss of life or property fn , tornadoes is k absolutely unknown a ** even the moat destructive winis?t j infrequent northers?do not inflict a tit ' of the damage in an entire year that ie caused by a single whirlwind such there have been ho many ol in the Et >r during the present season. The peo] >n of this coast, nevertheless, take a de 16 interest in these direful phenomena J" nature, enhanced, undoubtedly, by t security they feel that they are in k danger of ever being exposed to tb >d 'ary. a. It is to the peculiar physical formati >d of the great interior basin of the Mi issippi and Missouri valleys that t] country owes the fact tbat tornadoes i '!? more frequent and destructive than a_ any other part of the 'world. With le c&reat mountain rangc^tjptween the Roc fountains and the Appalachian syste ? it follows that there is no natu it obstruction to the sweep of the wi 18 across that vast territory, and hence it tbat here is found the home of t i(j terrible phenomenon. In Lieutenant Finlay's inter esti: little work upon "Tornadoes" are ei it bodied facts and deductions made frc the examination of over a thousand < * these occurrences, from which certa 16 rules in regard thereto are laid do? with measurable accuracy. Ordinari id cyclones and tornadoes are spoken of i: 19 discriminate^, as being one and t Id ^ ^ ' a -J* 1? iM uT i > * >g ?- . id same thing, yet as a matter of actualil .e tbe two storms are essentially differen e The path of the cyclone is a parabol ^ curve. Thus commencing, for ins tan c j. in the West Indies, it trends nor j. westward until it reaches, latitude thir j. degrees north, when it curves to tl nnfthcBpf. onrl rnntinnes in thflt directk ^ nntfl it finally disappears oceanward 3 4. tie 'vicinity of parallel* fifty degre a nortb. Tbe diameter of the path vari< j. from several hundred to over 1000 mile At tbe immediate centre of tbe stor j. there is a dead calm, a most fatal pla( it for ships to be caught. At no point wit! 0 ft) tbe storm's centre does the a ii actually move or whirl in a circle, bi ie there is a cyclonic tendency of tbe a) is mosphere about tbe region where t] 1, barometer is lowest. The wind of cyclone rarely reaches a velocity of d hundred miles an hour, the maximu j- being generally from sixty to eigb la miles, aDd its approach is invariab ,b marked by the action of the barometer :e ir ^ * d p ? .t " '? r. TORNADO CLOUD IN DA iO (j The tornado, differing from the c r. clone, is always a land storm, and a follows a path varying from a few yar ir to eighty rods in width. The genei !p direction of movement of a tornado ie invariably from the southwest to t jj northeast. The tornado cloud assure 10 the form of a funnel, the small ei drawing near or resting upon the eart cq-? This cloud, or the moving air of whi l(i it is the embodiment, revolves about a. central vertical axis with inconcaivaV ie rapidity and always in a direction fri k right to left. The destructive violec -r ?i.? afnvm ic onmntimpn confined tot 10 Ui. 111V OLUlUi IP - )i immediate path of the cloud, as wh the small end just touches the earl When tbe body of the cloud lowers and tor more of it rests upon the earth the via-' 'it s lence increases and the path widens to to :N tbe extreme limit. and The tornado with hardly an exception noi occurs in the afternoon, just after the fro hottest part of the day, and generally doi l? disappears before the going down of the wa 1 sun. The hour of greatest frequency is in : from 3 to 4 p. m., though they fre- rea qusntly last until as late gs 8 p. m. lev Along the immediate pathway of the cat storm, even'to the shortest distances, the mi co objects often remain undts- a s ( g turbei, although a few yards distant the the he a of lc* . ' V*/Lt; ky TORHADO y? m,r, ral largest and strongest biddings are crashed nd to atoms. be is Observations with the barometer are an he of little practical Yalue in determining fai tbe approach of a tornado, no matter dii Dg how near to the point of the storm's in- m< in- ception. The tornado season is embraced ac >m between March and October, the months Ki of of greatest frequency being Hay and w< in July. There are exceptional instances in dii a long series of years when tornadoes th ly have bren reported in every month of sn n- the year. They may and sometimes do w< be occur in tbe Southern States during tbe tn THE GREAT KANSAS OYCLONE OP 1892. ;v winter and spring mouths. Taking the wt t. whole United States together and aver- in ic aging the dates of occurrence for a long sei e, series of years (over 200) it is found coi th that the region of greatest frequency to ty embraces the States of Kansas, Illinois, A he Missouri and Iowa. Of all the States in att >n the Union Kansas and Missouri rank the kil in highest in, regard, .to frequency. he Bs The ordinary, appearance of a tornado ho ?s is that of a black cloud bellying down- sei ?. ward toward the earth and terminating dr m in an elongated trunklike formation wl :e which moves along rapidly either imme- wt i- diately upon the surface of the ground. let ir or at some distance above it. Sometimes mi it this great trunk is drifted and a t- space of several miles intervenes be- toi oe tween the point where it ceased of a its work 'of destruction and the of 1 ,A ? ? -.-.-3 CUtnA. fin a one wnere it comiueuucu agam. uwuv- ^m times it just stcims along at an deration gr ty where it removes the tops of tall trees, tlu lj the roof or cupola of a bouse, without at distuibing the remainder of the object tn W? """" ~ ^ " | ^ up in; 2 1 th .K0TA (KROlf A PHOTOGRAPH). W< JU :j- attacked. Sometimes there appears to be si: it almost a human intelligence guiding the fo ds storm and discriminating between ob- he ni ,-iWa f n ho rip j km red and those which is are not to be injured. ro he By due attention to the appearances gi les which Invariabiy precede the coming of ca ad a tornado one may, if he retain his pres- sit ;b. ence of mind, be prepared to avoid dan - tr ch ger to his life by seeking safety inflight, bf a Thus, the pathway of a tornado, as al- b; >le ready stated, is always from the south- ol jm west to the northeast. If iu a house or di ce other building from which egress is im- m he possible always seek the west side, to- ni en ward the storm, and invariably avoid w ;h. the east fide. If in tue open air and* a fr \ ?mim t nado is seen approaching,' stand facing is it dra^w near. Then if it appear* be going to the right, 'run to the left,' * " ?? XI. il>? J i nee versa. Always ran iu mo _ thward or southward at a right angle m the storm, giving the benefit of ( he 9 abt in favor of the north. The path-j ,y of a tornad6 is nasally so contracted! I its width that an ordinary'perion can I dily pat himself beyond its reach. On el land, as on open prairies, the atoraj I t be seen at a distance of five or teal I les, and this gives sufficient time for I elf-possessed observer to get out of I > way in foil time. | I * The awful force of a tornado cannot . realised by anyone who ha* not bad1 opportunity tb become personally! xiili&r therewith. The history of these ^ asters is replete with examples of the )st extraordinary character. Thus an /' v~~ count of a storm which took place ini - & iDsas in 1879 relates that a sulky plow sighing 700 pounds was carried a long stance, and one of the axles, one and1 ree-quarter inches in diamrter, was apped squarely off. Wagon wheels :re broken into splinters and the tires risted into all sorts of shapes. A. man " " : U 1311 . ib carried into the air and there came contact with a hone whose tail he zed and was thus carried along for a oaiderable distance and finally dropped v>o owning oAmmntinlr uniniured.; 1 two horse, wagon with one lire horse ' - I Ached to it, the other hating been' Jed and tom away, was seen at a ight of a hundred feet in the air. A ' g.weighing SUO pounds had a timber ren feet long and six inches square iren directly through iti body. The ' ieel of a wagon was earned a mile, die chickens were stripped of their ttbers and their bodies carried three ' J lee from hqme. Jj Xh Jackson County, Mo., in 1879, a rnado carried away a house, no part 4 , which was ever found.. The carpet*. a part of the house, however, was lied from the floor and left on the ound uninjured. Several garments it had been in the house wore found a distance of five or six miles. A large ink was torn to pieces aad the lock j is found half a mile away driven into e rail of a fence. Two heavy quarter;h wagon tires were twisted literally to knots. In Marshall County, Kan., the same sr that the two storms already referred occurred, another tornado tore down t massive iron bridge. It lifted the avy structure squarely from the piers d dropped it into the river. The rods d beams were twisted into all sorts of apes. Hods two and one-half inches diameter were broken squarely off. le structure was lifted from the abut>nts so easily that but two stones of e three piers that supported it were jturbed in any way. 1 In April, 3879, there was a severe rnido near Waterborough,S. C.,which is signalized by many peculiar occuraces. A hick or jr tree fifty-four inches ? circumference was lifted bodily out . the ground and carried some distance ^ i a ateep bank. An iron chisel was rned ninety feet and driven two inches to a log. A basket of books weighing ty pounds was carried two and a half lies, and found hanging in a tree, with -1- rt? e contents 1 n m " i. uciamuiui m pUM>< ;re carried a mile aad fouad unin. red. Letters and books were carried c miles, and articles of clothing were una ten miles from their owners'' >uses. At a storm iu Missouri an entire railad train, with the exception of the en. ne, was thrown from the track, the ,rs being deposited iu all sorts of potions at varying distance? from the ack. In a recent storm in Kansas a irn with a horse inside of it was lifted ? the. wind and deposited on the roof ; a two-story building, while trees were riven through the walls of houses ao<J any other atraoge occurrences were 3ted. In fact volumes could be filled ith the bare recital ot the strango. eaks of tornadoes.