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PRETZIKGER ,4 Blk Chemists, DAYTON, QMIO. my experiences of the! police. In all countries of the world they were the same fools when they re not knaves. If he, or any of his myimidons, laid a hand on her, what could I do? I was In a country where evein if you knocked a policeman down it as regarded as a crime. And Miss Adair she had hei doubts.

Great powers! I What could the woman be made of, to have lived so long with such an angel, and et doubt her perfect innocence! Apart from such thickiheadedness cn the part ot a womn of common sens It was dreadful to think of the gitl living in an atmosphere of sugpicio 1, when complete confidence was tie one thing needful. Why had I let her to Hailsham Road? She woull have beeh safer with Mrs. Peddar, or God forgive me for thinking lat she would have been safer still th me. On what did the woman found her doiibts? And the Inspector his? That was the On the surface the thing looked doubtful; if' I were to speak of certain things I know they might look worse. A dczen knew now that she waa present in the room.

She could be dragged into tt witness box, at; any rate, and th then what might she not be forced to say. She had gone with unfriendly Intentions; he had been killed while she was there; she ran away, without a whisper to any one of what had be done. What deductions might not be drawn, by an unfriendly critic, from fiat bare statement of the facts. I d' u-ed not think of the risks she would mn till all the truth was-told. 'IWhat is the I cried.

Unconsciously, I spoke aloud. Though, had I thought, I should not have hesitated, since I. supposed I was alone. But, no sooner had I spsken, than my bedroom door was opened, and some one stood on the threshold looking out at me. 'Tt's you.

Is it? Comfe here!" Hume was the speaktr. He spoke. and looked, as if I were the intruder; not he. His presence took me by sur prise, so that at first, irj my bewilder ment, I could only stare. Then moved towards him.

"What are you doing "Come, and you shall bee I1 pushed past, him intd the room. A9 I looked round, in my amazement at the man's I was Speechless. The whole place was in confusion. He had been turning niiy belongings topsy turvy, searching arawe examining cupboards, scrutinizing mine which he could everything of ay his hands upon. My property everywhere on cnaire, was scattered on tables, on the floor.

On the rail the bed were laid my pyjamas and a towel; and on the1 bed; itself was dis widest, the plum-cblored played, at its cloak, he had un- When I realized tbafl earthed that piece of; apparently damn ing evidence it wag enough. 'Tou hound!" I would have ta.ken him by the throat; but, springing bdek, he pointed a revolver at my race. ''Stop that! I've! had mett like you before, to deal with hn Ferguson. Attempt to touch me, and I'll save the hangman his pains. also, on previous occ slons had had to deal with men like hicn; more dan gerous men than he was free from all the restraints of civilization, whom use had made handy with a pistol.

There which wasi something in the way in he gripped his weapon which told mp that he was not yet acquainted with all its I dbdged; struck the pistol went! flying through the air, i I took him by the) waist; lifted himi off his feet; held him tight; and shook him. If you: hav the trick of it. it is surprising how qiickly you can shake the breath clean dut of a man's body, or, if you wish to go so tar, Dy shaking him you can bri eak his back, and make an My desires were less extensive. I shook till I had him auiet; then I lowered him till his face was on a level wita mine. "Now, Dr.

Hume, pleaste tell me why I shouldn't kill you." He could but gasp, pain. I abd that with "You can kill me if you like. You killed him. Killing's your line "And what's your linte? Sneaking, like a thief, into a maA room, ana prying into his possessions like some dirty nigger? However, here, we'll come to an Understanding, you and before you gp I dropped him on the floor, where he lay like a log, struggnn to get back some of his breath. I piq ked up his re volver.

It was a natty little thing though not of the kind one carries where a gun is one of tn chief neces- slties of existence. Ther a gun, to be worth anything, should send a bullet ihrough. an inch board alt the distance Lof a dozen yards; it was a 1 his would do to send a bullet through the skin of a and I waited man. I locked the door.i for him to get his breath again "Wher you are ready Dr. Hume." I sat and watched him He had fol-as I moved lowed me with his eyei about the room; startinfc as I picked nn nis DlSlOl.

iNOW nei reiumeu uie glance for glance. He wks getting the better, of his and pres ently raised himself to sitting pos turd You should be in a freak museum, Ferguson." Indeed. wny7" You're a prodigy off bone and It." muscle." You should remember "I've but just now nf ade the dis- covery. 1 snail nave to refurbish my faith In the laoors ot cules and the storfr of Samson. He as, as it were, arranging: nimsen insias his clothes.

I don't resent your pnys cal conflgura- tiont It's educative, as howing what the strength of a man nj nitv vou should be a ay be. It's a Are you only a fctol, or are you something else as well?" He stood up, still arranging himself inside his clothes He pointed to the plum-colored cldak. "What's this?" It's what I'm going 0 wring your nenlt for "la that bo? I donf bubt your ca pacity. but why exercise ticular instance?" in this par-y me that. Then ycu must satis though the meavens fall, bo one outside this room 6hall ever learri there Is such a garment in existence dnd that you'll find it difficult to do.

''Tou wish me to tell no one of what T'va found "It's not an affair of ai wish. 'Fercuson. you're tark mad. "You've told me so before. You're a specialist.

You snouia Know mm a homicidal lunatic is not the sort to trifle with. Ijihol me like that. But you're mad In the wrong airec- tion i. 'What's the right 1 direction to. be maar That cloak's) Miss 'You're a liar." 'Let me inform you that to ave her mm MARSH, Crime! and BY RICHARD MARSH.

Had at of Newadealers. I MV son name 1b Ferguson John Fergu- Returning to her former self, sne paid it with the simplicity of a little She nestled close up to hie, as for comrorL My DuJaea thrrhherl i ttiat 1 Ty 11 1 feafe when I am neaif you, and that the neareJ- I am to yotklthe safer I feel?" i KJod grant that you bay always feel safe when you are neair to rrie." My. voice was husky 1 believe that I always shall feel safe when you are "neai; I belbne I al- ways She looked up at rrie with eves in whpcjh there was something which seemed itb burn Into my sonl. It was with difficulty I kept myself frqrA puttfng my arm! about her. when! spoke, it was avykwardly enough and with a lumbering choiee of unfralnly words.

"The tangle ia greateiTthan thought. It to be drawing us together. God moves in a mysterious way, and it miy be His purpose that, under, this blood-fed shadow, our pives lall draw closer to each othr. For my part 1 am content." I waited lfor her to speak; she tvaa still; but she (rested one hand upon my arm and. I tpemblefl.

"Don't let yourself be troubled by fantastic fears. Rest assured that your heart is stairless as are your hands, i I know. Look up, the light is coming! Your innocence will be madd plain to all the world afld to yourselfj For it seems that of yourself yofu're the chief doubter." "I did doubt; I'm easier now. I don't doubt at all when yiu are near. I wonder why." "I wonder, too.

Butjcome. there are a doten things which I must do. You must be bundled offi MrsJ Peddar, wherte is this young lady's hat?" Mrs. Peddar passed Into an Inner room, presently returning with a hat. Whils its owner was pitting it on Miss Adal came up to me.

i had been aware that the two women haid been watching us vith wide-open eVes anfl gaping mouths; now one of tnem gave partial expression to her feelings. "Wlhat on earth is tWere between you two Have you knowp each other all your lives, or did yoju meet for the first time last night?" "That is a question for the meta- physijcians. I seem to all my life." "Arid has she known have kpown her you all hers? Is that What I'm to think Ttere is one thtag think-you are not to had ainy hand In what you ai-e not to think that she was "Biit It's all so awftil! It's alt come upon me in an inatanl; It iaken me unawares, what am what she said, and did "Yob are to be suref innocent as a child." 1 to think after in that room?" that she is as "But what am I to fhink? It seems now that you both were there I have doubt Whatever thai the man quite aeservea being Killed; him, then did you?" didn't kill I Miss Moore had her hat bn. She made a discovery I I had a cloak. I fdel sure I had floak.

Where it gone?" Never mind about iyour cloak; it's -arm enough today, jlou'll be able to quite well without i I caught Miss Adair glancfe; plain sne remembered hat I had said albout the condition! that garment there was renewed; suspicion In her eye. I turned to Mrs. "We don't want to Peddar go through the main entrance; Isn't there another way?" "There is the servici lift alnd there are the service stairs, "The very- thing; sho us wliere they are. She showed us wherrf they Were; and we three wwit down the servants' stair through a back floor, into a side street, no one saying in two girls into a cab. starting.

Miss Moore out. -She looked at me nay. saw the As itliev were eaned her head with eyes which were, to me, like magnets. Her lips formd a single word: "John!" As the hansom drovj? off, and. turning the corner, passed from sight, I felt as if something Had gonle out of my life.

CHAPTER bay. He and I. As I returned to rrty chamibers mv whole being seemed to; be -a. battle field on wnich conflicting thoughts and feel ings were fighting to Ui finish. I had not supposed that rrry nature could have been utterly disorganized by occurrences such as those which had come crowdingupon me during the last few hours, i I am a hard man.

My life has been lived, for the most part, in odA corners of the world, where, single-handed, 1 have fought the fightf for fortune; in places where human lite is not held of much account, and wjhere ore would have thought as little pf killing such a man as Edwin Lawrehce appeared have been, as i. destroying any other noxious animal. I jhave eveij been a fighter. Men have callled me "Fighting John." I have had jto defend my own life, and have not hesitated. When cir cOmstances required tlb take the lives of others.

I learnt, lpng ago, tfiat there are occasions when filling is ikot alone the bestJmt the only dure But I have had nothing to do with women. I have nevir been on familiar terms, with one of therrj. I have always been aware that they are bettefr than I and that consciousniesk has made me hv nf them, as of a cMirfch. But while one knows that a churfch is a place for sinners, one sense of decency I tells one that evil ought rot to come imto con tact with a woman So I have kept clear. Until that night.

Now Providence alone knew what had happened. Since I htetd seen her stand- ing in the moonlight. the foundations of hi life seemed to have been going under It was absurd; yet true. What could fehe care for such as I an adventurer frjbm the four cor ners of the world, soiled with something of the grime from esicn of them. What right had I to think of such sLs she a young girl, in the nrt fulness of hei wondrous beauty, mentally, morally.

far above my reach: the idol of the town. with, ak her feet. some ot the greatest-In the lahd. It was mid summer madness which, my case, was the less excusable since, for me, it was the time of autumn. But she had called ihe "Johri." That was in her hour of fofrrow, of which 1 had taken advantage.

The.hotir would pass, and then I should not even be "Mr. Ferguson," but simply one of the crowd in the street I might take a seat at the theater, to watch Iter play but she would not evejd glance to see ii I was in it. That Hould De La black hour for me. But wilth her all would be well. Bat would the how of lien sorrow quickly Backl in my own room I tried to think; butj like he.

I was afraid. I had been Idiot to let ner return to Hailsham Road. What kind of an ass would he fc who placed his trust Ia-spector Sytnionds. I had had i aiSfrict Aparxmenw biub. and quiet.

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Pnrclan't Private Home for an Cure ana i-rros; tiAnisi r. U.Ui.L.J 20 AH fl2.Wd'N 3W ru tio.i5 Thla Office or SYNOPSIS OP PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. CHAPTERS I. TO III. The narrator of the story, John Ferguson, tells how one evening he and -his Mend, Edwin Lawrence, bad been playing cards.

Cutting the cards for a "double or quits" for the amount he (Ferguson) had lost, M0, he notices that Lawrence slips a card and wins the cut. making tne amount. owing 1.880. Somewhat Intoxicated, he retires bed onlv tn dream trlKtlttUI areams. xio raam.i ha ffH In the direction Of Lawrence's room, and hears a airanae scuffling and nolee Insld-.

Looking Inside he eeee Strang creature, apparently half human, half beast, dragging Lawrence about the room and showering heavy blows upon him, at the aame time making most unearthly sound. Ferguson retires to hli own room, nd asleep. Borne little time i-iterwarda he Is awakened oy the entrance of a Btrange woman, evidently a lady, through the casement. On speaking to hr he discovers that she is apparently an Imbecile, as she does not know how she came there or whence she came. Neither does she know her name.

She is covered with a robe which is stained with blood, and there also blood on her hands. persuades her to take off her outer garment, which he promptly conceals. A portrait of -Lawrence falls from the cloak. After washing her hands and face she Is by Ferguson to place herself in he hands r.f Mrs. Peddar, who keeps the Man-Ions occupied by Lawrence, Ferguson and thers.

and sne retires to rest. CHAPTERS IV. V. Next morning Law-nce is fo- nd in his room very mysteriously nurdered. Or.

Hume, who also resides in the Mansions. summoned. Ferguson finds a pair whue kid gloves in the room -which he con-eal as well a a letter to George Withers, he pockets. Dr. Hume Is told by 'mat the porte- had stated that Philip 'a'irrenoe, the brother of the murdered man.

vas thi last to see him in his room, but any jciresuon that he is responsible for the death mdignan'ly repudiated by the doctor. CHAPTERS VI. 4 v-IL-Hume. who Is no f-l nd to Ferguson, accuses him of having taJten orr.e means to compasj lawrence's death. During the inte-view, Morley.

an old "eryant of Philip Lawrence's, arrives and tells Ferguson his suspicions ttiat his master has been the means of his brother's death. The dead man had been a rouree of great annoyance to him. and Philip had frequently threatened him. tt was now missing i HAPTERS VIII. and acting immptlv.

takes a cab add drives to the photographer who had taken the photograph of th lady he had found in the room of the mur-- man. He that her name is Miss Bessie Mcore and she is an actress. He interviews Miss Adair, with whom she lived, a-d as he is doing so a Mr. George Withers presents himself. Seeing her not alone Withers attempts to run but Ferguson follows him and i rings him back.

He elicits from him that Miss Bessie Moore, whom he acknowledges as his sister, had visited Lawrence In his chambers for the purpose of begging forgiveness for hie brother who had been guilty of some shady conduct with regard to Lawrence. Ferguson got hold of him and shook him like a rat. CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY (Chapter XIII. Continued.) "Do you think I killed that man?" "I am sure that you did not." She glanced up at me, her brow smoothed out, light in her eyes. You are sure? Oh 7 wnat maices you sure?" "My own common sense.

I have seen your brother, and I have heard from him what was the errand which took you to Edwin Lawrence. I can understand how your mind was strained, and what a very little more was needed to make that strain too much. But that in what took place you did nothing of which you have cause to be ashamed, I am "But she thinks I did it, so does she; and I'm not sure." She poimed fliet to Miss Adair, and then to Mrs. Peadar. "You're dreaming.

Miss Adair knows you too well to suppose the incredible." "But she does think I did it. Don't you?" In reply Miss 'Adair put her elbows on the table and "her face on her hands and burst into tears. "Bessie!" she cried. I was dumbfounded. "You see.

And she thinks so too. And that man, he thinks so; he wanted to lock me up. 'Will he lock me up?" She asked the question with a little gasp so expressive of loneliness and terror, that it cut me to the heart. I trie-d to speak with a confidence I did not feel. "The police are famous for their blun-1f-rs.

In cases such as this, if they had their way; they'd lock up everyone they could lay their hands on. There's one question I want to ask you before you go was there no one else present in that room last night except ycu and Kdinw Lawrence?" "Yes you were there." She said it with a directness which struck n.e as with a crowbar "Yes, you were there. I thought, when I saw you sitting up in bed, in the moonlight, that I had seen your face before, and I've been thinking so all the time; and now it's all come back to me-y, were there. Don't you re-memDer that you came into the room?" bhe spoke with a touch of sudden excitement. Mr.

Peddar resented her words, with unusual heat. girl! To sa such a thing, after all that tetas done for you! You'll be saying next that I was there. I endeavored to appease my enthusiastic partisan. "Gently, Mrs. Peddar.

I am not at all sure what Miss Moore saya is not correct. too. suffered last night from dreams. I dreamed that I went Edwin Lawrence's rooms, and saw him murdered; whether I saw with the actual, or the spiritual, eye, I cannot tell; but, In any case, all that I did 6ee was seen, as in a glass, darkly." "Did you see me?" "I cannot be certain. I saw someone, who I now believe to have been you." "Did you see It?" "It?" "The the creature -the.

dreadful thing!" "My vision was blurred; I saw nothing plain, it had all, the indistinctness of a nightmare, but I was oppressed by the consciousness of some hideous presence In the room. What was the thing?" "I don't know; I can't think. I'm afraid to try! It did it all." "Wasn't it a wild beast? It made a noise like one, or was It my imagin- ation?" "The dreadful noise! I've heard It ever since. I hear It all the time I ou now you-here it new?" bhe looked about with frightened eyes. "That certainly is your imagination; there not a sound.

But was there no one else there in the room, besides Edwi" Lawrence, and There was the other man." "Vas that other man his brother?" u- I know: 1 can't lKe think But, I saw him agaln should know him, I feei sure I should as I've known you." "Did they quarrel, the two men?" sne sncoK ner head. "It will all come back to rhe. per haps, piece by piece, but not yet. not yet. But you were there, and you saw I did not kill him?" "What I taw I cannot tH; as with you it was all a blur.

But that you did not kill him I as sure as that the sky iS above." "I am so glad. Tou have made me so "It needs but a little thin 'to make your happiness "What ts your name?" ou have heard it more than the plants and flowers and the busy streets neiow. JOHN R. 1I0RTHERNS3 STEAMSHIP LOi? EXCLUSIVELY MSSCNGEa STEAMSHIPS NORTH WEST NORTH LAND Bailings from Company's Docks, foot of Main Street, every Tuesday and Friday, 10: IS P. Eastern Time.

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Clayton and White Mountain Express 9 5 a.m. 11.20 p.m Limited Fast Mall 7.20 p.m. Trains to Niaeara Falls: 8.00, 9.00, no.25, nL15 a.m., 12.20.12.50, 2.00. 3.25. K40, 6.15, t7.30.

tll.45 P-m- To Lockport: t6.25, 9.10, tll-00 a.m., Tl-10. 5.00. 6 20. tll.30 p.m. i Trains to Lewiston.

35. t8.00!Jt9.00. a.m.. 5H2.20, t2-00. 3.25.

Jt4.40. 5 25. and "indlrates daily, dally except Sunday, Sundays only. Connect with boat for Toronto, dally except Sunday. For rail or ocean steamship tickets and reservations or information regarding Thomas Cook Sorl.

Henry Gaze Sons, or Raymond Whltcomn tou-s, apply; at City Ticket Office, 877 Msln Street, corner EoKle, (telephone, "Seneca Ticket office lso at Exchange Street Station. Baggage called for and checked through to destination. H. A. THOMAS.

District Passenger Agent 377 Main Street. GEORGE H. DANIELS, H. PARRY. General Passenger Agent.

General Agent, New York. Buffalo. N. Y. (Telephone "Seneca Pennsylvania RAILROAD BUFFALO AND ALLEGHENY VALLEY DIVISION.

Taking: effect August J. 1800. Dunkirk and liayville Accm. Lv.Buff'l Ar.Buff'l S.05 am 8.20am Olean and Emporium Pittsburg Day Express East Aurora Accommodatlion. Titusvtlle and Oil City Bradford and Emporium Exp Dunkirk and Mayville Accm.

East Aurora and Clecn Accm. Philadelphia. Baltimore and s.30 am 112.46 pm 8.45 am 5.45 nm it 1-15 pm 7.50 am 3.10 pm J12.16 pm 3.30 pm 6.0 pm 5.20 pm 7.40 pm 5.30 pm 8.2S am 8 10 pm g.50 am Washington Speqial Pittsburg Night Express. i. :in.4." pm i.Oijim East Aurora Accommodation, uu.30 pm 4.2S pm Oiean and Bradford 5 20 am 5 6.06 pm i Lakeside Cemetery 5 2 pm 5.15 pm East Aurora Accommodation.

9.40 pm Daily- Dally except Sur daj-. 8 Sunday only Vcstibuled trains bet-veen Buffalo Pittsburg. Through sleeping cars between Buffalo, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Trains arrive and depart from New York Central Station, Buffalo City Time. For tickets and sleeping car berths, apply at City Ticket Office.

307 Main St. Tele. Sneca 564. B. HUTCHINSOX.

J. R. WOOD. General Manager. Gen.

Passenger Afrt. BUFFALO, ROCHESTER PITTSBURG RY. rains leave is'ew lorK Central depot. Exchange Street (Eastern Standard time) ad follows: 8.15 A. M.

Week dayB; Salamanca and Bradford Eipress; stopping at all stations. 9.45 A. M. Week days; 8.50 A. M.

Sunday, fast vestibuled express for Bradford, Rklgeway, Tju Bois, Butler and Pittsburg with free reclining chair car for Pttts- Durg. i 3.1R P. M. Iaily Springvllla Accom modation. 5.40 P.

M. Week days; Salamanca, and Bradford Express, 'or Orchard Park, Elllcottville, Salamanca and Bradford. 8.50 A. M. Sunday only; Bradford and Pittsburg Express, with free reclining chair car for Pittsburg, to P.

M. -Pittsburg jNight Express for Bradford, Butler and Pittsburg. Pullman sleeper. City Ticket office, S05, Main Street, Elllcott Squam Telephone Seneca 213. U.

TUrv'ISOW, BUWARU C. LAPET. Agent. Gen. Pass Agent, i Rochester.

N. T. WESTERN NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA RY. Vestibuled Trains between Buffalo Pittsburgh. Through Sleeping Cart between Buffalo, Philadelph ia.Baltimore and Washington.

Trains arrive and depart I turn New Tork Central Station, Buffalo City Time. fraklng effect June 84. I9Q0T It. Buffllo. lr.

Buffllo. Dunkirk and Mar vlfle Accm' 8.05 am 8.80 am 58 45 am Olean and Emporium 8.20 am U2. 45 pm East Aurora Accorumodatlon D. 40 pm 7 r0 am 1 1 15 pm (Misrule ana on city Exp. 10 pmtia.l5 pm 3.30pra 6.06 pm Bnaiata and Emponum r.

Jjunir ana Hay vine Accm ul Aaron Olnan Arrnri 0.20 pm;" 7.40 pm 6.3'J pinl a 28 am Philadelphia. Baltimore aad nasmnarton Special. Pittubur Nifrht Kx press. East Aurora Accommodation. Olean and Bradford Accm 6.10 om! 8.

B0 am 10.45 pm; 7.05 am :il.30pm 1 4. 28 pm S9.20am S6.06 pm 82.00pm:S5.1Bpm Lakeside Cemetery Speclat Aurora Accommodation pally, Daily except Sunday. 8 Sunday only. car bertha, apply at city Ticket Ofaoe. 285 Main 6t Phone Seneca 1820T ERIE RAILROAD Ticket Office, 309 Main Elllcott Square.

STATION, EXCHaWflE WP MICHUQI STS. Dafly. Except Sunday. Lv BnJTalo. Ar Baffalo.

Avoa aad Rochester Aceoiai New York Day SpecuU Hornellaville, Elmlm, New York, Jamestowo, Bradford and West. Atcioa, Suaday only Jamestown. Chicago, CiBeinnatt. Avoa and Rochester HoraeUsviiJe, Siotra, New York, Jamestown Local Salamanca aad Avea and Rochester Kew York Nlht anlua 'Mica A.M.I 7.44 P.M. iui O00 p.

M. I J.10 A. M. 4.16 P. M.

0.30 a. M.1 7.06 p. M. 7.46 P.M. 1-00 p.

is P.M.! tli.35 P. M. A.M. t.5 P. H.

0.00 T. M. 4.36 p. a. 0.00 A.M.

P. M. I. 10 p.m. AM P.

BL tlO.10 A.H. 7.06 A M. 0.00 A M. 11 AM. flL0 p.

M. Sianra Falla, 71i a. vt efir. a p. (dally).

Banday. 'a. O. It ROBERTS, Gen'l At, GIRLS for Porcupines Who Attacked Him. creatures and he men saw unmistakably that they were porcupines.

Seventeen there were, a3 in twos and threes they anDiei torwaru, wnn a large one acting prise, the men as leaaer. Almost Dreatniess witn sur In thp pahfn wnttori ine aog, catching sig-rtt or tnem, wnmed witn a note or; fear that even a brown bear could notfinspire. i Steadily the procession of porcupines advanced and fche doir. retreatlne to the i aoorstep, Degan to quiver with aonrenen sion. Undoubtedly he had seen these foes before.

Marching closer, the curious lit tie visitors beian to encircle the doar. Suddenly, unable to stand the sustpense any longer, he panted shrilly and rushed i tne nearest porcupine. i instantly it tolled Itself tightly Into a ball, as did most of the others, and Snoozer's skin, was punctured severely oy tne snarp (juiiis. yelping with pain, he retreated, arid after a few seconds. unrolling themselves, the porcupines drew near with merciless intentions.

Snoozer might have leaped past them and fled away at night, but perhaps the lonely mountains at niffht. with their strange inhabitants, filled hfm with ter ror and induced him to suffer at the doorstep of his master in preference. Closer the porcupines came, until the cowering jlog tfas hemmed upon the log sin. ii Within six feet was the impregnable circle of bristles, and what the result would have been will never be known for one of the? men, whose warm heart was wrung by pitiful whimpering of tne taitntui ctng, wnicn never reared bt'ars, snatched a six-shooter from th wjill and through the window shot the nearest porcupine. A yelp of delight succeeded the report of the pistol, there was a sudden scattering of porcupines and biioozer was never again com oe led to i sleep outside the house.

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DEltR PICTURE. seen in the Adirondack Mountains, taken by A. P. Yates, the photographer, from life. Is view at Lhe city ticket office of the Ne York central, 377 Main Street, corner Eagle.

27t5- SU MER TOURS To Clayton, Th usand Islands. Montreal. yuebec, Adironi resorts, reached ack Mountains and other by New York Central. City Ticket ufnci 377 Main Street. 27t5 iDif Michigan Southern Ry.

ricket Office, 297 Main Elllcott Square. (TELEPHONE, SENECA 686.) Trains arrive and depart Ezcbange-etreet Station. DEPART. 10 A. M.

4 1 A. M. "10A. biimud Tibe.) ARRIVE. Vorli Chicsgo A.

tf Shore Limited JL Chicago Hxprcsa bay xS.44 A. M. Hail 4.6i M. SA- -ootliweMern Kxpress 8 30 P. rk- oston Brp- 3.00 Br M.

K-Jt 5 "emfield Accommodation. tS.46A.-M. Ix JT- Erie Acrommodatioa. 115 P. M.

'OP. M. Kart Uil Limited M. Toledo and Buttalo Aceom te.20 P. M.

P.M. Boston; Chicago SuodaJ. 3.: A M. Oallr. Dtilr.

ex Sunday, Daily, ox. Monday. Michigan (Tentral "The Niagara Falls Routa." TICKET Main Street (Elllcott Telephone, Seneca 765. Tralnt leave aad arrlre EicbACx Street Depot. egc May 1900.

(EMtem TlmJtt.lufali tr-Balal T. A CtaJCD SpecUJ it 1 20 am y.ago. a. liXVOraK Bp'I All T1.10 x3ouiinoouon. if am "eern xprea am it II I tM ra ra t-aucMn AUaatie Baprem 4.

so Vlacara aod Toronto Exproa Maaara axd Toronto jbrpre T.M am 1W.4S AM tJf ra A.ao ra CONMKOTIOM WITH rnninto.Eamiltoa Bnfialo and CP.Vjn. Buillton Tomnto r-unUHm Toronto Toronto A Montreal Ul AM AM 1 1 oo tii- ra Daily. Exenrit Banday. Accept MoadAT. A bog who Was No.

Match In the vtelnity of Enkerald Lakes, porcupines are exceedingly numerous this season and! afford fine port for the hunt ers. But tuie sport is not always on one sense Of hlimor they must have, enjoyed Bide, ana ir tne porcupines nave any an incident or recent occurrence. a party Of campers at tljie lakes were sur- prised on 1 awakening! one mOming to find their saddles, thrown carelessly out- side the ent. had been (tnawed and ruined some nocturnal visuors. watcn was maintained the following evening and It was found that th porcupines were the euilty bnes.

Evidently they like the taste Of leather, for I similar instances have occurred, and Uhiarles liranam, tne hatchery siiperintendertt, carefully iocks the stable poors at nlgnt. Old Snooter, the wacch dog, is always kept wltliln the house at At first he was allowed to mam at large, dui desDite the pain from their poisonous quills he stemed to persist in attacking the porcupines, rtoinng inemseives mio balls of spfikes the lititle animals would defy the flag. Morning after morning he was founa wnimpenng wun pain rrura cruel pricks and at laslt a watch was determined Uon to decldie whether Snoozer was foohsr enough tcj continue fighting the porcupines of his own will. Soon aftr darkness! had settled over the mounts ins watchfil eyes were kept upon him as he lay a fjew yards from the Ths moon rose early and illumined the scene to the satisfaction of the watchf rs. Suddenly "one of them started in excitement.

jDown a little footpath loading into the igreat dark forest of pines of me a company of little animals. Noiselessly they! treaded their way toward the cabin. The dog, sleeping with one eye open, as is hifc wont, seemed to divine their coming a4 they drew near. Sirring up on his haunches, he glanced about as if; In dread. Nearer and nearer came the stealthy from harm I'd give fpy life." "Say that again." "To save her from harm I give my life.

It sounds like bombast, but it's plain truth." "Hume, I may be mad, but I'm not so mad as you "You're madder, if jyou don't believe me. I don't know why I should make a confidant of you, of ill men: but there are illogical moments in; which men feel constrained to (strip themselves bare. Perhaps this is puch a moment in my life. Miss Moore i the only woman I ever loved. That's aj line frorri a play, but it is true, for alljthat." "Why do you say it to me?" "What's the meaning of that cloak being in your wardrobe?" "Why did you go to my wardrobe to I "Man, I wasn't looking for that.

1 was looking for something with which to hang you. And I found this, and those. This is a towel. There's blood ort it. See! The marks of bloody fingers.

You wiped your hands on it when, last night, you came from Lawrence's room." "That is what you make of it. 1 "Those are the pyjamas which you were wearing. There are stains on them. See here, on the of the jacket: on the brepchts, too." "What is the deduction which you draw from that?" "I did know. I did know.

But now I don't." His tone was one cf intense dejection. He looked towards the bed. I considered 'for a moment) Then I spoke. "You're quite right, Hume, The cloak is Miss Mcore'Sj," He turned round, qtiickly. Costlaaed Tomorrow A Record 1 4 Blood.

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tents, I SLEEPING CAR TO BOSTON Leaves Buffalo every lay at via New York Centra. Space on sale city ticket office, 37T Main Street 17 15.