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PIKES ON Tl Nothing in Natl Denver LctUr in - fires that recently devastated \,8 jD nnrthero Michigan ?nd , SU*, ?ther r;ceDt. .firf lh'*1 i a""88 a,eaH Pra,rie **od8 10 ?loba ??d N"rth I>?kot? **A ?|? | {" fires that burred over square , L goong ihe Ricky Mountains , revivid a train i|f reminiscences j pe the old-time plainsmen out , ?fgy concerning their own cxperi- j i" gn at prairie fires two or ? * decades ago. One who has j erseeo a prairie fire suoh as used j y fall m devastate the plaios from J urMiP6?uri rivt'r t0 the Rookv oaolainB and from ibe Kio Grande Cen wi British America can have idea what Mich enormous conflagra- j pg were. Noone ha? yet adequate described tb? frightful solemnity, ! ( gjgodeur and tbe awfulness of a j of lurid li mies, tens of 'housaoda | acres bread, rolling, r ssing and ; thing forward like an ?n raged ti- | jicDiOuster and leaving in the trail j pingan' Huokiug ruius from hor- ; nto horizon. M .irk Twain has said lithe most eolossal, awing thing in nature is a great fire on the plains, ?li ag be Biw in Nebraska iu tho fall tirio fires with solid walls of i twenty-five and thirty-Svp feet, extending ten and score ?si?cs ?s wind might be blowing, have been oo. Descriptive- writers and ! have vied with one another in irt.io depict the sensations -that ate ?se who lock? opon a sweep*/ roaring prairie fire, but, all'o?xorto failed. The burning of Moscow Ibo conflagration at Chicago haye fancifully pictured in song and L, bat it has remained for th.o B&vago of the pinino to teil with degree of adequacy of tho prai? "h is," aayo fae, "tfce spirit who in anger has drawn his oT flameB across the path of the BIO." ian e s part of the prairie is now ea ap by settlements that the hare lost much of their old-time sot grt ndeur, but the very fact Le settlement makes the danger >ejty ind life the greater. Whon oDiitrj, from the Golf of Mexio ?: entern boundary of the United j, god even beyond, was almost led, a great fire could sweep at from one end of it to the other do no damage except to the game: -lit overtake in ito mad chase, settlement the danger to man si, god as long as there are any 'embie stretches of prairie there mys danger unless the farm logs and v".Tages are carefully "ded with fire breaks. 1874 some b enters started .- a ie fire in Bon Homtn? county, ta territory, opposite Niobrara, There was a strong southwest and it s wept to the northwest er 300 miles, licking up tho dry 'e grass and rolling up great vol of smoko on 'the soft September or upward of a week. . This ono omparatively narrow, be:Og kept spreading to the westward by tho uri river, and from making much ss to thc cast ?,* fret by the verano later by the wind, which d more to the east; but in some i the tract burned over reached th of seventy-five mites, audit ed perhaps fifty. . ocDd few streams to impede ita sou that side of thc Missouri; few it did encounter, it liad no Hy in leaping. Indeed tho dis lire will jump in crossing these streams, where the gras?'g>ows d tall to the very water's edge, almost past belief. In cas?a not pasb in one plsce thore is a place where it can, and so it on, frequently leaving large, ed, irregular ehapOd places ?treamsor lakes, but leaving n?try black, barren and forbid "re took over a week to go ??"'re than 2?0 milos. This ec"i slow, but several, things * taken into consideration. In Places the grass was short, necessarily hindered its pro There was little or no wind . toe night, oo it, df course,; d slowly theo. At other times, 1 m among stretches of blue r other tall grass* it, like any Pairie fire, traveled at such a ata horse, bo he ever so fleet, ?ot l"ng keep ahead. The *aV>f courso, irregular, and as I 'twould freq?cnt?y happen inst] a8 advancing arms would join ' to,lea ahead of the main lino e *ud rush onward, forming a ?t and leaving a rapidly disap '"land of unburned grass be Ieft of tho mighty fidvanoing ?f flame, w?s retarded tho 0r third day in passing through ?a Bilba, tater the right be il>?led amen* tho Wesedng andfell bebind. It finally among the ?oteaos close to S -\E PRAIRIE. ire Equal Them. New York Sun. the Missouri river, in the neighbor hood of Le Beau and Boise Cacho creek. I ti fact, it tras tho river that stopped it, for had it uot been there or had the wind got info the south, it would have swept on 250 miles fur- 1 thor, out of Dakota and on into the , British poss?dions, no one knows how far. Probably about 28,000 ' square wiles of prairie was burned over by this moving sea of fire. About 1 thirty hunters and a fe? families were ' caught iu that fire and bumed to death. ^ Hundreds of buffaloes aud antelopes were roasted. Among thc most devastating of the last great, fires on the plains was one ' in 1880. A prairie fire swept down from British Columbia, across the in ternational line iuto Dakota, until it reached the Northern Pacific railroad. ] At its greatest-width, iu Northern , Dakota, the flames wcro 150 miles , wide. Over 10,000 square miles were ( covered by the sweeping fire. Pas- , seugers on the Northern. Pacific rail- ] road had a chance to see part of thc j awful fire and to this day there are , those among tho passengers who say ? that the sound of the roaring flames j qnd the enormous walls of flame mov- , i og over the dry grass in leaps and \ bounds, like, red, angry, bellowing, , fiery surf, was terrible beyond de- j scriptum. For two days and three ( nights the flames could be seen raging , to toe north of the railroad tracks. , The great tongues of flames seemed to ? be shooting higher than the ears and ( almost reaching them, though they ] were really further away than they j looked, bp, jg held bask by the com- , pany s fire break or burncdstrip along ( tho track. Tbero was no sleep on the , trains passing that fire, but the win- , dows And platforms'wers crowded with j passengers, eagerly watohing the roll- j iog lames. Antelopes, deer, prairie , wolves, foxes, jackrabbits and other animals eould be seen in great num- | hers hurrying before the flames and , crossing the traok. It frequently hap- , pened, that some, of them were run over by the train and killed. Those , that reached the south side of the < trock found safety for the. time being, at least, as the fire did not cross. Later in the season, however, the ( usual smaller fires prevailed south of , the railroad. j Many a man has been hanged or , shot to death if the conveniences for \ hanging were not to be had on the ? treeless, polelees plains, for starting < prairie fires. The cattlemen and cow- , boye, assisted by the soldiers at the , army posts on the.pratrio always ett**?,- , ed ont immediately niter a prairie fire , to investigate the cause. Bot very , often there was nothing left, to tell , the cale of the origin of the conflagra- , lion. The plainsmen were, however, , so angry usually at their losses and ; the suffering and death of human ? beings and beasts in the fire that they meant to fix the blame somewhere. No doubt scores of men have been hanged for starling prairie fires totten they were either innocent or the fire ha l bet n started by carelessness. In August, 1870, when the great prairie ute of western Kansas swept from the Arkansas river down into Indian ter ritory, a distance of nearly 300 miles, the origin of a fire was traced by a gang of cattlemen to a round-up party iu the employ of tho Arkansas Cattle company, located near where Coolidge, Kan., has since grown up. The Tex ans went to Dodge City and secretly told the Arkansas cowboys. A posse started across the plains, sixty miles to' their camp. The latter were ar rested and the trial began atonoe. Tho prosecution contended that a grudge had existed between the pris oners and the Texas cattlemen, that the prisoners had sworn vengeance against the Texas cattlemen at the earliest opportunity and that when tho prisoners had learned that the Texas fellows were Tn western Kansas driving a herd slowly on the way to Dodge City market, they had set fire to the prairie grass, so that its flames would envelope the whole region, de stroy the Texas herd, and anyhow, burn, all the fodder for any Texas herds/coming, that,way. -The testi mony of so vend cowboys, who swore they knew tho plans of the prisoners was introduced. The trial started at ll p. m., and cloped at 2 a^m. Th? prisoners num bered seven men and one boy. Six of the . prisoners were condemned to death. Tho boy and ono man were ordered out of Kansas on pain of death if seen in the State after forty-eight hours. r Forthwith -tho posse, with tho six condemned prisoners, bound and 'helpless, on horseback, started for .a grove of cottonwood trees ten miles distant on the hanks of the Ar kansas river. Just as the sun was shooting its earliest rays across tho blackened plains the last two of the six alleged starters of the . prairie fire S pteuiber. A fire break is made by plowing a few furrow* outside and en tirely ?round the town. Further out, say 100 yards, another circle in made, and then tr > grass bumed between. This effectually prevents any hostile fire fro u taking the community. It very frequently happens that this fir* break is constructed after the fire whioh it is iutended to guard against has appeared. On such occasions while one party goes out with brooms, shovels, old grain sacks and other weapons to stay the progress of the Sro as much aa possible, another at taches teams to all the plows that can be found and begins to make the Deeded furrows. As BOOH aa the fur rows are turned the back fire between is started, and usually the town is saved. The tire breaks, simple aa they are, have saved thousands of lives of settlers in the west, and pro moted a vu-t amount of capital invest 3d in farming property aud humes of poor families. Her Kiss was Death? The art < T poiconing, if we are to believe an eminent authority, must be reckoned among the lost arts. It is not because we are less coarse than mr ancestors, and carry our refine ment even into our crimes : we are less unscrupulous or oruel than our forefathers were. Though the toxi :ology of thc ancients were necessarily Incomplete, there is every reason to believe that antiquity was acquainted erith the use of arsenic, opium, ben bane and prussic aoid. The oldest yoisc-a is use was ?vob?b!y so impor tation of serpent-venom. Theophras bus speaks of a poison made from kcooite, with rapid or slow effects in iccordanoe with the operator's wishes. During the empire the removal of in* 3onvenient people by means of poiooo bad become so common that the em perors had a number of men in their service, whose duty it was to taste all lisbeo put upon the imperial table, ind no dinner was partaken of with out one of the court physicians being present. Oue of the most notorious poisoners of the day was Locusta, the mu* derer of Claudius and Britanniens. About t e year 331 B. C., large num bers of women, belonging to the higher slasses of Roman society, were indio* sd for poisoning their' husbands (a modern instance "of the epidemic oc curred of late years in Hungary.) Une hundred and seventy were con victed and condemned. , The sixteeth and seventeenth con buries were the halcyon days of poi soning. There is no donbt that La Spars, and the, if possible, still more wretched hag, La Tuffania, were as bad as yon make them. The latter is said to have caused the death of over 500 persons. She used a preparation af srsenie, which she sold under the name of "Acqua Toff ana." It was a slow poison, the victim growiug daily weaker and gradually dying from phy sical exhaustion. In Franoe the most notorious female poisoners were Mme. ie Brinvilliers (who was taught the secret of tho ''succession power" by Ste. Croix, whioh she successfully administered to her father and broth ers,) and tho still more notorious Lavoisin and Lavigoreux, who, being ostensibly midwives, carried theil poisons to higfh and low-married couples anxious to hasten the dissolu tion of the irksome tie or needy heirs wished to accelerate the departure ol rich relatives. A veritable mania foi poisoning appears to have set in to ward the middle of the seventeenth century. In England poisoning was declared! by an Act passed in the reign ol Henry VIII, to be high treason, and those guilty of it were to be boiled alive. The most notorious case (thc poisoning of James I, by Bucking ham, is only surmise',) of poisoning was that of.Sir Thomas Overb?ry, ic the year 1613. He had incurred tin displeasure of Lord Chester and h>f wife, and they had both vowed to. b< revenged on him. So after they bac got him committed to the tower, the j set themselves to poison his food- bj mixing arsenic and catharides with it Por many months, though, suffering intensely, he appears to have linge ret on. At lust a stronger dose than us ntl put an end to his miserable exist ence. The guilty couple, to the kiug'i everlasting disgrace, wore relcasct after five years' imprisonment. One of thc most curious-points con neoted with poison is tho fact tha nations and individuals; have beet known to thrivo on it. Mithridates the king of Pontos, had poison for hi daily, fond.. In the Gesta Hom au or u u we read that "the queen of the north having heard nf the great proficient-; which Alexander the Great made ii learning, under the tuition Of Aristo tlo, nourished ber daughter, from bc cradle,.on a certain kidd of dc-adl, poison, and when sbc grew vp she wa considered so beautiful that the sigh of her alone affected many with mad nes?.'V The young lady was sent i Alexander, who, of course, foll madlj in love with her. Aristotle, win knew of the plot, warned the king who, thereupon, commanded a crimi na] whom he had condemned to deatl to kiss the girl. Scarcely bad th man. touched her toby lips before "hi who?o ' '"fauns' -wt* impregnated wit p?son, and he expired in thc greatest agony." , I |H thu present nay it ia well known that tho present girl* of Styria con sumo large quantities of arsenic to ?dd to their personal charms It is a common habit also amung men. It is said to improve thc complexion, to promote digestion and tu strengthen the respiratory organs. The worst of it ls that wheo once you have com- . meuced taking the dru? it means death to leave it off.-London Church Ga zette. - m? m mm - Ten Years tn Jail fur a Brother's Crime. Michael O'Donnell, who was sen tenced to thirty years in Sing Sing prison, and has nerved ten of them, j for a crime committed by his brother James, will be released tr w, because the deathbed confession of his broth er, thc real criminal, has been indor sed as true by the district attorney. Michael O'Donnell's reputation as a worthless, troublesome character went far lo condemn him, yet he hid ideas of duty and self sacrifice of his own. At auy time during ten years he might have said that bis brother James was guilty of tho crime for which he was serving, yet when he knew that his brother had confessed, mouths ago, be ouly said, "He*ll die soon, Jim will. Let him die in peace. Then you can get me out.1' While he was under arrest for the crime his brother was in hiding recovering from wounds reoeived on the night of the robbery with whioh Michael was charged. John R. Fellows, who convicted Michael O'Donnell, is dead. So is Judge Raudolph B. Martine, who sentenced him. So is Michael Fee han, who, with James O' Do mell and a man n med Kelly robbed Mux G. Stein, in his saloon at No. 410 East Sixty-fourth street, in April, 1888. And on the night of April 8 last, pre cisely ten years after the crime was committed, James O'Donnell confess ed that he, and not his brother Mi chael, was Feehan's aceomplice. Fee ban's friends had applied for his pardon, and on the day it was granted Feehan died in Sing Sing. Friends took up O Donnell's case a year ago, but it was not until a few days ago that his innocence was made clear and tho district attorney decided to act. James O Donnell, with Feehan and Kelly, broke into Stein's saloon, rob bed the till, and *hen the proprietor came from his rooms in the rear into the bar, held bim up and went through his pnokets. It was easy work as long as S^ein was- terrified and helpless, and the robbers, believing him help loss from fright, remained in the bar long enough to help themselves to a drink. But Stein got his revolver and open ed fire. The burglars fired in return. J.kheagh he did eel knew it, Stein wounded James O'Donnell end Kelly. They ran, crippled, but able to escape. Feehan , unhurt and desperate, fired at Stein and closed with him. After a rough and tumble straggle he broke from the saloonkeeper and ran into the arms of a policeman who was hur rying to the saloon. Feehan thus was taken red handed. James O'Donnell wcqt to tho house of his mother and brothers, at No. 413 East Sixty-third street. He was bleeding from his wounds. As he fled from the saloon one of Stein's bullets lifted bis hat from his head, abd he did not stop to pick it up. He feared that it would assist the police in tracing him after the trail of blood) which bb left for several blocks ceased. He awakened his brother Michael. "You go back and get' my hat, Mike," he said. And "Mike" went. James and'Miohael O'Do noell" resem bled eaoh other io those days.' The police and Stein were on the lookout near the saloon. When Michael O'Donnell was within two hundred feet of the place he was arrested. Stein identified him positively? as one of tho robbers. Feehan, who pleaded guilty, and had nothing to gain by his testimony, having already been sentenced tc thirty years in Sing Sing, swore that Michael O Donnell was not .with him on tho night of the burglary. O'Don nell, foo, made stout denial of guilt. There was streng evidence tending tc establish ac alibi, but it was regarded as untrustworthy. Judge Marline gave O'Donnell the maximum sentence and the man went to Sing Sing.. Feehan would not mention Jame: O'Donnell. ' He would betray no one although ho swore that M:ohae O'Donnell was not guilty. Michae O'Donnell would not incriminate hil brother, though he could have savec himself by doing so, for James ot thai time could have been produced, wound ed by Stein's bullets. So Michae -O'Donnell was "sent away" to "d< hts brother'a-bit," as tho rest of tin "gang" skid. Edward Kelly, who with James O'Donnell and Feehan robbed Stein, escaped at the time, bu Was imprisoned subsequently for an other crime. Feehan died in prison. Jame O'Donnell, morose from the time tha prison doors closed on his brother heard that Fechan had confessed th< facts. "NOT/ Mike will go off hi i???i? lilli hoad, mo," he ?aid. Hut ''Mike'* said nothing. Finally, a year or HMM o a*", Janies O Donnell luid hia stu.y to Siaie Senator Maurice Feathers! 01. ' He Waa ill with consumption und said he realized that he might have t<> ?CM to prison in hia brother** pluce,. hut uiuitt relieve bia conscience. Mr. Feat herston went to Sing Sing and inquired concerning Feehun's la*t statement. Theil he saw Michael O'Donnell and told him of Miut'a" confession. "I ve been hore near ten years now," said Mike. "Jim hasn't lung to live. Let him live bis few days in peace. Theu you eau get tue j out if you want to." James 0 Donnell, dying of eon- j sumption, was removed to the I'rcfb.x terian hospital in April last, and be fore he died ho signed un affidavit asserting his guilt and his brother's innocence. Ile died on the tenth an niversary of tho crime Mr Featht rstnu appealed to Gov eriior Black, and au investigation nf the case was made at the governor s suggestion hy District Attorney (iar diner, with the result that yesterday Colonel Gardiner sent, to Albany a long communication, which will re sult doubtless in the lib?ration of Michael O'Donnell. This communication goes fur to prove that Michael O Donnell was practically judged on bis record, and the evidence establishing an alibi for him was disbelieved by tbe jury, who thought his mother and brothers and Feehan were trying tn pave him by perjury.-New York Herald. How to Prevent Pneumonia. You are perhaps aware that pneu monia always results from a cold or an attack of la grippe. During the epidemic of la gripp - a few years ago when so many, canes resulted in pueu monia, it was observed that the attack was never followed by that disease when Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was used. It counteracts any tendency of a cold or la grippe to result in that dangerous disease. It is the best remedy in tho world for b <d colds and la grippe, livery bottle warranted. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. A ?ame That Failed. At Fort Sheridan a cavalry regiment was being examined physically before being mustered out, those who were found disabled in any way being re commended for a pension. At a sit ting of the examining board a trooper presented himself who olaimed to have become totally deaf. If he could prove this, it would entitle him to a neat stipend for the rest of his days. The officers asked him various ques tions about his deafness ; bnt he ap parently failed io hear any of them. They tried to surprise bim into mak ing some remark whioh would show that he was shamming, but they could do nothing of the kind. Finally one of the officers held a watch to the man's ear, while another stepped to the end of the room. "Now, then," said the officer at a distance, speaking in an ordinary tone of voice, "can you hear that, sir?" "No, sir," was the prompt reply. Tho applicant was not recommended for a pension.- Chicago Journal. - Rosin and tallow make a good covering for wounds in trees. TRY ST Women suffer ing from female troubles and weakness, and from 'irregular or painful men ses, ought not to lose hope if doctors cannot help them. 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