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Show lajdVentOre.; f $ 8avi:d p.ri i Ai.o ini.i.s iiumi:. .MOK. Hi: bravery of the i.'o.ljr t rn k ""v,,r ,",,,,r O I o IlluMmtcd Hum during tho J f ''''rcc and destructive prall us SlOW lire which swept the open range of North I'lulto from the Went Wednesday night. Mlli-a b.-.iond tho dry grass nn.l weeds of tin. prnlrle became Ignited fnmi tin- "parks of a passing train, ami a miff wind soon fanned Hie l!.Hiii Into a conllngrnlloti ml enrriid llcry vnvn Inward the ast nt lln r.-iti- or ll.lrly mile an hour. Tho sheaf of wind was not to Tory wide, else t tic destruction to tli coun try west of North Platte would have reached greater proportions than It dlil. As It was, everything In Hie path of the flri' was burned, an. I when tho last ftnh'Ts hail died nut there was a thick strip hundreds nf yards wide extending across the prairie as fur aa the eye could reach. The big Cn.Iy ranch, belonging to airs. V. 1'. Cody, wire of "lltnralo lilll," wns directly In the path of the fire. Mrs. ('oily ha. I soon the red flames from her home In the darkening darken-ing twilight a Ioiik distance away, nn.l ho knew that unless tho wind shifted the flamra would soon descend upon bur broad acres. Mrs. Cody mounted fleet horse, and taking a powerful pair of field glnsscs rode tn the far western boundary of the ranch to better bet-ter watch the progress of the tire that was so swiftly nn.l surely eating- Its (Way towarda her home. Only once, and then only for a fen moments, did the wind veer, but III a few minutes Dorcas had cluing . I his niln.l, and attain fanned tho names Into ((renter fury, and drove them with Increased speed toward the Knst. It was then that Mrs. Cn.Iy reallied that tho blK ranch and Its expensive buildings must surely fall prey to the flnv Klie turned tho horse's bend for homo, and applied the lash with such vigor to the llnnka and sidea of the animal thnt It broke Into a tcrrltlc cat-j cat-j lop. Whin the ranch home was reached both rider and hor.se were 11 1 -j most In a prate of collapse, She gu.o orders to the employes to prepare to ! fight the tlatues. which had now I reached the western nuiskiria of the i ranch, and were rapidly eating their I way toward the farm buildings. Men were scut back to check the llallli'S with water an.I earth. Plows were i hastily rigged and attached to four aud six horse teams, and wide fur-rowa fur-rowa turned across ihe path of ihe lire. Hut all thc-e measures a-ixcd tn hold tho mimes Its control for a , short time only, and when tho wind J auddellly Increased the Uro drovo the ' brave men and womeu back and cou-V cou-V tinned Ita onward Bw-ecp. f Hy tlilai time townspeople of North ' Dalle began to arrive In answer to jL the atimmona for help. They came on (f. foot, on lioraehni-fc. on bicycles, lu bug gies. In automobiles, and In wagons. Ka. h aiuad Joined the Uro lighters, all of whom performed yeouiaa service under the personal direction of Mrs. Cody. The wind crowded the flames steadily stead-ily forward, driving the half aunncnt-ed aunncnt-ed and now exhausted lire lighters toward to-ward tho ranch buildings. Here a last determined aland was made, but all to no avail. Mrs. Cody continued to direct operations, and it wns due to her unerring Judgment that the losses entailed were not greater. Win wa.. calm and collected throughout the trying try-ing ordeal, and It waa not until the flames had caused all Ihe damage they could did her woman's nature assert Itself. Then she fainted. The Cody home wns saved, hut two Immonse buildings, one contained -4s) tuna of hay and the other all of the farm Implements, were destroyed, causing a loss of fully I lO.OOu.-Denver Tost. . A DV KNIT UK OK A ItOY. This Is a Cohlse County communication communica-tion to the Kcpiihllcuu from Prank Aley, who holds a medal for vera.'lty awarded to him by the Chicago World's Fair management. He wears Milliliter bestowed by the ltiifTnlo p.xpositlnu. and ho la now training for the truth fulness competition at the Louisiana Purchase Kxposlllon. "I was dow n to I'ncle Dave William' shuck in the Solomon Springs dlstti.-t day before yesterday, mid 1 never hud audi a fresh pork feed since I attended the last bog killing in Mlssourf Just before the fire in the woods, and It bap-1 pencil this way, Hobby Itutlcr was out about a quarter of a mile from the shack prospecting for fuel to keep the beans simmering, wln-n he Jumped up a bunch of Javiliiios. or wild p gs, and he bad no sooner Jumped them up than they Jumped him. loo. Now. Ihe Jovllluo Is nlmul tivcnly inches high, two inches thick, and about three foot long, the length being absorbed 111 eiual proportions by the body aud the snoot, lie is called a iavlllno because he resembles a javelin. Ho Is equally well adapted to cultivating greasew.Nid aud boring wells. Ills hair is like porcupine por-cupine quills, and he has the nastiest temper ever dls.-overed. "He will tight mi) thing from a pet poodle to a railroad company, mid Mr. Butler, being perfectly familiar Willi his reputation, flew. He had made about three Jumps when he was i-oiif routed hy a glnul mescal, the same w hich grows to a height nf si. out thirty feet nil those lints. Itohby gave one grand leup. went over the bayonets which surround Ihe base of Ihe big mescal slock and glued himself to Hi.' aforesaid slock, mid wrapping Ills Itgs around it, looked complacently down tl ; I at bis relentless pursuers. In a second 1 they were on the ground. "i'r.'i. . .1 b.-.w.tnl .1 npllon nt leg their prey t.. iirclv .1 :. -1 r.-.l to f llie.nl stork, tiny da-bed friilille. against tlie gn at gre. n bayonets bel".. In the hope ..r o erinrniim hi" vantage pole, until one by one they became Impaled on the terrible points and j coiihl only tlt their tails and squeal In lieides rage. The triumphant Hubert Hub-ert descended, drew forth Ills glistening bnrli.w and cut their throats w ith p.iln-fill p.iln-fill deliberation. That l. It was painful pain-ful to the Javiliiios. Th-re were Just eight of the mil I helped him take them home and dross tliein. since which happy hour we have hud ittllt and liver and heart and spnrerlhs and roast pig till we squeal every time one touches us. Hereafter Hobby proposes to wear a pair of these linemen's boot hook nttn. luiienta." Pboculx (Am ) llepllbllcall. "MONEY TO Hl'ltX." Not long ugo the passengers on a steamer lying in tho harbor of Marseilles Mar-seilles were Interested to s.ie forty sacks nf bank notea taken below and fed to thu furnaces when the engineer got up steam to leave port. TI.e half naked stokers poking millions mil-lions of francs Into the furnaces as If (hey had been handling shavings were. Indeed, a curious sight, and even wlen it nil explained that the novel kindling kind-ling was composed of cancelled notes on the ISnnk of Algiers, some of the passengers still felt as if they had been witnesses of a distressing spectacle. In the Hank of Kuglaiid a million-dollar million-dollar tire is not lit all nn unusual ovent. No Hank of Kuglnnd note which g. is back to the bank Is ever put In circulation again, but la laid away lu a spuciul pluce for future Incineration, In-cineration, W hen a ulllelcnt number of notes hnvo been ucoumuliitnl they are put in a furnace and burned up. Once In an long pedestrians In the street near the bank slop and gar.e up nt a little chimney rising above the structure from which a volume of black smoke Is pouring. Aud the Impecunious Im-pecunious man heaves a sigh ns he thinks uf the millions of pounds w hich (hat sinoko represents. Anutlier spectacle of wealth which la not wealth nt nil la afforded by a resident resi-dent of Loudon who lias a room pat erc.l with Uovi riinient bonds aud paper currency. As Hie bomls and bills are Ihose of a iletuuct South American government, the wall paper Is not so valuable as it appears nt llrst, but it represents a fortune which the owner's nilr,'tllilcil father llneil. il in these " curitles" In the days when (hey bad a market value. New York Press. l'HiHT A MOUNTAIN MOM. While A. C. Marklelii and Mr. McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, New York oil prospectors, were riding along Itttshy Kane Creek, Ky, they were nttn. ked by a uioiin-titln uioiin-titln Hon, The beast sprang on the horse ridden by Marklelii and bore him to tho ground. Slnrklclu's leg waa caught miller the horse. McCarthy McCar-thy drew a revolver and tired, the bullet bul-let sinking the lion aud stunning him. The llou roll from the horse on Mark-Ida's Mark-Ida's body and hurled Ita teeth lu Marklelu'a breast aud shoulders, tear-lug tear-lug tho flesh. McCarthy continued to shoot at die animal, aud. afler emptying empty-ing Ida revolver, got a club and beat (he brute, which was weakening from losa of blood. Marklelii waa mortally hurt, while McCnnliy'a clollilng was lorn In shreiU and his body severely scratched. WOMAN KILI.8 WILDCAT. Killing a wildcat weighing Kin pounds and nearly six feet from tip to tip, la the feat credited tu Mra. M. 1. Warden, of Pueblo, Colo. The animal an-imal waa killed by two bullets from a thirty -elght-eallbro revolver after It had pounced upon her fifteen-year old brother, who had gone to the bum lo less. When he opened tho door the huge animal prang at him, throwing him to the ground. His yells for help reached Mrs. Warden, who seined a re volver ami rushed to tho barnyard and tired at tho beast. Two shots, ouo entering en-tering the head aud the ot!;.,j the shoulder, ended Its existence. The hoy's Injuries were not serious. IlKUOIR SCHOOL TKACIIKK. Plunging Into Ihe Hesplalnes Illver, Miss I.oiii-o .In. k-uii. a set I teacher, of Maywood. a suburb of Chicago, rescued one of her pupils. Iho little daughter of Samuel (i. Kline, after the mother of the child bad falnled and two boy's who had accidentally knocked the little one Into the river s.ui fought her way through (he swift waters of the Hcsplalnrs, which Is at n higher fined atngu than for years, aud It was only nfier she had slipped i.aek into the river from the crumbling I'.tnk several tlmes that tlie young wo. t n ui u liruught the llttla girl safely ashore. IMHNrKSS KILLS nKAIt. At a hunting pnrly at (latshliin. Hub. n. glreu by the Cm nil Huke aud ilrand Piichcsa Vlndlmlr recently, the ' lirnnd Huebess, who Is a famous shot, ' had a narrow escape. She kilted one bear and then shot at another, wound- lug It. The enraged anlinnl struck one nf the beaters, ripping the clothing from his buck and tearing lib eJioul-der. eJioul-der. Then, rising to his full h"lght, j over six feet, the bear rushed iiiop the Urn nil Duchess. In spite nf her gmi-I gmi-I gonitis situation, she retained tier pies. eiice nf miad. calmly shisik off a fur I coat which Impeded her free move-1 move-1 iiient, ralsinl her gun and flred, put-I put-I ting. a bullet directly between the eyes ; of the animal. |
