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Show SNAKES OF THE OCEAN , r ? Feahirelof Animal Life That Is Known Prac- tiotv Dclarcy Crushed Lord Methuen's Force . Mrs. P. D. Armour, Jr., Married ? f tically to Few. When the eteamehlp Oeingwold arrived Nrntlr In tk United ItttM and Capt Roberta reported that about forty-three mllea oouthweet of Ceylon hi el had ateamed for two hoar through utioe of aakoo, probably taoot poroon suspected the skipper of having draws a very long bow. But tbo captain has told only the truth, and now that, owing to our new possessions, more and more ships will ply the waters of tho Indian and ths Chinese seas, the world wU hear many new and startling things about a feature of animal life that hitherto has been known practically to only a few. Tho first scientific and ofllclal report Tbroeirh a See f Make. that reached the United States of the existence of great sea snakes In numbers so east as to challenge credulity was made two years ago by Dr. Georgs F. Becker of the United States geological surrey, who saw a wonderful spectacle while passing through the Sea of Jolo. Between Cebu and Jolo the ship passed through sea snakos for 100 mllea. Dr. Becker computes that there were at least 6,000 of them to each square mile, and that If ths school of serpents was as broad as It was long, there must have been 60,000,000 of them. In this case, as was the case of the Oslngwold, the sea, literally and exactly speaking, was alive with them. Utter fearlessness is a distinguishing Sbaracterlstle of sea snakes, and it . adds no little to the danger that Is to be apprehended from them, for It often v leads them to attack fishermen or swimmers, and even to climb up the anchor chains and through the hawser bales of vessels and to attack their srewa. And, as the bite of every one ef the fifty known varieties Is absolutely fatal, there Is no little fear felt of them la the great ocean spaces Inhabited by them. With ths exception of the cobra or the buahmaater of Africa there Is no snake on dry land that kills so swiftly aid as terribly as do ths sea snakes. Owing to their fatal weapons and their ease and celerity ot swimming, there are practically no enemies that destroy enough of them to make any Impression on their numbers. No snake on land except the coral. grass and carpet snake la clad 'so beaeUfnlly as are almost all the Banded, striped, speckled, blotched, green, olive, yellow, blue and black, they seem the most beautiful ' taings that the eye can hope to see ss one watches them swimming and Soiling far below the surface in the glorious transparence of the deep blue Indian Ocean. There are no cases on record of recovery after their bite. Most of ths rlctlms are Malay and other native fishermen and shore aweliers, and physicians rarely get to eee the victims. Statistics are not kept In that part of ths world, so It Is not posslbls to ascertain even approximately bow are each year. Kay persons' know kiued there is hardly a Ashing village that has not Its tala of death to telL , One case to come under the observation of surgeons occurred fn the port M Madras. The captain of a merchant vessel was bitten by some unknown creature while be was in bathing, but As paid - no attention to It - Hi dressed leisurely and went to the -- Than-atophldl- , a. Ths defeat and capture of lord Me- the Loyal North Lancashire Regiments thuen by ths Boer General Delarey has showed conspicuous ' courage In proplunged England into gloomy depree-sdo- tecting the wagons, refusing to surIn a battle before daybreak on render unto resistance was useless March 7, n force of 1,200 British solDelareya forces were almost all diers was stampeded; forty-on- e men dressed in the British uniform, which were killed, seventy-seve- n wounded, made it Impossible for the infantry to over 200 captured, and Lord Methuen distinguish' between their men and the himself made a prisoner, after kts leg enemy when tbe mounted troops were had been broken. The Boers were uni- driven in on them. formed In British uniforms of khaki. The Boers numbered 1.600 men, with Ths fight took pises just before s and n pompom. De- ntea afterward the turtle began to cratch the bitten spot. Sixteen minutes after that It was paralysed completely, and In fourteen minutes more It died. A second turtle succumbed In forty-si- x minutes. A tree snake died In thirty minutes after being bitten, and a toadflsh was killed within ten , minutes, , Tk een shake lives entirely in the open ocean. They do not even ascend Hvera. Their favorite hunting are ths wide and deep arms grounds of sen that separate the islands of the China, Indian and South Pacific seas. They do not often haunt the shores, hut remain at some distance from land. They can hardly move on dry land and after wriggling around a bit andbltlng savagely and blindly In all directions they He still until they perish. Their range is great They are found throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans from the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to ths western shore of Panama, and from New Zealand to Japan, In the Day of Bengal ahd the seas around the Nicobart, Molucca, Timor and New Guinea. In all these placet It is an unwritten law that a sea snake must be killed whenever possible. But as the fishermen usually go out In extremely narrow and eranky craft, they are mere frequently glad to escape alive themselves when they happen to find n lot of serpent In their nets instead of fish. The creatures have been known to surround fishing boats that attacked them and to kill every man In them. When they are enraged they appear to have no fear of anything. The fishermen say that In such circumstances they will not only bite, but try to kill their enemies by constriction. It la certain that some varieties hold fish by virtue of their constrictive powers while waiting for the poison to do its a. fifteen-pound- dawn, between Wlnburg and Llcbten-bur- g. In the western part of the Orange River Colony. The British force numbered 1,200 men and wan on Its way to Po v 1 rai nesf on tel n, where . it wats to meet Gen. Grenfell with 1,300 mounted infantry. . Tbe attack eeema to have been a complete surprise, Tbe horses and mules were stampeded, and although Rows they devour the fish. Often such hunting lasts for weeks, until ths last fish in that part of ths sea has been destroyed. JxtlM Held nS the Beak epZLQDD In the presence of n small gathering, mostly relatives, Mrs. May Lestsr Armour, widow of Philip D. Armour, Jr t Chicago, was married to Patrick A. Valentins at ths Hotel NetherUnd, Nsw York. The wedding, which was ns simple sad quiet as posslbls, took place in one 6f the privets parlors of ths hotel. Ths Rev, Dr. S tires officiated at the ceremony, Mrs. Armour entered the room with the bridegroom, and there were no attendants. The bridal gown of blue chiffon over satin was elaborately trimmed with lace, and the bridal bouquet was of n man years, la a pink roses. , A unique feature of ths ceremony man and n general favorite. Hoi Worried ky tko Look. Strange replies ars often received by wives wno.wake their husbands for burglars, leaky water pipes, etc. In the early morning. Mrs. C., wife of a certain government official in Baltimore, is decidedly nervous and has frequency heard things. Ons morning last week eh thought she smelled gas. Bravery earns to her mysteriously and she crept downstairs to Investigate. After smelling about house of a friend for dinner. After It he played with the chudren.of hie for some minutes she rushed upstairs, host and sang songs for ths company. called Mr. C., then shook him and at Then this was Now and tsen, later In the evening, last aroused him. as time passed, he noticed a prickling, beard: "John, theres n leak in the gas pip burning sensation over his wools body, but It felt rather pleasant than other-wis-e In ths kitchen. Well all die If It la and did not alarm him in , the not llxsd Leaks bad been heard of before, find Beast His friends took occasion several times to remark that ne was look-- - Mr. C. sleepily asked; Is It much nowt dng particularly welt "Not much!" screamed his wife, and Three hours afterward he returned turned over, this soothjto his ship and had barely touched the then as Mr. Meek before his limbs became unacing advice was given: Put a bucket under it and come to countably stiff and his tongue grew so thick that he could not make himself bed. Baltimore Sun. understood. Hs took some brandy and when that failed his ship doctor preA temilbU scribed medicine for him. When this The Reading, Pa., superintendent of Barman no effect a sailor schools has officially told the teachers produced suggested that perhaps the captain that they must read the dally papers bad been bitten by a sea snake. On and keep ths run of events. "In my (examination the1 doctor found . that he says, the teacher who Judgment, the two tiny wounds .were angry and saye she never read the papers is not tpnlple and he Instituted drastic treatment at once, bnt the victim died with- - qualified to teach. ln seventy-on- e hours after having been Posits r Bbrolow Conlif Boot bitten. ! k Poultney Bigelow la arranging to Sir Joseph Fayer and Prof. Russell sea snake to bite give up hla, London horns and take np emitted a five-fopermanent residence In the United bird. It died In four minutes. A second bird, bitten by the same snake, States to devote hie time to modem immediately afterwards, died in ten American problems and American reminutes. Another snake killed a bird latione with European countries. (within seven minutes. Then they It doesnt bother the Almighty to up(teased n sea snake until It bit a soft-phe- ll turtle In the mouth. Five mln- - set our most carefully laid plans. ' society ch 1 1 w Tbe CmltM Telatel. The Countess Tolstoi, In her ury, Is almost as wonderful as her famous husband, whose severs Illness Is at present causing such grave anility. Her Individuality and her theorise are aa marked and distinct as are hla Nor does she always agree with him In bis views. - In fact, she most strenuously opposed Ms tirade against the copyright system. Neither. Is sbs blind admirer of the counts style and stories, but often freely and somewhat warmly attacks both, the result being a rather heated argument The tountns is a woman of broad training and ripe education. Strong In her Character and great la her ability, the Is ths typs of woman who would best Understand a man of hsr husbands er kina, end who would to ths beet la hie and both their lives. fur-jth- Psteee Beary Highly always been an unwritten law In the New York navy yard that no salute shall be fired on Sunday. Even when President McKinley died the minute guns were not fired until the next day, yet the long established rule was violated when Trines Henry arrived. It has miles; - Capa Colony Is 871,077 squsr Transvaal Colony, 120,000 quart miles; Orange River Colony, 60,000 square mllea; Natal, 88,800 square miles, making a total of 471,877 square miles. Ths area of the province of British Columbia Is 833,100, square miles. ' bilte Will Be la Five hundred and fifty men were pursued by the Boers tour miles from tbs scans of Ths British column was moving in two parties. One, with the ox wagons, at 2 a, m. Tbs other, left Twe-Bos'with the mule wagons, started an hour later. Just before dawn the Boers attacked, Before reinforcements could reach them the rear guard broke. t In the meantime a large number of Boers galloped p on both flanks. These at first were checked ty the flack parties, but the panlo and stampede of the mules had begun, and all the mule wagons, with a terrible mixture of mounted men, rushed past the ox wagons. All efforts to check them were unavailing. Major Paris collected forty men and occupied n position n mils In front ths wagons, which were then halted. After n gallant but useless defense ths Boers rushed into the ox was .wagons, nnd Lord Methuen wounded In the thigh. Paris, being surrounded, surrendered at 10 a. m. Later reports say tbs Boers made n sudden flanking nnd enveloping at tack from the rear. The first disorder was occasioned by the native boys with ths led horses galloping through ths mule convoy as. ths latter was endeavoring to comply with Gen. directions to dose on the ox convoy. This disorder in the mule convoy communicated itself to the mounted troops, and Boers dressed lu khaki, riding along ths wagons, frustrated all attempts of ths officers to rally their men. Great confusion ensued among this portion of tbs mounted troops, and they and ths mule wagons, galloping three miles beyond ths ox wagons, were cut off in sections. Ths Fourth batteries fought nnd Thirty-eight- h with great gallantry. Three hundred of ths Nortnumberland kuslllers and ths-actlo- Differences in Population ares of Boers make their headquarters. They stand aoms 2,000 yards apart and ars: constructed of corrugated Iron, tbs outside generally . being faced with tone and the whole surrounded with; barbed wire. Each blockhouse Is garrisoned with ten men and la connected by telephone with the nearest military camp. . The blockhouses are furnished' each with two searchlights and these Illumine ths surroundings at night, thus guarding against surprises and revealing any Boer movement that . . may be os foot. There are 4.000 such blockhouses Ides. mnnnnnnnnnnnesnnneeea.ae be-abl- e 1 the-Boe- well-know- Tbs three big states of Washington, Oregon and Califorala.occupy-M7.4S- 0 square miles, but ,thy eon tala only ' ' 1,411, 898 people. The one little state of Massachusetts occupies only 6,040 square miles, but It contains 8,806,344 people, ,fc TH Daui lerai ef EkmI ittttlt. now in operation In South Africa and 1,000 more are projected. Hot Dlaaar for tho Honoa. The special correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, who was sent to China during the boxer troubles and the occupation by the allied troops, has made trip through Korea, which country he describes In tbe Gazette In a very Interesting manner. of eighteen , He hired a caravan horses at Seoul and went Into tbe Interior to the German gold mine at Jang Kogas. He says that of all the eastern countries through which he traveled Korea was the only one where the horses got a hot dinner." It consists of a kind of bean soup, greased with tallow and mixed with potatoes and various herbs. Tbe whole Is cooked for about three hour(, and Is served to the horses very hot. Hew Hie 4 ef Tebeera. In Haiti a new species of tobacco has been produced by a which grows from five to seven feet In height, bearing a leaf twenty-fiv- e Inches long by fifteen In width. Three or even four cuttings can be mads from one plant betwen November and March." n, BLOCEHOI7SS SYSTEM 1H SOCTH AFRICA. Ares ef Abte, In Lincolnshire huge quantities of The area of Africa Including Mada- lilies of ths are being planted gascar and the adjacent Islands Is in view of valley the demand for these estimated at 11.950,000 square miles, blooms a the coronation flower. Oas or about 4,000,000 lest than ths ares dealer baa an order of America (North and South). Ths for 14,OPO,oooalready received of them. - - a Officer Charged With Cruelly natives of ths island of Samar, Friends-- ' of Major Waller, who has n distinguished tscord Of service in Cubs and Tientsin, Chins, where hs commanded Uis United states marines, attribute ' to insanity due. to experiences temporary on the terrible march: through Samar, In which he and his' men nearly 014 from tbe privations Statatwi suffered. Some of the circumstances In - the case are peculiarly atrocious. Ons na- -t T "Ued to n tree and publicly! ot eraa. The third day he; was aboi in the body, and the fourth day he was killed. . ot mmu CMStraateS. Only five Mu,nf nfcjp, of 0Ter 100 the United tons were built In ths United Kingdom States Marines, and Lieut Day of his the vessels were confor tor- structed on the force, ars to be a without trial tered In London. Clyde and wsrt registuring and executing Major L. W. T. Waller of court-martial- 4 These small forts ars erected 8.000 yards apart and are furnished with Searchlights, by which the movements of the Boers are more easily observed. Our illustration shows one of the lights playing on s force of burghers who were attempting to cross the railroad. Upon the discovery of. such a forte the British open fire and if peed be notify by telephone, the nearest British camp. vs f . Gmmjisrt the British replied vigorously to ths Boer firs their resistance was hopeless, was the presence of Mrs. VslsatlnsTg :Ths Boers attacked first from ths rear two little eons, the children of Philip and then simultaneously on both flanks. D. Amour, Jr who gave their mother Ths fighting continued until 10 sway at ths altar. In thsir eagsmsss ths little fellows forced her to. hurry oclock a. m. by the remnants of the taster than she wished toward the iBrltlsh column before it surrendered. Lord Methuen, wounded, being among waiting bridegroom. Ths marriage la eet down by society the prisoners. Three British officers gossips ss pursly a love match,' as were killed. Including Lieutenants G. though Mrs. Valentins Inherited ths R. Venning, and T., P. W, Nesbam, of bulk of her late husbands fortune, the Royal Artillery, who were both truck down whlls serving their guns amounting to several million dollars, Mr. Valentine Is himself n very rich with' shot Ths British lost tour guns. man. He has been la charge of Philip According to ths latest reports of ths charged from three D. Amours interests in Chicago for battle, it Several Senators were discussing In the cloakroom their experiences In getting rid of objectionable visitors. The talk recalled an episode in the life o( the late Justice Field of the Supreme Court, whose temper was of the most Irascible kind. He bad given Instruction! to his servant on a certain morning that ho was not to bo disturbed. , Presently there came n ring at the door bell and an aggressive book agent appeared. 1 want to see he Justice Field, said. Ton cannot see him, was ths reply. I must see him." "Impossible." The conversation grew more em phatlc, until finally the persistent book agents demands echoed through tbs house. At that moment. Justice Field, who had been attracted by ths altercation, appeared at the head of the stairs. "William," he said. In n fiercely angry tone, "show the brazen, Infernal scoundrel pp to the, If you cannot handle him, I will. The book agent made ho further effort to break into the Justice's pres- ence. er larey, Celllert, Kemp Vermaae, Tromp, and other Boer commanders were present. In order the better to cope with the guerilla tactics of tbe Boers ths British hare established a large number of blockhouses and are still adding to the number. These blockhouses are constructed chiefly nkmg the lines of railway and In the districts where tbe AC. work. They hunt like kounds, often forming n great circle of miles of circumference around a spot that Is filled with prey sad gradually closing In as , i ' |