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Forward Move of Allies Along Line on The Omaha Daily Bee Plrrrt from trie nattle Arena. The Dee's Real War Photos nM of Thetn All. THE WEATHER. Unsettled VOL. XL1V XO. 75. OMAHA, MONDAY MOWNlMi, SKITDM WVM 1 ,. 1H4. On Trains and at lotsl Kiwi Stands. So. sinjij: copy two t.nt& I ALLIES TURN ON ENGLISH ROYAL FLYING CORrS AT OSTEND The part the fleets of the air have played in the present war in Europe have been spectacular, even if the results so far attained have not been all that was predicted bv the enthusiastic advocates of the aircraft. The -hare of the airman so far has been mostly scout dut" his has apparently been of treat assistance to the armies on t.hp Mrtli r.no-lanrl ha .Vimm it nrmv u BELGIUM DID SO MUCH REAL HARM General von Boehm Explaini the Military Necessity of Destruc tion of Towns and Cities, better equipped vmu ' of the English At we more efficient birdmen than had been thought. The picture sbows a group of flying machines and dirigibles - v - - - ...... . - t v mu w w i aa a KV V , V W I11UVI1 l TO PUNISH THE TOWNSPEOPLE Acts Complained of Were Provoked by the Misconduct of People Who Suffered. ATROCITIES NOT UNPUNISHED Men Who Are Guilty Are Severely Dealt with by Their Officers and by Court-Martial. HORRORS OF WAR UNAVOIDABLE Bullets Do Not Discriminate When Fighting is Fierce. PHOTOGRAPHING GERMAN ARMY Thompson of Kansas Gets I noeoal Privilege, and Finally llai Exhi bition of Artillery Efficiency Given Htm. (Copyright. 1914. by Preen Publishing; Co.) Br E. ALEXANDER POWELL. HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD OF THE NINTH IMPERIAL GER MAN ARMY, CHATEAU LAFERE, NEAR RENAIX, Belgium, Sept. 8. (Special Cablegram to New York World and Omaha Bee.) Three weeks ago the government of Bel glum requested me to place before the American people, through the medium of the New York World and Omaha Bee, a list of specific, authen tic atrocities committed by German armies on Belgian non-combatants. Today General von Boehn, com manding the Ninth Imperial field army, and the mouthpiece of the Ger man general staff, has asked me to place before the American people the German version of the Incidents In question. The general began by asserting that accounts of atrocities perpe trated on Belgian non-combatants were lies. "Look at these officers about you," he said. "They are gentlemen, like yourself. Look at the soldiers marching past in the road out there. Most of them are fathers. Surely, you do not believe they would do the things they have been accused of." " Three days ago, general," I said, "I was at Aerschot. The whole town now is but a ghastly, blackened ruin." Autialnatlon at Aerschot. "When we entered Aerschot," was the reply, "the son of the burgo master came into a room, drew a re volver and assassinated my chief of staff. What happened afterward was only retribution. The towns people got only what they deserved." "Hut uliy wreak your vengeance on won.cn and children?" I asked. "None have been killed," the general asserted positively. "I am sorry to contradict you, general," I asserted with equal posltiveness. "I have myself seen their mutilated bodies. 8o has Mr. Gibson, secretary of thf Amer i an legation at Rrussels, who was present during the destruction of Loiivain." 'Of course," he replied, "there always is danger of women and children being killed during street fighting, If they In sist on coming into the street. It la un fortunate, but it la war." "But how about a woman's body I saw with hands and feet cut off? Ilow about a white-haired man and his son whom I helped bury outside Sempstead, who had been killed merely because a retreating Belgian had shot a Grrmaa soldier out side their house? Tnere were twenty two bayonet wounds in the old man's face. (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) The Weather Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hours. Deg. .... M .... ttf .... K7 .... US .... 70 .... T3 .... 74 . ... : .... 7K 7i .... 7 CoaiparatiTC Local Rerord. 1914. 191J. 1912. 1911. . . . . 7i 7 Kt .. 3 ;4 m 74 , . .. ci:l M Highest yesterday I.ouest yesterday.... Vean temperature.... Precipitation .00 i2 fk) i empcraiure ana precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature fr, Kxcess for the day 4 Totsl excess since March 1 :tt! Normal precipitation 1.1 inch Faces for the dsy .'! inch Total rainfall since Man h 1. . !! lm ju s I ef :i iency since March 1 in lies I ief 11 li n for cor. period, ltt3. 7.1 Inches JJefiticncy for cor. period. 1112. 3. inches TO A 'a! til ' !l , . jz J i Hi Hi t " . M ,ffl BLACK DEVILS' RUSH Ninth Army Corps Back from Lille to Handle Rush of King Albert's Men. FIERCE ASSAULT AT AERSHOT Kaiser's Troop Compelled to Yield I Oder Sharp Artillery Fire and Demon C harge of the Bel. Klan Forces. Ht R. AI.FXArF.R POWl',11,, (Copyright, 1314. Press Publishing Co.) ANTWERP (Via London). Sept. 13. (Special Cablegram to New York World and Omaha Bee.) The sudden change in tha Belgian policy, from the defensive to the offensive, haa had a material effect upon German strategical positions in Bel gium. The Ninth army corps, which was located around Lille. In France, haa been recalled while on lta way to Join the forces of Paris and Is now opposing the Belgian Infantry. The most remarkable thing about the Belgian attack upon Aerschot, which ended In driving out the Germans, was the accuracy of their artillery. Destroy Small Villages. Three small villages, which were held by the Germans were destroyed by shell fire In little more than nn hour, and fol lowing that General I forge, command ing the Belgians, ordered his carabineers to deliver a grand assault upon the Ger man position. For half an hour before the assault took place the P.elgtan puns kept pouring a perfect storm of shells, mostly shrapnel, upon the German line, with the result that several hamlets which had been used .-is protection by the enemy, were set on fire and made uninhabitable. Charge of the Belgians. Dusk was falling as the sky was lit with the flames from these farm houses and Just then the bugle charge was sounded and the carabineers, in their queer, leather covered, square top hats, mementoes of a by-gone generation, and their bottle green uniforms, rose like one man dnd raced forward, bayonets poised, and shouting "vlve La Belglque." The enemy was strongly entrenched along the railway, and with a close wood on his flank, but despite the awful ma chine gun fire that was directed against the advancing Belgians, these "black devils" as the Germans call them, would not be denied Germans Flee. The sight of the cold steel seemed to scare the German:-., and as the Belgians came on, checlnc like madmen, and ignoring the fall of their comrades, the Germany turned and inside of twenty minutes the Belgians were in complete possession of the pesitinn which the enemy had held. British Defeated By the Germans in East African Fight 1iXHOX, Sept. It. V dispatch to the Renter s Telegram company from Nairobi, British Bast Afrii a, sas that a strong lorce of Germans iiom German Kast Africa hive crossed lie frontier, occu pied Karangu and are a Ivan, ing on Klsil. a hilly d strict near Lake Victoria. British forces have been dispatched to u. eet them. There was a battle between Germans and British laet Sundav. the details of whl-h are not aiailahl". The wounded are being brought to Nairobi. They re port that the llrlt'sh suffered severely in an unsuccessful attempt to c He German leadline guns by a bayonet charge. FRENCH AVIATOR BRINGS DOWN A GERMAN AIRSHIP I.ONKO.V. Sept. IX A neuter dispstch from Troves. Frsnee, says: "After a chase of several ,n:les. a French aviator succeeded yesterday In bringing down a German aeroplane .whieh had been dropping homPs on the town Tlie German pilot and two military oh. servers a captain and a lieutenant -were killed." RUSSIANS TELL OF ' THEIR OPERATIONS Recount Movement of Their Armies Up to Victories at Krasnik i and Tomazsow. j FIGHT OBER MILLION MEN j Forced to Ilnlld II ridges Orer Vis tula to Get Their Troop Onto the Hattlrfleld Huh avalr? j Dora (iond Work. I PETROGRAP, Pcpt. 13.-(vla Iindon.) ' Tho following statement Issued by the 1 Russian headquarters staff describes the Russian operations culminating In the victories of Krasnik and Tomazsow, Rus sian Poland: "The total Austrian and German forces exceeded l.Oon.OOII men, with 2.600 guns that Is. over forty divisions of Infantry, eleven divisions of cavalry, reinforced by several German divisions. I The main hody of the enemy, number , Ing o0,0o men, moved toward Zavlchvart I and Omazsow, advancing on Lublin and Che'm (Russian Poland), j Its right wing was covered by the Lem herg army, numbering 200 batalllons. Its left wing was covered by several Austro- I German dh talons around Itadom (Hussion Poland. On August 2a the Austrian armies began a determined advance to counteract the blow which was threatening Kastern Prussia. Tho deployment of Russian troops over a front of several hundred versts, (a wrst Is approximately two thirds of a milei had not yet been com pleted. e rnt.ld. therefore, onlv fact. j the Austrian in tho north with a greatly 1 Inferior force. The firft attacks of tho I I en-1 f ere direc t against Krasnik, but '.u ..... . .. . . t cenu-r 01 ine Austrian efforts was removed to Tomazsow, a district Into which-their reinforcements began to pour. I. Ine of Operations. "On September 3, when the fall of Imberg was imminent, tho Austrian ad' a nee readied a culminating point. On Its frontal line the enemy extended from Opolo (on the east bank of the Vistula, about midway between Radnm and Lubln, in Russian Poland) to Byehave, appnachlng within gunshot of th sta tion at Travnlkl and enveloping Kras nostav thirty-four miles south of Lubin) Zamosc, Grabessof, near Josefow (on the east bank of the Vistula, a short distance south of Opole). "Two bridges were thrown across the Vistula, over which troops from Radom crossed on their way to the battlefield, while, awaiting t lie result of General Russky's operations, our plan was based on the rapid reinforcements of our right ring. The Russian railway carried out this task very successfully. Our roops If the t'helm district, which were insuf ficient and too widely spread out ami against which the principal attack of the Austrlans was directed, did not receive rt Infon ements for the advance of the Austrlans even to t'helm Itself could even tually only Increase the consequences of their defeat in the cvtnt of the ultimate success of our wings. Deliver Counter Attack. "In spite of their numerical inadequacy our troops In the center did not confine themselves to defense. They delivered a counter attack, obtaining considerable m. cira near icneve. wnere ror six uays they did nothing but repel rontinual at tacks of the enemy. Only on September I were they moved a little to the rear in aicordance with orders received. This maneuver obtained a more enveloping dls poxition for our forces. "The success of General Ruzsky and General Urusslloff enabled us to make a general offensive movement and the en emy's center was beaten at Sukhodoyle. As a result of a rapid movement among the Austrian troops at Krasnik these were attacked by General R izgky from the southwest on September S and were forced to accept battle on three fronts. We repelled counter attacks of the Kras nik troops, and we carried bv Imnetuou. assault the enemy's portion on the front' at Opole, Tnurbine and extending over a1 distance of sixty versts, on Saptamber . I They fled, abandoning their arms. I "The AuMriatia continued vigorously to attack our left wirm in order to win sic cus in the direction of Imberg. How ever, about September 12. e. alo re-1 suined the offensive on this side, and: now the battle of Guilds, which hasi lasted seventeen days, is drawing to an' end. The pursuit of the enemy tontlnues."j Fprward March of German Communications Cut Otf IjONDON, Sept. 1 3. A Bordeaux dispatch to Moyd's V'eckly News says the llnp of communications used hy the Germans has been cut and they connat inaKe nun of the lines east of the Argonne forest owing to (lie rapid advance of the allies on the center and right. They must therefore try the line throuhg; tho Meuse valley and Lux emburg. PARIS. Sept. 1.1. The following official slatement was issued, to- GERMANS STILL ARE BACKING TO EAST Allies Meet with. Success in France While Bussians Succeed in East. MORE TOWNS ARE REOCCUPIED French Asarrl I he German He (rem lias Been Precipitate One, K pe dal I r at Mont Mlrall nnd Herlan) PARI 5, Sept. l.t.-An official statement issued thin afternoon savs: rlrst, on the left wing, the enemy con-I tinues his retreating movement. Me has evacuated Amiens falling buck to the eastward between Solssons and Rhelms. The Germans have retired northward from the Vesle. Thev have not rt,r.n,l,i the Marne to the southeast of Rbei.ns "Second, at the center, the eii. iny. , though It has lost Revigny anil I'.tabant-I Ir-Hnl. still holds the , ,11th A ,.r .v. ..I forest nf irmmiu f ,., ..... , .... the hostile force which wcr along tin Meurthe are heating a retreat beyond Sulnt Die and Luncvllle. We have re cccupled I'raon, j Tape. Baccarat. Kemireville, Nnmcny and Potitamousson. "In the Belgian field of operations, the Belgian army has vigorously taken thei offensive to the south of I.arre. j "In the Russian field the battle that ' has been in progress In Galicla for the! lust seventeen davs has ended In a great; victory for the Russian army. The Aus-' trians have retreated along the entire ' front leaving in the hands of the Rus-, sians a great numbir of prisoners and! Important war material." 1 Heport lo liliiltani), WASHINGTON. Sepl. IC-Tiie French embassy today received from Bordeaux a dispatch dated September li'., as follows: General withdrawal of German forces which are vigorously pursued. Their re tieat has been H precipitate one. espe cially at Mont Mirall. I' 1 omentlcres the haul aa 'ar as I'miinv. "To our left wing on the eleventh th-; fiont of the Germans was reported on the line Koissons-Bialne-FismeH-Rheims. ,t the center ami at our right wing they bavf evacuated Vilry ami the 1 nurse of! the Saulx as f.tr as Paigy. j "Abandonment of much artilbry Lack1 of Prov isions and ammunition horsx tlreil nut. (This Is taken at the embassy ' to 11 f r to the German forces ) j Ninth cavalry of Germans lemainel four days without any provisions. I Germans I'ashrd Hack. j "In the Aignnne, the (rerman army was pushed hack toward the north through the forest of Zelnone. In lirrtiue we i have ellghtly progressed. Saint I ),r has! been evacuated bv the fventh army. I "Tim Belgians are attacking v igorously I Ilia troops that are Investing Antwerp ! The Servians occupy Senilin." i FRECH WIPE CUT TWO GERMAN HORSE SQUADRONS INIXN, Sept resoondent of the IX -The Rome cur Kxchange Telegraph company says: "A dispatch from Basle. Wwiterland. states that between Hlotihelni and Sierenr, Alsace, French cavalry, sup ported by artillery, has annihilated two squadrons of Germ.tu cavalry. All the noreea or the Invaders were killed number of Herman troopera kllbd very lara The , Allies Continues; ' night: ! "No report has been received to- night front general headquarters. The statements published yesterday and this afternoon have depicted ! with what vigor our troops are pur suing I ho Germans In their relreat. 'It Is natural that under these cir cumstances general headquarters cannot send twice a day particulars concerning incidents of this pursuit. "All we know is that the forward march of the allied armies continues all aloiif; the front." SEVENTEEN DAYS FIGHT; RUSS LEADS Petrograd Asserts the Austrian Army Has Been Destroyed Over the Entire Front. GERMANS ABE DRIVEN BACK Korceil It el I re In Kast Prussia, Hut 'I'ht-; re llrlnalna Re inforcements tu Help Keep Kit- II It ill II Illicit. I'KTKOGI'.AIi (via London). Se d l:t. A Russian official st iteincnl of ; ri al "'lis In Russian Poland and the op G.'tllcia says that seventeen days of fighting and in some cases decorated with flowem. ncalnst Austrian nnd Germnn forces ex-j All about are haltered helmets, broken ceding 1,'m,u.m men culminated In Russian ! rifles, bayonet, swo.ds. belts and haver victory. The pursuit of the enemy con- I sa ks. tlnuis it Is said. j Housea llnniaaed. tiialrlan rtnj Destroyed. j In neaiby villages houses have been PARIS. Sept. IX A dispatch from 1 greatly damaged, .uany lie.-ii- bullet and I'elrogtad to the Matin says: (shell marks, doors and windows have uu"r'' ' "" l"""t or the enemy "The Austrian army has been destroyed. Over the entire front. It has be or surrendered beat.' ! commanded' "The first Austilan army by General Aiiffenburg lost 1'P off leers and 2imi men and t' l annnns. while ilm set oud armv lost In prisoners alone .W) , whelming French artillery, bodies oeca (dficcis nnd To.Onn soldiers." j slonally come to the surface The country Germans Driven Hack ! People, almost prostrated by the ruin li.VliON. Sent. IT-A Central News divpntch from ivtrograd says that the' German forces in east Prussia have been driven back with great loss near Miii-' bents, but art' still bringing op rein- ! lorrcments. The Germans are making! ttelr chief efforts in the region of! Maueisce lakes. Kiiccesaful at Touiaason. NKW YORK, Sept. uA -ablegram re- ceivctl here today by Colonel Nlcoial Cole '.lewskl, mililary attache of iho 11, i. ' sian emliassy from the Russian general' ; staff In Pel rug-ad, rejuis as follows: I I in operations In the region "r j Nrasnik and Tomasxnw have emleti in our iorniete victory over the northern Aut , tiian army whith ha.i been driven be yond the ri- er San. Great successea have also been attrlned In the fighting west (t lycmherg. Ii.tween Rawa Ruska and the River Pnlcter. fp to tlr present, j th. lapture .f over JnO offlt ers ami :i kh j men slid a great number of guns and , machine guns has bei n reported. Fuither . r.c tails of oijr latest victory are atlU com -I li g in." France and Germany Agree On Exchange Of All the Prisoners LONlMiN. ..,,,( i! Heuter s Tele- j K 1 11 111 company's dispatch at Amsterdam I says that an agrerment Ins been reut hett j whereby Fiance an. I Germany will ex- I change an njual number of prisoners, ollicers and men. who may rejoin their I ies ei tivc armies. NINETY THOUSAND MEN ENGAGE IN FIERCE FIGHT I .ONI ION. Sept. M.-A dispatch to tho Kxchange Telegraph tompany from Rome says it is reported from HHiie that Su.oal men were engaged vesterdav in a fierce battle lietwecn Thaun and Senhelm. The Germans o, copied the Gebwciler valley at I the foot of the French conn; ia uul knoAD, Vojig.. The oul- FIELD OF BATTLE DESOLATE SCENE riace Where Armies Struggled Pre sents Dreadful Spectacle, with Dead Awaiting Burial. FOE'S CONDITION DESPERATE I. ennui! Seelt nw ( ti liet aa Near to r'rontlrrs ns Possible I or reKffiinde.nta l.earn They Must He Good. PARIS. Sept. 1.1 - The tmttleflelds on the allies' lelt wing over which terrible com- ibals in the last week have been fought. present a seine of desolation. All the troops have ilcpnrted. following on the beds of the fleeing Germans. Most of the dead already have been burled, but hete ami there small gtuuis of tbtee or four lay together awnMing Interment. Virtually all the wounded, wlietlier French, Urltlsh or German, have received treatment and have been transiairtad to neighboring vlUaKes from which placea tliey will later be transferred to the pro vincial cities, where ptlvate houses and public Institutions have been placed at the illpotnl of the arm,' author ties Kvldeuces nf I'lre. Along the hanks of tin- Marne evidences nf severe artilleiy fire are visible every where Some pints, looking as though they were ploughed trenches abandoned by the Aui-tr.ans. who were excellently planned, but shells bursting overhead field are fresh limps of earth, where caused hundreds of casualties. Over the soidlera were hurled. The graves 'or the most part are marked by rough hewn 1 crosses. The officers were Interred sen- ' arately, tbelr graves henring their names , been broken, branches of trees have been n 1 iopjied off by shells and scarred by rifle shot. '" ,he t'lver Marne. which the Germans ! made herol efforts to cross many times, , but were always beaten back by the over which has been wrnugbi, are gradually returning to their homes, from which even today could be heard the far distant firing of machine guns and field ar tlllel y. No civilians or correspondents are per mited to approach anywhere near the re serve firing lines of the pursuing British ' n ml French troops. Five correspondents j who ventured out were arrested and j threatened with Incarceration In the fort 1 ress until the end of the war. t.iail to He. (aptarrd. The constant rainfall for the last two lavs baa rendered difficult the move- ! ment of troops The German are suf- feilng from thi more than are Hie allies, who are full of ardor and flushed with success. The. often capture isolated bodies nf Germans, who ate usually fam ished and without luninuiiitlon and al most glad to lie taken prisoners, while their horses are exhausted Perslileiit accounts of a German short age of ammunition ri-ach Paris. A Rr.ttsu officer d dared today that tie ha I seen a letter wr.lten by a German officer, in whl h the officer stated that the invad ei s' pus lion w,ts hecomlng critical. II" said that the lr;!iport was breaking down ow .ng to the inn; lines of romni'inlca'lons. It is generally thought that the Ger mans are trving to reach the fiontier by the riub I.eMt route, owing t'i fears that th-ir communication mny he nit by the fresh army of the allies RED CROSS MERCY SHIP IS ON ITS WAY TO SEA NKW VOItK, S.-PI. U-The steamer lied I'rosb, hour-d on an errand of mercy !to the Kurop'an war one. left its snciior ago In Gravcsend bav at 6.c p n). today I and shortly before H o'clock was nn its i way to sea past the Sandy Hook bar. Pasaenarr hln shore. ATLANTIC. N. J. Sept. 13 -The steam ship Atlantic City, bound for this city with more than a hundred passengeis. went ashore laif a mile off the board wa'k this morning. Life ssvinr crew. are standing by and unless the vessel Is floated on the next high tide, the pas sengers probably will be taken off. GERMANS AT THE TOP OF ADVANCE Crest of Teuton Wave Broken Be fore it Reaches Paris and Flood Now Ebbs. INVADERS ON THE RETREAT Army that Threatened French Cap ital Has.Been Driven Back by Determined Assault. OFFENSIVE BY ALLIES WIN3 French Lead in Move and Battle Desperately Against Odds Till British Save Day. GERMAN RIGHT WING TURNED Task Set for British Has Been Finally Accomplished. FIGHT ON CENTER IMPENDS Important He, tile Along the Alsna Must tome Very onn, Sara faff Correspondent, Who la with the Allies. tCopv light. l'U. Press Publishing Co.) II II- M. TIIMI.IMillV, CMAXT11.LY. Sept. 11. (Via London, Sept. 13. (Specla' C'gble Rram to New Vork World and Omaha Hee.) The army of (JerniRn noldlers Is showing many evidences of col lapse. The) allies, exhilarated by their success, and by the sense they have now that the weight they have been Mrenuously resisting, and which has lievn pushing them backward, has lost Its energy and Is now within the compass of their strength, are on the road to victory. That victory may come much sooner than Is expected. German tampalirn Falls. The Germans In the face of the accumulated forces opposed to them despaired of carrying Farl. espe 'lally as thoy had a French army on their left flank. So they made a desperate attempt to break the line of the allies to (he east and bo divide It. They have failed. Last Monday the great effort to turn the German right wing began at Meaux. For four days previously there had been engagements between ottptposts In most of the villages around the districts. It has long been suspected that the Germana have found great difficulty In keep ing their army supplied, and the Brit ish and French military engineers have seen to It that no bridge or rail road behind them is available. Thus they have a country In their rear which makes communications with their base of supplies very difficult. tmnianltlon Train Destroyed. One German ammunition column, nearly five miles long, was captured and blown up. It will be sorely needed soon for the Germans will shortly be down to tbelr last cart ridge. In Hie plains south or the river Aisne, where the deciding bailie, if th.ngs con tinue as now they nre movlrg, will bi (Continued on Pats f woT CoUHmTThr.) Crown Prince May Have His Line of Eetreat Cut Off BORDKAI'X, Frame. Sept. IS If th German armies are still in a conditions to offer resistance they will. In the opin ion of well Informed experts, do so along: the line extending from Peronne through St. guentin and Me:leres to Ardennes The only sriny not falling hack la that of Crown Prnce Frederick William, south of the forest of Argonne. It H probable, according to the experts, that the crown prince has been un&bltt to f i ml a safe line of retreat. The Ar gonne district is a difficult muuni.vnous retrion without roads and the crown prtnc woull lie compelled to move either north east or northwest. In the first case. It Is declared, he would be attacked from Verdun, while the second would throsr him Into the duke of Wurrttemberg'a army, wh'cli would Involve both armlea It. confusion. The experts, therefore, be lieve tlmt the crown prince, If he la forced to retire, will attempt to break through eastward between Verdun and Sou illy. Rattlesnake Kills Nine-Year-Old Girl SIOC.V FALLS. P. It Sent 1f. ! garet Mclmnald. 9 year-old daughter of .r. and .Mrs. William McDonald, livin otl a .Mellette county homestead, Is dead as the tesult of being struck twice by the fangs of a rattlesnake. She was en gaged in picking corn and stepped on the snake, which struck her twice befora she cnu'd i-et l ev on, reach of, Ua deadly, fang)