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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1898)
la . REMEMBER if you are dissatisfied with the size of piece or .with the quality of the chewing- tobacco you are using rr .. !' 3SR.1" " 4 ti& f& J m r t and you '11 get your, money's worth. The 10-cent piece of Battle Ax is larger than the 10-cent piece of any other brand of the same high quality, and is the largest piece of really good chewing tobacco that is sold for 10 cents nemember the name SlfLE WOUNDS STUDIED. la the present war we are finding -out a few more facts concerning the mtll calibre bullet wounds, and they may make some people's pet theories totter upon their pedestals, It they -are not wholly knocked out. The truth Is we have not solved the -entire question, by any means. If there in one fact established. It Is that the character of the wound appears to de pend upon the striking velocity of the bullet more than upon Its calibre, shape -or composition, though these are cer tainly factors. Perhaps we shall reach some definite conclusion before the war 4s over. The regular army Is using practically the same calibre as that of the ma jority of the Spanish weapons, which Is .301 Inch; our volunteers are chiefly -armed with the .45 calibre Springfield; the marines und navy have the Lee straight pull rifle ot .236, and the Span iards have a few of their last model Mauser, which has a calibre ot .276 7 millimetres), and a good many old suns of .43. It would seem as If here was diversity In calibre autllclent for comparison. But the apparent simplicity of the case may cause u to Judge too hastily. The performance of our new navy .rifle In the hands of the marines has convinced those of tho officers who have opposed bmall bore weapons of their mistake. Iu the first place. I think we may re assure those who have feared the rifle Hacked the "stopping power," and was .therefore unsulted to use against fa natlcs or savages. If there Is any sort of man who Is not stopped by n Lee .236 bullet which hits him in the body or leg at close range, he can only be stood off by a twelve-Inch gun. In every observed case In which the range was less than about 600 yards for the Mauser .301, or 700 yards for the Lee .236, the results were practically the same. In soft flesh the bullet made a small wound In entering, but an enor mous hole at the point of exit and all bullets go completely through the body, not only at thiH range, but at much greater ranges. When leaving the body they drove the flesh before them and draggpd ft along with them, al together making cone-shaped, rapped wounds sometimes two Incln-b In diam eter on the surface, particularly when bones were struck. At the rlose ranges (limits about as stated but not yet accurately deter mined). If a bullet strikes a bone the "Injury Is of a Oiucking character, the destruction i'f both bone and tlssu belnp very extensive. In almost every case In which the head is perforated at short range the.trtJallWlsuspllt oi burst open In the rases Examined ialong the top on the center line extend ing from front to rear. In nrnp of thi cases did the break occur In the su tures. The fractures were nearly straight, four to six Inches long, and opened about an eighth of an inch. One Spaniard was shot in the back by a Lte bullet ut less than six hundred yards. It hit a rib, splintered It. and made a wound big encugh to put your fist in almost. One of the marines was Bhot through the arm at the elbow. The range Is unknown, but believed to be very short perhaps thirty yards and the bullet was a Mauser of .276 or .301 calibre. The entering hole through the Pleeve was so slight as to be unnotlceable, and the hole In the flesh likewise small. The wound at the exit waa an Inch and a half to two Inches across, and a Mill larger piece of cloth was torn from the sleeve. This was one of the marines killed on the picket line. The two were found on outposts on one of the paths leading to the camp from the Interior. The en. emy crept up behind the pocr fellows, and when almctt on top of them opened fire from, fifty guns and fired several shots each. One of the men was struck by twenty-six bullets; the other by fourteen. Parts of the breast, face and front par's of the body were torn away by the escaping bullets, and the fright ful appearance cf the corpses led to the report about mutilation of the dead One shot entered the base of the brain and escaped through the eye. The ikuil was splintered near the point of en trance, split along the top and a large wound cf exit made, which Included the whole eyesocket and part of the cheek. So far as observed, the tearing effect of the escaping bullets is limited to ranges of four or five hundred yards for the .301 Mauser and seven or eight hundred yards for the .236 Lee. So, also, is the smashing of bones and splitting of the skulls by entering bul lets. Within ranges assigned these ef fects are not always very marked, es pecially when the upper limit Is ap proached, and. as a rule, the less the range the greater the destructive ef fect. Beycnd the upper limits there Is a zone of complete perforation without tearing or deslructlrn of tissue aside from the narrow path of the bullet. This zone Is not very well defined as yet. Beyond It there Is another In which the bullet frequently tumbles and causes broad lacerations and large wounds. Irregular In depth and direc tion, and so variable In character that many were thought to have been re ceived at clcse range. The greatest advantage of the Lee rifle is the long ranpe atpolnt blank and its very flat trajectory or line of flight at all ranges at which fair marksmen may reasonably expect to hit a single man. This Is, of course, due primarily to the high velocity of the bullet and that again to the calibre. A further reduction In calibre would enable us In Increase the velocity, but the bullet would be so light as to make its flight PLUG when you buy again i'mmm&9mm2&203&w&i erratic at long range, and the difficulty of cleaning the bore and trbubletTwIth I the cartridges. Jackets of the bullet j extractors and rifling are likely to pre vent any reduction In the Immediate future. The deadly character of the present piece I? shown In the principal tight In which the marines were engaged, though this took place near the upper limit of the "close" zone, six to seven hundred yards, and much firing was done at over elpht hundred yards. The Are of our men into the cover of the enemy was so rapid that they be lieved It to be from machine guns, and so well aimed that they could not stand It, and broke for the hills in groups of five or six. Each fleeing party was a target for many rifles, and not more than half escaped unhurt. The difference in loss on the two sides Is, of course, no argument for or against the armB used. The Spanish Mauser is an excellent weapon. 11 has few, If any, superiors. The condition of the pieces found on the field after the fight was very bail. The mechanism was In fair condition, but the sights were generally useless. Many were rusted so that they could not be raised; some were brcken off. and ethers to tent that they lest all value. Not one showed evidence of having been recently used, although the marines- were beycnd the point blank range cf the guns. Most Spaniards and Cubans appear tc fire from the hip or a little higher. Very few brought their pice to the shoulder and took aim. Biography of a Man Who Had Been Dead. He was looking lank and lean; he wore a threadbare suit of black and under one arm he carried a volume; under the other there was on umbrella which had seen better days, says the Detroit Free Prpss. He entered so qui etly that Dodson. who was busy at his desk, did not hear him. "I have here" he began softly. Dodson whPPled In his chair and took In the situation. "I don't care what you have!" he roared. Don't ypu see that sign. 'Peddlers and Book Agents Not Wanted, or are you blind?" "The life of Samson" continued the agent with an apologetic smile. "Why didn't you say so before?" said Dodson, subsiding. "In one volume, price J1.50." continued the long thin man In black. "Ill take It." said Dodson shortly. "Good day, sir." A few minutes later a friend of Dod son's happened in and picked up the volume. "Hello, old man," said he, as he look ed It over. "I didn't know you went In for biblical subjects." "1 don't see the Joke," answered Dodson Testily. "I believe that In times like these every patriotic Amer ican citizen should familiarize himself with the lives of our prominent men who arc at the frcnt making history fcr this glorious country. Wo neglect these things too long. I propose to keep up with the times." VYou will have to hurry if you do," answered his friend drily. "This par ticular Samson without the p has bten dead for 3,000 years." Alexander Overran In His Con quest. West of India are vast lands that Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey In Asia. How many scores of millions or even hundreds of millions may they not contain? Manyof- the uplands cf Persia are practically unknown to the civilized world, but they can support u great population. No one knows how many people Arabia contains. Nobody knows how many Eskimos there are dwelling In the lands of eter nal Ice that encircle the north pole; many of the Islands of the vast Pacific swarm with Inhabitants living on the open bounty of nature, whose free and careless life has captivated the Imagi nation of highly cultivated men like Kooert Louis Stevenson; and when the census Is completed, if It proves prac ticable, what will It probably show the total population of the globe to be? The editor of a periodical was rash enough to remove a few lines from n pcem which he had accepted, where upon the author wrote him a letter which wound up thus; "And now, O slaughterer, vlvlsector, mangier, maimer, destroyer, dlsflgurer, deformer, defacer, crlppler, mutilator, good-by! Put this in your pipe and smoke It!" A Michigan man recently married his mother-in-law. Perhaps It was the only way he could get rid of her. Years ago a daring Clevelander reversed this operation and married his stepdaugh ter. It Is a pleasing remembrance that he soon afterwards removed to Chica go. Cleveland Plalndealer. Why does the average man swear to love before marriage and love to swear afterward? Chicago News. Magnificent Train Service of the Union Pacific from Council Bluffs or Kansas City makes it tho pop. ular lino to all points in Nebraska, Kan sas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and the Pacific Coast. Thrro trains daily I'roiti Council HUHIm. Two trulnw daily l'roin Kiuihus City. 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One evening I overheard the little old black man tali' tng very savagely with another around the corner on the side street, and among other things lie said: "Yes, suh, an' ef J hits you dey woan he but two licks struck. I'll bit you an you'll hit de groun'! "You done heah whut I say. PAINT -WALLS CEILINGS. MURALO WATER COLOR PAINTS FOR OEC0RATIN8 WALLS AND CEILINQS l.2iyru'!'&Z?Sl MURALO paint dealer and do four ova dMoleUaf. ThU material ii a BAUD FINISH to be applied wttb a bru.h tad beeomee u hud a Oiaut, Hilled U twenty-foal1 tlnta and work! eqaally a wall with oold or bot water. SV IE.MI ruB SAHPLSE CeLAB CARDS and if yon aaanot pnrchue this material from loot local dealer Ut ua kaow aad will put 70a in the way ot obtaining it. THE MURALO CO.. NEW BRIGHTON. 8. I.. NEW YORK. R OYAL fU8TLERS. But CATHARTIC lar CfccrTabl.L"U.u in thi Willi. IB ""rj Uf Sima, Trial Bx 2J ctati Logan aaraaparflla At Celery Co.Uoha.Nb Teache You may tell us. 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