Show I MIERCXfijjl HAIJSER IIAIILY 1AIIK liJi AN If TIIIIILI MIlUM A London CufibHunters Collection of Skulls from South Africa Snovvs the Effect of Each of the Missiles Used at the Cap I I London April 11 Beyond question I tho most marvelous feature of the South African war Is the merciful manner man-ner In which the Mauser bullet treats I those It strikes The collection here of an early hunter for war relics includes I in-cludes a gruesome trio of skulls which ceased to become living portions of the I human anatomy through the sudden entrance and exit of bullets having a I muzzle velocity of 2000 and more feet per second The collector of these reminders re-minders of wars terrors has arranged them In a row with the holes made by the missile plainly visible so that the different effect of the three varieties varie-ties that brought death to the original possessors of the skulls can be plainly seen One skull is drilled clean through by a Mauser bullet another by the Mark II a bullet used In the present campaign by the British and the third by the terrible dumdum missile which 1 has been declared too inhuman for use In civilized warfare but which Is still being fired by both sides In the South African war Whether or not the claim by the Boers that they are only using dumdum bullets captured from the British Is correct or not it seems certain cer-tain that the burghers are killing their enemies with them for the skull on exhibition Is that ot a British soldier sol-dier i dierThe The wound Inflicted by this dumdum I I r r Th 4 I stD 4 Th st-D i 7 v I Locomotive engine shielded from tho bullets of the by enemy Ropes a rnJo 1 J < I ranks of the also ransIn the racing world Neverthless the excitement as 1 have said Is Intense here over the coming com-ing contest If an American machine wins the disappointment of the French will be equal to that which the Americans would feel over the loss of the great yachting trophy To do them I Justice the French never seem to entertain en-tertain the Idea of losing the automobile automo-bile race to a foreigner The American Ameri-can machines that ale entered It Is conjectured will be bad copies of the French racers Some pictures have of course been seen here of the t American I lacing automobiles and as compared r with the complicated French and eon tlnentat racers they arc very wild I looking creations the local talent Is inclined to poohpooh the idea of such i missile Is simply appalling The entrance en-trance hole Is a big cavity but the I place of exit Is a terrible sight I The only way to describe correctly the damage dam-age done by the bullet Is to say that the whole side of the skull Is torn away Such a wound inflicted In any part of the body must almost certainly be mortal The dumdum leaves a hole large enough to put the whole hand In and whether It happens l to strlk9 a vital part or not the shock caused by I a bullet that shatters the body as the dumdum docs is sure to kill The effect of a dumdum bullet stilkljig = a limb Is to smash bone and sever artery In such fashion that only quick surgical aid can save life The dumdum Is second In Its frightful shattering oiTnct only to the one pounder missile that so demoralized tar British at Magorsfonteln and which I they have with grim humor named the Pomnom What a difference Is presented by the merciful Mauser that the Spaniards first brought Into worldwide prominence I promi-nence and which the Doer marksmen are using In their desperate efforts to keep the British out of Pretoria The Mauser bullet makes a wound so small that a man scarcely knows he Is hit until he drops from logs of blood Marvelous are the stories told of the recovery from wounds Inflicted by the Mauseis The man whose skull Is to be seen here with the tiny hole showIng show-Ing where the bullet entered and left the skull might have lived to tell how It felt to be shot through the head had he been as lucky as a Tommy of the Northumberland Fuslleer regiment who is without doubt the most interesting Inter-esting wounded man In the British army This soldier was hit by a Mau ser bullet which entered the skull at the left side narrowly missed the brain traveled l In an eccentric course around the mans head and found Its way out through the cheek To JIve a wreck after such an experience would seem luck enough for one man But this singular soldier has actually recovered from his wound and is as well as ever the only mark left by the bullet being a slight puckering of the skin at the place where the bullet found Its way out of his head None but the merciful I Mauser missile could have left so slight a trace of Its visit Had a dumdum been fired from the rifle that v > as aimed at this fusllrory head little of the head would have remained to mark the bullets course Other authenticated stories little leas marvelous are told of the Mausers mercifulness Bullets fired from this rifle have passed through lungs stomach stom-ach abdomen and neck with no more distress ensuing to the wounded man than a few weeks of doctoring In the hospital As to the appearance of the I wounds Sir William MacCormac tho I famous surgeon In command of the 1 hospital corps at the Cape writes Almost Al-most all the Mauser wounds Iresent tho characteristic features small circular slightlydepressed area cov I err < 1 with a black scab The exit wounds are often quite similar but a little larger sometimes prosenllnc a 1 scar like an Incised wound and dlfll I cult to discover When I saw them a week or ten days subsequent to the InJury I Jury they were for the most part I healed How these bullets fall to damage dam-age vital structures lying Immediately I In their path is nothing short of marvelous l mar-velous The proportion of fatal chest wounds to those which are recovered I I fttm N believed to be small but what HIP proportion precisely Is rannot as = I vehicles beating the gigantic motors that are entered for the race here The knowing OIKS who hac aeen sum 01 these massive and complex French racers at work howeer ale talking wisely of the length of the course and pointing 1 out the advantage that lightness light-ness < < gives to the American machine In a longdistance race The longer the ace the bettor for the light American machines and the worse for the pon 1 Irous engines that are called automobile automo-bile racers in this country The route of the race has been finally fixed as follows Leaving Suresnes the route will be as follows via Versailles Ver-sailles Chart mes Chateaudun Orleans Or-leans Glen and Brlare then through Nevers Maullns La Pall se Roanne Farare and Lyons yet be ascertained It Is abundantly clear that one lung and often both lungs may be traversed and In many directions without causing grave symptoms and often without producing I any symptoms of being Injured at all The large number of perforated abdominal ab-dominal wounds which arc recovered from give pause to operative procedure proced-ure in that direction but Indications for operations In such cases muDt be completely revised It may be pointed out that the case with which Mauser bullet wounds heal Is having a marked effect on the war from the British Injured are out of hospital In three weeks and In many cases back in the ranks in form so that the total losses of the war so often quoted as showing that the British Brit-ish are paying the price that staggers stag-gers humanity neod revising to get an accurate Idea of the damage done by tho Boer sharpshooters The damage Is In reality much less than It seema from the returns of tIme wounded This can hardly be the case with the Boer wounded for the British are using us-ing the Mark TI bullet a missile i which while It does not tear a jagged I hole like the dumdum Inflicts a I wound that Is usually bad enough to I place a man hors de combat no matter where It hits him and In the event of It I striking a vital part that the Mauser penetrates without killing the Mark II can be relied upon to provide a candidate can-didate for a place In the death trench when the battlefield Is being mopped I UI = I j5 4j ti r l tc3 TJSER ItLiEIJ 2RK C I r JJh k S N Uco the contrast between the Ma15cr 4 r which is conslderedthemost humnne most hmnQ find the 1 I Dum DUIDA n wound from which invnrinbJy causes death I T1 |