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Show THE NEW ARMY RIFLE. It Is Practically Certain to Be the Best in the "'orld. The new Ur'ted L ates army rifle Is a rema:'at'-! evolution in small arms since the old Springfield single-loader single-loader had its flay. Practically twelve years cover the polled of the development, develop-ment, although the experience of the Spanish and Philippine wars has naturally nat-urally made the progress more rapid since 1898 than before that lime. .hen the Krag was marie the basis of the army magazine rifle there was more or less criticism, but it was poorly conceived. The Ordinance department de-partment has never regarded any model as necessarily a finality, but. has ever been bent on improvements!. Consequently modifications have been numerous and steady, and there is no reason why, with this constant application appli-cation of experience and inventive genius ge-nius the United States service magazine maga-zine rifle should not be equal to any In the world. Springfield (Mass.) Itc publican. - |