| Show I SOME REMARKABLE H WEAPONS OF WARFARE n v In Many ot of the Most Moat MIl MIltI tI tIu from Precious whIt Oth COZ 5 tInd Ind Oms Oma of In tb the ut h 5 Who Sent Out iut An Prote td by Wt W WJ J I I I S I M l P N q q it r Www I In UI the e day of aad quick I when a u at Madder Modder river rivera I a b bullets tI af are tired In III s II nil the pm gam ot of war wr Is II I I without the I I ot ts molded from metals or r atones In their cen f i 1 tr and ad Yet In older times small mall miD miDI I I I H I of gold and have been shot bot away from an ani I f I I I t II When Wen the dIJ w wr wu In inI I j England and Cromwell seemed to bear bea beaI I 11 I R a charmed Uk life ot oC i r were vere molded In In 01 the hope ot ott t laying the future protector low for tor torto forto to the superstitious a silver bullet I brings death deth tar far more than i one one o of baser bailer metal Thousands of bul bullets bullets lets oC tailed failed to touch the pliant and when at last lut hl hii I brave heart wa was stilled at t It was a by a sliver lIver bullet which so 10 the q i legend says was waa Imbedded In It ItI THE THI CORPORAL I When too In mG 1796 the Great Napoleon I led his armies Into Italy to find honor honorI I and famo CalOo and wealth the very I sliver from the altars of italian churche wa coined Into bullets bullet and carried death to thousands of oC and Sar Mr I the Princess Conde Cond and her troops troop were shut hut In mid and surrounded by army Iho eho resIsted gallantly until the last Jat cannon cannonball b ball and bUllet had bad been fired and then used every ounce of gold and silver In Ini i her capital to teed her suns aun i on each bullet a malediction to hurl burl at atthe the tb enemy I SOLID GOLD DEATH ns i In the early da days ot minIng In I I co 00 CalifOrnia and mens i were stuffed with gold old duet dut I and everyman carried a loaded revolver I Irwan a thing to mike make the bul bullets lets Ieta of solid gold anti nt man many a miner i has hils gone to his hll grave with a gold cold bul bulI I lat In his hia heart beart through Indis erect enough to take part In a tavern brawl It would lax ta human ingenuity to discover any ony metal of oC which bullets have hae not been made maile at one time or another They have been In Iron And nd alumInum cop copper r and brase eller And nd gold They have been stooped steeped In pol poisons ona tIlled with acids and ot every enry kind and made heavy with mercury And these have hae hy by no always b been n nI used In bullet bult form fonn I was In th Penin ular War a wa was hol j h the tite wIth a pencil case antl an quite recently when a back backI I I woods storekeeper shot a nel In a fi of a 11 ounce braN I I I weight wu was fourni for tor in UI the mans bod COsTLY TON heM ha Ii M ammunition In ID more 01 than on war vr Pot t ably cna o the 1 engLIshmen Were en pUll pota e ea a ago itt maD ot of Were tr wounded or killed with l den et Dui ul ulletA letA Jete WhiCh carried an t thelt core The Th conventional 10 n have had bad mAP ms OItI rub lb ill In war In UtI thO civil wa hundreds of bed to battle carrying cythe lag IlIr hooks flails pick axes and antt blacksmiths bamm a std d ft 11 tit the war It I II Hid that Oat otte I or o the enterprising ed out of rd ur or PT AND FIST ONt At least leut one regiment ha a o a action arme armed with othin deadly than feet fHt and lIste tl nd I Imore Is Ismore more remarkable came ma oUt of 01 It t I unscathed It wa was In the Ule WI In Inthis this country when the F move Jlove meat ment from Nashville brough oh Ute tIle allt of ro A regiment which Md Deen isolated from the camp i at attack attack tack of had given Iven up their to arm the boa ot of who were pouring lit In n t y er ordered Into position fo for tb the they were wert absolutely unarmed ill fIle tile the order came to charge they at Al atthe th the en enemy em with phout tout did Id tiMe So gallantly did they acquit tte that when tb the battle Will was oV ove near ea I ImaD man maD In Ut Us regiment w wa I In of bloh he had bd w wrested from the nem or ed from a taileD fallen friend USING ulINa CANNON CANlON BAJ BATU COD p HANDED During Durin the battle of Bell an ait American force under In lY t defeated the British troops tt It II said hI that ran ty r nillon tl tOlI collected ted 0 of the ta em cannon ban balls and sent IM tm bak bakon on the lii return Journey nd It t II s well known that It wu was with tb red ot shot that the Ole sturdy turdy garrison ot of tt destroyed the invincible It t bate t ot of Spain In tilL DY BY Wr B ANI Once at least the hai bu d decided ld the of led to the complete rout roul o It was a a generation ago alO i her hei the Ya Yaqui a qui Indians arose In the government o of and an bp reb rebel el eis were at last lut fa face to face tace with lIh the Mexican arm tIe In dlan diens advanced to the attack 1 sent lent lentIn In a covering line of ner cr car carryIng a bulwark ot of wet et 1 JelA In Invin vin the tried to lo d destroy U this I barrier with their not A Itie WU we nd bd hll bw the br the they eme front from their and dah ln In at the Ule Mexican put thIn to mn Ien |
