| Show 1 nE nEI I 9 ME RICAN r x M fi A ith his ne new and nd up r 10 to date equipment lie lieIS IS is the most promising fighter in in the world ere setin in bt 1 In the tho set World II Ie nothing that we l hesitate to Gith equipment up to date data and with tearle tar tor 1111 any fate ssi ro re the custard and wo we have a right u tt tackle cackle tackleR R NI our name Is II Johnny Sank bd eU hit em cm front and dank j Ash 4 un smite m em hIp and thigh when we ADd Ad it II anybody nere are rUlly In our links lt como coma around and alck us uc on a y tbs th American army had It its om IF barrack room roam he quite probably would write samo In the spirit of the fore oro lines In honor ot of the United F 11 nt at preset the Yank of et toda today who he Is the l best eat man on onu u e te tact ot of the earth carth nod has touch to hack him blot Up It par tal been raid laid by nu au dot the section at the army of de e Stat s which was o erad to k Cobs c Is the thc finest fighting body In tee tte now and the tho that the Ihn torrid ever TIlt statement Is It Itt I down tho ho to Ther and beyond It for forward ward from rom the lesions legions ot of Alexander end and Xerxes pest the con hordes ot of Frederick and Nn Nay up UI to day may ma 1 of human composition them all od aside e and iota tho American my drat and very PIT laver of unman I ti tort holde record of at many tent kent ann armlet Ie In some of which there thero zero tero bodies of warriors equipped armed ormed AS near to the tho teeth III ad tit tho arms of at the tho time would permit and II nil trained to their duties until each mat vas liS as tit fit liS as the modern pURl H lest t wino who steps Into Ino the rink ring In the pink ut of I I livery ery age tins hind had hadIt It Ile in III organizations Scone ot of the tho centurions of Caesar Capsar with glittering shield and gleaming spear ant to 10 of glistening helmet some somewhat what like the tho head piece worn b by the policeman ot of today loday 1 famous the world as the tho world ot of that do day their fitness Napoleon hail his ate upon whIch ho he lavished the heat erns and equipment of tho l Great Britain never falls to havo some sec Kec lion ot of her army that Is d and primped to tn tho limit flut ut ho American army anny of of It lint a 1 mere to the tho military oh observers rl Is the tho finest on onearth earth carth so tar far IS as fighting quality goes gOIS nil and the tho ot of a IS as every eiry everyone one ona knows ls II to light fight li It Is the finest t our army has taken quite an extraordinary spurt In Inthe inthe the direction ot of Improvement of the rank and file filo since the Amerl can war rear Plover lIever Jelling pass a 0 single opportunity to benefit hy by e experience or observation There lun have been wars during the tho past ten years not merely rumors rumor of oC roars When we have not been Jeen lighting ourselves we hu have been watching others fight Our IU as observers have hae been beell sent lent to I South Routh Africa to Manchuria anywhere and everywhere lint war has haft been Waged to 10 report on foreIgn m methods and make suggestions fiS u tl to American army firmy Improvement That Thu t body of oC men recently or ordered ordered dered to Cuba is III qui quite Ie a different thing treat rom the tho army which went to the island Illand ht un In most respects It is 15 a 0 very much hotter bolter and fitter I arm army and con more maIo to be hat the late lato John lIar Itay once call called cd un an awk awkward ward hand in III a row rolY Mr Ir lillY hay of courso meaning that It would be awk want for tor the other othor fellow The Tho American army practically has hIlS been made mudo over In the past ve years Even its clothes have been futile malc over It that WI we had to send tor all an to do title this One Mr Ir Winter n a London military tailor came over a fel ow months ago ugo at II a salary of II a than Ire President showed our military tailors how to cut Johnny Yanks clothes so they ther wound fit him Three or 01 tour four years ago ngo tune the were made mad over and It was WIlS deemed high time that the soldier had 1 a I chance to look more stylish though style Is not what counts when there 1 a row rOl Me Winter it white while hero here that Iho clothing material fur tur to the tho American army Is tho ho best that le Is furnished to an any army In inthe the right hero we have an admission from II a of su KU In one point Along with hI his new clothes the American carries carrieR to 10 Cuba new shooting Irons Not I a weapon save perhaps the tho words swords that went to Cuba eight years earll ago ugo Is taken along ulong 01 on title trip From cannon to cartridge clip everything Is new lIew and different field artillery machine guns and lire are of new typos types 1111 and 1 of the Iho t now Even the he is III of n II distinctly new kind and nd the Iho revolver carried by the Is of an up II to date model To the rifle carrIed b by our fighting men attaches the chief interest just no now In title this army movement For the tho r nt l I II IJ II 1 r rJ rI J N I ING A Mil 1 b r ARMS a J I J 4 I 1 v a i tr aCl 1 y i tt jN r F V le Nor fR gd t r iL I first time limo sInce the tho ot of the tho Stes Stat gent every branch ot of ho now tarries artle the tho same ma malts e of oC rule Tha fh war r began bogan the new lIel rifle to the sav EOV branches ot of the service about abou six alx months ago 1110 recalling the old Jorgensen and other makes which had done dOlle notable In Cuba ChIna and the Ile Philippines The carbines of the lIe cavalry were recalled i also abo the troopers being heinli furnished with the same gun that Is carried hy by Infantrymen this Ihl son gun the New ot of I 1908 03 I le 1 n little 1011 honor or than the tho old cavalry carbine and n a loth shorter than Ihan the Krag In III looks ills It is dif dlf different terent ferent trout suitor either In Its operation anti its likewise It Is III quite another r weapon conIl It the deadliest army rifle 11 in use any anywhere nY where on earth The now new rule I is B a magazine gun hut but the cartridges are loaded In III a and not separately as 18 In the ad old rifles This Thill facilitates Sighting The caliber Is 80 30 The Tho rifle Is ot of simpler con can than the hll has greater and flatter trajectory pal One ut It steel jacketed bullets wilt will go through u a II a toot tool and Q a halt thick lick and kill a man manon all on the other othor side Ilde Then there thero Is the ne new bayonet This Is a 1 a double edged h sixteen Inches lOll It outs cuts both 1 ways waI Jl It will do Moro titan all any bayonet ever eVI devised before Lefore Ilat j ties of th ho war proved s s that la Is plenty of UfO for tor the M a g bayonet t which h somo military men had b d Ott 4 begun t to c com Icier obsolete r b t Per tor the flits limn each regiment bar ite It IS own s un od A t tite 4 sill ot of men handles the th tel Ib 1 mental Machine guns whIch wh Me are ers erl Maxims of thin sans call rich as the nl new rifle Wha In operation those gums resemble re cameras or surveying iu being lIet Their actIon however is 15 An ox ex pert Perl handler fit of on one of these little devils can saw a 0 hoard bourd In two with at n 0 of oC half bait II a mile mUe s R l r rether a Th The lie stew Illch geld field gun la III any y lither ether novelty In Ia actiVE service but lut Is E r J anal proved hy by thoroll thorough h tOSI oats It t j a shots hot IL a shrapnel shell of fifteen a having a radius ot of k ra tift fifty yards treat accuracy long range Y features of this r of gnu there Is the gun car t tred red ludo the tho regimental lItal machine pun gun r err the Iho back of II a pIece Itself I la by one on mole the carriage b by ej ti pad the tho b by n II t f third Title I ln Is ot of incites rail f her Jer Like limo 1111 field nelc gun gUll Il u lUteen pound projectile but It his rouge Ij is hi not so Front Till The chief thIs I that It bl be j ur of gun gen can carried p over a mule can and p tooting footing In estimating the Iho fighting of Un tilt the bt wes and mules must not be ba Tim The best ll 1 a Jt h horses es III ha the Ulf come COlne from th the l western ns ot of the United States rhese o hoed two thoroughly educated f t The They know their te III well vall ail as jl a f z sal the tho trooper knows his hili eo sr say the instructors the tho 1 taster faster than tile the man iho army amY rile Is t s A highlY No auto will deny that elm whether front rom Is Isis Missouri lI some other western state c Is universally fou sought ht after Japan Germany and other JU nay f inns ly with pack li mules fr from m the United when they can Ie get The Th Stales talfO Ifill troy mule QI o Is III educated l Uc lee attics tram from th the training school uL at Jet Jetter t tarson ter arson on barracks St 61 before re relying his hla commission to 10 carry a mountain gun Aun or a load at c The Tho men In he our nor army lire are Attest of at nil show that they are hll larger than any Rny other ether soldiers and that adds to their fight In lag force They are physically fit tit M they must bl be to get Ket the army or U rr late lale enlistment hand hl been mad mada flout mOr rigid It If 1 n man lies a acorn a t corn nowadays he is IK liable to a I turn G r r ring ing 1111 down when alms he 11 Ii ek to Ia enlist t Coors l with The American ones anny of today has the y worlds best That rt waa held before the Spanish but Z the infusion lon of 11 green volunteers dur 1111 ing that conflict lowered tie the a It 1 of und and for tor 1 a tints lime the th wU wits last t to 10 the th it 1 Jut tut now nOI QUI our have havo won hack the place In o alb rd ship hip mak bettor records than any l settlers In tho ever eyer male maln bo be 4 t torn fore There era 1111 now In the tho army t tt as about crack nhu Iw have made tits grade ot of marksman or better hetter That is 11 u 11 most remarkable showing and awl 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