| Show tiie THE WAYS 02 0 A jl column of 0 w 11 i wyk hyk nik up into the airy airs air ain expands in concen conce att ati tl i thui thai follows the heavy dull report tiki the h t of r sonn pt gantic drum and then comes comra the tha shrill i r ni i 01 tiie ilie shell sheil aa as it describes demcil dencil bes its fatal talal curve durve and 1 oi n is ls v tb ith prodigious velocity in cr alra aira rapidly iv i 1 nitina t int till it explodes with the p noisa I 1 lo 10 ii L jint tint w it aches raches n the ground kt t last hast it ou on it i d hii bik but kiy ti uly I 1 watched watch edthe the shilla oue our aftin ft i i nii 1141 nil only tak t i lut ut of three burst i iv choul liui i tand mgt fligl t w was wis ts beautifully accurate thy thi bussian t is s i 1 ills ri but tl r artillery artilleryman artillerymen men are not mottu motto v be esce i i i I 1 lair i r practise Is 18 undisturbed I 1 it was int interesting resting ot 11 it in an at piea plea pleasure sure sare in lucre lucratus Lu cretus t ahlf ulen lle alte to seethe beethe see bee the i n 1 iii lii was not on board ship to look at the s si i 1 I to se rec sec our active little allies anies r a ami nd adjusting them ti li mother earth v a 6 to the dp elf i i nellil ill lil 0 i one nc by thein thern alv any man with md mi il rate confidence arit artt and alil ap rince uray inay oppte round shot khot at long luig 1019 ranges at ff bot ruti y sa sees the lie inars guas from irom which they e nr u tn ni schari il wll wil we wont boult gay bay delphe ex avat ath tu A t all C ci i i 11 dat bat a shell is t a a ik elti elii rits which 0 one can reil regins N as it arror e s wout a certain atal lai rat mis sav that a IT piece pt pf jagged iron troll ma may mar b be hia ala in trul irdi at the shortest possible notice afterward ifft if 4 Is sent seni from a gun it fizzel fizzes and roars through the airy alry air and bends tends its fragments frag fras ments before it the cone of dispersion which Is the neat phrase us used ad by the learned militant to imply the direction of the bits of sheli sheil fh eil ell or HI ipe contents coll coil tents w hen it Is filled with bullet bullets e etc tc being la in the direction iha the phell has taken from the gun and the fragments being propeller propelled wit with a portion of the tX velocity of the shell at the moment of explosion I 1 14 it be discharged from a mortar it whistles gently and ang and delicately giving a squeak and a roar nw and then as it t rise rises to ita ila greatest elevation and the then rushing downward with a shriller sh riller whistle toward the point aimed at it it explodes on arriving at that point its fragments are projected all around and ana are propelled merely bv by tl fhe the force of the bursting i charge A man behind a bomby bomb or at the at bide side olt at is Js just as likely to bephia be ht as afan avan before it bursts an in ahat hat ways way wh erea erpa I 1 t ote tte pieces from a shell from a gun in nearly every instance fly forward BO so that a person behind liy lip it or outside the limits of the cone of dispersion Is saie safe unless he shell or bomp bomb bomb bursts in front of a body of men in the tha air a very considerable a sid Id degree of safety may be attained ty by the men throwing them ites flat on the ground inasmuch as the pieces of a shell which bursts on the earth fly upward from the point where they encounter the maximum of resistance of course 1 it if a bomb bursts over a man on the aroun ground j or if a sh shell ell eil explodes in the air in front of a man there Is no great greni safety gained by bi his hid throwing himself him self seif down herond herond the consequent reduction of the amount of vertical exposure this little digression Is asa aia a 1 apropos rapos of the conduct of our ailles allies which I 1 have jut juit mentioned and Is made in order to explain the rationale of their proceedings itts ItIs it is rather an unpleasant reflection rt wherever on Is discussing the range of a missile and is perhaps in the act of exclaim ilg theres therea The ress reys a splendid shot that it may have carrad carruga misery and sorrow into into some happy household the smoke emoke clears away the men get up they gather around one who moves apt or who is racked ticked with mortal agony they bear rint him away a mere black specie speck and a few shovels full fuli of mud mark for a little time the resting place of the poor soldier soldiers whose wife or mother or children or sisters tilters tl are left destitute of df all solace bave have memon memory v and the sympathy of their country one such little speck I 1 watched today to day and saw quietly deposited on the ground inside the trench who will wiil let iet the Ini inmates nates of that desolate cottage in Pl cardy or gascony y or anjou know of their bereavement nelll neill however Ilowe very verj there goes another shell and it does nothing but knock up a cloud of on baw jw and dust torim JCrIm 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