Show NEW DEADLY SMALL ARX of the new rifle the krag jorgen son bodi which has been officially accepted for issued to and is about to come into use liae by the united states army and which eventus eventually lly will no doubt be the weapon of the national guard as ae well a good deal has been said raid and written without conveying to the aver average agre eI civilian vilian any accurate idea of its characteristics acte and effectiveness for several months past the headquarters of the utah militia in this thia city has been in possession of a specimen of the new gun and while a good many have teen seen and admired it very few have had bad the privilege of shooting it and actually testing its merits merim the general reader may therefore be luter inter sted estel in hearing of the recent trial made at the target range at fort leavenworth it shows that as one commentator argues a war bell be tween two armies with gun un would have a resemblance to the famous fight between cats when a battle was waa over there would be notting left but a vacant space between two fields strewn with dead bodies and rifles the armies having been annihilated without ever having come within reaching distance of one another 20 in the test at fort leavenworth the firing was wag at distances varying from 1000 to yards that Is from throb three of a mile to nearly three miles mile when fired the former distances distance the bullet went want clean through nearly three feet feel of solid oak and came out apparently none the worse for wear at 1600 1500 yards yard which to is only yards short of a mile tofte the bullet passed through a dead human body and afterward went through two feet of solid oak ak at 2000 yards which to is more than a mile and ode it entered a steel plate one inch to in thickness this thia represents a force that is in almost inconceivable io in its ite deadliness deadline ec with accuracy of aim on the part of the soldier no force could withstand such a fusillade or even got get within striking distance of he enemy q imagine a force J again we quote from the comment above referred to the st SL paul pioneer prow a force ot of men supplied with these rifles and ammunition that employs smokeless powder with nothing to interfere with the aim these troops would begin to kill each other when two or three miles distant firing at a 1000 yard range used need to be regarded as a mere curlo curiosity sity of sharp shooting but with the now new rifle slid and powder where there to is but slight alight trajectory and the bullet flies toward Us its mark in an almost straight line the bullets fired at 1000 yards would if they ranged anywhere between the head and the feet of an advancing foe go through rank after rank and each would be sufficient to kill from three to half a dozen men in file it is an open question whether the bravest soldiers could be brought to face each other othe under runder such conditions A man who is not dot a coward may go gladly into the rush ol of conflict anere in the last result it will be something like a hand band to hand fight but it to is not a reflection on his bis bravery if he hesitates to put himself up as a target to be struck down before he can come fairly in sight eight of his foe truly the art altot ot war waria in being reduced to the most terrible of scientific achievements and is becoming so absolutely deadly that nations well may hesitate before resor resorting ing to it for the of disputes |