| Show THE demand by the British government for all MartiniHenry rifles throughout the Kingdom to be immediately returned to the Tower is a sure sign of war But the name MartiniHenry will recall to many Americans the fact that the United States furnished the rifles for the Turkish army in the RussoTurkish war and that most of them were of the Remington pattern The fame of the Remington rifle in Europe is astonishing to an American Ameri-can and he is much surprised when he goes to obtain a permit to visit the Vatican Vat-ican gallery and loggia to have a Swiss guard bar his way with a Remington rifle I and demand what is wanted This demand I I de-mand is formal merely and the permit I I is always givenand charged for Then again he is astonished when he crosses the Pyrenees from Bayonne and comes into Spanish territory and finds that the picturesque and once famous infantry of Spain are armed with Remington rifles and not with halberds and arquebuses With what pride the Spanish soldier tells f an American that his rifle is a Reming ton made in America and shows you more about it and tells far more of its I wonderful qualities than they tell at Illion It must be confessed that the tale is flattering to our national pride and we know that the Spanish soldier has a better weapon in the Remington than the French soldier has in his chassepot I |
