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RECREATION. 



exactly the same casualties, from the same mis- 

 siles, and the triumphant revolutionists entered 

 the city of Valparaiso. Thus the rifle, had its 

 practical test, and what had been experiment- 

 ation at pine planks, dead horses, cadavers, etc. , 

 had become a matter of fact. 



In this Chilian war, the last of any conse- 

 quence, the advantages of the modern magazine 

 rifle were found to be : ist, greater initial veloc- 

 ity; 2d, flatter trajectory; 3d, greater accuracy 

 of aim; 4th, much greater penetrating force; 5th, 



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greater range; 6th, less weight of gun and the 

 charged cartridge; 7th, only 6 to 7 per cent, of 

 foul guns after battle. 



Had the Carcano rifle, adopted by the Italian 

 army, been used, the casualties would have been 

 even greater. 



The two cuts show the extension in length, but 

 diminution in other respects, of the United 

 States Springfield 500-grain cartridge, as at 

 present and as proposed. 



U. S. Cartridge. 



Modern Cartridge. 



The large cartridge is for the Springfield sin- 

 gle loader. It contains 70 grains of powder and 

 500 grains of lead. The smaller cartridge is for 

 the Krag-Jorgensen, contains about 30 grains of 

 chemical powder and the bullet weighs 230 grains. 

 The bullet is sheathed or jacketed hard metal. 



These four cuts illustrate the shape, calibres, 

 length and size of small arms bullets, since 

 spherical ones were superseded by elongated pro- 

 jectiles. Philip Reaue, Capt. U. S. A. 



INACCURACIES IN 



"THE LADY OF THE LAKE." 

 W. A. Wheatley. 



DEDICATED TO MRS. EMMA CARROLL TUCKER. 



All adolescent men and maids of Athens and 

 the world read both with eyes and hearts, Sir 

 Walter Scott's exquisite romaunt, " The Lady of 

 the Lake." Why is this musical poem read 

 scores of times while the lesson on conic sections, 

 linear perspective, of the graduating essay, are 

 shoved under students' pillows for the night, to 

 be dreamed into the brain ere golden Phoebus 

 has chased silvery Luna beneath the horizon? It 

 is because Scott pours out the heart's language, 

 the mother tongue of nature and of love, which 

 began in Eden, knew not Babel and is the court 

 language of the universe. Like Gawain bidding 

 a thousand farewells to Elaine, the lily maid of 

 Astolat, only to return, so older hearts are 

 thrilled by memory's tinkling silver bells, chimes 

 of youth's ardors. Rarely are we too old or 

 cold to admire Malcolm Graeme's ardent and 

 chivalric devotion, the royal and rejected love of 

 Fitzjames, the disguised King of Scotland, and 

 as for divinely fair Ellen Douglass, " let no man 

 dream but that we love her still." The exordium 

 to Roderick Dhu's sword duel with the Knight 

 of Snowdoun is the chase, the ending of which 

 loses the Knight, who finds the maid in her 

 shallop. In this exquisitely musical and rhythmic 

 poem are errors of forestry; and the stag, 



" Deep his midnight lair had made 

 In lone Glenartny's hazel shade" — 



but deer feed all night, and lie in lairs during 

 the day only. 



" The deep-mouthed bloodhound's heavy bay 

 Resounded up the rocky way" — 



deer are never hunted with bloodhounds ; dogs 

 bay only at end of a chase when attacking 

 wounded deer. 



' ' Faint from further distance borne 



Were heard the clanging hoof and horn" — 



Winding the horn calls the hounds back, and is 

 to stop the chase, 



" A moment gazed adown the dale, 

 A moment snuffed the tainted gale" — 



The woodland morning gale is sweet as Hymet- 

 tus, or as Thisbe unto Pyramus, and it is the 

 hound that snuffs the tainted gale. 



' ' Ere his fleet career he took" 

 " A moment listened to the cry 

 That thickened as the chase drew nigh." 



So these bloodhounds were in full cry and chase 

 before the stag had left his heathery bed of the 

 previous eve. But these anachronisms come 

 from grand old Sir Walter's not having been born 

 in Mississippi or Arkansas, and our Wade 

 Hampton or Zeb Vance, or D. Boone or Coon 

 Skin Davy Crockett could and would gladly 

 have given him "pointers," on deer hounds of 

 the flop ear, bell-mouthed, true type, and we 

 would have loved him even more, if possible, for 

 his deep love of Maida, his most noble staghound. 

 His errors are but motes, his genius the equatorial 



