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RECREATION. 



in such operations as brazing, nickel plating, 

 enameling and the like, is described in de- 

 tail. Almost every topic is illustrated with 

 one or more original engravings. The book 

 deals with the simplest and most useful ap- 

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 plain and in every way practical. It is 

 recommended not only to manufacturers of 

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 who handle bicycles, whether as dealers or 

 repairers. 



Bicycle Repairing, a manual of practical 

 methods of repairing bicycles, by S. D. V. 

 Burr. David Williams Company, publish- 

 ers, 232 William Street, N. Y. Price, $1. 



Doubleday & McClure Co., New York, 

 are issuing a new series called the " Ladies' 

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" Over the Alps on a Bicycle," by Eliza- 

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 wonderfully alluring and gives valuable sug- 

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 sometimes almost freakish, illustrations by 

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Ward, Lock & Co., New York, have just 

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A. Conan Doyle's first book of poems, 

 " Songs of Action," will be received with 

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Action the songs unquestionably have, and 

 fire and rush. They have the true power 

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 The edition published by Doubleday & Mc- 

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 $1.25. 



HOW IT FEELS TO BE SHOT. 



Edward Marshall, the war correspondent 

 who was seriously wounded at the battle of 

 San Juan, tells how it feels to be shot, in 

 the September number of the Cosmopolitan 

 Magazine. Here is what he says: 



" I can satisfy curiosity as to the feeling 

 produced by a Mauser bullet. My narrative 

 is based on one Mauser bullet which shot 

 away part of my backbone. 



" When we ran into the ambuscade, I first 

 emptied my revolver on the enemy, and, 

 with an eye to the news for which I had 

 come, began to look around and make notes. 

 A palm tree under which I was standing 

 seemed to shiver. I saw 3 or 4 bullet holes 

 in it, above my head. 



" I felt a blow in the back. It was neither 

 violent nor painful. It was as though a 

 friend had given me a light blow in play. I 

 fell down. To my surprise I could not get 

 up. I had interrupted the course of a Mau- 

 ser bullet. There is little pain immediately 

 following a wound. 



" The first persons to come to me were the 

 Red Cross nurses to bandage me, and then a 

 surgeon handled me over and told me I had 

 only a few minutes to live. I believed him. 

 His statement seemed to produce as little 

 effect on me mentally as did the Mauser 

 bullet physically. The mental and physical 

 dulness must be attributed, I suppose, to 

 the shock produced by the bullet. 



" I saw a good many men wounded and 

 about 6 killed near me. Eight men a dozen 

 yards away from me all dropped down, one 

 after another, within 60 seconds. There was 

 not a jump, not a scream. I heard one man 

 say in a low voice, ' I am hit.' The others 

 said nothing. 



" It is a fact that every man struck by a 

 Mauser bullet, no matter how slightly or on 

 what part of the body, drops instantly. It 

 seems as though the enormous force behind 

 the bullet administers to the nerves, where- 

 ever struck, a shock like that from a power- 

 ful electric battery. 



" We could not wave our arms or make 

 any other movement, but we could talk. 

 One chap said, ' Let's sing a song to show 

 those fellows we aren't dead.' So we sang 

 the ' Star Spangled Banner ' and another 

 tune, with a good, deal of the tune left out. 



" Pretty soon I began to feel as if red- 

 hot needles were being stuck, slowly and de- 

 liberately, into my spine, from one end to the 

 other. I have learned since that the burn- 

 ing sensation was due to small splinters of 

 bone sticking in the spinal cord/' 



