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Correspondence of The Observer the lnd of the novice, no matter what other branch of rifle shooting that adopt. But It is in long range shooting, un New York. Nov. 11 Tpt ahimtimr doubtedly, that the rifleman finds the a a sport has been more or less sharply h'he8t development of the sport. And divided Into match rifle shooting and military rifle shooting. The points in which the match rifle dlfTers from the inllrtary are, Ua. lighter trigger pull, finer sight, and better finish; and. In addition, various departures from mll llnry styles are allowed in the way cf special attachments, buttplates, heavier weight of barrel, etc. The match rifle ulso Is developed with accuracy and Its chief aim, and accuracy at the par lcuar distance it la to be used: while 4re military rifle has to be adapted to un ranges, ana De strongly built and serviceable under adverse conditions, even If at the expense of some accura cy. In view of these considerations, it Is , scarcely to be wondered at that the target rifle developed with the sole ob ject of shooting from the off-hand posi , tion at 206;yardsj, as' in cogue by the fierman-Amerlcan 'Schueten) clubs, should differ so, much from the long range matcJi and military rifle. . The , , Hchuetsen, rifle iiaa, changed, but little in many years,flni in Us present form is probabljhsii near perfection for Its purpose as in 1 jHjKBtbl" to, get; Most of the modern scntietiwri Tines still uae oiacK powder, Bnd'lnt,he finest AmerU .can makes the' bullet la" pushed down from the muscle in the old muzzle loading rifles. They" fre extremely ac curate, and the 'Shdoting Is generally done on sheltered fahgesno' that this , kind of shooting brings the game down to merely one of slrMf ill holding. On the other htthd,- the long range match rifle has ot late years Aipproach ed more and more closely to the mlll- tary. w much so that mostof ' the match rifles now in use in England are merely milHary . rifles fitted1 wftb fine target sights. .Skill In snooting At the lnnsr ramres. Whether with military br match rifles,, involves not xmjy good holding, but also a knowledge of the J' i .. effects of disturbing factors such as ;T'i'-t Changes of lights, wind, barometric pres '?.SsX tempersture,; te.:; 7i. ,- Krf'S It must not be supposed, however, . s'Jhuetren rifle shooting Is 'of . no - - value to riflemen ;who aspire, to honors in late years, since the advent of the modern smokeless powder rifle of high power and small calibre. It is gratify ing to note, in our American as well as liv the British weapons, that the mili tary and match rifle have v approached very near to each other, lrr the old black powder days, the match rifle with lis paper patched bullet, heavy charge of powder, and necessity of cleaning after each shot was a far different weapon than the military rifle. In thoe days, to attempt to shoot 1,000 yards with a military rifle would have been considered the height of folly. But now there is little difference in the scores made with match and military rifles at these' long ranges. Indeed, .our Krag. when a good barrel can be 'se lected and when the drag Is removed from the trigger ..pull, is In the opin ion Of many expert riflemen fully capa ble at the mid and long ranges of hold ing Un ott-n against the finest match rifles that can be produced. : There are few target, sights that afford better aiming than the 1901 model Krag. sight, and while it is true that the target sights as a rule are further apart and adapted to the back position, the mod ern high power rifle seems, to shoot so much better from the prone position as to make than compensate for any slight advantage the target sights might thus gain over our military sight. A glance over the records of those long range matches of recent years that have been open to both military and match rifles wU! show that in 80 per cent, of the matches the Krag has come out victor ious. Indeed, the remarkable develop ment of accuracy In the. American high (tower rifle within the past, few years has not been dtie to any particular re. fttiemenr tn the weapon or sights, but solely to the improvement In the bullet and in the more uniform measuring of powder charges. j To dtl understanding!? with the dif ferences that have taken place In rifles slncS the adoption of the high power principle, it, w ill be necessary to look a little Into the principles governing all rttles. A rifle -may be regarded as an with he military or long; range rifle, Implement embodying 11 the resources j ii: mii- in" auYTiiagevoi using coeap -nee aim ri in 1110 tuori,io inrow smmunltlon, It isv generally done on !si.,i ranges provided with facilities thai 1n ; - sure comfort t the shooter during even , " ' - tht.i-tbldest and most -disagreeable ' westher and It is the best possible trlnlrf for the-fine holding. Therefore It is far better for the rifleman; 'who Vin'ld keep lb practice to shoot 60 or : ' IfK) shots lit 'M yardsMy once ft week "' or two-weeki durins.lhf Winter wi'th a. scnnot!!on ri' a projectile far, swiftly and accurately. The I'rojectlle is acted upon by the na tura I forces precisely as is a stone when thrown from the. hand, the differences; Jue td tb higher velocity of the bullet, being In -degree ami. not tn kind. The nrvsteryv that in the minds of the tin in If )n ted Is supposed to attend the flight of a biiHct Is chiefly due to. the fuct th.it (lie bullet" cannot under ordinary 1 ,'"iint.t:ini'H be ohicrvfi in its flight 1 ! 1 t .,n vitit , is ty,,, gt,,r,rt. U-uc of all projectiles, no matter how thrown, is that tiny fall toward the jeiirth .a soon aH the support Is removed frorc. ihcm, jii.sl the same .as though I they were not projectiles. Kut even ! wiule they are falling, the energy ap plied In driving them ahead. From this it v Hi be clear that no weapon, how cver !owerful, can drive a bullet so fast 'tlial H "ill so In a straight line It im ! meiliaiely begltm to fall, us soon as it lleiive.1 the barrel, unless the latter has I bcn c;iwted upward to some extent: in which case, besides Its forward mo- lilon, It will rise until the upward force I also Imparted to It has been expended, and then begin to fall according to the well-known law of falling bodies slow ly at "rst, but faster the further it falls. The f1ht of a bullet, therefore, is al ways in a curved line. 1 It does not seem as though air would offer much resistance to the passage of 1 a body through it, but unyone who has 'ridden u bicycle knows that it does. Moreover, the resistance of the air in crease much more than proportionate ly with the speedof the moving body, jfor If the speed be doubled, the, resist ance will be more than quadrupled. The air, therefore, becomes a much more po tent factor in retarding the progress of a bullet than of the stone thrown from the liand, even though, weight for weight, the bullet presents less section al area. The forward motion of the projectile, , therefore, will become slow- jer the further.it travels, while its fall ing speed is continually increased ow ing to the laws of gravity; and for this reason the further it goes, the more curved will be its flight, until at last it drops to the ground. It is evident that the greater weight a buiet has In proportion to its sec tional area, the less will be the degree of the resistance opposed to It by the air. other things being equal. An ath lete could not throw a cork as far as a boy eouHl a piece of lead of the same else and shape. Therefore the heaviest available material lead is used in the manufacture of the rifle bullets. Fof the same reason, the modern long bul 'et mountains Its velocity much better than the old round bullet used In the musket and early muzzle loading rifle. But when a bullet is made longer than Its diameter, some means must be taken to Insure Its flying In the direction of Its loiig-axlspoint on. This is- the object of the spiral grooves that are! Cut ri the inside of a rifle barrel, for It is found that if the bullet be caused to rotate with sufficient rapidity on its! long axis, it will not turn sideways! during its flight. The degree of this twist in the rifling is called Us "piteh." The IsvnvAt. Ua K.,11.. , I., It. I diameter, the quicker the pitch of the rifling, must be: if the bullet la too long for a given pitch of rifling to handle, this will be shown by the bullet going through the target in sideways or tipping position tn the parlance Of the rlflemn n. ' it 1 "keyholes.' It Is necessa ry - for the bullet to be kept, point on from consideration of accuracy, as well as to maintain its velocity.. , "V- When we increase the - proportionate tength of our bullets and use a quicker twist of rifling. It becomes necessary to harden the bullet by the addition of tin or am Imnnv, so tliut. it will hold 1 " F ' I T t ' " 1 '""I 1 straight through ihe barrel without fol lowing the grooves stripping, riflemen ii-all it. I tut when we reach a certain )lnt in lengthening the bullet and ln- creasing the pitch of the rilling, no al hay of lead is sufllclent to give good results. Therefore, In the modern high I power rifle, the bullet Is made up of a core of lead, with a jacket ot very tough metal, generally an alloy of cop Iper and nickel: and Ihe tough Jacket .holds on to the rifling so well that we are enabled to fire charges of highly explof ivecompouiids, giving nearly dou ble the velocity that It was IMissible to obtain with the old black powder rifle. The modern high power rllle is. therefore one which fires a Jacketed bullet very long in proportion to its diameter, by means of a charge of smokeless powder several times as strong as black pow der, with nearly double the velocity ob tained with lend bullet and black dow- der; and asa result of the long bullet and high and well sustained velocity, the curve described by the bullet Is much nearer a straight line "its tra jectory is flatter" Its penetratkin greater, and Its range longer. There is another deviation laterally from the Rtraight line shown by a riite bullet and more pronounced in ilfie having a quick twist: this Is cr.p-'l "drift." It Is a lateral movement due to the spin of the bullet on Its long axis. As the bullet Is constantly fall ing in its flight, the under surface meets with more air resistance than the upper, and the bullet therefore tends o roll 1'ier.illy on' this denser air: so that a rifle having a right-hand direc tion to Its pitch of rifling will cause a bullet to drift to the right,-while one with a left-hand twist will drift to the left. Correction of thin drift needs to be made on the sights of match rifles, but on the military sight of our nation al arm-r-the Krag the correction Is made automatically -when the elevation Is changed. WALTER O. HUDSON. M. T. President Manhattan Rifle and Revol ver Association. ART A FACTOR IN SOCIETY. So Subject Allont Which There Is Greater Confusion Than Art, In the Popular Mind It (Being Regarded as Something Imported From France and Suitable for People of Ietsnre and Wealth. Following Is a portion of a recent lec ture delivered before the University convocation et Madison, Wis., by Prof. Jerome Dowd : "There Is no subject about which there Is greater confusion thnn that re specting the meaning and value of art In the popular mind It Is something im ported from France and suitable tor jeople of leisure, and. 'wealth., Many artists themselves look upon their work as a mere expression of life and nature regarding It as non-moral and believing that it fulfills us mis.on in represent ing whatever is true, to nature. Critics and text-books often: r vaguely define It as' some kind, of nrnnilestation of the aesthetic life: while to, other It Is' an affair, . of kodak pft-tu res bric-a-brac and sofa pillows. - ' .1- "Most people 'of nfodern tlrr.es have confuted 1 their coneept loo cf art v.-V;. their conception of beauty and luxury. Appreciation of beauty may exlnt wllh- lout any appreciation f art. and mere 'love of laaiity la no particular credit .10 anyone. All people mikI according to : Darwin many animals, apprehend and j love beauty. The Insects are largely irespousible for our beautiful and sweet j smelling fhiwei s. Peacocks and barn yurd fowls seem to think as much of ; dress (is our modern society people. The 'cat shampoos his hair and even rep : tiles change their styles of dress with the changes cf thu season. "im the opinion of some writers the dark races are more aesthetic than I the white races, and much may be silid In support of this view. Africa, for ex 1 ample. Is A land of predominant aes Ithetlc life. The people powder and ; paint their bodies. They carry their jcolor pigments and perfume boxes I dangling f their belts. They tattoo jthe body into figures representing stars. I trees, (low ers, snakes and lizards. I "They wear ornaments suspended j from their ears, noses and litis. Mr. J Maker saw on the upper Nile twofold j women quarreling over some broken ; pieces, of a thermometer with which ito ornament their lips. The Inkonka 'ribe knock- out two of the lower teeth order to Insert in the lower Hp a sii.er ornament. .some tribes wear bi .its ear rings a fool In diameter. The New Xealaiflers liore holes In their ears and enlarge them by stretching. These holes serve ihe purpose of our pockets. Keathers. sticks and bodkins were carried In them. Some Zulus vis Iting in London carried their rlgars in this manner. In some oases the lobes are so large that a man can thrust his arms through them. These facts, 1 fear, seem to give some credulity to the statement of un ancient geographer that a tribe in Africa had ears so large that they lay down on one ear and cov ered themselves with the other. "Birds, feathers and bracelets of Iron, copper and cord are worn in rich pro fusion. It is said that the total weight of Iron and copper rings worn by an African on State occasions will some times amount to 50 pounds. These rings worn by the aristocracy often get so hot that an attendant has to go along with a water-pot to cool them off. The Africans surpass all peoplt in ' the- tonsorlal art. Among some tribes the hair is shaved off and the head shines like a peeled onion. Among others the hair stunds up like a hay stack br Eiffel tower; and still among others it is twisted into knots and di vided like ajl Gaul Into three parts. "Stanley observed among the canni bals In the heart of Africa that the oars of .their canoes were beautifully orna mented with carved Ivory. Thua it-Is that the Africans are every where de voted to the beautiful. Their standards differ from ours but their great Inter est in beauty is unmistakable.- - ' ' "Goblneau thought that the Mongo lians, - the Semitic peoples - and the Greeks and " Romans received their aesthetic aptitudes through an infus ion' of negro. blood. ; Without accepting or, discussing this 'theory. It la sufficient to say that oe of beauty is not a peculiarity of the cultured rruci. ."lAive of beai'tv unrl love of art ere pie thoroughly appreciate beauty who ar quite Indifferent to art. They mis lake the symbol of art. which Is beau ty, for the substance which Is neither form nor color nor material object. Art is an idea or feelhiK coniinuniccled through the medium of beauty. Kvery piece of alt milMl necessarily convey inline feeling or idea aside from the pleasure effect of Its form, otherwise It Is not art, but merely a pleasing object as 11 diamond or flower. Ileuuty Is re lated to art Just as the alphabet to lan guage, language is an embodiment of thought; the letters of it are only the Instrument of technique. The value of beuuty depends altogether Upon the use we make of It. It may ruin as well as elevate us. "The question arises, how may we distinguish good from bad art? If art is the communication of feeling, there may be as many different kinds of art as different kinds of feelings, good, bad and Indifferent. 1 would say that all good art conveys one or more of such feelings as love faith, hope, reverence, aspiration, patience, tranquility." mirth gratitude, humility, charity und pity. These with the variety of ideas and situations which emphasize and popu larize them, mark the domain und con stitute the themes of all great art. Ex amples of such art are the Psalms of liavid. The Pyramids, Venus de Mllo, liante's Inferno, Angelo's sculpture of Moses, St. Marks Cathedral, Raphael's Madonna of the chair, Kuben's Des cent from the Cross, Romeo, Juliet, Les Mlserables and Mendelssohn's marches. 4 "It Is the triumph of these true feelings over their opposites which con stitutes progress in the individual, in the race. On the contrary, it is the gilding of the opposite of these virtues and the substitution of beauty for them which cause corruption and retrogres sion. Therefore all good art Is mora nnd all bad art is immoral; "The time has come when we should mike a beginning u wards the elimina tion of bad art. not by means of a cen sor op by law. but of education. Along seme lines we are exceedingly fastid ious. We pr.y much attention to sani tati'on. We have extensive ' sewage systems, carts, brooms and furnaces for, disposing of offensive and danger ous refuse. We wage a great'. - war against microbes and , are forever dis infecting and fumigating. - We are very particular about our food, We have meat, vegetable and milk inspectors and drastic laws against , adulteration. Would it not be equally rational to de mand' sanitary art ?'k ? - ' ' m CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY : IS PLEASANT TO TAKE. " : The finest quality ot granulated loaf sugar is used in the manufacture of Chamberlain' Cough Remedy, and the roots used in its preparation give it a flavor similar to maple syrup, making It quite pleasant to take. Mr. W. Roderick,-of Poolesvlile, Mr., in speak ing of this remcdy eays: 1 "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with my children for several years and Can truthfully say it la the bef HB'en v lion of ti kind I know i-f. TM . - s '''"it nn't It. V-: ! ( 1 0 V. B IB 1H NfiTOX'S CABEKU ZKALOl S FOR XORtll CAROLINA. Till Turbulent and often Oppreve Ruler Nevertheless Active la Pro Tl1'.11 U toners! Welfare His Achievements Notable in Building Roads. Emxmraging Trade, Explor ing 1 errltorv Suitable for Develop ment, Obtaining Concession f Win the Lords Proprietors and AdvertN- Agent Tlie launder of the cane Fear Section's Prosperity. 1 Written for The Observer. . 80 far the reader has been shown but one side of Burrlngton's character. He has been portrayed as obstinate, self ish, passionate, revengeful and tyran nical. We have seen him lauded by his friend as havin aU the virtues of an Alfred: we have seen him de nounced by his enemies aa possessing all the deviltries of a Nero. We have seen him subordinating and sacrificing friends and foes alike 00 enhance his own power and wealth. And to crush his enemies. Tha' baini, . i here, would be incomplete. Turn the nuva ami -i. . . . . ... ,-B tvmya m. oeiter siae to tnts versatile man. ' v '..l v. ';.'...-: ThU other side will reveal him as nn executive tealous for the, welfare of his province, devising many wise measures and. as far as lav within hi putting them intp. execution with de elded energy and ability Whenever I his mind could ahnka tlnair fru r ' onal grievances, it rested intently on me interests ot tne province. 1 "His official naniw '' aavm rnl Ginii. ders, .''are well written and show an iiiuiiuiic miuwiBugB ox me country ana thfl fneflmirAA hH diIdaibiI nMmn,. its development." ',y ,.' .... At the time Burrtngton came to Nort h Carolina to begin his second admlnis- trallnn. tho mlnnv w nn ihk vmm of a dangerous " crisis. Sir. Rtchari t.-verara s administration had been a complete ! failure-. ' Riots 1 flourished: laws languished, anarchy was raisin Itsi head, fe Public.; Improvements werf neglected;' private enterprise unenouur- solved.; Upon Burringtons arrival with tne Kings commission in ne pocket, r - MUlWA :: lit to. - e.m f V. rt. fu,.Attni-4 Col. William ; Byrd, of Virginia. " I think, by some saiwoles J .have knov, : of that country" (North Carolina). ! wrote, -it wouia cost a pretty aeai . less f spirit than yours will never t iible to effect it. . People accus torn 1 ' live i withoutj law or gospel win a great t reluctance - suonnt to . In lh mvutttlmn T tt k!i t ' i the success in the world in l me cnaos mio rorm ana reanci injuvhv tntd n ri?-iil.'r po-ei-rir - doing- sk you will deserve to 1 i- statue j erciea or, w ni n ) better, to' have your nl.ir j To tl! rtlfflenlt :' 1 ernor" set himself wlih 1, and imprudence. 1 y 1, istratton for the T ! - ' had become f ; ' ; : v tni wi:h ! t 1 '
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