Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1910 — A Powerful Weapon. [ARTICLE]

A Powerful Weapon.

They were examining an old-fash-ioned shotgun of murderous build. It looked as if It would he an effective weapon agalnßt anything Bhort of an elephant, and its owner was boasting, with that scorn of fact which is allowed the successful hunter, of its power. "Doesn’t It kick like anything?" asked one. “Oh, yes, it kicks some,” said the proprietor, “but that’s the beauty of It. Why, once I shot at a grizzly that was charging me. I missed him, and on he came. If It had not been that the gun kicked me so far back that T had time to reload, I shouldn’t have been here to tell the story.”