Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Wounded “Unbeknownst.” [ARTICLE]

Wounded “Unbeknownst.”

<?n« at’thfi colpnfftl war correspondent* narrate* a curious incident that Came under his notice at the Rietfontein engagement. A private of the Katfll mounted rifle? had hishorse shot and immediately cried oat: “I'm faltP “Nonsense, man, it's only your horse,” cried a comrade, and the man, accepting the assurance, went on fighting. He returned to eamp' , %ith his corps, stroUed about in the evening, suffered during the night from what he called spasms, and only next morning discovered that a Manser bullet had gone djean through his body. Then he collapsed and was taken to the hospital. The moral would seem 1 th be that Ignorance la bliss on the battlefield its elsewhere, and'that the consequences of being perforated by a Mauser hah let are not worse than In the case of a Lee-Metford performing the same op ecatlon.—London Chronicle.