Spearman
FRANK HAMILTON, an American author, born in Buffalo, N.
Y., in 1859. He was educated in public and private schools and at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. He wrote, besides many short stories in magazines 8 4 5 6 7 1-Prehistoric bronze 3-Mediæval type 2-Prehistoric bronze 4-Old British SPEARS naturally consist of a simple pole of tough wood sharpened to a point at one extremity, which point might be both formed and hardened by charring in fire.
From this an improvement would consist in fitting to the shaft a separate spear head of bone, or flint. To flint heads succeeded heads of bronze, but these came only late in the bronze period, and were still in use when the Homeric poems were composed. The bronze spear heads found in Great Britain and in generally were cast with sockets, into which the end of the Northern Europe generally were cast shaft was inserted, but on the eastern Mediterranean coasts tanged spear heads were used. These spear heads were various in form and size, some being three-edged like the old bayonets, others were expanded leaf-shaped blades, some barbed, and some having loopholes either in socket or blade by which they were lashed to the shaft.
The war lance of the mediæval knights was 16 feet long; the weapon of modern cavalry regiments known as lancers may lancers be from 8½ to 11 feet long, usually adorned with a small flag near the head.
The Persians at the present day forge spear heads, for ornamental purposes only, with two and sometimes three prongs. The modern spears of savage tribes, used equally for hunting and for warlike purposes, are frequently barbed A 5-Japanese 7-West African 6-German, 15th Century 8-Philippine and numerous economic articles in reviews: "The Nerve of Foley" (1900); "Held for Orders" (1901); "Doctor Bryson" (1902); "The Daughter of a Magnate" (1902); "The Close of the Day" (1904); "Whispering Smith" (1906); "Robert Kimberly" (1911); "The Mountain Divide" (1912); "Merrilie Dawes" (1913); "Nan of Music Mountain" (1917).