Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-11-15

t10k1H18N3Q iuuA tH0 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CO1-
lsunans 81 tho press viii in the future be
watCASd ~ the fair sex with particular
III. m j. Palne's Remarkable Shoot
Ing Feats.
YESTERDAY afternoon. says the De.
rolt Frss 1hxss, Ira A. Paine gave .
private exhibition Of his abilities as q
maTksman before score or more ot in.
yited gucsts, ard 1t WAS one Of the most
remarkable exhibitions Of the kind ever
| given III the world. Among the guests
was r.. G. hanks, business manager and
one Of the editors 0f the Forest and
Strc1,H, paper devoted 70 the interests
IsAf the sportsmenof America. hr. Banks
Iis familiar with al Of the lannon's achieve
3nents with firearms, having beeii imme-
| diately interested IN Aonae OF them, ard
at the close OF Mr.. painc's work he pro-
nounced ii one of the most remarkable
exhibitions he had ever witnessed.
| The shooting WA done on the river
bank back IL tho Park House, Ham
}tramck, where the sunss rays were
strong. and where the wind had an in
teres. in whatever was going on. There
| was no seeking OF shelter, no tiiek-lead-
ed shells or prepared powder. cracked
| glass balls or other illegitimafc methods
| sometimes adopted by exhibition marks
/ men.
Mr.. Paine began hiswork by shooting
| with mn ordinary don5le-barrelcd shot
gun or hrecch-Ioadipg fowling piece, at
glass BALLS thrown By his assistant in
amy and every direction, md as rapidly
and as far Ms possible. After breaking
every ball thus thrown, Mr.. Paine shot
| 81 balls thfSwn high In the air and broke
| them first at the point where the up
ward flight stopped, then after they had
fallen half way 10 the ground, and finally
when within three feet u the ground.
II the marksman exhibited his steadi-
ness OF nerve and correct cyesight in
the above feats, he made those facts
| treblv manifest in the second part of
| the programme, which was shooting
| with . regulation sing'e-barrel dueliDg
pistol. All shots were made at ten
| PAGES, the first object bci,ig block OF
wood, two inches square, which he GEN.
tered with the bullet and sent spinning
through the air. Then he shot at q
crab-apple about an inch in diameter,
which was suspended on O wire hung in
front OF the face OF the target board.
Next his assistant, Joseph Jacques, l6-
year-old boy, who lives in this city, held
an ordinary lead-pcncil before the tar
get board, and Mr.. Paine sent bullet
| which broke the lead-pencil in halves.
A peanut, not more than an inch in
length, was strapped in an upright po-
sition to tho top of young jacques head,
| and at the first shot the nut was cut in
two. An ordinary grape hanging by .
thread and swinging before the target
board was next hit with pistol ball,
after which dozen balls were put
through as many postage.stamps on en-
yelopes taken from the spectators and
held between the thumb and finger Of
young Jacques. All OF these feats were
vociferously applanded, the spectators
being at o loss to account for the shoot
er's marvellous aim. Still Mr.. Paine had
another feat more incomprehensible
than all. His assistant placed an ordi-
nary business card against the target
board with the edge Of the card-not
more than one-sixteenth OF an inch thick
toward the shooter. Then Mr.. Paine,
with the dueling pistol, took long, UNI
erring aim and, at the first shot, hit the
card ON the edge, cutting it in exact
halves. The feats with the dueling pis-
tol closed with the shooting OF cork
from stone bottle without injuring the
bottle or splitting its contents.
With an army revolver Mr.. Paine ex-
hibited several very dexterous shots, for
which no was heartily applauded. His
assistant standing thirty feet away tossed
glass balls at him, and he shot them be-
fore they could hit him. Then Mr..
Paine threw the balls himself and broke
thcm with the revolver before they could
| reach the ground. With small rifle
sush ~ is used in shooting galleries MIR.
Paine broke balls thrown 81 him and
away from him.
iceable weapon aad not particularly
easy to handle with accuracy, Paine
shot double balls thrown into the air,
bres King both Of them, and put twelve
shots into . six-inch target In eight sec
| onds He then perf1rmed the most diff
cult shot known to rifle practice, viz,
the ricochet shot with glass balls. A
glass ball Is placed upon the ground, and
the rideman, by shooting into the
ground, under the ball, throws the
globe into the air four Or five feet and
| before the ball falls to the ground it is
broken BY second shot. To do this
not only requires nice judgment in hit
! ting the ground in such way that the
ball viii not be broken, but the emptied
shell must be thrown out Of the rifle and
another cartridge must be thrown in Its
| place before the second shot which
breaks the ball, can be made. Hence,
great quickncss, nerve and faultless
aim are necessary. Mr.. Paine success
fully made two ricOchet shots, ending
the fancy shot programme.
About third Of mile from the
shooting ground was red spar buoy,
looking to the spectators to be the size
OF lead pencil. Wishing to see what
Mr.. Paine could do at long range, re-
quests were made that he would shoot
st the buoy. The marksman unhesitat-
ingly complied, explaining first. howev-
err, that he would be obliged to guess at
| the elevation, as his ride was not fixed
for long-range shooting. The first shot
went several hundred feet beyond tho
buoy, the second one went about 200
feet beyond the spar, and the third one
| alightsd within fifty feet Of the object.
/ All were line shots. The fourth shot
i dropped alongside Of and despatched
the buoy with water raised by the shot.
] Then reloading the rifle with sixteen
cartridges, Mr.. Paine said he would get
up little squat around the buoy, and.
friAQ in rapid succession, the sixteen