Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-01
On the Triggers Pull
By Gwendolen 0verton.
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IT HERE is alwar. trnuhle If ans
sort or anothsr wbap a women
NEEDLES with tbnsa THINGS which Az
not concern her sex
Obviously carbinss were DoDe ot
Miss NHvsrt's concern. If she felt that
She had to n,sy with firearms she
should have kent IN Floher+ rifes
Nothing would do however. lint that
she must learn 10 shoot csrbine
and the result was that the whole
post rose m and cur Rurton IN a
man; so that there was no naaca for
him any longer in thar regiment and
he had to seek transfer 10 another
There were other results also lint
they come later ON.
some +hougb+ tb,t- what Misc ,fir,r+
did was 5oTa an ,,,,-,,,se ord sor,o
thoupbt that If ,y,. , niece ~ id;o+io
/ Stiffness Tho ,s-+er 1ssed +boir or.
ruDan,. p,,, ~ ,,,,,,r,1 tr;,,l,,,,
/ ness Of her WAYS and rpon me ;rro.
cencv nj her round brns avss Tbo
! former bs1d "a ~, beIfof ~. NJ.
Niyart was ons ~ tbos. ,o,nor, faror
ties Of Fortune who loot Greater tools
than tbev are Tbev s,i5 Win Gov.
tain show of reosor +b,+ caonoi,
Nlivart was a ,bir5 ~ +ho so~,.;,,, % -,
not an importation from civil life
She had been born in garrison and
had PLAYED with rows of emDtv. green.
trimmed CARTRIDGE Shells nj an ACE
when most little girls play with paDer
dolls She had hummed snatches of
the bugle calls before she could talk.
and the person she had admired the
most and obeyed the best for the first
dozen wears of her life had been
Kreutzer. Cant Niyart's tow-beadad
striker. A few wears of boordinp.
school back east could not have oh.
liberated all that
Besides, the veriest civilian. who has
never come nearer 70 oorbiro +ban
TO watch Fourth of July militia ma
rade, might reasonably be expected
to know by intuition that in a target
practice competition every trigger has
got TO pull just so hard, whatever the
regulation number or fraction of
pounds may be. Otherwise. it is plain
that the nearer YOU come TO hair
trigger the better vour aim will he
However, whether Miss Mivart was
fully aware of what she was doing. no.
body ever knew. unless nerbans Il was
Greville-and he. like Zuleika. never
told, But Burton had bad time of it,
and all his beautiful score went for
worse than nothing at all
That though, was the end. The be-
ginning ought to come first. The he
ginning was when Miss NGvart rnder.
took to learn to shoot carbine.
There was a target practice compe-
tition going on at the most. NOT one
which was of any interest to the
service, or even to the department at
large; Just a little local affair devised
to keep up the esprit de corps of tbe
troops and to Tighten the monotopv
OF NE. There were three contests [
one for troons and comnanias as
sucb. one for individual ,riro+oa ~
one for the ofioors rhis taa. ,
to finish off and +hon +boro ,,a. - tS
a big hon ~
Frarrano
pur.on a1a 90 ~'. iioiii 'iie iis,' Whth
t ,-' wa %lu "ie'Iide Shot with their
- '""' 'Ae oliicers competition
:. - 'ie Oe' "eel 'i'eih' ms maze
, ~ -. 'e' Go ,iHs Ia more ways 'han one
'He rlFalry was not confined
-, ~ 'iie Target range, put extended to
'he winning OF MISS Mlvart's hand and
'eart, ana everyone believed that this
would settle a matter she did not
appear to be able to settle for herself,
NOT that she was to blame for that.
even a person much more
certain OF her own mind than Miss