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seem to grow smaller--the thing be-
fore her was once man. And she
has killed him with one sure, straight
shot!
Die as you deserved" she screams,
steel in her hand.
For a moment she is all nerve.
Then she realizes. This thing In her
hand is pistol, something she has
never used before. Yet at her first
shot she has hit the bull's-eye--she
has killed man. Once she would
have been afraid to take up pistol;
now she has used 1t with deadly eff
feet. Once she couldn't have hit the
target. Now she has shot dead the
man she hates. She has killed him
with one shot! Her aim has been alb.
solutely true to the mark she meant
1t TO reach-a mans heartl
The police records of New York for
the past two years reveal a dozen
cases in which women who had never
handled firearms have shot and killed
men with unerring aim. In most
cases only one shot was fired, a
further evidence of their deadly aim
In the cases In which more than one
shot was fired the other bullets went
wild, showing conclusively that a
woman's ability to shoot straight lies
In her instinct to point straight and
pull the trigger without taking aim,
says writer in the New York World.
Their First Shot Fatal.
One of the best known cases that
illustrates this is the case of Sara
Koten, New York hospital nurse,
who shot and killed Dr. Martin Aus
pitt last June. She is accused of hav.
ing for days before the shooting
nerved herself for the deed. She had
never handled a revolver in her life,
but when she finally made up her
mind to kill him, according to the
charge against her, she finished him
with one shot
With one shot Anisia Louise De
Massey. young French woman. who
had never used a revolver, killed Gus
tav Simon, a wealthy manufacturer at
No. 640 Broadway, in November of
the preceding year. She had an argu-
ment with him over money matters
and without warning shot him through
the heart.
The case of Madeline Wassar Lang
lotz, who shot and killed her father
in August of the same year, is still
fresh in the memory of many. Her
father had killed her mother and was
about to attack her little sister. She
picked up revolver; she had never
fired one before. But she killed him
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Why q Woman Usually
Kills When She
Uses Man as q Target

Why does the woman with the pis-
to so seldom miss her aim? II is alb
solutely one chance in a thousand that
she fails to shoot true. Policemen the
country over will tell you this. The
frail, hysterical creature with the new
pistol which she never dared touch
before--so she will tell you--is far
more dangerous than the best target
shot or the most dangerous thug or
highwayman that ever held up a
passer-by.
Cowboys and bad men Of the west,
brought up to use Colts and Reming.
tons as playthings, men who can
shoot off the heads of rattlesnakes
from their ponies, miss their men
time and again.
But woman seems never to miss
hers, afraid of the revolver as she Is.
Ever see a row in a cowboy saloon
The room Is crowded with six-shooter
experts. Somebody shoots and then
everybody shoots. When fifty or sixty
shots have been fired the guns are
empty, the smoke clears away, the
arc ttllu
body has been killed. Nearly all the
shooters could hit dime at % yards.
Yet one angry, overwrought woman,
who has never fired pistol in her
life, brings down the man she wants
to kill every time.
Men Rarely Hit Mark.
The average American man knows
something about a revolver; but he
can rarely hit anything with it. No.
body ever saw a policeman who could
shoot straight further than at three.
foot range. Thugs and holdup men
know that--time and again they get
away in fusillade of bullets which
are just as apt to kill somebody across
the street or in the next block as to
bring down the intended targets. The
Jesse James men with their pistols
We're no match for the sturdy farmers
with their shotguns. You must be an
expert to shoot straight with revol.
yer.
1t takes long practice and steady
nerves. You must know the entire
theory of the gun.
Why is it then. that a woman who
Is all nerves, trembling with excite
ment and resentment, hits her mark
every time? Alone and calm, We're
she practising with pistol, she would
be as apt to shoot herself as hit the
target. Yet when she is neryed to 1t
she shoots straight every time.
There are frequent outbreaks in the
foreign colonies of the country's large
cities in which the hot-tempered bring
some long-standing feud to a climax
at the pistol point. The scene is
usually crowded dance hall or dim
alley and the men are massed close.
But when the police come they usual
ly find the dead and wounded surpris-
ingly few, considering the short range
and the number of shots fred from
so many weapons. The men who en-.
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A Halt Shell Story.

The oyster hasn't risen a fraction
of an inch in the social scale since the
Paleozic age. No, indeed: but in an.
other way Mr. Mum Oyster has been
travelling in seven-league boots. A
woolly-headed, sun-worshipplng, skin.
clothed, barefooted savage of early
Britain was the first oyster eater.
Imagine him; picture him on the
beach. on the sands, say. within sight
of the chalk cliffs of Dover. Probably
first tried it on the dog. Dog, OF
course, survived, thriyed; then dogs
master tasted, opened his eyes wide
and smacked his lips. Um-um! Moth
ing tastier than a headless mollusk
Trust Caesar as an epicure. Best
thing he found in Britain was the oys
ter. and forthwith took him to Rome.
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gage in these rows have handled wea.
pons almost from infancy. They come
from neighborhoods where it is Gus.
tomary for all the males to bear arms
and use thela promptly when a per.
sonal questic arises.
Shoot straight by Instinct.
Their won en- are unarmed and un.
familiar with the steel that is the
badge of ma ,hood in their social life.
But right in New York there are al,
ways pending two or three cases in
which a won an of this type has taken
a pistol in her hand for the first time
to ayenge Ter wrongs and fred ii
straight and true,
There is q curious nsvchology of pis.
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instantly She was acquitted by the
coroner's jury within a few hours of
the crime.
The case of Bertha CLAICHE, the So
called white slave" who shot and
killed Emil Gerdron, is well remem-
bered. Feeling that she had been
abused beyond endurance, she pur-
chased a revolver and killed Gerdron
with the first and only bullet she
fired from 1t.
Seem Never to Miss Their Aim.
There are many more, all OF them
proving cOnclusively that the woman
with pistol almost never misses her
man.
And why is It?
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7 last"
The woman stands back.
She looks at her hand. In it
is a new revolver-she has
never fired one before.
And at her feet lies a
small, crumpled-up heap of
humanlty-the dead always
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tloH tiiSil SlSduy tS eS are Ol lHt Jar
get, not on the gun barrel.
unerring Index Finger.
If you-a woman, for example-will
select anything in the room, a door
knob, the head in picture, a figure
in the wall paper, and suddenly point
your index finger at it you will find
by running your eye along the finger
that you have drawn a perfect line on
the mark. If you will take a paper
cutter in your hand, or a pocket knife,
or stick, and try the same expert.
ment, holding the object along your in
dex finger, you will find your aim is
almost, if not quite as good.
If you are not nervous about a re-
volver and will take an empty one in
hand. to try the same trick, you will
discover to your surprise that you
have the barrel end covering your tar.
get. The trick is to point first and
sight afterward to see how accurately
you have pointed. If you want to ex-
tend this practice to target shooting
with a revolver fire when you point
anu w scul cie1iliiS dlANl Nbu lltNt
fired, If you do any sighting at all
The sights on revolver are a joke
required by some tradition.
When you come to try shooting on
the point you will not be as successful
as when you aimed the empty pistol
because your mind is divided between
the effort to point straight and the
speculation as to what will happen
when you pull the trigger. You will
be thinking about the jump of the
weapon, its kick" and wondering
whether flying powder will hit you in
the eye, or how the report will affect
your ear drums. The nervous antici
patton of the report alone is apt ta
destroy the success of your instructive
point. Your hand trembles, too, and
you do not shoot at the instant OF
point, but delay long enough to let
your excitel nerves wabble the muz
zle
But If you could only fosget that
the revolver would make a noise, or
kick, or that it had a bullet in it: il
the weapon had a trigger with light
pull that would not drag your point
from the target, you could do some
very remarkable shooting by depend
ing solely on the instinct which di
rects your index finger when YOU
thrust it at any object.
How Soldiers Are Taught.
In the United States army the men
are trained to shoot with revolver
on the point system. The soldier is
instructed TO crook his elbow and
raise his weapon to a position beside
his head with the muzzle straight to
ward the sky. This is the position
taken by the pistol duelist when he
is waiting the word to fire. At that
word the soldier and the duelist are
both taught to thrust or shove their
weapons toward the target, pulling the
trigger as they do so. This thrust OF
shove of the weapon forward is an
effort to reach the ideal condition OF
the instructive point, which means
good shooting in proportion as it is ap
proximated
The cowboy who fires from the hiu
shoots on the same shove OF the wea
pom forward. The motion is exactly
as II you were trying to poke the tar
get with the revolver muzzle, and you
pick out with your eye the point you
wish to poke This is the same trick
almost as thrusting with a straight
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unerring Index Finger.

tion their steady eyes are on the tar
get, not on the gun barrel.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-14
FOR SALE:
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Clothing and gents furnishing store in good
live growing town. Goods will be sold for be-
low cost. Store u paying we'll. Stock will in-
voice for about ss0t0.00 t7.tf
General store Ia country town on line cf rail-
road. ID Ing business 1f about SlaO0o per
year. stock carried about S3,5V0 liltf
Undertaking and furniture store. Only store
81 ths kind IN town. Stock o. about 5000 %
Fine opening i72tf
Livery business; u horses and nne rigs. One
81 the best stands Ia the stars. No competi-
tion. 17tf
Grist mill and feed store. doing large bust
ness Water power steel mill The best pay
ing business IN town, Owner wishes 70 re-
tire. f79tt
saw mill. grist mill and wood working shop,
also fine house and barn Water power All
foi $s.V0 10 A Bargain for someone. 172f
Drug and stationery store IN good large town.
Owed by A lady who wants 70 sell AZ
once. l7ztf
Wall paper paint and varpish store; small
stock Good location. i7gf
Three chair barber shop. i72tf
Blacksmith and wbeelwright shop Well 10 +
Gated i7ltf
Granite manufacturing business including
machinery. air compressor tools. etc. A good
chance for party VITA small amount OF caps
irL i7gtf
We viii BE- glad 70 give YOU further particu
lars regarding any Of these.
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SOUTH CABOT

r. S Hawkins has been enjoying a
few days outing IN Calais.
Charles Merrill Of Barre was 4 visit.
Or at Z. p. Walbridge's yesterday
Curtis Rollins Of Barnet has been vis-
iting at w. 9. Southwick's the past
week.
Nahum Kidder Of Boston. and Andy
Cole Of Marshfed were guests at D. s.
Halls Monday.
Mrs Don currier Of Tiltou, N. III,
Il visiting AZ her sons, Eugene Patron.
for week OF two.
Orrn Shaw and Edgar Kidder have
moved their families over into the
woods By Peacham pond and are work
ing for George May
The friends 81 Rosie Bouldry will be
glad to learn that she is gaining. all
though quite slowly She Il able 10
ride ont a little each day now We
viii hope for a speedy recovery.
Those that accepted the invitation
from the Pythian sisters 81 the Capitol
Temple Of Montpelier have something
70 remember for long time About rs
from the Myrtle Temple attended, and
tho officers and degree team exempli
fed the work. Those who attended
from this place were: Mrs. d. S. Hall,
Mrs. II Il Morse, Mrs. G. F. Scribner,
Mr. and Mrs W. G Southwick, Mrs
Jennie Boudry. Mrs Alice George, Mr..
and Mrs Hiram Wilson and Mrs. G. {.
Lamberton.
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LOST AND FOUND.

FOUND Came into my enclosure. one black
vearling heifer. The owner Is requested 10
prpve property pay 1harges and take the same
away III L. White, Washington, VT 179t3s
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How Would You Like This?

IIUW WUuIu IUU LINZ IIT5s
1t VIII please youl the kind usually offered for sale Con-
Of the tlhge hes the
and nearly head Of stock Fine a
on practically the villages minutes from station three minutes
Office The buildings better than the above cut
conveniently The would like 70 sell
all personal property with the place and must be sold to settle
This the offered for sale If interested inquire at
once Of the D. A Perry Real Estate Agency Barre, vt
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BACK GIVES OUT
Plenty of Barre Readers Have This Ex-
perience.

Plenty Of Barre Readers Have This Elk
perience
You tax the kidneys overwork
them
they can't keep up the continual
strain.
The back gives ut--it aches and
palms.
Urinary troubles set in.
Don't wait longer-tale Deans Kid
ney Pills.
Barre people tell you how they act
G. A. Churchill 80 Merchant street,
Barre. VT, says: Il recommended Doan's
Kidney Pills publicly in lsa7 after ! had
taken them short time and found great
benefit. / continued their use and was
entirely relieved Of baekaches, pains
across my loins and other symptoms Of
kidney trouble / have advised the use
Of Doan's Kidney Pills to friends and
acquaintance whom | have heard com.
planning Of backaches."
For sale BY all dealers Price 50 cents
Foster AIilburn Co, Buffalo NJ y, sole
agents. for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other
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beauty doctors Endorse Herpicide.
Women who make business of beau.
Trying other women come pretty near
knowing what viii bring about the best
results. Here are letters from two, con-
corning Herpicide;
II can recommend Newbros "TEerpi-
eide" as Il stopped my hair from falling
ont; and. as a dressing It has no super
for.
'(slgned.) Bertha a. Trullinger,
Complexion Specialist,
"29h Morrison ST.. Portland, Ore.
After using one bottle Of ''Horpiclde'
my hair hns stopped falling out. and my
scalD Is entirely free from dandrun
"(Signed) Grace Dodge
"Beauty Doctor,
''iQ5 Sixth ST. Portland Ore"
Sold by leading druggists Send i0c. In
stamps FOR sample 10 The Herpicide Co..
peir
one Dollar Bottles Guaranteed.
4. A. Drown, Special Agent
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rsrArr 81 cAn1os J. wIrsoN.

STATE or VERMONT. In Probate Court
District y Washington. IS. held IL Mantpei-
Ter ii and for said District, on the 9Th day eg
tlcfaher. A. =. 1908
kmefy l. smith Administrator Of the estate
Of Carlos Is Wilson. late Of Denver IN the
County Of Denver and State Of Colorado de.
ceased presents hts administration account
for examination and allowance and makes
application for decree Of distribution
anu partition Of the estate Of said deceased
Whereupon IL IL ordered ~ said Court
said account and said application be re-
ferred 70 z session thereof 20 be held
at the Probate Office hi said Montpelier
on the asih Gay ~ October A. y. 1902, Tor hear
ing and decision thereon And 1t IA further orr
defed that notice hereof be given 10 all persons
Interested ~ publication Of the same three
weeks successfully n The Barre Daily Times.
newspaper published at thn City Of Barre In
fhIs State previous 81 said time appointed FOR
hearing, that they may appear IL said time and
place and show cause. Il any they may have, why
said account should not be allowed and such
decree made
BY the Court Attest,
FRANK J. MARTIN, Judge
Thur Oct7.i8-el
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FOR SALE--A double house OF six rooms
each. located az Graniteyiile. on the williams
town foad Never failing spring water IA each
tenement, large lot l5s feet front l4I deep,
aHording another building lot Or gariien.
properly for same or will SOIL cheap Inquire
II the Il q Cats Real Estate Agency Barre,
Va l1ld
Call on US for anything IN the real estate Or
business line.
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FOR SAI.E-- Rnlldi ng lots at Edgewood and
on the French Estate, also In several other
parts 81 the city INQUIRE at the II Il, Cate
Heal Estate Agency, Barre, Vermont l2au
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how,s Ibis (?

we ofer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of catarrh that cannot be cured BY Halls
Catarrh Cure,
+ J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo. q.
We the Undersigned. have known n j. Che.
ney for the last IS wears and Relieve him per-
fectly honorable b All business transactions
and financially able C carry out any Obligations
made py his tirlu.
WALDO. KTNxAN 4 MhRvfN.
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, y.
HANS catarrh Cure stakcu internally acting
directly upan the niaod and mucous surfaces ~
the system Testimonials semi Tree Price Is
cents per hottie. Sold by All Druggists.
Iake Halls Family pAis Tor constipation.
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FOR sALE-Farm IL miles from Granite
vile. on Bsptist street; contains 100 acres Or
more. The buildings could nor be replaced
fer the money that the farm can be bought for
school about 10 rods, abundance OF wafer,
force enough 70 throw 4 stream over tie top q
buildings. sugar orchard and apple orchard.
This farm viii keep % COWS aud team a very
easy farm 10 carry on aud very productive. II
sou are 10 the market for farm don't buy nn-
I'll you have looked this one over. Our price i
lpw for the farm win include stock and toois
" wanted Inquire AT the r. b. Cate keai "a
tate Agency, Barre, VT. is5tf
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sToNEsHED PROPERTY FOR sALE--sal-
Ivan air compressor 20 horse power motors,
ton travelling crane with electric hoist Goou
water power. polishing wheels and IN fact ev-
ergthing necessary 10 carry on ktune business
for l2 to Is cutters. For fun particulars in-
qulre Of the y. a. Perry Real Estate Agency
barre w l4Otf
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Frightful Fate Ayertcd.

Il would have been cripple for life,
from terrible cut on my knee cap
writes Frank Disberry, Kelliher, Mimi,
without Bucklen's Afnica Salye, which
soon cured me-" lntallible for wounds,
cuts aud bruises, II soon cures burns,
scalds, old sores, boils. skin eruption.
Worlds best for piles. Zoe at Red Cross
Pharmacy
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FOR SALE nement house ON Brooklyn
street. good garden. Rents for sls per mouth.
Cate Real Estate Agency, HARE, Vt t72tf
FOR SALE House on Fairyiew street six
rooms with two extra lots, spring of water goes
with the place Price for all ST, $50 %. In
qaire az the y. i. Cate Real Estate Agency,
narre, VT l7ztf
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FRANK PLACE
Z. b. CATE.

Farm FOR RAI.E--contains 10 acres. is
located in East Orange. has No. / buildings
right through. running water IN house and
barns also rs acres VI wood On farm 1905 sug-
ii trees Must be sold and price will be nade
low. Easy payments. Inquire Of L. n. Rock
81 sb Pearl stroel harre itatf
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EXCURSION TO MONTREAL.

Via Central Vermont Railway October
20. return limit October ~ $3.50 from
Williamstown, Barre and Montpelier.
See flyer and ask ticket agent for par
tieulars
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Dissolution NOTICE..

City 81 Barre. VT, oct. II, 1909
The partnership heretofore existing
by and between Giuseppe Calderari and
Luigi Ossoln il this day dissolved BY mu-
tual consent The said Luigi Ossola Is
to continue the business, have all ac-
counts due INTO the firm and pay all
bills owing By said firm.
Giuseppe Calderari,
Luigi Ossola.
Witness:
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i. William Scott.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-14

THn T1MHs viii publish wants. Lost Ana
Found, For Sale TO Lot. eto.-eh0rt ADVERTISE
nents-~at the rate Of four lines for twenty Ave
cents for the nrst insertion ana nvs cenes EoK
each subseunent insertion.
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FARM ron SAI.E--l46 acres, good baildings,
Running water. good orchard. land well divided
into tiila2 e aud pastarage Must be sold with
ID weeks. Easy terms Inquire OF A. T.
Batchelder Barre lei slo. 1871
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-14
STORE HOUSE.

Up to-date accommodations for storing
most any thing, carriages and sletghs a specially
No dust or dirt and very little danger from
ire although can insure property stored by
me &C a very cheap rate il desired. Prices
right Call on Of address. George l. McFar.
sS-4. &
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REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA.

JUaH J. LaIIaUa n FIUVIslUHaI FItsI-
dent.
New Orleans. Oct IA special to
the Times Democrat from Bluefelds,
Nicaragua, under date Of Oct y, states;
Areyolution broke out Yesterday and
J1lan i Estrada has been elected the
provisional president of Nicaragua.
The reyolutionists hnd evidently long
been preparing for the blow that was
struck against President Zelaya. They
claim that they have the majority Of
voters with them IN their fight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-14

FOR SALE Building lots at lowest prices
for the location On Aver street. Hill street.
Long street, fremont street. cor. East north
side: also fremont. cor. Camp, north side; also
Quarry street, south side also many
low priced lots in several good locations. l.
NJ Averiil SIT
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-14

HOUSE FOR SALE al a bargain. 10 rooms
divided cellar with plaster partitions snaAii
barn, on Aver street near Nam street, built old
style and warm Rents AT Sa2.00 per month.
Enquire Of l. NJ Averll from to O'clock
room over Eastern Estate Tea 90, s7tf
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WANTED--To buy a horse that weighs be-
tween iQoo and too Apply 70 Peter Hendrick-
son. Cherry street. 175tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-14

FOR sALE-Blne Andalaslans exclusively
Get the beat My stock are bred for layers aud
tho show room. Prize WANING stock laying
the whole year round hxeelled by none. Pen
beaded by cock Scoring o. Not a hen IN pen
scoring less than Sup 10 q Double mating
Per setting IS for sL00 Walter Bellvfilo
Craniteyilie, W. Phone Sill 2atf
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ATTENTION

You are invited to look over the
latcs. ideas IN meas fashions We
are now showing Dctmers new and
beautiful Fall and Winter Fabrics.
The line comprises 500 Of the
newest and most fashionable de-
signs and colorings, the neat gray cf-
fleets being especially in demand. Ey-
cry style Is guaranteed all wool An
ticipating an early call, also now is
the time 70 have your fur coats re-
paired. We dye ladies' and gent
clothing. We clean. press and re-
pair Call and see Us, trial will con
vince you.