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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
Why a Woman Usually
Kills When She
Uses Man as a Target

/ Why does the woman with the pis-
to so seldom miss her aim? 1t is abb
sO1utely 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
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 a 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
lamps are relighted-and probably no
| body has been killed. Nearly all the
shooters could hit a dime at 25 yards
Yet one angry, overweight woman,
who has never fired a 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 policeman who could
shoot straight further than at a three
foot range. Thugs and hold-up men
know that-time and again they get
away in a 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
were no match for the sturdy farmers
with their shotguns. You must be an
expert to shoot straight with a 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, were
she practising with a pistol, she would
be as apt to shoot herself as hit the
target. Yet when she is nerved to it
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 a 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 fired from
so many weapons. The men who en-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

toll shooting. INTO which the condi-
ton of woman, strung to high ner-
vous tension. and her unfamiliarity
with the weapon fit perfectly. In an
instant, and by instinct, she is on a
par with the greatest marksmen of
the age Were she to try to repeat
her performance against the biggest
of targets at ten PAGES it would be
safe to give any odds that she could
not hit it at ALL
The theory of pistol shooting is q
true point, a steady hand and the dis
charge of the weapon at the instant
of point when the hand is steady. The
pistol expert never runs his eye along
the sight until the bright steel tip
at the barrels end covers the mark
he wishes to puncture. The best shots
among the cowboys will fire from the
hip almost as well as from the Shout
der When they fire from any posi-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
YOUNG CHARLIE TAFT
NEW WHITE HOUSE BOY Is A
MANLY LAD.
Dominant Trait That Distinguishes
Him Is That He Is Unspoiled-
A Lover of Travel, History
and Adventure.

Washington--Charlie Taft is rapidly
coming into his own. AS the Ameri-
can people come to have, at first hand
and through the newspapers. a closer
acquaintance with the president-elect's
youngest SON there is bound to be an
increasing appreciation of and admira-
ton for one of the most likable and
most manly lads that ever shone in
the reflected glory of famous father.
1t is not too much to predict that
Master Charles Phelps Taft-named
for his uncle, who resides in Cincin-
nati-wil1 become, during his fathers
service as chief magistrate, the most
popular boy that ever resided at the
White House. And this prophecy can
be made with due realization of the
hold on the public gained, in turn, by
the storfed Tad Lincoln, the Garfield
boys and. latterly, the very mischiev-
Gus young Roosevelts.
The great dominant trait that dis
tinguishes Charles Taft is that he is
absolutely unspoiled. 1t would seem
as though he is virtually unspoilable.
The wonder of all this can only be
realized when you stop to think what
his life has been during the liz
years of his existence His father has
been in public life ever since young
Charles was old enough to take notice
of things about him. The boy spent
Philippines, travelled around the world
with his father, feted all the while,
and has been made much of in Wash
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
SICK DOCTOR
Proper Food Put Him Right.

The food experience of a physician
In his own case when worn and weak
from sickness and when needing nour-
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Of Grape-Nuts and cream three times
my only food; it tasted SO delicious
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81 am convinced that were Grape
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
sword. the bullet acting as the swo>

sword. the bullet acting as the swoo
tip
Now. the explanation for the in
credible craftsmanship displayed by
an agitated woman lies in the instinct
to point straight She has never fired
pistol before. and she never thinks
of aiming it She does not think OF
the jump or the report. She is too
agitated, too excited, too hysterical, to
consider any of these things She does
not even think about the point. She
points instinctively, as you will with
your index finger. Her mind is con-
centrated with terrible intensity on
the one idea of vengeance, of putting
bullet into the hated face or heart
before her. This intensifies the point
instinct And her nervous tension is
such that her hand, thrusting out a
pistol, is as steady as the proverbial
rock at the instant of shooting. The
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

seem to grow Smaller-the thing be-
fore her was once a man. And she
has killed him with one sure, straight
shot
Die as you deserved she screams.
and then she looks at the thing of
steel in her hand.
For a moment she is all nerve.
Then she realizes. This thing in her
hand is a pistol, something she has
never used before. Yet at her first
shot she has hit the bull's-eye-she
has killed a man. Once she would
have been afraid to take up a pistol; ;.
now she has used it 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 shoti Her aim has been abb
solutely true to the mark she meant
1t to reach-a mans hearti
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 a 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, a 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, a young French woman, who
had never used a revolver, killed GUS
tav Simon, wealthy manufacturer at
No. GAO 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
LOTT, 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 a revolver; she had never
fred one before. But she killed him
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
A HaIf sheII 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-worshipping, 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. II
course, survived, thrived; then dogs
master tasted. opened his eyes wide
and smacked his lips Um-um, Moth
ing tastier than headless mollusk-
Trust Caesar as an epicure Best
thing he found in Britain was the oys-
ter. and forthwith took him tn Rome
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

same nervous tension gives her fin
gers strength to pull the stiffest trig-
ger at the instant she points the re-
volver.
Expert Shot for the Moment.
In short, for the fraction of a sec
ond this woman who has never fired
pistol approaches the ideal condition
of the expert pistol shot-a sure point,
a steady hand, indifference to the
jump or the report and the sure trig-
ger pull. Usually the report instantly
reduces this awful, iron-nerved figure
of vengeance to limp, sobbing, tear
full heap. Sometimes the brainstorm
lasts long enough for the firing of sew
eral shots. If any miss it will usually
be the last one or two fired.
In any event, this same woman who
has exesuted such swiftly accurate
satisfaction for her injuries could not
hit any sort of mark with her pistol
under anything like normal condi-
tions. The chances are that she would
scream and drop the weapon when it
was discharged, and her bullet would
be likely to pierce the sky or bury
itself in the ground. In any event,
the result would be an accident.
For the same reason a hold-up
F1dn Is dS dangerous as d MAD QOS-
he is usually the cheapest, most con-
semptible type of man to be found in
all the criminal class. He is apt to
be frail, almost weakling, his nerves
shattered with drugs and drink. He
is nervous and afraid when he stands
some stout citizen up at the point of
his revolver. If the citizen resists, If
he starts for the hold-up man, or
strikes at him, the thug is apt to shoot
in sheer fear, and fear of that sort,
completely dominating creature of
such type, is very apt to make him
point on instinct and shoot deadly
straight.
But the average, normal man who
tries to shoot with a revolver has
probably fired few times and is
painfully conscious of the fact that
he can't hit a barn door. He tries to
aim, he delays too long with his point
His muzzle wabbles; the bullet may
strike anywhere Even when pos
sessed with wrath, the average
healthy, normal man has a nervous
system strong enough to resist the
complete control of himself by the
passion which controls his actions.
He still thinks, as he shoots, what he
is doing. He has his attention partly
diverted to the weapon And the tar
get has a fair chance.
But the overweight woman who
thinks she is desperately wronged
never seems to miss.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

Instantly. She was acquitted by the
coroner's jury within 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
dred from it.
Seem Never to Miss Their Aim.
There are many more, all of them
proving conclusively that the woman
with a pistol almost never misses her
man.
And why is it?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

gage in these rows have handled wea-
. - ..a.1.>,s. from infancy. They come
from neighborhoods where it is Gus
tomary for all the males to bear arms
and use them promptly when a per
sonal question arises.
Shoot Straight by Instinct
Their women are unarmed and I'M
familiar with the steel that is the
badge of manhood in their social life.
But right in New York there are al
ways pending two or three cases in
which a woman of this type has taken
a pistol in her hand for the first time
to avenge her wrongs and fired 1t
straight and true.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
His Record.

Colonel" asked the beautiful girl,
did you ever ride a horse 80 miles in
three days?"
NO" replied the veteran of two
wars, but l once ran 20 miles in about
80 minutes. which 1 think was going
some, considering the fact that the I'M
derbrush was thick and l was in SO
much of hurry that forgot to throw
away a knapsack that weighed nearly
SO pounds"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

If you-a woman, for example-wi1l
select anything in the room, door
knob, the head in a picture, 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 perfect line on
the mark. If you will take a paper
cutter in your hand, or 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 revolver fire when you point
and do your sighting after you have
fired, if you do any sighting at all.
The sights on a revolver are 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, it's 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 to
point Your hand trembles, too, and
you do not shoot at the instant of
point, but delay long enough to let
your excited nerves wabble the. muz-
zle.
But if you could only forget that
the revolver would make a noise, or
kick. or that it had bullet in it; If
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-
reefs 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 a 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 or
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 APP
proximated-
The cowboy who fires from the hip
shoots on the same shove of the wea-
pom forward. The motion is exactly
as if 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
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
WISE TO NIAGARA.

Teacher-Johnny, can you tell me
the most remarkable thing about Nj
agara Falls?
Johnny-Yessum; the price they
soak you for everything without going
to Jail.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
TOTAL LOSS OF HAIR

Seemed Imminent-ScaIp Was Very
| ScaIy and Hair Came Out by Hand
fuls-Scalp Now Clear and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

T lastI"
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 q
small, crumpled-up heap of
humanity-the dead always
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24
Unerring Index Finger.

ton their steady eyes are on the tar
get, not on the gun barrel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-24

same nervous tension gives her fin
gers strength to pull the stiffest trig-
ger at the instant she points the re-
VOlVer.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-12-30
in appreciated Gill.

Among the Gelicacics that
cheer the inner man during this
season of feast and pleasure.
We enjoyed nothing that came
our way more than the nice,
plump partridSeS presented to
rs by our friends. They were
positive luXuricS, and for the
first time within period OF
twelve months or longer our
menu included quail on toast.
We received two of these "visi-
tationS, - one from our good
friend, Mr S A 1isGale of Benson,
who we know put himself out
to get them tor Us, as "Alex, .
like ourself, could hardly hit
a barn door at close range.
The other bunch of brown
beauties was sent around
Monday morning, but the small
sable scion of the Adamic race
who acted as Mercury didn't
know or didn't remember the
gentleman's name who sent
them. We appreciate our un.
known friends kindness none
the less heartily, however, and
hope erelong to be able to
thank him personally.
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1 POliceman'S Testimony.

N Paterson. night policeman cf
Nashua, Iowa, writes: Last winter
bad a bad cold on my lungs and
tried at Last half il dozen advcr-
tised cough medicines and had
treatment from two physicians
without getting any benefit. y
fricrd recommended FpIcy's iIo"ey
ani Tar and two-thirds Of bottle
cured ne. | consider it the greatest
cough and lung medicine il the
World d { Scott.
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Our mailing clerk assures US
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a short time ago we had
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this same office and the post
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that the papers were reaching
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pOstofiice.
From now on we have in
structed our mailing clerk to
check and re-check every pack
age that goes out from here and
and We will thank every post
master to notify US promptly
when the package of papers
does not reach his office by Sat
urday. at latest.
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