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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

seem to grow smaller-the thing be
fore her was once man. Aid 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 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 hull's-eye-she
has killed man. Once she would
have been afraid to take up pistol;
now she has used II with deadly ef-
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
II to reach--a mans heart!
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, 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. .a
With one shot Anisia Louise De
Massey, young French woman, who
had never used revolver, killed Gus
tav Simon, wealthy manufacturer at
No. $40 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
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

sword. the bullet acting as the sword
tip.
Now, the explanation FOR the In
credible marksmanship displayed by
an agitated woman lies In the instinct
to point straight. She has never fred
a pistol before, and she never thinks
of aiming 1t. 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
a 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
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
New Hair Grown by cutlcura.

About two years ago was troubled
with my head being scaly. Shortly
after that / had an attack Of typhoid
fever and I was out Of the hospital
possibly two months when first no
ticed the loss of hair, my scalp being
still scaly. started to use dandruff
cures to no effect whatever. had
actually lost hope of saving any hair
at all. could brush 1t on my coat
by the handful. was afraid to comb
1t. But after using two cakes of Cuti-
cura Soap and nearly box Of Cuti-
cura Ointment. the change was sur
prising. My scalp is now clear and
healthy as could be and my hair thick
er than ever, whereas / had my mind
made up to be bald. w. F. Steese, 6S12
Broad St., Pittsburg, Penn, May and
n, 1908"
Potter Drug q Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Bosom.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
PROBABLY HARDEST Of ALL.
WIfey's Addition to List Of Her Houss-
hold Duties Or Course Was
Not Personal.

After dinner the other evening Mr..
and Mrs. Brown started to speak OF
their respective duties. and soon an
argument as to whether the husband
or the wife had the hardest work to
perform was in full swing. First
Brown warbled, and then WHEY sang.
"A wife," argued the good lady, has
to cook, wash dishes. clothe the kids.
scrub the floors, sweep the house.
make the beds, build the fires. carry
up coal, nail Stats on the back fence,
dig"
as that all?" sarcastically inter
rupted Mr.. Brown.
mo-" was the prompt rejoinder OF
Mrs. Brown. ''In addition to those du-
ties every wife has to keep her hus-
band from making fool Of himselfi'
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

gage In these rows have handled wea-
pons almost from infancy. They come
from neighborhoods where It ID GUS
tomary for all the males to bear arms
and use them promptly when q per-
sonal question arises.
Shoot Straight BY IpstInct.
Their women are unarmed and un.
familiar with the steel that IL the
badge Of manhood in their social life
But right In New York there are IL
ways pending two or three cases IN
which woman Of this type has taken
. pistol IN her hand for the frst time
TO avsnse her wrongs and fired n
straight and true.
There Is = curious psychology Of pie
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

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, IL well remem-
bcred. Feeling that she had been
abused beyond endurance, she pur-
chased revolver and killed Gerdron
with the first and only bullet she
Ared from II.
Seem Never 70 Miss Their Aim.
There are many more. ali Of them
proving concIusively that the woman
with. : pistol almost never misses her
min.
lnd why 10 It!
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

or died. when read about Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; so ]
began to take it, and am well again and
relieved Of all my suffering. p Mrs.
GEORGE JoRDY, Box 40, Marlton, M.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases we know OF, and
thousandsof voluntary testimonialsare
on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form Of
female complaints, Inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodicpains, backache.
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every suffering woman owes 1T to her
self to give Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound Q trial
II you would like special advice
about your case write q c0nfiden.
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkhams at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice 10 free
and always helpful
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
Unerring Index Finger.

ton their steady eyes are on the tar
get, not on the gun barrel.
Unerring Index Finger.
II you-a woman, for example-will
select anything in the room, door
knob, the head in a 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 perfect line on
the mark. II you will take paper
cutter in your hand, or pocket knife,
or a stick, and try the same expert.
ment, holding the object along your in
dex finger, you will find your aim is
almost. IL not quite as good.
II you are not nervous about 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. II you want to ex-
tend this practice to target shooting
with a revolver fire when you point
and do your sighting after you have
fired, IL 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
he 1Rez 10 int etr tel nj kA
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 to
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 excited nerves wabble the muz.
zle.
But IL you could only forget that
the revolver would make q noise, OF
kick, or that II had bullet In It; II
the weapon had trigger with a 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 yol
thrust II at any object.
| How Soldiers Are Taught.
In the United States army the mer
are trained to shoot with a revolve
on the point system. The soldier 4
instructed to crook his elbow an,
raise his weapon to position besid'
his head with the muzsle straight to
ward the sky. This II the position
taken by the pistol duelist when h
Is waiting the word to IRE. At tina
word the soldier and the duelist ar
both taught to thrust or shove thei
weapons toward the target, pulling tn
trigger a. they do 90. This thrust o
shove of the weapon forward II a
effort to reach the ideal condition Q
the instructive point, which mean
good shooting In proportion a. II 70 n
} proximated.
The cowboy who fires from the hi
shoots on the same shove Of the wei
pom forward. The motion II exactl
~ II you were trying to poke the ta
} | get with the revolver mussle, and 10
pick out with your eye the point 70
wish to poke. This II the same trio
y almost a. thrusting with Z straigf
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
A Half shell story.

The oyster hasn't risen fraction
Of an inch in the social scale since tho
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. Of
course. survived, thrived; then dogs
master tasted. opened his eyes Wide
and smacked his lips. Um-uml 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 To- Roma
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

kidneys. I have been told had Q
floating kidney. had intense pain
In the back. headaches and dizzy
spells, and the action Of the bladder
very irregular. About three years ago
! tried Doan's Kidney Pills and inside
OF a comparatively short time was en-
tirely rid Of kidney trouble"
Sold by all dealers. 80 cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. .l
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

There b more Catarrh In this section Of the country
than other diseases put together and until the last
few years supposed 70 be incurable For great
many years doctors pronounced local disease and
prescribed local remedies. and by constantly falling
TO with local treatment. pronounced incurable.
Science has proven Catarrh TO be constitutional db-
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Hairs CAtarrh Cure. manufactured by r. J. Cheney
Co.. Toledo Ohio. b the only Constitutional cure on
the market. IL taken internally In doses nom lo
drops 70 teaspoonful II acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case " fails 20 cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: +. :. CHENEY q CO.. Toledo. ohis
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

Just Ike thou
sands Of others.
Mr.. Martin says:
II think / have
had kidney dis
ease ever since the
war. During an en-
8 q 6 Q m Q mt my
horse fell on me,
straining my back
and inturing the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
A Fable, Perhaps.

When George AIDE was coming from
New Orleans last winter he noticed,
among the race-track men on the train,
one tan-shoed sheet writer with the
largest feet he had ever seen.
And he furthermore testifies and at
firms that the sheet writer, on rising
in the morning, discovered that the
reporter had shined one shoe and .
suitcase. Magazine.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
Don't Be Mi.Ied.

Many a life has been cut short by a
cough that was not believed to be serious
Many a backache and sideache follows
coughing spell. Many a night is passed in
cough "cure" that never cures Is tried. Do
not be misled. If you cough, take the old
reliable Kemp's Balsam, the best cough
cure. At druggists and dealers, 25c.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
Her Wemanly crrioslty.

Her WcmanIy Curiosity.
Il have put aside enough money"
said the bachelor of So, ito make 1t
sure that / shall be decently buried
without expense to the public"
why" asked the maiden who was
verging on IS, do you think you ought
TO have decent burial?"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
FAIRLY WARNED.

See here. kid, II / ever catches you
cryin' like dat big BOBBY here, I'll dis
own you and cut you OF without q
penny. See!"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
Use Aliens Eoot-Ea.s.

It is the only cure for Swollen, Smart
ing. Tired. Aching, Hot. Sweating Feet.
Ease, a powder to be shaken into the
shoes. Cures while you walk. AT all Drug
gists and Shoe Stores, PC. Don't accept
any substitute. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress. Allen 8. Olmsted. Leroy. ". Y.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

Linguistic Resources.
Us this story you are telling me OF
hill-climbing. true one?"
Yes. It IL on the level"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

The man who separates people from
their coin will be remembered long
time after the undertaken plants him.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

Len Thousands Of Veterans With Kid
~ nsy Trouble.

The experience OF David w. Martin.
! retired merchant Of Bolivar. Mo-, Is
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

gwen me new uIe.
i suffered for ten
years with serious
female troubleS In
hammation, ulcer.
alton. indigestion,
nervousness, and
could not sleep.
Doctors gave me
up, as they said my
tr on bles were
chronic. I was In
despair, and did not
care whetherIlived
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
AFTER
SUFFERING
TEN YEARS
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

MARLTON, MI feel that LydiaE.
I,inkham's Vegetable Compound has
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
WHY, OF COURSE.

"Oh, Willie! You're going to fall"
Nav, amt! I'm tryin' new fancy
style of skatin'-dat'8 all"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
TOTAL LOSS OF HAIR

Seemed Imminent--scaIp Was Very
scaIy and Hair Came Out by Hand
fuls-Scaip Now Clear and
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

1t II the man who can't do things
that 10 always telling others how -
do them. M
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
A Sure Sian.

A Sure Sign.
How did you know that dowdy-
looking girl was scientific student?
Did you hear her tall.
mot that; knew her by her wire
less collars"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

important TO Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA q safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

T last."
The woman stands back.
She looks at her hand. In II
Is a new revolver-she has
never fired one before.
And at her feet lies n
small. crumpled.up heap OF
humanity-the dead always
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

To have more of Health and more Of
Life, take Garfield Teal This Natural laxa-
tive regulates liver, kidneys, stomach and
bowels, corrects constipation, puriies the
blood and Graduates diseass.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24

A Domestic Eye Reneay
Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs Laws.
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
gists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Mu-
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
lts Kind.

its Kind.
This squib about peoples hanging
on to straps in street cars"
"Oh, that's q standing joke"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-03-27

IN CASH AND SPECIAL
PREMIUMS

For all Breeds of HOrSeS--Pure
Breds and Grades - Stations,
Mares, Colts, Ponies and Jacks,
Two, Three and Four Horse
Teams, ROadsters and SaddIers
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-25
FRANKLlN-MERRY.

On October IA, 1909, the home Of
Mrs. s. L. Merry was the scene of a
quiet home wedding, the contracting
parties being Mr.. A. II. Franklin of
Tampa, Fla, and Miss Grace Emeline
Merry. daughter of @. H. Merry (de-
ceasod) and Mrs. S. L. Merry Of Mica
nopy The house was appropriately
decorated for the occasion, and
promptly at 3 a. m. the bridal couple
entered the parlor, where, in the pres
ence of family and friends. Rev.
Duncan read the words which united
the destinles and caused two happy
hearts TO beat as one. The bride wore
a beautiful oream-colored gown, made
In q simple but becoming style, In
which she looked what she really is,
the highest type Of pure womanhood
Having teon reared In Micanopy. she
numbers her friends here by her ac-
quaintances, and will be sadly missed.
as Grace was a general favOrite. The
groom is a native Of Ohio, but has
lived in our Land Of Towers" long
enough 70 have made for himself
hosts Of friends in Tampa, where he
Is well and favorably known, and al
though bat little known in the Mica.
ncpy section. he left a strong inn
preston for good on the hearts Of
those whom he met while here.
After the ceremony and congratula.
tons the bride donned travelling
suit. dinner was served, and they took
their departure on the noon train for
Tampa, their future home. taking with
them the good wishes Of all their
fiends. GUEST.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-25
RoslN AND TURPENTINe.

Rosin and turpentine, known tech
nicaliy as naval stores from the fact
that for many years their principal
uses were maritime. are produced
from two species Of Southern pine,
the long leaf and the Cuban, but
It is quite probable that a number Of
other species viii be employed within
the next twenty-five years. The crop
OF naval stores, including four and
quarter million pounds Of rosin and
sixteen ana a quarter million casks
of spirits Of turpentine, has an APP
proximate annual value to those en-
gagged in It Of at least thirty million
dollars. For how many centuries
commercial use has been made Of the
sap Of the pine cannot be determined
With any degree Of assurance, but the
custom was general in South France
at the time OF the invasion of Eng
land by the Spanish Armada. For
many years the industry was confined
to the south OF France and Austria,
where It still hourlshes on a small
scale, and It was not until hundred
years ago that intelligent effort was
made to establish 1t on this continent.
For fifty years or so the Carolinas and
Virginias we're the chief turpentine
producing States, but with the opening
up Of the pine forests of Georgia the
scene OF operations was gradually
shifted Southwark, until before very
long Georgia had become the cente.
Of the industry. At the present time
Florida is in the lead, with Georgia
and Alabama a close second and third.
The depletion of Florida's forests,
however, is gradually extending the
mrpentIne area westward, and 1t is
quite possible in twenty-five years
time Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas
will be In the lead.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-25

A specialist IN cotton estimates the
coming years takings as compared
with last years as follows; Exports
7.5OO.O 900 bales, against S.566.0O0 bales
last year; American mills t.76O.OO0
bales, against 100000 last year, To-
tai, ls.25OOO bales, against 1886. 900
last year, Assuming that this seasons
crop may contribute during the COM
mercial year ii,550,OO0 bales out OF
the ls.a60,O00 estimated there would
remain 100000 bales 10 come from
the reserve that may be held IN the
cotton belt. Steadily advancing prices
have probably cleared up most OF this
cotton.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-10-25
THE COUNTRY wOMAMs CAREER:

Homework, instead of drudgery, is
a beautiful science capable Of develop
ment into art. She whose mind is
alert to learn the best ways of caring
for house and premises, to preserve
the family health, and who studies the
food problem that her table may offer
the variety to provide for growth and
repair, understanding that the body,
being so largely dependent on food,
may be strong and vigorous, or weak
and alling according TO the food .and
its preparation, is filling career sur
passed only by the ability 20 mentally
and morally train her family Alright.
II Is a beautiful thing TO write a
hook. 70 sing a song or paint pic
ture, but Il is more beautiful, more
helpful and farreaching to give to
the world a family possessing bright,
discriminating minds In sound,
healthy bodies. whose moral percep-
lions will keep them on the side Of
right and justice. and whose Christian
training viii urge them to helpful
deeds This is a career open to every
woman
One beautiful home In neighbour
hood will awaken emulation, resulting
In the Improvement OF each homes
gurroundlngs, One church yard aud
school made attractive In county viii
be an lmpetus to all others, and all
these things will strengthen the love
Of country lie and keep more Of our
hest young people on the farm.
What more fruitful career than this
can be deslredg-Mrs c. s. Everts. In
Raleigh IN. CO Progressive Farmer,