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SHOOT AT HUMAN TARGETS.
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Frenchmen Bring Bloodless Duel-
ing to an Exact Science.
Shooting at human targets merely
jfor the sport derived from It, and as
'a test of marksmanship, In other
words, bloodless dueling or fencing
with pistols, has been mado possible
through tho Invention by a French
man of a harmless wax projectile.
Tills new diversion Is really no moro
serious than fencing with swords, and
has that spice of realism in It that
tends to malco any sport popular.
Tho new bullet Is an Ingenious de
vice and required a great deal' of ex
periment beforo being perfected. The
situation was thus: A heavy project
lie must necessarily havb a wounding
force, a light one loses its precision,
and a soft bullet will be changed in
shape and describe an irregular trajec
tory; thereforo a harmless projectilo
to bo effective must differ from all
these. The Frenchman's product is a
spherical ball of wax fat, with a smnll
charge, and in tests twenty-four balls
were lodged in succession In a rec
tangle four by five inches at twenty
yards. At a six day tournament held
In tho Tulleries thd efficiency of tho
wax bullet was demonstrated.
The combatants wear thick screens
for masks, with heavy glass over the
yes and wear thick clothing to prevent
bruising from tho impact of the balls.
The distance is twenty-five paces and
tho weapons are revolvers. The direc
tor of the combat, keeping his gaze
fixed upon a metronome which beats
80 to 100 times a minute, makes the
inqulrj" as In an actual duel, "Are you
ready?" and when they reply "Yes"
the director, timing his words exactly
to tho beats of tho pendulum, cries,
"Fire one two three!"
At tho command "Fire!" the adver
saries raise their weapons and shoot,
The two shots' must bo made before
the command "Three!" As tho par
ticipants in these trials were experts
they mado a good average, hitting their
man six or seven times out of eight
shots. Although more than 1,600 balls
were fired, there was not the slightest
accident.
The wax, bullets can be used in
.apartments as well as In the open air
Iwithout the inconvenience of the lead
ball of small caliber, which will proba
bly lead to its introduction into tho
larmies of the various nations for prac
tice shooting Popular Magazine.
Broken Friendships.
Some one has said "it is sad to bury
'a friend, but sadder far to bury a
friendship," and only those who have
felt the desolation of this can appre
ciate its full truth. To realize that an
ideal is shattered, a faith misplaced,
'and an affection slain is an experience
too bitter for words, and yet, sucb
thinge are.
We may say tho friendship did not
,exlst, or what did exist was not
worthy that exalted name; but what
ever it was, ;we know we believed in
it, swore by it, and suffered when we
came to tho end of it.
Those charming linos from Moore,
tho melody of which is as beautiful
and soul stirring as the words them
selves: "The heart that has truly
loved never forgets, but as truly loves
on to tho close." was not meant, wo
fear, for this ago of. spasmodic tenden
cies. Any of us who are of spasmodic
tendencies ,any of us, who turn and
look back upon life are horrified at tho
long lino of ghosts following in our
wake; and multiplying so vapidly as
wo grow older that we wondejr why
tho angels of faith and hope over walk
ed before us.' Wo have believed in
love; we have counted upon and lived
for love, but lovo often greets us at
last with grinning teoth and sunken
eyes.
Wo have been taught, too, that "tho
greater absorbs tho lesser," yet, what
a tiny thread will oftentimes sever an
affection that has brought us joy for
yoars. A foul word, a treacherous act,
a' canker worm In the shapo of "some
body else," and then tho end. We
bury our dead and look upon even tho
memory of it with a heart as coldvas
it will be under tho sod. Our grief was
intenso, maddening, perhaps, but It is
over and wo walk on through life, wis
er and sadder, for ever more. Imogono
in Washington Herald.
"Do you Intend to inaugurate any
great reforms this year, Senator?"
asked the beautiful girl. "No," replied
tho statesman. "My present term will
not expire until 1909." Chicago Rcc
lrd Horald.
Poverty and Love.
"When poverty comes in at tho
door, lovo flies out of tho window."
From our earliest childhood ,vo havo
been taught that this Is a very ignoble
sentiment, but as wo wander or aro
tossed through tho years of life, we
question it very seriously. Not that
we ennnot boo tho beauty of love umlor
all conditions, if it can exist, but wo
are inclined to believe that It Is utter
ly incompatible with tho degrading
Influences of poverty. Degrading? Yes,
that is tho phrase wo use. Let the 11
lusionists clutch the air and rail as
they will, wo still hold that povot ty Is
degrading even jn tho realms of gentil
ity. Not to tho depths or depravity, as
some may Interpret this, but degrad
ing so far as sentiment, romance and
prido aro concerned.
Love is tho lightness and the bright
ness the butterfly whoso wings flut
ter only In tho warm sunshine. How,
then, is It posslhlo to slug, to urcani,
to laugh, even, with tho fascinating
abandon of joy when the mind Is
weighed down with tho hard, cold
facts of life, and tho heart is numb
with the despair of selfdenial?
Wo know all tho stereotyped plati
tude such as "riches do not always
bring happiness;" "poverty Isn't tho
worst thing In the world," etc., etc.,
but we say unreservedly that, general
ly speaking, poverty is the worst thing
in tho world. Does It not mako peoplo
steal, forge, and even murder? Does it
not send women to tho dogs and men
to the penitentiary? Does It not break
up homes and separate families? Then
isn't it utterly absurd to talk of com
bining It with tho beauty, the romance,
tho sentiment of love?
If riches do not bring happiness,
then why should ono man bo able to
travel the world over that ho may bo
rid of a distressing malady, going
whore the air 13 most bracing and" tho
waters most famous? If not cured, ho
has prolonged his life many years. hy
are you able to rush your suddenly
stricken child on to a noted specialist,
whllo I must wring my hands and see
mlno die? Why Is a neighbor's wife
carefully carried to the best hospital
and watched over day and night by a
trained nurse, whllo another's drifts
Into, tho great beyond solely for tho
want of proper attention? Answer mo
theso questions and I will tell you if
the rich man does not thank his God
with the rising and setting of every
sun for tho blessings ho enjoys, thon
ho Is not worthy the name of man.
But wo aro not hero to discuss great
wealth. Let this be clearly understood
Tho theme of theso few lines Is pover
ty and love.
Some finds In a degree of wealth tho
power to glvo It tho food it feeds upon
flowers, music, diversion, tho dainty
accessories of life. Each and all of
these comblno to keep tho heart light
and the mind free from care. Without
these, the love that goes with rom
ance and with sentiment will surely
die, and, once dead, como disaster and
divorce. Washington Herald.
Bottled Up.
D. H. Morris, tho president of tho
Automobile Club of America, has on
his Long Island estate a flno chicken
farm, says tho Now York Tribune. At
a dinner in New York Mr. Morris, in
response to some compliments on tho.
success of his farm arid on his knowl
edge of chickens, said, with a laugh.
"And yet I was as Ignorant of chick
ens a few years ago as as a farmer
on his first visit to New York w&s ig
norant of city ways.
'"Everything was fine,' this farmer'
said when ho got back homo from New
York. 'Everything "was flno except tho
light. They kept tho light burning in
my room all night long a thing I
ain't used to, and I couldnt sleep on
account of it.'
"'Well, HI, why didn't you blow it
out? said his wife.
'"Blow it out? How could I?' said
tho farmer. "Tho blamo thing was In
side a bottle."
An Irishman having been told that
marriages were made in heaven felt
some doubts on the subject, and tak
ing pencil and paper he wrote the fol
lowing: "Though matches are all made in
heaven, they say,
Yet Hymen, who mischief oft
hatches,
Sometimes deals with the house
t'other sldo of tho way,
And then they are Luclfor-matches."
Elderly Coquette I don't liko this
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Dealer What do you say to some-
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