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INTERIOR VIEW OP NEW SPRING HOUSE.
The famous Poland Spring is located under the glass case,
which may be seen in the picture above, behind the bronze
framed glass partition.
Interior finish of Spring House is Italian Marble.
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A. Parisian Innovation.
HOOTING at liTing men
as tjistol targets is a
novelty which is being
enioyed in Paris, to all
intents and purposes
dueling with wax bul
lets and small charges of powder, ar
mours and masks being worn. The in
novation was suggested Dy vr. raui
Devillieres and has gradually been per
fected. Bullets of loose felt were first
tried, but they had no carrying power
and they were later dipped in tallow in
an effort to perfect them. This made
them fly truer, and then it was only a
step to the use of balls of tallow itself
and from that to soft wax, readily
handled and melting into innocuousness
as it struck the object aimed at.
The first man brave enough to stand
up and be shot at was M.Barillier, a mu
nicipal counsellor of Taris. He wore a
wire mask and no other protection. He
came unscathed out of the ordeal, but
his clothes were a sight. M. Devillier's
aim was unerring and coat and waist
coat when the practice was over were
converted into a polka dot pattern of
half inch grease spots. A bullet that
hit the mask also showed that wire
gauze was an insufficient protection for
the eyes.
To save the trouble of putting on old
clothes the armor was devised; it is
simply a loose rubber coat made some
thing like an army overcoat. The mask
was improved by the insertion of a plate
of thick, tough glass in front of the eyes.
To protect the bare hand when duels are
fought the pistol has a guard like that of
a fencing foil attached below the barrel.
A special cartridge is used in the prac
tice duels. It consists of a steel shell,
one end of which takes a wax ball of
average duelling size, while the other
has a tiny chamber for powder with a
window to minimize the effect of the ex
plosion on the ball. With this device
the pellet of wax gets just impetus
enough to fly from six to twelve yards,
having force enough when it strikes to
break a pane of glass or penetrate a
stout fabric.
The society has at present 154 mem
bers. They have a field day every Fri
day in the Jardin de Paris. An alley
has been specially prepared with butts
to stop stray bullets, even through they
are of wax. Under the band stand there
is a long table at which an artilleryman,
detailed for the purpose,loads and cleans
the pistols. Besides the director of each
day's practice stands a metronome beat
ing 100 strokes a minute.
In duels the word of command : "One,
two, three, fire !" is given at the speed of
the beats a word to each stroke. One
of the games indulged in is shooting 100
pistols by metronome time. The second
hands fresh loaded weapons as fast as
they are fired, and the expert aims and
discharges in the one-hundredth part of
a minute. Some will make 75 per cent,
of hits on a targ'et showing the outline
of a man turned sideways, or on the liv
ing target at this speed.
It is said that firing at the living tar
get constitutes the final education of the
pistol expert. There is a nervousness
that the surest shot cannot get over until
he has acquired the habit of looking his
adversary in the eye and aiming at him
under the muzzle of a pistol aimed at
himself. It is said that this habit once
acquired can be carried into the duelling
field and all trace of nervousness be elim
inated from the aim of a combatant who
has never previously taken part in an
actual life and death encounter.
As an illustration of the effect of nerv
ousness on inexperienced duellists, the
story is told of a combat between two
duellists wherein one staggered and de
clared himself hit the moment the pistols
were discharged. Sure enough, he had
a big patch of blood on his right shoul
der, just where he said he felt the bullet
strike him. The doctor and seconds
carefully removed his coat and were as
tonished to find no mark on his waist
coat or shirt. His skin too, proved to be
sound ; yet there was a good sized patch
of unmistakable gore on his outer gar
ment. One of the other seconds solved the
mystery when he picked up a couple of
feet away the mangled body of a spar
row. The bird had flown across the line
of fire, far overhead, just as the word
was given. The adversary's bullet, fly
ing far overhead, owing to the nervous
ness of the man behind the gun, passed
through the bird and its body in falling
struck the other combatant on the shoul
der. The Ministry of War has approved the
sport of pistol practice at living targets
and the Paris Prefecture of Police is ar
ranging for its men to take a course, es
pecially those stationed at night in the
more troublesome quarters.
11UC1CS 1 IIO.TI TJ3XA8.
Mr. I. S. ltoleaon ltemeniler
friends at Holly Inn.
The return of Mr. I. S. Robeson of
Rochester, after a duck hunting trip in
Texas, has occasioned much pleasure at
The Holly Inn through the distribution
of a goodly portion of the birds brought,
back. Among those who enjoyed the
piece de resistance are Messrs. Becker,
Pierce, Creamer, Hamilton, Hudson,
Nicholson, Ladd, Berwin and Parmelee.
fire Hundred at Magnolia.
Last week several tables of five hun
dred were played at the weekly card
party at The Magnolia, prizes being
offered for the highest scores. Miss Paul
ine Knight of Madison, and Miss Janette
Pulsifer of Buffalo, Mr. J. E. Kellogg of
Fitchburg, and Mr. Robert Foley of
Philadelphia, were the prize winners.