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every help possible in making a movement of 
jthe kind started in New Jersey effective and 
|lasting in its results. LEFEVER 
“OPTIMUS” 
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NEGRO SUPERSTITIONS. 
“Dip you ever hear of ‘picking up tracks?’”’ 
Congressman John Allen, of Mississippi, asked 
a group of Southern members. It was some- 
thing new to all of them. j F 
“Well,” explained Mr. Allen, “it was new to 1S E E V ER S HO : G [ J N : I / [ J x [ J R Y 
jme until a short time before I left home to come Wed : ; ' : te ee = ; 
jhere for this extraordinary session of Congress. € do not compete, and never have, with machine gun that ranks with the present Lefever Hammerless 
, ae = Mim beaety 5 hot n i i i i 
il went into the country visiting some of my made § guns which are machined out in large makes, but if you will read our catalogue and then 
quantities and sold at low prices and big discounts. examine a few Lefevers at any store, you will agree 

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people. W hen I got there I found great ex- Nor do we care for the trade that panders to low price. that the above statement, though seemingly strong, is 
citement prevailing. A young negro woman had For nearly half a century Lefever Shot Guns have altogether true. Even though you are not an expert, 
jbeen ‘picking up tracks,’ and it had broken up catered only to the crack marksman and the genuine _‘the beauty and the skill and the infinite simplicity of 
jone family. Everybody was. afraid. Nobody sportsman who realize that shooting is a luxury Lefever construction will force you to admit the truth 
\knew whose tracks might be picked up next. har that without a luxurious shot gun it is a dull of the above claim. No expert will deny it. Te 
ae ee rE Raat aridda nt usiness. By luxury we mean not only beautiful Send for our catalocue before you forget to (it is 
| t seems the young woman had a gruc ge o design and handsome finish, but a gun that isareal free), and remember this: Every Lefever is a thorough- 
jsome kind against a man and a woman. She luxury to use. bred. Lefever prices range from $25.00 to $400.00. 
lhad followed them and had ‘picked up their In this limited space we cannot prove to you that LEFEVER ARMS CO., 23 MALTBIE STREET, 
itracks.’ Then she had gone off and buried the no foreign or American gunsmith has ever built ashot SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
tracks she had picked up. She had put dog’s 
hair with the tracks of the man and cat’s hair L FE FE Vv E R H A M M E R L E S S S H O Ay G U N S 
with the tracks of the woman. After that the 
jman and the woman couldn’t live together any 
more than a cat and a dog could. They had 
eparated and the whole community was in a Another INTER-STATE 
\state of uproar when I arrived. They:were about ASSOCIATION HANDICAP 
ito send off some thirty miles for a negro f 
jpreacher. It seemed that he was gifted with the won with 
power to break the spell. One woman said she 
jnever gave the voodoo woman any chance to 
joick up her tracks. Whenever she saw her com- 
jing she sat right down wherever she might be 
jand waited until the voodoo woman was out of 
sight.” 
; “Picking up tracks,’ continued Mr. Allen, 
; seems to be a new idea among the negroes. 
jYou’ve heard of people perishing with lizards 
jand snakes under the skin? I had a little ex- 
jperience with a case of that kind. A Justice of 
jhe Peace actually bound a man under $1,000 
0 go before court for putting lizards under the 











Tom Graham, with a score of 99 out 
of 100, shooting The Parker Gun from 
the 19-yard mark, won the Western 
Handicap, at Denver, August 21, 1907, 



Betas f am ; : oe art aNhs And the second amateur average for the two days’ shooting at Denver was won 
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kin of ane ther man. I had the prosecuting wit by Mr. H.R. Bonser, with The Parker Gun—score of 387 out of 400. The Southern, 
pess up in my room, and put him through an Eastern and Western Handicaps have all been won by The Parker Gun, and the 
isxamination for the benefit of my fellow law- greatest event of the season so far—the professional championship of the United 
vers. The negro had his arms tied tightly with States—was won by The Parker Gun, and second place in this same great event was won by The Parker Gun, 
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