How He Shot

A Texas military company v?as out on the range practicing at rifle shoocing. The lieutenant iu oommand suddenly became exasperated at the poor shooting, and seizing a gun trom one of the privates cried sharply : "I'll show yon fellows how to snoot. " Taking a long alna, pnd a stroug aim, and an aim altogether, he fired and missed. Ooolly turuintf to the private ■who owned the gun, he said : "That'a the way you shoot. " He agaiu loaded the weapou and missed. Turning to the secoud man in the ranks, he reruarked: "That's the way you shoot." In this way he missed about a dozen times, illustrating to each soldier nis personal incapacity, and flnally he acoidentally hit the target. "And that," he ejaculated, handing the sun back to the private, "is the way I