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Show SKIRMISH LINE AT CREEDMOOR. Inspiring Sight In Advance of Sham Battle Skirmishers. To the spectator tho skirmish tun Is the most Interesting of the matches, says l.leut Frank E Kvans In Out Ing. Six hundred yards from the tar gets tho thin line of skirmishers awnlts the "Forward march!" of the bugle Then It wavers forward and at tho COO yard line halts and drops With the last note of "commence firing" fir-ing" the rifles spatter and crack Then on to the other rangos the line swings, now at quick and now In the cadence of double time, the men carrying car-rying their pieces In characteristic attitude. At the behest ot the bugle tho lino drops to the ground and pumps out Its leaden lllght at the targets. tar-gets. The tiring grows faster and more furious, the bugle rings out mel low and clear, and at the short ranges the line writhes with the quick Hushes of magiulne fire, and rattling shuttle of crackling sounds nnd tho whirr of bullets The cush nnd rattle of the ragged miUv)h .end a realism to this relentl. advance hy picked rillemen upon the silhouetted figures of the paper tagots that brings, even to the man who knows not the butt from the muzzle of n rlltc the old blood lust back from the dim tomb of ane- -dors |
