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Show SKIRMISH LINE AT CREEDMOOR. Insplrinj Sight In Advance of Shan Battle Skirmishers. To Co spectator tho skirmish run Is the u;oKt Interesting of the matches vnys 1,'eut. Frank K. Kvans In Out iig. SI hundred ynids from tho tar gets tho thin line of skirmisher), iwuliH the "Forward, inarch!" of tlu bugle. Then it wavers forward anr at the 000 ynid line halts and diops With tho last note of "commence Ur .ug" the rifles simtter ami crack. Then on to the other ranges tho lino swings, now nt quick und now In the cadence of double time, the men car rylng their pieces in characteristic attitude. At the behest or tho bugle the lino droits to the ground and pumps out Its leaden flight at thu tar gets. The Urlug grows faster miii) more furious, the bugle rings nut mellow mel-low and clear, nnd nt tho short range the lino writhes with the quick Hashes of magnxlno tire, and rattling t,liutte or crackling sounds and the whirr of bullets. , The crnsh and rattle of the raggr-d volleys lend n realism to thlB relent.. :s advance, by picked riflemen upon tho silhouetted figures of the paper tngets that brings, oven to the man who knows not the butt from tho murxlo of a rifle, the old blood-hut bac from the dim tomb of ancestors , |