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LESSON No. 21
EXTENDED-ORDER DRILL.

Preceding lessons Your Post Of
Honor. .. Making Good as a Sol
der. @ Nine S0ldierly Qualities.
4 Getting Ready for Camp g.
First Days in Camp 8 Cleanliness
IN Camp. g. Your Health S.
Marching and Care OF Feet.
Your Equipment and Arms. 10.
Recreation in Camp. H. Playing
the Game. T. Teamwork in the
Army 13. Grouping Men into
Teams. "A. The team Leaders. I5.
Fighting Arms Of the Service. I6.
S;aff Branches Of the Service T.
i. STAFF Branches Of the Service
III. rs. Army Insignia. 10. The
Army System Of Training. 20.
1lose-Order Drill FL. Extended
order DriuJ
Extended order drill viii give
Your squad ITS first lesson in the
methods OF advancing agains.
enemy lines actually used iu pres
ent-day warfare You viii first be
shown how 20 deploy as skirmishers
Moving m run YOU and the other
men will place yourself Don one rank.
The interval between men being
about 3 inches instead OF four
inches as in close-order drill This
is The simplest form OF depIoyment.
which may BE roughly defined as
spreading out body OF troops i'm
thin open lines so that they may
more easily advance even i'm the
face Of enemy fire.
This means that YOU become to a
greater extent an independent unit.
When pushing forward in skirmish
lines You must rely i'm part on your
own initiative and judgment
The next step in extended-order
dril is 10 practice kneeling. lying
down. and advancing az "a run. I'm
the meantime YOU viii be getting
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-04-18

Waco; N. A. Phillips, Fort Worth;
0. B. Preston, Dallas; J. f. Jones,
Louisville, KY; d. b. Richmond and
wife, Houston; II. X. White, Hous-
ton; c. r. Mcknight. Arlington G..
O. Collins. Fort Worth; G.. w.
Gould, Dallas; H. F. Ritter, Vir-
ginia; Sam Fl. Ross, Corsicana; b.
H. Ashby, City; T. M. Conover, Bos-
ton; b. NJ Hudson, league; Tom
Hughes, Dallas; o. H. Weissinger,
Berlin; c. J. Knox, City; NJ. M.
Frost, City; r. ]. Billiard, City; J.
II. Rugel. City; John NJ Deaver,
City; w. e. Anderson, City; A. c.
Grundy, City; J. P Manton, City;
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kept a team in the field and has
reaped a wonderful harvest of adj
vertising as a result. but the re-
trenchment policy will not admit OF
the expenditure of such vast sum
and local fans will perhaps have
to content themselves with an oc-
casional visit 10 Dallas or semi
professional ball Mr.. Patten will
notify the players that were retain
ed at the close of last season that
they are free agents and may sign
with whom they please. The Waxa-
hachie club had reserved fourteen
men. With was a pretty good team
10 start with.
1t is understood that Ennis is
also having trouble in financing a
teen. and now that Waxahaehie has
taken the initial step Ennis and
other towns are expected to drop
out. thus disrupting the circuit.
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|nILHlCH|E WILL NOT
| PUT OUT 4 BALL TEAM
MEMBERSHIP CENTRAL TEXAS
/ LEAGUE WILL BE DROPPED
FOR THIS SEASON.

The life of the Central Texas
| hse Ball league hangs in the bal
saees. 1t is very doubtful if any CT
|he towns will put teams in the
[aed this year. Threatened war
i perhaps responsible. A general
| atTenchment. to meet the high cost
|ei living expenses will canse many
| ayal fans to cut down their at
|eadance at ball games this summer.
| Ea without a better attendance than
has been had heretofore base
sll club could not be maintained
sihout a loss Of from $1,000 to
| 1000 in cash.
President George Patten of the
Haxahaehie club declared today
mat he has made his last effort to
put team in the field for Waxa-
aatale, and it is his opinion that
NaXahachie will forfeit its fran
sase we just cant afford il, y
ND Mr.. Patten, then people don t
NOV much interest, There is no
sed of running a bluff any longer,
|ss my opinion Waxahaehie is
Through
fOf three years Waxahaehie hes
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CITY COUNCIL TO HOLD
I ANOTHER MEET TOh|GnT
VACANCY IN TAX COLLECTORS
OFFICE WILL BE FILLED AND.
COMMITTEES NAMED.

There will be meeting of the city
council tonight. Mayor Carroll Todd
will announce his standing commit
tees and the council will make APP
pointments to fill vacancies.
There are many matters of inter
est to come before the council and
it is very probable that several call
meetings will be held. Mayor Todd
is greatly interested in the proposed
sewer disposal plant and hopes to
get the consulting engineer to at
tend meeting of the council so
the terms of the contract may be
thoroughly understood by the new
council This contract was let on
the plus plan the city paying the
consulting engineer 121a per cent
of the contract price to superin-
tend the construction work.
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W. G. IT. e. of Texas convened in
the Tabernacle Baptist church here
yesterday. The morning session was
devoted to an official board meeting
and the afternoon to the executive
committee meeting. The state offfi-
GERS IN attendance are Mrs. Mamie
Webb Curtis. Waco. president; Mrs.
John Y. Brewer. Fort Worth. vice
president; Mrs. Cora g. Megrail, Fort
WORTH. corresponding secretary;
Mrs.. Claudia Hightower, Fort
WORTH, recording secretary: Mrs.
JOHN S.. Turner. Dallas, treasurer,
and Miss Vera. DE Jarnett. peniel,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-04-18
MEDICAL MEN OFFER SER
VICES TO AID UNCLE SAM IN
MASTERING IN TROOPS

WASHINGTON, April 1s.-sev-
eral thousand medical men, mostly
life insurance inspectors, have Of
fered their services to President Will
son for emergency work in examin-
ing recruits for the army and navy.
The offer was made through Mrs. Fu-
la McCleary of the Life. Extension
Institute OF New York.
1t is, hoped to avoid the delay in
mastering in which accompanied the
Mexican mobilization largely due i
lack of inSnectnrS
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W. G. T. L. Meets at Ennis.
ENNIS, Texas. April Is. The
thirty-fifth annual convention of the
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oepSn TALL; :. "iiAk'ouiiu. DO
issI, S sna it and l am now in good
,oDnd =. a'la am cured. l took the Conn
I'd =, " al1s times day after meals.
|, bottla ; ~ at night always keep
|ersyu,, ~ .he house. - Mrs. l.. N,
". @' go South St., Jamaica, NY.
|snIv .A .a,, who recover their health nat
|sns , .siI Others what helped them.
|Aoby,an,sse ana allow their names and
|aouisls 'pas To be published with testi-
n many more tell their friends.
|,na ' lydia Il. Pinkham Nredi-
Mass 70 o. (eonfldentiaD, Lynn,
know .or anything you need Ia
aoont your ailments.
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TWO YEARS IN BED
AND ROLLING CHAIR
Mrs. Wilson Gave Up Hope-Gains
% Pounds on Tanlac and Is
Now Il Well Woman.

For two years spent all my time
either in the hospital, in bed, or in
a rolling chair, and during that time
I was given up to die, and | don't
guess ! would be here now II it
hadn't been for Tanlac," said Mrs
f. O. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson is we'll
known in Atlanta, her husband hav-
ing been employed by the Constitu-
ton for a number of years.
Il was great sufferer from
chronic Indigestion, continued Mrs.
Wilson, "and don't guess anybody
ever had to go through with what
| did. | was very weak and nervous
and at times had those dreadful
smothering sensations to the point
of fainting | had dreadful head
aches, severe pains in my back and
over my kidneys and my joints
ached ali the time. For two years
| had to live entirely on boiled
milk, toast and soft boiled
eggs. and even that didn't digest
we'll and would sour on my stomach.
took one kind of medicine after
another until our house was almost
filled with empty bottles. but instead
of improving | was getting worse all
the time Finally they took me to
the hospital for treatment, and / lay
there for five long months, but even
that didn't make me well. 1t was
taking nearly every cent of my hus-
bands wages to pay my doctor and
drug bills-our drug bill alone
amounted to S14 or So month.
and one doctor bill amounted to
sos.
at looked like everything had
failed to help me, and | had about
given M all hope when one day my
husband brought a bottle of Tanlac
home with him aud asked me to
+o1,a II He said he had been read
ioq and hearing a lot of good things
about it. and didn't see any reason
whv it shouldn't help me. was con-
fined 10 my rolling chair when | be-
gan taking it.
"na I look like an invalid now?
! certainly don't feel like one, and
have actually gained twenty-five
co5) pounds on eleven bottles OF
Tap,ac and feel as we'll as | ever
did in my life. can eat anything
! want-sueh things as meat, tur-
MINIS hard boiled eggs don't hurt me
rartiele. and | sleep as good as |
ala when was a girl in my teens.
oop get about as we'll as anybody
and inst the other day | walked down
town. aud am running around, the
,aiehhorhood calling on my iflehos
nearly all the time nov. ! haven't
oai,, ahout me. | believe am the
honpiest woman in Atlanta, ana
mimi 7 have a right to be, think
nv recovery is almost miracle ana
everybody in our neighoorhooo
thinks the same"
ronIac is sold in Waxahaehie by
Cur,ins Two Drug Stores; in Ennis
nv Ennis Pharmacy; in Palmer by
Mcintosh & Son: in Italy by Jenkins
nr,g 70. in Ferris by Cox 4 NAL
loy. in Maypearl by cavaness Drug
ctore, in Trumbull by j. NJ Davis
g. pro.. in Milford by o, H. Drug
~, in Midlothian by ]. E. Sewell
and in Bristol by Munroe Burriss,---
adv
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L. 7. /.
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= LONDON. April 1s-The =
= high cost of living in England =
= is not so high after all If early =
= strawberries and Cape plums =
. are omitted from the menu. =
= But ii strawberries must be =
. had as early as this month. the =
= cost is $40 a pound. wholesale, =
= and about 20 per cent more re- =
= tail. Plums cost a quarter =
= each.
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weak, dizzy, ner-
vous, with hot
flashes and felt very
miserable, as I was
irregular for two
y ears. One d ay
when ! was feeling
unusually bad my
sister-in-law came
| n and said, L
wish you would try
Lydia K. Pinkham's
4
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lsooers Hotel Arrivals.

G. Il. Mcpherson, Dallas James
II r1rgh and wife, New York: A. A..
,,,.,stline. New Jersey; X. A, Car
..r New Jersey; Fl. Lee, Dallas +.
l. Armstrong, Dallas; ii. Lee, Dali
,as. Frank Allen. Dallas; Eli Marks
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) LACK OF SHIPPING 4
) SOUTHERN ARGENTINA 4

; COMMODORE RIADAvIA, '
, Argentina. April 17.-Businees =
, is practically paralyzed in =
. southern Argentina owing to =
= the lack Of shipping to take the =
3 couutry's products to market .
, More than 10000 kilos, or =
, in excess of 1900 tons Of wool .
, alone are tied up and the terri =
tory's financial situation is crit =
, ical. =
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MRS. BURNHAM
JAMAICA, N. Y.
Aife.rings Cured by Medi-
cine Recommended by
Sister-in-law.

:. .snaica, N. Y.-'1 suffered greatly
wa my head and with backache, was
The Benson signal., 1917-06-30
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Victors.

ne vlCtorS.
Meade knew that they were fighting
losing battle. Every one of the
higher grade men knew it also. The
spillway was entirely inadequate, but
it suddenly flashed into his mind, with
that consciousness of the hopelessness
of the struggle, that perhaps there was
another way to discharge the flood.
The same idea might have come to
any other of the more intelligent Of the.
men from Vandeventer down if they
had taken a moment for reflection. If
they had not been so frantically, so
frightfully engrossed in their present
puny but gallant efforts to save the
dam, they certainly would have remem-
bered. That the possibility came to
Meade rather than to any of the others
was perhaps due to the fact that he
had noted the situation later and had
studied the conditions more recently.
Those solitary rambles of his, those
careful inspections Of the terrain of
the valley, had been made long after
the original surveys and the results of
his observations were still fresh in his
mind.
The water was rising so rapidly
since the cloudburst and he saw the
inevitableness of the failure so clearly
that he did not dare to waste time to
look up Vandeventer, tell him his plan,
and get his permission. Every second
was of the utmost value. When the
thought came, he acted instantly. He
was in the position of the commander
of q small force to whom is suddenly
presented the bare possibility of wrest-
ing victory from defeat by some splen-
didly daring and unforeseen undertak-
ing. And he was the man to seize such
possibility and make the most of it.
He had endeared himself to some of
the men and the respect in which he
was held by Vandeventer was shared
by the others. When he called two
Of the most capable Of the workmen,
big, burly Irishman and stout little
Italian, to follow him, they did it
without a moments hesitation.
''The rest of you keep on here" he
shouted as he left the gang. Murphy
and Funaro, come with me. Keep it
up; think know way to help" he
yelled back through the rain as he
scrambled off the dam up the rocks to
the spillway. 1t was ncs his fault that
! they could not hear and could not un-
derstand.
| The water was rushing through the
! cpiJJuyau QhO11t lxDon doom and the
three men plunging forward through
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working since four In the morning at
the dam, they had made that difficult
run at headlong speed, yet they labored
like men possessed. They even wasted
breath to call challengingly and pro-
vokingly and to set forth their progress
each to the other. In almost less time
than it takes to tell 1t, they had COM
pleted the holes and so informed the
engineer triumphantly.
Meade, as usual, had reserved to
himself the more dangerous, if less ar
duous task. Covering himself with
big Murphy's discarded slicker, which
fell over him like shelter tent as. he
knelt down, he opened the box Of
detonators, selected one, and attached
the fuse in position carefully. Then
he unfolded the paper about one of the
cartridges and placed the detonator,
wrapping the paper around it there
after. He prepared two cartridges
this way with the greatest care.
The men rapidly but carefully cut
Sits in the covering of the cartridges,
and lowered four cartridges down each
hole, forcing them gently into place
with the butt ends of the tripod stakes
and compressing them SO that they
filled the holes completely. Then
Meade placed his two prepared sticks
with the detonators on top Of the other
four. He cut the fuse to the proper
length in each case, and, keeping it
The Benson signal., 1917-06-30

bearded. From the angle sc Wnlcn
they saw him it was impossible to rec
Ognize him, nor was he in his frantic
progress assuming the usual attitude
and bearing of man under ordinary
conditions which sometimes betray
him to those who know him well. Nor
could Helen Illingworth with her
trembling hands focus the glass, which
she took from Rodney before the strug-
Cling adventurers had passed; and yet
there was something in the figure be-
low that made her heart beat faster.
She pressed her hand to the wet gar
ments over her heart and stared. Sud-
denly Rodney raised his voice and
shouted at the very top Of it. Winters
Joined in, and even Helen Ilingworth
found herself screaming. The three
men below were not more than five or
six hundred feet away, but evidently
they could not possibly hear in chat
tumult Of nature. No voices would
carry through any such rain and wind.
They were too intent on their paths
and on what they had to do to look
upward. They rounded the shoulder
of the mesa and disappeared in the
pines at its feet.
The three on the top looked at each
other. F.,
''The dam still holds" said Rodney,
quite unsuspecting what was in the
woman's heart.
Even as he spoke, Helen nlingworth
turned away. She ran heavily in her
sodden garments along the broken
mesa top past the house to the upper
edge. There below her were the three
men just emerging from the fringe of
| trees. Rounding the end of the mesa,
they had at last struck firmer ground.
Helen Illingworth could see them
through the pines on the old trail. The
going was bad enough, but it was moth
ing compared to what they had passed
over and presently they burst out of
the woods and ran along the greasy,
| well-rounded hogback, that divided the
valley from the ravine.
| The woman had no idea what was
toward, what was their purpose. She
could only stare and stare at the rap
idly moving far-off figure indomitably
in the lead, and the others following
after. There Winters joined her.
"Rodney sent me to look after you
he feels that he must stay back and
watch the dam for his paper"
.Look," said Helen, pointing far
hO1 Of t11n
narrowest part of the hogback. They
were clustered together. The bag lay
on the ground behind them. One man
bent over it, evidently opening it.
Another man swung the shovel vicious.
ly, the third grabbed the pick. Win
ters had been too far removed from en-
gineering even yet to figure out what
was toward. They could only watch
and wonder.
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minutes; as it was, they made it in
thirty. The extreme possibility of the
life of the dam seemed to- Meade not
much greater. He went in the lead,
and by his direction the others kept
some distance behind him.
"If fall and explode this dynamite,
there's no need of all three of us be-
ing blown up" he had said, and it was
no reflection on their courage that they
complied with his direction.
Indeed a stern command was neces-
sary to keep the two men back. They
had caught something of the gallant
spirit of the engineer, and the big
Irishman and the little italian were as
eager as he. Helped by few hasty
The Benson signal., 1917-06-30

Ing on the broken, rocky bottom.
When they reached the other side,
Meade shouted above the storm:
Murphy, bring your pick and shov-
ell; take that iron range-pOle, too.
Here, Funaro, you take your shovel
and these"
AS he spoke he ran into the office
shack and wrecked a transit tripod,
ruthlessly separating the legs from one
another by main force and pitching
two of them into the little Italians
outstretched arms.
Without a question, both men COM
piled with his directions. In a huge
crevice, almost small cave, in the
spur of the mesa which overhung the
east end of the dam the explosives
We're stored. The dynamite was kept
in otlskin bags, the. detonating caps in
waterproof boxes. There were six
teen sticks or cartridges in each bag.
Each stick was an inch and half in
diameter and eight inches long. One
bagful should be ample. Indeed, II
that did not do the work. the attempt
would fail.
The men waited while Meade select
ed bag Of dynamite, box Of detona-
tors, and package Of fuses. 1t was q
cardinal rule that dynamite cartridges
and decorating caps should never be
carried by the same person, because
the combination so greatly increased
the risk of premature explosion.
The illuminate Of mercury in the
detOnators was very volatile, highly ex-
plosive and immensely destructive, con-
blow off mans hand, or even his
head, and in it's explosion might deto-
nate the dynamite. Hence the sepa-
ration when being carried.
Meade decided to take that risk. He
knew how perllous was the undertak-
ing, how liable he was in his hurry to
fall against the rocks, slippery and
half submerged in that pouring rain.
He knew what the consequences Of
such a fall would be. He would center
all risks in himself. He thrust the box
of detonators in his pocket, the pack
and carried the dynamite bag in his
hand. He would need his free hand to
protect himself, so all the tools were
carried by the other men.
The little Italian shook his head as
he noted these preparations. He hap
pened to be one of the explosive force,
those whose duty it was to do the
blasting. In his practical way he knew
great deal about the properties and
possibilities of usefulness of the dyna-
mite. Meades purpose was obvious,
even to Murphy, who was only la
bOrer, though where he proposed to
work neither man had any idea at all.
"Dynamita no work in zis weather."
said FunarO impressively.
"Probably not" answered Meade,
hurrying his preparations, "but it's our
only chance"
"Give me ze caps," urged the Ital-
ian gallantly.
"No, I'll take BOTH"
''It ees danger"
"Yes. but come on"
| Meade, wasting no more words,
sprang at what was left of the trail,
and the two men gallantly followed
him. The hogback at which he was
aiming was perhaps little more than
two miles from the dam. On the ordi-
nary trail and prepared for the run,
he could have managed it in fifteen
The Benson signal., 1917-06-30
He Was as One Dead.

carefully covered with the raincOat, he
held it while the others filed in the
holes and the excavations and care
fully tamped down the earth. All that
remained was the lighting of the fuse.
And then? Would, the dynamite go
off? With fuses it was uncertain in it's
action at best, and although these
fuses were supposed to be so prepared
as to be independent Of weather con-
ditions, more Ofteh than not rain
spoiled a blast. If this blast failed 1t
was good-by dam-good-by everything.
Meade drew out from the pocket Of
his flannel shirt box Of matches. He
had to light the farther cartridge fuse,
then run fifteen feet and light the
nearer one, and then make his escape.
He had made the nearer fuse a little
shorter so as to secure simultaneous
explosion if possible.
Tony Funaro now interposed gal
lantly.
"Giva me da light" he demanded, ex-
tending his hand.
"G'wan wild ye," shouted the big
Irishman eagerly; "lemme do it, sor."
"Stand back, both Of you," cried
Meade, succeeding after some trouble
in striking a match.
He had cut off shorter length of
fuse for torch, the better to carry the
fire from one blast to another. AS it
sputtered into flame, he touched the
first fuse, then the second, and turned
and ran for his life after Murphy and
Funaro. They had just got safe dis
tance away when with muff1ed roar
the two blasts went off nearly together.
When they ran back they saw that
two-thirds Of the hillock on that side
earth through which water was already
trickling rose between the great gap
they had blown out and the lake, the
upper level of which was much higher
than the bottom of the great crater
they had opened.
"Hurrah," yelled Meade, the others
joining in his triumphant shout. "Now,
another hole right there" he pointed to
the foot Of the bank. "Drive it in
slanting and it will do the job"
"Will the dam be after holdin' yit,
sor?" asked Mike Murphy, seizing his
pick.
81 hope so, but, for Gods sake,
hurry"
With two men working, the last hole
was completed before Meade was
ready. Funaro, indeed, came to his
assistance in preparing the cartridge.
Presently all was completed. Reject
ing the pleas of both men, Meade
struck the match, and this time, since
there was but one blast to be fired, he
touched it directly to the fuse and
waited a second to see that it had
caught and ran as before.
At a safe distance they drew back
and waited. Nothing happened. A few
seconds dragged on. They saw no sign
of life in the fuse, no light. In spite
of the care they had taken, it had got
wet. 1t would not work. The precious
moments were flying. They stared
agonizingly at the fuse through the
rain.
'I'll have to take a look at it," said
Meade desperately.
FunarO and Murphy caught him by
the arms. They all knew the tremen-
dous risk in nearer approach. The
fuse might be alight still. At any sec
ond the flame might flash to the deto-
natOr and then Yet. Meade had to
go. That charge had to be exploded X
he detOnated it by hand, he thought
desperately, and he had not come so
far and worked so hard to fail now-