The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-28

crnss-cutting," cooly remarked the British
officer. when the second man gets In ms
work. laying his blows crossWlse over me
cuts already given, the flesh begins to fly.
tie cords, as they bite into it, flicking 1t OIL
in squares and lozenges. After fiogging a
mans back is often qniverlng mass oil red
Jelly, rather nasty to look at Then, parity
as punis hment, partly as cure-to prevent
inflammation Of the w0unds-they rub IN
solution of salts, which penetrates Ike
acid into the raw flesh and causes the Keen
est pain of all. A good, rough soldier both
ers little about the degradation OF 1t; all
that troubles him is the pain, and some
times not even that, for I've seen men after
taking their few dozen lashes fling on their
coats and rejoin their companions as IN
concernedly as you please"
at is considered bad form to groan or cry
out when under the cat" said sergeant Of
the Connaught Raneers, "and you rarely
hear a soldier hollering, particularly an
Irishman. The poor fellow puts bullet be-
tween his teeth and takes firm grip OF 1t,
and this helps him to keep his mouth shut
Sometimes man bites through and
THROUGH THE BULLET
In his pain, and I've seen some of them spit
il out all chewed to lead dust when the Hog
ging was over. Without the bullet man is
likely to bite his tongue off, as / saw happen
once in China, when the man at the end OF
the fogging turned and grinned at the
Colonel with his bleeding tongue between
his teeth-a disgusting sight. l never saw
anything to equal it. A man is supposed to
be stark mad for ten minutes after a fog
ging, and no notice is taken of whatever
abuse and profanity he showers on the Off
GERS aud all. The punishment isn't
done away with altogether, as many
believe; it's restricted to doses of twenty
FIVE and fifty lashes for offenses committed
on transport ship belonging to foreign
nation and in the presence of the enemy.
knit ha las
larly, Just the same. The first time saw 1t
used was as the regiment was going up the
Mediterranean. The drum beat all hands
to witness punishment. The victim was a
little drummer boy, and his fault was only
a petty one-swearing, ] believe. The trl-
angle was fixed on the bridge of the vessel,
in full view of men, officers, officers wives
and all and when we saw the puny little
boy exposed and the red stripes growing on
it under the thongs of the cat, and heard his
piercing screams above even the roll OF the
drums, our feelings were worse than even
the worst seaslckness. We wondered what
the lads mother would have thought of the
sight.
but it was when we got to the fighting
ground in Zuzuland that the flogglng mania
broke out III earnest. Some mornings saw
as many as twenty-Seven tied up, either to
the wheel of a big cannon OF the upturned
shafts of a water cart The whipping under
the old system, when officers could order
man a hundred or more laSheS, was done
with whipcord of nine-tails with three hard
knots on each till, but this was
NOT CONSIDERED SEVERE ENOUGH
Under the new regulations, so they substi-
Iuted catgut, exactly as you see 1t IN the I'D
die strings. There are nine strings about
three teet long on stick of the same length,
q knot on the end of each string.
You read Of the negroes being whipped
with piauo-wite IN Jamaica during the
troubles under General Eyre, and OF the
Irish insurgents being fiCgged with strips of
tin in 1898; but for cutting through flesh
and muscle l think fiddleStrlngs take the
cake. They cut into mans back like so
many knives, and the blood trickled be-
tween the bugler's fingers as he drew the
lash through his hand after every stroke.
We had brave, jolly lot of young fellows
in our regiment, and it would make your
heart bleed to hear sUme Of them calling TOR
their mother when the catgut was sinking
into their flesh Our bugler, a LancaS ire
fellow, did the tlogging-and once man got
twenty-five from him he would never SAINT
another stroke. Alter our nrSt engageE4ent
with the Zulus the bugler was found dead,
shot by a Martini-Henry bullet in the side
of his head.
I'm the heat of the engagement one OF the
boys who had been disciplined by him had
turned his rifle Sideways when firing. You
should have heard the rejoiclngs that night
in campl A few commissioned officers were
dropped in the same mysterious way, and
then it was remarkable how the logging
business decreased and how polite and con-
siderate the officers became to the men. You
might like to see how mans back remains
after fiogging? Well, here's one can show
YOU"
After much modest reluctance the soldier
appealed to agreed to bare his back. There
was scarcely smooth square inch of skin on
it, being traversed from shoulder to waist by
iDnumerable small burrows, running into
each other like map of rivers aud rail-
roads, the course of each being marked by a
slight purpIisn streak,