Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-07-06

or the scene which now gathered upon
Us can, In respect TO time, place or rcla.
tive succession Of detail, remember moth |
ing. only out Of that dark chaos eau res. |
cue fow detached and fraemcntary i'm. |
pressions-all tho moro vivid. nevcrihe. |
less, from their isolation. all the more dis.
tinct from the gray blue Of the background |
against which they trace themselves.
Instantly, somewhere disquietinnly near,
an event, or rather a whirl Of events that
rushed and writhed themselves together
into quivering inaEo Of dizzying complex
ity. suddenly evolved aud widened like the
fierce, quick rending open Of some vast
scroll, and there were zlgzag hnrryinrs to
aud fro and a sufging hesvcnward Of n
/ torrent OF noises-noises Of men aud noises
/ OF feet. noises Of horses aud noises Of arms
-noises that hustled iiercely upward above
the brown mass and closed together In the
desert air, blending or joining one with
another, Joining and separating, reuniting
and dividing; noises that rattle. noises that
clankcd; noises that doomed or shrillel or
thundcred or quavorcd, and one well
known noise that at regular intervals, was
dominant over all rs Of q mighty Hood Of
planks and boards falling from some vast
height ursn 10 s~fth beneath. And then
came sight Of blue-gray trmulous curtains
but whether Of smoke or dust ! could
not say-tumbling aud billowing. bcliying
out with tho hot tempest breath Of the
battle demon that ragged within and whose
outerinost fringcs wefo torn by scrrnted
files Of flashing steel aud wayoring ranks
Of red.
Aud this was all at frt knew we had
boon attacked and that bchind those boil.
ing smoke billowa, somewhcre and some.
how. though exactly how aud where I
could not toll. men, Infatuated into lsasta.
woro graphing and struggling each man.
with every tlnew on the strain. honestly
striving 10 kali his fellow
And now We were In the midst Of hol.
low Square Of our soldiery. yet how W.
came ihorc ! cannot recall. though | 10.
mombrr-tfiviAl enough a. IL was-tlat
the water Of the Jclide made my clothes
heavy and cllngnR and uncomfortable
remember this. although mortal fear sat
upon me Of bging shot down By some Of
our own ftuuEled soldiers. And then came
that awful rib cracking pressure. ~ from
some outward, unseen cause, tho square
was thrown hack upon itsclL
Tho smell Of sweat, u horses and men,
the o,lur Of tho powder smoke. the blind.
ing, suffocatiug, supplying clouds Of dust,
the horrible fcar--grcator than all others
Of hoiug pushed down bcncath those thou
sands Of trampling feet, tho terrible pitch
Of excitement that sickcns and wclkcus,
tho momcntnry consclouanras-ynnlsh
~ soon a. fclt.-that this was what men
called war and that No were czpcrlsuc'
iug the stern reality Of what We had 90
often rad.
IL was not Inspiring. no, thrilllnw there
was no romance, no poetry about "; thgrc
was nothing la it but tho hidoous jar. Que
against tho other of men drunk with the
blood lust that eighteen hundred years bad
not qucnched, aud all ~ 10 called subllm.
ily aud glory faded out Of sight ut tho
magic Of lta real presence.
looked ~ liab AE4oun. he was stand.
ing NJ the gunwalo VI tho sc1w-a1mohow
We wcru back on tho tcow agaln-with an
unloadcd pistol In bis hand Ito was
watching tho battle on tho bank. His
nos,rila quivercl, and he shifted bis feet
exactly like an excited thoroughbred. on
a sudden trooper II the Eleventh Cuiras.
alera came spinning round aud round out
Of tho brown Of battle, Rulping up blood,
and pitched. wheeling. face downward.
into tho soft oofc whore the river licked az
tho bank, raising ruddy bubbles In tho
samo ~ ho blew hls lie breath In gasp,
into IL, aud raking Il Into Efidlruu pat
terms as bis quiScrlng. blue nngcra closed
Into ilata.
Instantly Aftsrwafd came mighty rush
across tho river beneath cur very bows,
} Forty odd cuirassiers buut into Il. fol.
lowed by eighty OF hundred KAhyics.
> eau recall Just how tho horse hooia rhttled
on tho saucer like cakes 81 dry mud aud
flung thom up Ia countless fragments 30
! hind them. They we're line hlght, thosc
: kabylc-, with their fierce. rid horses, their
? dazzling whlte bournoua, their long. thin,
mufdefous ride barrels. laundering aud
, splashlng past, while from tho whole mas
Of them, from under the shadow of every
| white halk, from every black bearded LIP,
: was rolling thslrw CRY. "Allah. Allah'iI
! AllAhp
, What long dormant recollection. stirred
{ IN Bab AEEoun AZ this old battle shout
A. hc faced them now he was no longer
I tho cold, cynical bouleyafdicr Of tho morn
+, Ing. lio looked a. 10 must have looked
+ when hu plnyud-a Hlxteon.ycar-old boy
+ about tho feet Of tho horses In his fathers
. black tent lie Jaw the loug lines Of The
. douara Of his native home, ho saw "a,
o eameis aud the caravan crawling towan
y tho sunset, ho sAw the woEea grinding
. meal, ho saw his father, the BEARDED shelk
\ be saw the Arab hor.cmrn riding down Il
battle. he saw tho palm broad spear points
. aud tho blue yatAghanN lie was no longcl
/, the Parislen, tho product OF civilization
. tho "raoo problem" In an instant Of tint
> all tho long years Of cul,uru and education
. wcru a. u garment stripped away. One
U more ho stood aud stepped tho kabylc
. and with these rceollectlons his long for
o gotten native speech came rushing 10 hli
u tongue, aud In one long. ahdl. exnlianl
. cry he answered. bis countrymen 10 theii
u own language. ahllAllah. NOLAN
. med rcssoul Ailahp
i Iia passed mo At bound, leaped from
y the scow upon the back Of a riderleNs horse
g aud, mlngling with tho baud Of the Ia
J. Dyleu, sped out Of sight.
4 Aud that was the last ever Jaw Of bal
J. AEtoun.-A rgonAuL
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