The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-04-23
Spanish AtrOcity.

spanish AtT0clty.
If Spain is guiltless of compIi-
city in the Maine disaster we had
thought to forgive her almost
anything, rather than see the
country precipitated into sangu-
mary and distressing war. But
she has at last committed the un-
pardonable sin. She stands con-
victed before the world of reckless
atrocity, in carelessly arousing
the latent poetic fires of an Arkan-
sas genius, who thus astonishes the
; gaping crowd in q recent issue of
the Commercial-Appo"l..
TWO HUNDRED ODD.
Down to the oeze and alifne and lime of the
w.Gf Sodss fsffRs of msn sSd arm. of men an. legs
Of men in red.
Down 10 the slime and: quickninE lime went
But the isd was blood inearcerAte-In slime
of ocean's bed.
Two hundred odd went down to rot-two
h1ndred az odd and mors- ,,,u
Prowl Wer shore.
Twoh Fent down to rost-to rest
v--~-Fore.
soHtention is It. came nH %ots to the top-'Ome
sement of DIIs they went down-down
which appears inSI29gs, ,.,r. ,,.,, ,oa,..
ZINES. The DoG Gnss, "A'e-'H''' O00''
highly recommend blood and bOnes--nOr
antly provided with Wings Ing fottipg r.r-to
nsod in tba nrantiooE. STEVENSON,
49, - Wy II 3otiCo 81, 1898,
He has selected suit of this noetic
in the Wllczinki bull ,s;o'a =, pSo,.r,
have been fitted up for 'iou0 'O0'0y
where he can be fol- thorough
usual hours. The serS many beau
lady assistant have been'ed by care
Call At I'm analysis.
Note it YOU pa, startling
and graphic picture presented by
the opening stanza, which instant
| ly fixes the attention of the reader
to be held throughoutwith intense
and unabating therest, until the
very last word is read, with the
dim consciousness that AT LAST
America has produced a poet of
the Shakesperian or Miltonic
mould.
Listen with bated breath, and
hair on end, while the weird poet
wildly sings.
''Down to the ooze, and slime and lime
of the oceans reeking bed,
Went bodies of men and arms of men
and legs of men in red. "
"Shoot" the tautology if you
will, but mark the excruciating |
particularly of this inventory |
''long drawn out" of bodies and
legs and arms, going all in a giffy,
"Down to the slime and quickning |
lime,"
Whatever that may happen to
be. Perhaps our geological poet
means protoxide of calcium, com
monty called quick lime, ming be-
ing mere added by way of poetic
license, for the sake of euphony |
and rhythm.
'Down to the slime, and quickning
lime, went bodies of men in red. "
How extremely kind of this new
fedged poet to nicely explain in
his own considerate way, that by
'9egs of men in red," it was not
intended to convey the erroneous
impression that the Names
crew were all clothed in red
paiamas. The red you must un-
derstand was not flannel of the
regulation color, but was genuine
blood, imprisoned in some mys-
terious and peculiar Arkansas way
in "slime of oceans bed. F"
1.-TWO hundred and odd went
down to rot" we are then bluntly
informed; but Immediately after
ward it seems that our poet OBJ
tanned later information about the
interesting object of their mission,
and he assures US almost in the
same breath that
1.-TWO hundred odd went down to rest !"
Right here we might well pause
to ask whether the intelligent
author intends to convey the i'm
preston that there were some
four hundred in all, or does he |
make use of "rot" and "reSt,"
merely as synonymous termse
Further information on this
important subject is awaited with
some degreaof interest and anx-
iety, but can scarcely be obtained
perhaps, unless from the bodies
and arms and legs "that came to
the top" he quantity tells us, al