The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29

rades escaped in another direction is
enough to make every man and woman
in the civilized world redoubles their eff
forts to secure International arbitration
treaties between all the powers.
A soldier writing home from the Phil
ippines not long ago related an incident
which shows how brave men fall in
war: "A Connecticut regular known
to his comrades as 'Dutchy'
stood up 10 fire behind the
kneeling front rank. Listen to them
balls he said. they fans men. but they
can't hit met How dc you know THAR
I asked. Easy says he, there's too
many good folks prayin' for me up in
Connecticut Those were his Very
words. and then he got up on his knee
and began firing the fresh load in his
magazine don't believe he'd fired two
shots when a bullet smashed him be-
tween the eyes, and that was the last
of 'Dutchy.' After that worked there
alone between two dead men, and list
ened to the balls talk. Once ! went
over like a log, and thought they d
had struck my cartridge belt and
glanced off. It bent two cartridges,
though. all out of shape, and it made
me sick at the stomach. After that l
didn't like to look at Du4chy,' for the
inside of his head was all over his face,
so I threw some grass on him and about
two hours later [ threw more grass on
him. You soon get enough of a dead
man down there when the sun is hot. :"
The sufferings of the Spanish after
the naval battle of Manila have been
depicted recently by an English physi-
clan who visited the hospital ship with
an American surgeon just before it
sailed for Spain. His experience has
been published recently in the London
Chronicles:
These poor soldiers, not one of whom
was past his first youth. were in most
terrible condition mere skeletons covered
with yellow skin like leather and scored
with deep wrinkles. Their CLASSY eyes
were sunk in the sockets and trimmed with
black. The wounded covered with excre-
ment, We're bowling with pain, for theil
sores had not been dressed and were in
tested with flies and worms
entered the room pointed out to me by
the uOElOT WHO accompanied HE anu there
came TO the most terrible corner of this
floating laZareJto. Sixteen soldiers were
on the point of death. Here a dead body
lay on its back, one eye wide open. the
other almost shut, while the bottom OF
the face was covered with a thick foam
There was another young soldier, eaten
up by consumption, stretched beside the
corpse. He was looking at it quietly, with
, q certain Stoical calm and he lay without
movement as if he already belonged tC
the kingdom of shadows.
Another soldier on the contrary, whose
lower jaw had been carried away by q
blllet, was hiding his face in the sheets
so that he might not see the dead man
But. in spite of his terror. and as if moved
by an irresistible force, he would now ano
then draw aside his covering, slightly
raise his head and look sideways at his
dead comrade his face took on a look OF
horror which L cannot describe, and ther
he would hide himself again under the
coverlet.
The others paid no attention to the dead
man. The extent of their sufferings made
them Indifferent to what happened arounc
pathetically like that of pale young
girl, was shrieking aloud for some one tC
come and finish him. Another. quite as
young, was calling on his mothers name
with tears and hysterical sobs: 'Oh,
! motherv' he screamed don't leave me ii
my trouble. Take me with you to heaven
| cannot bear 1t any longer. Oh, God! il
is burning me up, Mother, mother save
ed and swore THAT he had in his stomach
a viper which was eating into his bowels
Above him another young soldier was sob
bling so piteously that to hear him was
enough to curdle ones blood Two dying
men near him were iIhaliug ether to hell
their breathing and at the bottom of this
den there rolled and shook on mis- mattress
a living being so burned up with fever
| that he looked like a mailman.
What horrible. scenesl No wonder
the arbitration idea is gaining ground
No wonder the appetite for war is glut-
ted. Remove from behind that picture
of misery in the Spanish hospital the
cause of emancipation in which ouI
country was engaged and it would be
intolerable. To think that such sorrow
and suffering is being inflicted yet in
the name of humanity, in Africa or in
Asia, when tact, diplomacy or arbitra-
ton might have prevented it all, is
enough to cause Christian people every
where to turn from the carnage, close
their ears to the din of war and pray
for peace, everlasting, universal peace
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