The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-05-08

pupil and most intimate friend. H
walked with steady, firm step i
front of the altar, where he Melt i
prayer. He then arose and went t
the red cloth, where he knelt an
made the confession that he was tn
officer that ordered his troops to fir
upon the foreigners and also to fir
upon them when they were trying t.
escape and that he was sorry fo
what he had done
He then disrobed himself to hi!
waist and reached out for a knife thai
| was near him, which he thrust into
his bowels and drawing it toward his
right side, and leaning forward at the
same time the executioner, with one
blow from his sword, severed his head
from his body. This occurred at
about 1920 p. m.
THE Japanese then bowed to the
floor. on which we all did the same.
We were then asked if we were salts
fled with what we had witnessed, when
we replied in the affirmative.
After the lapse of few moments
we were informed that all was over,
when we arose and took our departure.
The whole scene was one of great SOL
emnity and very impressive.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
u. BLAKELEY CREIGHTON,
commander"
What War Really Means.
Let us hope we will have peace.
again soon. The jingoes are not found
among the veterans. War is worse
than Sherman said 1t was. This de-
scrlption, which l copy from the In
dependent, is all too true:
No more thunder of artillery, no
more blare of trumpets, no more beat
OF drums; only the low moan Of pain
and the rattle of death. In the
trampled ground some .glimmer-
ing pools, lakes of blood; all the crops
destroyed. only here and there a piece
OF land left untouched, and still cov-
cred with stubble; the smiling villages
or yesterday turned into ruins and
rubbish. The trees burned and hacked
IN the forests, the hedges torn with
And on this battle-ground
thousands and thousands of men
dead and dying-lyfng without aid No
blossoms Of flowers are to be seen ON
or meadow; but sabers. bayo-
nets, knapsacks. cloaks, overturned
wagons, powder wagons
blown into the air, cannon with broken
carriages. Near the cannon, whose
muzzles are black with smoke, the
ground Is bloodiest. There the great
ut number and the most mangled of
lead and half-dead men are lying III.
'rally torn to pieces with shot: and
ne dead horses and the haIf.dead
which raise themselves on their feet
ucn as they have left them-to sink
gain: then raise themselves I'D once
more and fall down again, till they
MY raise their heads to shrek out
heir pain-laden death.cries. There IL
hollow way quite filled with corpses
rodden into the mire. The poor crea-
ares mad taken refuge there, no doubt
get cover, but a battery had driven
yer them, and they have been crushed
y the horses hoofs and the wheels.
lany OF them are still clive-a pulpy,
leeding mass. but still alive"
1t Is impossible to depict it accu.
ateiy. Flies were feeding on their
pen wounds. which were covered with
lem; their gaze, flaming with fever.
andered about asking and seeking
" some help-for refreshment, for
ater and bread! Coat, shirt, flesh
40 blood formed in the case Of most
them one repulsive mass. Worms
ere beginning to generate In this
ass and to feed on them. A horrible
Tor filled every place. All these SOL.
ers were lying On the bare ground:
ny few had got q little straw on.
hich they could repose their miser..
ne bodies Some who had nothing;
lder them but clayey, swampy.
ound had half.sunk into the mud e..
had not the strength to,
t out of It.
IN Masloved, a place Of about f,fty.
uses, there were lying, eight days.
ter the battle, about 700 wounded
was not SO much their shrieks Of
ony as their abandonment without
y consolation which appealed tn,
aven. On one single barn alone sixty
tnese poor wretches we're crowded.
,ery one OF their wounds had oripi..
iiy been severe, but they had be-
me hopeless in consequence of their,
assisted condition, and their want
nursing and feeding; almost all
re esngrenous. Limbs crushed nv
VI formed now mere heaps Of pu.
'fying flesh, faces a mere mass NJ.
aeuiated blood, covered with filth
which the mouth was represented,
snapeless black opening. from
len frightful groans Kept yelling
= me progress Of the putrefact,on
'arated whole mortified pieces from,
'se p'tlaole bodies. The living were.
" close to dead bodies which had;
gun 70 fall into putrefaction, and