The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-05-07

SOME SIDELIGHTS ON The MEXICAN WAR

came in, dressed in the usual Japano.o
dress of person of rank, accom-,
MED by the executioner, who was hi,
pupil and most intimate friend. Ha
walked with a steady, firm stem in
d front of the altar, where he knelt IN
prayer. He then arose and went 70
the red cloth, where he< knelt and
made the confession that he was tho
officer that ordered his troops to fro
upon the foreigners and also to fire
upon them when they were trying to
escape and that he was sorry for
| what he had done
"He then disrobed himself to his
waist and reached out for knife that
was near him, which he thrust into
his bowels and dNwing 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 1890 p. m.
The Japanese then bowed to the
| floor, on which we all did the same
We were then asked if we were salts.
fed with what we had witnessed, when
we replied in the affirmative.
After the lapse of a 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,
~. BLAKELEY CREIGHTON.
NJ 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-
scription, which I 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 redly-glimmer-
ing pools, lakes of blood; all the crops
destroyed, only here and there piece
'of land left untouched, and still coy
cred with stubble; the smiling villages
of yesterday turned into ruins and
rubbish. The trees burned and hacked
In the forests, the hedges torn with
grapeshot. And on this battle-ground
thousands and thousands of men
dead and dying Lying without aid No
blossoms of flowers are to be seen on
Wayslde or meadow; but sabers. bayo-
nets, knapsacks, cloaks, overturned
ammunition wagons, powder wagons
blown into the air, cannon with broken
carriages. Near the cannon, whose
muzzles are black with smoke, ths
ground is bloodiest. There the greas
est number and the most m.angled OF
dead and half-dead men are lying lib.
orally torn to pieces with shot; and
the dead horses and the half-dead
which raise themselves Oh their feet
such as they have left them-to sink
again; then raise themselves I'D once
more and fall down again, till they
only raise their heads to shrek out
their paln-laden death-cries. There is
hollow waysquite filed with corpses
trodden into the mire. The poor crea-
lures had taken refuge there, no doubt
to get cover, but battery had driven
over them, and they have been crushed
by the horses hoofs and the wheels.
Many of them are still alive-a PUPPY,
bleeding mass, but still alive"
1t is impossible to depict it accu-
rately. Flies were feeding on their
open wounds, which were covered with
them; their gaze, flaming with fever,
wandered about asking and seeking
for some help--for refreshment, for
water and bread! Coat, shirt, flesh
and blood formed in the case of most
of them one repulsive mass. Worms
were beginning to generate in this
mass and to feed on them. A horrible
odor filled every place.. All these sol
Tiers were lying on the bare ground;
'nly few had got a little straw on
which they could repose their miser-
IDLE bodies. Some who had nothing
lnder them but clayey, swampy
ground had half-sunk into the mud it
ormed-they had not the strength to
,et out Of it.
In Masloved, a place of about fifty
louses, there were lying, eight days
lfter the battle, about 700 wounded.
was not so much their shrieks of
!gony as their abandonment without
my consolation which appealed to
leaven. In one single barn alone sixty
4 these poor wretches were crowded.
Every one of their wounds had origi-
ally been severe, but they had be-
ONE hopeless in consequence of their
nassisted condition, and their wan.
+ nursing and feeding; almost all
we're gangrenous. Limbs crushed by
hot formed now mere heaps of pu-
relying flesh, faces a mere mass of
oagulated blood, covered with filth,
which the mouth was represented
y a shapeless black opening, from
hitch frightful groans kept yelling
ut. The progress of the putrefaction
eparated whole mortified pieces from
lese pitfable bodies. The living we're
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