our hibernian enemies compound the usual horrors of war with their innate savagery and the accomplished barbarism of murderous fiends who refine their cruel methods ever more hideously from generation to generation : they pull men limb from limb with the aid of horses ; they set women on fire and howl with the glee of demons as these women are slowly burned alive ; they throw little children into cages full of huge hungry bears or the most ferocious tigers etc. , etc .