Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-04-17
Tough Beef.

we recommend the peTuSai ol LHe IoIiOW.
ing article, which we take from the Franklin
Banner. The remarks of the editor suit this
latitude remarkably well. We are under the
impression that the same policy prevails in his
town that, in our belief, prevails here-that a
larger profit can be made from an old and worn
out COW, and therefore the wisdom of bringing
such only into market. We sometime since
made some remarks upon this subject, which
were thought severe but they were as milk
and water in comparison with the following
Read, ye India-rubber beef eaters:
For more than eighteen months W have
heard complaints, from strangers as well as
from the citizens Of Franklin, in regard to the
meapre appearance of our market in this place.
Our beef is genrally like sailors yarns, rather
tough. and strangers that come to tarry here a.
while are eternally growing about it, and when
they pa away they talk so much about it that
people in other parts Of the country will think
That Franklin is celebrated for nothing but
tough beef. We have been waiting With pa
thence, hoping that all of the ancient stock
In the prairies that date their existence away
back in Spanish times, would at length be
brought to the block and eaten up; but all in
vain. One drove Of these yestiges of antiquity
passes away, and another, to all appearances
their equals if not superiors in age, takes it
place. Once in a while we get the taste of
beef whose existence does not date back be-
yond the present generation, but instead Of be-
ing a blessing it is a curse, as it only aggrayates
the evils which we generally endure, by show
ing us the difference between republican and
Spanish beef.
If we are to continue to use this kind Of
beef in future, some person at the market
should keep on hand . supply Of certain liquids
used in India rubber manufactures, which
is used for softening articles of the eonsis-
teuey Of gum elastic. We are not certain but
that more money could be made from this Gao
utchouc tribe of quadrupeds by selling them to
the proprietor Of some India rubber factory
than BY selling themi in our market as an arti-
Gle of food. Certain WI are thatf we keep on
eating this beef, an India rubber maj will be
no curiosity in Franklin, for the oldest man
among us will be able to tie his arms into a
double beau knot, or have his legs stretched
out to the length Of a panne1 or fence without
any Inconvenience to himself. There is no
doubt that one of these beeves in our market
Ilss caoutchouc enough id him to make q hun
dred pair Of good India rubber shoes, and as an
article Of food it is chiefly Objectionable on
account of the impossibility Of masticating it
has to 90 down by the mouthful OF not at
IN. Our citizens should have their teeth steel.
pointed ii order TODD justice to their digestive
organs.
But tins subject is too serious to be treated
with lenity. How many people have died from
| tie effects Of this article Of food we know, moi
but we know Of q physician who came into the
plsre and lived upon this beef for seyera
months, and 1t nearly killed him while he wa.
/ here. and he went off and died in a~neighbovins
STATE, 4 short time after, probably from th,
elects Of this beef!
Here this, ye P~1aqueminiansl