The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

with brushes The ends OF the blades arc
turned inward the sixteenth of an inch, form
ing scrapers One end Of the axle OF each
wheel is set in inferred or movable bearing
and balanced with weights. Through this
narrow avenue OF revolving scrapers the
body is quickly drawn, emerging with most
of the hair removed from the hide. The
movable bearings and hexibility Of the blades
render the apparatus self adjustable to ami
mails OF all sizes and varying shapes The
lean pig is well scraped, and the skin Of the
prize porkAr is not bruised or scratched. The
mechanical scraper will do the work Of more
than 100 men, and turn the carcasses out
winter and more uniform In color than the
best hard scraping OF course, there arc
parts which the machine cannot reach,
and from which the hair has not been re-
moved. These spots are attended to by q
gang OF men who take charge Of the body
as soon as the machine has finished with 1t.
Each workman has certain section OF the
carcass allotted him, and he attends to this
and nothing more. He then passes the hulk
along to his neighbor, and in a twinkling the
pig which we moment ago saw squealing
In the pen with the chain about his leg slides
out of the hands of his post norton dressers
clean OF hair from head to foot and neat anu
white enough to hang in front OF a butcher y
shop and tempt the appetite u passcrs by
What next! The headsman, At the end
OF the dressing table stands man
with short but razor like knife in
his hand Grabbing the hairless ear
Of his porkship he throws the white
body into just the position which suits him,
makes three sashes with his knife, and
piggy's head hangs only 10y shreds Of skin on
one side of his neck There are few men in
the world who can do this trick precisely as
it must be done. 1t requires but simple
twist of the wrist, and yet the beheader draws
s. day as a skilled workman. Every car
cass is decapitated precisely as every other
carcass is decaptated There is not the vari-
ance of a hairs breadth. These three slashes
with the razor knife make the shoulder
pieces, and pig shoulders are worth money.
There is only one joint through which decap-
itation can be quickly and neatly accom-
plshetl, but the headsman must find 1t. This
man cuts OFF pigs heads faster than NEST
men could cut off pigs tails, and makes
cleaner job of it. IL he did not he could not
hold the honorable position Of executioner
In chief to his excellency Phil Armour, the
prince OF pork,
Senator Hiscock admitted to me that not
withstanding his interest in the fate Of the
hog he stopped at this point and refusedN to
follow the process further. am not going
to ask my readers TO go with the victim into
that department. which lady visitors usually
pass with their smelling salts in use. As fast
as the heads lop to one side workman affixes
gambrels to the "ham strings" pulls a lever,
hoists the carcase to another overhead rail-
way, and starts it sliding toward another
part of the shop. Here sight is lost Of our
noble brute With his throat cut, his hide
scalded, his skin scraped, histhair of and his
head hanging by the gills, he now goes to
have removed that for which he has lived
and rooted and fought throughout his whole
career-his inIar self. 1t would be- tedious
to watch him as be goes through the multi
tude OF processes designed to enhance his
value and usefulness in the world which he,
martyr like, has died to bless Shortly his dis
membered parts win be found In the four
corners Of the globe The West Indies and
Central America hike his bacon, Europe 10
fond Of his hams, his fat salted down goes to
the mines and tho ships, his feet go into kegs
Of 'souse," of which the whole civilized
world il fond, his intestines make cases for
the toothsome sausage, parts OF his head 90
to the soap works and other parts to the glue
factory, his bristles find their way to the
brushmaker's and the plastered walls Of our
houses, his blood Is made into fertilizer TO
enrich perchance the very fields OF which be
gained his fatal fairness, and In one way or
another every mite and atom Of him con-
tributes to the glory Of Chicago, within
whose gates his sudden and numerous taking
Of makes scene which attracts and charms
grave senators and all lovers Of the beautiful
and useful. WALTER WELLhAa.