Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-17


erted above the sausage meat reservoir
the whole thing is pushed through this
spout into the wrapper, and yard upon
yard of this delicious bivalve is reeled
off while you wait.
One house takes the livos of 2,40O pigs
| per day, and they are chilled and ready
for the table by night. Mr. Armour per-
sonally killed l 49, 600 hogs last year.
not in spirit of revenge. but in order
to improve the condition of mankind and
keep the rude and disagreeable wolf
from his own door.
Frying little into his business affairs
yesterday, found that he did a bust
ness of $65 200, 600 last year. He also
paid out $3,5O0,OOO in wages With a
piece Of chalk figured on the back of
an OIL painting in Mr.. Armour's pleasant
ONCE that, allowing each year the same
number of animals killed last wear. saw
l,5O0, 600 hogs CSC, 900 cattle and $50. 600
sheep at a low estimate, in five years
Mr.. Armour, single handed, could en-
circle the globe with continuous girdle
of intestines,
What a thought! What food for
thought also,
But rs Mr.. Armour said in our talk.
when | asked him for little recipe for
becoming a millionaire: Here is the
secret OF the success OF the Big Four. 1t
Is our system of carefully utilizing every
thing. Here is glass jar containing
hoof meal. That is valuable for its am
monia. Il is made from the despised
Of hA
OIL and other toilet articles have been re-
moved. Here is a Jar of white phos-
pilates, made from the pith of the horn.
This industry will decrease if the de-
horning of cattle grows, but probably it
Will not appreciably. Here is a sort of
glue made from the tips of the ears and
nose OF deceased cattle which die violent
death at our house. Here is a substance
used IN great quantities by the brewers.
Some time in the old days before your
reformation you have noticed when you
pulled your beer glass off the top of the
table that 1t had a tendency to stick.
That Is gelatinous substance which we
furnish the brewer III great quantities.
IL Is made from the thin white film
which lies between the bone and skin of
the head, for instance, and if nothing
more harmful goes into beer it will never
Kill people off at big rate. Then there
is jar of dried blood. Some is used
for purifying sugar and considerable is
sent 10 New Orleans, but more is used
Tor making buttons. So you see we
make our money by saving it. Not long
ago frenchman came to me and told
me that was losing "a million or so I'M
necessarily. | froze to him till he told
me how We found that our big reser-
volrs containing water and in which we
give the beef Il bath To sort of cool it and
close up the pores. had been emptied
into the Chicago river for years. carry
ing with it the bouquet of the beef. We |
now condense and compress this nutri-
tous juice till we get the most stimu-
latinG and the most detachable extract of |
beef that ever gladdeIied the totterluo
stomach of an invalid or child
And so 1t goes. 1t seems that an adult |
steer can afford more real, pure JOY by |
his death than any other animal. unless
1t be the wife beater ! am told that |
when wife be;ster sits for his death
mask. ON a still day. you can hear the
angels applauding.
AT Swifts establishment they have
two odd animals. one a steer called
Judas and the other sheep called
lscaI10t. Each of these animals has a win
ming way with his set and is utilized for
the purpose of leading his fellows into
the slaughter pen even against their bet
ter Judgment. They have done this for
years, and though the smell of blood
naturally repels item, they listen to the
siren voices of these two heartless brutes
who preserve their own lives ut the sac
rifice OF thousands of others. and death
is their portion.
Some day will again visit the stock
Yards. hope to select a rainy day, and
shall hope also to take my friend Ward
McAliister with me by the hand, dressed
in his best suit of clothes.
Skipping gayly through the ruins of !