The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-13

pervaoed rne DeauUlruI Drown nnen oau-
bath school sIit. which caught and re-
tanned the ravishiRg fragrance for years
after.
Here you hear in the distant and the
somber depths of the building sInoth-
cred wall ever andanon. You go toward
it and find brisk young man in tall
rubber boots standing in bloody stall
with flashing blade in his hand, while
near him a big pan to which is at
tached long handle catches the hot,
fresh tide of life as it spurts with a pur-
pie impulse following the long, keen
blade. About every fifteen seconds,
while we stood there. a new subjectcame
up heels first out of the big slaughter
pen, as log is pulled out of the pond
of a big saw mill, and With plunge of
the knife as it passed on another
swung into position lead down, and the
unerring steel struck the same point for
ward of the shoulder and to the left of
the windpipe. No experiments were
made. The young butchers style of
vaccination always took. | remember
once, years ago, my father went away
on business, to serve on the petit jury,
think, and told me to kill the pig.
1t was easy to say that. He might
also have included other friends of the
family, but he did not think of it per-
haps. However, l began the most elab-
crate preparations and tried to nerve
myself up to it by frequent recourse to
hard cider, for l had never. personally
shed innocent blood before. The pig
would probably weigh about 100 pounds,
and was not fierce until he found out
that l seemed set on mutilating him
without any apparent cause. Then he
broke down the fence, ate up small
goddess of liberty which had once had
tattooed on my leg, SO that 1 could be
identified in cPse | should run away and
go to sea and stumble against watsry
grave, as had intended to do at that
time.
The animal wandered away into
corn field, and we tracked him by his
bloody footsteps. We overlook him
along toward noon, and my younger
brother held him down while made an
incision in the neck which proved fatal.
As we started to drag the animal toward
home his head fell off. l state this in
order to show that sincerity and inhexi-
bility of purpose had already begun to
show themselves even at this early age.
After some delay we succeeded in re-
moving the bristles, also some of the
pelt, and began the delicate operation
of prying into and exposing the animals
complex works. guess it would not be
best to describe this, for it gives me
great pain to recall it. l only know that
/ cannot see yet what he had ever done |
with so many of them or who could have |
ever arranged such large assortment in
such little space. They came pouring |
out like cataract of new and strange |
vitals with crotcheted borders on them, |
and altogether l felt saddened and de- |
pressed. Invent over to neighbor and |
got him to come and assist me. told |
him l had operated once or twice on a |
hen, but hen travels light. She does |
not overburden herself with vitals that |
way. Just give hen two or three little |
fxings of that kind and she will go |
around perfectly contented. But it is |
not so with hog. l never saw hog |
that knew when he had enough of any |
thing.
In the early days they used to assess
people here at the stock yards for beer
and then if they did not get it
they would pelt the visitor with frag-
ments of liver and such little testi-
monials of respect as that. So it was a
custom even among temperance people
to give them the money. 1t was SO until
one day an English capitalist who owned
a large share of one packing house got a
steers lung down the back of his neck
and eighteen feet of sausage wound /
around his silk hat, and he spoke of it in
terms of resentment to the superintend-
ent. Then it was changed.
The sausage machine is one of the most
intelligent that ever saw. The Havana
wrapper is pulled on over a metallic
spout, and then by terrific force ex-