Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-07

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| enjoyed paying duties.
To my weak intellect this seemed rather like
juggling with counters. Everything that
| have vet purchased costs about twice as much
as 1t would In England, and when native made
is Of an inferior quality.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN TRUSTS.
Moreover, since these lines were first though,
of have visited a gentleman who owned q
factory which used to produce things. He
owned the factory still. Not a man was in it,
/ but he was drawing a handsome income from q
syndicate Of firms for keeping it closed, in
order that it might not produce things. This
i man said that If protection were abandoned a
tide of upper labor would food the country,
and as looked at his factory thought how en-
tirely better 1t was to have no labor Of any
kind whatever rather than face so horrible a
| future.
country enjoys paying money for value not re-
| ceived? lam an alien and for the life of me
cannot see why shillings should be paid for
1s-penny caps, or shillings for haif-crown
| cigar cases. When the country fills up to a
decently populated level a few million people
who are not aliens will be smitten with the same
sort of blindness.
But my friend assertion somehow thoroughly
suited the grotesque ferocity Of Chicago.
CHICAGO VERSUS INDIA.
See now and Judge! In the village of User
Jang, on the road to Montgomery, there be
four Changer women who winnow corn-some
seventy bushels a year. Beyond their hut lives
Purun Dass, the money lender, who on good
security lends as much as 5000 rupees in a year.
Jowala Singh, the smith, mends the village
pioughs-some thirty, broken at the share. in
1855 days; and Hukm Chund, who is letter writer
and head of the little club under the travellers
tree, generally keeps the village posted in such
gossip as the barber and midwife have not yet
made public property.
Chicago hIisks and vinnows her wheat bv the
million bushels, hundred banks lend hum
dreds OF millions of dollars in the year and
scores OF factories turn out plough gear and
machinery by steam. Scores of daily papers
do work which Hukm Chund and the barber
and the midwife perform, with due regard for
public opinion. in the village Of User Jang. So
far as manufactures CO. the difference between
Chicago on the lake and Isser Jang on the
Montgomery road is one of degree only and
not of kind As far the understanding Of
the uses of life goes Isser Jang, for all its
sonal cholers, has the advantage over Chicago
Jowaia Singh knows and takes care to avoid
the three or four ghoul-haunted fields on the
outskirts Of the village, but he is not urged by
millions of devils to run about all day in the
sun and swear that his ploughshares are the
best in the Punjab, nor does Purum Dass fly
| forth In an ekka more than once or twice a
year, and he knows, on pinch, how to use the
railway and the telegraph as we'll as any son of
Israel in Chicago. But this is absurd
The east Is not the west, and these men must
continue to deal with the machinery of life and
to call it progress. Their very preachers dare
| not rebuke them. They gloss over the hunting
for money and the thrice-sharpened bitterness
OF Adams curse by saying that such things
dover a man with larger range of thoughts
and higher aspirations. They do not say. Free
yourselves from your own slavery" but rather,
III you can possibly manage IL. do not set
quite so much store on the things Of this
world" And they do not know what the things
| of this world are.
FE, Fl, 70, FUN!
went off to see cattle killed by way of clear
ing my head, which, you will perceive. was
getting muddled. They say every Engl;shman
goes To the Chicago stock yards. You shall lind
them about six miles from the city, and once
having seen them you will never forget the
sight.
As far as the eye can reach stretches town.
ship OF cattle pens. cunningly divided into
blocks SO that the animals of any pen can be
speedily driven out Close to ar inclined timber
path which leads to an elevated covered way
stradcl'ng high above the pens. These via
duets are two-storie1. On thu upper story
tramp the doomed cattle, stolidly for the most
part. On the lower, with a scuffiiEg of sharp
hoofs and multitudirous yells run the pigs, the
same end being appointed for each. Thus you
Will see the gangs OF cattle waiting their turn
as they wait sometimes for days; and they
need not be distressed by the sight of their fei-
know is that man on horseback causes their
next door neighbors to move by means of q
whip. Certain bars and fences are unshipped,
ar. behold, that crowd have gone up the
mouth of sloping tunnel and return no more
1t Is different with the pigs. They shrek
back the news Of the exodus to their friends,
and hundred pens skirl responsive.
II was to the pigs first addressed myself.
Selecting a viaduct which was full Of them, as
could hear, though could not see, / marked
h. h.,,l. - n
not unalarmed by stray cattle who had man
aged to escape from their proper quarters A
pleasant smell Of brine warned me Of what was
coming. entered the factory and found it
full OF pork in barrels, and on another story
more pork unbarreled. and in huge room the
halves of swine, for whose behoof great Jumps
OF ice were being pitched in at the window
That room was the mortuary chamber where
the pigs lay for little while in state ere they
began their progress through ouch passages as
kings may sometimes travel
HOW PORK Is MADE.
Turning a corner and not noting an overhead
arrangement Of creased rail, wheel and pulley
1 ran into the arms Of four eviscerated car
cases, all pure white and of human aspect
pushed by man clad in vehement red When
l leaped aside the floor was slippery under me-
Also there was a flavor of farm yard in nv nos
trils and the shouting Of a multitude in nv
ears But there was no JOY in that shouting.
A"SNe mcH stoou III TWO uneS-SN SIDE. Be-
tween them and overhead ran the railwayof death
that had nearly shunted me through the win
dow Each man carried knife, the sleeves of
his shirt were cut off at the elbows. and from
bosom to heel he was blood red. Beyond this
perspective was q column of steam and be-
yond that was where l worked my awestruck
way, unwilling to touch beam or wall The
atmosphere was sitting q night in the rains
by reason of the steam and the crowd. Iclimbed
to the beginning Of things and, perched upon
narrow beam, overlooked very nearly all the
pigs ever bred in Wisconsin,. They had lust
been sho. out OF the mouth OF the yiaduct and
huddlei together in a large pea. Thence they
were licked persuasively, few at time, into
smaller chamber, and there a man fixed
tackle on their hinder legs 80 that they rose in
the air suspended from the railway Of death.
Oh, 1t was then they shrieked and called on
their mothers and made promises of amend
ment, till the tackleman punted them in their
backs and they slid head down into brick
toored passage very like big kitchen sink
that was blood red. There awaited them a red
man with knife, which he passed iauntilv
through their Threats and the full-voiced shrek
became a splutter. and then fall as of heavy
tropical rain, and the red man, who was backed
against the passage wall, you will understand.
stood clear Of the wildly kicking hoofs and
passed his hand over his eyes, not from any
feeling of compassion, but because the spurted
blood was in his eyes and he had barely time
to stick the next arrival. Then that first stuck
swine dropped, still kicking, into great vat of
boiling water and spoke no more words. but
wallowed in obedience to some unseen ma
chinery, and presently came forth at the lower
end Of the vat and was heaved on the blades of
q blunt paddle wheel-.hings which said
though, hough, hough ~ and skelped all the