Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-29
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There are nearly 1000 men and boys
employed in the abattoirs, and they
begin their work as early as 8 or 4
o'clock IN the morning, and are usually
through for the day about IL or u
o'clock (noon). Their method of kill
ing is TO stnn the OK and cut the throats
Of the sheep. The OK is led to bis place
Of execution often against his will, for
it seems almost as though instinct, or
more probably the smell of the blood of
the preceding victims, tells him that
death is at hand. But his struggles are
in vain. Twenty or thirty men with
ropes and progs are too much for even
a frightened bull, and he stands culver
ing in every limb before his execu-
toner.
Before he has been taken from his
stall the black cap has been put over
his head so that he cannot see his
surroundings, else would lie be still
more desperate in his fight. There he
stands, with scores of carcasses all
around him and the very ground crimson
with blood, of which the very odor
causes him to tremble. For a moment
he pauses in bis struggling, bewildered
by the rough handling he has received
from the combined strength of so many
men, and by the strdngeness OF the
blind-fOlding cap. That pause ls fatal
"Whiff" goes the eXecutioner's slim
ha % 81 thrptrrrh I,a
skull, and instantly all of his limbs
completely relax. The legs have no
more strength. and the great Eat beast
drops "with dull thud" to the ground.
One more blow between the horns
quickly follows. Then a long stick
half an inch in diameter is thrust
through the first hole In the skull to
depth Of fourteen or sixteen inches; a
rope is quickly loOped over the upper
fore leg as the animal lies struggling,
on its side, and the leg is held firmly
against the body to protect the cut
throat, who now bounces upon the neck
as David did the fallen Goliath, and
thTusts his keen blade through the main
dIUeTle5 Oh Ine throat.
See the dark crimson food gushing
forth in a stream six or eight inches
wide and two inches thickl See the
blood-suckers, these vulture consump-
tiyes, rush up with their cups of silver
or glass to catch the precious blood as
eagerly as though sinners plunged be.
meath that flood lose all their guilty |
stains 1t is sight once seen never to |
be forgotten. / once witnessed the !
execution of a 20-year-old boy when the |
rope broke and the condemned had to |
be carried, half dead, again to the scat.
fold and be held up while another rope |
was adjusted to his neck; and 1 have
heard the shrIeks of mother who, on !
the morning Of the execution, was re-
fused last farewell of her son; but, |
cruel and brutal as did these incidents |
seem at the time, they were not so hor-
rible as was the sight of these blood. !
drinkers crowding and struggling about
their helpless prey, and almost quarrel
Ing with each other in their attempts
to get the hearts best blood ere ths
heart had hardly ceased to throb.
Oh, noble humanity Here in this
motley crowd of some twenty or thirty
consumptiyes are old men who, though
feeble, come every day for their fayorite
beverage. Here are young girls of X
or 10 yeacs who have hacking coughs,
or whose systems are delicate. They
stand there in pools Of blood and drink
their medicine without vince. Here
is richly clad mother who, ! am told,
has hardly ever failed during the last
year to come every morning with her
baby, now years old, and both mot .er
and child drink of the blood. At first
the very thought of it makes them sick,
but soon the appetite grows on them
like the appetite for opium or strong
drink. They cease to think of its n.
pulsiveness, and then they themselves
become repulsIve.