Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-03-21
TIE sLoo2.oa;axses 0, pAals.
ksene at a Fable Strengthening Place.
vuIture Consumption.

kspne at n Fable Strengthening Place.
vuIture Consumption.
fParIs Cor HAtf ,rJ Tinesl
There are nearly 900 men and boys
employed in tho abattoirs, and they
begin their york as earls as 3 or
o'clock in the morning, and are usually
through for the day about II or ~
oclo.E (noon).. Their method OF Kill
ing is to stun the OK and cut the Threats
of the sheep The OK is led to his place
of execution often against his will, for
it seems almost as though instinct, or
more probably the smell Of the blood oil
the preceding victims. tells him that
death is at hand. I,ut his struggles are
in vain. Twenty or thirty men witt
ropes and progs are too much for even
q frightened bull. and he stands culver
ing in every limb before his execn'
toner
Befa Q he has been taken from his
stall the black cap has been put over
his heal 80 that he can not see his
surroundings, else. would he be still
more desperate in his fight. There ne
stands. with scores OF carcasSes all
arount: him and tho very ground Grim
.on with blood, OF which the very odoI
causes bin to tremlle. For momen!
he pauses In his struggling. bowildered
by the rough handling he has received
from the combined strength OF so
many men, and by the strangeness OF the
Alinl-folding cap. That pause IS fatal
"Whiff goes tho executioncr's slim
hammer as it crashes through the bull
skull, and instantly all of his limbs
completely relax. The legs have no
more strength, and the great fat beast
drops with dull thud' to the grouna.
One more blow between the horns
quickly follows Then a long stics
half an inch In diameter is thrust
through the first hole in the skull to g
depth of fourteen or sixteen inches;
rope is quickly Topped over the upper
fore leg rs tho animal lies, struggling,
on its side, and tho leg is held frmty
against the body to protect the cut
throat, who now pounces upon the neck
as Havii did the failed Goliath, ano
thrusts his keen blade through the main
arteries OF the throat
SEQ the dark crimson food gushing
forth in q stream six or eight inches
wide an two inches thick See the
blood-suckcrs, those yulture consump
tiyes, rush up with their cups OF silver
or glass TO catch the precious blood al
eagerly as though sinners plunged DO
meath that food lose all their guilty
stains It , Is sight once seer
never to lie forgotten. ] once witnessed
tho execution of 4 zOyear-old boy wheI
the rope broke and the condemned hac
to be carried, half dead, again to thu
scaffold and be held up while another
rope was adjusted to his neck; and
have heard the shrieks of mother who
on the morning of tho execution, wal
refused 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 aoou
their helpless prey, and almost quarrel
ing with each other in their attempts u
get the hearts best blood ere that hear
had hardly ceased to throb. 49,.
Oh, noble humanity Here in TIL
motley crowd of some twenty or thirt,,
consumptives are old men who, thoug
feeble, come every day for their favorit
beverage. Here are young girls OF l
OF IS years who have hacking coughs T.;
or whose systems are delicate. The
stand there in pools of blood and drin
their medicine without vince. Her
Ia a richly-clad mother who, am told
Sas hardly ever failed during the las
wear to como erery morning; with he
baby, now years old, and both mothe
and child drink of tho blood, At firf
the very thought of it makes them sick
but soon the appetite grows on ther
like the appetite for opium or stron
drink. They cease to think OF Its re
pulsiyeness, and then they themselye
become repulsiye. ?