Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-05-29
TIVE BLOOD. 7a;Nxeas Or PARIS
scon. At n Public s'an s',tsring Place
NrItmr. consumption,
Tais a. Hu'f'rl Timcs.l

NrItmr. Consumption.
nais a. H,r'f'rl Timcs.I
There are nearly I 900 men and boys
employed in the ahattoirs, and they
begin their work as earl as 3 or
o'clock in the morning, and are usually
through for the day about IL or IL
O'Clock 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
il seems almost as though instinct, or
more probably the smell Of the blood OF
the preceding victims, tells him that
death ia at hand But his struggles are
in vain. Twenty or thirty men with
ropes and progs are too much for even
q ightenod bull, and he stands culver
ing in every limb before his exeon'
toner
Befd he has been taken from his
stall the black cap has boon put over
his head 80 that he can not see his
surroundings, else would he be- sttll
more desperate In his fight. There be
stands, with scores Of earcasses all
around him and the very grouna crin.
son with blood, OF which the very odol
causes him to tremble. For moment
he pauses In his struggling, bewilderedd
by the rough handling he has received
from the combined strength OF 30
man, mon, and by the strangeness OF the
slind-folding cap. That pause is fatal
whit goes she exeonnoners slim
hammer as it crashes through she bulls
skull, and instantly all OF bis limh
completely relax The legs have no
more strength, and the great fat beast
drops with dull thud" 10 the greund.
one more blow between the horns
quickly follows. Then a long stick
half an inch in diameter b thrust
through me hrst hole In the skull TO
depth Of fourteen or sixteen inches;
rope |. Qui'kly loopsd over the upper
fore eg ~ sbe animal lies, struggling,
on its dc and the leg Is held 1rmly
sgpina TIE tidy 70 protect the cut
throat. wno rrw pounces upon the neck
A. sti' 81 ,hp failed Goliath, and
lhruss hi, X n lads through che mair
arteries " She throat
See the I RI crinson food gushing
forth In slr"SD ax or eight none
- an i've IL hes thick See thu
.lool-suck IA. liess vufsure ecusump'
tive.. rush up h their cups OF silver
or glass TO catch she precious blood "a
eagerly rs though sinners plunged DO
meath that food lose all their guilty
stains! 1t is sight once seer
mover to 10 forgotten. onos Witnessed
the execution of a F0-ycar-old boy wh1n
the rope broke and the condemned had
to be carried, half dead, again to the
scaffold and be held up while another
rope was adjusted to his mack; and ]
have heard The shrieks Of mother who
on the morning Of thc execution, wal
refused @ last farewell OF her son; but,
cruel and brutal as did these incidsnh
seem at the time, they were not so hor
vble 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 Il
get the hearts best blood ere thai heart
had hardly ceased TO throb.
Oh, noble humanity Here in THU
motley crowd OF some twenty or thirty
sonsumptives arc old men who, though
feeble, come every day for their favorM
beverage Here are young girls Of II
OF Is years who have hacking coughs,
or whose systems are delicate. They
stand there III pools of slool and drinl
their medicine without vince Herr
Is a richlv-clad mother who, am told,
has hardly ever failed during the last
year TO come G ery morning with bel
babv, now wears old. and both moths
and child drink of the blOol, At frs
the very thou Oh, of it makes them sick
but soon the appetite grows on thon
Ike the appetite for opium or stroh,
drink. They rease TO think OF its re
2nlsivcness. and then they themselves
hAcoinn rennlSiva.