The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-03
DECORATED IN BLOOD
STRANGE MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN
SIOUX CITY PACKING HOUSE
Bloody Finger Marks on Cover and
Scented With Smoke-BaIIads to Beef
Killers and Other Such EmpIoyes-The
Queerest Literary Effort Ever Put Out
in the World.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. 2.-The odd
est magazine in the world is one called
knockers emanating from a packine.
house in this city. This literary effort is
written, printed edited, Illustrated, bound
and mailed from the packing house and
mas flavor, not only in the literary line.
OUT also IN binding, smaeking of it's orig
IN. The 'foreWord' of this strange pub
location tells something of the contents.
but does not give hint of the many pc
cuIlarltles. "A fuzzy bunch of packing
house rhymes" is the way the preface
READS printed on Ipski Bo paper, bound
IN Zulu lavendar, decorated with real
blood"
The real blood business is the strans
est part. The magazines are printed and
pound and then fellows with bloody hands
handle the books, leaving smeary finger
marks here and there. The books are
tied In bundles and placed in the smoke
house, where they are subjected to the
curing process. This leaves them in
line brown state and with a very an
clent- and smoky scent. When thew
emerge from this room they have very
much the color and scent of fine bologna
sausages. E. E. Sweetland is the editor
1n,chief of the magazine, but he has been
ably assisted in his literary efforts by
+. Z: Heusner, who masquerades under
the title OF st. Francois. One of the
unique announcements in the magazine
Is: The price of this book is 40 Csnts
we do not offer it for its beauty either
from a poetical or typographical stand
point; we simply offer it for 40 cents''
David Mann Immortalizeo.
The production is Illustrated with blue
print photographs pasted in, and the
first person to be inmortalized is David
Mann, the fellow who with his big ham
her knock9 the fat steers in the head and
sends them where the beef trust gets its
clutches upon them. along with his
photographs the editors print the follow
ing verses:
Here youse hav de only Mann
Wot won't hold to our belief
we knock every guy we can
Dave he only knocks the beef
Drives purity critter in,
Maps N;a the gate and slams her shut;
waits till she holds up her chin
Den he 'corkS her on de nut -
No knocker can compete with Mann,
Still he amt so very Fox"
He knocks all the beef he can
We can all the beef he knocks
James Howe, the man who superintends
putting up of ice during the winter
months, is not forgotten by these bloody
poets, and his two verses read like this:
He has eighty men employed
Cutting up and getting in
Second ice crop on the Floyd.
you think ice amt worth much now
Market now amt very high
But says Uncle Jimmy Howe
You'll think different when you die
Shot at Charles w. Lennon.
The editors are no respectors of per
sons, and they have even taken a sly Shot
at Charles w. Lennon, the superintendent
OF the plant. He is the faith: of a large
and growing family-1n fact has ten
children; and they are all rather small
yet. The verse accompanying a blue
print of the superintendent reads after
the following fashion: -
Note. that Mr.. Lemons smiling,
He's just found a way of filing
All his childrens names and faces.
Uses patent filing caa.s.
One of the cleverest groups of stanzas
IN MT, the publication is about Henry r,
Alllngham, who, during the winter, while
at a dance, fell over the banisters. He is
called Prince Henry by his associates.