Nye Wades In Blood

EverythiiiK regarding Chicago will be ioubly interesting to the general public for the next two or three years, and it is therefore natural that the varied features of the young giant should be more or less discussed both at home and ilfcad. That is just what Chicago wants. That suits her. That is what ihe puts her various millions into au liofiition for. (I should have referred to bar as a giantess above instead of a giant, tor I see that I have fallen into the femioinc pronoun since. However, we will Let that pass.) Th stranger should go at once from tb depot to the Auditorium. He will aare time by this, for then he can anBwr those who ask him if hehas seen the Auditorium and auswer affirmatively, and be done with it; but if he should wait until he has done soinething else he will be more or lcss broken in upon by this inquiry. Later on I may speak of thU great structure with the unfortunate ■ame. but I shall not have space at this time, owing to the fact that I purpose rrpaniniijr a word or two regarding the stock yards. All sorts of honest and successfnl Ladustry are honorable, whether it b through the avenue of literature or j dressed beef. Success is the mark of public approval, and continued success the oertiflcate of integrity. It was honorable for Gen. Grant to canvass for a book ortan skins. It was honorable for Vanderbilt tu farm it or run a ferry. It was honorable for Gould to survey Delaware county with a wheelbarrow and a fine tooth comb. It was hoiibrable for the oldar Asior to skin muskrate and swap borass collar buttons to the Indians for bver skins if the noble red man suü'ered for collar buttons. What I dislike is for the descendant of Mr. Astor to cultívate such a big robust and maügnfint case of hauteur. He visited Chicago some time ■go and st;itelin an interview, which he had arranged for as soon as he could at(nd to it, that the people of Chicago frequently sat on the front steps and that ñsxtors were met at the door by the housemaid. Thereby covertly intimating that Mr. Astor is in the habit of angwering the door himself . Possibly, however. Mr. Astor keeps a man who answers the door bell and does nothing else hardly. That may be, bnt it is only a few brief autmnns since the brave and sturdy mother of the Astor rae carne arourid from the spring house to greet the guest in her stocking f eet, and the greeting was none the less cordial uyethsr for that and a' that. We should not be held responsible for the errors and acquired snobbery of onr grandchildren. From the deep recesses of the unbom future there may come ■ome day a great-grandchild who will Lnherit my wealth and name, and whüe I aquirm about in my close fitting tomb be may have a valet to dress him in the moroing and train up his whiskers on a' ferallis, and he may visit Chicage where bis ancestors had been so generously and so ho6pitably treated years bef ore, and when he goes home to England or Tuiedo ho may send for a reporter and teil him how liis refined nature was ahocked all tlie time he was away. Glancing hastüy f rom Mr. Astor to the Chicago stock yards, I will say that few raalize, or can do so, the magnitude of thia one institution of Chicago. We can bardly imagine 1,280 acres of ground covered with meat, to speak plainly; 1,280 acres aluaost covered at least with the business of converting live stock into Cood for man. I had never before visted this institution, and so I went there all dressed vip, in order to make an impression on the working classes. ShorÜy after my arrival it came on for to rain, and having came on for that purpose it removed ita coat, suspenderá md hat, and rained more earnestly and mora vociferously than anywhere elae I erer saw it outside of lreland. I wora a froek coat, patent leather shoes and a gük hat. Af i (■■] a while the mud, gore and hair, to say nothing of lard and disarranged liver, gave me a blasé look that attracted attention when I got back on State street. One man wfaom I did not know asked me if there had been any tronble or a strike at the stock yards. The visitor is apt to go first to the asasainating department. I remember butchering day at home wíaen I was a boy. It was different frovi t'rls. We had generally about three shotes to kill, and we waited most always until the weather was so cold that we could not plow. Then we bntchered. We began about daylighi to heat water for scalding purposes. Then we-climbed the f eace and began a series of uncalled for yet tifitW' nr 1 imi-iri ■ttwfci mi lius oiiiar maternal hog, whüe her ear piercing Bqneals rent the sky and her hot blood gpattered uur neat little overalls. All day we alternately scorched ourseives or froze to death, and at night three flabby, waxen remains, i)erfectly devoid of bowels of com passion or other viscera, pried open so that the November wind could Bough through their pulseless forms or dally with thtiir leaf lard through the long and f rigid hours, hung in a row. Then came the days when all through the dear okl hoinestead the smell of nico hot lard sought out every corner and even pervaded the beautiful brown linea Sabbath school suit, which caught and retained the ravishing fragrance for years after. Here you hear in the distant and the Bomber depths of the building a smothered wail ever andanon. Yougotoward it and flnd a brisk young man in tall rubber lxots standing in a bloody stall with a flashing blado in his hand. while near him a big pan to which is attached a long handle catches the hot, fresh tide of lif e as it spurts with a purple impulse following the long, keen Wade. About every fifteen seconds, whüe we stood there, anewsabjectcame up heels first out of the big slaughter pen, as a log is pulled out of the pond of a big saw mili, and with a plunge of the knife as it passed on another iwung into position head down, and the unerring steel struck the same point forward of the shoulder and to the left of the windpipe. No experiments wero made. The young butcher's style of vaccination always took. I reniember once, years igo, my father went away on business, to serve on the petit jury, I think, and told me to kill the pig. It was easy to gay that. He might also have included otlier friends of the family, but he did not think of it perhape. However, I began the most elabórate preparations and tried to nerve myself up to it by frequent recourse to hard eider, for I had never personally ehed innocent blood before. The pig would probably weigh about 160 pounds, and was not tiercé until he found out that I seeraed set on mutilating Mm without any apparent cause. Then he broke down the fence, ate up a small goddess of liberty which I had ouce had tattooed on my leg, so that I could be identified in case I should run away and go to sea and stumble against ;i watery grave, as I had intended to do at that time. The animal wandered away into a corn field, and we tracked him by bis bloody footsteps. We overtook him along toward noon, and my youuger brother held him down while I made an incisión in the neck which proved fatal. As we starled to drag the animal toward home his head feil off. I state this in order to show that sincerity and intiexibility of purpose had already begun to show themselves even at this oarly age. After some delay we succeeded in removing the bristles, also some of the pelt, and I bégan the delicate operation of pryiug into and exposing the aniinal's complex works. I guess it would not be best to describe this, for it gives me great pain to recall it. I only know that I cannot see yet what he had ever done with so many of them or who could have ever arranged such a large assortment in Buch a little space. They cauie pouring out like a cataract of new and strange vitáis with crotcheted borders on them, and altogether I feit saddened and dèpre6sed. I went orer to a neighbor and got him to come and assist me. I told him I had operated once or twice on a hen, but a hen travels light. She does not overburden herself with vitáis that way. Just give a hen two or three little flnngs of that kind and she will go around perfectly contented. But it is not so vrith a hog. I never saw a hog that knew when he had enough of anything. In the early days they used to assess people here at the stock yards for beer money, and then if they did not get it they would pelt the visitor with fragments of liver and such little testimoniáis of respect as that. So it was a cnstom eveu among temperance people to give them the money. It was so until one duy an English capitalist who owned a large share of one packing house got a steer's lung down the back of bis neck and eighteen feet of sansage wound around his silk hat, and he spoke of it in terms of resentment to the superintendent. Then it was changed. The aansage machine is one of the moet intelligent that I ever saw. The Havana wrapper is pulled on over a metallic spout, and then by a terrific force èrted above the sausage meat reservoir tlie whole thing is pnshed through this spout into the wrapper, and yard upon yard of this delicióos bivalve is reeled off while yi m wait. One house takes the lives of 3,400'pigs per day, and they are chillcd and ready Lor tbe tabl by night Mr. Axi aonr personally killed 1 ,450,000 hogs last year, not in a spirit of revenge, but in order ! to improve the eonditkra of maukind and keep the rude and disagreeable wolf ! from his om door. Prying a little into his business afEaixs i yesterday, 1 found that he did u busi1 BMSof $65,000,000 laat year. He alao pad out $3,500,000 In wagee. With a piece figured on the back of an oii paintiug in Mr. Arniour's pleasant office that, allowing each year the same ntunbcr of auiinals killed last year, say 1,500,000 hogs, 650,000 catüe and 350,000 aheep at a low estímate, in five years Mr. Armour, single handed, could encircle the globe with a continuousgirdle of intestinos! What a thought! What food for thought also! Bat as Mr. Armoor said in our talk, when I asked him for a litóle recipe for becoming a millionaire: "Here is the secret of the suvcees of the Big Four. It is our system of caref ully utüizing everything. Hero is aglass jar containing hoof meal. That is valuable for its ammonia. It ia made f rom the despised hoof of the animal after the neatsfoot oil and other toilet, articles have been removed. Here is a jar of whito phosphates, made from the pith of the hom. This industry will decrease if the dehorning of cattle grows, but probably it will not appreciably. Here is a sort of glue made froiu the tips of the ears and nose of deceased cattle which die a violent death at our house. Here is a substance used in great quautities by the brewers. Some timo in the old days before your reformation you have noticed when you pulled your beer glass off the top of the table tiiat it had a tendency to stick. That is a gelatinous substance which we fnrnish the brewer in great quantities. It is made froin the thin white alm which lies between the bone and skin of tha head, for instance, and if nothing more harinf ui goes into beer it will never kill peopie ok at a big rate. Then there is a jar of dried blood. Some is used for purifying sugar and considerable is sent to New Orleans, but more is used for making buttons. So you see we make our money by saving it. Not long ago a Frenchman came to me and told me that I was losing a miïlion or so unnecessarily. I froze to liim Jill he told me how. We found that our big reservoirs containing water, and in which we give the beef a bath to sort of cool it and close up the pores, had been emptied into the Chicago river for years, carrying with it the bouquet of the beef. We now condense and compress this nutritious juice till we get the most stiinulatiiiL? and the most delectable extract of beef that (;ver gladdened the tottering stomach of an invalid or a child." And so it goes. It seems that au adult steer can afford more real, pure joy by his death than any other animal, unless it be the wife beater. I am told that when a wife beater sits for hie death mask, on a still day, yon can hear the angels applauding. At Swift's establishment they have two odd animáis, one a steer called Judas and the other a sheep called Iscariot. Eachof these animáis has a winning way with his set, and is utilized for the purpose of leading his fellows into the slaughter pen even against their better judgment. They have done this for years, and thongh the smell ' of blood naturally repela them, they listen to the siren voices of these two heartless brutea who preserve their own lives at the sao rifice of thousands of others, and death is their portiön. Sonie day I will again visit the stock yards. I hope to select a rainy day. and shall hope also to take my friend Ward McAllister with me by the hand, dressed in his best snit of clothes. Skipping gayly through the ruins of former beef creatures and the tottering relies of nude hogs that have been snatched from the glad snnlight and yielding mud of Illinois to deluge the abattoirs of this great commercial town with their bright young blood, I would like to yank the great parlor ornament clothed in a white flannel siiit and his unwavering aditiiration of himself , while cheery young butchers pinned to his coat tails yard upon yard of the future home of the sausage. It may be a cruel wish, but when a man ontshines me Bocially 1 cannot help it; I almost hate hith.