Show i IS A srOCK YAROS JUDAS DECOY OX THAT LEADS OTHER CATTLE TO DEATH He Is a Regular Employee of the Chicago Stockyards Company and Has a Sbt Duty to Perform One of the sightsof the great cattle yards of Chicago is an old white ox named Judas An ox may rise to eminence by his cunning and wisdom as well as a man and Judas has risen He came to the yards a good many years ago while he was yet a frisky eteer and he was immediately purchased pur-chased by one of the great packinghouses packing-houses and driven from the train j which brought him from his Iowa home to a distant yard j The lifo of most animals at the cattle cat-tle yards is very shorta week at the very most A few days after the arrival ar-rival of Judas the herd of cattie which occupied the pen with him was selected se-lected for killing The way to the packing house led down a long alley j way with high fences on each side then up a narrow chute arid into the build ins 3For sQme reason the cattle Sean II to know what is coming for they always al-ways object to being driven up the chute Judas was no exception He plunged madly about among the herd and the cattlemen had more trouble with him than with any other animal At last however he seemed to realise that sooner or later he must go and be made a Virtue of a necessity and he trotted quietly up the chute and the other cattle followed rapidly after him Thus he ran until he had just reached the door of the packing house Then quick asgia wink he turned and galloped gal-loped downa side passage and t escaped whilp the other cattle went onward into the building 5 Judas had been so very clever that I the good natured cattlemen lethim go I for that day for genius is to he appreciated appre-ciated in a steer as well I as in < a man iThe next day 1 however they drpye him up again with another here This I time he made not the slightest objection objec-tion but trotted forward quietly and the other steers having a confldpnt leader behaved admirably But just as Judas reached the door of the building he dodged again so suddenly that the men couldnt turn him and escaped as ho had done before while the herd behind be-hind him went careering into the killing kill-ing room Since then Judas has been aregular I employee of the cattle yards Every I day he leads up a herd of cattle and every day he dOdges just at the door I of the building Hehas saved the cattlemen I cat-tlemen no > end pf trouble and delay with riotous herds since he began his I service He has grown fat and sleek on the good living of the yards and so highly are his services regarded that the cattlemen provide him with a whit blanket on cold days to keep him comfortable com-fortable And thus he is living to a green old age but he bears the disrespectful name of Judasthe betrayer |