Show iu 1 luj THE LONG HORNED STEERS JOURNEY FROM THE LONE STAR STATE lie ce oil tle tile finif of tile alio Pl ahill in lit it the lie end the r in reeds red on oil him the vo voyage kage and ami 1 v oy vt isor by amerkie Amer kim press kioa AN ono one conceive of a more marked evidence of hit la in a n progress 1 th than I 1 thil that 1 cattle born orn in 11 texas n and fill her herded 41 mostly by mexicans a aru r v slaughtered in liverpool and a n il served at the restaurants tau rants aril anil hotels of london flown IOV TI piccadilly way as the roast beef of old england the fact that this can be done w one of tile lio wonders vo liders of a wonderful age an ag age ge in which a country where the lie wheat crop fails faili can get ct Us its hour flour aiom any land in the nate or icat ical I 1 legions egions au an ago in which the question of tile fresh meat supply has been solved by the application of for freezing and steam for 1 tion an ago in fact of high pressure pres sute lapid transit and electrical tion but although lie he can get his rn mutton veal and steaks in frozen chunks from tho the antipodes at small cost the M wealthy en englishman 0 lishman rather fancies doncher know having cuts bioni animals killed within liis his immediate immedi ita purview and that is the I 1 eason why the texas steer journeys in all his frisky and long horned homed entity from tho the plains to piccadilly As a calf ho he faces the sun feeds on oil tile lie luscious grass and flees tho the norther like of holy writ lie he waxes fat and kicks ilis his horns horng glow ho he denes tile herder and enters into couii ira cies for stampedes but all the same bame lie know enough to aveia tho the fato fate for which shiell lie was destined from youth up tip some Som efine arc day lio ile and ais is filu fellows vs are coaxed alora to a corral then chased into a 1 chut chilto next forced into cars and the last an deadly journey has begun the coni THE OLD STYLE signi neut reaches new kew york or boston as the caso case may be and tile prisoners who lave have lived the free life of the prairies get et a taste of frebla air durins the transfer transfer from tho the cars to tb steamer tho the fever of confinement ia 13 in their heir blood tho the terror of crowds and strange noises a crazes their brains and tor for these reasons some breal break loose and tear about t the lie ets scattering crowds and precipitating their own destruction deais ago tile the cattle were transferred transfer reil to bessels by means of lighters and hauled up nil the hip ship s s side in slings in fr these days of rush and hurry tho the method has been improved on and tho beasts are lun into an cut entrance rauco at the steamer s side through a chute of tile the same stylo it that used u sed tit at corrals and by the railroads once aboard the they are packed together in ill compartments almost as close as sardines and dining dm ing tho voyage depend upon the cattle boss and his assistants for food drink and indeed for life the boss gets front from FA to per trip and tile the hands tile aie given their passage to england and back awl and all the way from froin one to twenty dollars each cacci in it money ioney they have a week ashore cutill Ilo nothing thill to do on the return voyage it is in the caie of the lie cattle that cei tain abuses have dc eloped which vi liell are just now dow attracting attention in ill er el land where buyers like to have their beef prime and of the he first quality A protest put in shape some ago uy mr indicates in fuw few just what is thought objectionable said the well known mt inbur of parliament when in new yolk aik oik people who lia han 0 not seen the lie sufferings of tile lie poor bantes cannot tell what agonies ag gonies they en endure lure they are packed in the hold between deeks decks arul and on it deek deck sometimes the steamers are loaded down so heavily lie avil y that in port the iho vassel sway thinie of tile the torture or of 0 alio I 1 0 poor brutes in a storm with A till sells seas breaking over them knocking them together and sometimes sweeping them over J d TUE l OF 1111 boain why men have told ine that they havo have seen scon cattle jan jammed janibel imel 1 to I violently agai tibt tile tho bulwarks bulwa of a steamer in a galo gale that their legs l ga A w ere giovine oft on while other wretched brute bruit i were tu to a jelly on oil the leek dock sometimes they ire crowded together ho hi ti tightly ill that it battlo ayi lying ng d down 0 wn w would 0 ull bl bo 1 trampled to death and to lore prevent will till ali n tires fires are lighted under miller thy tho cattle or pai afline put in their ears it was anything to he keep tile bliem up ill on oil their feet atly anything thing to tavo their flesh this is liori honable ible aud and inhuman it would ile bo more inore hil lilane and perhaps pei hripa would pay better belter in ill tho end to transport tran port tile beef I 1 than tile tho live stock to tins this it 11 I haud hand idaa lia recently added ft ship A after f t c r the load had been n made ri I 1 prid and the voi age biad begun the lx alx bunn 44 aind nearly nil all the helpers got drunk and tit dian didn t regain their sears tor for near nearly I 1 y thirty six hours says the narrator the cattle hall hail not been fell fed 0 or I 1 watered since they were put lint tin oll sobe ship board the boss bors latil had la lor coine sibo enough to realize nii lizo liis his negligence but was till still drunk enough to want to make reparation wo we chert of hall glinnda only ono one rn mail in having been sent to every rattle cattle it tool too iii neaily tw hours to give tho the battlo liay hay and it tool too uie to about three hours anoro to pick tin the splint splinters plin teis eis and thistles whistles es out of my iny hands tile next morning tile boss had us its up i it t 4 to water and feed tho cattle tile watering cattle first condensed katr is ii used pipes connected connect ell with tile the con coll denser ran to ill of the ship ex capt to points where it was needed se sc lai far as convenience is ia concerned concerns con cerne 1 it ft have been jnet i ua ns as ii ell ea I 1 to leave I 1 lie at the engine as ai to draw it oil into barrel sand and bo be obliged to pack it from froin atheni my clothing was drippin g wet and 11 notwithstanding tin the severe e xer else I 1 was thoroughly chilled it took nn liki ehret solid hours to w water titer then we lind hall half an hour to sit by the fiddler to dry ourselves after bici keast camo the liny hay ing and after the haying we had ball to fill the bairens with water that took us its till 11 front 11 until 3 2 wo biad nothing to do lint but lie in the still at 2 wo we began to get the hay up out of tho the buld and after it was tip ap to feed tile the cattle and sweep tip tho alleys by the time that was done it was wag G 0 clock at 0 6 came what aliat may for the lie sake of courtesy be called supper after tupper two men went vent on to watch for the night ali tw others went to bell bed or sat around the fill fid iller and toll told lies but they had ball to bo be up ul by 4 1 in tile morning and so on for fifteen days flinnie ac length of it 1 voyage when N hen the ill it tie reach the liverpool yards they enjoy a brief space of luxury before they go to I 1 tj the glite they lest est i eat and drink to their hearts carts li content for from tareo days to a week then the ax knocks out their life and tile tho purpose e of their eri lias has been accomplished they have been born have roamed the wide plains q have tra traversed eased a i continent and tit bossed an ocean that the roast beef of old england shall not perish front from mhd cai ill so all liono to the texas steer even if ho bo kas has long horns is not handsome liand some and often chases people through the streets of cities in which v aich lie finds himself an all unwilling and icv unwelcome 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