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Show j IN A BIG STOCK YARD. I There is Lots of F-m as Well as Business. fumas the wua steer jo;e. A Lesson in Yelling;. Hospital for Injured In-jured Cattle, There's lots of fun as well as business abont a. stoek yard. The old hands, the buyers and commission men, and also the stockmen who come often enoh to Ijarn the ropes, enjoy nothing better than a joke on a green visitor, one with kid gloves and boot9 with a patent leather shine preferred, but the verdant, with flannel shirt and collar and his pantaloons in his boot tops, if he le the only object at hand. The jokes take various forms, often there are new ones, but there Is a standard joke, the use of which is always indorsed. The victim is milking down one ot the large passage ways through which the cattle are driven from pen to pen, or to tho scale house, looking look-ing from side to side to see Tvhich way he will turn or through which gateway he will pass to come out where he wonts to. Suddenly Sud-denly there is a loud cry: "Clear tho wayl Herocomesa wild steer!" Funny i Yes, very, for tho spectators. The cry hiiB been given by some one who is "on," away at the other end of the passugc, and is taken up by the crowd scattered along the alley. They all know what it is, and though the grcenie may be a friend or customer, they as readily join in the cry and sport. The poor victim does not know what it is. He has probably seeu, or may bo experienced, what it is to be tossed by a wild steer, and as soou as he hears the dread cry he begins to make way, and makes it very rapidly. He plunges ahead by us long strides as possible, and he is lucky if he does not go head first into the mud. The most interesting thing about a stock yard is the yell. The rich buyer or commission commis-sion man, as well as the salaried agent or speculator, knows it or rather them, for the yell is as numerous almost as the people in the yards. The farmer and small stock grower kuows the "whoopee" or "whoa-oa-oa-oncr" and "suitie" used on the range or farm yard, but when it comes to the combi- nations of letters and sounds used here they " are as much at sea as one of tho gentlemen using them would be in attempting to convey con-vey an intelligent idea of them on paper. Tho most familiar sound to the couutryman is a long one something like this: "Whtt-whoap-oa-oa-oap-woap'ere!11 and repented re-pented as rapidly as possible, with occasional variations as they suggest themselves. This is not an exact reproduction, but it is something near it, and if the student patiently pa-tiently twists his vocal organs until ho finds the right contortion he may produce the sound. If ho anticipates going into the business, busi-ness, the "may" will be changed to "must," for this driving sound seems to be the beginning begin-ning poiut of all the one taught in the primary pri-mary department. A yell following itseems easier, but it is not. It runs: "Hi-i-i-yi-kieyiea-yea-ea-ea-hi-yl-yi-yi-yi 1" aud carried out without limit, until its object ob-ject is accomplished. This yell may be made very musical, and then it becomes something more than a yelL Those who are perfect in it run the scale up and down, center wise and every other wise, and a professor of music could better then express it in notes than any one else could represent it in letters. There's another Gound which sounds like an auctioneer repeating "going goingong" so rapidly that it soon becomes a sound with something like a "g" as the first letter and he winds up with an abrupt "gone to John Smith," who has almost forgotten that he had bid. Another musical spur to the live stock's movements is built ou the plan of Joe Em-mett's Em-mett's warble, which everybody who thinks he's an Eramett tries to imitate. This is becoming be-coming slightly popular, but rus commercial value iu its effect on the cattle has not yet boon definitely determined. These, with many more yells, are all told in the sales pens and scale yards. In the unloading and shipping ship-ping yards another style prevails, something not so sharp. Variety is the rule there, too, but as in the first case there is a common approved yell which may be attempted after a few lessons. To produce it the lips must be fixed just so. Then comes: "Bir-rr-r-r-haw-haw-ho-hn-ha-hal" In producing the last part of this sound the student will profit and progress more rapidly in this work if he carefully studies the peculiarities pecu-liarities of the heavy villain's stage laugh in u second class variety show. He will soon discover the peculiarities which he may use, and will then have little difficulty in sandwiching sand-wiching it properly between some othor sounds. Tho last lessons must be taken with the aid of an eiiiht foot Dole, weichin? about twenty pounds, with which the student will prod a bag of- Band, if nothing more convenient con-venient answers, giving more emphasis with each prod. After a couple of dozen prods tho voice will have toned down until the last sound is like the- ending of the despairing cry of an emotional actress. So far as tho Stock Yards company is concerned, con-cerned, it takes a few risks in its responsibilities. responsibili-ties. It stands good for tho stock from the tirao they leavo the car until they are loaded in again or are driven away by tho buyer, speculator or butcher. As soon as the stock is loaded into the pen tlio gate is closed and locked and the pen watched. Tho market is open from 8 to a o'clock, during which time the gates opening into the passageways are unlocked. Promptly at 2 o'clock the gates are all again locked, and to get anything ou'j of a pen it would be necessary to lift it over, a rather diilicult matter. Under this arrangement ar-rangement such a thing as transferring stock from one pen to another, taking out a choice animal and substituting an inferior one, is impossible. Tho stock is counted into the pen, then into the scale house, and then out again, and that reshipped counted again into tho cars. Every car and every bunch is kept separate. But few cattle or other animals are injured in the yards, but for the benefit of those falling fall-ing victims to overcrowdiug or rough traveling, trav-eling, hospitals are provided in effjih division. To theso all injured animals are taken, though llr-st sold to speculators. In tho hospitals hos-pitals the animals are given dry, sheltered places to sleep, and good food to eat, and water to drink. They become tlio care of tho speculators then, and tho profits of the hitter depend upon their skill as veterinarians. veterinari-ans. An animal with a broken leg Is never taken to the hospital; there must bo somo show for its gi-ttintui iU feet, and if it duu't do this in a week or ten days the Jub is given tip as a lui one and the animal shot. A brnken rib is the ordinary injury, if tho animal ani-mal is not so bruised and crainpi;d that it can stand on its fot. If it can't rest with its forefeet under it and hold up its head, iu which position cattle rest Ix'tter, it is ib-gurdetl ib-gurdetl ns in a bad fix, and it head is lied ; from cither side so that it cnirt fall down. In exceptional c:isos a pillow of hay is pro-i vided, a sure sign that the animal lias been purchased for a sung, and, if saved, will pay a big prullL Glotn.-Democrat- |