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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-04-12
OEHORNlNC STEERS.
An Outfit by Which a skilled Man G
Gin "a ThnnSapA unrr. - ~

An Outfit by Which a skilled Man Can
Clip Thousand Horns n Day.
This Is the time of the year when
experts upon the big cattle ranches of
the west do wonders in dehorning.
The long horn has been cast aside.
The cattle fare better with short
horns, do not injure each other and
may be herded, corraled and shipped
closer together than they could be did
they wear the great spreading horns
with which the popular mind associ-
ates the Texas steer.
Out on the big ranches they are
now rounding the cattle in for dehorn-
ing. The dehorner is as much am ex-
pert in his line as the rope thrower is
IN his. The cattle are corraled and at
the exit, where but one steer may pass
at time, is small pen, called the
stock. At the closed end is an open
ing between bars sufficiently large to
lead the steer to thrust his head
through. Three men stand waiting for
him. One of them throws down
wooden bar, which clamps the animal
in viselike grip and holds his head
where he has thrust it. The dehorn-
ers stand upon the right and left.
They carry long-handled steel clippers.
and when the steer is caught in the
stock they throw these over the horns
and snip them off in a jiffy. The bar
is raised and the steer is released to
make room for another. In a day
skilled dehorner can clip a thousand
horns.
In more northern ranches the de-
horner takes precautions against the
dehorned cattle taking cold. When
the horn is clipped a gouge is used to
hollow out the stub of the horn. Tar
is thrust into this, sealing it and pro-
tecting The animal against cold. The
dehorner ordinarily goes around with
his outfit like q thresher goes from
farm to farm threshing wheat. A de-
thorning outfit consists of the stock,
which is not too large to be carried |
in a wagon; a clipper or saw, gouge |
and a quantity of tar.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
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Being a Good Fellow.

The man who has an income of s1o-
0oO year and spends every cent of
1t on his wife and family and friends
is good fellow, and is blessed by ey-
erybody even after he has died and left
not a cent to keep his children in
school, to save his wife from going
to work for their bread and butter
T to pay his bills scattered around the
town. He dies a royal good fellow
with the reputation of living only for
his family. The man who takes $1,000
a year off his wife's back in clothes
and $1,000 year off his own back and
OIL his drinks and cigars and puts it
into insurance for them against the
time when he is dead. and $1,000 a
year out of other things which make
man generous and lovable and puts
that into a bond every twelvemonth
for them, and then dies and leaves
them where his children can stav in
school and his wife go on living in
comfort-well, he is a curmudreop
with mind not above sordid things.
Every timo.-New York Press.
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Every Bit of a Dead Bear \, cooa

One of the features of the Newcastle
butchers Christmas display was the
carcass of Russian brown bear. and
those mho would objec to it is a.
comestible are unaware that the hams
Oh bear are delicious beyond all the
hams ever smoked in Cumberland or
wiltshire; that the tongue is held to
be more precious as foodstuff than
the tongue of any other beast that ever
licked salt; that the liver is a Kings
dish; that the English gentlemen who
planted Virginia preferred the flesh
Oh bear to beef, veal, pork, or mutton.
and that the Indians thereaway. in
serving up the bear, were wont to roast
1t whole-entrails, skin and all. inst
as they would barbecue a hog. But
the choicest morsels are the paws
The noblemen of Germany might eat
the spareribs and the griskins of the
bear and high bred ladies rashers from
his TANKS. but the bears paws. sailed
and smoked, were reserved for the
tables Of the German Kings and
Princes.-Newcas.le (England) Jour.
nal,
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town knots of ribbons on the horses
heads and similar ones with long ends
OF the saddles may be worn. 1t is ex-
pected that these ribbons will CORE
spond at all times, but on a road
coach only flowers in season are per-
missible. The flower may be worn
in the cheek-piece buckle. The bride
to be used with park drag may have
a front piece ornamented with a sim
pie chain pattern; for a road coach
patent leather or worsted planted
around leather front is alone permits
s.ble. Another little nicely in four
finland appointments is the distinc-
ton made in the bridle-bosses. On
the drag harness these bosses should
be on the inner as well as on the outer
side of the bride, on the coach har-
ness only on the outside. The boss
is the only place where a crest or
an initial should be placed. For wet
weather work the harness should be
of black leather throughout, with the
metal parts covered-this rule applies,
however, more to team harnesses than
to fcurs.
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Reginald" she said, before we
go any farther l want you to tell me
something. At meeting of some kind
the other day woman said men look
upon women as doormats. Oh, tell
me-tell me. before it is forever too
late-is that your idea?"
We'll, darling" he said, looking far
down into her wonderful, deep eyes
and feeling around for her soft little
fingers, ito be perfectly frank with
you, must confess that do consider
women to be like doormats-in a
sense"
A pallor overspread her sweet face
She sank down on the davenport or
the dubuque, or whatever the fashion,
able name for it is, and motioned at
him to stand back.
Don't touch me! Don't come near
mel" she cried when at last she could
trust herself to speak. THANK heav-
en- have found you out in time. Ugh.
And they say this is an enlightened
age! Oh, why did l let you kiss me
before knew"
You see,"' he said when she allowed
him to continue, IF it were not for
women and doormats I'm afraid some
OF the men wouldn't always leave so
much of their coarse clay outside as
they do or try to do under the cir
cumstances."
In a moment she was pinioned
against his breast and words hal
ceased passing between them.-Chicr
go Record Herald.
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standing off a whole brushful of Ia

standing off a whole brushful of Ia
gals"
And when the battalion charged
across the submerged ricefield waist
high and shouting. they found little
Taylor sorry wreck. He was lip
deep in the dirty water, but his rife
was speaking at weary intervals. His
jaw hung down, bloody and broken,
his forehead streamed with muddy
blood.
Taylor, you jackass. get out of
this!" roared Helery as the battalion
swept out and cleared the brush
What are you doing here alone?"
'Lookin' after Scully,'' said the little
sergeant, standing up at salute, and
dragging out of the mire soldiers
cap. Hes here. major. He's. here in
the mud. an he died as brave as Law.
ton'r amy O. them"
And after that Taylor, the little red.
headed sergeant, Taylor the black.
guard, Taylor the mischief-maker, was
the model man of the Thirty second
John II. Raftery, in the Chicago Rec.
ord-Herald.
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The Noiseless Machine Shop.

The old-time machine shop was a
place Of incessant clatter and din and
rattle, and the pounding of hammers,
from which the casual visitor was glad
to escape with the sense of hearing
u1impaired. But in the modern shop
you hear only soft hum, like that
OF a sewing machine, with never a
hammer stroke, in some of them, from
top to bottom.
All this is due to the Improvement
in machine tools and in the method
OF work. In former times they chipped
and filed all fiat surfaces; now the
metal planer does the work. Gear
wheels, with beautifully cut teeth, do
the work Of the old cog wheels; turning
on the lathe is done noiselessly by
the screw, with hydraulic or steam
power. and lifting is done by the power
crane. The blacksmith used to do all
cutting with sledges and chisels; now
cutting-off machine saws through
steel bar with less noise than. a
butcher makes on ham bone.
The noise Is being gradually elm
mated from machine work, as it ia
from other everyday things.
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HOLIDAYS GALORE.
Hard to Keep Track Of Them Down II

Hard to Keep Track OF Them Down In
81 never did find out exactly how
many legal holidays they have in
Cuba" said an American who had
once run sugar plantation over there,
but was green enough in the begin.
ming to figure lnem at eight or ten.
l knew they had three or four more
than in. this country, and didn't take
the extra ones into account when
signing contracts. l had to sign con-
tracts with my foremen, engineers,
firemen and so on to the number 1T
20, and it was by the month, with all
legal holidays thrown in. We had
been cutting cane and boiling sugar
three or four days when went down
to the sugar house one morning to
find all hands idle.
What does this mean?' l asked Of
the native manager, who was strolling
around
It's saints day, and legal holi-
Cay, scnor.' he answered.
But We can't stop business for
saint l protested.
The contract, senor-the contract
"The whole gang wasted the whole
day doing nothing" said the planter,
but went to work again next day.
At the end of three days the calendar
brought around another saint, and
Business was shut down again for "a
hours. When they had played it on
me for the third time in fortnight,
went to the alcade of the village and
said:
Look here, now, but how manly
holidays do you have in this country?
II have never counted them up.
senior, he replied, but believe there
are about 10O.'
And are my hands Obliged to keep
them ALL?
Not all, senior. l should say that
II they keep $50 of the saints days
the others couIa go by
And | must lose a third of the
time and pay for all of it?'
81. senior. A contract is contract.
Surely yon would not wish your labor
ers to lose their souls?
They had me tight, and as conse-
ouence made only half crop and
came out loser by SIS, 900 at the end |
OF the year. 1t was not until / had |
sold the business in disgust that | |
learned what a fool had made of my
self. | had signed contracts, as have
aid, but If had creased that alcade's |
calm with SIS in gold he'd have seen
ne through"
In what way?" was asked.
why, he'd have scratched all but
wo or three saints off the list and
Srung EN- in on somebody else, and
ny hands wouldn't have had more
han one celebration a month. | was
ISIS enough not to tumble to it, and
lie was too modest to offer his SER
ices. Detroit Free Press.
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nliserahly of poison. Several men
VINO had counselled the non-payment
OF the Camorra's toll were warned 10
leave Naples in six hours or pay the
penalty ST refusal. They went.
The outrages struck terror into the
very heart of Naples. Men deserted
the city rather than stay to face the
vengeance which they felt sure would
fall On them for rashly given opinions.
The. men who had once maintained
guards feared to take the step again
because they had been warned that
they were watched and that such an
attempt would bring dea;h. At one
stroke the Camorra regaiped it's pres
tige Of terror-New York World.
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rows Of stunted brush, and the Hotch
kisses would have come in handy. but
not having them Major Helery pushed
on, every officer and man carrying q
rifle and all loaded to the guards with
extra cartridges.
AS usual. "Chig" Taylor and his as.
sociates. "thc meanest gang in the reg.
iment," were pushed forward to dc
scout duty. Each day they found
themselves from one to five miles
ahead Of the column. 1t was on Tues
! day, four miles to the front. that they
ran into Del Casco, the half-breed, with
400 Tagals. well armed and sure of
their superior knowledge of the jun
giles. ''Chig" Taylor was admittedly
the crack shot of his company. Scully.
Tim. the man with the bad foot, was
his only rival They were coming, for
ty of them, the advance guard of Ma
.jor Helery's expedition, across a SUBJ
merged rice field when the Tagals
opened up.
Nothing showed above the level sur
face of the food water but the little
lateral ridges Of the rice burrows.
There was nc shelter.
"Br-rr-r-r," sang the Mauser bullets,
splashing the dirty water az they
skinned like hot hail into the wet. Six
sharpshooter5 were fuddling in the
water.
Tim Scully was out in front and
"Chig" Taylor. the sergeant, carrying
his load. was on his flank.
"Chig," growled the soldier, 'Pm
goin' to stand up and shoot back"
LAY down behind the rice ridges
and shoot" yelled the red-headed SER
geant.
"Not me-" retorted the stubborn
Scully. II didn't lay down for the sore
foot, and I'd rather die than walk to
Gagri"
''Br-rr-r-r," sang the bullets.
The men of the advance sought the
cover of the adjacent jungle.
Say, CHG" grumbled Scully, lev
cling his rife at the dim, gray row of
stunted trees when the rattle of rifles |
Sung: SAY. CHG"
Eyes, Tim," said Taylor, the SER
geant.
IF git it here CHG
bling, bing," went his rife.
IF / git it here, CHG will you drag
me out? don't want to fall into them
hands,
The skirmish line had fallen back |
behind the river trenches now. "Chig"
Taylor and Scully were out. knee-deep
Ip the water all alone The water
about them was splashing with rain
Of Tagal bullets. Then Scully went
down in the mire with grunt.
ITS come. CHG" he growled:
they've bit me. Remember, l don't
want no bolo business in mine'
And then he sloughed over in the
mud. and "Chig" Taylor. the red-head-
ID sergeant. lay down in the water be-
Tide him.
Then Helery and the battalion came
Up. But one rifle was speaking from
he floor of the flooded field
The Tagals were screaming delight
rom the ambush. They had numbers
md guns and position.
who is that fool in the open?n !
'elled Helery, riding to the verge OF
he field.
Taylor, sir" said corporal. touch
ng his hat. "'Chig' Taylor. sir. He's
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State Government Of Louisiana

Governor-W. w. Heard,
Lieutenant overnor-Albert Esta
pinal.
Secretary of State-John Michel.
Superintendent OF Education-Johs
V. Calhoun.
Auditor-W. s. Fraree.
Treasurer--Iiedoux e. Smith.
u. s. SENATOR'S.
Don Cafferey and s. d. McEnery.
REPRESENTATIVES,.
District-R. G. pavey.
2 District-Adolph Meyer.
8 District-R. F. Broussard.
4 District--P Brazealu.
5 District-J. i. Ransdell.
8 Districf-S. H. Robinson.
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g iogical possibilities by his siz
or complexion. Take "Chig" Taylor
for instance. He was the smallest
red-headedest, ugliest, ''ornieriest" sol
der in the Thirty-second Regiment
From the time the command left the
Presidio till after the surprise and
massacre of Calignac he never did
have any standing with lieuterants,
captain or colonel. In fact, he spent
half his time In the guardhouse. and
was known in the brigade as q trou-
ble-maker and insubordinate.
When Colonel Gary, of the Thirty
second, got orders to send a battalion
around by the Cocooan River to Gagni,
and to make connection with the
Seventh Artillery en- route, "Chig'
Taylor was a happy man and good
soldier. What he needed was action.
and here was the first chance he had
since he landed in Manila. First he
got away from the bad influence of
the cheap groggeries of the archipel-
ago, and, second, he had a sick COM
rade on his hands. Tim Scully was his
"bunky." and "Chig" knew all about
his record" in the States. Tim had
done time" back in the States, but in
spite of that he had been a good SOL
der, and had split rations with the
hungry CHG" That's a good deal.
Ii you're a soldier you know what
half-portion of beans and salt horse,
means.
So "Chig," in his rude, humble. law
breaking way, loved Tim Scully and.
because Tim was sick and had a bis
ter on his foot as big as paper dollar.
carried his pack to Taglac and beyond.
Perhaps you have never seen the rainy
season in the Philippines The town
streets arc stagnant rivers of yellow
slush. kDee-deep. putresce1t and bad
for the strenuous walker. The rice
helds are lagoons Of Shiny soapsuds. |
lie Is not good for the pleurisy, it is bad
for sore feet. it is terror for the weary.
And Tin Scully was stuffed with pleu.
rlsy and he was tired. Therefore |
CHG Taylor, the regirental black |
sheep, carried his pack, split break |
fasts with him and drew his rations.
Everybody hated "Chig." He was
the smallest man In the regiment.
Red-headed, frecsled. quarrelsome.
lazy and arrogant. he had all the be- |
setting sins of the desplsed rookie
and none Of his virtues. for he was
economical, voracious as to his food.
jealous of his homer and moral in the
lne sense.
"Chig" was a sergeant and so thor
oughly despised that when there was
sink digging or garbage moving to be
lone he was the elect, the chosen one.
He was in the habit of roasting" his
colonel, cursing his captain and. belit-
ling his lieutenants to that degree
hat the men with shoulder straps he.
ian to suspect singing hurts from the
ear. Nothing was put past' "Chig'
Taylor.
THAT fellow will land in post pri-
on" said Lieutenant Campbell. the
Vest Pointer. "He has a bad heart
md mean. yellow eye"
And so when X Company and the
est of the battalion was sent round +:
y The Cocooan River, Taylor. the
freckled sergeant" got all the dirty '
YORK. Every commissioned whipper.
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snapper in the command fused" him
for valet and bossed him round like
a hired man. At Balignag 1t was sup
posed that the Thirty-second Battalion
would be REINFORCED by Major Cap
per's two companies of artillery-they
called them batteries" but in reality
they were infantry with two mountain
guns-but when the battalion arrived
in Balignag it was found that Capoer
was twenty miles to the northwest on
little excursion of his own devising.
The only telegram operator in the
command was "ham'' native, and
when Major Helery tried to reach
headquarters he found that his s'oper-
ator" couldn't trsnspose an English
message and the receiver couldn't
translate one in Spanish Major Hell
cry had only 40 men In his battalion,
but his orders were plain.
.'Push on to Calignac." they read:
"make junction with capper at Ba-
lignag, taking the Hotchkisses, and re-
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A Lapland Clock.

Perhaps it is not realized by many
persons that in the higher latitudes
clocks become more and more q con
venience, if they are not prime neces
sity to the housekeeper. When the
sun is above the horizon for weeks to.
gether there is little difference to be
noted between day and night. An Eng
lish traveller describes a clock he met
with in Lapland:
IAN ordinary solid clock does not
take the Laplander's eye. He likes
something fimsy, and If possible. some
thing novel.
"At one place. hung on a peg driven
into the logs of the wall, we We're con-
demned to gaze hourly upon the ex-
asperating device Of a dentifrice ad-
vertisement connected with clock. In
this a smiling young person drew
toothbrush briskly across a beautiful
set Of cardboard teeth between every
tick.
Il was much wishfill for sleep and
forgetfulness, but neither would come.
Hour after hour l was condemned to
lie awake and stare at the toothbrush
clock, and to read the legend, printed
in my native tongue, that it was made
in Germany and that the dentifrice
was put up in neat packets, priced six
pence, or one shilling. and that it could
be had of any chemist with the least
to call himself respecta-
bic.
Il argued at the time that the clock
had drifted far from the land to which
the Ingenious advertiser lad destined
it, seeing that the letter-press was
English, and that the Laplanders do
not use tooth-powder, even if they
could have, read about it."-Youth's
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port back to headquarters inside of
| sixty-two hours"
1t was all plain enough, but when
Helery and his command reached Ba-
lignag and the telegrapher proved a
failure. and Capper was missing and
half the battalion was sick with its
twenty-four hours in the morasses
things began to look bad"' for the IA
nous Thirty-second. Major Helery
was worried, but he couldn't reach
headquarters. The jungle, full of ''an-
igos," and sea of yellow mud, lay be-
fore him.
I'm goin' to lay down." said Scuuy.
Don't do it, Tim" said "Chig" Tay-
lor. Were from the same State, the
same county and the same town, an
the good Lord knows 1 amt got no rep
utation to waste. Have you"
The day after Major Helery left
without his re-enforcements he was
ordered back to headquarters, but he
didn't get the message. When the or
DERBY rode out six miles after him he
was twenty miles into the jungle, and
Tim Scully was still talking about
laying down." "Chig," the red-head- |
ed ne-er-do-well, was carrying the load. |
1t was Friday night that the Thir- |
ty-second entered Calignac and drove
the !Tagals, 400 strong, out of the vii
age. Beyond the village lay rows on
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ArrayeIer,s Predic.man.

A traveller getting outside st. Peters
burg discovered, when he tried to re-
enter the city, that he had left his pass
port in the bedroom of his hotel. The
guards refused to let him pass; refused
to send for the passport. According
TO you," said he, the only thing for
me to do is to throw myself in the
Neva.' mo-" said the sentry. "sui-
eide in Russia is strictly against the
iaw.'-London Globe.
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A stream with peculiar properties
flows near Tucson, Arizona. Wood and
vegetables and other soft substances
thrown into it become petrified. 1t Is
customary for visitors to leave pota-
tees in it for few weeks enclosed in
wire receptacles and find them turned
to stone.
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One of the latest acquisitions of the
botanical gardens at Kew, England,
is specimen of the original flower
from which all cultivated chrysanthe-
NUNS have been developed. This flow
or is known as the Chrysanthemum
indicum, and the only surviving plants
of it exist in remote parts of China.
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

A Turk holds that the day begins
exactly at sunset. At that time he sets
his clocks and watches at the hour
OF II. A watch which could run for
weeks without gaining or losing a
minute would be of no special value
to the Turk.
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A French explorer has discovered
on the west coast of Africa what he
regards as the vainest people ON earth.
They are the Panon.ns. warlike tribe.
whose main employment is the adorn-
ment OF their persons, chiefly by means
OF tattooing. Great ingenuity is also
exhibited in dressing their hair, which
in many cases is arranged in aston
ishingly elaborate fashion.
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Eighteen miles is said to be the long.
est distance on record at which a man's
voice has been heard. This occurred
in the Grand Canon of the Colorado
where one man shouting the name Of
Bob" at one end, his voice was plain
ly heard at the other end, which is
that at Gibraltar the human voice has
been heard a distance of 10 miles.