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Show l'fr.i)Illll. Judge J. S. Ilereman is In the city from tig ten John 11 Vlus'tanl wife of W. lmls ateuttliiiTempldtou. J. I. llbteiiil wife or Moxloo, Mo , aio tlalluraln the thy. 1 k City Au lllor Hosg has gouo to California on a pleasure trip. Mr. hets, wire rtfTlukel Agent Kera of Mia Union Pacific, Is exceted homo from the I'.s.t tunlght. Mia Annie 1 mmbey anl Mrs. Waller ItnhlMrd hategme to I-ngau to aicnd the auminor W1IA1 V MO I uu it It. A T. XA8 IIAISCN OWSl K HUSK UATTI.1! MI IIP "llr" l-OK Tllh iimithl, "I anw soineliiln in a taper the other day," wild uu old leiau jislrt-day,"nbutcowlo)ani jislrt-day,"nbutcowlo)ani Incidentally about mavericks." It may not comeamlaa Just here to explain whala"inavetlck"lsand how the unit originated, Kor a belter understanding un-derstanding uf wlislli to folliw It I-nectsaary I-nectsaary ti slate, forthe Information ol three who never vlalled the Ijoiim Htor Hlale, that they brand a'll horse aud citlle out there. And by the way, "I s iw a Texas pony on the stmts herein Louisville a few days eg) bear-lug bear-lug a gellilluu lexasbranl. 1 II 1 1 go back to tho sil'Jict, Ills nece,aary to brand tattle and hums lu that Hlale In or ler toeiUbllah the ownership, l.vcty owner of a bran I haa It regularly recorded In theCuunty Cleik'aolllcu, anl It becumta a vested ihattle Interest juat aa any other pro-ierlt pro-ierlt anJ may be and irsqueu'.ly Is soldaudtransferedby bill of sale. It has happenel uati limes In Hie hlBtoryoi rxaathal long anl easily lltlgstlona have been Carried on lo de-lerinluetherUhtfulouiior de-lerinluetherUhtfulouiior of 11 brtnJ. Cattle and Imrsia run at large lu Ti xas au 1 It Is at s dutely necessary to brand tin iu In order lo a-cmo to the owners the tights of properly. And when a bran 1 once nuts mi an animal, tviti wrongfully, It takes mighty strung testimony to convince a tourt that the owner of the bran I has "ruaverliked" the animal. 1 he 1 res- emeof the brand is alaayi taken hy thecuurt ai irtiua fade ovldincu 01 ownership, nuJ the whole burden of I roof falls u,mii the other arty. 1 saw an amusing testof this very poiiillnatourioriaw In Texas rttic A family had a yearling heifer wblo! had been reared about the house as a let, belii confined all her life In the cow-jen. Oneday alio broke out mil ha I not got 100 jatJs Irom tho houae when a tuwboy came aluug and "I umbed" hla braud on her. Tne lighlful owner went to law torccovir hla nulmal aud every number of his family awore point blink to the Identity Ident-ity of the animal, yet the prairie 1 Irate gut It by virtue of his bland. Ofdutao the 1 Itale'a attorney got the ovincr of the animal badly mixed lip un tho Klllla of Idelltlflcstluti, but there waa hardly a mai who btard tlie ca-u but what was mtlslled In hljown mind thatustlienllacariled that day, H.me cars ago a man named Maverick Mave-rick licnled mar Austlu, Tex., mid went Into the Cock business. He had lyjusldeMble money and islabllrhed n largerauih, mostly of little. He nas what might lo tinned a progressive mau, tut hi Idea ol progress were not suitable to his surroundings. Tor lu. stauie. he concluded that bralldllig lattlo was useless, lu fait birbaruus, mid ho determine 1 tbat the read hut lion about J nevir ukalu he ptissel agalnattne side of au animal tieling. lug 10 him. He kept his word, but ho dtln'l keip his cattle, lhls was u regula 'cnloforthe cowboy a of tha. loiullly, ..hoof all things rwulJ never be accused of heinrt ul all rcrutilous un questions if honor, 1 specially when ttiere was aslner Invuhed In the case. Will, the cowboys IckW up Maverick's Mave-rick's tattle wherever they could tin J litem and It was nut lotlg before every hoof of them waa goue an 1 he wai leduiedtJ utmost jsiverty. l.veralucu tlialuvery unbrnnuod head of oattld ovi r six luoulha of age has been nailed a maviilck. and la regarded by the cowboy its the irupsny of him who lli.t finds It and sthks his bran I on It. Ihrre Is a great delusion existing lit the minds ol Northern and l.l.lorn I io le In regard to thu nowuey and his prolesalou. A kluduf romance apiwats to attach Itaulf to him that haa a fas-dilation fas-dilation for a great many wople, ispei lolly boy I, Sow, there never was a greater mistake. mis-take. A more ordinary specimen of humanity than the uveragd uonboy luiildhardly tefotindlu auy counlty. He Is coinmyuplHCe In opiiesrauoe, In mind, In Impulses and, lu fact, lu evitythlng that guia lo make up a man. Ills occupation lo tho dluJory of all creillon, 1 otwlthataiidln a very fooilali notion that exists that It la a toutantlu and easy lift. Whut romance Is there In riding all da), Irom only In the morntug till late at night, ovir anendliM mons-ttous mons-ttous prairie, rounding up ulllt? Kre-quenlly Kre-quenlly thoiowliuya nave to ride all night long ou distant dtlvis, or when theru Is n stauiiiedo lu the 1 erd and soinuEeluway, riieaeam bis never-oliuugingduliisluallkludsuf never-oliuugingduliisluallkludsuf weatlier, ami I! liny one can figure out uheiu H10 tomance comts lu 1 will give him ciedlt furbilbita smsrt nun or 11 fuul Iheu the "iww punchers" live hard In other ways, and 1 do not stretch tho truth win 11 1 emphanlau this by saying that ho lives tough," Hid usual diet Is half-brelle! buo in nud dry bread washed down by lauk water, 011 whlth n slx-liicli grieri sitim Mauds all summer, sum-mer, 'lliese are plain, solid ficts that every one who knows the dally mini of duty uf the cowboy will tiuhuallat-lugl) tiuhuallat-lugl) verify. Of cjurue, much more n ul I ho sal I In detail about tbo hard-shlrsoi hard-shlrsoi tlie cowlwy's Hie, but this Is lufllcieut to warn all "lancy-atruck" juiing Amerliaus loluokabiad a little lit-tle befuiu Ihoy go Wssl to be lowboys. |