The Red Cloud chief., 1882-09-29
A Domestic DisOrganizer.

Lieutenant Atwell, who recently
married the daughter Of Captain King,
of Texas, was presented IN the wedd ne
morning. by the brides father. with
10. 900 head of cattle and horses. just
imagine the visitors, as they fingered
over tho wedding presents, when they
came to ten thousand head OF cattle
among the card cases. butter knives
and napkin rings that custom requires
should be presented to bride and BRIDE
groom by their friends; and think Of
how embarrassed Lieutenant Atwell
must have been when he had ten thou.
sand l~ong-honed cows. frisky calves
and believing steers turned over TO him.
without even q halter around their nccks
10 hold them by. Nobody ever gave
me ten thousand head of cattle, but I
can remember when l received an old
COW in payment of a bad debt. 1t was
3 very bad debt, and came to consider
it n very bad payment. She was 4 thin
COW. but the former owner said she was
better than she looked. being n cross
between the Jersey and the Durham.
She looked rs if she might have been a
cross between an old hair trunk and an
abandoned hoop-skirt. kept the brute
three days, and no one. except perhaps
Lieutenant Atwell. could ever appre-
ciate the suffering I endured in that
time. The first night she broke through
the fence. and reduced to . pulp all the
under-clothing belonging 10 my next
door neighbor. She put her horn
through nv bath tub. and ate up all nv
aunt's geraniums. l had expectations
from my aunt but the extent of that
cows appetite ruined them. She was
to give three gallons of milk = day. but
she seemed to be short Just then, and
had that amount 10 spare while
we kept her. In fact she never pro-
duced any milk worth speaking Of un-
less it was the milk of human Kindness
that she kicked out of the hired man.
The second day she walked into the
kitchen and upset . pan OF batter. my
aunt's nerves and n tub Of lard. Then
she fell down . well, and when l got
hcr out, at . cost of five dollars, she
took the collie. whooping cough or some-
thing. and kept us awake all night Not
a green thing was left in my garden;
my neighbor's peach trees and the rope
on which his underwear grew were "a
bare of fruit As 3 single-tree. and he did
not have a twig of shrubbery left Nv
neighbor came over to see me. and said:
"Why do you let your COW into ms
garden at night? Why don't YOU take
your blamed old COW in after dark"
And why. my friend" said I. don't
you take your blamed old garden in
after dark?n
"Now. don't desire any quarrel; but
l want YOU to keep your COW out Of my
shrubbery."
"Andl want you to keep your shrub
berry out Of my COW; it spoils the taste
of the milk"
Friends separated US but ever ater-
wards there vas . coosncss between Us.
and my neighbor's wife ceased to pat
ronixe our house when she wanted TO
borrow . cupful Of yeast powder.
l could bear the cow no longer.
sacrificed her to the payment o. . bad
debt l owed the grocer around Tie Ger
ner. Now. IL one old COW ~disorganised
my domestic ec0nomy. and destroyed
the amic4hle relations existing between
my ncighbor and uysels, whae unsa
Lieutenant Atwen have suffered WITH
ten Thousand cows niak a ahe ruin
and desolatioa Of his gArdea! Imagine
how the neighbors over Tie way must
have Suffered! Iwould v1nture % ~
that inside Of two weeks thoro W1D nol
. living soul WifAin City 1iles vho had
. shin 70 his hAck-1szss Sieiagx