The Press., 1889-11-28
{New York Tribune.) 4 STRANGE PENNSYLVANIA ACCIDENT.

tNeW. IOrK IrlDune.) 4 STRANGE PENNSYLVANIA ACCIDENT. The Mffiin Center (Penn) Blade las just sustained considerable financial loss under pecrllar circumstaI ces. A short account of 1t will not, we b. li-ve, be out of place, and will, it is hoped, put other men on their guard. The accident by which the loss was brought about was of such an untxpe cted nature that we pre- sume men are better prepar,d for it than was our friend of The Blade.
 s'We were the victim yesterday of one of the most distressing accidents ever known in Miff1in Center" he writes in the course of an editorial on the subject in The Blade for November 9 sYestelday morn. ing" the article continues, ''onr wife took occasion to do the family washing, having been kept from it earlier in the week by being very busy putting mp our winter supply of apple butter. Among other ar 1 ticlcs tf wearing apparel which she in- cluded m the wash was our white vest, rightly thinking thnt the white vest days were about over, and intending to do it up and lay it away against the return of the next picnic season. Now, unbeknown to her, In the lower right-hand pocket of this vest there was large roll of bills. twelve twelve ones ard two-$14 in all. She did not discover the roll, and after having washed the garment thoroughly, she hung | it on the line in the back yard to dry. 1 All might yet have been we'll had it not been for MT. Ferdenbaugh's large brindle COW, wlSeh Is we'll known to most of our citizens. While our wife was in the parlor visiting moment with Mrs. Parmley, who called to see how to make her grape pre- serves lell, this beast-she deserves no better nane-broke through our back gate and deliberately ate up our vest, money aEd ali When our wife reached the sc. ne of trouble the beast was just swallowing the last bill, with evident relish. Our wife seized the mop and rushed at the marauding intruder, but she I only tossed her head, kickt d sideways with both hind feet, and, leaping lightly over the fence, trotted eff, switching her tail de6antly. Neither the vest nor the money, we are sorry to say, seemed to have any Tad effect on her sc,undrelly good health. Our wife immediately in- formed us of the accident, and we instant ly called on MT. Ferdenbaugh and de- handed that the animal be slaughtered, doubing not that we should fl our mon- ey in the first of that suite of stomachs with which we learn from physiology the COW is provided This MT. Ferdenbaugh refused to assent to. He pleaded that he YVES poor man, and, as he had recently bought the COW, that all of his ready mon- ey was in her. We naturally replied that all of our ready money was ill her, too, but it failt to move him. It W. s a sad affair, take 1t all arodnd, but one about which nothing can be done. Our wife's excuse for not looking in the pockets before she began her laundry operations is that she had gone through our pockets for money fol twenty years and never found-any, and had th. It fore become discouraged And if the reader will believe it, that beast of g COW had the effrontery about the middle of the afternoon to lie down under a tree directly opposite our house and contented ly chew her cud-remasticating our $14 we doubt not'
 Who can read this simple yet touching account uumoved? In our opinion the editor of The Blade bears his loss with re marksble fortitude. It is no light thing thus to have $14 swallowed up Tht country editor = and we presume oul Pennsylvania friend is no exception ally has enough to contend with withou any new and unexpected trouble. Ther' is the overdue paper bill, the man wht takes out his advertisement every time h, has fit of indigestion, the ten-year-bacl delinquent subs criber who returns his pa per marked refused" the man who want something kept out of the paper, the mal who wants the same thing put in, tn, smoky office stove, the inebriated printer the melted press roller. the man who neve took the paper ill his life who sends in tn, column letter finding fault with its edi torial position and signs himself "Ole Subscriber" and hundred other triall which we will not stop to mention; wher on top of all this hard money gotl to feed rapacious COW at the rate of $14 per meal, we could not blame him if ht became discouraged. We hope other meI will be warned in time and see that they have left no money in any of their summer clothing. We can only close by reprintine this pathetic item found among the loca news of the same issue of The Blade Remember ye editor needs money worse than ever since the COW ate up that roll o bills. Pay up, you delinquents Cord wood taken the same as cash-in fact, we had rather have 1.-the COW can't more than gnaw the bark off that at the worst. BUcKLEN's ARN1oA SALvE.-The best salve in the world Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed@ to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by E. K. Taft.