Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-07-06
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS.
The Cows.

To the MINING JOURNAL.
Oh! Mr.. Editor, the cows, the COWS,
sir! yes, the cows u,
Mr.. Editor, you are such a nice little
man | must tell you all about the
cows Il!
Well, sir, we thought after an Or
dinance was passed to stop the cows
going through our streets and gardens
at their own sweet wills, and after a
lookup was provided for the unruly
four-footed creatures 1--WE had one be-
fore for the obstreperous two footed
creatures) that the good citizens of
Frostburg would no more be troubled
with the cows. That is a good law,
sir, made by our Council yes, sir, | tell
you it lisa right good law-not that we
would think for moment of putting
more work on cow-owners that is to
say, to make them take little more
care of their cows if they thought and
believed the cows were not OF age and
able to take care of themselves. But,
| repeat, we do commend the Council
for making a law about, or, rather,
against the giving uncontrolled liberty
to the COWS to patrol the streets and
enter gardens of good citizens. Be-
sides, Mr.. Editor, we find that after
hard days work we actually and pos
ltlvely need an undisturbed sleep,
which we could not get when the COWS
perambulated the streets every time of
the night with their bells-most horrid
bells O, lack a-day Yes, horrid
bells
And that is not all, sir. After a
fellow works in his garden, and just in
this very month of July, when he sees
his little crops growing nicely, and his
early cabbage beginning to round into
shape, and his green peas almost ready
to pick, and when he thinks he almost
tastes the delicious things in his
mouth, and next finds COW in his
garden making a square meal of his
cabbage and corn and everything else
without any invitation why, | say,
and my wife-and she is supposed to
be wiser than I-says 80, the cows!
the cows ~
But you will say-the Ordinance and
the cow-pen, or lookup, or what you
call 1t. have surely brought the cows,
If not their owners, to their senses
No, slr-no such thing! why one night
this very week, when one of our dear
preachers was in his study Eliminating
over his sermons for next Sunday,
COW was in his garden as cheerful as a
COW could be, eating his cabbages and
corn with asurprisingly good appetite.
| hardly believed it was true until the
reverend gentleman himself said that it
was true. 1t occurred about II O'Clock
Monday night. | asked him-"did he
know whose COW it was p and he said
"yes.' | advised him to charge dam
ages to the owners for her very uncivil
visit to his garden. He said he had
that matter under consideration, but
he wanted to find out, first of all. how
much cabbage, corn, etc., the COW
destroyed IN her oaoner's garden, which it
was very probable she had done, be-
cause it is scarcely possible she would
pay mere respect to strangers than to
those of her own household. Then,
perhaps, he would ask an attorneys
advice as to whether it would be better
for him to enter joint action with
the owner OF the COW against the town
Council Tor damages in the two cases.
Well, not to tire your patience, sir,
many, with myself, think you have
done good thing to speak gainst the
COW nuisance. We think the Ordi-
nance and coo lookup are very good
but don't you think they would be
better IT they were better looked after,
or strlcter lookout kept on the COWS
Have cowkeepers no conscience
Have they no consideration for people
whom their COWS disturb at night ?
10 they feel any conjunction when
their COWS eat all the cabbage and
corn, etc, of families too poor to keep
cows?
But, as it seems little conscience
must be forced on these people, ask
again-where are our good watch
men
But fair play to them, for they now
have double task-one too heavy for
two to look after-the bipeds and
quadrupeds of our city.
o, Mr.. Editor, how near are we
coming to each other-the quadrupeds
and the bipeds Laws, loch-ups and
police md fines for each and the other.
May | ask you to do me the favor of
solving the question-aohich moUes ? the
biped to the quadruped, or the quad
ruped to the biped B? And how soon
they will actually meet on "the great
divide originally between them
AIN yours truly, o. p. Q.
p. 81 have a mind to go and hear
the reverend gentleman preach next
Sunday. ain inquisltive us to how
much grace went with his cabbage and
corn. Mr.. Editor, do you think that
will make any difference in his ser
mons9 | should like to know-have
lost cabbage. corn, green peas and
highway COWS any restrain ming influence
on preachers mental and spiritual
advancement?
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