The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21


"T'H see If 1 can't catch him, on your
bicycle. And I'll go on and find out about
the accident, anyhow.
But, though she was a good rider she
might as well have tried to overtake an
express train as the wild-cow editor Lean
ing over the handle-bar and ringing the
bell constantly, he never slackened his
pace for the whole distance. When she
arrived at Tarboxs she found that he had
got the facts, gone down a lane and start
ed back by another road. She saw Mr.. Tar
boxs got his story of the occurrence, and
returned herself. Tatters was in the Office,
looking innocent, and hard at work.
Don't say anything to him. was the
advice Of the others. He'll surely resign
if you do
She wrote a paragraph about the acct
dent, and 1t was sent into Tatters with the
last of the copy. In few minutes he came
out, holding the sheet of manuscript in his
hand.
." See here he said; are you going to
print such stuff as this about that cow
fght?"
What is it, Tattersg asked the editor
in-chief
Just listen answered Tatters. She
says: Yesterday afternoon Brookdale'S
worthy milkman, Mr. Tarbox, had a mar
row escape. He had just separated calf
from its mother when the latter became
enraged and attacked him with Ter horns.
He was, badly shaken up, but escaped Sc
rious injury Do you hear that?
yes. 1t seems to me all right Put It
in just as 1t is
"Tatters uttered a howl L re- Then
he paused and was silent He looked at
the floor for a full minute, then he said;
No. IL stick to it. After all I've lived
through this week. it's too late to so now
He went back to the other room and re-
sumed his work.
1T was after supper that night before
they got to press but with the prospect OF
a good sum for ameliorating the unamelio-
rated heather, the ladies did not complain.
Tatters' friend, Jim Beasley, had been en-
gagged to come in and turn the crank OF
the press, while Tatters himself fed in the
blank sheets and superintended the work.
He seemed remarkably meek and pleas
ant, and the ladies' all Observed that they
had not seen him in SO amiable a frame
Of mind during the whole week. The BIZ
cycle ride did Tatters good. they remark
ed. He appeared, however, to be In a great
hurry, and constantly urged Jim to turn
faster, and advised the ladies to make
haste with the folding and get the papers
ready for the postoffice
1T was little before II o'clock that the
edition was finished, and Tatters began
taking the forms off the
press. The ladies were in the front room.
The editor-n-chief was glancing over the
paper.
" I don't see that item about Mr.. Tar
box" she said.
+ THE city editor opened another copy
and began to run her eye down the col
umns. Suddenly she exclaimed:
Why, what's this down in the cor
ner?
What is it?' cried the others in
chorus. She read aloud:
" Terrible Accideut.-Yesterday fore
noon, as old Bill Tarbox the milkman'
went into the barnyard to put a new
! handle on his pump. the old one being
entirely worn out. he was attacked by
wild Texas cow The critter had hydro
phobia and was gnashng her teeth Ike
a hyena and believing like an elephant.
She was a large cow higher than a horse,
and had horns most a rod long. Tar
box tit her with the handle, but she tossed
him fifty feet into the air and then
caught him on the fly and h'lsted him up
again. This time he lit in a tree and was
rescued by the hook and ladder company:
The COW jumped a siXteen-foot fence ana
took TO the woods. The mad-cow edi-
tor of The Budget followed her, and last
saw her tearing up large hemlock tees
with her horns Tarbox Is not expected
to live. Full account of an interesting
and important dog fight next week
THE ladies ran into the back room, hut
Tatters had escaped through the BACK
door.
Il got home the next day and resumed
charge OF The Budget. But Tatters item
was a good thing for charity. after att
because, on account OF II, a great many
people bought the paper who would NOT
otherwise have done So"
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