The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-16
THE WANDERING COWS.
The Effort at Bristol is Worthy Of
Emulation.

The city of Bristol is in the throes of
legislation. Many interesting things hap.
pen there, but what they are doing now
is more than ordinarily interesting. They
are going to have cow law. 1t has been
drawn up and acted upon in council and
published In the newspapers. 1t is a gen
uine, bona-ffde.. arrange mentor the abate-
ment of the COW nuisance and every ami
NAL partaking of the nature of "a COW
from the age of four months up that is
caught out between the hours of 8 D. M
and a. IN. will be arrested and run in.
When this has been accom- plished and due
| advertisement has been made that the
animal is being held in durance, and no
owner has come for his property, the COW
will be sold and fees paid to everybody
interested. Then if there is anything left
it is to be placed in the hands of some
responsible party in case an owner might
turn up. We are not acquainted with
the style and appearance of the Bristol
cows, but If they are anything like the
dreams that fit about our streets It is
doubtful whether there will be anything
left for possible owners. However we
hope the scheme will work. 1t would do
no harm to turn a little attention to such
things here. If the city could derive no
pecuniary benefit from it, iJ might at
least provide nice tender meat for its
guests A few tramps fed at the sta.
ton house upon some of it occasionally
would tend to rid US of that nuisance
also, and to reduce crime within our
walls. The city physician and city drug
gist would.be benefited. In fact thu
good results would be far-reaching. Even
the undertaken would bo in it.
Speaking of the spirit of enterprise of
our sister city OF Bristol brings up an in.
stance of how Roanoke couple eluded
the agents of the Nckels House, which is
II most hourishing enterprise, and it's ac-
commodating proprietor as we'll as the
representatives or the press. Not long ago
when the train reached Bristol the groom
to-be alighted from the smoking car and
going back through the crowd went up
and met his lady. He said he had been
asked to come to the station for her. The
plan panned out beautifully. The Nickels
House was patroniZed but not through
che agency O. its yoys.
The SINE day that we last made men
ton of the road leading out of Roanoke
from the Northeast gentleman met
heavy farm wagon being hauled into town
on three wheels and fence rail. # had
been broken down in the middle of Tin
ker creek. Not only were the owners in
convenienced but the road was blocked
for some hours. 1t is lad enough
w ho'C W tthNSi OfCE ,IOuRn rOdQJ OuC
when that roadway is in such shape that
travel becomes dangerous there is no
shadow of an excuse for it. The crossing
at Tinker creek is full of large slippery
rock. The public can look forward with
almost absolute Certainty to the news of
some serious accident resulting from this
road. 1t is discredit to any community.
A man was fined a day or two ago for
not having lamp on his bicycle. 1t was
very right and proper that the fine should
have been imposed but why not make it
little more generals We saw a police.
man the other night riding a wheel with
no lamp. 1t may be one of the privileges
of policeman to ride without lamp.
II it is it ought to be revoked Lamps
are required because public safety de-
mands them, and we think that one of
our policemen with no light is as much
of menace to that safety as anyone else,
in some cases more SO. 1t may be that he
was tracking villain or was about to
pounce npon some prey, nevertheless he
should have been arrested.
A Roanoke small boy is spending the
summer with his mother In the country.
His father received a letter from him yes
terday. He said; "Dear father, how is
my goat and Ashley" In this instance
the goat came first. Ordinarily the re-
verse is the order Of procedure.