The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1897-03-26
ATE A CLOCK.
Queer Taste ola Louis
Vile Cow.
A Boys Story Sounded
Fishy Until the Sill
very Tones
OF the Time Piece Were Heard
From the Cows Inter-
Tor.

II was 9 o'clock yesterday morning
when a servant in the residence of
Mr. George A. Newman, 1871 Phird
street, was sitting on the kitchen
steps cleaning small silver clock,
says the Louisville Post The clock,
which soon afterward was to undergo
a most remarkable experience, is a
very valuable timepiece. It was new
er known to keep any other than cor
rect time, and the town clock even
did not have the same confidence re-
posed in it by the Newman family as
this small eight-day.
Therefore the servant was always
very careful with it. To lose it would
be a great misfortune aud a source of
bad luck. She polished it and rub.
bed until its surface shone as bright
as a sixteeu-to-one dollar fresh from
the mint.
Some one called the maid. She
left in a hurry and placed the clock
on the steps. In Eve minutes she re-
turned. The clock was gone.
Then 1t was that the housemaid ex-
perienced palpitation Of the heart in
a most disagreeable form. She made
hasty search. No one was near.
She ran to the front yard, but could
see no tramp getting away with the
clock. The family was notified.
High and low, from cellar to garnet,
they searched, but no clock appeared.
The servants maintained their limo.
cence and were believed, and the
Newman family had to go without
their inialible time piece, and as a re-
suit had dinner twenty minutes late.
In the yard at the time the maid
servant left the clock on the steps was
COW, Of purest Jersey stock, that
had endeared itself by giving fresh
milk and butter twice a day. While
the search was being maid, even in
the very neighborhood Of the COW, the
intelligent bovine calmly chewed its
cud and one towel that h I'd been hung
out to dry, and ate grass in a calm
and peaceful manner.
In the afternoon nothing had been
seen OF the clock, 50 it was registered
among the lost and the search was
given up. Later in the evening the
small boy OF the Newman household
was in the yard. Suddenly a silvery
chime aoated on his ear He listened.
Another and another, until FIVE times
the chime had sounded, and he recog-
nizsd it as coming from thelost clock.
But where was the clock. There was
nothing near but the COW. The boy
searched all around the ward and then
concluded, as it afterward proved cor
rectly, that the clock was in the COW.
He rushed to his father with the news
OF ssdiscovery.
"rhe cows swallowed the clockl
the cows swallowed the clockl" he
shouted.
Mr.. Newman did not believe the
boy. The latter insisted. So at SIS
Mr. Newman went out into the yard
and took his position few feet from
the COW, which was still cropping
grass in reflective fashion. In five
minutes a silvery chime floated again
on the still air. Another and another
and this time six chimes sounded.
While they were sounding the COW
lift up her head in that inquiring
style peculiar to cows and listened.
When the sounds had ceased she re-
sumed her browsing, satisfied that
she was keeping right time and did
not have to be wound up.
Mr.. Newman decided that his son
was correct. DR.. Eisenman was sent
for, He said that probably the COW
had swallowed the clock. and that II
had not gone farther than her FIRST
stomach It would not change posi-
ton until it came time for the COW to
chew its cud, when the bovine would
be placed in a painful position Of hav-
ing to chew a hard bit of silverwave
and steel springs
A powerful emetic did the work.
The clock was a little discolored, but
was still ticking away. This morn.
ing the maid servant resumed the
cleaning when the COW was not about,
and the clock is again doing duty.