Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-16
The Evening Story
A NEW
TIN PAN
By NJ QUAD
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1919, by Associated Lit.
erary Press.

By NJ QUAD
Copyright, 1873, by Associated Lit.
II erary Press. r.
It was q beautiful June forenoon
when tin peddIer approached the VII
age Of Harrison.
He stopped his rig at the 1rst house.
The house belonged to Deacon Rush.
On the back steps, seated side by side.
we're the deacon's wife and her nearest
ueighbor and best friend-Mrs. Burt.
'sTinware, ladies I" he asked. Every.
thing new and bright Finest milk pan
IN the country for only 10 cents"
"I'vs always paid Is cents for milk
pans" replied the deacon's wife.
ayes, and I've sold 'em a. high a. 49,
but they have got new way Of max
Ing EN-. and I'm giving you the benefit
Of It I'll bring one In"
Tho pan arrived. new and shiny.
and stood all the tests It was put to.
No leaks, and It would almost serve a.
Il mirror. A dime was borrowed TO pay
for II, and after little more talk Il
was left on the steps while tn owner
made q call at another house and tho
deacon's wife entered her own to make
|up the bed that had been airing.
! Now came the COW. She belonged 70
4 man at the other end Of the village.
There was grass In plenty, but she
lloneed for Garden truck. She laped
the back fence and helped herself. In
her stepping about she approached the
Kitchen door and saw that new pan.
She saw the reflection Of her face
and became astonishsd and indignant
A crop cared, one horned crittef gazed
at her in q defiant manner. and - she
was q bovine that had never taken Z
bluR she bumped up her back and
sailed In.
An hour later Mrs.. Burt came back
after her pan. and her Arst yell
brought the deacon's wife out Of the
house. There lay the once shapely
and shiny pan in the dirt trodden a.
nat al a pancake. It might do to stop
q hog hole in the back fence. but no
artisan could never mold it into pan.
LANDS alivew exclaimed Mrs. Burt
''Aiercy on mer' exclaimed Mrs. Rush.
"That COW did itv'
"She must havey'
"And you let herr
SARAH Burt, don't you say anything
like that to mel l didn't know there
was a cow in the garden"
"But you ought to have known. II
you'd keep your fences like other folks
the cows couldn't get in. Look at that
pan that cost mo 10 cents an hour
agor'
was to sit out here and watch
tip protested the deacon's wife.
"You ought to have heard the COW
when she was tromping It"
"You ought to have taken 1t home
or carried It along with you."
THAT'S nothing to do with 1t. II
was left here, and It's destroyed, and
III be switched II ever pay you the
10 cents!'
III you don't I'll sue your
"You dasn't!
There 1t was. you see-the drst rea
quarrel between neighbors tho village
> had had In many long years. Th'
happy minded peddler and the fighting
COW disappeared from the scene, bu
the quarrel remained. It did more thai
that. The news spread and within tw'
hours Mrs. Henderson was saying:
Mrs. Burt shouldn't try to lay tn
blame OF on Mrs. Rush. When q wo
mans busy making a bed she ATM
thinking of cows I hope Mrs Rusl
sues for the 10 cents"
And In tho house right across tn
street Mrs.. Holiday was saying:
'I'd let her sue and BE- hanged 4
her! When q new 10 cent milk pa
II left ON my back steps by q nelghbo
|, It's my duty a. Q Christian woman +
70 out there every few minutes an
[ zee that it's all right I shan certain
~ advise Mrs. Burt. not TO pay tn
{ 10 cents"
By the next day the Village va
, about equally divided on tho question
. though some few were inclined 10 blam
1 neither the psddler nor COW. IL was q
talk for q day or two. and then cam
= action. The factions NO longer boz
: rowed nor lent. They bowed stimy Z
: each other or not at all on the stree
i They revived gossip that had bee
h dead fifteen years and rolled II undo
n their tongues. Carried into the chufcl
e EST OF course Il was. When 2 thin
e like that gets started In Q villaG
Q there's no telling where It win end.
drew the elders and deacons and tw
: ministers in, and Il made the attent
ance at sermons and prayer meeting
! mighty slim. To all peacemakers Il
: deacon's wife would reply:
IT wasn't ret here on this earth,
look out for other folks' milk PAM, On
Jest won't do It'll"
And the reply Of MrA Burt would b
70 "She ought to have known about Il
COW, and III never pay that 10 csnts
It was quarrel and division tn
listed ave years and might have COL
!, on for another I'VE but for providen,