Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — Cow With Crumpled Horn; Man Is All Forlorn [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cow With Crumpled Horn; Man Is All Forlorn

CHICAGO.— “Wha’ d’ye think I am—an orphan asylum?” peevishly demanded De Witt C. Cregler, city custodian of lost, strayed and stolen property, when he was invited the other day to assume the care and proper upbringing of one blond, abandoned cow. # But Mrs. R. R. Tansley, 6435 Lawndale avenue, who has put the poor thing to bed every night and milked it every morning for three months, demanded as an enfranchised woman with constitutional rights that she be relieved. She called Cregler by telephone. ”1 found the creature homeless in Hyde Park on a dark night three months ago," she said. “For three months I have patiently provided it with hay. I have advertised four times in vain for the owner. And every morning I have milked it.” “You should worry, then,” retorted Cregler., “Keep on milking.” But Mrs. Tansley would not accept the suggestion. "You’ve got to take this cow off my

hands,” she insisted. “Besides, she’s going dry.” Cregler mopped the perspiration from his agitated brow. * The place where he keeps lost, strayed and stolen property is the vault in his office. City hall, floor three. He knew bis duty and sought to evade it. Presently he wds seen bending over his desk and writing feverishly. His associates in the office looked over his shoulder and saw that he was trying to write a “want ad.” After discarding several Cregier produced this;* “WANTED—The maiden all forlorn, Who lost a cow with a crumpled horn. Call on any September morn.”