Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-05-31
CATCHING A TRAIN.

1t was my first day on the wheat
prairie of North Dakota. Ihad left Far
go at 5 o'clock in the morning on one of
the two daily trains westward and had
stopped at Castleton, 20 miles from
the ''Phenix City of the Northwest. -
Thence had tramped back across the
prairie two miles to see the Dalrymple
farm, the greatest in the world, 80, 900
acres under cultivation. By 9o'clock in
the morning had seen all there was to
be seen in the process of thrashing and
SO retraced my steps to Castleton.
At the station was informed that the
next means of getting back to Fargo
was by freight train leaving at about
2 O'Clock
There are no art galleries or cathe-
drals in Castleton. There are dozen or
two stores and hotel / entered the
hotel with the air of abandon and gen
eral superintendent usually ascribed to
commercial travellers, sat down i'll the
office and picked up day before yester-
days st. Paul paper An old man with
white whisl1ers sat in the sun reading
the day before that's paper. He was
evidently a pioneer, who had so long
been away from the more civilized re-
gions that he Jagged little in the his
tory of the world. However, was glad
to see one guest at least in the hotel
among the wheatfields.
By way of introducing myself to the
old gentleman cracked few jokes on
the sleepiness Of the town and the dingi-
ness of the hotel, but little later real
lied that my remarks were i'll directed,
by finding that he was proprietor of the
establishment. "Never mind, " thought
/, sit will be all right if take dinner
here" /" The old gentleman face showed
i'll response to question, that dinner
would be served at half past IL.
/ was now wearied Of reading stale
news, so went out and took five min
utes' walk to the end of the main street
and back. Next bought a novel and
went out upon the prairie and spent
couple of hours reading. Killing time
in Dakota town found not to be so
exciting as the same occupation in Chi
cago OF London. About noon wandered
back to town and got stranded on some
California fruit at store. filled my
self so completely with grapes and
peaches that 1 never once thought of
dinner at the hotel. The old landlord
must have been grievously disappointed,
but l did not see him again.
talked with the clerk i'll the store,
read some more and cursed the Northern
Pacific until nearly O'Clock. Then /
sauntered over to the station, and after
waiting half hour for the train in
quired of the station agent as to what
time 1 could get away.
He replied, mot until the 4 o'clock
through freight comes" The 2 o'clock
was way freight and had been de-
layed, he explained.
/ moralized on the Inconvenience of
travel i'll new section of the country
and set about using up another two
hours. / found that had somehow got
some spots of wheel grease on my clothes
and managed to spend comparatively
pleasant hour scrubbing out the spots
with naphtha at the town drug store
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