Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-08
time after we reached our destination
near MANAGES. Cuba.

eiAAS We LCuCiICu 'Out INSTALLATION
near MANAGES, Cuba.
e Mrs. Doering knows we'll how t,
provide for a hungry man and m,
: grub box contained food enough t
have sustained me for another week
l AS it was l was about two weeks or
| the road. The milk COW Furnished
. me with plenty of milk to drink
: sometimes l would drink milk till il
5 would run out of my nose and eye.
l but that would be when the a would
happen to give a bump while I was
engaged in taking copious draughts O
the tactical fluid. Mrs. Doering had
packed in several large loaves of nice
soft bread and two or three hal
gallon cans of canned meat which she
had canned herself and it was certain
ly fine. Then there were canned straw.
berries and jams and fruit butter OF
different kinds and homemade cookies.
l thot that 1 had hunted out and
taken a taste of everything in that
box, but in looking thru the box some
days after we arrived at MANAGES,
Mr.. Doering diScovered>a large fruit
cake which l had not come across in
my attacks upon it's contents.
DO you have any trouble my
gentle reader, in realizing that feel.
ing, the sensation of a loss sustain
ed, which l experienced when this
discovery was made? Several times
during the journey some one of the
train crew would discover that I had
cows in the car and they would ask
If any of them MIXED. 1 replied in
the affirmative. The next question
would Invariably follow quickly,
Have you got any to spare? "You
bet l have" says l, Whatsoever" "Bet
your life I do" So l would let the
train crew have milk, and they in
turn would bring me some good hot
coffee. "Anything we can do for you
just holler," one of the brakes would
call to me thru the car door. cal
right you may see that l get my
water barrels filled at the next stop"
says /. And on some divisions the
train crew would be SO good as to
back up to my car on a track along
side and fill my water barrels out of
their engine tank if there was no
other water handy. But then again
on other divisions | would have a
different class of men to deal with.
They would be short and curt in their
replies to questions, and l had to, as
1T were, show my teeth in order to
get them to do what 1 had a perfect
right to require of them to- do. The
biggest job l had in laying in a waite r
supply was at Darlington, N. d. We
were so pressed for time in loading
the car at Bowdon that we did not
get a chance to fill up the water
barrels, the consequence was that l
started OUT with no water for the
stock. informed the conductor that
l must get water at some station or
other before long. His reply was
that l could get no water before they
reached Darlington, the division
terminal. He promised that he would
see to it that I got water there, but
when we reached Darlington after
dark chat evening, about half a mile
opt of town On a side track in among
a lot of other cars and side tracks
filled with cars was where they left
me and l never saw any more of the
engine or train crew.
Well / walked back to the station
and found out that there would be nc
train to pick me up before II O'Clock
the following day, and it was after
four too the next afternoon before
my car was moved and started on the
journey to Jamestown, the next
division terminal. l was held about
twenty hours in Darlington, so l had
plenty OF time to fill my water barrels
but the nearest water ! could FIND
was at a farm house a quarter of a
mile away, l had two pals and CARR
ed water pretty soeadilv for a right
smart spell, as a Southern man would
say, before the wants of the cattle
we're satisfied, and l had not carried
any to the barrels yet, and they held
twenty pals apiece. But l got all
the water 1 wanted and still had
time to spare before I was disturbed.
OF l was anxious that my Cal
should be put thru with as little de.
lay as possible. Accordingly 1 would
hunt up the yard-master at every
division terminal and remind him
that l had stock on my car and that
l wanted the car to be taken into
the first train being made up which
was to leave in the direction l was
) going. Had I not taken this precau.
tion there would have been at least
two times that the car would have
been overlooked by the yardmastel
and his switch crew. At Jam estow1
where we pulled in after dark, ]
started out to find the yard-master's
!, office and finally found it after dodg,
J ing in and out among six or seven
long trains of freight cars, and the
switch engine rushing and shriekine
back and forth busily engaged in
, making up the trains which were tt
> depart. l asked the yardmaster inte
what train wOl1l0 NV COR an immf