“Trains in the South travel awfully slow,” said Robert Hathaway, of
Atlanta, at the Plankinton House, “but it’s a base libel to say that
conductors will stop trains to accommodate passengers who wish to pick
flowers by the wayside.
“I was riding on a Central Georgia train about forty miles out in
Campbell County, when the train came to a standstill. I could tell the
train had stopped because I was looking out of the window at the time.
“When the conductor came through I asked the cause of the stop, and
found it was a cow on the track. We started up, and had rumbled along
several miles when it came to another stop.
“‘What’s the matter now,’ I called to the conductor, out of the window,
‘another cow?’
“‘Naw,’ he said disgustedly, ‘same cow.’”—_Milwaukee Sentinel._