Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-11-18
4 TRAVELLING MAN 8
EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST.
New Yorker Grows Reminiscent in a
West.BOund Pullman.

gentlemen, you know / never was an
adept in the art of STORYTELLING" an
swered jovial John Randall, the woolen
goods man, to a party OF fellow knights
of the Grip in the smoker of west
bound Pullman.
''That'll do to tell a stranger or one
who doesn't know you, Jack" answered
one Of the party.
ITO be candid with you, | have ex-
hausted my old stock, and have not
been out on this trip long enough to
accumulate a new supply
but you've been making semi
annual trips across these plains and
through the west for a good many
years now, and surely, you have met
with some experience worth repeat
ing"
II don't know but what have: let
me see-yes. it was on one of my
summer trips; the summer OF 81, |
believe, that met with an experience
that has played quite an important
part in my life, and hope may con-
tinue to do so. had inspected, care
fully, the packing of my trunks in the
house in New York." began Randall,
''and saw that they were delivered to
the depot and properly checked. That
night, while wandering around in the
depot, l met George ScrOggs, an in
innate friend of mine, who had come
to say farewell to an acquaintance Of
his, Miss Hamilton, who was bound
for the Rockies, in search of health.
"'Come into the ladies' room Jack,
he said, 'and / will introduce you; she
is accompanied only by her mother,
and perhaps YOU may be of assistance
to them en- route
SIN Difference to my friends wishes |
submitted to the formality of an intro
duction. The ladies informed me that
they were going over the Pennsylvania
system to Chicago, and thence via the
o. to Denver. realized ] was in for
transfers, water for the invalid, and
other numerous so-called gallantries,
more becoming to a trained nurse.
But as my mileage was oyer the same
routes l could do nothing but express
my delight at haying two such pleasant
travelling companions.
"Our journey across. the country pro
gressed quite fayorably and all went
we'll until we left Kearney. One doesn't
dare raise the window for fear Of
suffocation in a deluge OF sand. and the
atmosphere in a railway coach in sum
mer with the windows tightly closed
is almost beyond human endurance
We had not travelled more than fift,
miles when my charge began to sutfe
from smothering spells and during on,
OF these, the laborod coughing brough
on severe helDorrhage. From pit,
or some unac, ountablc source. | bega,
to realize that my interest in this Mis-
Hamilton was OF that peculiar, indie
scribable kind that rapidly kindles
. flame of stronger feeling. Thus, M
: increasing interest in her prompted M
to make inquiries regarding her afflie
ton Her mother told me that she ha
left New York expecting to return
corpse. The best and most celebrates
specialists in the country had bee
consulted and were unanimous in tn
opinion that she was in an advance
stage of that dreaded disease, con
sumption, by the ravages of which
they informed her. one lung was en-
tirely consumed. Her only hope wa
in prolonging life for few months, an
this could only be effected by sojour
in the mountains.
1--WE had travelled together for fiv
days, and when we reached Denver in
stead OF parting with my friends a
that place l accompanied them on t
Colorado Springs. l couldn't tell yo
how it happened, but in less than
week, l asked Miss Hamilton to be m
wife. She told me she could not liste
to me-that she liked me very wei
and all that but she would not reac
her hand out OF the grave 10 TAX
mine. 1t she ever was fortunat
enough to recover, she would be please
to see me again--hoped would stop o
my return trip, etc.
''If you do get we'll, may / hope
l pleaded. Say fellows, l never wi
forget the faint blush that mantle
those poor, faded checks when sh
whispered, i guess so jack
''From that moment / made up m
mind that she would get we'll, ii it wer
in my power to effect such q miracle.
Il was in semi-happy, semi-disco,
solate state when / bade her goodby
and went to my hotel. picked up
paper in an endeavor to distract n
mind and was glancing over it's page
when my eyes fell upon the advertis'
ment OF DIR. Rea, OF Louisville. KY