Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-10-27
!. A travelling l MANS
EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST.
A New Yorker Grows Reminis-
- cent in a WeSt-Bound, 49,.
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GU III nave 10 excuse me TINS time.
| gentlemen, you know I meyer was an
, adept i'll the art Of storytelling an
swered jovial John Randall, the WOODEN
goods man, to a party Of fellow
+" Knights of the Grip" in the smoker of
ia west-bound Pullman.
e'Thatll do to tell a stranger or one
who doesn't know you. JaciS,' answer
ed one Of the party
10 be candid with you, I have ex-
! hausted my old stock, and have not
been cut on this trip long enough to ac-
cumulate a new supply"
But you've been making semi
annual trips across these plains aid
through the west for good many
years now and surely, you have met
with some experience worth repeat
ing"
II don't know but what I have. let
me see-yes, it was on one Of my sum-
mer trips; the summer Of 81. l be-
lieve, that met with an experience
that has played quite an important
part in my life land hope may continue
to do so, had inspected, carefully, the
packing of my trunks in the house in
New York" began Randall, land saw
that they were delivered to the depot
and properly checked. That night,
while wandering around in the depot,
met George Scroggs, an Intimate
friend of mine. vino had come to Say
farewell to an acquaintance of his. a
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 enroute'
lin Difference to my friends wishes
I submitted to the formallty of an in
PRODUCTION. The ladies informed me
that they were going over the Pennsyl.
vania system to Chicago, and thence
via the O. to Denver, I realized
that 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
over the same routes could do nothing
but express my delight at having two
such pleasant travelling companions.
/ Our journey across tie country pro-
crossed quite favorably and all went
we'll until we left Kearney. One
doesn't dare raise the window for fear
of suffocaton in deluge of sand, and
the atmosphere in a railway coach III
summer with the windows tightly clos
ed; is almost beyond human endurance.
We had not travelled more than fifty
miles when my charge began to suffer
from smothering spells and during one
Of these, the labored coughing brought
on severe hemmorage, From pity or
some unaccountable source, l began to
realize that my interest in this Miss
Hamilton was Of that peculiar, indie
scribable kind that rapidly kindles a
flame of stronger feeling. Thus, my
increasing interest in her prompted me
to make inquiries regarding her afflic-
ton. Her mother told me that she
had left New York expecting to return
a corpse. The best and most celebrat-
ed specialists in the country had been
consulted and were unanimous in the
opinion that she was in an advanced
stage OF that dreaded disease, con-
sumption, by the ravages of which,
they informed her, one lung was en-
tirely consumed, Her only hope was
in prolonglng life for a few months,
and this could only be- effected by a
sojourn in the mountains. 49,.
1--WE had travelled together for five
days, and when we reached Denver in.
stead Of parting with my friends al
that place accompanied them on tc
Colorado Springs. couldn't tell you
how it happened, but in less than q
week, asked Miss Hamilton to be my
Ewife. She told me she could not lister
to me-that she like me very we'll and
all that but she would not reach hel
hand out Of the grave to take mine. II
| she ever was fortunate enough to re
cover, she would be pleased to see me
again-hoped Iwould stop on my re
turn trip, etc - - = w. = ="
'''If you do get we'll, may 1 hope
pleaded. Say, fellows, I never will for
get the faint blush that mantled those
poor, faded. cheeks when she wills
pered, I guess SO, jack h..
; From that moment 1 made up my
: mind that she would get we'll, If i
were in my power to effect such a mir
i acle. =-..... .~~ -. =
IT was in semi-bappy, semi discon
ISOLATE state when L: babe her good bye
and went to my hotel, + picked ny, &
paper in an endeavor to distract my
mind and was CHANGING oyer its pages
when my eyes fell upon the ADVERTISE
ment Of DR.. Rea of louisville, Ky.
8 who was sojournipg Il in : Colorado
i Springs >at that time. Scanning his
Z advertisement closely, I noticed thai
! he made consumption and its kindred
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