The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-09-27
A Travelling Man S
EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST.
A New Yorker Grows Remini-
scent in a West-bound Pulls
man.

you'll have to excuse me this time,
gentlemen, you know | never was an
adept in the art of storytelling" an
swered jovial ohm Randall. the wooden
goods man, TO a party of fellt W
knights of the Grip" in the smoker
of a west bound Pullman.
"That'll do to tell stranger or one
who doesn't know you, jack an
swered one of the party.
sTo be candid with you, / have ex-
hausted my old stock, and have not
been out on this trip long enough to
new supply"
"But you've been making semi
annual trips across these plains and
through the west for good many
years now, and surely, you have met
with some experience worth repeat
ing
81 don't know but what | have; let
me see-yes, it was on one of my SUM
mer trips; the summer of 81, / be-
lieye, that | met with an experience
that has played quite an important
part in my life, and hope may con-
tlnue to do so l had inspected, care
fully, the packing of my trunks in the
house in, New York. - began Randall,
"and saw that they were delivered &c
the depot aud properly checked. That
night, while wandering around in the
depot, met George Scroggs, an inti-
mate friend of mine, who 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, Y
he said, and i will introduce you; she
is accompanied only by her mother,
and perhaps you may be OF assistance
to them en- route
SIN Difference tony friends wishes
/ submitted to the form allty of an in
The ladies informed me
that they were going over the Pennsyl-
vania system to Chicago and theme.
via the Oh to Denver. realized
that I was in for transfers, water
for the invalid, and other numerous,
so-called gallantries, more becoming
10 q trained nurse. But "a my mileage
was over the same routes I could do
nothing but express my delight at
having two such pleasant travelling
"Our journey across the country
progressed quite fayoraply and all
went vel, until we left Kearney.
One doesn't dare raise the win
dow for fear of suffocation in a
deluge of sand, and the atmosphere
In a railway coach in summer with the
windows tightly closed, is almost be.
yond human endurance We had not
travelled more than fifty miles when
my charge began to suffer from
spells and during one Of
these, the labored coughing brought
on a severe hemorrhage. From pity
or some unaccountables source, began
TO realize that my interest in this
Miss Hamilton was of that peculiar,
kind that rapidly kindles
3 flame of stronger feeling. Thus, my
interest in her prompted
me to make inquiries regarding her
affection. Her mother told me that
she had left New York expecting to re-
turn corpse. The best and most
celebrated specialists in the country
had been consulted and were unanim-
Gus in the opinion that she was in an
advanced stage of that dreaded dis
ease, consumption; by the ravages of
which, they informed her, one lung
was entirely consumed. Her only
hope was in prolonging lite for few
and this could only be effected
by sojourn in the mountains.
eve had travelled together for FIVE
days, and when we reached Denver in
stead of parting with my friends at
that place accompanied them on to
Colorado Springs. I couldn't tell you
how 1t happened, but in less than a
week, asked Miss Hamilton to be my
wife. She told me she could not listen
to me-that she liked me very we'll and
all that but she would not reach her
hand out of the grave to take mine. If
she ever was fortunate enough to re-
cover, she would be pleased to see me
az ain hoped | would stop en- my re-
turn trip, etc.
'If you DO get we'll, may | hope, ]
pleaded. Say fellows, I never will
forget the faint blush that mantled
those poor, faded cheeks, when she
whispered, I guess so, Jack.
ssFrom that moment made up my
mind that she would get we'll, II il
were in my power to effect such mir.
acle.
II was in semi-happy, semi-discon'