Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-12-27
1HEMAN FROM LARAMIE !
And the Lies
He Told.
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"" oNSn ldihiiS dDOuC the gen
orally humdrum lives led by nine men
out of ten, and the sad eyed man who
had hitherto kept silent said as he set
tied back into his chair and put his
feet on the rail of the hotel piazza:
From my birth to the present time
l have had but one thing happen to me
that was in the smallest degree unu-
sual, and that related to my marriage,
which was little out of the ordinary"
He spoke with a sleepy drawl that
piqued curiosity, and asked him to
tell us what happened if it wouldn't in
terfere with his nap.
He smiled and yawned and said:
Il was born and brought up in Lara
mic, Wy, and so was Arabella. Ara
bella Is my wife. had known her all
her life and had always loved her, and
she had done the same by me, and the
course Of our affections ran as smooth
as molten metal. In 1889 decided to
marry her, and the day was set for
April %, and we invited all our friends
and looked forward to a happy but
commonplace wedding.
"Just one week before the ceremony
l was called up to North Dakota on q
business matter which did not think
would detain me more than three or
four days.
"Arabella did little weeping on my
shoulder, womanlike, and said, What
If you never come back? But l said:
Now. you know perfectly well that
always have been as regular as clock
work. It's only few hundred miles
away, and III be back and We'll be
married exactly at o'clock on April
25, and it will be the least exciting and
yet happiest wedding that ever took
place.
Il went up to North Dakota, and the
last ten miles Of my journey had to
make on foot. While ! was walking
along it began to snow, and inside Of
an hour a blizzard was raging, and
had to put in for shelter at the house OF
a lone stranger named Smithson, who
kindly gave me supper and told me
that it would be suicidal for me to go
any farther; that a Dakota blizzard,
the last one Of the season, but perhaps
| the worst. was upon us.
"'When can l return? said l. He
told me that if the blizzard was real
energetic one it would be two weeks
before | saw home and mamma. You
may imagine my feelings. Hundreds OF
miles from Arabella with less than q
week intervening before our marriage,
and no way of getting word to her. VI
course she would think me faithless.
81 told the stranger my troubles, and
he sympathized with me. but SAID that
No human being could live out in that
storm. and when l looked out OF the
window l believed him. 1t was terrlhc.
I had been in the New York blizzard OF
1898 and it was a sultry summers Gay
to this one.
"There was nothing to do but to grin
ond hear it. Maybe it would stop soon
or than my friend thought. lie mlsh'
he an alarmist, but it grew worse ano
nv next morning it seemed to be only
lust beginning to get in Its nne worA
The mercury went so low that IA nesl
tate to say just what the Thermometer
recorded for fear Of being considered
on exarcerator. The snow fell at th'
ro+a of n foot an hour on the level. III
house was soon covered up ana W.
would have smothered in time II m!
friend had not happened to have a III
/ ventilator that ran so feet up in the al
for Just such OCCASIONS
.Sot to make a long story, IL was Nv
dovs before the snow stopped ana the'
/. we were showed in to the aepln " l., -
feet And we were down to our l"s
Io,f If bread. But the thing that "o'
e .,.od me most was the fact that IL wa
: INV wedding day. l sat in the pltc
= dnr,ness for our oil had given gu
y wondering what Arabella wou,o u
t' when | didn't turn up. suuuen4' wv :.
,,oord q voice coming down the vent
,ator Smithson CROPPED his way 10 H.
".Who's there? said he.
: ..,.,a tho narson. Have you TOO
enough? s,,+hson We,
t dawn to our last loaf. How are W
able to be about, parson? .o.
81 .xvhv this is the quecrest SUI
l. that ever happened. All paho. a. nI 10
= of rs is covered, but yours ~ tn so ,
" ,a,'Se in the track Of the storm. SOU
~ hore the ground is perfectly pare,
10 - hitcbed up and brought some prov
II - oIonp and drove to the edge
this mighty snowbank' ana tne s,n :,
m nv snowshoes and cilmpeu n ut
,ucsv YOU had such long ven.,." ~,
- lu.n a How are you going to get w
p,p ",, drop some food down the ply.
enaM ,,;+hson told him that we had u
.oten anything for ten hours n,a
s. ea horinuing to get up an appe. 80
We" tho next minute bundle " ~
anu n t was dropped down TO US.
anu n1 p vou can tunnel south OF W
90, % feet, you'll come out
= o,ear country. I'll go nome " and y
nv shovel and dig toward So"' "
oncht to get out soon dominic a
or 0. asmithsou thanked the d0m'n' s ~ =
- -. tackled the baked beans, ana al T Tn
G We .o o ike Neapolitan Ice cream. :, -
" tas'e en- like working. But l was =. ~,
Of we , urettv serious, because l knew 10 y,
r ing pa a,,o was beginning to worry. az y
ever. fell to with a guy orr we met
- ar two hours OF naru ,n,stor and II
the snow tunnel, the m, M we walk
a out to open air and ,, saw aes ''i''S
S osan as far lay 'e 50 s, feet d d
with wi, an arctic Snowfall noa,nning to sh