Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-02-21

we leIt IL. Inc editor of the weekly
paper ran an amusing column, "What
may have happened" And when the
mail came, we found to our disgust that
nothing worth any account had happen
ed at all. There were several other
blockades of day or two each during
the winter, one of them during the first
week in March. That storm kept the
august North Dakota Legislature pen
ned up in Bismarck day or two after it
had been compelled by statute limit to
adjourn. Suddenly without warning
the train came and the noble Legisla-
ture piled on without, fear, all of them
paying their board bills
The vision a passenger has on one of
these snow trains is very interesting.
He finds himself passing through mar
row canyon whose walls are like marble
in whiteness and rigid aspect He sees
only the tops of the telegraph poles, for
the snow fences, bolh of wood and snow
have long since been buried. Nor is life
dull or monotonous on snow bound
trains. The deus ex machina comes out
| OF these incidents as we'll as the Good
Samaritan. People become exceedingly
we'll acquainted and lifes secrets are
poured out to willing ears. On one train
L remember the train had no dining car
but did have that now nearly extinct
species, the news and peanut boy. He
had no peanuts but did have an abound
ance OF that delectable stuff known as
"crackerjack." This young Napoleon of
finance put up the price at once to 25
cents box and was promptly cleaned
out l suppose there were numerous in
cldents of the passengers rushing to
farmhouse for milk for babies such as
always get into ''good stories" of snow
bound trains, but I confess 1 never real
ly knew of these pleasing affairs
| l fear this winter IN North Dakota
has rather exceeded that fond record of
ten years ago, if must believe the des-
patches, which have probably lost moth
ing IN plcturesqueness in their trans
mission SO far east. A man at luncheon
yesterday told me of lriend who said
he was ''penned up" i'll North Dakota
town for six weeks unable to get out-a
story which reminds me of golf term
when the ball is in an excellent position
Undoubtedly there has been some suf-
fcring and great apprehension, but it is
surprising to know that Christmas
freight has not left st. Paul; however.
except in the very new towns these
neighborhoods are prepared by expert
ence for isolation, and many cont, adic-
tions Of the alarmist stories are now
coming in. Two North DAKOTA daily
papers that come to my desk are absurd
ly barren in ''suffering'' details it is the
news of the Thaw case and Jamaica that
they contain. Indeed, winter IN North,
Dakota town is preferred by many resi-
dents to the summer. Itsometimes be-
comes furiously hot in summer, and the
mosquitoes and feas would do credit to
New Jerseys best record. Days in win
ter when it does not "bliz' are simply
delightful The month of December,
1896, was, in my judgment, the finest
month for comfort and brilliancy of sky
have ever seen anywhere. The sun
shone with peculiar strength and beauty
there was not a cloud in the sky and the
air was tonic itself. Day after day was
the same, and although the thermometer
remained pretty constantly at twenty
below zero there was no wind and one
noticed the cold not half so much as he
!, does these days crossing the Common
or standing on Huntington avenue wait
ing for refrigerator car.-Boston Tran
script.