Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
A COURTING IN THE OLDEN DAYS.

Thirty years ago, Michigan people were a
frank and truthfulset. Strangers could come
here and trade horses with their eyes closed,
and breach of promise cases were unknown.
Folks meant what they said, and when they
gave their word stuck to it,
Exactly thirty years ago this month a
widower from New York State appeared in
Lansing on business That same business
carried him over to Dewitt, eight miles away.
While on his way he stopped at log farm
house to warm his cold fingers. He was
warmly welcomed by the pioneer and his
wife, both of whom were we'll along in years,
and after some general talk the woman que.
ried:
"Am right in thinking you are widow
err"
"Yes"
did you come out here to find a wife ?"
"Partly."
did anybody tell you of our susie?'
"No."
swell, we've got as bouncing a girl of
twenty-five as you ever set your eyes on.
She's good looking, healthy and good tenn
pered, and l think she'll like your looks"
"Whcre is she?'
"Over in the woods there, chopping down
coon tree. Shall blow the horn for her ?"
mo. If you'll keep an eye on my horse
I'll find her."
"Well, there's nothing stuck up or affected
about Susie. She'll say yes or no as soon as
she looks you over. you want her, don't be
afraid to say so.
The stranger heard the sound of her axe
and followed it. He found her just as the
tree was ready to fall. She was stout, good
looking girl, swinging the axe like a man,
and in two minutes he had decided to say:
"Susie, am a widower from New York
State. am thirty, nine years old, have one
child, own good farm, and want a wife.
Will you 60 back with me?"
She leaned on the axe and looked at him
for half minute, and then replied:
"Can't say for certain. Just wait till get
these coons off my mind"
She sent the tree crashing to the earth, and
with his help killed five coons which were
slowed away in hollow.
"Well, what do you say?" he asked, as the
last coon stopped kicking.
"Im' you'rn," was the reply; "and by
the time you get back from Dewitt I'll have
these pelts off and tackled up and be ready
for the preacher"
He returned to the house, told the old
folks that he should bring back a preacher
with him, and at dusk that evening the twain
were married. Hardly an hour. had been
wasted in courting, and yet he took home
one of the best girls in the State OF Mlchl-
gan.-Detroit Free Press.
WHAT CAUSES GRAY HAIRs.-Gray hair
sometimes comes prematurely by inheritance,
trouble or the large use of water containing
lme The sudden bleaching of a head Of hair
is frequently caused by severe nervous
shocks, and numerous historical and tradi.
tional cases may be cited in which sudden
fear or overwhelming news has turned the
hair white in few hours. The case of Marie
Antoinette, is one Of the most tender and
touching, for in single night her rich dark
hair was changed to silver gray. A sepoy
of the Bengal army was taken prisoner in
1858, and the fright he received caused his
hair to become completely whitened within
half an hour, the change being so rapid as tc
cause his captors to exclaim, in astonishment
"He is turning gray| Under the influence
of great fear or any great mental shock, the
blood recedes from the surface of the body