The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1890-02-05
AN EXCITING CONTEST.
HOW A KANSAS MAID VOICED
AND WON HER HUSBAND.
Remarkable WOOing Of a Kansas
Maid In Which a Snow PlOw
Assisted.

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Remarkable WOOing Of a Kansas
Maid In Which Snow PlOw
Assisted.
Speaking of marriages." said
the Congregation minister, "one
Of the.briefest aud most exciting
courtships on record was that of an
acquaintance OF mine who found
his wife in Kansas. 1t was in the
winter of 1879, and the fall of
snow was phenomenal ia that sec,
ton. Beginning wish Christmas
there was good sleighing for five
weeks, and huge drifts covered the
pralries much longer. The snow
had entirely stopped trains ON the
Kansas City, Burlington and Santa
Fe, and across section orcoun..
try known as the French Ridge.
the farmers had been using the cut
made through the hills by the rail,
road complny as "A short and ex-
tremeiy good roadway to town.
Long after the snow had melted
from the dirt highway teams were
driven down this valley, and one
night this young man of whom l
speak took a ucighbOr girl out for
what threatened to be the last
sleigh ride of the season. They
had never met a half dozen times
in their lives, but that did not seri.
0usly embarrass them, and they
drove down the railroad track on
well beaten snow. It happened
the railway company had snow
pillow, with which they meant that
night to open the road from Otta.
wa to Burlington. They had two
engines behind it, aud it came
laundering down to French Ridge
at great rate, and the couple in
the sleigh heard with dismay the
roar and c!ang of the huge mas
chine behind them.
"The little ravine between the
hills was too narrow to allow them
to turn out, aud there was noth-
ing for it but to run. So the
horses were urged to their highest
speed and the sleigh went tearing
over the snow with the monster
behind gaining every instant. Of
course the engineer could see
nothing ahead through the tossing
mass Of snow, and certainly did
not expect anything alive on that
desolate plain, especially after
night fall. All the horse flesh
could do was invoked, but it was
not enough, for right at the deep>
est place in the cut the great pillow
struck them, tossing team, sled
and the shrieking riders high into
the air. They landed in a mass
more or less confused high up the
bank, with snow about them so
thick they could not fall back on
the track. AS the train rushed
past the horses foundered out and
pulled away the fragments of the
sled. The young woman stood
up. shook the snow from her muff,
which she had unconsciously kept
in her hand, pushed her way to
the bare railroad and said calmly
"Well, We can walk home!"
"a view so philosophic in view
of the remarkable loss they had
suffered, quite won the young
mans heart. He also walked out
of the snowdfilt, walked out to
where shestood, and put the ques-
ton direct:
"Will you marry me?'
"I'll think about it." responded
the heroine; and she did, with the
result Of finally accepting the
young man, collapsed sleigh and
all. They live in Kansas City
now, and told me last winter when
| visited their pastor that they
never had a moments reason to
regret the sleigh ride, the tossing
received at the hands of the snow
plough, or The informal manner 10
which their destinies we're united"
Chicago Herald.
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One Fact
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