The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-03-14


train accident year before. He was
naturally plain faced man, but had had
his nose broken and an eye destroyed in
the accident and was now pretty good
match for Mary. When l explained
matters to him and showed him her pho
tograph, he exclaimed:
''Say, mister, it won't take me two
minutes to fall in love with that little
girll Til be hanged If she isn't just the
sweetest, neatest, cutest piece Of calico
I've set eyes on for the last 10 years! TIL
be ready to start with you in an hourp'
have every reason to believe the man
was perfectly honest and sincere in all
he said. He was no sooner brought face
to face with Mary than the two fell head
over heels in love, and the affair was put
down as go. It took us about seven
months to make this match. It was Sa-
rah's turn next, and we found her even
more capricious than Mary. She was a
short, stumpy girl and was determined
to have husband not less than feet
tall. This caprice narrowed our field
and lessened the chances.
Mr.. Waldo went up to Michigan, and
1 went down to Kentucky. It was six
weeks before found a candidate who
might suit. At Bardstown discovered
a young man named Bird, who took
long look at Sarah's photograph and
''reckoned he might put up with it on
pinch" He didn't have to, however. He
was feet tall, but Sarah didn't like his
looks and quickly told him so. While I
was down in Tennessee in search of an
other, Mr.. Waldo brought on one from
Michigan. He was over feet tall, but
Sarah found fault with the way his nose
was set on and gave him the bounce. In
the course of five months we brought
eight different bean pole young men be-
fore her for inspection, but she found
fault with each and every one.
One day we were at Akron together,
and we ran across tall young man who
suffered dreadfully. After we ascer-
tanned his height and found he could 9TH
erwise fiji the bill we decided to take
him along. When we showed him Sa-
rah's photograph, he said it looked III
Just like his d-d-dear m-m-mother, of
whom he was very fond, and when we
told him that she also had an impedi-
ment of speech he answered that he was
"p-p-pleased tito h-h-hear it," When
we took him over to the house, a very
funny scene occurred. After Sarah had
looked him over she asked:
"Do you th-th-think you c-c-could IL
love m-m-me?"
I'll g-g-guess $780," he replied.
"I-I w-w-want to be l-l-loved, you
you kn-kn-know."
$3.50 do-do-do II, you kn-kn
know"
IL s-s-see that you-you st-st-stut-
tut-terY
"And see th-th-that you dido too"
The result was that Sarah agreed to
accept him, and then we had Jane to
deal with. We had taken years time
to get two of the men, and if Jane turned
out to be too particular we might not be
able to suit her before the two years ex-
PRED. She felt that she had rights, how
ever, and she insisted on redheaded
husband. Some one had told her that
George Washington was a redheaded
man, and as the Father of His Country
was her ideal she wanted redhead or
none. He was not only to have red hair,
but red whiskers as well.
When I tell you that the proportion Of
redheaded men is only one in every 279
in this country, and that only one red
headed man in every eleven wears whisk-
ers, you can easily figure the odds against
us. A professor of physiology in Gin
cinnati institute had told me that there
were more redheaded men to the acre in
New Hampshire than in any other state
in the Union, and while l went up there
Mr., Waldo headed for Delaware. We
each sent down two, who were promptly
refused. In two cases the hair was not
red enough, and in the other two they
couldn't grow whiskers.
Mr.. Waldo returned to New Hamp-
shire with me, and while stopping at
Plymouth we got track of young man
who eventually bore away the prize.
Plymouth is in Grafton county, and a
very large county it is, and yet in the
wear 1869 there were only three redhead-
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