The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-02
VENERABLE FOX HUNTER
THE vICTIHa OF SCORES
OF MATRIMONIAL PRO-
POSITIONS AND AN
ADVENTURES
BUT HE FELL NOT;
AYE, HE FELL NOT
As a Result Of Story In an Attain
ia Paper His Hand is Sought
in Marriage.


A petite miss, over whose mass of
| raven locks not more than twenty
summers have sped. and in the depths
OF whose large. lustrous black eyes
cleaned well-springs of strange and
puzzling fire, tripped up on the YER
anda OF Col. James r. Roberts coun-
try home yesterday about noon and
announced that she mad come to plight
the troth of handsome. dame of At
lanta, resident OF Peachtree street,
who had seen. in an Atlanta Sunday
paper a large photograph OF the fox
skin-overcoat clad Andersonian and
read an accompanying article setting
forth that Col. Roberts would bestow
reward OF $4,000 upon the Individual
who would find him a suitable wife!
The would-be matchmaker spent
several hours in Anderson in a des-
perate effort 70 rope the we'll known
fox-hunter in. and uttered deep sigh
OF despair yesterday afternoon when
the colonel, after taking her to a res
taurant and giving her a good feed,
placed her in hack and sent her to-
ward the railway station, gently ad-
monishing her the while to retrace
her footsteps to Atlanta and remind
ing her that he might sometimes be
taken for a fool but be 6arned il he
would knowingly be sucker.
The whole trouble, for Colonel
Roberts considers the 48 matrimonial
offers which he received In q single
mail yesterday morning and his fair
caller to be troublesome, began with
DIN article which appeared I'm a Sum-
day Atlanta paper. Col. Roberts was
in Atlanta last week in the interest
of q motion picture of fox chase
which was staged here several days
ago by an Atlanta producing firm,
During, his stay IN the Gate City of
the South" he was "grape-juiced and
| dined" by several friends. In going
| about the city Col. Roberts was garb7
ed in his now famous oyercoat, mad :
of the skins Of 80 foxes which his pack
OF half-hundred trusty hounds have
brought down In the fields OF Florida
and elsewhere. The greateoat attract,
ed the eye Of Atlanta people and part
! ticularly the binoculars OF an enterA
| prisiRg newspaper reporter. who ac-
companied the colonel on his social
| rounds M ~ ~ - 5
Col. Robarts said that In his mean
| derihgs about the city ne may have let
. drop some remark-as he often does
/ about Anderson that he would give
$4,000 for the right kind of wife,
and large reward to the one who
| would produce a spouse that would
/ come up to his own notions of what
a companion OF this type should he.
The reporter, Col. Roberts says, must
have drawn on his imagination. for in
| the paper of Sunday morning appear
cd a thrilling story to the effect that
Col. Roberts would give $4,000 to the
person who would find him a mate.
| accompanying the article waa q pho
| togranh OF t,n' Roberts wearing his
we'll known coat; igs8'Wlyh
| The caller Calls.
The venerable fox-chaser returned
to Anderson Sunday and Thought nc
more OF the Incidents OF his Atlanta
"trip until yesterday morning. when
1 this dainty creature tripped up TO his
Habitat aIi:s inquired IL this was the
Imam who had offered the reward oi
4 $4,000 to the person who would brine
him wife to his own clroice At FIRST
the colonel was a bit tlazei and
thought that someone was attempting
tc play q practical Joke on him. When
ths young lady hauled out a copy oi
tho Atlanta paper and showed him tho
article in question he realized what
was mp. rammed his wad a little fur,
tter own In his pocket and invited
the yJnng lady TO have a seat on the
porch.
| The fair visitor made known he,
missiun and informed the colonel thai
he would be receiving, very probabIJ
jmissiyes from love-1orn Atlanta maid
ems and matrons, who were sick for q
little coddling but strong In desire &c;
q. hunk OF the colonel.s bank roll. WITH
that Colonel Roberts suggested that
they SO down to his mail box. as Gli,
rural carrier had tust passed. s.As /
r5le / do not receive more than one
or two letters a week. 2 unused the col
onal, rbut II may be that some ont
win wrile me sure enough, Ere tn,
we'll known fox chaser had reached
his mall nox he discovered mail mat
ter protruding from every eFevice a
the receptacle. On examination he dis
4 lowered lust d8 letters. avery sfngi,