The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-03
ENDURING IS LOVE
GIVEN BY WOMAN
LITTLE OLD LADY ANSWERS
CALL OF A DERELICT SWEET
HEART. PARTED so YEARS.

Sweethearts who had been parted
for more than so years met a few
days ago in New York City's chow
cry" pledged their troth anew and
went away together to a "cleaner.
greener Land" where as boy and girl
they had known and loved each other
Ethan Allen Greenway, then a
sturdy, outstanding, well-muscled
farmers boy, lived in a little farm
ing settlement near Attleboro, Vt.
On a neighboring farm was Selma
Worthington, pretty. unconvention-
al girl, his sweetheart. Together thew
dreamed over their future together
and were very happy. But young
Ireenway was ambitious, the old |
farm IN Vermont was too small for
MS broader view of life and he de-
termlned to make his way to New
York, carve out a fortune and then
return and claim his bride.
mat was years before the break |
ing out of the civil war. On the dav
he and his sweetheart parted the how
cut a silver dime in two, gave the
girl one half and retained the other
half for himself. In each half he
mad bored hole so that a STRING
could be passed through and the mo-
mento worn about the neck on
string. Both pledged themselves to
De true to each other as long as thew |
should have those halves of the little .
coin.
Robbery His Welcome to the City.
When young Greenway arrived in
New York he had little money and
ne ne sought cheap lodging on the old
ooWery. The very first night he II
occupied room there he was robbed
OF every cent he possessed. Forced
70 i've as best he might, the boy
9rlTted into the new and fascinating
lie and soon was a part of the for
sam, the scum OF the city, forgetting
all the sweetness and purity and
charm of the Green mountain conn
try and the little girl who was wait
ing there for him.
Belng young and strong he had no
difficulty in obtaining a Job as
'bouncer" in one of the manv dance
nails. Then he became a barkeener
and for many years was one of The
oowery's" best known characters Tn
time he became too old for the work
and then he applied for and did anv
KIND of a job that would bring him
few dollars.
Learned to Camouhage Faces.
The old man learned to naint hlack
eyes and red noses a more natural
color and for time did a fairly GOOD
business as facial camoufaca artist s
running his restorative beauty narIor I
IN an old basement in a street inst
on the "bowery." He became known
as Doc Flood and his services were
eagerly sought. I'ut in time his band
lost It's cunning and his beauty par {
Ior was closed. Old and haggard he t
MADE a scanty living running err /
Tanos Tor the girls in Chinatown. get
ting their beer for them and doing
any little job they asked him to do,
A short time ago doc Flood" got
to thinking Of his old home in Yer
mont and the girl he had left behind.
For the first time in more than so
years he wrote a letter to her and
sent it to the old address near Attic
boro, Vt.
And Selma Worthington herself
was the answer. A prim little old
woman in a black bonnet trimmed
with violets, a neat black silk dress
of old fashioned cut, she went to
New York for the first time in her
life in answer to her old lovers let
ter, found her way to the "bowery"
and there a policeman pointed out
doc Flood"
Fished Half Dime From His Pocket.
Timidly approaching the old man,
Miss Selma Worthington put her
arms about his neck and kissed him,
and then, with tears rolling down his
wrinkled cheeks old doc Flood"
flshed down into his ragged vest and
produced his half of the silver dime
with the bit of ribbon still attached.
And she had the other half of hte
dime abou her neck.
The little woman lost no time in
getting her old sweetheart away from
his dismal surroundings. She bought
him a suit of clothes and took him to
barber shop for a shave and hair
cut. Then they boarded a train for
Attleboro, where Miss Worthington
owns farm. To the few ''bowery' |
friends of her aged lover who wit !
messed their departure the little old
lady confded the news that they
would be married within q shor thine. |