Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-06-16


ness your preference provided it can do
the work well, and when by your pat
ronage and your influence you discourage
all sorts of competition calculated to
weaken its power and not benefit the
community for which it labors.
We cannot better conclude this al
ready too long drawn article than by
quoting Horace Greeley Sustain your
local paper-if you have good one, and
if you haven't, make it a good one. 1t
takes money TO make a newspaper.
ANOTHER TRAPEzE HoRRoR.-We
find the following thrilling story in the
Kansas City News of the LIST:
Last night CAROLS Theatre was
crowded to repletion to witness the dar-
ing and graceful performance ofthe Mar
retta Sisters upon the trapeze. Many OF
those who had attended the night before
came again to see the little Rosaline in
her perilous leap, and scarcely chair
was empty in the house.
The preliminary songs and dances were
gone through with, and the sisters were
at last in mid-air, whirling from bar to
rope, and hanging by hand, knee and
foot, amid the applause of the audience.
Finally the elder assembled to the upper
swing, and then commenced the more
snowy and perilous seats.
The little one-a bright, pretty child
of only thirteen years-twined her feet
about her stronger sister hanging in ev-
cry variety of posture, and suspended as
if by mere volition at such a perilous
height above the floor.
They had just recovered from a may
INTERVIEWING of hands and limbs, and the
elder one, seated herself firmly at the
bar of the upper swing, leaned backward,
balancing herself, while the child slid for
ward from her lap and lay, with folded
arms, resting upon her extended feet.
The performance is not so difficult as 1t
seems, but depends for its safety entirely
upon the nerve of the one upon the bar.
The proper way for it to end is for the
child to extend her arms, grasping the
bar, and then fall, hanging by her hands
as the other removes her feet.
Still, though not difficult, it is danger
GUS and most exciting to an audience
As they saw the slender, childllke form
lying with folded arms upon the feet o
her sister way up toward the roof, anC
i calm as if within the cradle, roll o
spontaneous applause was breaking fortl
: when, of sudden, it was changed to al
involuntary shrek ofhorror The eide
: girl, thinking that the other had alread
, grasped the bar, removed her feet, an
down from her perch near the high cell
: ing-down like falling star from ii
fearful height-went the child.
- Such sublime nerve as she exhibited
has never been our fortune to witness
y child before. The arms remained folc
L ed over the chest, the limbs never chang
:, ed their position, not the faintest cry e
- capped her compressed lips, and the fac
was calm as that of a sleeping baby
= without the least expression Of fear.
= In just the same posture in which sh
"' left her sisters feet she struck the foo
with dull, horrible thud, that WI
er echoed by a shrek from the audien'
es and a stihed moan from the little sufe
vi er.
en- She was Immediately picked up an
y borne behind the scenes by one of Il
~ actors, while the agonized sister descend
AZ ed quickly from the trapeze and joine
OF her. In few moments it was announ
no ed to the audience that her hurts we
fy but trifing, and that she trusted to a
at- pear again tonight, and such report
ur confirmed this morning.
'ur Considering the height of the fall al
an the dangerous position in which s.
ION struck-full upon her back-her esca
ar was almost a miracle.