Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-22

we COulQ O1SGQCtly see the DOOR
frightened girl by the light from below,
but her face was obsoured. The crowd
sent up Kisses and groans. The rope.
walker attempted to take another step:
she succeeded; she tried q second and
failed. Her foot suddenly slipped, but
she was active and alert, and caught
upon her knee. Her fright increased,
and in the terrible excitement of themo-
ment she dropped the pole. It struck
the rope, balanced q moment. and
slipped off upon the crowd below. There
was q great scattering and the crowd
realized that the young girl was falling.
Every sound was hushed. The poor
child steadied herself wildly and in
stinctively moment with her arms as
she knelt upon the rope, and then fell.
Golson's appearance was painful and
pitiable to see. Great cords stood out
upon his face, which was overspread bv
an agony of ghostly pallor. His muscles
swelled with ridges and knots, and his
hands assumed the appearance of an
eagles claws. He gazed at the rope
where the girl had stood q moment ago,
She had caught by the right hand, aud
hung suspended over the cobbles. In
another moment she grasped the rope
with the other hand and hung perfectly
quiet.
Golson waited but few seconds.
when he saw that fright had taken the
strength from her arms, so that she
could not climb upon the rope. He
dashed off his hat, and grasped the rope
with both hands, and threw one leg
across it. He crawled along care
fully, that the shaking might not cause
the girl to lose her hold. The crowd
watched him in silence. The rope
swung lower under the double weight,
and the fastenings c;eaked and groaned.
"Hold tight, my child" we could
hear him say to the fainting girl.
"Hold on, for Gods sake, and I will
save you."
She raised her head and looked ct him
for a moment, and then dropped it
again between her arms. BE ap-
preached her slowly and painfully, for
he was stranger to the situation, and
was afraid of shaking her off. Atlength
he reached her. he whispered some
thing to her, and she looked him full in
the face. He allowed his right knee to
remain across the rope, and threw his
right hand around underneath to secure
a firm hold, and passed his left arm
round the girls waist. The strength of
six men was in the supple limbs and
clean cut muscles. He drew her toward
him. She released her hold, her head
dropped, and then she tainted.
"Pay out at the college end!' he
shouted.
His feet were in that direction. It re-
quired four of us to let it out. It slipped
over the parapet slowly, and the sus-
pended pair began to be lowered.
"Pay it out" he shouted again.
Well it go more rapidly, and he and
his swooning charge were against the
building across the street. He let him.
self slide gradually down until be
reached the sidewalk, where he was met
by the manager. The latter took the
girl to his home.
The crowd gathered around him with
wild shouts, but he slipped away, and
met us at the door of the college.
"Where is that scoundrel who saidshe
was sulking?" he demanded.
We pointed him out.
Golson walked up to him, explained
his business, and gave him a singing
blow across the face and sent him Keeling
into the gutter.
I met the dear old fellow on Caronde-
let Street the other day, and his wife
was with him, charming and pretty as
ever. She laughingly remarked that
she liked to see the circus as much as
ever, but that she always felt horror
for rope walking. l almost believe that
her dimples are as pretty as on the night
she threw kisses to great crowd in the
street.