The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-16

circus was local cello rity and had been
widely advertised. The rural populae
ton had notmany opportunities OF en-.
joyment, and did not propose to let this
=one-gol by default Every one was
there. from Elder Atkinson and his
wife down to little Michael Ryan, the
cobbler, andohis pinched-looking better.
hall. Captain Cassell and pretty Alice
Ames occupied q conspicuous front seat,
and lew rows farther back sat Leander
rockwell, with Miss Tefebinth and her
friend, Hannah Binns, beside her, plain
little seafnstress body, who had been
asked at the eleventh hour, ssoonej
than waste tho ticket.n thrifty Miss
Terebinth had said. One by one, the.
unparalleled Attractions had beer
put forward: the time-worn clown, the
spangled colunibine, the trained ele-
plants the bicycle-riders aud tho
swarthy snake-charmer with the gold
crescents dangling from his ears and
the great glittering stage-diamond in
the front of his turban.
"Oh, isn't 1t wonderfully cried Alice
Ames
Pretty fair-pretty fair;" answered
Captain Cassell, tapping the ivory knob
OF his cane against his teeth. "But
those rattlesnakes don't compare in size
+ to cobra capello I once killed in our
tent at Dungapore, when
And the rounds Of applause drowned
the end Of his sentence.
"Ah!a tiger-taming act!' said tho cap
tain, consulting his programme. The
Marvellous signor Mahmelli and his
pupil, Rajahr Call tAdt5a Bengal tiger,
do they? ] wish you could have seen
that fellow l shot that last summer in
the junglcs at Hoodah. My sister has
his skin on her drawing room fioorsRow,
made into a rug. 1t had killed four
men and sacred OK, and the natives
called him The Scourge of the Shore.
o, yes. I don't deny the fellow handles
him very neatly, but"
At that second, just when tho "beast
Of the tropics" was drowsily going
through with his list of his accomplish
ments, the lash of his keeper struck a
t1ifie sharper than usual, OF some other
unseen cause ignited the powder maya.
zinc Of the animals slum bering saw
agery. Witch ferocious roar he sprang
forward, telling the keeper with single
blow OF his paw, and leaped toward the
row of tootlights, whose fitful flicker
seemed to irritate him as a sed rag en-.
RACES a bull.
There was a shrek, rush, moment
or two of wild confusion. Ally Ames
| uttered a scream. Captain Cassell had
turned as pale as tallow candle.
WED better get out of this, said he
hoarsely. Quick! quickr'
But Alice, paralyzed by fear, sat as
still as death.
IL can't novel" she gasped. II
think I'm going to faint"
The captain hesitated second, and
| fnally decided matters by taking to his
heels, with the rest of the flying crowd.
Alice shut her eyes with a chill shud.
der; she could not see the tawny death
spring upon her; but in moment she
opened them again at the sound of a
| triumphant shout that went up around
| her.
| Leander Rockwell was in the arena
lately occupied by the vanished band.
struggling with the savage monster.
| She could see his set teeth, the veins
standing out on his forehead, the red
fire in his eyes, and she knew that it
awas for life or death.
after ALL" said the minister, Hthese
cireuses are sinful risks to human life.
] never shall see my way clear to at
tending one again. Suppose that brave
young fellow had been killed before our
face and eyes, in the noble effort he
made to save our lives"
"Golly, though, pa, wasn't it grand?'
said John Henry, the good mans eldest
hope. '.'Most equal to a Spanish bull
fight. Every body knows that Lee Rock
wells the strongest fellow in Durkill
Four Corners, but the old. tigerd got
the best OF him If it hadn't been for
that lick Lee gave him over the head
with the sharp edge of the cornet that
the muslc-men had dropped when they
got under the stage, like lightning. II
was as good as a Damascus scimeter,
Lee says; and, once stunned, it was
easy enough for the property-men to
kill him. It'll be an awful loss to the
circus folks, thought reflectively added
John Henry. There amt many tigers
of that size in the travelling ring in this
country"
"But wasn't 1t funny, husband" said
the minister's wife, ''about Captain
Cassells being found hiding under the
manger in the trained ponies stalls,
with the door tightly locked. man
who, according to hissown account, has
killed scores of leopards and half a
dozen elephants in India, and Is afraid
OF nothing, I'm told that the engage
ment between him and Alice Ames is
off, and that she is. spending a week
with Terebinth Rockwell. The fright
and the danger together have made poor
Terebinth quite ILL.,"
But IL the minister's wife had only
known it, Tere binth was great deal
better, now, and she and Ally were busy
making gown of white surahA silk,
with great deal OF soft lace and ribbon
bows about it.
Because" said Ally, laughing, LIE
ander says he aoon't wait-and a man
who can conquer tiger oughtn't to be
con tradicted by woman"
"You really love me, then?" said Lee
ander
81 really love you," repeated Alice.
'And oh, Leander! ! am so very, gerry
proud,of youn-Amy Randolph, in n. Y.
Ledger.
Fleeing Broken Knee-Joint.
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