The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-08
TWICE A HE no.
An Old Circus Riders Tale-Saved
FaithIess Wife From Death.

Faithiess Wife From Death.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
i am tired, hungry and broke" said
a tramp at the police station. yesterday.
The main trouble with me. though.
IS that / am too hungry to stand up.
Give me something TO eat, if 1t is only
bread"
The man tottered as he spoke and
grasped the desk for support while the
sergeant looked at him with the eagle
eye of an officer.
i am not a tramp" said the man,
but | am sick and hungry and just
bad enough to ask for something to eat.
My head hurts so that / am almost
crazy. This scar you see on my fore
head causes that" and the man passed
his hand over q horrible scar that
reached from the top of his forehead
down his face and ending at his chin.
That scar. too" has caused me to
be an outcast, stunned wherever | go
and by people all over the world.
i got II honestly, too, and that makes
my story all the more sad; but give me
something to eat or | will die
The man was plainly in an almost
starving condition, and his appearance
touched the heart of the desk sergeant.
The officer climbed down from his high
stool and in less than five minutes the
hungry man was eating ravenously in
a restaurant across the street from the
prison.
Fifteen minutes later he came into the
sergeant's office again. This time he
came to return thanks
How did you get that horrible
SCARF" the sergeant asked, as the man
seated himself before one of the heaters
in the room and began To warm his
feet.
Sergeant he said slowly, the story
is sad one to me- but I'll tell it, Fiji
teen years ago | was circus perform
er, and was considered one of the most
daring bareback riders in the world
j was known then as Signor Cabrilli
Costello, but my name is really Eman-
uei Golding. | was young. strong,
skilled IN my profession and happy.
Ten years ago, when the Roman chariot
races We're more of novelty than they
are now / was with circus that made
this feature of amusement a big spe-
cialty. | drove four wild horses to a big
chariot, while a woman whom / loved
drove four that We're as wild to another.
One night when in a town in Mich-
gan we went on the track for the char
lot race. and her horses became unman-
able and ran away. l jumped from my
chariot at the risk of my life, stopped
the horses and saved that woman's life.
Three weeks after that we were mar
ried. | was happy until one morning
two years later she left me, going away
with an acrobat who was with a circus
that we We're performing with.
Her desertion almost killed me, and
for several weeks / was insane. When
the first shock had worn off | became
the most desperate man in the profess
sion, and rode and drove with reck-
lessness that made me famous in the
business. Ny riding was heard of by
managers in the city of Mexico. and
three years after my wife had left me
l was offered and accepted an engage
ment there
had been performing there about
two weeks when one day l heard that
new female rider had arrived and was
TO race with me that night in the char
lots. | had not seen the woman until
we We're driving in the ring, and when
| did ] almost dropped dead, for it was
my WIFE, The effect upon her was al
most the same as it had been upon me-
We started the race, and |, desper-
ate, dashed my horses until they We're
furious. Ten thousand Mexicans yelled
themselves hoarse at the performance.
My Wife was evidently frightened at
my recklesSeness, for she tried 10 rein
her horses in, but they had caught the
excitement and dashed away with her.
We We're running side by side when [
saw one of the reins she was holding
break, and in a second the horses We're
dashing from one side of the track to
the other.
They ran by me. and as they were
about TO pass the second time | leaned
fron the chariot | was in to that of my
Wife. ] climbed on the back of one of
the horses, and gathered up the reins to
pull them mp. | don't know how many
times they ran around with us, but
finally | stopped them. Just as they
stopped the devil | was riding plunged
forward, and my head struck one of the
big tent poles.
Weeks after that, When / recovered
! found that the woman had gone and |
had this Internal scar. She left, I
learned, the day after | had saved her
life for the second time
We'll, sergeant, there's my story
Thank you for the breakfast, and good
bye.