The Washington weekly post., 1900-08-28

EVERYBODY said hen the Dsrcys adopt
ed her that they were rnad-hopeiessly
mad. She was the child of some circus
people. her father had been killed oS
fan from a trapeze. and her mother III
at the time. had died from the shock
She herself had appeared many times In
the ring; she had acted on the trapszs,
had walked the tightrope high above peo-
pies heads. and had been eheered 10 the
echo when she rode the wonderful horses
The manager felt that she might easily
become the worlds most famous bare
backed rider. and get her picture put up
in every village in the country but then
he realized that there were loftier amoi-
tions than that. and when DR.. Darcy Of
fered to take the child and provide for
her, he didn't hesitate about giving ner
up.
And that's how Little Ellen" was lost
20 James Simpsons "Ten Big Shows"
She grew up in a quiet little Alabama
town without doing anything more scan
dalous than yielding 10 very natural
desire 10 astonish her playmates by per
formances on the clothes-line in the back
yard. or on the rafters In the old-fash
ioned barn. or on the high garden fence.
She was dearly beloved by the good old
doctor and his wife. and al eighteen might
have passed for the daughter of an earl.
II was then that Philip Rogers came
home from college. saw her. and fell IN
love with her And then IL was that
everybody said he was mad-hopelesSly
mad. She was pretty. she was well edu-
Gated. she was loVable she was altogether
charming-but the daughter of circus peO-
ple-and such people,
But because she was the one woman In
the world for the young heir, he married
her, and took her to a golden paradise in
the Rocky Mountains.
Far up in Idaho, on the bosom of the
Rockies. lie the marvelously rich Forget
me-not" gold mines. called now however
by the name OF Little Ellen" The name
was changed after the big strike. and this
is how it happened:
Philip represented his fathers large in
terests there. and when the strike came
on, as the embodiment of Capital. Labor
put his name on the fated lists and he was
set apart from the first. He and Ellen
| had been at the mines but year. and the
union men looked on him as a Southern
tenderfoot who ought to be easily man
aged. But at the end of the first week Of
the strike they found that they were deal
| ing with a man whose courage was COM
mensurate with his strength, whom neith-
er threats nor bribes could influence.
RumOrs came of the massacre of the
"scabs" and the butchery of women and
children, but it was not until the day OF
the riot that Ellen heard Of the troubles
hanging over the Forget-me-nOt.
"Philt' she cried, here I've been sing
| ing about the house and you have
| been She broke off. too white for
| tears.
You shall go on singing, dearestr' he
| answered, but they sat hand in hand in
| silence. Was there no note of warning
/ in the music of the pines?
| All was quiet in the valley below, but
| Ellen's heart misgave her. As fot Philip,
| he knew that it was the calm before the
storm, for tomorrow at 3 George Mori-
arty. the leader of the strikers. and Philip
| Rogers. me representative of the COM
pany, were to confer together There
| were breakers ahead and reefs and rock :,
| but the whirlpool which was waiting 10
| engulf him he could not see
| BY the request of the strikers the con-
| ference was postponed until the afternoon,
and it was not until after sunset that
| Philip and Moriarty met in the latter's
one-room cabin.
| Within reach Of Moriarty's voice were
400 union men, Philip looked out at d
| light up on the hillside and remembered
that there was none save himself to help
| her. Therefore he was reasoning most
| patiently and earnestly. Heavens What
| is this? A fash. terrific explosion
| Moriarty was lying in a heap before him
splotches of blood and brains on his
clothes. smoking pistol at his feet, II
was Philips voice that called to the
| strikers. and when they came-God save
any man from such a moment 1t was ir
vain that Philip declared that the shot
had been fired from outside, from the win
dow, and that he had even seen the as
sassin fee. 1t availed nothing. rope
around his neck and death on the neares
tree within five minutes, The man mex
in authority to Moriarty stopped them
His was a plan OF more exquisite suffer
ing. IL was decreed that their prisoner
was to keep watch alone all night ovel
| tho dead hOdv the r1dp "a hin heino ono rd