Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-03
THE FEAT OF LITTLE ELLEN.
BY Enfield Joiner.
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Everybody said when the Darcy's
adopted ner that they were mad
hopelessIy mad. SIZE was the child OF
some circus people; her father had
been killed by a fall from a trapeze and
her mother. III at the time, had died
from the shock. She herself had APP
peared many times in the ring; she had
acted on the 1rapeze, had walked the
tight-rope high above peoples heads
and had been cheered to the echo when
she rode the wonderful horses. The
manager felt that she might easily be-
come 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 loft
Ter ambitions than that and when DR..
Darcy offered to take the child and
provide for her, he didn't hesitate about
giving her UP.
Auu LldI , HON hltlie EllSI was
lost to James Simpsons Ten Big Shows.
She grew up in a quiet little Alabama
town without doing anything more
scandalous thar yielding to a very nat
ural desire to astonish her playmates
by performances on the clothes line,
in the back yard, or on the rafters in
the old-feshioned barn, or on the high
garden fence. She was dearly beloved
by the good old doctor and his wife
AMI at eighteen, might have passed for
the daughter Of an earl. 1t was then
that Philip ROGERS came home from col
lego. saw her and fell in love with her.
And then it was that everybody said
he was mad-hopelessly mad. She was
pretty, she was well educated, she was
10 fable. she was altogether charming
but the daughter OF circus people-and
such people
But because she was the one woman
in the world FOR :be young heir. he
married ner ard took her to a golden
Paradise in the Rocky Mountains.
Far up in Idaho. on the bosom OF the
Rockies lie the ~marvelously rich For
get-me-not'' gold mines, called now.
however by the name Of Little Ellen"
The name was changed after the big
strike and this $ how it happened:
Philip represented his fathers large
interests there and when the strike
cam 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 a year, and the union men looked
on him as a Southern tenderfoot, who
ought to be easily managed. But at
the end of the first week OF the strike
they found that they were dealing with
a mar whose courage was eommensur-
ate with his strength, whom neither
threats nor brides 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
"Phit" she cried. Here I've been
singing about the house and you have
been She broke Of, to white for
tears.
"Ycu shall go on singing. dearest
he answered. but they sat hand-in-
hand in silence. Was there no ncte Of
warning in the music Ct the pines2
All was quio. in the valley below,
but Eltsn's heart misgaVe her As
Tor Philip. he knew that It was the
calm before the storm, for tomorrow
at nine. George Moriarty. the leader
OF the strikers. and Philip Rogers, the
representative Of tho oomDany. we're to