The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-24


her renewed courage Blushing, she
stopped before the little group Of spec
tators and said: There We're one or
two little things that I used to do at
Deep Rock in my riding skirt. I have |
the skirt here in my bundle. Wait a
please"
She disappeared into the properties
booth beside the performers entrance,
and in a moment emerged. wearing the
riding skirt.
''Will some one please scatter few
small coins about the ring?" she asked.
~nis was done, and meanwhile. with
her own hands, she quickly removed
pad and bride, leaving the horse with
out a strap upon him.
Then, urging him ahead. she sprang
upon his shoulders, and in some mys-
terious manner clung there like Sioux
warrior, with her body hanging far
to one side; only in her case the feat
was rendered far more difficult by hav-
ing nothing to cling to.
With the horse running as fast <as
he could be made to go, she bent down
and picked up the coins, not only once
but many times, for she tossed them
ahead as fast as she secured them.
This act won for her even louder ap-
plause than the other. 1t was SO plain
that she was born rider. and could
learn any feat with ease, that she was
engaged at a good salary on the spot.
or course she had to encounter more
or less jealousy on the part of some Of
the other riders but no one could hold
out long against her simple directness.
And for the same reason her progress
in learning the new points of her toll
some profession were both rapid and
complete.
1t was about this time that chariot
races came into vogue, and every circus
manager felt compelled to Introduce
one into his program.
In ST. Louis we We're fitted out with
four gorgeous chariOts. guaranteed to
represent the true Roman model, and
the proprietors also secured three-horse
matched teams to draw them. There
after the ring was enlarged and made
elliptical, to afford greater scope for
the race.
The swiftest team was assigned to
"Mademoiselle Lorence,' who by pre-
arrangement, was to be the winner in
every contest. She drove with as great
spirit and delight us If the struggle
had been real.
Her team consisted Of three blacks,
| loosely harnessed to the swaying char
;Dt nP St
and traces Of silver plated steel. They
made brave show, but only the out
| side horse on the left was really
| trained, the others having recently
been bought because they matched
the other horse.
| 1t was at Hot Springs, Arkansas
| that the girls opportunity to be hero
inc came to her. We played there
early in December, as we We're swing
ing to the South after a summer spen
In the Northern Central States of thu
Union.
| think the race had been run in pub
lie perhaps twenty times, and horses
! customed to it. or the latter two wer
men and two women, but all wer
attired very much alike in armor-lil
costumes, glittering with spangles
They drove at mad run, and tn
race was very realistic.
The chariOts, although not so heav
as they seemed. We're numbering, two
{ ing thills or q tongue, they slued alarm
ingly in turning corner
In each race the chariOtS made 81
. circuits, the last the swiftest of al
- Before this round now one and now 81
other would forge ahead. but on tt
g final turn Lorence would force h
:, three steeds to the front, take the on
=. side of the course and win by a lengt
=, amid great excitement and applause
e, That evening the tent was thronge
~ and under the canopy, which presum
g bly, was an exact copy of that GOVERN
q prOconsurs throne, was party
-, we'll known people. The family
State Senator NJ. a silver mining IN
"a lionaire from Colorado, were thr
- tiers above the ring level. No one W
- in front of them. Their only son a
-, child, a strong, active boy of abe
~, five years of age, sat between his p
~ ents, so engrossed in what he saw tt
he forgot all else.
g The ,chariots were swinging abe
ia from the back stretch on the sixth a
"a final round. the drivers calling to
~, plunging horses and urging them
cd The audience was in an uproar Il
al the boy leaned far forward i'll
~, eaGerness.
Suddenly he lost his balance and
no forward His father clutched at
,ed little blouse, but the motion only thr
;he him farther forward. Over and o