The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-10-23
A N a q q AIRS!
a Il Re cognised gHer 10 81 Lost
Brother on the Trapeze,
SISTER OF AS CLEVER ACROBAT
Who Who Was Isisking His Life, Had
Not Seen Him for Fifteen =
5s,e Years, Now Happily g Vi
Reunited. united

|s.sl Reunited.
ifs$s Away up among the ropes at Bar
mum s. Bailey's great circus, flashing
from one trapeze to another, like q
dying squirrel In scarlet, Charley Sell
grist went through his ,dangerous turn
]Ini Cinclnnatti. as8 ~ ~ ~ y'ss'8 ~
: Monday night, far below in q box a
woman In silks and So tins, with her
face blanched from fear, recognized
In him the brother. she had not seen
for / 5years and whom she had mourn
ed as dead. The woman was Mrs.
Lucy Allen, of Portland Ore, who had
jOurneyed from there to see him when
she heard from friends he was alive.
AS the brother risked his life he
little thought his devoted sister
watched feveriBhly his every move; he
knew not she was there And SO
when it was all over he made his way
to the dressing tent.
| Charley" said u fellow performer,
there's lady waiJing to see YOU"
| To see me?" the acrobat exclaim-
ed. II know no one here" :"
Well, here's her card 7, anyway
said the man, as he handed over the
pasteb0ard.
Mrs. James Allen read Selgrist.
Il don't know her," and SO saying,
| Slipped the card aside and finished
dressing.
Once more be looked at the card In
one corner he saw some very faint
pencil marks, They were formed into
name, and he started as he read it:
Lucy Patterson"
IN CLOSE EMBRACE.
In another second he had bounded
out OF his dressing room and was hold
ing In his arms the woman who had
watched. him from the box.
Sister, sister, sister," hL murmur-
ed in a baptism of happiness, as be
covered her tear wet face with kisses.
Later when they left the show
grounds, bliss supreme was lie oicted
upon the countenance OF each.
Their is a story replete with strange
happenings, adventures, hatdships,
suffering, love, sacrifices and the
other emotions of man.
Charley Patterson was born in
Portland, Oie He says he can not
|
do gymnastics. At years of age he
was doing tumbling acts with lot of
older boys in Il saw dust pile near his
home, when two men approached.
HE WAS KIDNAPPED.
| A swimming pool was nearby, and
they asked Charley to show them the
way. The moment. they were out Of
the sight Of his companions one Of
them picked up the little chap and
made for buggy.
For year after the kidnapping
Charley was whipped into his acts,
but finally he contrived to- escape,
when showing near home, and made
his way back, only to find his mother,
and father dead and all the family
gone away save one brother
Then Charley sold papers To at
tract attention, he did tumbling
stunts Of high class nature Oh the
streets. One day a man watched the
little chap perform. The next day
Charley Patterson had disappeared.
Where he had gone no one could tell.
For four years the young acrobat
led Il miserable existence. Beaten,
kicked and starved in private, he was
smiled upon and exhibited in public.
1t was while showing in Rochester
that Charley got ride OF his heavy yoke.
Shortly after performance one night
the man beat his charge Numerically,
and the cries Of pain from the little
boy attracted the attention OF q passer-
by, Charles Lee, circus man, and
! in q second the lads tOrmentOr was
sprawling upon the ground and his
tale Of woe unfolded into his rescuer's
ear.
KINDNESS CAME.
After that the boys life was more