The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-13

TN Watowan County, Mimi, is
| youth who Is prepared to play the
part of the beanstalk in any realls-
i tic production of Jack and the Bean
stalk that may be put on the stage.
He is now 6 feet 10 inches high, ana
no keeps ascending at the rate OF hall
an inch a month.
At Madelia, his home. he is known as
James McIndoo, but colloquially he IS
snoken of as Our Rising Young Man.
He will be 10 years old next July. UP
TO the time he was Is he was of ordl-
nary height and bulk. Now he is
mammoth. weighing 80 pounds. Dur
ing these four years he has accumu-
lated 1913 pounds, and has shot up TWEEN
ty-four inches.
His feet are three inches more than
foot in length and of remarkable
breadth. He wears a No. "a shoe. 1t
takes a calfskin of pretty large size to
make them, and there are no IeaVlngs
worth Speaking of when the cobbler gets
through. He wears a No. hat, al
though his head seems disproporton-
ately small for a chap of such gigan-
tic frame. His hands are ike mans.
One blow of one of them smashes an
ordinary kitchen table to toothplch
| splinters.
| The boy is very powerful, ana more
| than once he has supported the pooy
| of a heavy farm cart when Wheel mas
been taken off to grease the axle by
lust bracing his hands on his knees ana
holding the axle on his shoulder. Wnen
he was 16 he lifted HOO pounds, and ne
! laughs when visitors tell ABOUT the
| strength tests of the strong men OF
Harvard and Yale.
! One playful exercise he likes is to
swing buckets full of.water, one in each
| hand. like an Indian club sWlnger-
| Horseshoes he twists up ike nalrpils-
Tn test the other day he spanned with
| one hand thirteen and three-Iourlhs
inches. Taking hold of tree with one
hand he can hold a team of horses with
tho other and make them rear up on
their hind legs at the word Got while
ba refuses to bulge one inch under the
strain. 80,
He is in perfect health and as jolly
I and good-natured as can be- he eats
more than a 1500-pound OK. whenever
he wants a drink of water he takes up
| . Gallon nail and drains every drop
/ from if. He has no particular appetite
for anything stronger, so his capacity
| for cider. brandy and soda and Man.
| haitian cocktails cannot be estimated,
| h,lt he has been known to sit down on
! A bench and eat ten-pound basketIui
| of grapes and ash for more. Recently
| he ate twenty three large apples for
dessert. saving he wasn't hungry before
| he sat down.
He is pretty well formed, and, except
for his height, does not look abnormaliy
| large. His intellect is not as gigantic
| as his stature but he is nobody'S fool.
| He has a good head for mechanics. He
can take clock to pieces, or Watcn.
clean it and repair it and put 1T togeth-
| err again so that it will keep time
| This has endeared him to his country
mates, and they often come to Jimmy
| McIndoo to have this or that thing
! .'tinkered up and the boy always
| obliges when he can. HIS very gooo
nature has made him sometimes the
butt of practical jokes. Sometimes he
is able to turn the laugh on the perpe-
| traitors. and this tickles him immensely
one day a couple of farm hands
| thought it would be funny to confine
| Jimmy in the corn crib. They wedged
/ the door shut and put a couple OF logs,
! hacked by big rock. in front OF the
structure. AS soon as Jimmy perceived
| his fix he tramped over the corn cobs,
and. bracing himself against two joists,
/ calmly lifted the roof off the crib and
/ crawled out Then for revenge he took
| the farm hands by the nape of the neck
| and marched them off to the watering
| trough and ducked them simultaneous
Nv till they yelled for mercy.