Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-11-27

sE' employments
f# many men choose
W apparently Of their
own free Wills leads one to believe that
1t Is really a widespread sentiment.
On what other grounds, for instance,
can one explain the extreme non
chalance with which the circus per-
former follows his profession? He en-
dangers life and limb continually-in
, billboard "thrillers," which grow every
year more nerve-racklng. The loop the
loop is already a thing Of the past, by
far too tame for the up-to-date circus;
and it Is no longer sufficient to have
men place their lives in the balance,
but young women must needs be i'm
pressed also. Take Miss Isabel Butler,
for instance, who day in and day out
looped the gap in an automobile, turn
Ing upside down in midair.
Modern psychologists declare that
violent contrasts and great nervous
shocks are craved by large proportion
Of the people. 1t is to satisfy this
craving that the circus managers search
the wide world over for men and wom-
en- of daring, to introduce the thrill
ers." One of the latest has been a
Norwegian, who travels the country
exhibiting in "a leap for life on slender
skees." From platform more than
100 feet above the ground, he coasts on
narrow wooden runners eight feet In
length, down a long slippery runway
tilted at an agile of 10 degrees, to with
In hardly yard of the level of the
arena, and then shoots out one hundred
feet through space, describing in his
eight an arc 30 feet high at the center
The high diver who plunges from an
elevation of 80 or 60 feet into tank
of water as shallow and as narrow, it
would seem, as can be built and still
allow one chance for life to remain, is
Of course a constant attraction. Few
Of those who follow this mild pastime
live to make use Of an accident in quite
Pape. After receiving an injury to the
fifth vertebra which raised a lump on
the back Of his neck, he toured the big
cities with two confedera tes to serve
as witnesses and mulcted street rail.
way companies for large amounts in
damages by falling off their cars and
Stimulating the actions of a man whose
spine had just been injured.
Steeplejnck and Iron Worker.
If their managers are to be believed,
men and women that perform these
feats receive proportionately high sal
/, aries, and are thus in a measure repaid
But the steepleiack and the structural
lronworker labor in really useful fields
for day wages which, to the ordinary
prosaic mortal at least, seem not at all
commensurate with the risks they run.
steepleiack climbed up ,and down the
, face Of the Flatron building in New
York City with no other aid than that
of his hands and feet-fOr two dollars
No less needless of their lives are
the ironworkers, who, in the everyday
course Of work, run around on narrow
iron girders 100 feet and more above
the level Of the street, throwing red
hot rivets from one to another, and
, driving them home with giant swings
, Of sledges that would cause the ordin.
ary man to lose his balance even on
terra firma. Not content with these
risks they often ride through midair
on the long iron beams that the der.
rick raises from the ground and lowers
again into position ten, twenty, stories
, above, High In the air without visible
, means of support, they engage in mimic
fights for the benefit of the open-mouth
, el bystanders. They have even beer
known to stand on their heads on the
; very highest upright of a sllyscraper
| The Placid Well shooter.
t The business of we'll shooting de
4 serves mention. Here the peris center
not so much about the men that do the
actual work as about those who carry
, nitro-gycerin to the wells. With few
dozen cans Of this extremely high ex
plosive on his mule wagon, the driver
sits placidly beside catastrophe com
q parable only to the crack O doom
, Driving through mountainous country
, he Is In constant danger of being blow,
, to atoms for the slightest jar is like
, ly to cause an explosion.
few years ago, one of these mule
teers approaching the town Of Newton
Pa, along a straight road, halted hi'
team and alightcd intending to be gont
] only moment. Left without gtiidin,