The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-01
HOW THEY EARN A LIVING
Man Hanged Sixteen Times a
Week for $50 a Month.
WOMEN IN THE FIELD.
Fifteen Dollars Weekly as Profess
slonal 8ldder--one Man Supplies
Publie Speakers With Funny Stories
Find Their Various Occupations
Paying and Pleasant.

In the strenuous scramble for wealth
and a living in the great competitive
game of life in New York. many men
and women are driven to odd occupa.
tions for livelihood, says the New
York Herald. Some OF these are de.
scribed In the following:
George Therma makes a living by
being hanged 16 times week for
$50 a month aud his cakes" as the
| contract reads. 80
Therma is q Mexican, and as tha
star performer in the horse-thief act
in the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show Is
lariated while riding a horse at break
neck speed. and is dragged at the end
of the lasso a distance Of several hun
dred feet to tree, where he is strung
up In true Judge Lynch style. a.
He has a piece of stiff linen fixed
around his neck, and the rope does
him little damage, though the Mexican
Rurales, who come along to take his
body, save him from a most uncom-
Portable position. On several occa-
slons since he has been doing the
work the cowboys who hang him have
| grown careless, and Therma has been
cut down more nearly like a dead
man he is supposed to be than tho
| live man he wants to be. ff'2i
John Main gets s25 week for
breaking eggs. He works In big
! pie.baking plant in the city, and has
| the job Of breaking the eggs that are
used in the manufacture of pie. He
breaks 25 dozen eggs day, separates
the yolks from the whites, and beats
up some of them. Besides this. he has
to inspect each egg to see that none
of them contains an embryo broiier
or the odor Of formaldehyde. '''
One Is apt TO wonder at the sum
of S25 a week for such work, but Il
is explained that Main earns It by
the economical way In which ne
handles the eggs, and 1t is pointed
out that a cheap man might be very
expensive. It Is said also that the
monotony of the job gets on most
mems nerves, and few can be found
who will stay tit any length or
time
The man who furnishes funny
stories and anecdotes for would.be
wits, pacanteurs and after-dinner
speakers is another man who has
lpicked out an odd occupation. lie is
Charles Hoppe, and has no particular
place of business, but II he calls on
you you can well afford TO give him
an audience, for he Is a most interest
ing little man.
He will furnish you for twenty-five
of fifty cents a week a typewriter
sheet containing the latest quips of
the day, and funny stories, that you
can tell at home, or, for a larger
consideration, he win furnish you With
speeches To be made at public gath.
erngs which are guaranteed to make
you fame OF the burning brand.
He does not say how many suo-
scribers he has for his regular funny
story service, but he will make a spe.
y "iol eo"''"n for Won that he guarap-
ts,a uL. 10 be Ca.."cated by any
one else. ...
Another odd occupation is that OF an
auction clincher, In this case, IL Is
beautiful young woman, who, until
few years ago. was one OF the best
known show girls" at the casino.
Now she is making her living more
easily. s.-.
She is employed by big Fifth ave-
nue. auction company which makes q
specially OF rugs. She met the man
ager of the concern through her
knowledge of rugs. and one day he
asked her II she didn't want to help
him in little matter that might be
profitable to both. His plan was this:
| In all auctions certain lots go for
, much less than their value II some
one does not stimulate the bidding.
With rugs this is especially So, for
often the true value of a rug does
not appear in the cursory glance peo.
pie give them at sales. He suggested
that this girl go 10 the auctions, hav.
ing been told the minimum price at
which every rug Is to go, and II the
bidding should not reach that figure.
bid It up and apparently buy the rug.
thus saving 1t for the company.
She tried II, and the plan worked
I so well that now she is In the employ
| OF this company permanently, and az.
| ltlluS GNtIg dhCllOh sdlct ldhluB u re-
, mote seat, aud bidding only when IL
looks as though the rug We're going
too cheap, tl
I There is a man who does nothing
5 in the season but test watermelons
= and cantaloupes for the Waldorf-As-
toria. The watermelons come from
Georgia The loss in cutting unFipe
fruit would be considerable, and the
I old-fashioned method OF plugging" is
= obsolete. So this fan earned his
y salary.
!; Another odd occupation IA that of
e the woman who adyertises to call at
D bachelors lodging to do all necessary
darning of socks and underwear, and
to look after the linen for those who
are not fortunate ennngh TO have some
one to do II for them.
Then there Is man who cuts cat
meat at Washington market He has
had the same stand for 20 years. and
! has never sold anything but little Ave
and ten cent packages OF snch meat