The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-11-19

VI apparently OF tncl
own free wills leads one to believe tha
Il is really a widespread sentiment
On what other grounds. for instancs
can one explain the extreme nor
chalance with which the circus per
former follows b. professionf He en-
dangers lie AID limb continually
billboard ''thrillers," which grow ever
year more nerve-racking. The loop tn
loop is already a thing OF the past, b.
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
sug upside down In midalr.
Modern psychologists declare that
violent contrasts and great nervous
shocks are craved by a large proportion
OF the people. II IS to satisfy this
craving that the circus managers search
the wide world over for men and WON
en- OF daring 10 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 a 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 IS degrees, to with
In hardly a yard OF the level OF the
arena. and then shoots out one hundred
feet through space. describing in his
eight an arc 80 feet high at the center.
The high diver who plunges from an
elevation OF so or GO feet into a tank
OF water as shallow and as narrow. II |
would seem. as can be built and still /
allow one chance for life to remain, Is I
Of course a constant attraction. Few
Of those who follow this mild pastime
live to mals' ar n accident IN quite
the same wa lid one Edward L.
Pape- After n an injury to the
fifth vertebra y. ( raised a lump on
the back OF his Issck. he toured the big
lities with two confederates to serve
Is witnesses and mulcted street rail-
way companies for large amounts in
damages by falling of their cars and
'imulating the actions OF a man whose
pine had just been injured.
sfeeDIejaeI< and Iron Worker.
II their managers are to be believed.
men and women that perform these
eats receive proportionafely high sal /
riess and are thus in a measure repaid {
tut the steeplejack and the structural;
labor In really useful fields I
or day wages which, to the ordinary q
resale mortal at least, seem not at all I
with the risks they run. n
My a year or two ago>a nonchaIant 6
.eeplejack climbed up and down the .
ice Of the Flatiron building In New O
ork City with no other aid than that r
his hands and feet-for two dollars n
No less needless Of their lives are n
10 ironworkers. who, in the everyday b
'urse OF work, run around on narrow m
on Orders 100 feet and more above p,
le level Of the street, throwing red A
IT rivets from one to another. and A.
living them home with giant swings a,
sledges that would cause the ordin- T.
y man to lose his balance even on =,
IRA frna. Not content with these al
SKIS they often ride through midafr q,
the long iron beams that the der n,
TX raises from the ground and lowers NJ
ain into position ten, twenty, stories n
ove. High In the air without visible -
cans Of support, they engage in mimic ~
hts for the benefit Of the open-mouth- "a
bystanders. They have even been n,
own to stand on their heads on the he
~ highest upright Of a skyscraper. no
The Placid Wen shooter.
The business Of well-shOoting de-
ryes mention. Here the perils center
so much about the men that do the
tual work as about those who carry
-ro-glycerin to the wells With a few
zen cans OF this extremely high ex- Z
'siye on his mule wagon, the driver b
$ pIacldly beside a catastrophe com I
rable only to the crack o. doom.
living through mountainous country,
is In constant danger OF being blown K
atoms for the slightest Jar is Ike E
to cause an explosion. p
few years ago. one OF these mule 4
rs approaching the town Of Newton. r
&, along straight road, halted bis Z
m and allghted, intending to be gone <,
y moment. Left without guiding 3
ID. however. the mules became fright e
q. and started toward the town at a z
pace. Il
ONE one saw them coming. and rec r.
Izing the danger. turned back to- b.
d the village, shouting 70 the inhab z.
It's to fee for their lives. In the II
center OF the town the road
rived IN curve. and II was impos-
: that the mules could make the
without upsetting the wagon. The
hltnnts. expecting every minute the a
ructlon Of their homes, fed IN hope &c
confusion toward the woods. for vi
ng that at the curve IN the road. at