Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-06-03


; | am today. | can. give mo freal
advice or prescriptions for cure-al
nostrums. 1t rather is a matter o
4 mind and will than anything else
r anyhow. This, l think. is proved b.
} the fate of the average strong men
who may last anywhere from tive
to five years before the public
rarely, if ever, longer.
And why? Simply because they
have developed the brute and lief
the mind rust If they win fame
and fortune, as many of them have
: done, they have not the mental bal.
ance to support it, and speedily de.
generate into barroom boosters and
habitues. Or else they positively
have injured themselves by override
veloping without any intelligent re-
straint and clear-cut plan. Many OF
them are muscle-bound, anyhow
More of them irreparably damage
their hearts and constitutions by
overexercise."
This sounded strange from the
lips OF man who had just taken an
inch and half iron pipe and bent it
nearly double with a blow over his
! forearm; from man who had lust
grasped a three-quarter-inch pipe
and put quite a perceptible kink in
1t by striking it once across his sto-
mach and once across the back of
| his neck. 1t also rang true the
more, for one feltthat here indeed
was man who knew; and he had
been doing these stunts and others
like them for twenty-five years, SO
he ought to have learned something
about the endurance end of it, too.
Texas" doesn't believe in diet; OF
course he does not advocate or
even sanction excess of any kind: If
one feels like ham and eggs.
though, for instance, Texas" would
advise that they be eaten, other
things being equal. He does be
lieve in eating plenty of fresh fruit,
and in abstinence from things no
toriously bad for the health; but
that is all For anything beyond
that, he smokes cigars and enjovs
his square meal like any other
healthy citizen, and lives to the full
every minute of the odd eighteen
hours or SO that he is awake.
As for his feats OF strength these
have been performed at many points
in the east and middle west on Or
pheum and Keith time, while Port
land and the northwest recently were |
given samples of his proves. Others (
already have been referred to.
Drives Spikes in Plank.
One unusual stunt of Texas" is |
as follows: He takes a plank ten
inches wide by two thick and sets it
on end. He then grasps in his hand
iron spikes and by sheer muscular
force drives them through the wood (
till their points stick out on the
other side. This he repeats till the
board is transfixed by some dozen
or more of the spikes, which he re-
moves by the startling method of
pulling them right out with his teeth
and throwing them over his should
as you would throw the
shells out of a breech loder" is his
way of putting it. He afterwards
makes rings" of them by twisting
them round his fingers.
Again, he will have twenty-six
men swinging on a three-inch steel
bar passed over the back of his neck
This herculean feat is paralleled by
that in which this modern Samson
allows as many people as can get a
ioothold thereon to stand upon a
-hirty-foot plank supported on his
mead and shoulders. Once he has
hem nicely settled, he begins to
eeter the tiny chip up and down
.or five minutes.
Il have proved that can lift
$500 pounds with my shoulders
without harness" says Texas"
Also l can pull four and a half
IONS with my neck
His spectacular feat is drawing
sixteen or more heavy vehicles one !
block, each with one person aboard. ,
The shafts of the last dray are tied !
10 the rear axle OF the next in line.
md so on down to one next the
.our-horse wagon in which he him
self takes his stand. 4 one-and-a- .
lalf inch rope then is affixed to the
lxle of this one and passed round
lis neck in loop. He then braces
himself and the procession starts on
two-hour trip. For the entire two
hours this human link" will bear ,
he terrible strain on his neck with :
lever a moments respite. When he
1t last steps from under the rope he {
las 10 be supported, or he would
all backward, so accustomed has +
very muscle of his body become to +,
he tense attitude required for this
feat.
III tell you what my ideal man '
$" said Texas" 81 like to think :
IF him as a man with the strength
If gorilla and the gentleness OF a
woman, and still more as man who l
Knows when to use one and when c
o use the other" s
(From Tuesdays Daily)
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