Show WONDERFUL FEAT OF RIGGER Man Holds olds Companion Safely on Top of High Steeple While Molten Metal Burns Hands Two riggers In a western city performed performed performed per per- formed a n feat that for Cor daring and steadiness of nerve equals anything on record Some repairs were necessary necessary necessary sary at the very top af of a high church steeple one of cf those slender steeples that t taper per to a point feet or so above the ground There was no way to reach the spot from the inside and the riggers got a number of oC light ladders ladders ladders lad lad- ders and nd lashed them one above the theother theother theother other to the outside of the steeple nearly to the top The topmost ladder ladder lad lad- der however was not high enough to enable them to reach the spot where the repairing was to be done dono and as that p part rt of the steeple was too small to permit them to lash a ladder to it conveniently they adopted a plan that t It makes one shudder to think about says the Philadelphia Times One of them carrying a pot of melted melted melt melt- ed solder climbed from one ladder to another until he had reached the last one and then bracing himself he ho raised an extra ladder that the other rigger had brought up in his hand and leaned it against the upper part of the steeple Then the man below below- grasped this ladder and held It steady while the man above climbed it to the point wh where e his i work Ik Y was to be done donen J H He began the work at once once but suds suddenly sud denly by an unaccountable accident he Jostled the solder pot and the fiery stuff ran out and fell over the hands and wrists of the man man who was holdIng holding hold hold- Ing the tho ladder But the brave fellow did not move With lith a presence of mind and a courage courage cour cour- age that deserves a monument of brass or marble he maintained a firm hold of at the ladder until his companion could come down from his perilous perch |