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Show A WONDERFUL LITTLE LAD. Our sclioolbojs must not lmnglno that they are the smartest In the world, for tllere la a little boy in Iloston who Is rieir, dumb and blind, and who, In spile or this,' will mike every one or ihem look out good and lively ror Ills honors. In manual training Tom fatilnger has few equuls and no superlois, more yet, he Is a mcchnnlcul genius, Tom la now 15 ears old. The llttlo fello.v lost hla sight nnd hearing when he vvna about a ea, and a half old, from spinal meningitis Ho forgot how In walk, nnd ot live yearn of ug(, when ho was admitted to the Terklns Institution In-stitution for tho llllrd, In ISoston, ho riept backward Now Mr. Anagnos, tho dlrcctoi ot tho Institution, consider consid-er Tom tho enunl of any boy of hla ago In inentnl development, so that all he bus learned, Including how lo walk, hiis been accomplished In ten jenrs Tom's composition for the commencement commence-ment cxei rises of UJ3 vvns , , TWO nOSTOV ufovs mi: rmtiTAN nor or loop thd nobTON noy or i? "Boston Is an old city. More than 500 sears ago the Purlluns came ncrosa tho ocean to find a new homo In Amerlci. rhey built a town on three hills and named It Hoston That vvua their old home In Hngland. .v,Vr.ho.. '.'ille '"''"'n boy walked through the grassy lines Instead of stieets. He rtiove the cows to postuie on tho common Washington street Is the old c looked cowpnth Thero was a lflt,h beacon on Heacnn Hill. The bo) h liked to coast down Deacon Hill lp vv Inter. "An Indian was tho pnstmnn who carried letteia from town to town The people traveled by stage. Tho only ships wero sailing vessels Hccause the peoplo In Iloston town were good unci bravo. It gtew to be a big city. Theie nro W.ooo peoplo In iloston now. 'The Iloston boy of 1800 rides In steam and electilo cars and cuirlagea without horses. '"lho mall and telephone nnd tele, graph tarr our messages, steamboats cioss tho ocean In a week 'lhero was not land enough for all the people, so more land was mado In the harbor. Tho old town dock Is pnit of tho sub. way now, Tho little Puritan boy woull find everything changed except the common 1 am very glad Hint the llttlo Purl-tan Purl-tan boy came across the sea from Euz- land to live ln Iloston In 1M0. but I would rather be the boy nf H09 " Tom wrote this composition In Ilrallle point characters dm lug hla play hours When that part of the work vvaa done ho set himself about making his Illustrations. Illus-trations. They consisted of the old stagecoach of ltiOO and the electric overhead over-head trolley car of 1S09, n sailing vessel ves-sel tho beacon oil II. neon Hill, and the windmill on Cnpp's Hill, which ho cut lot of while papei anil pasted upon black cardboard The unique feature of Toms Illustrations vvaa that they weie nil made out of stialgbt lines, nnd et uuy person lould Instantly tell what the) were Intended for. If nnjonc Imagines this would he an easy task, let bin, blindfold himself and Iry to cut out of stiff white paper nn old stagecnich pulled by n hoise, nnd 11 trolley car, with Us overhead electric wire, nnd Its track to run on Tho wind-mill, wind-mill, sailing vessel nnd beacon look easier, but they would bo hard enough goodness knows, with one's e)ea shut, The commencement exeiclses took place In the Iloston theater, before an Immense nudlence, and when It came Tom turn to rend his composition this Is the way it was done. Ho j assed the reading finger" of one hand over tho raised churaetcis and with tho other hand, spelled It nut In the manunl or deaf-muto alphnbet to an Interpreter, vvhlch Interpreter repeated tho story of the 'Two Iloston Ho)8" to the assembled as-sembled audience. At thn right time Tom hell up tho Illustrations be hid made The table upon which his manuscript man-uscript rested hna beeii made by his own hands Nnno ot the pupils that day got longer or heartier applauso than deaf, dumb and blind Tommy Rlrlivger. |