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Show accurately for one so heavily linndi-cajiiied, linndi-cajiiied, locating tho object to bo uiniod ut by bound. Chicago Tribune. SIGHTLESS BUT NOT HELPLESS. the Artive T5niii-s l.lfe of n riiiraeo Mun W ho la Whoily lllind. The wonder of West Harrison street is ft blind irian, "William F. DuM-hk-k, wlio lives at 1115, where he conducts a ret;:il cigar and confectionery utore. A casual obstrver vrould net be apt to discovt-r that the storekeeper is totally blind from the manner iu which he moves around and shows oil his goods. Mr. Buschick keeps his own accounts, waits on the customers, takes in money and hands out change 83 deftly as any ealeswoman in a down town store. He seldom wakes mistakes in hand'.ins coin, and if anybody any-body were mean enough to try it would not be an easy matter to pass counterfeit counter-feit coins on him. Not Altocetlier Modern. The opinion held by many people who have never had tlwir attention especially turned to the work of Jean .fact ties Ri ittssean is not that he was a benefactor of his kind, but in reality he was one of the first apostles of the modern methods of education, and it, is only after all this lapse of years that his ideas have coiijh to be widely adopted. It is he who once said that wo came into tho world ignorant, igno-rant, but, wilh capacity; that education begins at birth; that we learn incredibly in the first years, and that as impressions impres-sions supply our first knowledge those t impressions fiiouM be of the best and should be presented in the rie-lit, order- His sense of feeling is keen, and perhaps per-haps more so as a result of the absence of night. He bauds out any brand of cigars asked for, and his sensitive finger tips light upon the right brand of chewing chew-ing gum without any fumbling. His eyes, which are not eourcaled from view, are a beautiful dark blue, and a stranger looking into them would uot guess that they were so utterly useless. Mr. Uuscbiek buys a'! his slock, going tlvn town on the street cars and about the crowded streets of tho business section sec-tion of the south side without a guide. He never loses his bearings. Vhen ready to return homo he waits quietly besido a peanut stand and asks t lie vender ven-der to tell him when a Harrison street car comes. This car passes his store, and ho intuitively knows when it is opposite his home. that the first cry of a child is a request, the second a command; that destruct-ivenesH destruct-ivenesH in a child is not cruelty, but activity; that ihe sin of children is the weakness; that Mtrength brings about virtue, and he who can do all things will never do wrong things. This we seo to be undoubtedly good reasoning in the light thrown ou the subject of late years, and understanding understand-ing now how greatly our children are affected by what they nee us to be we comprehend com-prehend more fully what Thales meant, when he said that, men must live in tho J consciousness that till around them is ! filled with gods, mid that this should ! keep them more chaste tiutuif they were ! in the holiest of t em pled. Harper's B;i- zar. I iw jumps irom tlie car whtlo it is in motion. Ho walks about, his store aud funis sharp corners without mishap. , He can walk straight to a door and grasp 'the, knob without fumbling it, or trip down stairs as lively ami as gracefully as a young woman, and never makes a l.iscalculation when reaching the last t'trp. He i.i a candy maker and makes ail the candy he s"Rs. As is usual in cases of blindness, tho loss of t his man's vision lias quickened his feuse of feeling and hearing. When his eyes went out of business their available josets appear to have been transferred to j his ears and ringer tips. His ability to j locate objects by tuiind is wonderful, j This was demonstrated one. night when ! n burglar broke into his store. The ro!- j ber left hastily with a h ad -n bullet in ; his anatomy, as spots on the floor proved j the next morning. Tho blind man J handks a revolver cleverly stu) bIum.io j |