Show BLIND FARM FARMER ER WINS excels as handler and shrewd trader of horses in spite of total loss of 0 I 1 sight he 01 0 arit 1 averala Ave raga man and do thorn welt well denver deaver Col Stephen IN la is a 3 young farmer who lives near this town and who sees things by a now new light more blore people stop and talk with him than with any other person who comes to town lie iia to la 23 ys old and to la totally blind yet he be sees bees or at least his other senses have been so BO strengthened that lie gets along ab about 0 ut as well as do men with full vision IN fellinger lost his sight when he was throe years old while playing with a hatchet which rebounded tho the edge cutting into one tit 0 t his bis oyes eyes tho the sight was soon boon gono gone in this eye and after a year of suffering the other eyo eye was so affected that its vision vanished also stricken thus in childhood the little boy realized what it was to ha be blind and today to day he says ho he does not mind the loss lose of his bis sight at all by years of practice he be says 1 I have adjusted my life to blindness I 1 am dolog doing about everything my brother and slater sister can do my aty neighbors ran can tell you how well I 1 do it too yes I 1 walk to denver halt a rollo mile distant ill stant practically every day I 1 go hall half the distance on the railroad tracks my aly hearing bearing tells roe me just I 1 where I 1 am every step I 1 take has a I 1 different sound to me when I 1 tread upon this tie I 1 know bow far away from home I 1 am when I 1 get to tho the place where I 1 turn upon the public yond road lending leading to the center of 0 tho the tofu somehow 4 I cant explain just juat how and why but I 1 am able to tell by the sound nay my shoes oboes make that I 1 have to stop anil and turn in another dt di lon when I 1 get getto to town I 1 can telf w cherp here the stores are who are th bo owners enera ond and what la Is sold eold there my aly case of smell amell tells me ine at once when I 1 got get la in front or of the hotel or when I 1 enter a cigar store biora or the arn corner e r grocery atly brother ta is a butcher a and n d occasionally I 1 help him in much of the work and the surround iv 1 tire 1 re so EO impressed still on my mind that you vou cant too fool me when I 1 get in front of a butcher shop no matter where it Is 19 suddenly Uel bellinger lInger said gald there comes one of 0 our horses boraca around the corner I 1 er and he be la is hitched to our lee lea wagon how do you know that stephen asks a man who was watching him closely why I 1 can tell the tha horses foot tep as well as you can tomo tome peo and nd I 1 can tell you yon which when I 1 i hear them walk or trot do yuu drive too sure ask the landlord here lie he will w 11 tell you that I 1 come to town every day and on saturdays I 1 drive over every bit of street there to la in town and I 1 can tell you every street corner and doorstep for I 1 sell lee ice cream cream to most all of the residents people cant understand how bow I 1 get along but somehow it if my feet could talk and my ears explain and my nose corroborate I 1 might be able to tell you ou in exact words how I 1 distinguish between johns and garofola Garo Samu uola elB horses on the other side 0 of the street mr fr la Is probably the most moat wonderful farmer in III the state stale lie ho takes care of a large herd of 0 every winter which he fattens ho h anjil aks six or eight cows grooms civo horses keeps their stables la in tipton chape greases the harness and does a hundred jtb other r odd things about th barn As a machinist hla his neighbors will all their good sight can hardly excel the tha blind man ile he has a large gast gaso line engine and steam threshing ma chino chine on his farm and when he and am ut gAbor s C thresh grain Step lien either irma r the sheaves pulling them upon tb the platform ready for the feeder or attends to the grain bags on one occasion some accident happened and the engine would not work the father looked at every valve and bolt but it was no use then they called stephen ite ile crawled under the engine and with his fengers begin began to feel and with a hammer he kept on n tapping on the he various parts suddenly hla his fingers felt something and hla his ears told him by the sound that he had the part that was defective defect lva five fill minutes later the ha engine was ing the threshing mach machine ifie and steph en was carrying away grain bags again |