Show CREAKING THE BONDS I 1 HOW THE BLIND TRIUMPH OVER THUR PHYSICAL misfortune A lit lint front the south who itar ila it a V M fai memory groat sue cea critt of an ARit sl A T 1 ariter or of hplu 1 tho the achievements of tho ilia b lind blind aro are tir nr un ro failing churco of wonder to those who cau carl see sec and the latest blest prot prodigy ligy 0 among those unfortunates is oacar oc a r moore a six earold carold ear car old colored boy of waco tex tes HN hig memory ii not simply phenomenal it is what runny many people would call marvelous ho he has never been known to forget ft a name after hearing it once or to fail of recognizing a voice it is a well known fact that loss of bight bights sharp barp ens the other senses ciacci illy hearing but it has n not ot been supposed to gre greatly stten strengthen then tile the meia memory ory osbire Os cire rs memory wa was s first noticed by his parents when hoewaa lie waa but thirteen months old and he flou be callio a avon wonder in fit tex texas is he was recently taken to boston when introduced introduce a to I 1 no a large company lip hp remembered the of every ono one at their jhc thc ir next meeting and OSCAK W af M DAVES rORT identified each by his voice o ile ho is a perfect little encyclopedia of historical bist orical anil and literary information mation carl can count in nil all the languages lie ho has ever heard amounting to i I 1 dozen C can all rev accito it a y very er v long poems after heating healing them load once anil and dadail every fact of any importance Joria tico in ally aft y he be lias bas once heard read ile hois is withal a fail ay good singer and has oms talent for tho the pia piano n wi many tests of his bia memory have acci made in doston boston with astonishing le another blind person of note is sir william al daenport of leydon leydou franklin county mass who lost liis his F in boyhood nevertheless lio lie soot soon I 1 tho the details of a small ismail farni or on which his parents lived and tin in early eaily manhood with no fortune but hs hi talents lie giohas has acquired over lie is is ono one of the best judges of wool in the hie state and by feeling and smell can detect every variation in fiber grease dirt diri and other peculiarities this however er is not so surprising as his quick ando and on livestock live stock lie does it by living on oil oi of lanes and does it so eo well th hois is 0 ono of the regular judges at all tock stock 1 4 A singular all feature ture of liis his case is that ili his own animal seem in iii a dumb brut 0 esy to i misfortune he 1101 1 a bought rud and oil as liay cartie tj a in lit a year fee s and waters those on oil his farm hi crol goes in and out amon amo them equally alday bv day or night and has never been kicked or bitten re jie c antly lie he lea idl a vicious bull which others were ere afraid of six miles lie ile is ia a very prominent wart inan in ili county affairs is in greenfield every ei c ry saturday and can walk or ride lido the nine miles to hi lilae ease and certainly his wife usually draws anil signs capets for bim iana aal ins four children lead it a great deal to linn bun as ho he takes afif fifteen teen papers and magazine iniga zine despite the compensations comac of nature and the labors of oe philanthropy this la 19 it hard world for the blind and thou though 11 an ingenious uteri men biava sought out many invention vont ions to nid aid them thein much reni remains ains to he be done the alie development of laura Dridge Bian by dr samuel G howe was certainly the greatest achievement in physics psychology this world has ever known slie she was deaf dumb durn band and blind blandi hail had no sense bense of smell kmell and an imper imperfect fec taste tast yet dr iloco discovered a way to reach I 1 her ter mind and found it a goltl oue the account of liow bow lie taught 0 her to tell what she thought and felt is tile very zor nanco of humanitarian science 4 ron THE BUND BLIND professor frank if n hall of the jacksonville ills institute for the blind lias now completed an invention on oil which lie he has been toiling for years a typewriter typed riter for the blind without into details it is elou enough h to say that this little machine machino removes at all tir enor enormous difficulties the blind have ex in writing that vot not only can call the production bo read by the tha blind billa when the puncturing system is 13 used bu bytho by the letter system the blind will be able to prepare manuscript for the iho pre yet the machino machine is quite simple having li aviu but bix keys and weighing but pounds they can be manufactured it in ee eaven en doll dollars ars each cacti tind aus the professor lias has nobly refused to arlia himself of any galna by a patent |