| Show Famous Lecturer to Talk Tomorrow N. N C. C Hanks properly called by lly many the man who laughs at fate will lecture at the University tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row afternoon Although deprived through accident of his hands and eyes Mr Hanks has risen above his apparently hopeless hopeless- circumstances and become a lecturer and entertainer of much repute not alone in Utah his home state but pretty generally throughout the entire country which h he has covered on his various lecture lecture lecture lec lec- ture tours At the age of or 21 years Mr l Hanks and his youthful partner were spending spending spend spend- ing their summer vacation for they were students of the B. B Y U. U in the working of a mining mining lease lease near Nephi Utah One day just before going to his dinner which was being prepared by the partner in their Rumble humble cabin Mr Hanks picked up a box of dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- mite caps which exploded in his hands By a miracle he was not torn to shreds but he was hurled ten feet Within a minute he arose bleeding but calm The mountains and aud sky had vanished Where his Continued on Page 4 FAMOUS LI LECTURER TO TALK TOMORROW Continued from Pa Page e 1 1 hands had been were bleeding stumps stump and with his hands and eyes had hac gone all means of livelihood For a long time it seemed that the injury could not be overcome anc and after he was cured it seemed that th the unfortunate young man would succumb succumb suc- suc cumb to his own despondency He was fortunate though in IE meeting Byron King a teacher an and lecturer of Pittsburg King taught him to love life again and put him inthe in inthe inthe the mood to go before the world and make good in spite of his calamity He has since become a popular lecturer lec lee on Shakespeare and other great literature By this means he has been able to care for himself and his hig aged but proud mother and to save a little In his condition Mr Hanks finds it impossible to lecture free of charge so that a nominal admission will be charged those students who wish to hear him talk tomorrow in the assembly assembly as as- room |
