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THE RATIO.
What do tho terms 10 to 1 and 20
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Jt means that there are sixteen times
aa many grains of silver In the present
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HOW NOT TO DO IT,
Borne time ago John Doe had $400 I
a savings fund. Becoming alarmed at
the financial depression, he withdrew
his money and now has It in his stock-
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Some time ago Richard Roe had
115,000 in bank. Becoming alarmed
he withdrew the currenoy and hired
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money lies there to-day
John Doe and Richard Roe congratu
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smart that they know a thing or
two more than their fellows and they
are not alow to Insinuate the same by
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John Doe and Richard Roe are fools,
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There Is barely enough now.
Suppose there were a bread famine
because a certain number of John Does
and Richard Roes had bought up more
than they could eat and stored it away
Suppose there was available only an
average of twenty-four loaves apiece.
which was just enough if each got his
quota, and that John Doe had secreted
100 loaves in bis cellar and Richard
Roe bad locked 15,000 In bis warehouse;
-would not public Indignation be kip
died against them ?
Neither money nor bread Is of any
value until used and no man has a
moral right to place either beyond the
reach of those who need them and are
willing to give compensation for them
Of course, a man should be cautious
and husband bis resources. But the
man who thinks the proper way la to
put bis currenoy In a stocking or a
vault is a fool and a publlc'enemy
Jf there were a few more thousand
Soim Poes and RlOhard Roes the
nation would quickly go on the rocks
Currency la the life blood of trade.
The man who boards It is a business
vampire.
Don't be fools. Don't wreck this
.country. Take your money and put
It In bank, for if our banks all fail
.every mother business will fail also and
we will be in a maelstrom of bank'
xuptoy.
Don't beecared. Daylight is at baud.
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ORE IT THOUGH BLIND.
Men Who Havo Aohlovod Distinction
With Sightless Eyes.
Orcat Blind Man of tli I'rmrnt Tlmo-
Wondra Wrought Ily Men and
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Colerlds-o onco said of John Ootiffh,
trra vrondorfully olovor blind botanist,
geologist nnd mathematlclnn; "Ilia
faoo aeea all over; It Is all ono oyo."
libra la the key to the extraordinarily
scuta faculties of the notablo blind pco-
pla of the World's history, the people
who hayo wrltton ana iiutiir ana trav
elled and wrought with profit to them-
salves and humanity. Tho remark
might bo amplified, however, for not
only la tho face of the Intelligent mind
person "all one eye" but the eara, tho
hands, tho feet and all tho other mem
bers and organs of tho senses are eyes
to tho blind.
JL T. CANFirjt.D.
It U a well known fact that Injury to
ono eyo or ono ear often renders tho
other eye or ear more acuta as a result
of tho double duty which It ts called
upon to perform, bo with tho blind,
Tho loss of the most valuable and most
Important of all tho senses, naturally
quickens the other senses. Instead of
"seeing" tho blind "leol," aa it were,
and instances of the extraordinary de
velopment to whloh this power of
"feeling" has been carried by the slghtr
loss aro almost Innumerable. One of
the earliest voracious Instances of re
markable nohloyoraents by tho blind la
the Odyssey of Homur, Although blind
ness did not fall upon tho great epic
singer until late in llfo, his grandest
words were composed after tho blight
had fallen upon him. In fact, it Is pos
sible that had ho not been stricken tho
world might have lost his immortal
omc poems.
Between the time of Homer and that
of Milton there were doubtless many
notablo aphiovemonts by tho blind but
few of them have come down to us.
Here and thoro, we come across lnsta n
ces of tho kind such as the fabled re
turn of tho throe hundred knights
whoso eyes had been put out by the
Saracens and who nevertheless found
their way somehow or other back to
Europe. Hut it Is only within tho last
two hundred years or so that authentic
records of wonders wrought by the
blind havo been preserved. TJio story
of Milton's mlsfortuno and his subse
quent contributions to the cause of re
ligion Is a matter of household unowi
edge. Hern aud there- one finds in old
books a brlaf roferepce to Francis
Salinas, of Spain, who developed re
murkable ability as a musician in the
early part of the slxteonth century.
century and a half later Turlagh Caro-
lan won undying fame as tho blind
composer and harpist, though with him
tho harp was simply a means to an end
tho end of composing the graceful
60iigs nnd airs, Bome of which still live.
about his time Hvod Nicholas baunucr-
KINO OK HANOVER.
ion, who though blind from childhood
up beoame Lucasian, l'rofessor of
Mathamatlcs at Cambridge University,
succeeding such men as Whiston und
Sir Isaac Js'uyvton. In addition to his
fame as a mathematician, Saunderson
became widely known as numismatist
It is said of him that he could identify
any coin handed to hlra by simply pass-
in? his hands ovor it, and, as tho story
goes, ho was so expert thut ho oven de
U'ctod certain counterfeits of Itoman
coins in ono of the groat collections.
William Talbot, who was bora in 1781
at lloscrea, Iroland, mastered tho intri
cacies of the organ to such an extent
thai ho constructed an improved organ
witU his own hands, introducing in It
many exoellentimprovomenta. Francis
Hu jr who was born in Uenevaln l7ou.
nn-i became blind at seventeen years of
ag'i devoted himself so successfully to
tin- ,tudv of tliu habits and peouliaritlot,
of ;ie bee family that his published
work on bees is, or was up to a recent
date, tna acknowledged authority.
Leonard Euler becume blind late In life.
but notwithstanding this affliction sub
eequent'y wrote his famous work on
Eiementeof Algetra" ana nis scarcely
leas famous "Theory of tho Moon."
John Metcalf, a Yorkshire man, who
lost his eyesight at six years of age, in
consequence of an attack of smallpox,
so rallied from the allllctlon that leu
of his young companions could oxce.
hlw in riding, swimming or other
form oi ylgorous exercise. As he grow
older he developed remarkable ability
as a civil engineer, directed and super
vised tho building of several roads and
capped tho climax by constructing a
road across a long stretch of marsh
Jand which tho best engineeringnuthor-
Itles had pronounced a physical impossi
bility, lit. Henry Moyes, who was born
la Flfualilre, in 1750, and like Metcalf,
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was blindod by Mimllpox at tli- nge or
six, aotually became so well veraeu in
chomlstry nnd the science of optics that
ho rnnked as an authority and made n
living by lecturing on thoso subjects. On
ono occasion, It la said, when tho coaoh
on which ho was riding fell into a dltoh,
ho assisted his follow passengers out of
the dltoh and directed tho work of re
moving tho fallen coach. Lieutenant
Holman, another ono of tho Mghtless
unfortunatos, won famo as a travollor
in strango and unknown countrlos, and
his works descriptive of his travels, at
tho time of publication, outranked tho
best works of the kind extant.
Another blind man who won famo by
his travels was James Wilson, who was
born In the State of Virginia in 1771),
and lost his sight as a more child whllo
on a vessel bound for JJeiiaat. in-
managed, however, In ono way or an
other to support himself, and in 18'JO
published his autobiography Including,
by way of appendix, sketches of tho
achievements of flf ty-four notable blind
people. This work ran through sev
eral editions and is ono of the
most notable contributions to tho
literature of the blind. James lilack
lock of Edinburgh studied for tho min
istry, and attained aufllciont standing
to havo tho degree of Doctor of Divin
ity oonforred upon him by tho Unlvor
slty. He Is supposed to havo boen tho
first blind man to receive that high
honor. Dr. Illacklock wrote the article
on "The Blind" for tho original edition
of the Encyclopedia Urittanica and his
work has been imlch drawn upon by
subsequent writers.
In more recent times, tho advanced
methods of educating the blind have
resulted In tho general betterment of
the condition and opportunities of tho
sightless, but it appears there havo
boen loss cases of strikingly notable
achievements. Tho general level hay
ing been raised, work accomplished by
individuals dooi not, of courso, stand
out in such bold rellof as It did In the
days when the avorago blind person
had no facilities whatever for acquir
ing knowledge, either general or
pedal Tho caso of Laura Urldgman
Is perhaps more widely famous than
PANNIJC CTtOSHT.
that of any other blind person of thb
century, unless it be "Blind Tom," the
marvelous pianist Laura Bridgman
was born In 1639 in Hanover, N. H.,
lost her sight and hearing in infancy,
and soon after lost her power of speech.
Hor sense of smell was also destroyed,
and that of taste was seriously im
paired. In olden times the child so
situated would have been considered
beyond relief qf any kind, but Dr.
Samuel Q. Howe, superintendent of tho
Perkins Institution for the Blind at
Boston, Mass., took an Interest In her
case and devoted a groat deal of time
to her education. He first taught her
the names of objects, by placing some
familiar article in her hand and then
giving her the name of the object in
raised letters. She was subsequently
taught the alphabet and then spoiling
and the rudiments, and eventually
learned to read, write, sew and do
household work. She finally put into
execution a maxim about tho blind
leading tho blind, herself becoming a
teacher of tho blind at the Perkins In
stitute, vyhere she romained until her
death in 1889.
A no less notable case, though no tan
analagous one, is that of the famous
negro pianist known as "Blind Tom,"
This creature, for there was little of
the human in his makeup, so far as
could bo seen, was bought with his
mother, a slave woman, in 1850, by
Oliver n. Ferry of southern Georgia.
The child was then a mero infant, but
was hopelessly blind and was supposed
to bo practically an idiot. Hence tho
planter who sold his mother made no
charge for the child, but simply throw
him In, as the saying goes, rather than
separate the mother and the child.
The little unfortunato grew up
on Mr. Perry s plantation very much
after the fashion of a pet animal, re-'
celving no speoial attention, and spend
ing most of his time in the open air
sunning himself. UIs talk was gibber
ish, and all who saw hlra predicted that
he would develop into a full-fledged
idiot. One day his master's- family
ware surprised to hoar certain favor
ite airs of the daughters of tho family
played upon tho piano although none
of the members of the family was in
the room in whloh the piano stood. On
investigation, little "Blind Tom" was
found sitting on the piano stool with
an apish look of glee on his face, his
little ohubby black hands meantime
traveling up and down the keyboard
with extraordinary speea and precision.
Suprised, but not then comprehending
the extraordinary nature of the per
formance, Mr. Perry good naturedly
allowed the little negro boy to spend
as much time as he pleased at the piano,
nnd in a few months, tho youngster
had dereloped into a veritable prodigy,
a prodigy without counterpart on
record, either before or sinoa Alter a
single hearing he would play with
faultless precision any composition,
however, intricate or difficult, and re
peatedly gave the most marvellous tests
of his powers at public exhibitions.
On one occasion, for instance, a musi
cian in tho audience lnsistfd on hav.ng
"Blind Tom" play asccondo to a f.n
ta8ia which he himself had just com
posed, his object being to ascertain
whether tuo boy oouia realty pi ay a
piece which ho had no opportunity
whatever of committing to memory.
The work wus in thirteen pngos,but tho
boy unhesitatingly accompanied tho
composer with a sccondo nnd then
amazed his nudlonco by fnlrly pushing
tho composer oil tho piano stool and
triumphantly playing tho ontlre compo
sition from start to finish with infinitely
more grace and delicacy and spirit than
tho writor himself. This was In tho
late C0"s, nnd tho boy then seemed more
animal than man, only becoming inter
esting or even bearable whllo under
tho Influence of tho mualo which he,
himself, produced. In later years, ho
becamo moro tractable and civilized, as
it were, and gave hundreds of public
exhibitions of his power.
Blind men havo occupied all sorts of
positions and accomplished oil sorts of
wonders, but only ono of them, at least
In recent years, has actually occupied
a throne, lllng Ucorgo, of Hanover,
better known as "The Blind King of
llanovor" ruled over his subjects for
Beveral years, but lost his throne and
his thronedom by tho absorption of
Hanover In Prussia In 1800, He fled to
Vionnnr and later on died still proclaim
ing himself a king; though a king
without a kingdom. Ho was a son of
tho Duke of Cumberland, and tho pres
ent Duke still posos as an holr to
royalty.
By way of contrast to the kingly ca
reer of llanovor s monarch, is tho
peaceful and devout life of Francis
Jano Crosby whose fame as a writer
and composer of popular hymns Is
almost world wldo. faho was born In
Putnam county, Now York, March 2,
1820, nnd is still alivo and hearty. She
was stricken with blindness whllo a
child, but subsequently taught school
and later turned ner attention to com
posing hymns. Some of her best
known compositions are "Safo in the
Arms of Jesus," "Hark, 'Tis tho Voice
of Angels," arid "Hesoue tho Porish
log."
Another notablo blind person of our
own time and country is Ilov. William
H. Milburn, Chaplain of tho House o'f
Itepresontatives, ' who Is best known
as "the blind chaplain." Rev. Mr.
Milburn was born In Phllndolphla in
1823 and in childhood lost his eyesight
as tho result of an accident Ho never
theless went to college and became a
Methodist minister. For a time ho was
a "pirpuit rider,' and in 1845 vas elected
Chaplain of the 29th Congress In 1848,
he assumed the pastorato of thurch
In Montgomery, Ala., later went to
Mobile, and shortly after was tried for
heresy. Ho was again made Chaplain
of Congross In 1853 and in 1857 went on
a lecturing tour in England. He has
crossed the ocean throo times, has Bpent
five or six years of his llfo abroad and
Is now for the fifth or sixth tlmo chap
lain of the House of Representatives.
In another sphere, that of mathe-
tics, Lewis II. Carl! has won famo.
JUind from childhood, ho successfully
ptissed tho examinations at Columbia
College, and was graduated with high
honors in 1870 in the class of tho pres
ent president of Columbia, Scth Lowe.
Ho took up the calculus of Variations,
worked out all the equations, and after
infinite labor issued a now treatiso on
the subject which Is one of tho stand
ard works. Ho now loctures on matho-
natics at Columbia College and also
gives private lessons In mathematics.
The list of the blind men and women
of the prosont day who hayo achjevoi)
prominenco in many lines might be
almost indefinitely extended, Including
as it does ox-Postmaster Fawcett of
Groat Britain; Judgo West, tho blind
lawyers Kev. Dr. MeClollond, the well-
known minister; Marvin R. Clark, tho
Now York journalist; Dr. James R.
Cooko, of Boston; Alvah T. Canfleld, of
Highlands, N. i., tho traveling agent
and business man; Martin N. Kellog,
the weather prophet of St Paul; and
Johnson X. Mundi' tho blind sculptor.
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