St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14

voice as promptly as though he looked upon
their faces, or at his home in the society of
his wife and children, you could scarcely
realize that all this is accomplished without
A SINGLE RAY OF LIGHT.
He has a clerk who is familiar with
music, and who reads to him the musical
productions which he desires to commit to
memory and reproduce in sound. He
simply reads them over to him as one would
read the words of book or newspaper, and
they are ,indelibly fixed in his memory.
With very many of the pieces which he thus
memories a single reading is sufficient;
with others two or three are required, ac-
cording to the difficult and complicated
characters of the productions. When he
desires to attend to his private
correspondence he turns to his typewriter,
an ordinary ''caligraph," not differing in
any particular from those used by seeing
persons, and, without any assistance, writes
his letters more rapidly than the most ac-
complished penman could transcribe them
from dictation, striking the letters with
wonderful accuracy and rapidity, the
typewriter he has used for many years
having been one Of the first to adopt it after
its first appearance. At his office and his
residence he has large libraries, containing
ALL THE IMPORTANT WORKS
published for the blind, most of which he
obtains from the printing house for the
blind at Louisville, and besides these many
important works printed in the ordinary
manner to which he refers with the aid of
his clerk, who reads to him from these and
from the current literature of the day, on
which he is well posted. He walks
promptly and fearlessly about his room,
visiting his piano, organ, library and desk
at will, selecting without hesitation from
the various documents therein. reaches the
whole city and surrounding country through
the telephone just above his desk, and
walks unaided back and forth between his
residence and office. In person he is slightly
below the medium height, figure well
developed, a pleasant face which lights up
with a smile as he converses, a polished and
courtly manner and an intelligence upon the
topics Of the day which would do credit to
those who enjoy the privileges which
through life of over forty years have been
denied him.
Miss Eva Mills, probably the most widely
known of Washington's vocalists, is Miss
Eva Mills. She was the original Josephine
in the opera of ''Pinafore," appearing 100
consecutive nights in this character in New
York in the first presentation of that opera.
She is now giving most of her time to choir
work and teaching. She is member of
the choir at the First Unitarian church of
this city, where the quartet, of which she
is member, furnishes the finest church
music in the city. She is, as
is well-known, a step-daughter of
the late Clarke Mills, and was very much
loved by him, his last words as he lay upon
his deathbed being: GLOW sweet Eva's
voice sounds when the organ plays" She
has been for years marked feature of the
choir-work of Washington. She was the
soprano for many years of the well-remem-
bered choir of St. Aloysius church, the
largest church in Washington, to which
crowds used to flock to listen to the fine
music. She has appeared in amateur opera
at various times, her most ambitious per-
Torrance being Marguerite in Faust"