Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-07
A MINDS FEAT.
CIimbIne to the covered summit
of MI anc.


the blind in Loud "a native OF ZEN
Gcssee. for many 4 resident Of Bos-
ton, he went to I'LL, especially to Ger
many, IN 1859 TO n. and be was lnalh-
~ instrumental III IN rounding tne
great institution which he has ever
since been and sts the principal. He
comes 10 Inns fr,uFat the present time,
nOmiuallv as ID Commissioner, to
investigate ana Get information about
the best methods Aiucate the blind that
obtain bers. bnf nciDallv 10 show 70
the peopIe nf An,sa some OF the results
PRODUCER IN, ~ Cal Normal College.
He is an AmericActtlzen ana owner ol
property in mis- lntry. and is working
for Tho esrahiis1 int Of a national college
IN America for higher education Of
the blind. In JRoyal Normal College
in London. (which DR.. Campbell pre-
sides. mus,cis one of the main
objects. bT the education given
is general The college en-
braces a PREDATORY school, a grammar
and high s0ol, technical school and
an acaden5 of music. A great deal Of
attention paid to physical training.
The DOCTORS a little man, approaching
10 years ohge, wears dark glasses TO
over his Imply eyeglasses, and a dark
sav bearI In conversation he is as
Fky as aFrenchnan, his features are
efVeugd nth wonderful animation, he
i2s ouidly, and there is peculiar,
chNke ceerfulness in his tone that is
onf'oundIn blind men, and only IN
le"i then
'17sicd exercise IS most essential in
Inc ecatbn Of the blind" said the doc
lor. hare generally found in the col
Iege T. Is has taken as much effort to
QFercSs their habits of idleness and in
doienAs to give them the training for
Iheir scial avocations. AS a rule"
SAID he'll he vitality of the blind is be-
low th9verage vitality Of seeing per-
sons. Ihack Ofphysical power leads
TO Indolee, t.midity and discourage
ment. Ttplina must be reused from
their wilLgness to depend on others,
ana made tbeleve in the possibility OF
independent ad success. We give our
pupils courae ad vitality by gymnastic
exercises. Febave a very well-ap-
pointed gymnasium connected with the
college. We ieat the boys to swim, too,
and skate. Nnel don't have any more
laIs IN learning tskate than seeing peo-
pie do, and the tas they necessarily re-
selYe give them lrdihOod that is worth
Eerything TO theIp
YES" said the bctor's son, ''we have
some boys who CT play around on the
lceand describe ibcy figures as neatly
as ou or l, or paaps the most expert
skaIr you can findn Washington"
Des every One,et the ice all to him.
sen urn, or dOhey all skate at once
ana OgetherP aged the reporter. elf
man STATED at a tine would there not be
treqpnt collisions"
lie ice pond j. circular in shape"
I. ar0O N1,n
csne, profusely get with trees and shrub
herJhat overhaig, This little islet in
the 1tre gives an echo, BY which the
Doy1OWs how far he is from the bank.
A den of them will often skate for half
an Ilr around that pond without a sim
gIe tmble. The echo prevents them
Ironunnlng into the bank. When they
naV'kated perhaps half an hour in the
one 'ection bell is rung, and then they
iurmd skate perhaps for the same
lengof time the other way. They go
roun'n the ice with just az free and
easy wing as the contestants in a ska
tlng rch at Madison Square Garden, in
New rk."
yourseV
''0hes: in 1880, / think 1t was, as
cendedo the top Of Mont Blanc. My
son, WLvas then only 10 years old, ac-
compan me, and was the first Of his
age whever rose to that height. But
Mont Bic is not by any means the most
difficultsun to climb. never will
forget big showed up for % hours on
& ne MatlhOrn. That was in 1882. ]
Ehought was never going TO get
'flown lrather dulled my appetite
Tor moulin air; but l am very
iona OF tHeI and exercise. You see |
have 80 NH thinking to do that great
zeal Of phycal exercise is necessary for
me. Two hrs ago my son and took
tandem trICle across the channel and
crossed the0ntinent on it from Sweden
70 Russia. e brought the machine with
us 10 New Kirk where we arrived from
England lasMmday, and we iRteud 20
90 good del o riding on it. But this
country is To- By and distances are too
great to cOVelola tricycle."
81 would ratAr.0 said Mr.. Guy NJ.
.s--1pbell, "Cliab the Alps with my
rather than withny other mOuntaineer l
know. l have tlveled all the principal
mountains Of SwEerland with him until
1 am familiar VIII almost every path.
we topped MontNanc together in a re-
markably short me. We did quicker
climbing, the guies said. than ever had
NN"A hRAN AnF Z IJEhOI6s ! ne GlICuuA-
stances at the tim were favorable, but
nevertheless we lid some pretty close
to do. CamOnni alley is the
best point from wfch to start the ascent
oi Mont Blanc. IDS a beautiful valley,
eNquisitiYely greo, ana you have a
considerable distalce TO travel up the
lase OF the mOunain before you reach
me snOW-line. Whn once YOU touch the
snow, you don't ouch anything else
NTH you reach the top if You continue
mounting. IT was in August tbat we
we're there. The SNOW does not disappear
with the advent OF he summer sun. 1t
lays there all the lime. ] don't know
Thatdepthft might b. at the deepest part,
suppose some hundreds OF feet: but gem
'rHffy you don't sink very far into it.
WEN my fatner aud ] climbed It to-
yethef l think we never sank more than
hree or four inches, although at other
ines a nave Often plunged 10 the snow
lp 20 me waist 10 generally presents
lard, firm surface. There is more DANGER
rom slipping en the ice than frois sink
Re N The snow. Mountaineering parties
ire seldom composed Of less than four per-
ons, who are bound together by rODes,
md II the pioneer happens 10 STRIKE soft
led ana Epes,uJWp, ht5 companions sell
Iom nave much difficulty in recovering
i'm by pulling the rope which joins them.
v hen you find that there is a prospect OF
eine buried N one direction, you gener-
lly take n different course. But the
reatest trouble Is caused by slipping.
Inc MAJ strike a feld Of ice at any time,
nd collapse. " cut loose, he might
lmble over precipice and never be
cen again. But being joined by a rope
D bis companions such catas.
fophe IS prevented Occasionally YOU
leel solid wall Of ice running several
md rod fanI mN a oNngfutt nd t.uf "a ssaFss.