New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-29
SOME QUEER TEXAS HEARING
THE MOST WONDERFUL PAIR OF EARS IN
CHRISTENDOM.
rhose were his exact words

These were his exact words:
Yes, Stree, I've him with my own eyes an
blleye what see cause my eyes amt never gone bach
on me since they was first opened thrynne ago down
in the good State o Texas God bless her
on old sam Houston Yes Stree tell you I've seen
him an he's the wOnderfuest human being or any oher
being that ever the breath o. life amt lokh
,aint no occasion to Joke amt lynn cause down
in Texas folks don't lie for fun. Yes. Stree he's got
two OF the years you ever see Inc ono U" 'o
nigh side OF his amt bigger IN the year Of mouse
hut the one on the of sie-Gee-mi-nety! wy sec the
size o. nv hand Well sir it's bigger n that bigger py
a right smart an my hand Amt no babys hpper.
"There amt no limit his hearin I've knowed
him to hear 1000 miles in air llne Last spring rs
ooA on the front porch home an counted the cannon
shots what was President Harrison come up the
barbor at the Washington Centennial He heeru inc
brcakn dam what causen the Hood In the
Valley lie didn't know what 1t was at the time He
said IL sounded like thunder but he knew IL wsrns
,bundor an, we was all mighty puzzled till the papers
told us what It was. Theirs big storm on the Gun
he says an enough in day or two comes news
great waves an shpwrecks. res rainh IN Oarorhi''
no saws am by.an'-by hear OF storm over there
hor cvclone I'm Kansas. he says an cyclone 10 Is,
thousan mile away. 'Irs a-comin' this way' he says
an, we get ready dive into our cellars L near TWO
~ rash torether on a railroad there he saws,
an, no noints I'm the direction OF the sound an we get
man an, mark II down an morning read all about
enc accident I'm the papers Just where he said IL was
Amt that wonderful enough for your
"It seems incredible
/
ain, seen t. seein b'lievin'. Le' me tell you
umnn n, else This boy hear yesterday well as to-
day It's fact. He can hear a hundred years ago-s
hundred back Stree, thousand Iney say
I'm the philosophy that sound never does dle IL JUST
kceps ON aclrcuan around an around gettin further
and further away from the earth t We with our ordinary
wears can't hear it But this yonngster-W'y
le me tell YOU Pve knOwed him hear back $50 years
an listen what Miriam sung after Moses an
the Israclltes wafei through the Red Sea
nMlnd aided suddenly ''he does all this hlg
hearn this hearln o. great the an
over distances thousands mis with the big year on
the OIL o. his face all the time akeepin' the Htte
tcensy year nigh closed up But when he goes
house he the little an shuts the Dig ohe
an. sir with that little year he can hear ph drop Oh
a sofa cushion! lie can hear hy walkn on "iu.o"
pane an a cockr0ach a.runnin' across the hoof sh
bibug crawlln between the sheets. an-weH her alhs
sound small enough escape him. A. ,S..
feet from me an count my heart BEATS ne Tan '''''
hear a person think -, a., Aha hovr
"Goln' twelve"
IT ne s'rons p .sy he sint He's mighty sckly an
| has awful spells with BIS h'"u
.. your nephew, believe you STU
No kin; Just my io'A' anu ~ ~ "
=, ~ no good sense r
~ n long ways from being IDIOT can tell you.
- ~ folks was ten years hndin II out They thought
vas daft Til they learnt by a accident that he
couldn'; out Of both years al onet that l. ne
I'D hear well enough. but the sounds got 80 mixed
m that ne couldn't tell nothing about 'em; not thing
II SEEMS to me I've heard Of that boy e'sss'~s
les more N likely. He's been considerably raiSed
about
That's what tell his folks. bu, they amt "iihr
10 lie. him out o. their sight"
Where Is his homer
ON farm short ways from sherman His name's
Heetor-ueetor BiaswclL'