The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-06-13
K HEARING.
The Most Wonderful Pair Of Dars
In An Christendom.

The Most Wonderful Pair Of Daxs
In An Christendom.
a YounEster who Heard Breaking =
the Johnstown N'a.) Dam in tho lose
Star Stntc-The Greatest Of MAJ.
tres Many Frsaks.
These txerc his exact words, ~ faith
fully reported in tho New York Tribune:
"Yes, stree, I've seen him with my
own eyes, an blieve what see. cause
my eyes amt never gone back on mo
since they was first opened thirty.nine
years ago down in the good old Lo1e
Star State O. Texas. God bless her an
old Sam Houston. Yes, Stree. I tell
you Two seen him, an he is the wonder
fullest human being or any other being
that ever drew tho breath o. life. +
amt iokin'. 'Tain't no occasion to Joke.
an amt lynn, cause down in Texas
folks don't lilo for fun. Yes, stree, he's
got two Of the curusest years you ever
soc. Tho n on tho nigh side OF his
face amt no biggcr'n the year Of .
mouse, bu: tho one on the OF side-gee-
mi-netty! Wy, SEQ the size o my hand9
Well, sir. it's biggcr'n that, bigger BY .
right smart, an my hand amt no bAby's
Upper.
"Thore amt no limit to his hesrin.--
I've knowed him to hear two thousand
miles in air line. Last spring he stood
on tho front porch at home an counted
the cannon shots what was nred as Pres
ident Harrison cone up tho hnrbor et
tho Washington centennial. uC hcesed
the breallin' o. the dam what caused tho
food in tho Coneu.augh valley. Tic
didn't know what it was at the time. liza
said 1t sounded like thunder, but no
knew 1t warn't thunder, an w was all
mighty puzzled till tho papers told Us
what 1t was. There's q big storm on
the gulf he says, an sure enough b .
day or two news Of great waves
an shipwrccks. Its o rainin' in Coli
fornia,' he says, an by an by We hear Of
o storm over there. There's . cyclone
in Kansas he says, an cyclone it is, a
thousan' miles away. 'lt's o comm thta
way he says, an' we get ready 70 dive
into cur cellars. Il hear two enginc~
crash together IN q railroad oyce therc.'
he says, an he points in the direction ct
the sound an wo get . map IN mark 1t
down, an next morning read all about
the accident in the papers. just whcrc
he said it was. Amt that wonderful
enough for YOU'D"
cit seems Incredible"
"Thore, l knowed you wouldn't be-
lievc it, cause you amt seen 1t. Seetu'
g b'lievin'. Lee me tell you sump'n'
else. This boy CON hear yesterday NJ
we'll as to-asy. It's a fact. He % hear
a hundred years ago--a hundred years
back; yes, Stree, a THOUSAND They
say in tho PHILOSOPHY that sound never
does die. 1t just keeps on a-circulat.n'
around an around, gettin' further and
further away from tho earth, till We.
with II ordinary years, can't hear it no
more. But this youngster-w'y. lc' mo
tell you; I've knowed him to hear buck
$3.50 years and Listen TO tho song what
Miriam sung after Moses m the Isfacl-
ties wadcd through the Rcd Seal
"M:nd YOU Aa added suddenly. "he
does all this big hea.in', this hcarin'
o graat soun's back In tho ages an over
distances G9 thousands O. miles with tho
big year o. tho off silo q his face, ali
the time s-Eeepin' tho liNlo teensy year
on the nigh side closed up. But when
he goes in the holso hc opens tho little
year an shuts tho big one, on, sir. with
that little yes- 10 can hear q pin drop
on a sofa cushion! lie con hear . ly
wa.Sin' on u window pano M . cock
roach a%-runnin' across tho floor, In y
bedbug crawlin' between the sheets, an
we'll. tho. amt nc sound small enough
to escape kim. lie can set ten faet from
inc an count my heart beass! He can
almost hear q person Think
Authenticated ..Aate ILL.,, ~ H.
tho boy?"
Coin on twelve"
Ills he strong and hearty"
I'm sorry to say he amt. Hes
mighty sickly an has awful spells with
his head"
"Your nephew, I believe you said
NO kin; just my folks an his folks Is
neighbours
Has he good scnse9"
Hes a long ways from being q idiot,
I Can tell you, but his folks was ten
years fndin' it out. They thought hs
was daft till they learnt by a accident
that he couldn't hear out Of both years
at once; that Is. ko could hear we'll
enough, but the sounds got 80 mixed up
that he couldn't tell nothing about 'em;
not q thing"
"lt seems to me I've heard OF. that boy
BEFORE"
Its more'n likely. Hos been CON
s;derably talked about"
"Easnum ought to have him."
That's what / tell his folks, but they
ain't willin: To- let him cut . their
sight"
"1Nherc Is his homer
"on a farm a short ways from Sher-
man. His name is. Hector - Hector
Rraswcll.'