Telegram-herald., 1890-02-07

TIE Most WondsrfL Pair q Ears
Ia A. Oh1soenaom-

A \ can zstsr Hho Hears tkc Breaklns -
shs JoA4ssown Pa Pan "a tAe lsas
SAL st@te-Tas Greatest of N4t-
ares 4aay Fre2ks
These were Bis exact words. IS fslsh-
fuly repof.ed in the AesN Hcrz lr.b-ne.
Yes stree I've seen him ul.h uy
oWp lyes. an b1eYs 3 hat see. eause
By eges ainr never gone ba oa me
e. ace t1ev VAS 1rsL opened thar. -riaa
years ago dean in TIE good old Lone
Star State o. Texas. Goa bless hey an
old San Houston. Yes, Stree teu
you We sees hLn. an he is Tie wonder
fullest human Aeingor any other being
that ever drew lie bFealh O. hfe
amt okia. rrain't 40 oeeaslou ID 1oke
al / ANT lyin. cause donn in Texas
folks don't lie for fun. es. Stree, hes
got tWe of the ouFusest years you ever
see. The one on the nigh side of his
face aint 10 bigger "a the year ~
mouse. bur tne one on the OF slde-gee-
ni-nettv! Wy. see the size o. ms hands
Wen. sir. IT'S bigger'u that bigger by
right smart, an my hand Amt 40 baby
clipper
There Amt no limit 70 his hearin'.
I've knowed bim 70 hear two thousand
miles in air line. Last spring he stood
on the front porch az home an counted
the cannon shots what was fired Is Pres
ident Harrison come up the hGrbor al
she Washington centennial. lie heered
the breakin O The dam what caused the
food in the COuemaugh valley. Ha
didn't know what ii was al the time. lie
said il sounded like thunder, but be
knew IL warn Z thunder, an We was all
mighty puzzled till the papers told as
what IL was There's d big storm on
the gull. he says. an sure enough in
day or TWO comes news Of great waves
an shipwrecks It's rlinin' in Cali
foruia, he says, an by an by we hear Of
a storm over there. There's a cyclone
IN Kansas he says. an cyclone IL is, a
thousan' miles away. It's a comm this
way, be says, an we get ready TO dive
into our cellars. i hear two engines
crash togC her On a railroad over there,
he says, an he points in the direction Of
the sound an we get a map an mark il
down, an next morning read all about
the accident in the papers, just where
enough for you?"
at seems incredible"
There, ! knowed you wouldn't be-
lieve it, cause you amt seen it. Seein
S blieyin' Le' me tell you sump'n'
else. This boy can hear yesterday as
well as to-day. It's fact. lie can hear
hundred years ago-a hundred years
back; yes, Stree, thousanl They
say in the philosophy that sound never
does die. 1t just keeps on a-circulatin'
around an around, gettin' further and
further away from the earth, till we,
with orr ordinary years, can't hear il no
more But this youngster-w'y, le' me
tell you; I've knowed him TO hear back
$3.50 years and listen TO the song what
Miriam sung after Moses an the Israel
ties waded through the Red Sea-
Mind you, he added suddenly, "he
does all this big hearin', this hearin
O great soun's back in tho ages an over
distances of thousands O. miles with the
big year on The of side o. his face, aD
the time a-keepin' the little teensy year
on the nigh side closed up. But when
he goes in the house he opens the little
year an shuts the big one, an, sir, with
that little year ne can hear a pin drop
on sofa cushionl He can hear fly
walSin' on a window pane an cock.
roach s-runnin' across the floor, an a
bedbug crawlin' between the sheets, an
well, ther amt no sound small enough
to escape him. He can set ten feet from
me an count my heart beats, He can
almost hear person think!
Wonderful, wonderful How old is
the boy?"
"Goin' on twelve
rs he strong and hearty?"
I'm sorry to say he amt. He's
mighty sickly an has awful spells wi IN
his head"
"Your nephew, I believe you said
mo kin; just my folks an his folks is
neighbors-
HAS he good sense?'
"He's long ways from being idiot.
7 can tell you, but his folks was ten
years fndin' it out. They thought he
was daft sill they learnt by a accident
that he couldn't hear out of both years
at once: that is, Re could hear well
enough. but the sounds got so mixed Up
that be couldn't tell nothing about en-;
not a thing
1T seems TO me I've heard Of that boy
before"
It's more'n likely. He's been con-
siderably talked about
Bsrnum ought to have him
That's what tell his folks, but they
amt willin' to let him out O. THEN
sight"
Where IS his home?"
"On a farm = short WAYS from Sher.
man. His name Is Hector b. Hector
Braswell."
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