The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-05

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poor fellow. ~ was not aware OF the fact;
but you see when g darned Tool comes
around Arc m,a,a here y n cant tell T Tne afS .d he is
man saw the point and passed Oh.
SOME QUEER TEXAS HEARING.
rhs Moss wonderfsi Pair of E.rs II
Chrtstendosn.
Prom the New York Tribune.
These were his exact words:
"Yes, Stree, I've seen him with my
own eyes, an I b'lieve hat I see, cause
my eyes amt never gone back on me
years ag , down i'm the good old lone star
state ~ Texas. God bless her an old
Sam Houston! Yes, stree, ! tell you I've
seen him, an he's the wondcrfulest hui
man being or any other being hat ever
drew the breath n life. l amt jokin'.
'Tain't no occasion tn joke, an ] amt
lyin,' cause down i'm Texas folks don't lie
for fun. Yes, Stree, he's got two of the
curnsest years you ever see. The n on
the nigh side of his face Amt no bigger IN
the year of a mouse, hut the one ON the
OFT sidc-Gce-mi-netty! WY, see the size
o. my hand? Well, sir, it's bigger m that,
bigger by a right smart, an my hand amt
..Thcre amt no limit tn his hcarin'. I've
knowed him to hear 1000 miles i'm a air
line. Last spring he stood ON the front
shots what was fired as President Harri-
son catnc mp theh arbor at the Washing.
ton centennial. He heard the brcakin' a.
the dam what caused the flood i'm the
Concmaugh valley. He didn't know what
il was at the time. He said il sounded
,h",d. sn'n nm we p was IL k m;sS,y , %aInd
till the papers told us what il was. Theirs
n big storm on the gulf Inc says, an sure
great waves an shipwrecks. ITS rainin'
i'm CalifoInia,' he says, an we
hear of a storm over there. There's n
cyclone i'm Kansas,' he says, an "a cyclone
il is, n thousand miles away. It's a COM
i'm this way he says, and we get ready to
crash together ON "a railroad over there
he says, an he points in the direction of
the sound an we get n map an mark II
accident in the papers. just where he said
il was: Ain't that wonderful enough for
you?"
alt seems Incredible"
There, | knowed. you wouldn't b'lievc
H.. cause you amt seen II. Scein' s
This finsv boy can hear mS 'S Sns,s s%h s as veil as s't so.
day. It's IA fact. He can hear "a hundred
years ago-a hundred years hack; yes,
osophy that sound never does die. Ii just
keeps on a-circulatin' around an around,
gettin' further and further away from the
earth, till we. with our ordinary years,
cant hear il no more. But this youIngstcr
Wy. le' me tell you; I've knowcd him
song what Miriam sung after Moses an'
the lsraclitcs waded through the Rcd
sea-; J.. , u,,.. ..,.
Nltflu yous Uc ttt Stltitit1Iys Ic
does all this big hearin', this hearin' a
great sounds back in the ages an over
distances of thousands a. miles with the
big year on the off side o. his face. all the
time a-keepin' the little teensy year on the
nigh side closed up. But when he goes i'm
shuts the big one, an, sir, with that little
year he can hear a pin drop ON n sofa
He can hear "a fly walking on "a
window pane an ~ cockroach a-runnin'
across the floor, an - bedbug
between the sheets. an'Iwe ther amt
He can sit ten feet from me an count my
son think"
"wonderful, wonderful! How old is the
boy ;"
.'Goin' on twelve"
"ls ne strong and hearty"
"l'm sorry tn say he amt. He's mighty |
sickly an has awful spells with his
head"
.Your nephew. I believe you said -"
mo kin; just my folks and his folks is
''Has he good scnse:"
"Hc's u long ways from heinz u idiot, l
tell you. but his folks was ten years
flndin' il out. They thought he was daft
till they learnt by a accident that he
that j., he could hear well enough. but
the sounds got 50 mixed up that he
tell nothing about 'cm; not N
at seems to mo I've heard of that hoy
before"
Its more N likely. He's been consid-
crably talked about"
"Barnum ought to have him."
That's what i tell his folks. but they
ain't willin' to let him out u their sight"
"Nhere * his homer"
n farm n short ways from sherman.
His names Hector-Hector Braswell."