The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1890-04-26
QUEER TEXAS HEARING.
Tho Most Wonderful Pair Of Ears
In All Christendom
a Young.t.r Who Heard the breaking at
III. John,town ra.l Dam Ia the Lou"
stsr stat.-Thr srsnts,t OF Nat
ure's Many Freaks

stsr stst.-Thr Greatest Of Nat
urr's Many Freaks.
These were his csae, words as faith
fully reported in the New York Tribune
"Y.s, stree. I've seen him with my
own eyes. an b'liove what see, 'eau'"
my eyes Amt never gone back on M"
since they was first opened thirty-nlh"
years ago down In tho good old Lon"
Star state o. Texas. God bless her an
old Sam Houston Yo,. Stree, | tol!
YOU I've seen him, an he Is the wonder
fullest human being or any other being
that ever drew the breath % life,
aln't lokin'. 'Tain't NO occasion Ia lok"'
an amt lyin', cause down In I"Sa'
folks don't lie Tor fun. Yes. sir-"-o, he's
got two Of the euruscst years you over
see. The one ON the nigh side OF his
face Amt no biggrr'n the year OF a
mouse, hut tho on. on the off .ide-gce-
tuI.ncttyl Wy, sec the siIo % my hand?
Well. sir. It's higgcr'n that. bigger By
right smart, an my hand AMI no hApy y
I've kno~ca him 20 hear two thousand
miles in air line. Last spring he stuoi
ON the front porch ~ home an counted
the cannon shots what was fred as Pres
Il.nt Harrison come up the hariOr at
the Washington centennial. lie htcrrd
tho b-r'.lh' o. ii" dam what caused the
flood In tho ConcmauFh valley, lie
didn't know what Il was AZ the time, lie
said IL sounded like thunder. but he
knew IL warn't thunder, an ~. was all
mighty puzzled till the papers told Us
what IL Mas, There's a big storm on
IR assFlf he 49, .aV.NtsFtu Ia
day or two come, nows Of great waves
an shipWrrcks. It's r.inin' In Cali
fuFnia.' he says, an hy an by ~. hear %,
n storm over there. There's a cyclone
In Kansas, b" says, an cyclone IL II,
ihousan' mile, away. It's comm ihi,
way he says, an 49, get ready 20 dive
Into our collars. 4 hear two engine,
crash together on a railroad over th"r-.'
he says, an b" points In the direction Of
tho sound an ~ get a map an mark i,
down, an next morning read all about
the accident In the papers, just shcru
he said IL was. Amt that wonderful
enough for youg''
II, seems incroiihic.'
There, know-d you wouldn't b.-
lIcy" II, cause you ain't seen L. sc-iu'
:, b'ii"yin'. L. the tell you sump'n'
.ls". THIS boy can hear yesterday a.
we'll a. to-day. LIS fact lie can hear
a hundred years ago-a hundred years
back; yes, stree, thou.an'l They
say in the PHILOSOPHY that sound newer
does die. II just keeps On a,cluulA,ln'
around an around. gc,,in' further and
further away from tho earth, Till We.
With our ordinary years, can't hear IL ne
l.
toll you. I've knos.i him Ia hear back
$3.50 years and listen Ia the song what
Miriam sung after Moses an tho Israel.
ii"s ~ai"d through the Red Seal
Mind you" he added Suddenly. ''h.
does all ihi. big hcarin, this hoarin'
q great SCUM. back In tho ages an over
distance. of thousands % mile. with the
big year on ih, oil side o his face. all
tn, time A.kc-pin' the li,ilc ,"-nAy year
on tn. nigh sid" closed up. Eu, when
h. goes Ia IA" house he open, the l!,;l.
year an shut. the big one. an. sir. with
tha, little y-ar ho can hear a pin drop
on sofa cushion! lie can hear a rs
walkln' on a window pane an cock.
roach a'runnin' across tho noor. an a
h"dhug crawlin' between Ia" sheets. an
we'll. thor amt no sound small enough
H. cscap" him. IL" can SGT ten f-"t from
IN. an count my heart beats lie can
slinos; hear person think
Wonderful. wonderful How old Is
the boy1'
Coin on twelve"
"ls he strong and hcarty?''
"l'm sorry to say he Amt. Hos
mighty sickly an has awful spells with
his head"
your nephew, ! believe You said"
mo kin. just my folks an his folks Is
ncighbors.r
Has he Rool scnsc7''
lies long ways from being a IDIOT.
I can tell you, but his folk, va, ton
years nndin' IL out. They thought hr
was daft till they learnt by a. accident
that hc couldn't hear out Of both years
a, once; that H.. he could hear we'll .
enough, but the sounds got 30 mixed up
that he couldn't toll nothing about '.m.
not thing"
II, seems to me I've heard Of that boy /.
before"
ITS moron likely. Hes been con.
sidorably talked about"
"iBarnum ought Ia have him.
That's what toll his folks. but they
amt willin' To let him out o. their /.
sight"
Where Is his homo?
"on a farm n short ways from Shcr- I
man. Ills name is Hector Hector /.
Braswcll.'