Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-11
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MY STRAWBERRY,

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 MY STRAWBERRY. o marvel, fruit of fruits, pause To reckon thee I ask what cause Set free so much of red from heats At core of earth, and mixed such sweets With sour and spice; what was that strength Which out of darkness, length by length, Spun all thy shining thread of vine, Netting the fields in bond as thine. see thy tendrils drink by sips From grass and clover's smiling lips; hear thy roots dig down for wells, Tapping the meadows hidden cells; Whole generations of green things
 Descended d from pm long @ line lines of a saPFiogs A quiet comrade by their side; see the creeping peoples go Mysterious journeys to and fro,
 Treading to right and left of thee,
 see the wild bees as they fare
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 In sweet uncalendared spring rain.
 I watch how all May has of sun
 Makes haste to have thy ripeness done,
 While all her nights let dews escape
 To set and cool thy perfect shape
 An, fruit of fruits, no more pause
 To dream and seek thy hidden laws.
 stretch my hand and dare to taste,
 Instant of delicious waste,
 On single feast, all things that went
 To make the empire thou has spent.
 Helen Hunt Jackson.
 OCCUPATIONS OF THE BLIND.
 Physical affliction is oftentimes no bar rier to self-reliant, useful life. Those who possess each faculty in perfection, who are blessed with health and strength, yet lack earnestness of purpose, industry and oour- age, should find at once encouragement and reproof in the happy, busy lives of many to whom the gift of sight has been denied.
 The variety of occupations carried on with skill and success by the blind is quite remarkable. Music, the trades, and house. hold work are the three employments in which they most engage. Then there are blind superintendents of asylums for the blind and orphanages, blind teachers, cler- gymen, authors, lawyers, editors, publish CTS, and lecture agents; they are manu- lecturers, storekeepers and teachers, man. agers of estate, sawyers and lumbermen, farmers, knitting machine operators, hotel keepers, insurance brokers, newsdealers, physicians, stock operators, carpenters, printers, sculptors, florists, mail contract ors and carriers, type writers, cooks and horse dealers. There are even @ number of blind switch tenders in this country, stationed of course where the work is purely mechanical. In New York there are dozen or more blind piano tuners, one of whom is 8 composer of music and solo pianist of considerable reputation. He, with another blind tuner, is employed by Steinway & Sons, and the two are con- sidered as among the most competent pi- ano tuners in the country. Among those who have been educated in American in stitutions for the blind many are teaching music in schools for the blind, and per haps 800 have private pupils in music; there are @ hundred church organists, a number of composers and publishers of music, and great many dealers in music al instruments.
 Lillian Fearing, who is entirely blind, took, with the help of her mother as read CT, 8 course at the Union College of Law in Chicago, and graduated with honor, be- ing one of four between whom the schol- arship prize was divided. At Oak Hill, Texas. blind girl who began with no capital and an unfenced piece of unculti- sale of vegetables, although the market is twenty miles away. She cultivates and waters her plants, detects insect marauders by her acute sense of hearing and with her sensitive fingers easily distinguishes weeds from plants. Now that massage as remedial agent is greatly in favor it has been found that blind women, on account of their delicate touch and gentle notions, are remarkably adapted to take up the work of the masseuse. In Japan massage operators are almost invariably blind peo- pie and they pursue their calling with great success, finding their way readily about the towns and announcing their ap- prosch by tinkling little bells.
 The achievement of Huber, the Swiss naturalist of Fawcett, the English post master-general, and of Prescott, the Ameri- can historian, are notable examples of what has been accomplished by those from whom light, the prime work of God," has been withheld, while Fanny Crosby, singtng her cheerful songs in the darkness, rebukes the idle and discontented by life of happy activity. Perseverance and courage, that Independent spark from Heavens high throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant" joined usually to acute hearing and wonderfully sensitive touch, seem to be gifts by which the blessed law of compensation atones to the afflicted for deprivation which to the seeing appears the most disheartening and disabling of infrmities. HILARY.