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An Act to provide addional artificial
limbs for all soldiers of the State who
loss their legs, eye or arms during
military service in the yearu 1861, 1862,
1868, 1864 and 1865, who are now liv-
ing, and who obtained one under the
Acts of 1879 or 1881.
Whereas, there is DOW in the hands OF
the State Treasurer the sum of twelve
hundred and ninety Eve dollars uDex-
peaded, arising from the Acts of the
Legislature of this State providing for
soldiers of this State who lost their legs
or arms in the Confenerate service:
Section /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the author
ity of the same, That all soldiers of the
State who lost their legs, eye or arms, or
who have been permanently disabled in
their legs, eye or arms, during the mill
tary service of the years 1861, 1852, 1863,
1864 aud 1865, and who have heretofore
received from the State an artificial leg
or arm, or who may have elected to take
in money the price of said artificial limb,
be, and they are hereby, allowed an ad.
dit;onal arm or leg, or the price of same
in money, if they shall so elect, upon
their complying with all the provisions
and conditions of "An Act to provide
artificial limbs for all soldiers of the State
who lost their legs or arms during mill
tary services in years 1861, 1862, 1868,
1864 and 1885," approved December "a,
1879, and "Au Act to provide artificial
limbs for all soldiers of the State who
lost their legs or arms, or who have been
permanently disabled in their legs or
arms, during military service in the years
1861, 1862, 1868, 1864 and 1865, and who
have not been supplied under the pro-
visions of former Acts of the General
Assembly," approved December II, 1881
Section 9. That for the defrayiDg the
costs and expenses attending the execu
tiop of the provisions Of the foregoing
section The amount of three THOUSAND
eight hundred dollars, in addition to the
SUM of twelve hundred and ninety five
dollars, now in the hands of the State
Treasurer unexpended, and which was
appropriated under The former Acts, of
the General Assembly for the purpose
mentioned in the two Acts referred to in
Section of this Act, be, and the same is
hereby, appropriated to carry out the
provisions of this Act.
Approved December "a, A. D. 1892.
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- The first CT mplete Bible printed in
Eugland Vas issued in lN95.
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SOhS , NHN q II
About his tin

son, who though blind from childhood
up became LucaSian. Professor of
Mathematics at Cam bridge University,
succeeding such men as Winston and
Sir Isaac Newton. In addition to his
lame as a mathematician Saunderson
became widely known as numismatist.
1t is said of him that he could identify
any coin handed to him by simply pass
! ing his hands over ii, and as the story
goes he was so expert that he even de-
tected certain counterfejts of Roman
coins in one of the great collections
William Tai bot who was born in 1871
at RoScrea. Ireland. mastered the intri-
cacies of the organ TO such an extent
that he constructed an improved organ
with his own hands. introducing in il
many excellent Improvements Francis
Huber who was born in Geneva in 1850
and became blind at seventeen years OF
age, devoted himself SO successfully to
the study OF the habits and peculiarities
OF the bee family that his Published
work on bees Is, or was Up TO recent
date, the acknowledged authority.
Leonard Euler became blind late in life,
but notwithstanding this ahiiction sub
sequently wrote his famous work on
Elements of Alge bra" and his scarcely
less famous Theory OF the Moon"
John Metcalf, j Yorkshire man, who
los, his eyesight al SIX years Of age, IN
consequence 81 an attack Of smallpox
so rallied rom the affection that few
Of his young companions could excel
! him IN riding, swimming or other
forms 81 vigorous exercise As lie grew
older he developed remarkable ability
as civil engineer. directed and super
visec the building OF several roads and
capped the climax by constructing a
road across a long stretch Of marsh
land which the hes; engineering author
lties had pronounced . physical impossi-
billy DR.. Henry Moves who was born
IN tlicshire, IN 1850, and like Metcalf.
was blinded by smallpox al the age OF
- -''- $500 ~e- - ,aAl ~ar.ad "a
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chemistry and the science of optics that
he ranked as an authority and made a
living by lecturing on these subjects On
one occasion, il is said. when the coach
on which he was riding fell into ditch,
he assisted his fellow passengers out of
the ditch and directed the work of re-
moving the fallen coach Lieutenant
Holman, another one of the sightless
unfortunates. won fame as traveller
in strange and unknown countries, and
his works descriptive of his travels, at
the time of publication, outra mixed the
best works of the kind extant
Another blind man who won fame by
his travels was James Wilson, who was
born in the State of Virginia in 1779
and lost his sight as a mere child while
on a vessel bound for Belfast He
managed, however, in one way or an
other to support himself. and in 1920
published his autobiography including,
by way of appendix, sketches of the
achievements of fifty four nota bic blind
people. This work ran through sew
eral editions and is one of the
most notable contributions to the
literature of the blind. James Black
lock of Edin burgh studied for the min
istry, and attained sufficient standing
to have the degree of Doctor of Divin-
ity conferred upon him by the Univer-
sity. He is supposed to have been the
first blind man to receive that high
honor. DIR. Blackjack wrote the article
on 1.-THE Blind for the original edition
of the Encyclopedia Brittanica and his
work has been much drawn upon by
subsequent writer's
In more recent times, the advanced
methods of educating the blind have
resulted in the general betterment of
the condition and opportunities of the
sightless, but it appears there have
been less cases OF strikingly nota BILE
The general level hav-
ing been raised. work accom- plished by
does not. of course, stand
out in such bold relief as it did in the
days when the average blind person
had no facilities whatever for 'acouir-
ing knowledge, either general or
special The case of Laura Bridgman
is perhaps more widely famous than
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tasia which he himself had just COM
posed, mis- object being to ascertain
whether the boy could really play a
piece which he had no opportunity
whatever of committing to memory.
The work was in thirteen pages, but the
boy unhesitatirgly accompanied the
composer with d secondO and then
amazed his audience by fairly pushing
the composer off the piano stool and
triumphantly playing the entire compo-
sition from start to finish with inf pitely
more grace and delicacy and spirit than
the writer himself. This was in the
late SOS, and the boy then seemed more
animal than man, only becoming inter
esting or even teara Die while under
the influence of the music which he,
himself, produced. In later years, he
became more tracta bic and civilized, as
it were, and gave hundreds OF public
exhibitions OF his power.
Blind men have occupied all sorts OF
positions and accomplished ALI sorts of
wonders, but only one of them, al least
in recent years. has actually occupied
a throne King George, of Hanover,
better known as The Blind King of
Hanover" ruled over his subjects for
several years, but lost his throne and
his thrOnedom by the absorption of
Hanover in Prussia in 1866. He fed TO
Vienna and later on died still proclaim
ing himself king; though a king
without kingdom. He was son of
the Duke of Cum berland, and the pres
ent Duke still poses as an heir to
royalty.
BY way of contrast to the kingly ca
reer of Hanover's monarch, is the
peaceful and devout life of Francis
Jane Crosby whose fame as a writer
and composer of popular hymns is
almost world wide. She was born in
Putnam county, New York, March "a
1920. and is still alive and hearty. She
was stricken with blindness while
child, but subsequently taught school
and later turned ner attention to COM
posing hymns. Some of her best
known compositions are Safe in the
Arms of Jesus Hank. IT'S the Voice
of Angels" and Rescue the Perish
ing"
Another notable blind person of our
own time and country is Rev. William
H. Milburn, Chaplain of the House of
Representatives, who is best known
as 1.-The blind chaplain Rev. Mr..
Milburn was born in Philadelphia in
1928 and in childhood lost his eyesight
as the result of an accident He never
theless went to college and became
~ .e% 49, l,ov
a circuit rider, and in 1S45 was elected
Cha plain OF the Goth Congress In 1S4s.
he assumed the pastorate of church
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that of any other blind person of the
century, unless it be Blind Tom" the
marvellous pianist Laura Bridgman
lost her sight and hearing in in fancy,
and soon after lost her power of speech.
Her sense of smell was also DESTROYED,
and that of taste was seriously i'm
paired. In olden times the child so
situated would have been considered
beyond relief of any kind, but Dr.
Samuel 6. Howe, superintendent of the
Perkins Institution for the Blind at
Boston, Mass, took an interest in her
case and devoted great deal of time
to her education. He first taught her
the names of objects, by placing some
familiar article in her hand and then
giving her the name of the object in
raised letters. She was subsequently
taught the alpha bet and then spelling
and the rudiments, and eventually
learned to read, write, sew and do
household work She finally put into
execution a maxim about the blind
leading the blind, herself becoming
teacher of the blind at the Perkins In
stitute, where she remained until her
death in 1889.
A no less nota BILE case, though not an
analogous one, is that OF the famous
negro pianist known as Blind Tom"
This creature, for there was little of
the human in his makeup, so far as
could be seen, was bought with his
mother, a slave woman, in 1850, by
Oliver ii. Perry of southern Georgia.
The child was then q mere infant, but
was hopeiessly blind and was supposed
to be practically an idiot, Hence the
planter who sold his mother made no
him in, as the saying goes, rather than
separate the mother and the child.
The little unfortunate grew up
on Mr.. Perry's plantation very much
after the fashion of pet animal, re-
ceiving no special attention, and spend
ing most of his time in the open air
summing himself. His talk was glib ber-
ish, and all who saw him predicted that
he would develop into a full-fedged
idiot One day his masters family
were surprised to hear certain favor
tie airs of the daughters of the family
played upon the piano although none
of the members of the family was in
the room in which the piano stood On
investigation, little Blind Tom" was
found sitting on the piano stool with
an apish look OF glee on MS face, his
little chubby black hands meantime
travelling up and down the key board
with extraordinary speed and precision.
Surprised, but not then compre he nding
the extraordinary nature of the per-
Torrance. Mr.. Perry good naturally
allowed the little negro boy to spend
as much time as he pleased at the piano,
and in a few months. the youngster
had developed into veritable prodigy.
a prodigy without counterpart on
record, either before or since After
single hearing he would play with
faultless precision any composition,
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in Montgomery, Ala, later went to
Mobile, and shortly after was tried for
heresy. He was again made Chaplain
of Congress in 1858 and in 1857 went on
lecturing tour in England. He has
crossed the ocean three times, has spent
five or six years of his life abroad and
is now for the fifth or sixth time chap
lain of the House of Representatives.
In another sphere, that of mathe-
tics, Lewis f. CARL has won fame.
Blind from childhood he successfully
passed the examinations at Column bia
College, and was graduated with high
honors in 1870 in the class of the pres
emit president of Columbia Seth Lowe.
He took up the calculus of Variations,
worked out all the equations, and after
infinite labor issued new treatise on
the subject which is one of the stand
ard works. He now lectures on mathe-
MATES at Columbia College and al so
gives private lessons in mathematics
The list of the blind men and women
of the present day who have achieved
prominence in many lines might be
almost indefinitely extended, including
as it does ex-PoStmaster Fawcett OF
Great Britain: Judge West, the blind
LAWYER; Rev Dr. McClelland, the we'll
known minister: Marvin Z. Clark. the
New York Journalist; DR.. James r.
Cooke, of Boston; Alvah I. Garfield, of
Highlands, \. Y, the travelling agent
and business man; Martin \. Kellog.
the weather prophet OF St Paul; and
Johnson n. Mundy, the blind sculptor
All of these men have achieved fame or
wealth in their respective lines; all OF
them, though blind, have wrought
wonders EDWARD BUNSELL PHELrA
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to the blind

It is well known fact that in jury to
one eye or one ear often renders the
other eye or ear more acute as a result
of the dou bic duty which it is called
upon to perform. So with the blind.
The loss Of the most valuable and most
important of all the senses, naturally
Quickens the other senses. Instead of
seeing the blind feel" as it were,
and instances of the extraordinary de-
velopment to which this power of
feeling" has been carried by the sight
less are almost innumera bic. One of
the earliest veracious instances of re-
n1arka BILE achievements by the blind is
the Odyssey Of Homer. Although blind
ness did not fall upon the great epic
singer until late in life, his grandest
words We're composed after the blight
had fallen upon him. In fact, it is pos
sible that had he not been stricken the
world might have lost his immortal
epic poems.
Between the time of Homer and that
of Milton there were doubtless many
notable achievements by the blind but
few of them have come down to us.
Here and there, we come across insta
ces of the kind such as the tabled re-
turn of the three hundred knights
whose eyes had been put out by the
Saracens and who nevertheless found
their way somehow or other back TO
Europe. But it is only within the last
two hundred years or so that authentic
records of wonders wrought by the
blind have been preserved The story
OF Millions misfortune and his subse-
quent contributions to the cause of re-
ligion is a matter of household knowl
edge. Here and there one finds in old
books a brief reference to Francis
Salinas, of Spain, who developed re-
markable ability as a musician in the
early part of the sixteenth century. A
century and half later Turlagh Caro-
Ian won undying fame as the blind
composer and harpist, though with him
the harp was simply means to an end
the end of composing the graceful
songs and airs, some of which still live.
A bout his time lived Nicholas Saunder-
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N6GI 5,zs9je
LABOR'S CAUSE.
MEN AND WOMEN WITHOUT A
VACATION.
Tired. Monotonous Expressions Oh
Weary Faces.
WHAT ONE OF THE LEADERS IN
BOSTON SAYS.
J. G. Clinkard Of the Building
49, Trades Council.
Was Losing Sleep on Account Of
Nervous ProstratiOn.
WHAT ONE OF TIE LEADERS IN
BOSTON SAYS.
J, G. Clinkard Of the Building
49, Trades Council.
Was Losing Sleep on Account OF
Nervous ProstratiOn.

Six o'clock-shops and Offices pour ont
aheir crowds of workers. Who would
smagine the buildings held so many!
Tired monotonous expressions of most
Of the faces.
Heads of firms, clerks. shop -girls, all
md tie day tired. 1t is evident from their
anxious, worn expressions
When worry and anxiety are added to
this excessive activity, digestion becomes
impaired, the sight of food distasteful,
wearied feeling creeps over the body, and
the mind gets confused and Respondent
Joseph q. Clinkard is a man well known
to the working men of New England.
He has occupied nearly every position of
honor and trust in the labor organizations
of Boston.
He served nearly two years AS president
Of the Boston Central Labor Union when
that body numbered.in its affiliated bod
SOS $4,000 to 81, 900 organized wage work
N. =:
president of the Building Trade Council
which is composed of unions in the build
ing trades aud estimated TO have an aft
Hated memberyhip OF 10. 600 He Is IA car
penter bv:trade and has been president of
Carpenters Union No. So and is now the
business agent OF all the carpenters
unions in the city of Boston.
Mr. Chnkard has travelled
all over the New England states
IN years gone by, organizing
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ovERWoRk AND UNDERWORLD.
Moro Danger in q Lack of Work Than In
Too Much.

More Danger in 4 Lack OF Work Than In
Too Much.
Everyone has heard Of the danger of
overwork, yet few understand just
where the danger lies. A man can
hardly overwork himself Il he takes
care of himself in other respects-se-
cures n normal amount of sleep.
breathes pure air. takes exercise. and
eats food moderately.
The main trouble is that the man
who is overworking is Violating funda-
mental conditions of health. He burns
his candles at both ends.
With due care. man of good hered-
itv is capable of safely doing an al
most incredible amount of solid work
Mr.. Gladstone at eightythree, with no
show OF WEAKNESS, carries the weight
of the British empire. The celebrated
John Wesley did more work THAN al
most any other man OF the last CEN
tury: but he observed the laws of
health, and still active, reached his
eighty-eighth year.
Much of the so-called oyerworlz is
the overwork Of worry, care. anxiety
and haste. These make the severest
draft on the vitality of the system
We seldom hear of a Quaker's dying
of overworls. and yet they are very in
dustrious people. The pupil who has
prematurely broken down in his studies
might have gone on under even heavier
loads if there had been nothing to fret
him in his home surroundings. and
competition, examinations and scholar
ship markings had no place in our
school system. The fact is. work and
plenty.o it, is healthy in high degree
And this leeds us. to say that lack
of work, with brain or hand, is highly
injurious. Underwork.nav be as harm
full as overwork TO Ghe brain if not to
the body. Nations living in conditions
in which the means of livelihood come
almost'without effort are in every way
feeble. Close confinement in prison
tends to4idiocy.
Further, where the mental faculties
are not called into action, the moral
also lie dormant. and the lover pro-
pensities become all-controlling. In
all ages the corruptions of the higher
classes are due to this fact. Few worse
things can befall one than to have moth
ing to do.-Ycuth's Companion.
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GREAT THOUGH BLIND.
Men Who Have Achieved Distinction
With Sightless Eyes.
Great Blind s!en of the Present Time
Wonders Wrought BY Men and
Women in Every Field of
EndeayOr.
Copyright, 1899

Coleridge once said of John Cough.
the wonderfully clever blind botanist.
geologist and mathematician: His
face sees all over; it is all one eye"
Here is the key to the extraordinarily
acute faculties of the nota bic blind peo-
pie of the worlds history, the people
who have written and sung and trav-
elled and wrought with profit to them
selves and humanity. The remark
might be amplified. however, for not
only is the face of the intelligent blind
person AL one eye but the ears, the
hands, the feet and al the other mem
bers and organs of the senses are eyes
to the blind.
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unions of carpenters and has always been
ready to VISIT meetings of workingmen at
night and address them on the labor ques-
lions.
He is a fluent easy and practical speak
err who always talks to the point
ReCently the Building Trades council
gave their first annual ball III Music hail,
At which were present Governor Russell,
Mayer Matthews and other dignitaries
Mr., Cllnkard wSS chairman of the COM
mtttee OF arrangements and floor marshal
leading the grand march
His extra exertlons to make this affair
success, combined with the amount OF en-
ergy put forth by him in his regular call
ing during the day, brought him nearly to
the verge of extreme nervous prostration.
His condition and its result can best be
described In his own words in the follow
ing letter:
HrILplNG TRADES COUNCIL OF BOSTON AND
VICINITY.
BosToN,. April Is. 1893.
DEAR SIRS-On account of the extra
work j was doing, working late nights
sanotiosIns.sleep, the strain on my nerves
became SC great that ] was suffering with
nervous prostratlon to the extent that
was losing my memory and had a peculiar
dizzy sensation in my head that at times
took away my eyesIght aud pumhed my
OF what was going on around me-
became greatly alarmed, and. on rec
ommendation of my wife, who mad learn
ed of the peculiar virtue of Paine's celery
compound, | began TO take it, At first II
seemed TO do me more harm than good
but after the first dozen doses or so | he,
gan 10 feel better, and the rheumatic pain
IN my right lung. which had also been
troubling me, began TO subsiGe | am
now beginning on the third bottle. and all
the nervousness and dizziness Is gone. NV
memory especially is extremely bright
and now sleep like baby.
All my friends speak OF the change in
my looks, and ask me what | have been
taking.
In these days OF wort HESS patent medi
clnes. believe II a duty to my friends and
no suffering humanity in general. when
ilnd medicine that Is good. TO let peonle
know il.
can highly recommend Painers gallery
compound, aud for those who are sutisr-
log from overwork and nervousness noth-
lng Is better to restore them To tbeir
former strength and vigor.
Yours truly
Jos, e. CLINKARD
.MESSRs. WELLS, RICHARDSON q Co
burlington, Vt
I. S.-As the above has been unsolicited
You have my consent 10 make such Use nj
'tne same as you see lit. j. q. c
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-Womsn is progressive. Even the
washerwomen of Japan are inspired by
the example OF their American and
European sisters. Several of these
humble Ia borers in Toxic have been
studying the English language. and
for the benefit of English tourists they
issue .he following neat circular:
Ladies and Gentlemen: We. the
washer of every kind of clothes. blank
cts. and 50 on, newly esta blished the
company and engaged the business.
Contrary to our opposite company, we
will most clearly and carefully wash
orr customers with possible cheap
prices. With your wages we viii work
the business"
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~ am glad to see you on your feet
again, Mr.. Burrows" said Miss Par
slaw. graciously- You looked very
bad last time saw you"
You must be mistaken. Miss Par
slaw," said Burrows Il have never
been Ill Where did you see me last?"
You were in the park-on-ho-se-
back."-Boston Globe.
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a Ulptonare.

Wanderer Wiggins-No. mum. / do
not want no money or food or a place
10 sleep. Goodness knows. mum. I'm
no oegGar. l merely want 70 inquire
II that beautiful little baby in the
front yard is yourn. mum. It's the
prettiest young I'M / ever seen. an
Mrs lounc7Ved-Do come right in,
pny good man, and sit down in the par-
Tor while send to the grocer's. Do
You prefer apple pie or ice cream with
your dessert?-Chicaro Record.
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Flohr Walker-Wher1 is Miss Pretty
miss this morning?
Miss Valepcines-Oh. she hasn't got
down yet. Perhaps there has been an
other delay to the subur-
Flohr Waller-Hh. here she comes
Miss Prettylniss, if this hardness on
your part continues, I shall be COM
PEELED to place you at the remnant
counter.-Puck.