Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-01-30

He set himself to work again, and at
last produced the present pattern, so
incredibly simple that my comment
was The egg of Columbus
A man completely blind is now
able to print 5000 sheets every day
without fatigue, and soon the blind
will have as many books as they can
desire This then will come to pass!
We shall be able to impart to the
blind a high culture, and shall profit
by their teaching. They will be de-
barred only from studies demanding
the use of the microscope and the
telescope, but in the empire OF
thought they shall be kings, because
they will be free from distraction.
Monske and l developed our plans
after prolonged consultations. asked
our first oculist how many blind peo-
pie were in Roumania, and when he
informed me that there were 10000
| was astoNished. We soon became
conscious that it was impossible to
proceed as in other countries. In my
native town of Neuwied is situated
contains only 70 inmates, and 1t cost
G25,000 in round figures. But here
we had absolutely no money, only the
| knowledge that we had valuable
| commercial asset in the machine.
Neither Theodoresco nor Monske
wished to make any personal profit,
although their patents might have
brought to them enormous wealth.
We decided to deliver the machines
at extremely reasonable prices, re-
| tanning only a small profit for the
! cause of our blind Business began
during October 1906. We could have
made deliveries much sooner if we
had gone to foreign manufacturers;
but to this / would not agree, as
wished the money to remain in the
country. Thus we had to practice
the virtue of patience, but the call OF
the blind was impatient. Just at this
time our exhibition was opened; and
we had an exhibit, mounting both an
old machine and new one, and hav-
ing both manipulated by blind opera
tors, thereby showing to the world the
superiority of our invention.
have never felt within me a SEN
sation of greater pride than when
wrote upon one panel of wood Print
| ing Machine for the Blind-old Amer
lean System" and upon another:
New Invention by the Roumanian
| Theodoresco" Monske refused abso-
lutely to take any credit to himself.
His sole desire was that to Rou-
mania should come the glory of the
invention and that the name of a
Roumanian should be pronounced
blessed by the world. And when the
article had been exposed to public in
spection, offers flowed in like a swol-
len torrent. In short time our cap
ital was $4,000, but what was this
blind?
Our plan developed. We deter
mined to found colony of the blind,
a city of the blind, where both those
with and without sight might dwell
together, for the greater number of
the blind were married, or wished to
be.
They should come to us with wives
and children, and we should form q
hive of industry. We had already II
fathers of families, remuneratively
employed in chair making. Formerly
they begged now they sang as they
worked.
A lady presented me with field OF
so acres, and we laid this out as q
garden. We built all around it small
cottages, and had for all q common
kitchen, so that the women might be
free to work without burdening the
blind husbands with the care of the
families. We started many indus
tries-a rope and Irvine making de
partment, a brush factory, sho
foundry, and others which are suited
for blind operatives. We established
school, presided over by blind mas
ters. We taught music, one of thu
blind teachers being an expert violin
list, and he mastered the piano so al
to convey instruction in that instru
ment also
Our city OF the blind promises Il
be bright and its inhabitants happy
hence | have christened it "Vatri
Luminoasa," the Home of Light.