Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-21

chTistened him Father of Blindness. which
name appeared to him compliment. and
he would use it, speaking of himself, com
lplacently, just as Scotsman likes to
be spoken of under the style and title of
the land he owns, although it be all bog.
Whether the sympathy that certainly
exists between wise men and those whose
intellect is rudimentary, and which is
rarely manifested between a learned and
an ordinary man, prevailed upon the
Rubio to submit himself to the minis
trations of the German man of science,
Allah alone can tell season saw the
mounting block deserted, and tourists
gave their horses to be held by boys, who
| tied them by the reins to rings high in
the wall, and fell asleep, leaving the
animals to fight and break their brides.
and for time no stream of cheerful
blasphemy was heard, in any European
| tongue, from the usual guardian of the
stone. In a clean unaccustomed bed in a
dark corner of Hope house, the missio u
| airy hospital, the Rubio lay, his head
bound up in bandages, silent, but cheer
| full, confident in the skill of his strange
! friend, but yet incredulous, after the
Arab way.
| During the long six weeks, what were
his thoughts and expectations it is diff
ficult to say. Perhaps they ran upon
the wonders of the new world he would
inherit with his sight, perhaps he rather
dreaded to behold all that he knew SO
well and so Familiarity by touch. At last
the day arrived when doctors Judged the
necessary time had passed No one in
Tangier was more confident than was the
| Father of Blindness, who went and came
about the town buoyed high with ex-
pectation, for he was really a kind
hearted man, learned but simple. after
the fashion of his kind.
| At early morning all was ready, and
in the presence of the assembled doctors
of the place, with infinite preeaution, the
dressings were removed Cautiously and
by degrees, little light was let into the
room. Holding his patients hand and
visibly moved, the German asked him if
he saw. mot yet" the Rubio answered,
and then, throwing the window open
wide, the sunlight filled the room, falling
upon the figure in the bed. and on the
group OF doctors standing by expectant
| ly. 1t filed the room, and through the
window showed the mountains standing
out blue above Tarifa, the strait. calm
as sheet of glass, except where the two
CALAIS cut it into foam. 1t fell upon the
cliffs which jut into the sea below the
| Hope House; upon the hills of Aniera,
and on the bird-like sails of the feluccas
in the bay, filling the world with gladness
that new day was born. Still on his
bed the Rubio lay, pale with his long
confinement, and with his hands nervous
| ly feeling at his eyes. All saw that the
experiment had failed, and with groan
the German man of science buried his
head between his hands and sobbed aloud
the tears dimming the spectacles and
running down upon his beard With a
grave smile the patient got out of bed
and having felt his way to where he
heard the sobs. laid his rough, freckled
hand upon the shoulder of his friend, and
said as uncOncernedly, as if he had not
suffered in the least, weep not; it was
not written" then, looking round, asked
for boy to lead him back again to his
accustomed seat upon his stone-R. B
Cunningham Graham in the Saturday
| Review.