Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-30
In Spite Of
Being Blind
Proportion Of Sightless
Who Win Out Is Above
the Average.

III Is curious 1aCt tnat the Tatlo
Of really gifted blind people is out
Of all proportion to their total mum.
Der when compared with those who
have full power to see.
The cases of Helen Keller and of
Senator Gore are familiar to every one.
The middle West has produced an.
other remarkable blind man In "Blind
Kelley" the "St. Louis Sherlock
Holiness" as he has been called,
lawyer practising at the bar. Ac.
cording to Van Norden's Magazine,
his powers Of deductive reasoning are
almost uncanny.
He can tell on entering room how
many persons are there assembled.
He can give you the dimensions OF
the room without walking around It.
Almost, II appears, he has solved the
mystery Of the fourth dimension, and
has apparently developed sixth
sense.
In challenging Jurors this blind at.
torney displays a judgment Of char.
acter that is miraculous to the man
gifted with sight. There are homes.
and dishonest voices, he says, and
he makes astonishirgly accurate de.
cisions.
Walter A. Kelley lost his sigh.
when II years old. He is only 30
now. He was educated at school
for the blind, and then took course
at the st. Louis Law School and was
graduated with honors in 1904.
He explains his professional sue.
cesses by pointing out that the human
memory can be so cultivated that any.
thing read aloud can be engraved
upon the mind to be called upon ut
will.
The list OF the blind who havc
achieved a success at least equal to
that Of seeing men Of their own
standing In education and intelli.
gence might be continued indefinitely.
There are Gen. Brayton. the blind
boss OF Rhode Island; Chris Buck.
ley, the blind boss OF San Francisco;
DR.. William Noon, who invented a
new system CT reading for old and
insensitive fingers, and whose son,
Robert Moon. Is secretary Of the
Pennsylvania Home Teaching So.
ciety and FREQ Circulating Library
for the Blind.
There Is the Rev. william Beres
ford OF England, who lost his sight
while playing with his little broth.
or. DR.. Morrison Heady OF Ncr.
mandy, who lost his sight and hear.
ing when boy. but who wrote verses
Of no mean calibrc.
There IL Prof. +. d. Campbell.
who holds the chair Of chemistry at
Ann Arbor. and another blind man
Of the same name Is DR.. r. ]. Camp.
bell. LII. D.. who 10 an American, but
holds the position OF head at the
Normal College In England. Blind
% he is. DR.. Campbell climbed Mont
Blanc.
Prof. Edward Crowell taught Latin
at Amherst for nifty years. during
twenty OF which ne was quite sight.
less. Prescott, the historian, was
nearly blind.
Nicholas Saunderson, who was
blind from childhood, was professor
OF mathematics at the University OF
Cambridge In the first part OF the
eighteenth century. Curlously enough
he lectured on optics md the theory
Of vision.
| Queen Carmen sylvia OF Rumanil
has blind secretary. who Is also
l IN ASNtn NJ xaVlNt Inn IA vnr
for the blind. 'Rumania hes G.0O0,C
inhabitants. Of whom 10000 are
blind. OF these. $4,000 are married
In one year 10000 became blind from
tracoma.
John b. Curtiss. who superintend'
the teaching Of the blind In the pub
lie schools OF Chicago. is himself ,
blind man. There are 1900 sightles
persons In New York city. Blint
telephone operators are now growing
In numbeA The first was blind cir
who was In New York hospital
A switchboard was installed at thu
Association for the Blind In New
York.
One OF the New York newspaper
now has blind telephone operator
and In spite Of prejudice. other blint
are being engaged by commercial
concerns. A blind man In Brooklyn
has profitable coffee business. HI
blends the coffee and delivers II
There are blind stenographers AM
typewriters.
Vidal. the blind sculptor, went int
a lions den with trainer and will
his sensitive fingers noted the cor
formation OF the fierce animals body
The result Is model Of a magniHcen
lion In angry rebellion.