Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-02
BROUGHT HABEAS CORPUS
TO VIRGINIA COLONIES
Anteccdent OF Charlotte County Farmer
conveyed Right to Common, yenith
From British Crown-f,ruce
Vaughan. of feysvitIc,
Tells story.

FFoH british trOwn-fSrucc
Vaughan. of KeysviIIc,
| Tells story.
OF noble lineage, descending from
forebears whose lives arc closely in
terlinked and interviewer with the his
tory OF early Virginia. Jackson Bruce
vaughan, leading the life OF sue
cessful farmer near keysville, Char
iottc County. is held in the highest
esteem by legion of friends, social
and business. He bears the reputation
| of being straightforward in his deal
ings and a Nirginian, characteristic OF
the old school. His wife was a direct
descendant of Alexander Spottswood,
! Colonial Governor of Virginia, and who
first brought to the colonies the right
OF the habeas corpus from the British
crown He was Il brother of the late
Joseph Vaughan, senior member Of the
Vaughan Robertson Company, of this
city, one OF the largest wholesale drug
concerns in the South. one OF his
daughters married J. l.. Payne, q large
tobacconist of Charlotte County
III had paid Charles Lincoln Smith
$4,000, | should have considered il
money we'll spent" said Mr. Vaughan
III discussing the case of his daughter,
Miss Sallie. an attractive lass OF seven
teen summers.
Personally, shun publicity" said
Mr.. Vaughan, and know Charles Lin
coin Smith is too we'll known and too
! well established in this state to need
any commendatory word from me- when
] consider what he did for my child
however, feel that il is "A duty owe
e humanity to tell OF the wonderful
achievement he accomplished in her
case. Take ii home tn yourself sup
pose you knew that your favoritc child
was going blind; suppose that YOU were
head Of household made sorrowful
over the thought Of its pet losing her
eyesight. and. then after half dozen
skilled eye doctors had prepared you
for the worst your heart was glad
/ dcncd by one man who, out of all the
rest, completely cured your child.
wouldn't YOU feel like telling. every
! body about it?
"Sallie was affected with serious eye
trouble from babyhood," continued Mr.
Vaughan. We noticed while she lay
in her cradle that there was something
wrong with her eyes. When she was
i've years old we placed her under the
care of specialist here in Richmond.
1t may have been because of her tender
years, but anyway he was unable to
remedy her trouble to any extent. AS
she grew older her eye trouble became
/ more pronounced. causing us all great
anxiety. The child herself seemed to
)
as great ours. She would go off hy
herself and cry as if her heart would
break. Ambitious to get an education,
the childs grief when We were forced
! to take her from school was pitiful
I'VE tried first one eye doctor ana
then another until we had been to
seven in ALL n great expense. but none
seemed able TO understand her case or
TO treat il properly All the time her
eyesiEht was gradually fading out OF
one eye and the sight of the other was
becoming impaired We never let her
20 around alone for fear she would fall
snd suffer serious injury. Then came
| the awful day when specialist, In
whom We had great faith.>toid us that
our little girl was In bad fix and
that she was going blind. In our des-
peration we sought out the best skill
money could buy. but her case continu-
ed TO puzzlN every specialist whom we
called in. They all told the same story.
They could do nothing to save our
child's sight.
1T was an accident that brought us
TO Charles Lincoln Smith. While stand
ing near a basketball court one dav
on which game was being played.
the ball struck her on the side OF her
temple, breaking her glasses.
About this time ! received word
iioNi ''iH NTS. d. IL. PAYNE,
of brakes Branch. that she was going
down to Richmond. She consented to
take Sallie with her, and told her
10 take Sallic TO the specialist who had
treated her before. This was last win
ter. nearly II year ago
Some time before that Mrs Pavne
and her husband had been treated by
! Charles Lincoln Smith, and his work
had been So satisfactory In every way
that instead of taking SalIie to the
specialist, told her to, she placed
her under the care Of the rcfractionist
Had have heard of Charles Lin
coin Smith years before, would have
saved hundreds Of dollars and would
have escaped those years Of anxiety
over the probability of Sallies going
stone blind.
"Of course | was Il little surprised
when my daughter returned and told
me what she had done 1t wasn't long
before | was mighty glad Mrs Payne
had followed her own advice.
"Sallie commenced TO improve i'm
mediately. not only in cycsight. but
every other way. II did my heart
good 10 see my little girl happy again.
1t may seem incredible, but it is a
fact that in two weeks Sallie was
reading the finest print out OF the eve
others had told me was lost beyond
recovery. Now her vision is perfectly
clear and she has resumed hcr studies
after being out of school II year and
a half. Sometimes she will cover up
the good eye and read entirely with
the blind eye that everybody told me
1t was impossible to do anything for
Now. mind you, this feat was per-
formed by Charles Lincoln Smith, after
any number of specialists AMI oculists
had given it rs their positive opinion.
based on their observations as skilled
eye doctors. that the light Of day had
forever faded from the eye. So posi-
tive was one that the sight was Como
that he told me he would forfeit $1,000
II could find any one who could make
Sallic read out Of her blind eye
We'll, have found the nan. now.
and ] am waiting for the thousand.