The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-02
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BROUGHT HABEAS CORPUS
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Anfeceient OF Charlotte County Farm
er Conveyed Right to Common
wealth From British Crown.
Bruce Vaughan, Of Keysviile.
Tells story.
OF noble lineage. descending from
forebears whose lives are closely in
teriinked and interviewer with the his
tory of early Virginia. Jackson Bruce
Vaughan, leading the life OF a ste
cessfui farmer near Keysville, Char
fotte County, is held In the highest
esteem by a legion Of friends. social
and business. He bears the reputation
Of being straightforward in his deal
ings and virginian. characteristic of
the old school. His wife was q 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 brother of
the late Joseph Vaughan, senior men,
Der of the Vaughan Robertson Com
pany. OF this city. one of the largest
wholesale drug concerns In the South.
One OK his daughters married J. l..
Payne. large tohacconist of Char
lotte County.
IF / had paid Charles Lincoln
Smith $4,000, 1 should have consider
ed 1t money we'll spent" said Mr..
vaughan. in discussing the case Of his
daughter, Miss Sallie, an attractive
lass of seventeen summers.
Personally. l shun publicity" said
Mr.. Vaughan, land know Charles
Lincoln Smith is too we'll known and
too well established In this State to
need any commendatery word from
me. When consider what he did for
my child. however. / feel that II Il a
duty + owe to humanity to tell Of the
wonderful achievement he accomplish
ed in her case. Take 1t home to your
self. Suppose you knew that your
favorfte child was going blind; sup-
pose that you were head OF house.
hold made sorrowful over the thought
OF Its pet losing her eyesight, and,
then, after half q dozen skilled eye
doctors had prepared you for the
! worst, your heart was gladdened by
one man who, out of all the rest, COM
pletely cured your child. wouldn't you
feel like telling everybody about 1t?
"Sallie was affected with serious eye
trouble from babyhood," continued
Mr.. Vaughan. I'VE noticed while she
lay in her cradle that there was some
thing wrong with her eyes. When
she was five years old we placed her
under the care Of a specialist here in
Richmond. 1t may have been because
lof her tender years, but anyway he
was unable to remedy her trouble to
any extent. AS she grew older her
leye trouble became moro pronounced.
icausing US all great anxiety. The
child herself seemed to realize her
condition, and her grief was ~ great
As ours She would GO OF by herself
ard cry as II her heart would break
Ambitious to get an education, the
child's grief. when we were forced to
take her from school. was pitifui.
I'VE tried first one eye doctor and
then another until we had been to
seven in all. at great expense, but none
seemed able to understand her case
of to treat 1t properly. All the time
her eyesight was. gradually fading out
OUc eye anu LuC EAG ia W Niac OtbOA
was becoming impaired. We never
let her go around alone for fear she
would fall and suffer serious injury.
Then came the awful day when q
specialist, in whom VIE had great faith.
told us that our little girl was in Q
bad fix and that she was going blind.
In our desperation we sought out the
best skill money could buy, but her
case continued to puzzle every spe-
|ciaiist who we called In. They all told
the same story. They could do moth
ing to save our child's sight
at was an accident that brought
us to Charles Lincoln Smith. While
standing near a basketball court one
g. on which a game was being play.
cd. the bali struck her on the side OF
her temple, breaking her glasses.
"A'>out this time ! received word
from my daughter, Mrs. j. L. Payne,
Of brakes Branch, that she was going
down To Richmond. She consented 10
take sallie with her, and told her
TO take Sailie to the specialist who had
treated her before. This was last win
ter. nearly year ago.
Some time before that. Mrs. Payne
and her husband had been treated by
Charles Lincoln Smith. and his work
had been so satisfactory IN every way
/ N0at instead oI ldhAHS ouiiC w 49,
specialist. I told her to- she placed
her under the care of the refraction-
list.
| Had have heard of Charles Lin
| coin Smith years before. ] would have
saved hundreds os dollars and would
have escaped those years OF anxiety
over the probability of Sallie's going
~.c-N blind.
"Of course. was little surprised
when my daughter returned and. told
me- " hat she had done. IT wasn't long
before / was riehty elad Mrs. Payne
mad followed her own advice.
/ "Satlfs commenced to improve im-
medlateIy, not only in eyesight. but
every other way. 1t did my heart
good to see my little girl happy again.
II may seem incredible, but II is fact
thar ri two weeks Sallie was reading
lthe finest print out Of the eye others
i,ad.toId me was lost beyond recovery.
Now her vision IL perfectly, clear and
she has resumed her studies. after be-
ing out of school "a year and half
Sometimes she will cover up the good
eye and read entirely with the blind
eye that everybody told me IL was inn
possible TO do anything for.
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