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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1908)
n tML-.uiio v.....-) THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. A 7:30 Tonight First Performance Will Be Given I.: f At The Bijou Dream ; ftl4 COMMERCIAL STREET BETWEEN riPTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH Moving Pictures and illustrated Songs PERFORMANCES LASTINO ONEJHOUR, ' punTnd AMukMENfpok aiC" Admission 10c , vimuren , PROORAM CHAN0C5 MONDAY (f( ( WEUrir.JUAJ AJIU ,A'MKWA ,,,!( DAICiriOPOiYDER. FiniQZulG EXTRACTS UftluriMhr. flMilFlivor. CLOSSETGDiYtES PGRTLANO,OIOON. Mora than two-thirds of your lilt you wear shoes. Did you vr think of that? The Dr. A Rccd Cushion Shoe Was built to givt your feet comfort two-thirds of your lift; the rsst you Stop. ' .. The W. L Douglas ' Shoe Hai I world-wide reputation. Wtar on and b up to data. ' s. aTgiwre r 543 BOND STREET. Opposita Flshar Bros. Beit kinds of logging shoes, hsn "ik j- .. i j -aiusuc, aiwaya un uapu. W 1 A OADT A 1 f Vvl A SCHOOL ' ' Kearney Hall, Exchanga St Opposite Skating Rink A special Course of, 10 Lessons for Ladles. 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How did a blind man ever get into the United Stntes Senate? For that matter, how dm a blind man ever have the courage to pick out that par ticular career and to make it the ob ject of hit greatett ambition? There is one answer to both ques tions, lie did it by being Thomas P. Gore. Being Thomss P. Core means a good many things. It means being 37 years old, in perfect health, of in domitable will and unlimited energy. It means being by turns a good fighter and a generous conciliator. It means the ability to get .and to keep friends. It mean, moreover, having had a good mind to start with and having given it twenty-five years of almost unexampled training. And if that Isn't enough to explain the Senator ship, it means hsving Mrs. Thomas P. Core for a wife and helpmeet When the present Senator was only 7 or 8 years old he was accidently struck in the left eye by a stick which companion threw down. The whole thing was an accident, the stick rebounding and striking him on the under part of the eyeball. Some in jury to the optic nerve resulted and the sight gradually failed in that eye. When he was 11 years old and a page in the Mlssissipppi Senate he was born and brought up in that State he bought an air gun to take home ta his brother for a Christmas present. , Some of the children at the hotel where he was living wanted to see it work and naturally an 11-year-old boy did not need to be asked twice. .. . ' - . While he was showing.it off, the rod it fired kept catching In the bar rel, so finally having placed it in po sition, young Gore squinted down the barrel with his good eye, of course to see if everything was all right that time. Somehow or other the gun went off, and so did part of his right eye. ,. ii j-, Of coarse, the sight was destroyed. An operation was performed, the front of the eyeball removed and a false eye substituted. Owing to the fact that not all the eyeball was taken away, the glass eye moves so nauirauy mat many persons never suspect that it is not the real thing. Since he was 11 years old, Thomas P. Gore has not been able to read a word. For a few years he could dis tinguish outlines of some objects, but since he was 15 or 16 he has lost even that power. At 11 he was too young to have acquired a trade, a profession or even an education. After he lost his stent he promptly decided on the education as the first necessity, and set about getting one". He went through the public schools then the normal school, then the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tcnn. One of , his earlier school accompanied ; him to Lebanon and read to him. Every bit of his work was done this way. He was valedic torian of his class and one of six graduates, with highest honors., When he left college he went Jo Jackson, . Miss., for six months to learn to read with his fingers.' He even bought two books in Braille type, Longfellow's poems and the Constitution of the United' States. But getting his learning through his fingers was too tedious a method to suit a man so eager, so fairly cove tous of knowledge as young Gore was. ' . , The two books for the blind with which he supplied himself then have not grown into a library. He never bought a third and he's not very certain of the where-abouts of the original two. He, has a library all right enough, but it isn't composed of books for, the blind. , ! He cannot read one word in the volumes with which he has surroun ded himselfj yet he knows their con tents with a ' thoroughness which would make most men seem, in con trast, to be strangers to their to their own book shelves. Not only does he know their' contents, he knows their outside also. As he would rec ognize the face of a friend by passing his hand over It, so he can recognize his books by mere touch. He loves to have book In his hands. Whenever he is being read to he wants to hold a book himself. . When he is getting his idea into shape for a speech he goes off Into a room by himself but takes a book to hold. It may not be a book from which he is going to quote, but it will be a book he cares for, and a book, too, that he like the feel of; for he is especially sensitive to certain bind ing. His wife says that books are his one dissipation. He neither smokes nor drinks. But he goes to a book store as a needle to a magnet and always succumbs to that one temp tation of buying more and yet more volumes. How docs he make himself master of their contents? There's where you have a hint of the man himself. No man who was not thoroughly likable could ever in this world have managed to do what SenatorGore has accomplished, no matter how much he might have wanted it. Never that is, unless he had been ready to pay exorbitantly for it, and Gore is not a rich -man. ' A schoolmate read him through col lege. A brother became his lawpart ner. Another bis secretary. His wife is something of ail three, and a good deal more. But neither a man's schoolmate nor his brothers nor even his wife can throw in their lives with his to that extent unless there is 'something more than sympathy to keep them going. In this case there is more; there is admiration and affection two sentiments which the blind Sen ator seems to inspire wherever he goes. Nothing would be further from the truth than to picture him as a semi dependent drag upon his friends. Some imaginative correspondents have described his wife as his insep arable companion, going wherever he goes, sitting, upon the platform during his campaign speeches, and either leading or following him around constantly. That's all nonsense. The other day when a Sun reporter called at the hotel where Senator Gore lives in Washington the Senator had gone off to New York on business, and ac cording to his custom he had gone all by himself. ' " ! , .-. He almost invariably travels alone". He has made a campaign tour of half a dozen States and done it quite alone That's the kind of man he. is. A man who has learned to depend first of all on himself and then on others. The stories of his wife campaign ing with him are not true. She ex plains quite simply that she would have liked 'to go with him, but that "traveling costs twice as much for two' as for one, and I felt that we colud not afford it." It is not being constantly with him that she contributes her share to her husband's success, but by reading to him. He has the courage and the will for everything else, but that is the thing others must do. Before Oklahoma was admitted, when, as Mrs. Gore says, "we knew Statehood was coming," they spent months reading and studying works on economics and constitutional law and history. When the time came for the campaign for the Senatorship, the trained memory of the blind can didate was stored with facts which he had at his absolute command. As a rule, all he needed to do when he wanted to prepare a speech was to go into a quite room with a book in his hand and cogitate, as he calls it. He is an inveterate worker. When he is not gaining knowledge through being read to he is assimilating it by cogitation. Sometimes, out of mis taken kindness, people rob him of the time he wants to spend at the latter occupation. , Another man could surround him self with books and papers so that anybody could see that he was oc etipied. But they see Gore sitting by himself on this train or in a hotel and think he must be in need of enter tainment, which they proceed to sup ply. : "J... 'v..- "And I didn't have any time to cogitate 1" will be his lament later to his wife.'"',' ( '; ',' Not that he doesn't want compan-J lonslup. It is only when he has a speech pn hand, or something of that sort, that he objects to having his cogitation interfered with. He is a good fellow among men, and is also, by his wife's own account, fond of the ladies. ", ; But his one insatiable passion is for reading. Science, especially the science of government, economic sub jects,; and above all the Bible and masterpieces of oratory, these are the things he cares most for. But although he loves to hear the Bible read, he is "not much of a church goer." ' Through . his hearing and his speaking he does all his work. He never writes anything himself. He did learn to use a typewriter, but never liked it, and depends altogether on dictation. He can sign his name, but it is not t triumph of legibility. Ears and tongue seem to be enough for him. Every morning his wife reads the daily paper to him and anything cfe that he needs. His younger brother, Dixie Gore, is his private secretary and goes through his correspondence as any one's sec retary would. Even people who are not blind dic tate their replies just as Senator Core does. The difference is that he keeps in his mind, always at his command, a hundred times a much nin in. ."iiiiuuuii a most seeinir erson keep in their minds. In his home town, La wton, Sena tor Gore goes and comes without any escort whatever. In ' Washington, however, he has not begun to go about alone. There are wide, automobile-infested driveways to be cros sed around the Capitol, whose en trance also are complicated medleys of steps and archways, swinging doors and preoccupied pedestrians. He has the subtle sense of percep tion which is not uncommon in the blind. Sometimes when he is walk ing along he will tense the nearness of steps, or a wall, or some object In his home town the telephone and telegraph poles are along the edge of the sidewalk. Often when walking with his wife he will put out his hand and touch one of these poles as unerringly as if he had eyes to see them He says that it is something he cannot explain and something that he can neither control nor depend upon. "If I should try to feel the nearness of objects," he says, "I could not do it I can't depend upon feeling it, anyway. I might walk off a dozen flights of steps for once that I would know enough not to." It isn't to be wondered at the Sen ator Gore is not an enthusiast on the subject of outdoor life as it is ex pounded by the President, for in stance. There is not much in it for him. Yet he is a great lover of nature as he feels It He loves trees and flowers, especi ally the fragrant ones, with roses and southern honeysuuckle in the lead. Their place in Lawton has more trees and shrubs than any other place in town, though it is what Mrs. Gore calls "a little home." I And most of the trees and shrubs were set out by the Senator himself. But his love for flowers and trees does not include animals. He has no use on earth for either dogs or cats. In fact, aside from his friends and family there is only one thing of really great interest to him, and that is his work. He has plenty cut out for him in the near future. As he drew the short term, he will be out of the Senate in two years unless re-elected in the meantime. So next summer, although he has just finished one campaign, he must go to work on another. Fortunately he is perfectly well and strong, so the prospect has no terrors for him. It is because he has always crowded his life with work that he has made his blindness" a matter of such, small importance, for it really seems that to him. The handicap which looms so big to the outsider he simply does not waste time alking about Here is a little incident which shows how completely he has effaced the con sciousness of it from his life. His wife suffers with asthma in Oklahoma, and a year or two ago her husand urged her to go away for the winter so as to escape it. In talking about it, he said to her: vrour m-neaitn is the only mis fortune we have." "Why," said his wife, "most people would think your blindness was our 'great misfortune." un, He said, "I never think of that i Apparently he does not. He is too busy thinking of work. , Undoubtedly the fact of his blindness made people feel kindly toward him when he be- mi n f ik t Mwwwtwal. r 8 '-, f ' .'I - t ' . r .' ': ' '... m ..y ' ' . '-- : : ' ' ,-'. ' - f A) , MERRITT R. POMEROY, Republican Candidate For Re-Election I For .'Sheriff of Clatsop1 County. tr?fe Jill f! UP-TO-DATE PRIM Always on the lookout for the most approved ways of doing things, w kave aecured the right to sell the weS known paints, aacoek, stalna, varnishes, made, and sold under the mark of pmEQUALIDT A snark that enable any one, novice or expert, to get, without doubt, exactly the right finish for wood or metal, old or newy inside or out Wtea m'ra bnytac, aak for a copy of tta twtafialaaw boa, r'Tha Selection and Uawat Naataaad Ftafehaa," (itM tbat mmm ja p bating fat atwyyat. 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He made the fight as any other man would have made it, and he expects to serve his State as other men serve it It may be thought that he will be handicapped when it comes to follow ing a discussion in the Senate cham ber, because he cannot see who is speaking. But the voices will soon become as- familiar to him as the faces are to other men. Besides this, every person who addresses the Sen ate is recognized specifically by the Vice-President as "the Senator from ," whatever State it may be. With the far greater than ordinary concen tration of attention which Gore will be capable of giving, he will doubt less keep better track than most members do, of what is going on. HE WANTED PIE. William J. Ryan, president of the Supreme Council of Public Hackmen of New York, said the other day that the winter panic had reduced . the hackmen's receipts considerably. , ; 'We'll have to come down to Eng lish rates 12 cents a mile instead of 50 cents if we have many more such panics," Mr. Ryan said. , "Everybody felt the pinch. I overheard a tramp grumbling in a public square. " The trade ain't like it used to be,' he said. 'Here ten times running to day I've asked for a bit o'bread, and what do they give me? Why, durn it, just a bit of bread.' " iHaiSiMSTr IN ONE OR MANY COLORS LARGEST FACILITIES I"N THE WEST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF H IOH OR A D E WOR K imi as it-w as HsTiti houses ALLEN C. DURBORROW DEAD. CHICAGO, Mar. 11. Former con gressman Allen C. Durborrow died last midnight at the Robert Burns hospital after an iliness that had con fined him to his bed. , .... 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