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BETWEEN riPTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH
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and illustrated
Songs
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THE BUND SUll
Thomas P. Gore Left Sightless
and Helpless at 11.
GREAT CAPACITY FOR WORK
He Loves to Hsva Book in His
Hands Whenever he Is Being
Read to he Wants to Hold a Book
Himself.
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-
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MERRITT R. POMEROY,
Republican Candidate For Re-Election I For .'Sheriff of Clatsop1 County.
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came candidate for Senator. But he
had to fight for success.
There were four candidates, two of
them being strong ones, and the blind
man asked no quarters. 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.' "
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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. , ....
Mr. Durburrow was best known as
the man who introduced the bill in
congress which resulted in the ap- ;
propriation for the Chicago post of
fice and for the political battle he
waged with Wrny Lorimer in 1903
for a seat in the national house of
representatives."' '
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