From Our Own Correspondent.
Anking, An., Jan, 22 It is often demonstrated that a person deprived of one sense has his other sonses developed to a. higher degree of acuteness. Now there is some. discussion among Teeal scientists as to whether blind person is better able to find his way about in the dark than.
person with normal eyesight, Avany rate there is one blind man now confined in the mission hospital here who is an interest ing case in point,
ganist of mission chapel A few nights ago, the blind or: while returning home from the
got upon the wrong road. hhouso of seme friends apparently whether it was the darkness of the night or too much moonshine lat lessened his sense of direction is not quite clear. However he did not get tack to his room that night.—Early the following morning, before daylight, a coolie came to the well to draw water for hi foreign master's ablutions. As he let down his bucket he was suddenly paralyzed with fright to hear the sound of some one singing, for the voice seemed to ascend out of the depths of the well. It in a nowly dug well. belonging to the Anking Cross Stitch and has nct been heard to possess. spirit good or evil, wanting from of the dark well was something more than the slosh of the bucket ani the iding rope. The. song was somewhat liquid in, tine and was ae. companied with flapping sound of a dragon's tail on the surface of the water.
But before the frightened coolie withdraw his ducket_and away ho detected, in spite of hig fright, yock hun the plandive voice wow takable eglling for help that he Ghought "perhaps some "defamed widow might have sought firmation of her virtue in suicide ad had repented in. the afterthought of the icy-cold water.
Ho ran for help and stong rope and soon had the sorry look-face. With the exception of a ing organist hauled tg the sur-fow aigplaced vertorbras ho. seems none the worse for his 30 foot Fall and having spent the. better part of a long. w ter's night in Tou foot of water.
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