Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — A Blind Letter Carrier. [ARTICLE]

A Blind Letter Carrier.

The remarkable things which blind men have been able to do, things which would seem to require good sight, would fill a big volume, but none of them is more to be marveled at than that by which Arnold Scott, of Bernardston, Me., so ably serves his country. Mr. Scott, though totally blind, Is a letter carrier, and there is none better in tbe United States. At the postoffice Mr. Scott is given the mail for his route piece by piece and is told to whom each belongs. Without th» least hesitation he arranges the letters and papers in the order in which he desires to deliver them and never makes a mistake. Mr. Scott is 60 years old. The brims of silk hats are said to be curled by hand, though in some factories this process is now accomplished by machinery. When the brim is handcnrled the workman relies, altogether on his eye for the necessary curve.