Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1912 — DUST RESTORES HIS VISION [ARTICLE]

DUST RESTORES HIS VISION

Old Stone Mason Rubs Eye and Sees Again After Thirty Years ' of Darkness. Schubert, Pa. —Men sometimes hope against hope; others hope with patience, believing that what has been possible in times gone by is possible today. Of the latter class is Jonathan Miller of this place, who thirty years ago lost the vision of one of his eyes; but all this time he has had a vision in his niind assuring him that the day would dome When, in a manner strange and mysterious as that in which he lost his sight, he would regain it . A short time ago this vision was verified while Mr. Miller was walking home from Strausstown, a distance of two miles. A fierce storm came out of the western sky, and he was compelled to face It on the homeward journey. The wind blew considerable dust into his eyes, and his right one began to fill with water. He rubbed it, and suddenly he thought there was a dim sense of vision there. The wind continued to blow dust into it, and Mr. Miller was compelled to keep on rubbing, till suddenly he realized that he could see With that eye. He went home and told his wife and children, but they at first did not believe the glad tidings. Then they gave Mm a daily paper and he covered the left eye and began to read with the right one, through which he had been unable to see for thirty long years, and there was great joy in the home., father of ! sight children, and two sons and two dnoghtan survive. •