The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 23

HE SAN ¥FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1899 21 REMARKABLE LIFE WORK orx BLIND SAN FRANCISCO CAPITALIST "Lost His Eyesight A Whi[g a Ppor Lad Begsgorfig tf;\aggfi But Set Out to 2 oth And Now He Is a MakeHisFortune nDeafg[YJ i ?ar?né N most remarkable success- s in 1 1 be found in the crops would bring the best S the life the next twenty years ths t ind capitalist living in < ducted his farm there v S sco. Many thousands of his grain sown 1 r with 1 health and opportu- and all other branches of the work wera & truggled through life under his own personal supervision b h plece to put Horse breeding w an industry to He unities that which he devoted a great deal of his ti imphed Tataig nothing but “For, sai “it costs a ‘plug’ as it does to fe mal."” With him trading prove profitable as teaming, and the sharp-e: sharp-witted man did not exist who cou beat him on a horse tr His opinion of a horse carried more weight than that of many a veteran in the Th was never a defect in an that it would escape the scrutiny finely educated touch and his developed judgment. He raised and sold hundreds of fine horses until “Blind Chandon’s” stock was known to every horseman. He invested in stocks whic most at his touch, portunity to profitably inves tate presented itself he never ove looked it. Having worked as hard as s of his employes for thirty don concluded to cease laboring ar the remainder of his life in ¢ could he afford to do it. He ranch, held an auction s and removed to San Franc has made his home Mr. Chandon claims to possess faculties of which other men know no 1 he. is well able to v He is fa- miljar with the end to the other and can descrit nd scen- ery in nearly every town. rid on the train he will comment upon the ding out a a les- n, who, pen- s now an lon 4 qu which he was born In d when his jumpe scenery as fu ryer. In passing a b stre he can tell the style architecture and the ma- structed, “‘mere- anner in which it 1 of which it is c 1y, he claims, “by the 1 echoes the sou He knows and can go to any making an inqu stranger more cle resident, who has He is fond of controversy and or any subject. Being of a de morous temperament, he for hours with his funr which are incident never forgets e sound of one's ich he recognizes his friends ancisco “like a hook’ art alone 7 He D\A'-TL\NG OVER. THE ROUGH MOUNTAIN RoAR” o L5 4 4 Roherts The blind man hurried to town. The Chandon. There was money in hauling n b € s 1an, but ow r of the outfit was und, a bargain freight. With two teams more moncy P a never s training he re- was quickly made 1 for $1000 the team could be made than with one. A ‘second Ju st i ve An¢ 1 became the property of the vas bought andpressed into serv- <) @ saint from a w o % L teamster b a third, and so on until he Lad i hrew Th - to the five teams trading and hauling in the im- £ 1 car handon mense district of which Marysville was ! : TR erprise. the hub. t to him. en v he conducted this ex- neighboring farmers took it for a never- q t wagon d profitable business when failing sign of a high potato mar R ) with so reduced h When onfons were planted on the Ch, i L A 55 and with enue ? d of his teams, « don farm the inevitable jump in onions performer, be - 2 o ot pon the high i traded for fourteen tc was looked for by all, and somehow it s s ough moun- , which he ytilized to a p usually followed. When Chandon stored Although fairs wn T = barley every one stored his, and when exlorine voung governm sold his L and de- Chandon sold his wheat his example was my affilction the < : o nber for voted his » attention to the deveiop- followed by the other farm Bomenow : Iy et heen ond ; { arysville. Trading ment of his farm the blind farmer seemed to h keener heen swindled out of sl eb dte et e ; gt e rtmine 1o buv. sell or trade. was hoth pleasant and profitable to Mr. When Chandon planted potatoes the perception than his neighbors of what fore now." 0000000000000 0CO020CCOQO00O0O0CQO20CQ0O00 ""‘0()()900000900000390(’.‘9090000000030000000OOOOOQQOQ0000009090000000000000000000003990900000 I felt in my heart that she|had barely reached their home when a| QUEEN ISABELLA'S SPLENDID COURT : t the last moment he escaped, and for | lotte i is, and d about the States | apr r the we his wife and d 3 h name, to beg | the evening the family c L not turn me from | mplete by the arrival of a » from London d either t story.” the ge favors of T > father or sc > chance that of th e r % 3 tor an | g et |5 mds are rom the who knew I AR S orners o daugnters: | NOMes . o New e ‘ X od days A very touching idence recentiy ers we mer deck one Lokl ti 3 as well a3 f made | brought his tw t daughters to ¢ father they | p1eq over the 1 who w a d of loomficld H the Civil ¥ into the hands of the after g term of fmprisor | been sentenced to be shot. most more than a coincidence ght tog < wno h een years. In 1SS Dela- - son” of a wealthy Philadelphian ngaged to be m to Miss Ch: : Pathetic Ending in San Francisco of a Refugee Who Fled ; to Escape the Hatred of the Queen. & ¢ 2 man named Nalls, in osy New J had marry man who is ith her former so- desired a home of h s of I she would. But overlooking the bay liv 10t who relates the ry intrusted r thirty years h can with his bags of Then my | door to a richl gold dust loved fugitiv who declare and died 11 learned that I should | 7, ave Leen a child friend of the and could not give her a f;“_ “ il disg N never gold disappeared after RN M) o i ¥ & e merisens e pets | denied her noth- | the side entrance to the royal | [ . | ing. while and at governesses per visit last it we 1 s each other while they ¢ th their heed by flr“' business man | admirers. Her father re 1 to Mad oI stant grief cam console for ul stroke which enok which had before we were grown, and I seldom sa her to us a3 my-hand trength, which made one- ’ g suit of a great W cad while the other half was ) ch general subsequently marry- | ing a pe tradesman at Madrid. —We |G et t first; but doctors also heard t was at court and had | L7 ME S K0 o doubted on had nothing become a great with Christina i e thor No, she never told | the Queen’s mot came with the 4 ¢ far above him she | iews of the rev 1868, in which PRy | d he believed her to It } promincntly, and w et 5 beliash e | a to think he could | playe had, f potlts al reasor U e 1 in the eyes | was very sorcy for D o : . of our world. My parents, who we G ut gone. In those days when a boat came In|, .G had both recently died. 1 had no | meelL g nevis | s people talked about it. One daya s ] te fortune, and the law of our |to mind. Whatever he may have | ) ar om New York did not compel my band to | Still had his heart left. Yes, Jesu Mar pomp friends called to say that among 7 heart is still left.” No woman's condition was ‘ 1 hips passeng h lac its owner—an | by her f sps gone, torn | cal refu and sold to buy | her stor r part of the volume | answer summons at the door. pped from | confronted by a fa dressed lady re. Yet the | whom I could not re unburned por- was a n low traveler i thought of the room which had | ackground to the woman on ever more pitiable. W E1 2615, my, Hawela andl wazdrobe: and'| formed the | went Paris. What there In that | the step—the room with its bare floor, ite gay city for me now, forsaken, friendless, | rusty stove, its table with broken dishes | poor? I remembered the little girl with | and the bed fn the corner with its ragged | whom I used tg play when our govern- ntrasted with the splen- | esses talked their sweethearts. 1 [dmr of court and with the gen- | had heard th happily married | tie old 1ked Providence for that and far aw from the scene of all my | compen n of a faithful heart. | having seen for ~} - in Cordova wl‘m whom you onc COC00000000NO0C000 DOCOOCO0000000000 | K * and she showed me a and courted | she had crossed the sea to the new | rvia . 8 7 | 1and 8 4 COLIRE. W, had ** ‘My ho gone—my jewels, my hus- EW things in life are more surpris- | way_prison. Although it was clear that | b and decency and | pang, The Queen Isabella, ing than its coincidences, some of | the man was a practiced burglar, it was r she often| oy, s now in exile at Pau—but I swear to Which are 8o startling and Improb- | found impossible to identify him and| clous of our Kind- | oy that 1 have been wronged. I have able as to assume the appearance ce his career In crime. not brought misfortune upon myself; it of ‘fate. o or colncidence, however, did what | has been brought upon me by the malic Charles Dickens was dogged | Scotland Yard was powerless to do. One of others. It has followed me since first | throughout his life by the most perplex-| of the warders of Wormwood Scrubbs, I entered the Queen’s c uld I had | ing coincidences, and his death completed | who had served in the Scottish Borderers never left my childho: one of the most remarkable of them all. | In India, saw the prisoner and recognized “‘In misfortune one should seek one’s On the §th day of Juae, 1865, he escaped | in him an old soldier comrade named parents. You are far from home,’ I re-|death by a railroad accident as by a|Hely, who had been imprisoned far felony V6 rd minded her. miracle, and in commanting on his escape | at Calcutta. This clew was followed up, don’t want you "" “+Home!" she said. ‘I have none!—nor | he wrote: *I can never be much nearer | and led to the disclosure of a long list of i parents, for they are dead.’ parting company with my readers forever | crimes and convictions. oo With his honest, |~ ‘And your husband? Is he, too— than T was then until there shall be writ-| An almost incredible triple colncidence “They have been talking of | «ghe interrupted me: ‘He is not dead. ten against my life the two words ‘the | was noted in France a few years ago. her to an institution,” he sald, | No, no; but he grew tired of me. At that| end.’” These two words were written |In 1834 the deputy for the Ardennes was she doesn’t want to go. We've corrupt court I was robbed of his love. I| by death five years later on the same day | @ M. Ferry; for Loir et Cher, M. Brisson, ve somo help since my horse died, | reproached him with his infidelity, and to | of the same month. and for the Vosges, M. Hugo. In 1793, 101 £ ve had to go round for junk with a | be rid of me he fostered the suspicions of | A more remarkable coincldence still was | vears earlier, each district had been rep- ack instead of a wagon. So they thought | the Queen that I was in love With her | noted in the death of Mr. Potter, the free- | resented in the chamber by a man of ex- ¢ would be better off away from here. | favorite, Marfari. trade champlon and friend of Cobden and | actly the same name. Tut I'm doing better now than for the| * ‘I felt the shadow of her dispelasure | Bright, who died at the same day and | By a happy coincidence the three sons i down his needle and hand with his clum: ¢ said, in his hearty looked “THE OLD MAN LAID . DOWN HiS NEEDLE AND few months, and we'll get on some- | even before the end came at San Sebas- | month as his wife, who had preceded |of a Birmingham man named Howes all | tian, where we were when the revolution | him by twelve years. ‘relurnl‘d from different parts of the world [ patted his wife's hand again—the | broke out Ugh! I hated him, with his| It was a strange coincidence that led to | unknown to each othor on the same day. STROKED HER. TWISTED wife whose real history he has never | alrs over the order of Charles III he wore | the identification of one of the most skill-| One son, who was in the Cape Mounted HAND 7 Tonan She has carefully concealed that|so conspleuously, which she had made | ful burglars of recent years. The criminal | Rifics, had started home without his m cvery one except the friend who | them bestow on him as well as raige him | had been arrested on suspicion of having | father's knowledge, and to the latter's in- her shelter when she came to the | to the peerage—the vile opera singer! committed several daring burglaries In | tense surprise met him on his return from ¢ o homeless wanderer in 1560 Her| ‘I was one of those who braved the | the Midiands, and was lodged in Hollo- | business in the evening. Father and son