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Dunstan Times, Issue 3131, 21 August 1922, Page 2

After nearly a year of blindness, Ernest Hughes, an English ex-service man, while groping along the sidewalk, bumped into a lamppost, struck his head, and his sight was restored.' Doetors say it jarred the optic nerve, and thev believe his power of vision has collie back to stay. Hughes had bad evesight before the war. He joined the medical corps, spent a year in France, and it grew worse. He returned home and.underwent an operation, having one eye removed. Last year while riding in a train he was suddenly stricken blind without warning. He was' with a friend when he hit the post .this week. li l saw a glimmer of light," he said afterward, "and 1 shouted, forced the eyelid open, and saw a white fog. The increasing brightness dazzled me. and I asked my friend to lead me home quickly, because I wanted to look upon my mother first." A New York "flier," who is described as well to do and a good flier, met with an experience lately that is likely to end in trouble. He landed in a potato field entirely out of gas. The farmer who owned field gave him gas from bis automobile and turned its propeller. But the plane refused to'lift under the gas which which would drive automobiles, but not lift aeroplanes. It ran through the field of potatoes for 500 feet, then burrowed its nose in the earth, breaking the propeller and bending one wing. The owner of the machine crawled out. and told the farmer to burn it. as ho was disgusted with it. He walked a short distance the station and took a train to New York. He said that be would return and pay for the potatoes be bad ruined. He left his coat and card with the farmer, who become suspicious and called up the sheriff on the telephone. The subsequent happenings _ had not become public at latest advice.