Can Talk Again

George Sheppard of McKeesport, Pa., is again able to talk. Ho waked up the night of June 27th with a tinging sensation in his neck and found hSmself deaf and dumb. Doctors were baffled by the case. July 3th h's hearing was suddenly restored. Still Sheppard's only means of communicating with persons was a pencil and pad. Saturday night he walked into the barroom of the National Hotel at McKeesport and wrote on his tablet that he wanted a drink of whisky and some pepper. This was supplied by the bartender. Then Sheppard sat down at a table and began to cry. In a few minutes he excitedly jumped up and began making peculiar noisos with his mouth. Finally he could forffl words and in a few minutes was talking. Sheppard talked for two hours -is fast as he could, saying he was afiaid to stop for fear he would lose his speech again. He threw his pad and penen in a corner and joined with his frienda in celebrating his good fortune. Sheppard's case has attracted great attention from physicians, but noue has been able to satisfactorily explain It.