The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-17

piece which he had no opportunity
whatever of committing to memory
The work was in thirteen pages, but the
boy unhesitatingly accompanied the
composer with secondo and then
amazed his audience by fairly pushing
the composer off the piano stool and
triumphantly playing the entire compo-
sition from start to finish with infinitely
more grace and delicacy and spirit than
the writer himself This was in the
late COS, and the boy then seemed more
animal than man, only becoming inter-
esting or even bearable while under
the influence Of the music which he
himself produced. In later years. he
became more tracta BILE and civilized, as
it were, and gave hundreds of public
exhibitions of his power
Blind men have occupied all sorts of
positions and accomplished all sorts Of
wonders but only one of them, at least
in recent years, has actually occupied
IA throne. King George, of Hanover,
better known as 1.-The Blind King of
Hanover ruled over his subjects for
several years, but lost his throne and
his thronedom by the absorption of
Hanover in Prussia in 1866, He fed to
Vienna and later on died still proclaim.
ing himself king; though king
without kingdom. He was a son of
the Duke of Cum berland, and the pres
ent Duke still poses as an heir to
royalty
BY way of contrast to the lxingly ca
rNF Ir.y, Il. a.
peaceful and devout life of Francis
Jane Crosby whose fame as a writer
and composer Of popular hymns is
almost world wide She was born in
Putnam county, New York, March "a
1920, and is still alive and hearty She
was stricken with blindness while a
! child, but subsequently taught school
| and later turned ner attention to com
posing hymns Some of her best
known compositions are "Safe in the
Arms of Jesus, " "Harl1, 'Tis the Voice
of Angels" and RESCUE the Perish
ing"
Another notable blind person of our
own time and country is Rev. William
IL. Milburn, Chaplain of the House of
Representatives, who is best known
as 'the blind chaplain" Rev. Mr..
Milburn was born in Philadelphia in
1923 and in childhood lost his eyesight
as the result of an accident He never
theless went to college and became a
Methodist minister. For time he was
circuit rider and in 1s45 voAs elected
Chaplain of the Goth Congress IN 1S4S,
he assumed the pastorate of church
IN Montgomery, Ala, later went to
Mobile and shortly after was tried for
heresy He was again made Chaplain
Of Congress In 1853 and in 1857 went on
a lecturing tour in England. He has
crossed the ocean three times, has spent
FIVE or six years of his life abroad and
Is now for the fifth or sixth time chap
lain of the House of Representatives.
In another sphere, that of mathe-
tics, Lewis b CARL has won fame
! Blind from childhood, he successfully
| passed the examinations at Colum bia
College, and was graduated with high
honors in 1870 in the class of the pres
eat president of Columbia, Seth Lowe.
He took up the calculus of Variations,
worked out all the equations, and after
infinite labor issued a new treatise on
the subject which is one of the stand
ard works. He now lectures on mathe-
natics at Columbia College and al so
gives private lessons in mathematics.
The list of the blind men and women
of the present day who have achieved
prominence in many lines might be
almost indefinitely extended, including
as it does ex-Postmaster Fawcett of
Great Britain; Judge West the blind
lawyer; Rev, DIR, McClelland, the we'll
known ministers Marvin r. Clark, the
New York journalist; Dr. James R.
Cooke of Boston; Alvah 7. Garfield, of
Highlands, n. Y, the travelling agent
and business man; Martin N, kellogg
the weather prophet of St Paul; and
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