El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-15
Blind Ones Who Win Success
Marvellous Helen Keller Wins Liter
airy Fame, After Being Deprived
OF Sight and Hearing.
By Madison c. Pefers--
TELEN KELLER. who is constantly

T T ELEM KELLER, who is constantly
amazing the public by her
achievements. calls to mind the
famous blind who made their misfor-
tune but the pillars of success.
Homer. the first and greatest Of the
poets, $50 B. c.. wrote the Odyssey
after he was old and blind Milton
proved the truth of his saying. Who
best can suffer. best can do" by writing
his immortal works when he was blind
Henry FaWcett. England's most fam
GUS postmaster general and professor
of political economy at Cambridge, be-
came a greater man after the unfOr-
tunate accident which deprived him OF
mis- sight
Francis Huber the Swiss naturalist,
who lost his eye-sisht at an early age,
with the assistance OF his wife, wrote
about bees, ants and other insects as
few men have done before or since -
John MeIcalf. blind at six, was. when
only u years old the most expert VIC
linist in all England
Thomas Blackjack. the pleasing
Scotch poet and eloquent divine of the
eighteenth century. was blind at the
age Of three months
Nicholas Sanderson. blind at the age
OF three years. made himself master
in astronomy and mathematics
Herman Forrentias, the blind Swiss
OF the sixteenth century. became the
author of a pOetical dictionary and
WrOtei immortal works on botany.
David Macbeth, an accomplished mu-
sician a prodigy mathematics and
inventor of the string alphabet for the
blind. was born blind.
Vidal, the 'sculptOr-wOnder Of the
French capital has been blind since he
was 2I
PreseOtts achievements.
Prescott, compelled al 20 to abandon
his chosen profession of the law be-
cause OF his falling eyesight and With
no accurate knowledge Of the modern
languages, chose as his life work, one
which above all required eyesight. and
taking up a branch of history which
required the constant use of the Ian
guages of southern Europe, and with
the use of only one impaired eye he
produced the History Of Ferdinand
and Isabella the Conquest of Mexico
the Conquest of Peru" and the His
tory of Phillip II" the impairment Of
his eyesight inducing that earnestness
and concentration OF pursuit which won
for him worldwide fame
Francis Parkman. the most pictur-
eSque of American historians. with eve
sight so poor, could read only an hour
day.
Herrehoff. designer of the victorious
racing yachts became totally blind at
Heine. half blind and paralvzed. Law
for years on his mattress grave un-
subdued in the activity OF mis- mind
a soldier in the intellectual war OF
liberation Of Europe from its medieval
shackles.
Thomas P. Gore at eight lost his left
eye by being accidentally struck with
a stick by a playmate, and att lost
his right eye by an arrow from-a cross
bow, won by his own efforts, the
United States senatOrship from Okla
homas at 81.
How sIathesOn Won.
Gorge AIathesOn. suddenly deprived
or his sight, the black curtain fell be- /
tween him and the bright prospects /
before him-the marriage was broken
off, the pulpit seemed closed to him l
his career appeared ended. But he 4
would not have it so. he went braveIv 4
on with his task of scholarship and \
became one Of the famous preachers
lf Great Britain. wrote, many books. 4
lndaunted by difficulties. In the mo- /
nent Of sudden tragedy, when the dark
ness fell on his, he wrote this notably
beautiful and immortal hymn of cOur-
ige:
20 Light that followed all my way.
Yield my flckerR1S torch to Thee /
My heart restores Its borrowed raw
That in Thy sunshine's blaze its dsy
May brighter, fairer be
20 10Y that seekest me through pain.
cannot close my heart to Thee:
trace the rainbow through the rain.
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall fearless be-
Instances such as these might be
multiplied indefinitely and illustrate .
he truth. that difficulties properly met,
lay prove to be helps, and not hin !
RANGES.
Neighbor-"How did that naughty I
tile boy of yours get hurt27
Mother OF the n L B.-"That good {
tile boy Of yours hit him with a Z
rick I
His Verse.
little boy who had reached the !
&c when boys feel that a watch is the
ne thing that makes life worth living. | e