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Show was a deformed dwarf, and Helen Keller, one of America's most accomplished accom-plished women, has been deaf and blind from childhood. The list of world famous notables who have labored under serious physical phy-sical handicaps might be extended almost al-most indefinitely. Their example should be inspiring to any who are inclined in-clined to complain about minor afflictions afflic-tions or difficulties. HANDICAPS OVERCOME. An anonymous writer has called attention at-tention to some of the handicaps which were overcome by those whom the world now recognizes as geniuses and leaders of the first rank. Among those mentioned are the following: Demosthenes, who became one of the world's greatest orators, stuttered stutter-ed in his youth. Julius Ceaser and Napoleon Bonaparte, Bona-parte, two of the greatest generals and statesmen of all times, were epi-leptics. epi-leptics. So was Mohammed, who founded a religion which now has more than 2C0 million adherents. Alfred the Creat, considered "the wisest, best and greatest king" of England, had a life-long internal disease. di-sease. Among authors and poets, Carlyle was a dyseptic. Byron had a club foot, Keats had tuberculosis, Milton was blind, and Pope was a hunchback. hunch-back. Darwin suffered from a nervous disease, and Beethoven composed some of his most majestic musical works ' after he had become totally deaf. I In our generation, the great electrical elec-trical wizard, Charles P. Steinmetz, ' |