New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-05


uriseries which shake many a mans faith.
According 20 Mr.. Phmsol, one ship in the
English marine service Is lost every day IN
the year When we grow weary Of this kind
of horror. and want a tragedy more tinged
with individual passion than storms and
swapping seas. and the dead cliDglng to the
wreck. We need only turn TO another column
IN the newspaper. AS soon as the ear-hooz
murder. with It's lOng-wrought agony of wait
ing victim and pleading wife, had been
withdrawn from public view, comes the
Goodrich drama. with its yet untold rev
citation OF Illicit love, jealousy, and
slaughter. So the miserable play CUES on IN
every age and country The roll of death
and crime Is never full. The book Is never
closed. Day after day a new page Is opened
with fresh pictures of misery and vice for
manbi2d 20 regale themselves wirhaL 30
steady is the toll of the deatb-kneu, between
wars. shipwreck, pestilence and famine; so
varied are the changes IN crime. that we should
be tempted. did We believe that these daily
histories formed an index Of the real course of
human lie, TO think thas it we're indeed best
20 hanr the heavens with black and let the
world keep perpetual Lent
Bat N the story Of the Atlantic there is one
little hint which suggests that there Is
anOthe- side 70 life. broader and deeper, and
better worth attention. A little boy, says Mr..
TOxley made his way - on deck, and chung
90 q man about 10 cross 20 the rock on the
rope. Even IN the darkness and driving
storm. with hundreds of men aud women
shut in below them TO drown, and hundreds
about tgem washing from their side into the
sea witt every wave, the captain and The
crew found time 70 care for and save this
boy. On the very day, Too, before the Al
iantic disaster, a simple little story comes 10
Us Of az angiue-drIver CT a freight train on
the Re.s az Road creeping round on the cow
catcher e. save q baJy which had seated
itself upyG the track, and tingiDg HIM
self d0ra az last % DO IL with every
chance o. death before him. Engineer and
baby wprr dashed % one side, both, strange
to tel. az H1rt. There may seem no cOnnec-
ton Of meaning between this h-tle incident
on country road and the great horror which
is appalling the country. The meaning Is
here. Tais p0Ur engine-driver knew nothing
Of The clfid he saved. The bey, creeping up
OF d,-ck. Was no nearer IN reality TO the
cautain cr crew than any other drowning pas
senEc-. Set they rsked their lives with al
their resh-y, their uutulfIed promise and
sweerDess, u save them, SIMPLY because these
nnknow- children brought back to them their
homes. snd wives, and little ones, the whole
world oI quiet daily routine, Of atfec-
ton, of gentle. gracious tenderness. Of happi-
nestle world. il short. of which each man
knows. bur winch never makes itself seen or
heard through the news apers. We 90 out Of
orr wav now and then. according to our own
notions Of preaching 20 remind Om readers
that there is such world, lest the frightf1l
amending record which, as news-vendeTs, We
must kcev Of wee and death, should cause
them - fJrcet 1t. Life is not al given over,
as our columns sometimes might induce any
man 70 tilIk, 70 corruption. bribery. politics.
murder, aad shipwreck. These things may
prove THAT there If = lower Lie than tbs of
which Sia and Death do indeed. according to
1IiltOn's parable, keep the keys 51t in the
broader rorld Of every day, at each mans
own be9E-h N his chLds face, 10 even The
drOwuI- hands stretched out 20 help the boy,
is the Ursof Of tie God who rules them both.
and watches over Us.