Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-08-02
HUMBLE HEROES.
Taimage On the Martyrs of
Every Day Life.
lsrOes OF the Sick Room and the Hospital
Military Heroes Not the Greatest
Sure Rewards Proinisedpth the
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hardness" Tim thy ii. 3. He said:
Historians are not slow to acknowledge
the merits of great military chieftains.
We have the full length portraits of the
Cr0mwelis, the WashingtOns, the Napo.
Icons and the WellingtOns of the world.
History is not written in black ink, but
with red ink of human blood. The gods Of
suman ambition do not drink from bowls
unde ent of silver, or gold, or precious
tones, but out of the bleached skulls
the fallen. But l am now to un-
oil before you a scroll of heroes that the
Torld has never acknowledged: those who
AGED no guns, blew no bugle blast, con-
4uered no cities. chained no captives to
their chariot wheels, and yet, in the great
day Of eternity, will stand higher than
those whose names startled the nations;
lsnd seraph and rapt spirit and archangel
Twill tell their deeds to listening universe.
/ mean the heroes of common, every day
life.
In this roll, in the first place, / find all
THE heroes of the sick room. When Satan
had failed to overcome job, he said to
God: "Put forth Thy hand and touch his
bones and his flesh and he will curse Thee
70 Thy face" Satan had found out
Il
mess is the greatest test of ones char
,sctcr. A man who can stand that
4 stand any thing. To be shut
,rOom as fast as though it were bas-
To be SO nervous you can not endure
A p tap of a child's foot. To have luxuri-
AZ fruit. which tempts the appetite of the
tObust and healthy, excite our loathing
md disgust when it first appears on the
Ia To HOY fha of 10
rough the side, or across the temples, like
razor, or TO put the foot in a wise, or
row the whole bodyinto a blaze Of fever.
ct there have been men and women, but
lore women than men, who have cheer
ally endured this hardness. Through
ears of exhausting rheumatism
I'd excruciating neuralgias they
ave gone, and through bodily
iistresses that rasped the nerves
and tore the muscles, and paled the
cheeks and stopped the shoulders. By the
dim light of the sick room taper they saw
on the wall the picture of that land
whore the inhabitants are never sick.
Through the dead silence of the night they
beard the chorus of the angels. The can
eer ate away her life from week to week
nd day to day, and she became weaker
Ind weaker, and every ''good night" was
eeebler than the 'good night" before-yet
hever sad. The children looked up into
her face and saw suffering transformed
into heavenly smile.
Those who suffered on the battlefield,
lid shot and shell, were not so much he
soes and heroines as those who in the field
hospital and in the asylum had fevers
Which no ice could cool and no surgery
lure. No shout of comrade to cheer
hem, but numbness and aching and home-
ickness-yet willing to suffer, confident
n God, hopeful of Heaven. Heroes Of
jheumatism; heroes of neuralgia; heroes
II spinal complaint; heroes of sick head
fche; heroes of lifelong invalidism; he
{oes and aeroines, they shall reign forever
md ever.
Hark! / catch just one note of the eter-
al anthem: "There will he no more
AIM" Bless God for that.
In this roll shall find the heroes of toll,
rho do their work uncomplainingly. 1t is
Dmparatively easy to lead a regiment into
,attle when you know that the whole ma
ion will applaud the victory: it is COM
paratively easy to doctor the sick when
you know that your skill will be appre-
hated by a large company of friends and
iatives; it is comparatively easy to adj
S an audience when in the cleaning
es and the flushed cheeks you know that
Dur sentiments are adopted; but to do
ewing where you expect that the employ.
will come and thrust his thumb through
he work to show how imperfect it is, or to
have the whole garment thrown back on
you to be done over again; to build a wall
and know there will be no one to say you
did it well, but only a swearing employer
bowling across the scaffold; to work until
Iyour eyes are dim and your back aches,
land your heart faints, and to know that
II you stop before night your children will
starye, All! the sword has not slain SO
many as the needle.
The great battlefields of our last war
kxere not Gettysburg and Shiloh and South
Mountain. The great battlefields of the
last war were in the arsenals, and in the
ehops and in the attics, where women made
army Jackets for a sixpence. They toiled
On until they died. They had no funeral
euloRium, but, in the name Of my God, this
dnv enroll their names among those OF
whom the world was not worthy. Heroes
Of the needle. Heroes of the sewing ma
chine. Heroes of the attic. Heroes Of the
cellar. Heroes and heroines. Bless God
for them.
In this roll I also find the heroes who
have uncomplainingly endured domestic
iniugtices. There are men who for their
toll and anxiety have no sympathy in their
homes. Exhausting application to BUSH
ness gets them a livelihood, but an unfru-
nal wife scatters it. He is fretted at from
the moment he enters the door until he
Comes out of il. The exasperations Of
business life augmented by the exaspera-
lions of domestic life. Such men are
laughed at, but they have a heart-break-
ing. :. ouble, and they would have long ago
zone into appalling designations but for
the grace Of God. Society to-day II
etrswn with the wrecks Of men, who, I'M
der the northeast storm of do.
nestle infelicity have been driven
nm the rocks. There are tens of thousands
of drunkards in this country to-day, made
inch by their wives. That is not poetry.
That is prose. But the wrong is generally
s. the opposite direction. You would not
keve to 20 far to find a wife whose life is .
nerpetual martyrdom. Something heavier
:1aan a stroke of the fist; unkind words,
staggering home at midnight and constant
aalfreatment, which have left her only .
Rreck Of what she was on that day when
Is the midst of q brilliant assemblage tho
-vows were taken and full organ played the
Sraadin1 march and the carriage rolled
awav with the benediction Of the people.
what was the burning of Latimer and
Rs1slev at the stake compared with this!
Ea,,.e men soon became unconscious in the