The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-11-16
Loyal to Their Trust.
Prom she \. Y. Tribune.

Prom The n. Y. Tribune.
With all the turmoil and excitement
the closing week of the canvas the press
has fouad space for nj least two incidents
which tend to ennoble and dignity human
life. One was the rescue OF fourteen men
from a sinking Fsssel in mid-ocean- The
Noorisnd deserted the wreck during
storm, and sent out lifsbost to take OF the
exhausted men who were clinging 10 the
rigging. So high was the sea that it was
impossible to board the wreck But the
Norwegian captain contIived 10 rig rope
and buoy, which he threw out TO the life
boat. So long as this rope was steadied
from the wreck il was possible for the c2sia-
ways to be drawn into the lifebost. Captain
Thommesen knew that it was his duty TO
be the last man to leave the ship He or
dered his seventeen comrades one by one TO
Jump into the sea, and steadied the rops for
each and every one. Then, when ell were
saved except himself be lesped into the sea /;
but as there was no hand behind him 20
regulate the buoy be missed the rope. and
Tor ten minutes he was struggling helplessly
in the roaring waters before he could find it.
When be was drawn into the Efeboat IN
conscious and nearly dead, his Bible and his
logbook were found strapped to his back. A
plsin man is this brave Norwegian sailor,
but If loyalty 10 duty can make any one a
hero be is one.
Then there was another plain man who
was as brave as Captain Thommesen and ss
resolute in bis discharge Of duty. but less
fortunate, since he was martyr as well as q
hsro. Detective John Carey closed bril-
liant career of warfare against lswbreakers
in desperate struggle with a burglar ho
had sworn that he would never be taken by
him alive. De Blanehete was as good as his
word When he found himself in the
clutches Of his old enemy he whipped out a
revolver and shot the detective. Morlally
wounded and bleeding 20 death, John Carey
still retained with consciousness the deter
mination TO do his full duty. His iron grip
on De Blanchete was not relaxed. BE lay
on the ground gasping his life away, but his
hands never left the murderer's throat until
his faithful heart had ceased to beat.
These men were true TO their trusts. One
had his ship and the unwritten law Of the
sea that the captain must be the last man to
leave it. The other had the lawbreaker
within reach, and knew that il was his duty
to arrest him, whatever might be the risks
of death-grapple with desperado. Loyal
" TO their trusts had become the habit of
life of one and of the other. They would
not have made, they could, any system Of
beroics ont of what was only plain matter
of duty. One would have accounted it a
skipper's privilege to steady the rope for his
sailors, and the other would have regarded
il as a detectives luck to die with an iron
grip on murderers throat. The mention
of their brave deeds is of the brielest in the
daily journals. There is hurly-burly over
politics, and men with their hopes and fears
of another week 5 lottery Of prizes and blanks
have no time to think Of such things. One
hero casts about for another job at sea aud
the other drops into his grave almost un-
noticed and what each did to show himself
in his humble way loyal to duty passes
speedily out of mems minds. Ye; it may be
that each has made il easier for other men
TO be true TO their trusts Who will say that
in universe where eternal Justice reigns
such deeds as these are ever lost?