New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-16


There were sad items in them, but some OF the
sadness Itself had its elements oil ihsprauoh'
The incident that men stop to notice Is the ao-
normal One may pay his debts ana MAINTAIN
q virtuous and happy home and his obscurty
NAV remain unbroken Let MN De Il deiaul'er'
or murder his children. or desert his wife, ana
everybody turns to what ne has done Let
q train finish its journey on time and the pas
sencers will leave IT, go about their business and
never give that journey second thought. III
the train goes through bridge or down an en-
banlment they do not forget ii. a steamship
crosses the Atlantic in six days; lis coming i
recorded. and the travellers on 1t are welcomed
nv thcir friends. When ii is twelve days on the
tourney. all the world walls on It's arrival Inc
fall of a great office building in course OF cree
tion calls for columns on columns III the news
papers. II il had gone up safely, lis complexion
woud perhaps have been recorded in ten INES
All this is natural and necessary. Ihcre l. no
rood in foil at great length all the things tIat
honnon ne q matter of course. People want 10
,,o,v tho things out of the common. Inc TACT
,bot the accident has particular notice Is proof
.ho. tho accident is the exception and not the
.,,, rho nersistence with which evil forces
,,so,f ,non us is evils own confession or the
,,rodo,oinance Of good Sometimes the sad thing
tos,idos 70 iov bv the very depth Of It's sadness,
which can but be abnormal. sometimes by the
beroism which 1t makes possible OF reVeia'ioh.
In Norrstown. Penn, an eminent arus'
stenncd from a train on the way To MS summer
home He saw tenycar-old cmm run upon
the track in front of the locomotive. "he WAS
NOT his child Probably he never before hiu sven
ff,n h. Il~hp
ber Without moments hesitation III lusn''
~ save her and sacrificed his own HE III II vain
attemnt M rescue A young woman WIS o''iii"I
with TWO BOYS off Fort Hamilton. when one Oh
,h hovs cot hevond his depth, ana When sue
,r,ed TO hold him, grasped her ana pulled hor
,,;co under wafer Still she struggled, ana hnal-
l.. hroucht him ashore and fell unconscious be-
.i,, hir, 4 voung man out boating in the Pas-
aa,o piror was timed over. and In trying 10
.,,.o , Communion who could not swim was
dragged TO tie bottom and drowned. young
man attending Oh his sick wife TOOK poison ny
mistake and then. though in great agony re-
manned bv her bedside until he could leave WIFI
ont alarming her and endangerins her me- linen
Il was TOO late for antidoes TO have thelr effect
Tbom,s Uovenden wore no star of knlghthood
and went on no crusades Olive Moore Is doubt
Lose inst like other girls OF the period. Lock
wood Wilsey was an ordinary young man Oh
uhosa life nothing remarkable is told. Warren
yibbard was a humble workingman, VINO was
nrohahly as near allied 10 Sancho Panza as 10
Don Ouixotc. They were all people who hved
the round of their lives quietly without pretence
Of beng brave Yet they all were of the stun
that heroes are made Of
Those four deeds right under our own eyes
happening in two days are monument 10 lhe
monthly and unselishncss Of humanity. This Is
= courage which Is not stimulated by marital
airs or sustained by the fellowship of shoulder
IN shoulder Ii is the response To the individual
impulse 10 do duty 10 strive for others Ill 'he
risk Of life The most humble can have part III
that chiyalry 1t is so simple, and wlthal so
useful. that the possession Of it Is not Degrudged
70 woman We often think of humanity as most
" wicked vet we are all so unacknowledglngy
conscious that the spirit Of self-sacr1tce dwels
in the majority of men that we do not let our
selves stop to consider plain unseliishneSs heroic
That might raise up too many heroes for COM
fort. and we should feel under obligations TO
treat one another too WELL But il is worth while
heng alive TO think now end then how much
good there is in just the common run of hui
manity