New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-03

The cirl impatientIv throwing down the
lailv paper. and every day Il grows
harder. Did YOU ever know Bruce Stand
Yes, answered the elder woman, gazing
dreamiIv skvward, | have known him
ever since we both were babies Few
1eopic / think. have known HIM 50 vel
Nou have heard OF his
DEATH. tragically indicating
The discarded journal
Yes said the woman
again her ewes still on the blue
distance I've been thinking ~sseasazSISS -
about II al day. Tf5
Then YOU know It's man
1Ier and the girlish eyes were
bright with rebehous indlgna- Ely
The woman nodded II =
..t1nc a. the result of
rescue didn't it. Bruce and
u friend were surf bathing, IS
when two bows, out beyond ~sssssss
the safety line. shouted for N.Y.
assistance The two men Went -xAA
10 them, and Bruce got his 9s
charge to the shore without ~
trouble Then he went back 6r--e
and helped his friend, whose E
strength was failing, with the f.
second bov-Wcnt back again ~
as he saw that the friend -
unused to such arduous effort
himself in danger OF sink
And Just as he got the friend
to the point of safety, crampSOr
heart failure overlook him,
broke the gITl Stlll more t1tltIiN All jt liitl~
We're saved. but he sank, and was beyond help when
drawn from the water Now that's what call
WaStc-Sheer cruel WaStc-On the part OF Fate or
Providence or whatever YOU like TO term II! Oh,
YES. ] know all the stock arguments and special
peadngsi The lives of the two boys might be
worth more the world than that of the man who
saved them though $ difficult to think this IN face
Of his known worth and brilhanCe.-the friend OF
whom nobody has heard may be a sanity
specimen of humanity. But why couldn't II have
been granted their savior to have lust the little
more strength necessary t. save him too, That 5
what | should Ike to know
THE ewes Of The woman fell at last from the tec,v
clouds the flushed face of her companion,
resting there with tender sympathy and comprc-
hension Let me tell Won storv.-hie story, She
said softly. can't hurt HIM now. wherever he Is.
and think he d like TO have me do so lie always
loved to help people especially Young people and
know the facts may help YOU 70 suspend Judgment
d little And YOU must remember that | know
whereof | speak
Bruce Standish had an odd nature She con
Inucd while the girl, with all youth eagcrncss for
detail turned steady attention upon her Most OF
u~ have several character sides bat Bruce had al
least halt Il dozen, and no two of them comfortably
compatible with each other The strongest and
most contradictory OF these tempcramcnlal phases
were those of intense susceptibility To- outside IN
influence particularly outside feminine IN
tiuencc-and earnest desire to do and u bt alWay-
he best that III HIM Because of these warning
tendencies, i have heard HIM condemned A> a hypo-
.rItc. but this he never
The boy was born with Two gifts added To many
talents lie could speak and he could write rs
YOU know, he won success III both lines. hut never
he that might have been ms with undivided
devotion to one Nor did he realize ms highest
personal possibilities Tins was the reason why
have -dd that h, vas susceptible Z" feminine