The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-02-13
AeRolsM oE MorAeRHoop.


80 playwright ever conceived a
situation OF more dramatic pathos
than was presented In a little story
that came over the wires the otner
day telling how mother. unable to
leNtrieate her little daughters feet
from frog of railroad track. lie.
| hberately died with her child rather
man leave Il 10 its fate alone an
onrnshins train sweeping tlem both
lmlo etemiiN Mothers and sathers.
lt0o nave giVen their lives that their
olsprins might be saved .hev have
/ struggled TO the very last n'oment OF
hope ~ order to rescue their child
rem AID have embraced together the
| leal which threatened All alike
ana from which escape seemed next
/ lu impossible Perhaps there have
been Instances of mo'her love as
; heroic as ihat displayed ia his pai.
pcplai ease bat II So they nnye heon
| ekeeedihsly rare saws The Kansas
Nily Iournat
Even Mr. Carnegie has not resery
go monument for mother who
stands between her child and dcv
lisn Jnegelnant OF steel ana nknt,
NAT cfhshes ont The lives al horn
when the mother might easily have
saved herself alter having done AN
that human being could for the III.
tie one
Here would seem 20 have been an
excellent opportunity for the inter.
VentlQn OF that special providence in
WAlci SO many people devoutlv be.
lieVe. for the care that takes note Of
t1e lail oi saarroW mighr well have
spared that m'gnflceutly pitiml sac
Hilce Of gloriled bravery
The deliberate sacrifice Of human
me IS not rare. though there is some
ehlhg m human nature that shrlnks
pack shudderiney from in and waich
makes i an The more splendid when
thc altar OF duly claims it's victim
ini very often the sacrifice is made
under the eNaltation of emotions that
mt humanity above the dread of
pahgs and make death a little nrire
10 pay The brave engineer who
STICKS 70 his pest ot death and saves
hundred or thousand lives. n
YaiiaM fireman Who meets q gastly
laie rs did tlat splendid hero who
iQst MS liie in this city the other
night, the solder on the 6eld of hat.
tle' every hero and heorine who looks |
dnshrlnknSy into the frightfnl face |
" deeth' enacts part thar makes |
uuiHdHtts sublime and redeems II |
rom many things tdat drag it down |
But picture . little child with us
1901 caught IN a vise-like grip OF a |
simple device attached to railroad
track. picture the train "A block AWAY
rushing onward with terrific speed |
Whlle The train crew and others look
ON powerless to render aid nlcture
a mothers agonized efforts Ia un
lasten the grip of literal steel mic
ture the awful realization that her
efforts are unayailine and thar aer
ahiid Is doomed as ineXorably as fate.
picture mother not hesitating for a
moment hardly even debating the
question as to whether she shall stem
islde and save her own life. though
ne knows that whether sac STAYS or
escapes she cannot help her child
hen picture her calmly taking her
llace between he child and the train
or few seconds OF the sharnest
agony the human heart can Know
en- lew mangled fragments OF
NAT d moment before was two liv. I.
~ creatures +.
nat IS picture to which no pen
II orush or chisel can do twentieth
lart OF the tiJhe OF one poor mart of
ustice let il is Just one little stor,.
rom the news columns. though il
nay he long before ii duplicated In
4 lfs Rltlul and heroic details