Personal Safety.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1910, Page 4

Personal Safety.

* ■ THE DEATH THEY AYISJIEI) FOIL Every mortal soul would choose a quick antf impassioned death; all admire a certain recklessness, an indifference to personal safety 01 existence, especially in the old, to whom uecldessiicss is most natural, since they have le.ss of life to risk. 'that was why the crowd cheered Mr -Jjunes Tomkinson as he trotted t:> the starting-pest, and that was why everybody <> im 'od his rapid ami victorious cud. In his "Tales from a Field Hospital." Sir Frederick Treves told of a >-;d_di<T who was brought down from Npum Ko-p as a mere fragment, his limbs shattered. his face b|.;\vis a. way, incapable of speech or si'drt. YVlien asked if he had any message to send home before he' (Med, hi upon the paper, "Did' W1! "'■'" •"" fn 'these words lives *iie veny spirit uif that enviable d •■ ! , + l, which all men think tliev long ■ ~-.. the death which takes no thnlT-dd "I self, and swallows up fear in n'e'orv a man Stevenson would hav* delighted to include in his brave -oil call .... Ves, it is all wvy brantil'u! and al very true. Stevenson id.n.nii - like Caesar, received the deith he "■ished for, and, whether in reason ,'T m passion, everv soul ->:nc i.v n c would agree th'at death in "ne cTidsf "I hie is the most desira de t ufi