HEROES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1973, 24 April 1885, Page 2

HEROES.

lit dramas, heroes are generally resoued telwnriuffltly from the dangers to which thejr liravory has exposed them, but it is not always sain real life. Every year convinces me that pootical justice does not exist on oavth, amd that the hero's reward i found ekciohm, as is that of. the simply good man. The coward often savea ■ himself. The selfish andgrasping too often prosper. We at least ought to hold the heroes in our memories awhile, But alas! who hut those who loved them will do this? ] Hubli with, shame to think that at this instant I cannot recall the name of th*& man who stopped the gap in a breaking tunnel with his own body, and said: " Boys, save yourselves. You are married; lam not," and was drowned, I regret that fchore is no record of those who every year lose their lives in saving shangcrs from a watery grave; that their comrades only know the firemen who die ai rflß smoke and ilames in the dischai'go of fclioiv duty, and the engineers who go to their death-as many a one lias done—to save, the train full of passengers behind them. To-day, the name of another hero lies boforu me, that of James Carr, the foreman of a Chicago factor)' that was recently burned, By his coolness and energy ho saved the livesof more than thirty persons) and then, fearing that some helpless soul had been forgotten, ho returned to thu upper story and perished, He 'died an agonizing death, within sight of those who- ■ might have shared a similar fate- but for his, efforts, I da not know '■ whether he had'any wjfeov children ijr any deny ones to grieve for.lu'ni; d,ut it is pussjbio that he had. Such a man.could scarcely he without close ties of some sort. Bitterly must they grieve for him. Butbeyo'ndl mention of the fire, little will be sail'* Little was saidof the liero of thesiihiiierged tunnel. Accidents are painful. People do not like to linger over-them, and the heroes of them aw set aside with other unpleasant details, Officers who fall in" battle get into history; men of the ranks rarely; and these plain working men,' who' are heroes of a rarer sort than soldiers, pass, with the newsboy's cry of aqoidunt!" "Loss of life!" from Ift'a' memories. Yet, amidst the selfish world,''' full of rather cowardly folk, how brightly' thoy ought to stand out, these men who have given their lives for others, not blindly, but knowing; all their "risks, as brave men only know it. ■ ' ' "