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DEEDS OF HEROISM. Acts Carved as Epics on Memory of World. Now and then some deed of instinctive heroism stirs humanity to its depth so that even the most sordid and practical of men and women offer the homage of their admiration. In Chicago William Fitch Tanner has restored the idealist's faith in mankind. Two or three years ago a young soldier in France gave the world a similar glimpse of the pure spirit of sacrifice when he threw himself on a smoking hand grenade, wrapping his body round it in such a way that the force of the explosion was spent in his own destruction and his 16 companions were saved. They " * J- * -Krt were his "buddies,' dui it caunut uc said that it was personal love for them that made him choose a sure and dreadful death to save them. It was instinctive heroism. So with Tanner. It was not so much the quality of his love as of the man himself that made him face with his wife rather than leave her alone to its horror. He was instinctively a hero. Neither annals of life or pages of literature offer a parallel to Tanner's . act. There were incidents that bear some resemblance to it, but none so nearly a counterpart in the instinctive quality of its heroism as that of the soldier who, without more than a second in which to choose, flung him-1 self on the exploding hand grenade. When Mrs. Isadore Straus refused a seat in a Titanic lifeboat and elected to die with her husband, her act ' ' ~"1 ?A u r\f m on and won me siieui lhjjjjo.&c ^ ?? the tears of women. It was undoubtedly a wife's devotion that influenced Mrs. Straus, for she had been married 40 years to the very exceptional man with whom she choose to die rather than face the years without him. ( "Save your sorrow for infamy," wrote Reginald Wright Kauffman at the time of the sinking of the Titanic. / Although the sacrifice of Sidney Carton in Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities" is the purest fiction, it offers a fine example of Dickens's ideal of what a hero should be. Even if it strains a point in sentiment when it asks you to believe in a sweet heart whose affection is so high and so fine that it leads him to take hfs successful rival's place beneath the guil' lotine's knife, the incident will continue to offer inspiration to a world of men* and women who, whatever their own defects, hate all that is sordid and love all that is noble. It was by a trick, you remember, that Sidney Carton exchanged clothes and places with Darnay, who was well on his way to London and safety by the time consciousness returned with it the knowledge that another had died in his place. Back in Paris Sidney Carton had ridden in the tumbril from the Bastile to the place of the guillotine. Everyone believed he was Citizen Evremonde, as Darnay was called?that is, everyone but the little seamstress of 20, also to die. "If I may ride with you Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your t hand?" pleaded the little seamstress. "I am not afraid, but I am little and i * weak, and it will give me courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, Carton saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Voo '? A vo. "Oh, will you let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my sister, to the last." And, if at the last, Sidney Carton had given any utterance to his prophetic thoughts, Dickens declared they would have been these: "I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, fn^ that England which I shall see no more. I see her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name . . . "I see that child . . .winning his way up that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrous there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see Him, foremost of just judges and honored men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place?then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement?and I hear Him tell the child my story, with a tender and faltering voice. "It is far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." The character of Sidney Carton may be overdrawn, but the idealism it represents exists as truly today as ever it did and the world must be the better because the veil beneath which it was hidden in William Fitch Tanner's everyday life has been torn aside and all have caught a glimpse of the | heart of a hero. The value of the incident lies in the conviction it brings that heroism lives in the most unexpected places, that it waits perhaps just around the corner; and that the man who takes your fare on the street car, who stands behind the teller's window at the bank, who takes your order at the grocery store may be capable of the instinctive heroism that is higher than common sense, finer than forethought, and a better legacy to leave than millions. < i m * ? The biggest stock of ledgers, cash books, journals and day books carried by any store in tnis section of the State. All bought before the recent advances in price. Our prices have not been advanced. The Herald Saves all Jj your jMm team jjplpgjl and Com |Bjj ' r^VER .jSjtTi WN l-> l-ia<ll!lll in ~W^rm a/ to raise ( through i STEEL CORN CRIBS part of it. AND BRAIN BINS SECU1 Bins will pr mice, birds, insects, dampness or t\ SECURO Crib. 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