The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 25, 1919, Page 12, Image 12
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
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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
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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
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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.
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