Show A GENUINE HERO THE times are filled with dark shadows murders suicides and the foulest forms of immorality are becoming so common that they fall fail to shock popular sensibility here and there the gloom is dispelled by sets acts of genuine heroism but they too are frequently passed by without eliciting more than a cursory comment yet they are often as striking as deeds of the past that have bave been made themes for song and aid story an incident named in a brief paragraph of a press dispatch is a case cam in point it occurred near brooksville Brooks ville va last friday night engineer emery on an excursion train sighted a cattle train coming around a urve his hia practiced eye took in the situation at a glance a collision was inevitable he put on the air brake pushed the fireman off the engine to save his life remained at his post with his hand band 0 on the lever ever and met the crash being as he expected instantly killed this noble doble act was not the result of frenzied impulse it was the fruit of deliberate courage with the consequences fully comprehended this is evinced by the act of pushing the fireman from the engine to save his life the logical inference is that he understood his hia own would be lost by a terrible process by remaining he thought of the helpless people in the cars behind and to save them he sacrificed himself under unde a trying ordeal no mortal man could do more than he did yet so far as we have observed this heroic act of a humble but noble man has been passed without public notice save that given in a brief paragraph of a telegraphic dispatch but emery was obscure had he been rich and consequently influential his act of self immolation would have created a great stir his praises would have been sung in sweet poetic strain and his example pointed to as doing credit to the human race for such is the way of the world fortunately the ways of god are different |