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Show Modern Heroes. j Those pessimistic folks who can see .nothing heroic in the spirit or people of j thiaageare respectfully reQ.ueted to give j a moment's attention to the case of Israel ' Joseph, a real estate broker, who was j i buried in Cypress Hills cemetery recently, j j The other day. at the crowded corner of j I Broadway and Vesey streets, two liltlel . girls were about to be run down by a ; heavy team whose driver had lost con-I con-I trol of them. Israel Joseph sprang from ; the sidewalk, seized tho animals by the l bits and held them back until the girls were out of the way. The plunging horses so jerked and flung him about that a heart valve burst, and iu a few days the man was dead. He had simply given his life for two children he had never seeu before. And in so doing he had proven himself one of the heroes of which our old world still has plenty. Only they are garbed in workmen's blouses or business men's cutaway coats, and we don't recognize i them as they go about their business hi j the humdrum ways of daily life. New York Press. |