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Show HEROISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE. There Displayed In Higher Form Than on the Dalllefleld Prof William Jumna of Harvard mil ierlly relates that upon n certain Journey he wn iiieatlonlng wllh him self whether or not the higher hero-lam hero-lam of life was passing mt of human society, an I that at the very moment, he looked from the car window and uddenly got sight of n number of workmen imrforntlng some leak on the dlity ledge of an Iron ronetructlon nt n great height aays iliicress This at once brought tn hla mind n sense nt the everyday bravery of men tn every day occupation. It flashed upon him on the Instant that the true heroism nf life la found not only on the day of hattlo and In dcaperate ndtentures but also In building every bridge or In the ordinary day by day service of the world whether nf the sailor upon hla deck I he brakeman upon hla train the lumberman upon hla, raft or wher eter else men are nt work "Aa f nwnke In thla tinldeatlaetl heroic life around inn," he snye, "the scales seemed to fall from my ejus, nml n wave of sympathy greater than I had ever before felt with the common life of common men began to fill my soul " |