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Show I ANOTHER RAILROAD HERO. Hendley Jones of fleorgla waa a eeo-tlon eeo-tlon foreman In the employ of the 8ca-noard 8ca-noard Air line. One night last week he waa riding on a handcar near Renfrew!. Ren-frew!. Htewirt county, Oa., In the discharge dis-charge of his dull duties. Three other wen were with him, climbing a heavy grade. Up lo that moment all four graded together. There dashed around a curve ahead of them an extra ex-tra freight, heavily laden and rushing down upon them, grade and steam together. to-gether. The other three men Jumped to surety. They would no doubt defend their actlou by quoting the old axiom about self-preservation being the first law of nature. Hut Jones did not depend de-pend upon axioms to Justify his law of conduct; he was the sort of man who reckoned by acta Ho he stayed where ho was. It was a time when the fraction of a secoud was life. Jones saw this, and saw also that to atop the train waa Impossible. There waa, In hi! conception, only ono thing for him to do, and that was to save the crew ot tho freight at the probable cost of hla own lite. That he did. Calmly but rapidly ho stopped the handcar and threw It from the track and tho train rushed by unharmed over hla dead body. Jonea left a widow and two little children. Home men would have pleaded thnt they must remain alive, at tho cost of the lives or othera, for tho sake of their families. Hut Hendley Hend-ley Jones did hi! duty and lift hla wlfo and children a father'! memory of whose end they could ho proud. "Ho only did his duty?" Is tho performance per-formance of one'! duty so commonplace common-place a thing that we may regard It lightly. One of the most famous of Itussinn authora once wrote a atory Intended In-tended to show how Russians dlo, and ho showed that they met death with brute apathotlo courage. Ilemtley Jones died like an American. Ameri-can. Philadelphia Presi. |