Abstract
S. S. Sierra, July 18. Nothing is more delightful than the light of truth.—Cicero. There are heroes and heroines, men and women, who in times of danger do not hesitate to sacrifice their lives in attempts to save others. Heroism consists in acts of unselfishness and courage of the highest type, under conditions of impending danger, or calling for a degree of self-sacrifice from which the average mortal instinctively shrinks. Untimely death and self-imposed deprivation of the comforts of life for the benefit of others who are in danger or distress exact from heroes the highest and noblest qualities of man—undaunted courage, unselfish charity and unconquerable love, and boundless humanity toward mankind. Such a combination of the highest virtues is, indeed, rare, and when found entitles the hero to profound respect, highest admiration and permanent gratitude of all nations, and more especially the one benefited by
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