Aleck Reavis

With the death of Aleck Reavis which occurred last week, passed one of those real heroes, of whom the world, in its worship of an inferior courage, takes no account.  Day by day, week by week, and month by month this man sat in the shadow of death, counting his mortal hours and enduring, without murmur or complaint, the most intense physical agony, imparting his own spiritual strength to those about him.  The Mercury knows of no courage so great, no heroism so lofty.  The world’s real heroes are those who are passed by in song and story.  Aleck Reavis was one of them.


Source: Paris Mercury dated March 15, 1907, submitted by Vickie Stinson from the newspaper article collection of her grandmother, Bess Kipper Atterbury.