WHAT COURAGE MEANS.
It Assumes Various Shapes and Many
Phases.
Courage is as varied in kind as in
degree. Some men do not know what j
fear is. Others are horribly afraid
yet are able to control their nerves j
and emotions. Surely the timid man
who masters timidity is as brave as
Siegfried, of whom it is recorded that '
he had to be taught by Mime what it!
was to be afraid.
A certain brand of courage naSj
been labeled, somewhat unkindly, j
Dutch. Then one has the stoic resig-1
nation of the American Indian. It!
is very dangerous to attempt to fixi
flags to emotions. But each nation I
seems to have its own blend of the
quality.
It is usual to say that the volatile
Frenchman is a brave winner but a;
dispirited loser. Yet after IS70 the j
French people solemnly and earnestly I
began to build up their lost fortunes, j
and went into the present war, un*
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aer enormous uisauvauwgcs, hhuvui,
a murmur. J
The Russian, ,.00, has something
of the resignation of the Oriental.
His spirit is not volatile, and there is
a plodding fatalism, as of a rather
tired bull dog, in the dutiful, don'tmuch-botber
attitude. A few days
ago a Russian officer described the!
rather bewildered feeling with which j
he went into battle. He added that j
when shells began to fly his sensory j
nerves seemed paralyzed, though his!
brain acted quickly and automatical- ,
ly. A kind of cold anger seized him.
When he was hit he felt nothing, but
went giddy and fell. And then we
have the tale of a British Tommy I
who lolled in his trench, smoking a !
cigarette and potting away quietly j
at the enemy. Even when at close
quarters he went on puffing until two
Germans were 10 yards away. Then |
he threw away his smoke and went
for them with the bayonet.
Contrast this with the cool daring!
of the German aviator who dropped
an insolent message down upon Paris,
and the dogged resolve with which
the German rankers advance in close
formation against machine guns.
Can tvo ohamotorizo thpse various
expressions of an emotion by the same
word? Where does bravado begin
and courage leave off? How far can
bluff go without becoming heroic? '
First, let us see how the great view
ed death. Marcus Aurelius said: j;
"Were some god to speak to thee:
'Tomorrow thou shalt die, or at most
on the third day,' this respite of a
day would seem a thing of naught, i
did a spark of nobility redeem thee." |
We marvel at the bravery of men
prepared to risk death on a battle- j
field. Yet at this moment, as you \
read, death may actually have claim-i.
ed you and limited your days. Yet ;
&? you are not afraid. |;
Huxley saw this heartening fact
clearly when he wrote: ji
"The great thing one has to wish j
for as time goes on is vigor as long' <
as one lives, and death as soon as ;
vigor flags." I ]
One of the dangers of a safe, civi- ,
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uzea period is max peupie a nam au
exaggerated value to mere longevity, j
which is of no use except as an op- i;
portunitv for great living. From this j ]
. mere desire to live, springs a fear of ;
death.
In view of the idea generally cur- ]
rent in modern German philosophy \
that Christianity is a religion of j
weakness, it is interesting to quote a ]
few ideas upon courage from the j
Bible:
"Though I walk* through the valley i
of the shadow of death I will fear no i
evil." , j
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"When the wicked, even mine ene-' (
mies and foes, came upon me to eat <
up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 1
Though an host should encamp i
against me, my heart shall not fear, \
though war should rise against me, in ]
this will I be confident."
S- , .... i
"God is our refuge and strength, a j
i very present help in trouble, there- ]
fore will we not fear, though the <
earth be removed and though the t
mountains be carried into the midst i
of the sea." 1
There one has a courage based up- <
on faith, a recognition of danger with
an unconquerable belief in overcom- 1
ing it. and a steady calm that is far: ]
xcuiuvcu uulii 11 uiii iuuiuci- i
ence and frohi insolent bravado. And ]
no one with any knowledge of the ac- i
tual officers and men serving in the j j
army and navy of Great Britain can' i
deny that a simple, never-talked-: ]
about old fashioned faith has a good ]
deal to do with their steadiness in <
action. ;
Perhaps Carlyle has admired courage
and expressed it with as much i
force as any man: : ]
"To me, also, was given, if not: (
victory, yet the consciousness of bat- i
tie and the resolve to persevere there- i <
in while life or faculty is left." s
Here he recognizes (in Teufel-'<
drockh's case) the supreme quality j
of courage, the "consciousness of bat-; j
tie," depending upon no certainty j ,
save inner desire. The idea of con- j i
quest is cowardly, even the achieve-j ]
ARMS AX1) THE MAX.
Death-Dealing Machines Have Xot
Conquered Human Bravery.
.Modern history, which is but another
term for modern life, is full of
surprises, and even the little we
know authentically of the operations
by the allied armies has been replete
with wonderul and unforeseen incidents
that would have been deemed
the visions of romance if they had
been suggested only a few months
ago. Even in a machine made war
man is the deciding element, and
man has ever been the greatest surnrisp
to himself. An unusual view
of the man in the war is given in an
editorial in the fourth war issue of
the Scientific American of December
5, which is in part as follows:
Among the unexpected developments
of the war. none has been more
amazing than the unflinching steadiess
with which the citizen soldiers of
the warring nations, and especially
those engaged on the western battlefields,
have faced the murderous attack
of modern weapons, whether by
the magazine rifle, the machine gun,
the searching shrapnel, or the shattering,
high-explosive, 16-inch shell!
So accustomed have we become,
through the daily testimony of eye
witnesses, to the more-th an-hum an
courage with which frail flesh and
blood is facing, day in, day out, and
for weeks together, the tornado of
lead and steel which sweeps over the
modern battlefield, that we are forgetting
that only yesterday we were
all saying that this miracle could not
be. Had not the military experts
themselves assured us that the accuracy
and volume of modern rifle,
machine-gun, and shrapnel fire was
such, that not the finest troops in the
world could be brought to face the
tempest in a frontal attack in the
open?
And yet this very thing has happened?not
merely once, to be writfen
into the chronicles of a nation's
sublime heroics, but everywhere and
every day throughout that far-flung
battle line on which Teuton is locked
in the death grip with Frank and
Briton.
Marvelous, also, is the fact that
this matchless courage is being displayed,
not by the toughened veterans
of a long campaign, not by professional
soldiers, steeled and tern
pered by the discipline or DarracKs
and camp, but by work-a-day laymen,
called at a minute's notice from the
peaceful routine of their daily lives,
and told to rush "into the jaws of
hell!"
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ment of victory makes but slight demands.
But the power of going on
without any conviction of success is
the greatest force in the world.
The qualities of courage hinted at
above apply not only to armed conflict,
but to the tackling of all life
problems. And perhaps the hardest
pf all is a physical or moral retreat.
How often do we meet obstinate folk
willing enough to die for a craze or
a whim-. Rightly regarded, theirs is
not courage at all, though it may bear
i certain resemblance.
The courage of forced inaction, of
remaining calm and cheerful under
the load of anxiety, deserves a high
place. Indeed, all the admirable peo
pie we know have courage in some
form. For it is the very salt of life.
It is the quality that made the women
of Poland give their jewelry to
the nation, and wear iron jewels as
i symbol of their resolve, while their
sons and husbands gave their lives
3n the battlefield. And the same
spirit moves women today to go into
the fields and gather the harvest, or
to do any other work, rough or gentle,
so as to free others to fight for
European freedom. ?
And with nations the quality has
rarious phases in action. The Belgians.
by admitting the Prussian
hordes, could have bargained for a
sort of independence. By refusing
:hev lost Brussels and Louvain, and
many thousands of lives. But there
svas no hesitation. The quality of
trourage animated a whole people.
It was Napoleon who promised his
troops at Austerlitz that he would
<eep himself safe, while they risked
their lives. He realized that a display
of physical courage would have
10 effect comparable with the plain
issertion that his head was cool, and
that they would be well directed. Yet
tie could admire Nev's daring. "I
lave 200,000,000 in my coffers," he
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said, ana i wuuia give mem an hji
S'ev." Also he said:
"In all battles, a moment occurs,
ivhen the bravest troops, after having
nade the greatest efforts, feel indined
to run. That terror proceeds
"rom a want of confidence in their
jwn courage: and it only requires a
slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore
confidence."
There is no essential courage. It is
i combination of qualities, varying in
iifferent persons: even changing in
the same person. It is spiritual
health.?T. P.'s Weekly.
TAILS OF SOLDI Kit GRIT.
Two Irishmen Reject Surrender and
Fight to the Death.
Irishmen fighting Britain's battles,
in France today are proving themselves
worthy of the finest traditions
of their race, says the London Chronicle.
There have been many stories
of their endurance and pluck, but
two related by a trooper of the Irish
Dragoons may be taken as typical:
"There was a man of ours'," says
the trooper, "who carried a chum to
a farm house under fire, and when
the retreat came got left behind,
the German patrol called and found
them. There were only the two, one
wounded, against a dozen Uhlans.
Behind a barrier of furniture they
kept the Germans at bay, wounding
or killing half of them. The Germans
made off and brought a machine
gun to the house and threatened
to destroy it.
The two soldiers were not unmindful
of the kindness shown them by
the owners of the farm, and rather
than bring loss on them or the village
they made a rush out with some
mad idea of taking the gun.
"Just over the threshold of the
door they fell dead, their blood bespattering
the walls of the house.
"People may call them pigheaded\
for not surrendering, but that sort'
of wrongheadedness is worth a lot
as inspiration to others, and if Brit-j
ish soldiers had always worried about
what the stay-at-homes would think
of their deeds, some of the finest
stories in the history of the army
could never have been told.
"There was a young chap of the
Irish Rifles. He was kneeling beside
a wounded man of the Gloucester;,
I think, keeping off the Germans, j
He had been hit himself.'but w*is
| gamely firing at the enemy as fast as]
his wounded arm would permit. We!
went to his assistance, but they were:
both worn out when we reached
them, and greatly to our regret, we
had to leave them to be picked tip,
by the Red Cross people.
"That was hard: but if you tried,
to pick up everv wounded man you j
saw you wouldn't be much use as a
fighter, and as we were under urg-j
ent orders to take up a position from
which to cover the retreat we had;
no time for sentiment. They knew j
that, and they weren't the men to
ask us to risk the safety of the army
for them.
" 'Never mind,' the rifleman said,
with a faint smile on his guilty face, |
'the Sisters will pick us all up when!
it's over, but if they don't, sure, then ;
we've only got once to die, and it's,
thq grand fight we've had, anyhow..
What more could soldiers ask for?'
'Wlien we came DacK again one 011
the men was there, sure enough?'
stone dead; but his mate had gone,j
and whether it was the Germans or.
the Red Cross people that got him;
I wouldn't care to say."
Not only on the battlefield is the1
British soldier showing his grit, as
an incident related by a member of
the Royal army medical corps, nowi
invalided home, well shows. Relat-J
ing his experience he says:
"It was wonderful how cheerful
the wounded were.
"One poor fellow who had been
shot in the head and hit by a shrapnel
bullet in the mouth and was apparently
dying, pointed out to me an-1
other man, badly wounded, remark-!
in? 'That nonr hlnke is eoine home: !
he will be Home before me.' "
Deepest Well a Failure.
"An artesian well a mile deep was
sunk in Texas at a little place called
Spur," said A. F. Wells, of Waco, according
to the Washington Post. "The
promoters who spent the money to
drill the hole lost a big sum, and the
only thing they got was a symptom of
water. They were not so lucky as
Bret Harte's hero, who tried for water
and got oil.
"This well, it is said, cost the projectors
more than $-10,000. They
made the boring because they expected
to increase the value of a great
big tract of land wich had been
opened up. That well, I believe, is
the deepest ever bored in any part
of the United States, and it didn't
yield. There is a well not far from
Waco that is pouring forth a great ,
stream of pure water, which reached
a depth of more than 3,500 feet. Until
that well was drilled Waco held
the record for depth with half a doz
| en borings that exceeded 3,000 feet."
Up in the Air.
"What are Betty and Jack quarrel- .
ing about now?"
"Oh. it's one of those wireless
quarrels, I guess."
"Wireless quarrels? What do you
mean?"
"Words over nothing, you know."
Friend in Need.
The ferret-eyed little man stepped ,
across the street car aisle and whis-j
pered into the ear of the tall chapj
in a gray suit:
"You'd better wipe that bit of egg
off your chin. The income-tax man !
is just two seats in front of you."?J
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