Show ON THE BATTLE FIELD KEENLY SENSIBLE op DANGER at wit ivill I 1 ower their jafar elret e arral fider Col dirr mini isho etere re NT ner won clint ng t ip p nill aties II 11 a tn adney to create our burnce 90 abny ohe ha 1 beard the tory story told ot of marshal key ney to tie effect that he was observed just 4 prior to a desperate de 1 charge apostrophe 1 arr sta hta trembling lne legs and telling V them i that they would hake shake a it ereal great deal more it they only knew hero he be as a going to take hem this physical sensibility to dan eer ger and mental resolution to race face it constitute in the opinion of II 11 W r on who writes on the bluml human an animal anion anton 1 I in battle tho the highest type ot of cour ago age rear he writes I 1 Is cres creat test cst where the imagination Is strongest strong eit it Is an emolen 1 which seriously affects both lody tody and mind on the physical fide side it hecks checks the flow now ot at salta and brings lahat that re peculiar cullar thirst ot of the battlefield it causes organic derangement and a certain degree of at muscular relaxation increases the tension ot of the aico and Is I 1 accompanied by a desperate erfort to abold the danger on the mental side tt it paralyzes the intelligence and leads to ohp blind desire tor for night flight though sometimes it goes even further tur ther and deprives the victim ot of all DOW ot of movement nio it flicht takes place it la Is the flicht ct ef panic a kcf v a ad 4 act only h of t will an cn overcome this tendency to run As a matter mauer of tact fact flight lit j rarely the best road out ot of danger la battle it Is tho the worst to go forward and die ie in gainly better than to go back backward viard 1 and nd I die tor for in the first place the enemy ullo i ho Is encina precisely the same motions emotions will loce loze and hoot shoot I 1 leu low steadily thereby diminishing the risk ot at the assailant nothing is I 1 more ep contagious ban than panic a tingle single man ith ashen face rushing to the rear will draw others after him and hake shake the confidence 0 Afi dence ol 01 all who see him hence thu tho problem la Is how to impact courand an and d avoid panic courage la Is simply control ot at the nerves and li Is largely due to the habit ol 01 boutron confronting ting danger general sher ahn thus defines it all men inen naturally shrink from rom pain and dancer danger and only incur their risk from some other higher dolve or from habit so I 1 dnald delare true couras tp t P be a perfect sensibility a lity n of the measure of danger and a mantal willingness to incur it rather miller than that insensibility to danger of which I 1 have heard beard tar far more than I 1 hare seen the moet most courageous men are generally unconscious of posse slig 0 g the quality therefore when one is professes ro it too openly by word words or beL bearing ring I 1 there is reason to mistrust it I 1 would further u arther illustrate illustrato my meaning by describing 1 scribing a man ot of courage to be one who poss aes eues all his faculties and senses perfectly when serious danger la Is actually present pride habit babito duty these are the forces which enatale men to control themselves all can be fostered and implanted by training sheridan reckoned that r 11 the able bodied men I 1 about one fourth have not tb requisite capacity for courage and are therefore useless tor for battle such weak hearts must be weeded out no matter how brave a veteran may be bel 1 saye says private 16 Il keson of grant grants army he relies on the men on either side of him to stand there till they tall lie must know that bis his comrades are as staunch fighters as he be I 1 ee een in the bravest and most fully tried men fear car Is subdued and not wholly eliminated belott said ot of himself 1 I confess that I 1 am at heart a 8 coward oward I 1 he lie despaired ot at general gourko because the latter would duck to avoid bullet bullets and shells in the northern no athern army at the close ot at the civil war general horace port porter tells us that there were ony only two men known to him who never bowed the head bead to iron and lead or of these one was general grant so purely a matter of habit a reflex action had such ducking become that after a great battle men would involuntarily bob as they stood or sat sit about camp at the slightest nolee how then Is courage coura gc to be taught in peace AHu Altur islan stan general once proposed to salt his soldiery eold lery by loading one rifle la in ten with ball cartridges during daring I 1 this ghastly preparative para tive wai was too revolting to civilized minds and slid it bas bever never been carried out but it adopted it would make the army trained under auch such circumstances invincible and to in the end tend to shorten war prid art aspre life it bouli accustom the soldier to the algots and sonnets ot of the battlefield and overcome his hi dread of 0 the unknown it enable nim film to control his nerves la in the tumult ot of the actual encounter such a pursuit as a climbing haa has the same moral effect endurance mutual truel trust II alf it control may be learned on the high alps alp 3 or for the matter ot of thai that in a it Wast westdale dale where here a slip on the face ot the mountain means destruction the volley alley ot of stones tone do down n some precia itoe kulley gulley ie is tot leea less deadly than the ball hall ot of bells shells and bullets on the battle field and in a less degree hunting and the manlier instiller forms ot at athletics gire give the same result sports involving risk to life are thui thus ot of supreme value from the national point of view and thia this sh should be remembered when the ignorant nora nt and degenerate assail them |