Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1912 — Not Ashamed of Cowardice. [ARTICLE]

Not Ashamed of Cowardice.

The idea that nothing is ao disgrace* ful as cowardice-is one that-is not held by all races. Among the Bedouins a sheik may be the leader of hla tribe only in peace. When there is war, the chances are that ba will relinquish h|s leadership to the lighting sheik. “I have not the gift of courage,” once said an Arab chief to an Englishman, apologizing for not putting hhnself at the head of a band that he had sent to attack another tribe. The Englishman learned that these nomads esteem personal bravery aa a gift, for the want of which a man Is no more to be censured than be is to be blamed for not being handsome. A Bengali says, without tbs least sense of shame, “I am timid.” Yet ba will meet death, even when it approaches in the form of the hangman, with the composure of a martyr.—4l* lustrated Sunday Magazine.