Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

have the ownership of the world, during
my brief stay here.
It means universal charity. Charity of
thought. Charity of feeling. Charity of
Judgment It means the actual and prac-
tical relief of suffering. It means large
ness of sympathy. It means respect for
the feelings and sensibilities of others. It
means humanity in its broadest and most
comprehensive sense. It means the culti-
walton of that most lovable habit-the
habit of unselfishness.
There are no professors in this grand re-
ligion.
You either practice it, or you enjoy none
of its manifold blessings.
afzsobDlERs HUNDEP FIRE FIRE. ',-,-a,,, -'--o
There is nothing to correspond with the
feeling experienced by soldier under
fire.
Take, for instance, the average man., the
man who is neither very brave nor q
great coward. In all his life he could
scarcely have had any sensation to COM
pare with that of hearing the ping of the
first bullet of an approaching fight.
There is spiteful sound as the ball sings
by the ear, or splitting sound as it cuts a
tWig above the soldiers head.
sound as the shell comes in spirals as If to
twist itself into his vitals. No man knows
until he has once been under fire whether
he can depend upon himself or not With
the majority it at once becomes struggle
between pride, will, natural desire to
stand up and be man, and natural
temptation to finch.
There is a wondeful readjustment of the
standing of officers and men in command
after the first fight. A number who have
been regarded the best men lose Their
high places in tWinkling, and here and
there some one of whom nothing was eX-
pected steps right up to the front.
Some men who will face any amount Of
musketry firing can't stand the sound of a
shell; and vice versa. 1t is a mistake to
suppose that soldier gets used to "fre"
by being exposed in number of battles.
With each battle he becomes more timid.
Yet veterans are more to be depenGed
upon than raw troops. This is resily be-
cause they are better disciplined, partly
because they have gone through similar
scenes, and partly because they are more
reliant on each other and their officers.
It is true, men will in a measure get
at Vicksburg. There the Union troops
were under continued regular fire for
months. Being for the most part well
protected, they soon saw that the shells
did comparatively little damage, and the
proiectile which curved in the air to light
among them did not excite anything like
the trepidation similar first shot would
excite out on an open field. In other
words, they became in a measure accus-
toned to the bombs.
Bravery, as it is usually understood, is
largely dependent upon physical condi-
tions, and is supposed by some ply
sicians to come from the action of the
heart. 1t is said of Napoleon I that
under the most profound excitement, on
the eve of battle, his pulse never ran
above some forty to fifty beats to the min
ute, whereas the average pulse OF adults is
about seventy.
Whether bravery is the result of physi-
cal condition or no, it is certain that 1t IS
much easier for some men to be brave
than others, and many hold that all men
are towards at heart. At any rate Fred
erick the Great once said that man who
has never felt fear has never snuffed can
die with his fingers.
NATURES PROTECTION OF FISH BY COLOR.
It is wonderful to note the methods en-
ployed by nature for the protection OF all
her living forms. There is no living crea-
ture which has not been provided by ma
ture with some means of protection either
through strength, fleetness of foot or wing,
cunning, or natural color similar to the
surrounding objects, thereby rendering
them difficult to detection. The partridge
closely resembles the dead leaves, tWigs,
and fallen timber, and the deer possesses
the same characteristics to such degree
that about the only part readily seen is the
white hair on the under part of the tail.
MANY of my readers have doubtless OBJ
served the difficulty usually experienced
in looking into trout stream to see any
of the fish. This is caused by two reas-
ons-the first is the natural shyness of the
fish, and the second is that they SO nearly
resemble the color Of the bottom of the
stream. But the color is affected only so
far as the different shades of light and dark
are concerned. Many times this chang
ing of color has been illustrated by driving
the trout from a spawning race having
light gravelly bottom out into a pond hav-
ing dark bottom, where, by contrast, the
difference in shade could be plainly seen,
and where the trout would, in very short
time, assume the color of the dark colored
bottom.
1t is the general opinion that this change
in color is adjusted through the visual Or
gans, and the reason for this belief is that
a trout which is perfectly blind turns black
and never changes, no matter what the
conditions of the bottom may be. IT this
is incorrect, it is hard to understand why
the blindness of the fish should have the
effect on its coloration that it does. The
change in color takes place instinctively,
and without any effort or action on the part
of the fish, and is intended as wise pro-
vision of natule to be one Of the means
given for their protection from many OF
their natural enemies, otherwise they
would be much more easy prey for the
kingfsher, fish-haWks, cranes, and other
enemies. In the rearing of young trout
there appears an occasional albino--pure
white, with pink eyes. These never
change in color and are, therefore, very
difficult to keep long in preserve, on ac-
count of the ease with which they can be
seen and caught by their enemies. Trout
are not the only fish which change their
color as above described. The same pecu-
liarity is found among nearly all varieties
of fish to greater or less degree.
THE BEGINNING OF CRIME.-Many
passionate child rules the household. The
little baby on it mothers knee goes into q
passion because its dinner is withheld
from him, or some toy denied him. He
shrieks, and strikes his mother, and the
mother says: "Poor little boy, he has such
a passionate nature; he can't be crossed"
and yields to him. She ought to spank
hi -enanlz him hard-fOr beinpsin pas