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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1036, 1 June 1894, Page 7

1 Nearly all the Hebrew leaders of Europe have united on a definate policy regarding the colonisation of Palestine Mark Twain on the fearless courage of the flea : — •' Courage is resistance to fear — mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature bo part coward it is not a compliment to say that it is brave ; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea ! incomparably the bravest of all God's creatures, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and and strength you are to- him as are the vast armies of the earth to a sucking child. He lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened with earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Olive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who did not know what fear was, we ought to add the flea, and put him at the head of the procession,'