The true northerner., 1896-01-10
DEPEW PRAISES PIE.
SAWS " MADE NEW eNGLANOERS
VICTORIOUS suiLoeRs or STATES.

SAWS " MADE NEW eNGLANDERs
VICTORIOUS suiLoeRs or STATES.
Pie Conquered Manhattan nIsiand-Athietes
Who Eat II Are Full Of Fierce. Intense
Nervous Energy That vanquishes the
Slow Going Beefeaters.
In fact. have never heard OF q really great
man who was not q dyspeptic -Chauncey NJ
Depew &c Yale and Cambridge athletes.
How about that truly great athlete.
George Washington And Benjamin
Franklin, the brains of the Revolu.
uonf" Was Patrick Henry dyspeptic.
or John Quincy Adams. or Harry Lee
OF Virginia, the home Of good.living
or bold John Hancock or Stephen De-
catur. John Paul Jones. Zachary Tay-
lor Grant. Sherman. Sheridan or Lee Z
These questions trod upon one another
when sought Mr. Depew in his Office.
Why should he have said such a thing
Was II possible that many years Of din
ing out. followed always anG immedi-
ately by the heavy athletics OF speech
making Joke throwing and jest hurling.
had at last given him dyspepsia and
caused him 70 think thar a.! other great
mer were even az her
found him gazing over the side of
his desk-a desk big enough TO make q
fine box stall and Uttered with docu-
ments His cheeks were as rosy as when
he used to coast dowE the hills of Peeks-
kill. and his eyes as clear as when he
first looked upon the Hudson. Surely
this was no dyspeptic.
Did you say itf' asked him
II did" he replied. but perhaps
you have not heard il all was speak.
ing of great New Englanders The men
j was describing were the stern, pie
eating, state building pioneers. whose
influence has been felt for good all over
this country The Yankee cult, the stern
Puritan genius that always led the way
in exploring our new territories. set
tling wild districts. organizing states.
adopting constitutions aud making laws
that was the cult, the genius domi
mated by pie.
"Those grave. rnconquerable men
had pie three times a day and oftener IL
they wanted it. Their devotion TO pie
never tagged Pie is an attractive diet,
but it is practically indigestible. The
dyspepsia that followed inevitably in It's
wake kept them necessarily active. New
England could not contain them They
must be on the move. So they spread
southwark and westward. taking with
them their beloved pie and its all con-
quering dyspepsia They were not in
Prospective enough to search out the
very heart of the matter and learn that
their greatness was due TO pie But &c
was.
PIE drove the Dutch out Of Manhat.
tan Island. The jolly we'll fed Dutch
men came here. bought the island and
lived happily in their New Amsterdam.
They never tasted pie. They ate simple.
nourishing. easily digested food They
grew fat and prosperous, and were con-
tented. The dyspeptic New Highlander
saw their fair territory. and his pie
created, restless ambition impelled him
to take it. You know il is matter Of
record that the Yankee drove the Dutch
man out of New Amsterdam with ridic.
ulous ease.
II remember that an English officer
once told me his firm belief that the
stolidity of English soldiers under fire
was largely due to their plentiful and
monotonous diet of beef and mutton.
Their digestions are good. he said.
and they don't know what it is to be
nervous or irritable. He also told me
that he had known very serious conse.
quences to follow an interruption Of the
regular succession Of beef and mutton
The men were uncertain, unstable.
1T would not surprise me to find that
much of the fierce nervous energy of our
Yankee athletes is due to pie. They
may not eat 1t while in training. but
they do at all other times. The Eng lish-
men lived up to their traditions of beef
and mutton. and our pie eating field
and track men Won events out Of IL.
You observe that the Englishmen won
the runs at longer distances. while the
Americans were superior in the events
requiring intense. highly explosive en-
ergy-the sprints, hurdles. jumps, ham
mer throwing and shot putting New
York Herald.