Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-09


There were couple of old Forty-niners
down In Tombstone. Ariz-," said Delegate
Mark Smith the other day. who were great
friends One of them was eighty years old
and the other eIghty-one. They were TAX
ing their morning toddy one day and fell
into disagreement over the date OF some
pioneer occurrence. Each was insistent upon
his own recollection of It, and finally they
got into regular quarrel
Backing away from the bar they drew
their guns and blazed away at each otnef'
but their sight was so dim and their nanoS
30 unsteady all the bullets went shy. Nhen
their guns were emptied the barkeep
emerged from beneath the counter anu
made them shake hands and make up Inc
local paper. tho Epftaph, in describing ths
occurrence treated 1t IN indulSent vein anu
closed by saying. We'll. boys will be boys
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A certain citizen in attempting the other
day to negotiate loan from a reluctant
friend had recourse to an appeal to sympa-
thetIc considerations II am in sore need
OF money" he declared plaintively; my
credit at the grocery store where deal nav
ing fallen to such low ebb that 1t has ne
come difficult 20 get any more PROVISIONS
without ponying up the cash. why, yes
terday my wife sent to the store Tor
bushel of potatoes to be charged me
grocer gave a swift glance at the account
book and called out to a clerk: This Gus
toner wants bushel of potatoes She al
ready owes us 1920. Send her a :luar1er or
a peck" After pausing for a moment TO
allow that startling tale of woe to sink IN
the friend in need continued: AT that rate
the family will soon be on starvation ra-
tons" There was no questioning the logic
of this remark and the desired loan was
obtained without further pa1ley.
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81 have been immensely amused said an
attache Of the German embassy today, at
a story ! saw in an American paper that
several German writers ascribe the poor
showing made by German athletes In the
recent Olympic games at Athens to the
beer drinking habits of the Germans These
German writer's belong to the species of
zealots well klown in this country under
the name of p-ohibitionsts and have been
circulating their views. Naturally they
draw with a marked degree of liberty and
superfciality on their imaginations.
1.-THE truth Is that Germany is not a
country of professional sports like the
United States and England. Her young
men, like the soldiers IF her army. are
trained I'm all-around endurance and deyel-
Opment of the body, not In particular lines.
National vigor and success In some ath-
letic sports are certainly not one and the
same thing, and the latter furnish no more
proof for the existence of the former han
failure proves it's absence.
ANY one who knows the difference be-
tween the German method of physical Gull
ture practiced and exeInplified generally
by the Turner's and American and Eng
lsh athletic sports can always predict with
a degree Of Ger, ainty that IN contests OF
that kind the Americans and the English
will make a better showing. An American
an Englishman cultivates one -.articu-
lar sport, in which he tries to excel, theie-
by developing strongly a certain set Of
muscles and certain part of his body. In
all other respects he nay be physically in
ferior. AS a rule the extraordinary devel-
opment OF one part OF the body frequently
results in comparative weakness OF the
other parts of 1t the rest of the body has
always to bear the expense of the unusual
development Of particular part OF 1t.
THE German method of physical culture
differs radically from that. It's object Is
the symmetrical development of the whole
body, not the extraordinary development Of
a part OF it. That method produces no ath-
leteS In the sensC OF American and English
sports; II produces no men who excel 9TH
ers in any particular kind of sport, but
II produces men ~ general physical health
and VigOr, serviceable and useful unde- all
and any circumst ances.
There are In [hls country hundreds Of
turner societies. You will find among
those participating IN the regular exercises
perhaps not one who could win a prize
against an American or Englshman ad-
dicted TO any particular sport. On the
other hand, you may not find among all
the American or English athletes ons
whose body is a. symmetrically developed
and who is OF such general health and
vigor the German turner's
THE Germans have been drinkers
since time immeinorial. Nothing in their
history, up to the present momen-, has
shown that they have lost any of their
national vigor or that they are physically
inferior to any other nation. To argue
row from the failure OF getting a few nrst
prizes at some sporting games that they
lose their national vigor as a result OF
beer drinking comes little bit too late
and Is not based upon good grounds
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Champ Clark Was reasoning with one OF
his democratic Colleagues one day in the
interest OF Serene Z, Payne OF New York.
the floor leader OF the majority. The ag-
grieved member was going to do things
10 Payne some time when there was an op-
portunity. and he was not going to respect
his gray hair
''For many years" remarked Clark, IT
felt towards Payne just as you do. never
got on my feet to ask a question dis
cuss something in which he was concerned
that j did not know but l would be in
suited. He made me so mad at times by
the way he replies1 TO questions or by what
he said that ! made up my mind that l
would go at him some day and skin him
and In 4 way 20 that he and the whole
House would know what was being done.
But one day 1 YVES coming over from New
York and we occupied adjoining seats I'm
IIo CiihlI i0i itt-ll L EOt dSiudibleu Win
him and ! have liked him ever since.
There is great deal to him and he can't
help that manner which Is offensive to peo-
pie and don't think he means 1t. A MEM
Der OF the House who went with the Taft
party TO the Philippines says that he never
saw man that is as hard to get acquaint-
ed with as Payne but when he once broke
through the shell he found him one of the
best men he ever knew. He says that
Payne's manner Is really due to bashful-
ness which he tries TO conceal"
This remarkably fine tribute from po-
litcal opponent did not appease the irate
member who was determined to secure the
scalp OF the leader OF the House, but IL
showed that Clark was willing to say good