The Washington herald., 1909-03-14

who is President OF the United State,
and the man who tried TO become Presi
dent, but to which the only living mar
who has been President is not eligible
Admittance 20 its ranks depends not o.
wealth or ancestry. or political prefer
ment, or yet on ability 20 found othe'
clubs. in proof OF which last statement
may be cited the Buncombe Club, started
i by one OF the members above mentioned
and the Ananias Club. organized and pro.
NOTED by the man who is not eligible
The qualifications are good fellowship and
travel. more notably travel, for it IS from
this that the club takes its name. the Cir
lcumnavigators' Club. Before a man may
hope TO become enrolled he must have
made a circuit OF the globe, says the New
York Herald.
/ While the Circumnavigators have no
permanent home as yet. they hope 10 es-
tablish one in New York which all mem
bers OF the crew. as they call themselves
may make their headquarters while in
4 that city. They also plan 10 have al
least one member in each seaport OF i'm
portance in the world for the sake OF com
]
may visit II.
/ Although the crew is still small. mum
bering not more than a half hundred men
I Il has on its roll. beside President Taft
and Col. William J. Bryan, army and
navy officers, men in the consular service
men who have gone abroad from various
countries IN the interests Of trade. and
I men who have Travelled for adventure
Among them are men who know London
and Paris. Alexandra. Zanzibar, and
NairObi. Buenos Ayres and Lima, Bang
kok. Nagasaki. and Shanghai. Auckland
\ Wellington, and Samoa better than they
know New York. and who are better &C
/ Quainted with the forests or plains OF
rivers OF the countries surrounding these
places than they are with the streams
and trees in the Bronx Geological Park.
Its Purposes and Ideals.
Probably a few paragraphs from ths
prospectus issued by the promoters OF The
/ club TO those whom they wish 10 joir
them viii explain the purposes and ideals
Of the organization most effectively.
You have heard the phrase good feI
low applied 20 the fellow who buy.
drinks" il runs You have seen tht
/ medal OF the order pinned 10 the fellow
/ whose solitary virtue was that OF a story
teller. And you have heard il spoker
oI the big fellow with the glad hand. tht
deep voice. and the permanent smile
whose virtues and vices-if he had either
were alike invisible.
The ideal Of the perpetrators OF III.
! Circumnavigators' Club Is a gathering o.
big hearts. If the big hearts beat below
| fne heads. Il shall not be held agains
the heads-sO long as they forget IL Ru
I il is q law OF compensation that when
I ever the head grows abuormally III,
! heart shrinks.
1T doesn't follow that because jim
was sent 10 college that he IS a SoIon
nor because James can put the other lad,
I 20 bed that he IS a good fellow Goo
/ fellow IS synonymous with neither cock
! tail capacity nor book wisdom
! IT doesn't follow. either, that becsus.
| BIZ has spent years chasing butterfiie,
I in Java or selling fur coats 10 the maid,
I OF Mandalay he IS more interesting thar
! Willie who has measured ribbons IN a
! emporium in Bangor And II IS possible
/ II net conceivable. that Richard. tn
! president OF the Philadelphia Piug-POnl
/ Association would entertain a bunch bet
7 ter than Dickie. who sells pressed pape
]
/ can't line Up the quartet and pick tn,
winners without squirting and scratching
/ his scalp where the hair used 10 be WI
/ not ngure IN quantities at our occasions
! gatherings"
EuIOgizing the Pioneers.
Further on in its pages the prospectus
reads:
"Oh. the pity OF IL that men. strong
/ courageous. patient, and kind. pioneers b.
nature. the men who. far from the nois,
and lights and gayety OF great cities
make history quietly and without ostenta
! ton. speeches or. press notices-that thes
men so seldom meet. And when they d,
Il is only for a minute. an hour, or I
/ day: long enough. mayhap. TO kindle
desire for the sort OF friendship that last
and all too short for more than a luck [,
/ YOU or al most an evening Of remi
/ niscences over a pipe Of tobacco from
| home The man Of this type goes hom,
| once in a while. IN Two years or five o
/ ten. for he who has the desire. the viii
! and the courage 10 spend years on tn.
/ Ivory Coast or Fly River has the mag
/ instiOn that breeds an irresistible i'm
pulse 10 again stroll along Piccadlly o.
]
break away whatever the price anS
/ crafty the desire.
Pick a white man who is assembling
/ the working parts OF a dredge in New
| Zealand. hanging a steel bridge over IN.
/ Upper Nile. or provisioning a war ship al
/ Singapore. and the chances are he knows
/ FrascatTs and London. Rector's and Chi
! cago. or NIenzie's and Melbourne bette
/ than S99 Of the next thousand that ente'
either place They are seldom speech
makers. writers. money-makers. or ever
| clever takers The orator needs an audi
enee other than gum trees. gulls, or ba
/ boons. The writer needs a press and Z
publisher. The mOney-maker needs meT
with money, and the clever talker recep
/ tive listeners. All these are denied thu
| adventurer whose hunting box. bungalow
or thatched shack IS thousands OF mile.
from civilization and days or weeks from
a cable operator
Have Fund Of Information.
But the man who knows what the sur
sees from setting 70 rising and who
stands his ground in a wilderness from
year 70 year. is a man who has something
IN his nature out Of the ordinary. He /:
( invariably worth knowing That any con,
siderable number Of these men can ii
| got together at any ore time is too mucf
10 hope for. but the possibility Of Sor-
railing few OF the tribe once in a while
is a sufficient excuse for the use OF print.
ers' ink and postage stamps"
Some hve years ago a little group o.
men used to meet for luncheon daily IN a
little Spanish restaurant. Los Dos Ameri-
canOs in Pearl street under the thunder
OF the elevated railroad. Always at moor
/ a table was set for five at the rear end oi
/ the diminutive bar that stands near the
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