Show THE FIBRE AND NERVE OF MEN the springfield republican thinks that the death of tho the famous oxford oarsman E R balfour Cal four fro from to 0 are a ng chainao his wot wet clothing afta art in n the rain mill shown that high physical dwa does not DOC as 04 i is sometimes supposed oded carry with tt it corresponding hardiness probably un an average men man with ith half did fours phy would havo have had hla his risk riak algi A trained amilte a lete Is in like a race horne homo ho n h a delnio tar far more Offie lenoy than tho the SL adv v fago go g iho a kamo the th iraqi trapper on and d others naoso a it llaca on involve rather then than muscular devote but ho he needs to bo be treated tend tenderly orp we do not believe that thai the chances are that balfourd BiLl Bal fours system was out of fix that it ho be had not been exposed to the rain ho he would arx athin a week hove have come co me down with fever ever then possibly his constitution was set at hist tor for only a few ew years some borne trees tire are bent and twisted by the winds tho the noli moll may bo be poor around their roots but they live on and on and weather tho the blasts of a century alle others gro grow w 8 straight and tall but fire are broken down by the first blast of a real gale there Is another feature to the matter the nerve 0 of a man has much to do with his capacity to fight olt off disease A strong strongman man unaccustomed to illness 8 seized by an acute attack Is 1 i liable hable to say to himself no 0 one ne as ill as I 1 am ever recovered and after that ho be makes no fight tor for life though far weaker men in the same way pull through finally if balfour died as we suspect 0 of pneumonia it must not be forgotten that probably his him lungs were double the size 0 of those ot of a weakly man tho the terrific inflammation had double the th 0 grate bars bare to make flame on and his life was wag consumed correspond ln gly quick it Is always noticed in pneumonia especially in high attitudes altitudes where tho the disease works with ith great rapidity that the stronger the patient may be when attacked the more rapidly the disease does its work finally he may have had double pneumonia that Is the disease may have attacked both lungs lunga in that case with such a patient the rule rula Is that they die ale recovery Is the exception neither la in the republican right about the blood horse lie bears and improves under training what would kill the cold blooded horse and in the ordinary work of the horse he can kill any cold blooded horse of his own weight provided he Is properly fed that the mustang will kill him tri in a fight with insufficient food Is true t tor or the same reason that a chinaman will kill a caucasian andee under similar conditions condill ons the reason Is that the mustang and the chinaman know how under stress to search for food and both can assimilate food that the white while men and the blood horse cannot assimilate but as between men the constitution Is the chief tiling thing some are arc wound up for four our score years some for half b elf or one third of that time the chances chan ces are that balfour was of short lived stock or more probable still the very magnificence of his lung development gave the inflammation double the material possessed by an ordinary man on ahlich to feed and consume him |