The Champion Pedestrian.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 February 1884, Page 3

The Champion Pedestrian.

Ac<JOiu>iNr; to a writer in the "People," Edward Payson Weston is one of the world's wonders. How old he is no one knows ; he must be nearly oO years of age, but has not an equal for endurance. Unless he is asked to put himself out of his natural pace, he can go tramping on by the year, and, barring accident, can accomplish the task of covering 5,000 miles in 100 days without trouble to himself. When he has clone that he will not have told anyone what is new. Some people can do — many are absolutely better — without stimulants ; others are better for them ; a few cannot do without them at all. Our Yankee lecturing ped. is a member of several classes named, and might be well cited by either the total abstinence or moderation party as afavourable specimen. He is an excellent hand at doing with refreshments, and quite as good a performer when he means to do without em. As an eater he is champion ; teetotallei's generally are pretty good. Weston is a champion among champions. I am afraid to say how much a day his consumption averaged during his former walk of 2,000 miles, but am safe in mentioning a daily item of twenty-five to thirty eggs. Of eggs raw, in tea, in coffee, poached, fried, and boiled, he never tired, and the quantity of tea and coffee he drank might do well for total abstention from intoxicants, but was all against tenets of moderation. Practically, it does not want a very good man to walk fifty miles per day. All that is required is endurance of exposure to weather and possession of the art of preventing chafing and blistering the feet. Through neglecting to make these matter? all right people generally break down ; the exertion is not at all exhausting.