Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-03
Walking q Thousand Miles in Thou
sand Hours.

lncnt of such feat as that now being per-
formed at Stewart's Gymnasium over the
Roylston Market, arc apt to misapprchcnd
and miscomccive its difficulties. A thou
sand miles, travelled ut the rate of twenty
four miles day would break down nine
mcirof every ten. and leave the best drilled
army minus halt its forces but to walk
Thousand miles in thousand consecutive
hours is feat UNNECESSARILY more difficult
No single hour, it must be remembered
must be allowed to pass without mile
having been accomplished during the time
in which the minute hand Ii ikes it's circuit.
Each or of dawn of sunset, of midnight
or MONDAY, whether the rain pour without
or the thermometer stand at % in the shade,
must have it's mile measured with weary
fcet--hour after hour-uight and day for
six successive weeks. Nothing on earth is
so refreshing as a night of calm, quiet and
connected sleep but in performing the feat
under consideration such rest for the
, tired body cannot be obtained, and the hur-
ricd maps which are taken, instead of really
invigomting, serve only to inspire an in
tense longing for that continued rest which
alone can refresh the weary, either in mind
or body.
Let any one, in ordinary circumstances,
be forced to lie awake every alternate hour,
for even few nights in succession, and he
will find serious inroads made by it upon
his health and spirits. That such under
takiugs as that at Boylston Hall can be
successfully carried out, only shows what
excess of All endurance the human frame
may be made to withstand by careful train
ing.
The young man, Lambert, who is now
walking his thousand miles at Stewards
Gymnasium, is n native of York, in Eng
land, and about twenty-omc years of age
He was bred sail maker, but at the age
of fourteen he was thrown considerably into
the society of sporting characters connected
with celebrated English stable, and as a
consequence had his mind so much i'm
pressed with the exploits of certain pedcs-
trians that he put himsclfin training. His
first fl ot race was over the York course the
same year, when he accomplished his two
miles within eleven minutes At Belle
view, near Manchester, he won purse of
Go against one Jordan, running n quarter
of mile in fifty-thrce seconds, Since
then he half n dozen races, the
last of which was at Lawrence, last Fast
Day, when he beat Nalcy, the "Shooting
STAR" in five mile race. He has once
before been engaged in walking feat SINH
lar to the present, namely, at a cricket
ground near York, in Yorkshire, England,
where, having assisted a pedestrian who
walked five hundred miles in as many con-
secutive hours, he laid wager that he
could do the same thing, and won the wa
ger
The match at Boylston Hall is for 81 900
a side, and both the parties to it have their
agents present, to watch the course of events
and see that all things are done fairly and
in order. The ring in which he walks is
about yard wide, laid with saw-dust, and
runs around the hall, all the gymmastic
paraphernalia of Professor Stewart being
within, and the subscribers to the gymnasi-
um arc constantly on hand, exercising
| themselves without in the least interfering
with the pedestrian. Twonty-seven times
around this ring makes the required mile.
At twenty minutes before 8 o'clock, last
evening, our reporter saw Lambert com
! mcnce his six hundred and ninety-second
mile. He was in good spirits, and had
ease, and went off in good style ON his walk
He was dressed in a red silk shirt, with
short slccves black velvet hreeches, reach
ing to the knees, checked socks, and shoes );
witha light kcrchief round his mock --lcav-
ing his calves. arms, throat and head bare.
In height he is about five feet seven or
eight inches he has light blue eye, and
very pleasant genial aspect of face His
natural Weights 1875 pounds, but by train
ing he reduced himself to 127 pounds, and
has fallen OFF sis or seven pouuds since
commencing his walk. Tho six hundred
and ninety-secona mile was accomplished
in just fifteen minutes.
During the first two weeks of his pill
grimage he felt worse than at present. He
frequently had pain in his legs, and weari-
ness, as well rs headaches, and after each
milo his knees gave him some pain. BY
frequent bathing with alcohol, and right
attention to diet, however, ho is enabled to
keep up, and appears to be quite strong.@-.
Appearances are in favorof his successfully
accomplishing his task, although of course
the last ono or two hundred hours will test,
his exhausted energies to the utmost, posi-
bly, beyond the limit of endurance. The
present cool weather is very favorable to-
him, and he says hc felt most severely tho
one orstwo hot days which occurred week
before last. yt s~.st,
AT one timc recently his knees were
much swollen and painful, but the infam-
nation was reduced, and the aaa,St atten.
ton is paid to diet, to gnaItt agaiest attacks
of illnosS, Ills food consists entirely Of
fanttoh and beef, done ralej dry toast, and