The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-02-06
NUMBER 3.

in face of all these difficulties Ernst Rev-
er for moment lost his temper, AID
distinguished himself as great scold, a.
did Weston, or fancied that he was some
wonderful parsonage on whom tho rude
ness of throwing out Of the window dog
presented TO him in the greatest OF Aind-
ness must be overlooked and considered
as an interesting piece of pleasantly. Iu
Ernst a suitable sense of propris,y and
common sense kept in cheek the adunira~
ton which his great physical feat natu-
rally excited. II never occurred TO any
one to bring their children to the road
that he might name them, or to offer him
an escort of police, or TO give him such "a
reception as Is customary. TO give TO
generals and statesmen who nre deser-
wing of their country, thus degrading all
such ceremonials of honor. For what
dignity there can be in receptions to
Grant or Sheridan. if they must bs shar-
ed by one Of The genus humbug2 In
short, Menseu Ernst walked lI7 miles q
day for lao days without making com
plele fools of sundry hundred thousand
Europeans, while Weston has made
America crazy because In 90 days with
three days for rest, which Ernst did not
have, he has walked from Portland to
Chicago at the rate of 495 miles a DAY.
In 1888 Ernst accomplished a pedestrian
journey which, If the remarkable difficult
ties of the route are considered, must be
pronounced Itiil more wonderful. On
the 9th of june he left Munich with let
ters from the Queen of Bavaria to her SOB,
Otto, the then King Of Greece, and Ua
July l, delivered these letters at Ma upIia.
1t was daring undertaking. without
a guide he made bis way over lofty nouns
tains, ryugh the deep ravinss OF the
Illyrian Alps and the Balkan, TO find his
path through trackless forests, and swim
and ford rivers, with only a compass and
his seaman's knowledge 10 guide him
Sometimes he was obliged to swim across
rivers two or three times IN few hours,
so that he was obliged TO 60 the whole
day in wet clothes entirley ignorant of
the Slavonic, Magyar OF Turkish dialects,
he was unabied TO make inquiries about
the road. In Montenegro hewas attacked
by robbers, and saved only his letters
at another time he only escaped death
by the use OF his limbs On Turkish
territory ho was detained three days by
the paoha OF Jamma. Making allowance
for these tiirce days, lie accomplished the
journey in twentv~one days, that is an
average of eishty-five miles day, which
in consideration of the extraordinary diff
iicuIties of the route is greater feat than
the walk from Paris 20 Moscow But
the mighty under taking with which
Weston's feat is lis molehill 10 a moun-
tain, he accomplished in 1886. On ths
18th of July lie started from Constantine
pie at 8 o'clock in the morning for Caicut-
to, with letters 10 banker there, which
he delivered in Calcutta on The 21Ih of
August. After rest of only three dayS
he commenced the return journey, and
arrived in Constantinople October I'd
In sixty days-naking due allowance for
the stop in Calcutta-he traversed tLe
mountain wilderness Of Asia Minor, the
deserts Of Syria, the plains Of Persia, tl4s
mountains and gulches of Afehanistan.
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. he sometimes had
to use snow-shoes-a distance of Z,I70
miles, on an ~ erage of eighty-two miles
q day. These are ali facts which have
received the most perfect confirmation sud
to which thousands of living witnesses III
Europe will testify. The last trial of his
strength it is vary easy to bring proof CT
from files Of English papers Of that year
1t seems to us that with sRch facts ia
view as the above, we can well spare our
breath and ink in speaking of such feat
as Wetton's as "unprecedented'' OF sun
EaralieleG." In comparison with Nen>
sen Ernst, Weston is ''pocr stick"