The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15
49, Some Queer CraveIers. ~~~~
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makes Edward Welsh ~shudder, and it
is with a sad heart hat he learns how
his master "drinketh the Simpkin
and brandy peg, maketh the money TO
fly" But as his salary is something
enormous ne travels on with the big
black bear and the thread of the ma
bob's life.
Another extraordinary traveler is
ohm X Hampton. who made a fortune
on the Liverpool corn exchange. In the
days when he was struggling for gold
he found that nothing gave him such
unadulterated pleasure as a dish of
strawberries and cream. If he ever got
rich, he said, he would have strdwber-
ries and cream every day. He would
ave fresh ones in their season, too, not
any hOthouSe affairs. Finally fortune
smiled on him, probably just by way
of experiment, to see if he would keep
his strawberry vow, for fortune is fond
of her little jokes. Nine years 9
Hampton found himself so wealthy that
to work any more would have been a
labor of supererOgatiOn and, true to his
vow, he started out chasing ~StraWber-
ries. 1t was in September when he I'm
ally knocked off work for good, and he
Immediately bought a through ticket
for Cairo, where fresh strawberries can
be a in that month. Since then he
has regularly followed the late spring,
and so the strawberries, from Cairo to
Algiers, from Algiers up through Spain
and, passing north, up through France.
When the strawberry season is fin
ished in that country he crosses Cver to
the Channel islands and hence to Corn
wall, generally landing in England in
the middle of June. His norJhward
movement ends in Scotland late in Au-
gust, and when the last Scottish straw
berries go he buys a through ticket
back to Cairo to begin his tour over
again.
Frederick Macdonald, formerly of
Edinburgh, roams about the world in
order that he may keep in a perpetual
summer wen a tropical rainy season
he viii not endure. He must have
genuine midsummer, and viii see
neither spring nor autumn.
In the registers Of the best hotels all
over the world you will find the name
Frederick Macdonald, late of Edin-
burgh." But always it is written in the
height of the summeT season, and if
you ask when the gentleman left the
clerk will tell you a date which was
before the first sere and yellow leaf an
nounced the coming of the fall. The
reason of Mr.. Macdonald's travels is
this. In 1887 he was a happy man of
fortune with a wife and three children
two son and a daughter. His wife
caught a chill while out in an autumnal
Scottish mist, had pneumonia and died.
His elder son walked into the Thames
river, near Mapping, in a London Oc-
tober fog, and his second son was
drowned on a ship Which went ashore
in a November fog in the British chan
mel. His daughter, while at school m
Germany, caught a cold, which devel-
oped into pneumonia, while returning
from a dance at the house of 4 school
mate one October evening. In 1889 the
stricken man found himself a childiess
widower. and since that time he has
chased the midsummer about the
world. %
Professor Won Schendt of Berlin IS the
author Of a book entitled How TO Live
for Centuries" He believes that it is
the sudden changes in temperature
which Kill people. and that If d man
lived in perpetual spring he could live
an indefinite time. The variations Of
the season from hot to cold, and cold to
hot, he argues, cause the blood to vary
its speed and so throws h whole
working of the system out OF order,
straining it considerably with every