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Show CRIMEAN VETERAN IS STILL WALKING E. N. Radford, Englishman More Than 80 Years of Ago, Has Novel Record. , i LONDON, July 27. E. N. Radford, although more than 80 years old, has just completed, for the forty-eighth time, his annual walk from Bristol to London, with the object, he says, of teaching the people of Lngland ''common ''com-mon sens in regard to meat ami drink." At the conchisiou of the long walk everv year, he delivers a lecture in Hyde Pari?, finding for his text' a passage pas-sage from the first chapter of Daniel: "Let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink. And their countenance waxed fairer and fatter in fleh than all the children which did eat the portion por-tion of the king's meat. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than ail the magicians and astroWjgers that were in his realm." Mr. Eadford is a veteran of the Crimean Cri-mean war. and in his speech he always recalls the march of his old regiment from Portsmouth to London to atteud the funeral of the Iron Duke in ISoi. 'I was then, as I am now, a teetotaler teeto-taler and non-smoker." he snys. "Therefore T am able to walk and tak;, and tell people to be happy without drinks ami medicine. My annual walk of -00 miles is just a pleasure iannt. After it is over, always take another walk up into Wiltshire and spend the next four months working on a farm." |