Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-06-20 | Page 5 | A Lesson from This Man Weston

I A LESSON FROM THIS I MAN WESTON I i Edward Payson Weston who walked t I I from Morgan to Ogden a distance of t I 21 miles yesterday is one of the I physical ph wonders of this age ago He Is IsI I 71 years ears old but j notwithstanding his i ngo ago ho can C ln any al young olms man I in the country Ho He has made marie 72 7 I i miles in lii one day on this trip across 1 the tho continent and auth on the following day lay has hns made nade 56 miles or 1 8 miles in two days da s sNo No horse can keep up lp with him A speedy animal might distance him in III I the tho first day Ia but bUl within a week the I animal If H driven to keep up would be he dead I One can scarcely comprehend what It means to walk 50 miles In a day da unless he ho has made malIc an effort In that direction Tho The walk from Morgan 1 made mado between 9 a ra so and p i m would try tr a mans physical lh en durance yet et that was a short journey journe for tho the pedestrian Mr Weston must have hae resolved early In life not to grow old Although his hair Is silver white and his frame Is IB small and carries no surplus of o flesh or fatty tissue he swings along with the gait of a n young oung man mau out for exorcise He lie is said to be a n man of great de termination When he sets setH himself a n task to perform he first resolves that thai ho can reach his goal then ho knows not failure So it would seem that a big part of his Ja achievement is mind dominance over the physical body bodyn n every walk of o life me that thal same samo dc de termination counts b Young men mon as to greatness should t by hy this mans all ami learn ii early In iii 11 their careers that lint In order to succeed there thero must be a n high to plod along with 11 vcr a u thought of growing trod thod Them The must ho bo resolution resolution tion and determination With those I two qualities of mind well developed you can enn cross continents and aul rise to great greal heights without them you are ara destined to dream with never n Her an on ac nc accomplishment never a great grent achieve achievement achievement ment A R K BOWMAN I