Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1911 — Remarkable Feat of Aged Man. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Feat of Aged Man.

A wonderful feat Of endurance has Just been accomplished by an old man, ninety-two years of age, named Herbst, who returned' to his native town of Zurich the other morning. Lately he set out on foot from Zurich for the Tyrol, on receiving a letter that his mother, aged one hundred and fourteen, was dying in a village near Innsbruck. ( Herbst did not havo sufficient money for the railway fare, but he knew the country and the mountain passes, and he decided to undertake the long Journey alone. He found his mother dead, but was to time to be present at her funeral. After a week’s rest the old man started back for his Swiss home over the same route. He says he will never cross the mountains again. He was formerly a guide In the Tyrol.