8 THE SFORTHSTO Sept. 3O.

CYCLING.HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE.Cadiz boasts of a cycle club.Tan-genta tan yard workers.A dead scenter A long defunct cat.An old adage modernized "Riches hare bi-

eyclea."Have yon ever noticed that some <l»ya you

leem to ride up hill all day?A creditable tycling place A dealer who sells

wheels on the installment plan.Many a man owes his success in cycling to the

advice he didn't take from others.New Yofk dealers are endeavoring to do away

With the Sunday rental of machines. Cider with an egg in it makes a refreshing

and stimulating fall drink for wheelmen.Tandem!, triplets and quadruplets are

"multicycles" according to the cycling word coiner.

An English wheelman naturally uses aPeri- grine wheel when he indulges in cycling pere­ grinations.

A hole-soled wheelman The wheelman who, Upon trying to innate his newly purchased tire, finds it to be punctured.

It is reported that the Keating Wheel Com­ pany, at a directors' meeting, decided to close up the factory for good.

Old Lady "I heard you swearing just now. Ton have a bad heart." Rider "It isn't a bad heart) it's a bad tire.

A wheelman in a Western restaurant the Other day created excitement by ordering and ating five sirloin steaks.

Colliers, ftjr some reason or another appear to take more kindly to cycling than any other branch of English workmen.

Husbanding her strength taking it out of her husband when he is on the front seat ot a tandem and she is on the rear one.

Japan is to have policemen mounted on bi­ cycles. Verily, the future "light of Asia" may prove fo be a bicycle lamp after all.

In these days of plug-uglyiam it is an excel­ lent thing for the wheelman to have more than a tyro's knowledge of the manly art.

" 'Watermelon parties' are popular In Amer­ ica. Watermeloncholy state of affairs." Wheeling, ily but isn't that a "seedy" joke \

Paris is to have another addition to its list of cycling dalles, the two already in existence having been money makers from their first ia- tnes.

Whenever an English cycling editor Is well pleased with anything, no matter what it is, he pens an item, "Good old " and lets it go at that.

English wheel makers are threatened with a forced shut-down owing to the high price of coal brought about by the strike of the coal miners.

Encouraged by their success in the last election, Louisville wheelmen will retain their political organization for future use in munici­ pal elections.

"You have kvphosia bioyolistarum," said the young doctor to the athlete. "Great Scott! How do you know, doctor?" "Because I am onto your curves."

In Paris it is no unusual sight to see a dozen or more priests mounted on ladies' wheel?, the loop-frame of which enables them to ride with their cassocks on.

Loie Fuller, she of the serpentine, refers to cycling exercise as her "rest bath." After her dancing almost nny other form of exercise must seem restful indeed.

A number of makers are experimenting with a changenble gear, to be applied while the cycle Is in motion, which will, if perfect, bo of great assistance in touring.

That tiresome subject of which Cycle Show English manufacturers should support is now dragging its weary way through the columns Jif'the English wheel papers.

A saddle maker declares that the reason there Is not a perfect woman's saddle for a bicycle Is that machine makers will not pay for a really Brst-olass saddle for that purpose.

Hereafter the Fitohburg Railroad will for­ ward wheels at the owner's risk at regular ex­ cels baggage rates. Wheels will be estimated at 100 pounds each, the minimum rate to be 15 cents.

Brooklyn girls have gone in for bloomers for bhycling wear, no less than nine wearers of this form of wheelwoman's dress being seen on Sunday afternoon on the Coney Island boule- Tard.

"With the season fast wearing to a close, club* are beginning to put their shoulders to the wheel." Riitiih Sport. How queer it must look to see an English club with its shoulder to the wheel 1

"Don't interrupt your father now, Willie; he's busy." "Why he's only trying to mend his tire, mamma." "Yes, but you run along, Willie, he'll say something presently and you needn't lay to hear it."

It is seldom, indeed, that any foreign sub- stanee. penetrates the air chamber at the first contact, but gradually insinuates itself into that sanctum under the pressure of the subsequent wheel revolutions.

Governor Flower, of New York, knows his business. In a recent speech in fnvor of good roads he predicted that the time would come when automatic vehicles would be used for transporting produce.

What a self satisfied look the new lider has when he learns to ride hands off and shows off his new accomplishment before a still newer rider who has not passed the where-am-I-at tage of his novitiate.

Wheel tourists might do worse than pay a touring visit to Holland. Its people are hospit­ able, its bricked roads really good, and its scenery, though of course flat, is of a won- drously interesting character.

"Professor Polyglot was struck by a bicycle and knocked speechless." "Pshaw, that's not a erious matter." "I think it's a very serious thing for a man who speaks ten or twelve lan­ guages to be knocked speechless."

Let the wheels of an ordinary safety bicycle be run until they have given the same number of revolutions that ft watch does in one year, and they will have covered a distance equal to eighteen complete circuits of the earth.

A new orening seems to have been made for unscrupulous individuals without anything ap­ proaching to a conscience, since cycling has be­ come so general. A bicycle is an easy booty for a thief who knows how to ride the machine.

The Stearns Company put it very cleverly in their trade letter this week when they say: "The puncture in the tire has been closed and the breath of life has been blown into it again by the force pump of confidence. Up and away."

Two riders, one of whom is minus his right leg and the other his left oi.e, have recently been seen in the West mounted on a tandem safety, which, it is said, they send along at a rapid gait despite the peculiar look machine and men pre­ sent.

A meeting of the colored riders of Montclair, N. J., and vicinity has been called for Monday evening, for the purpose of forming a club o colored wheelmen. It is probable that the or ganizntion will start in with about thirty members.

Frank Beyer, of Cincinnati, experienced a frightful accident on Sunday, which m*y end in his death. He was riiling close against a proo- erty which is encircled by an iron fence. His wheel upset, and his chin was impaled upon an iron spike.

At the last regular monthly meeting of the Detroit Wheelmen a committee was appointed to draft resolutions requesting Superintendent Starkweather and Judge Chambers to sup press the reoklo-sriders, who area constant menace to pedestrians.

An order has been received by an English manufacturer to construct a quadricycle, by means ot which the inventor expects in Holland to replace the labor of two horses in towing canal boat with the four men he will mount upon the machine.

An Englith rider has just celebrated his 2 y«ars of cycling, during which lengthy perioc

le has traveled over 70,000 miles on a bicycle. lere are some facts for the scientific men to ork upon who are constantly commenting on

he death-dealing bicycle.Because you can't see the balls in a bearing

'rom the outside don't go away and fancy there are Done there. And when you meet a man on be road don't run away with the idea that be

can't ride because he doesn't start bragging of lis prowess.

Yes, Indeed, the wheel manufacturers ought o go right along paying Judge high prices for idvertisements; it pays the makers so well, you [now, when the paper prints such cartoons of he cyclist in the role of a killer, as appears in ihat "tunny" paper's last issue.

There will be very little change in frames next year. Tangent will be generally adopted as to spokes. The elliptical sprocket will be rery little used, excepting on the Columbia ight roadster. Weights will remain about the same as those of the present year.

Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer of "Pina- pore," has a new accomplishment. He has be­ come a cyclist. He accomplishes ereat journeys

th the enthusiastic earnestness of a neophyte. Sir Arthur never knew the true dangers of a Pinafore until he became a rider of a pneumatic.

"Times are growing hard with a number of the amateur cycling papers, which are begin­ ning to use plate matter in their columns. Tbey are also glad to take advertisements of medi­ cines that all respectable journals refuse to allow in their columns." Philadelphia Record.

The real reason why so many first-class wheels [0 wrong is not the fault of those who mild them, but of those who ride them. Most

wheelmen know as much about taking proper care of a bicycle as a rhinoceros docs about cro­ chet work or a deep-sea flounder about the science of aeronautics.

The "Busby," a new English tire, has an in­ ner chamber, the outer covering being of eather in lieu of the usual rubber. The price s about a third less than that now charged for irst-class cneumatic tires, and it is claimed for t that it is much less given to side slipping and ess liable to puncture.

Arthur Kennedy Child's trade association progresses slowly, as all good things do. We

re glad to notice that "Still" G. Whitaker is taking a prominent part in the new organiza­ tion. When Whit takes hold of anything, from a record to a rubber tire, something has zot to go, and that something is never Stillman G.

A sample of the puncture-proof band is attract- ng much attention at the show rooms of the nventor in England. The tire is thickly itudded with French nails and other puncture elements, but not a particle of air has apparently vacated the tube, a fact which seems to puzzle the public lay mind somewhat considerably.

A new process for manufacturing cog wheels and other friction wheels has been invented by a German mechanic. It is composed of raw bide and a composition of his own, and the pro­ duct is claimed to be far more durable than steel or any other metal, with the great advantage of noiseless running thrown in as make-weight.

When Paris takes a fad it takes it badly; the thing easily becomes an infectious malady. The bicycle is the present craze. Young, old, thin, long, lank, stout, very stout, pretty and ugly every woman must, does, or will mount the iron horse. The growing passion will be a perma- ment one, thanks to the enterprise of sport lovers.

The tire trade is rather upset through there being so many really reliable tires on the market. This will prevent big; orders being given during the winter by cycle makers, who are puzzled what to do or which tire to adopt largely. Orders will be small but more frequent, instead of one largo one as in the last year or two.

Cycle stealing has reached the dignity of a fine art abroad. A French rider recently left his wheel securely chained while he wont upon an errand. When the errand was completed the rider returned to find his machine minus the front wheel and saddle, the enterprising cycle lifter probably thinking half a lift was better than no lift at all.

The installment business, as Introduced by A. G. Spalding & Brother, baa come to stay, and will be more in evidence than ever next year. It will also require substantial backing or capi­ tal to run a cycle business, and makers will re­ quire cash or will not give more than sixty days' credit. There will be little or no con­ signment of wheels next year, and makers and dealers both will draw the line of credit firmer.

Cycle schools have sprung up all over Paris like mushrooms, the supreme chic of which was quietly reached by the Petit establishment in the Champs Elysees. It is there that you find all the howling swells of the aristocratic world; it is there that the artists and literary toilers meet for the half hour's enjoyment and relaxa­ tion, and it is there that the military mm practice the development of a sport in its best practical sense.

At this time of year when the day wanes early, says a writer, I oan mount my machine and rapidly find the soft air doing me heaps of good, and instead of penning oneself in a room, this kind of exercise can bo recommended by evervone who believes in a "Sound body and a sound mind." Go forth then, oh, ye sensible men of wheels and help to make popular the happy and healthful club run unfortunately fast dying out.

No man is a prophet in his own country, which fact may account for the Irinli Cyclitt telling the story of a Dublin business man,who, knowing little about cycling, was shown the ma­ chine belonging to a lady friend. He looked at it solemnly, and wishing to mike some intelli­ gent remark, pointed to the lacel dress-guard and said: "I suppose it makes the wheel n good deal stronger to hare all those extra spokes in the upper half?"

Cultivate cycling friendships to any extent you please; make them profitable socially and mentally, but don't overburden those with whom you come in intimate contact with a re­ cital of your imaainnry or real wheel woes. You will certainly not get any genuine sympa­ thy, and in the majority of cases when your littener has satisfiod his curiosity you will be secretly laughed at, then despised, and finally avoided altogether.

There are many men who object to rat-trap pedals on the score of vibration, especially on a long journey, and there are others, the faddists, who object to rubber ones on account of their weight, but a happy medium may be found in the felt pedal bars which are produced by Cooper A Co., ot Birmingham. They are but little heavier than rat-traps and |lb. lighter than rubbers, whilst for comfort neither of the others are in the running with them.

History repeats itself, in cycling as in every­ thing else. Years ago, in the early history ol the sport in America, Ballon and Karl Kron both rode in top boots, and received no small amount of chaffing from the wheel press for do­ ing so. Now we learn that Belgian cyclists, male and female, are much prone to pedaling in the same kind of foot-gear. We could not understand why boots should be worn by bi­ cyclers ten years ago, and we are willing to eon. fess the same ignorance to-day.

"Bad times in long-distance rides," says the Irish Cyclist, "are almost unavoidable and very unpleasant realities. The rider seems to go almost completely to pieces, and then recovers again in the most remarkable manner. Even in ordinary road-riding the same holds good. In the course of a hundred miles rule, which we took part in last week, one lady of th« Dirty was apparently tired out at 80 miles, but fin­ ished so fast and strong that she got in forty minutes before the rear division."

James D.ivia, of Salem, Ore., is probably the first person who ever went deer hunting on a bicycle. He was visiting Idanbalast week, and as the country there is comparativdly smooth and free from underbrush, he borrowed a rifle from a gentleman and went out for a ride. The inflated tire on his wheel allowed of his travel­ ing swiftly and noiselessly over the ground strewn with pine needles, and before he pedaled many miles he came upon an unsuspecting deer quietly browsing just ahead of him. The re­ sult was that he killed the deer and returned to the hotel with it slung over his shoulders.

After the decision of the late Dr. Charcot, other Parisian physicians have declared that moderate bicycle exercise was salutary for nerv­ ous diseases, even for those of the most vex atious form, and the; now sent! all played-out,

overworked patients to (he riding school;, from which it is said cures have been made even of partial paralysis just by tbe slow and perse­ vering pedal treatment. All this patronage Doming from such different sources soon com­ bined to bring the riding schools to the favored

rank of uperiority. Tout Paris meets there for he "5 o'clock" caviare and white port or for he aperient taken after training.

Juliette Phillips ia 18 and has lived all her ife in Chicago. But since Monday evening

Juliette hns been honeymooning at Milwaukee. To the Phillips home came, Borne (ix weeks ago,

a World's Fair boarder, in the person of P. W. ioskina. Mr. Hoskins has been noticed by the neighbors as being "awfully attentive." as one young woman said, to Miss Juliette. They rode bicycles together, went to the Fair to- gether, and finally started for Milwaukee to- rether Monday afternoon, and then papa got a elegram stating that P. W. and Juliette would n future tandem it through life. They had >een married.

Some machines, s»ys the Irish Cyclist, buck ike an American broncho when introduced to

anything in the shape of rough roads. This is a dangerous defect, unless the offending mount 'it in the hands of a really skilled rider, when it s more a hinderance to speed than anything

else. It is usually caused by a bad balance, so o speak, of tbe different parts of the machine. Too much weight is thrown upon the back heel; or too much atresa on the handles; or

he forks are raked too far back; or the frame s too small for the rider. In any case, it is not

a defect that any amount of tinkering with the machine will cure; a radical alteration of de­ sign ia the only remedy.

Wheeling tells this story: "There was an7n- renious gentleman on one of the Channel steam­

ers one day last week. He was bringing a cycle across to England, and he had his cyclorn in lis pocket. On that day the surface was uneven in fact, it was rough and the cyclist was soon too queer to call 'steward' loud enough for that officer to hear him, so be squeaked his cvclorn .ill the steward came to protest against the dis­ turbance. When tbe man got to his side the ufferer mnrmured, 'Another basin, steward',

and after that, every time the cyclorn squeaked the steward took tbe hint and a basin." In our opinion no man who owns a cyclorn ought ever to be anything else than sick.

It is a singular passion for the French, this cycling craze of 1893, for the people are not to sport inclined, even if the club men try to be. Aristocrats, of course, fancy every new idea much as a child loves to be amused by a novel jlaything but the wisdom of tho folly rarely makes much impression. The bicycle took its irst start among the poor among those who lad hard work to find an extra franc for an jour's ride, with many a tumble thrown in. The ;rand opportunity for the rare enjoyment ot resh air, liberty and a certain gentleman-like

independence was almost too delicious to be real, and the speedy consequence was the filling of :he Bois with an army of wheel-beggars.

"A Kingston cyclist who wishes to utilize bappy thoughts inspired while cycling, has con­ cluded to make us« of the phonograph. His ides, is to have a phonograph attaobed to his aicycle, so that when he wishes to preserve a train of thought he can touch a soring which will attach the working gear of the phonograph to the running gear of the wheel, so as to start the machine. The author of this idea says he has moments of inspiration while he is riding bis wheel that it is impossible for him to arouse

hen in his study or office. No doubt of it: the beautiful thoughts and lofty language caused by a leaking tire, or similar annoyance, can only be expressed when wheeling." Scottish Cyclist.

"A cycling editor is in many instances like other people," saya The Pneumatic. ''He re- snects his friend, appreciates a kindness and is always willing to return a favor. Ho is but hum.in. He cannot continue to pat a man on the back, toll him what an enterprising man he is and how much he has done for the sport, and give him ft free business puff every issue, when the mnn will not, through personal prejudice or otherwise, continue to aid in supporting the pa-

.er. In other words, the cycling paper stands y the man who stands by it. That's about the

way of the world, and newspaper men can't be txpeated to be so much different from other people." There ia a lot of truth in what our contemporary aaya in the foregoing.

There are many men who seldim see more scenery thin that directly in front of their wheels, nnd to those wo say, "Indulge in a moon­ light spin," and the chances are, the scorching fever being somewhat cooled, they will have time to look around and admire some of the beauties of nature. Such men would say: "Dear mo, I never thought thnro wore such charming views about here." How ghostlike the trees look with tbeir dark shadows thrown across the road; how lonesome are the isolated cottages and how cheering it must be to the weary laborer to hear and answer to tbe flitting cycler's cheery "Good night." A greater tonic was surely never created than such a ride as this. Gradually dull care is removed from the wearied brain and the aspect of life's troubles is viewed with an enlightened and cheerful heart.

It is open to question whether the human voice, properly used, is not more effectual in crowded thoroughfares than any mechanical ap­ pliance. If there be much noise the tinkling of the bell can only be heard for a short distance, while whistling is apt to be mistaken for the calling of a cab. Tho unearthly noise produced by the cyolorn reaches far, no doubt, and can­ not possibly be mistaken for anything else, but only the rowdy cyclist now uses that instrument of torture, the more reputable having abandoned it as a source of irritation to the public and of danger to equestrians. The human voice, on tbe contrary, does not terrify, always attracts attention if used as cabmen and 'bus drivers use it when approaching crossing', never fails at the critical moment, as mechanical appliances are apt to, and can be beard for a considerable distince.

"He came tearing down the hill at a tre­ mendous pace. A blase fox-terrier, in search of sorno new sensation, stepped suddenly in front of his wheel. The fox-terrier got his desire. Tho sensation was, however, more novel than exhilarating. The dog sat himself down on his stump of a tail and scratched the place whare bis ear bad been before the experiment. Mean­ while the cyclist arose and swore or, to be more accurate, he swore first and arose after­ wards. As he surveyed his mangled safety, whose straight lines had now become gracefully curved, a British matron fixed him with a British matronly stare and yapped, 'Perhaps that will be an example- to you, you reckless fellow!' 'Wreck-less, am I?' be retorted. 'What do you call that, then?' And he pointed sadly to the ruins of his safety. And the dog set up a howl of disgust." Wheeling.

"Jack had given np the sea to take to the more lucrative profession of amateur cycle rac­ ing," says Wheeling. "Ho and Bill were com­ peting in a tandem safety race, and were some­ what pocketed. 'Steadr, Bill,' h« cried, 'we're on a lee shore and no room to tack. Take in a reef and let the rest of tbe squadron forge ahead; then we'll run up to the wind'ard of 'em.' Suddenly there was an awful crash ahead, and all tbe leading couples were down. 'Luff, Bill, luff!' roared Jack, 'breakers ahead!' But Bill lost his head and jammed the belm hard up. The tandem dashed off on the new tack, struck the judge amidships, the latter foundering in- itantly with all hands and feet. The tandem turned turtle and sank, with its propellers un­ derneath-. One of tbe propellers (Jack) was cross, and hit the other propeller (Bill) on the figurehead, and (Here, furl your sails, you luboer.j"

Up in Easthampton, Mass., the people re­ ceive their telegrams with a promptness that makes the neighboring towns green with envy. The reason is that tbe "telegraph messenger boy" Is a girl, and that base ball, marbles and dog fights have no charms for her. She is a 10-year-old girl named Elsie dough, and she works iu order that her big brother may go to school. She is also saving up her earnings to buy a bicycle, and her present ambition, aside from the bicycle, is to becmao a telegraph oper­ ator. H«re is a chance for some enterprising manufacturer to do a charitable aat and gain a good advertisement at the same time. In place of giving a wheel to race meet promoters to b« won by some man, who, as like as not, it hired to win it, he oaa present this little girl with a

machine which will enable her to accomplish an honorable and praiseworthy object. What maker will send Elsie Gough a wheel?

Miss Grimshaw, one of the lady members of Ohne Hast Cycling Club, of Dublin, has ridden 212 miles in the course of a single day's ride. She his only been a cyclist for about two years, but has taken very ardently to the pastime, be­ ing a regular winter rider, and one who finds an opportunity for riding some distance, how­ ever small, every day. There is nothing of the "lady scorcher" about her, no singularity of dress or eccentricity of appearance, and her ride was one undertaken for her own satisfac­ tion, to experience the enjoyment of an all-day ride. Tbe circumstances of the ride, its being done for the most part alone, and on Irish roads, rather add to tbe merit of tbe performance. Miss Grimshaw is no mean gymnast and swim­ mer, practises shooting, despises lawn tennis, is

frequent contributor to many papers, and is a' valuable assistant in the office ot our Irish cy­ cling contemporary under the pen name of Graphis.

How glorious and invigorating it is to take a [pin out into the country by moonlight. What different feelings fill the cycler's breast to those that occupy it during the day. Many cyclers have voted the recent tropical weather too fa­ tiguing to indulge in tbe wheel till King Sol has hidden his beaming face beneath the West­ ern horizon, and have only issued forth when the earth was wrapped iu Luna's silvery rays. As is well known, the exertion of propelling one's machine is vastly smaller than that en­ tailed by walking, and also posseses the estim­ able advantage of inducing a refreshing current of air; consequently whilst the pedestrian is mopping his heated brow, gentle zephyrs lavish their attention on the wandering wheel­ man. How sweet, too, the country smells when all nature is asleep; what delicious odors assail one's nostrils at every turn of the wheel, which are either absent or ignored in the daytime.

What the Sporting Goods Gazette has to say below regarding the bicycle trade just about explains the way matters stand: "The bicycle business seems to have been the hardest hit of all lines affiliated with the trade. The apparent success of several older concerns; the largo difference between the cost of manufacture and tbe selling price; the increasing popularity of the wheel with all classes; has led many into tbe business on a scale far beyond all sense or reason. New makers in their calculations, did not figure upon the large outlay of cash neces­ sary to market their goods, which adds very materially to the coat. Their ideas were, "we have only to make a machine and the public stands ready, with money in hand, to take our product." The same general ideas prevailed among dealers, but they have not materialized. AM manner of risks have been taken to unload their goods, and now when the day of reckoning comes they are swallowed up in a whirlwind of uncollectable accounts and a bully depreciated stock."

Says the Chicago Herald: "Considering that bicycling in its present form is only four or five years old, the popularity it has obtained is sur­ prising to the laymen. To the 'crank,' how­ ever, there is nothing astonishing about it. The modern bicycle offers a means nf petting over ground that is at on-e healthful nud economi­ cal. The silent etecd needs no «ats. A drop of oil now and then satisfies its appetite. It doesn't die, it isn't subject to spavin, ringbone or glanders. It doesn't run away, :ind no stable is required to shelter it. Sented on its back the rider laughs to gcorn the crowded cable cars and the elevated road. His cheeks glow with tbe ruddy health engendered by the exercise, and and be would not exchange places with the fashionable in the dog-carr, whom bo leaves far behind on the boulevard. It is no wonder, then, that all bicyclers are enthusiasts. They have a right to be. They enjoy advantages over ordi­ nary people, and they are only human in show­ ing that they possess them."

The French cyclist hasn't everything his own way, despite all the nice things we read about him. All cyclists in Paris are taxed to tbe amount of ten francs per year, equal to about two dollars, and they hope now to have some rights conceded to them in consequence. Tbe cabmen are indifferent whether they are the cause of the French cyclists' rapid transit from the earth or not, and the carters make life a burden by refusing to get out of tho way or in any way to recognize the rights of a man on a wheel. The French railway companies are also unfriendly toward cyclists, and as they are not allowed to charge froizht for a machine which goes as baggage, and generally below tbe weight for which they may charge, they refuse all re­ sponsibility. In some cases they absolutely re­ fuse to carry a bicyelo unless the rider signs papers to the effect that the company is not re­ sponsible in case of damage, audit is a question whether a lone ride over some of the roughest roads around Paris will not do the machine less harm than a short stay in a baggage car, so careless are they handled.

When a wheel is traveling fast, no brake can be expected to pull it up dead in a yard or two; it would be hardly fair to put such a strain on any machine, and the sudden check to the momentum would probably unseat the rider. On most occasions the application of the brake should be supplemented by "back pedalling," this term being well understood to mean resist­ ing tho forward rotation of the pedals by ap­ plying pressure to them as they rise at the back of tho circle or stroke. The pedals are, in this position, well under the weight of the rider. Few cyclists, unfortunately, will take the trouble to learn the theoretically correct action of back pedalling, and the safest course when desirous of putting on "full speed astern" is to silo the feet forward on the pedals until the back bars come in contact with the fronts of the heels on tbe shoes, from which position there is small chance of the feet slipping or being jerked, how­ ever much reversing power be applied. If the practical reader, in trying this, finds he cannot comfortably reich the pedals he may be certain he is riding too high, and may lower his saddle until the difficulty is altogether removed.

There is probably no wheelman in the East that has ridden more miles than Captain A. D. Peck, of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club. Last Friday he completed his 40,000 miles, over all sorts of roads. Captain Peck is one of the men whose connection with cycling dates back almost to its beginning in this country. Away back in the seventies, he was the proud possessor of one cf the old "bone shakers," and used it for quite a number of years. From his earliest boyhood he has been an enthusiast at all manner of out and indoor athletics. Of superb physique, in­ cessant activity, and corresponding mental calibre, he has naturally been a leader and organizer in the various branches of sport which have at different times attracted his attention and liking. He took up riding of tbe high wheel in the late fall of 1882, his first mount being an old Standard Columbia, and it was not until the spring of 1883 that he com­ menced riding in earnest, and his great interest in the then new snort led him to become a member of four different clubs. He was the first lieutenant of the Boston Ramblers' Bicycle Club, in 1883 and '84, and was elected to the same office in the Massachusetts Bicycle Club in 1S85. During these years h« was actively interested in the Massachusetts and Boston clubs. Mr. Peck was chosen captain of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club in 1886, and still holds that position.

Of Course He Doesn't.Harrjr Whwler,Gash-prize Btealer,Doesn't give the boyi a chanceTor the dollars,All he collars.Soon they'll pawn their Sunday pantt,Nanghty HarryDofio't tarryVr"h"ii lie MOB the golden wealth.He'a a winner,Ojclegpiouer,Tor he doesn't ride for health.

Wheelmen' I GaitiU.

SCREWED DOWN.

He Dreamed.I dreamed I saw of bicyclists

Ten ihoniand In a troop, And every mutter's son of them

Had on tbe monkey itooo. Kansas City Journal,

The Fair Fameof tlie

Stearns "WlieeL

THE THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED ON STEARNS WHEELS DURING THE SEASON OP 1893 HAVE FIXED ITS POSITION FOR ALL TIME.

CHAMPIONS AND NOVICES ALIKE HAVE DEMON­ STRATED ITS WINNING QUALITIES. AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS PROCLAIM IT A VICTOR.

JI-BZ PORTING LIFE will be mailed post paid to any address in the Uuited States and Canada one year for fcl.OO, sii mouths for

" tlire* months for $1.25.

"THE WAY TO DOIT IS TO DO IT

ON A STEARNS."

E. C. STEARNS & CO,SYRACUSE, N. Y.

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FIGURES TALK.The DUNLOP TIRES sold up to May 15th, 1893, number.

You can't go wrong in getting a. DUNI/OP!They cost a little more, but———

AMERICAN DUNLOP TIRE CO.,__________160 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK._________

THIS IS WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE HICKORY:H. L. WENNER, M. D., No. 91 East Perry St.,

TIFFIN, Ohio, May 12, 1893.Hickory Wheel Co., Dear Sirs: We shipped you by express, two

days ago, wheel No. 1086. The owner, Chas. Herman, Jr., had a very narrow escape from death on it. He was racing at night and ran into an unseen obstruction, and had he not had a HICKORY it would have been in such very small pieces that it would not have paid to have it repaired.

Fix it as quickly as possible, as it is that wheel that is doing the talking for us, as he usea it constantly in showing off the HICKORY.

Yours truly, HERMAN & WENNER.

, 01ASS.

BAIili CO.,

mass.,Make the most perfect ball for cycle work. Our men are all skilled ball makers. Nothing but the best material used.

Hear what Wm. Bown, of Birmingham, England, says:"They are very fine,

W. W. Stall, the kies, says: "We buy the best on earth." 2,000,000 per month.prices.

O-OHONT ar.

the best I have seen." maker of Trotting Sul- them because they are Capacity now nearly Write for samples and

, I»i-©st. aon.cS.

ANGLO-AMERICAN IRON & METAL CO.,MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

EVERYTHING PERTAIMG TO CYCLE MANUFACTURE AND REPAIR.213 ST.,

He Looked Into the Future.When rare Bobbie Burns penned the fol­

lowing lines he must have in some way pro­ phetic foreseen the birth of the N. C- A. and knew in consequence how appropriate the advice he gave would be to those who race uuder the banner whose yiazonry is $ $ $;

"To catch Daui* Fortune's golden iiuilo,Assiduons wait upon her;

And gather gear by every wll«That's justified by honor;

Not for to hide it in a heda;e,Nor for a trained attendnut

But for the glorious privilegeOf beiug independent."

The Race Promoter and the Crack Racer.

If I should die to-night,And jou should com? to my coM corpse nnd say,Weeping a ail heartsick o'er my lifeless claj-;If I abould die to-night,And you should come iu deepest grief and woe,And eay, "Here's leu dollars for the entries I owe,"I m i it lit arise in my great white cravatAnd lay, "What'a that;"

If I should die to-night,And should yon come to my cold corpse and knee].Cla*fing my bier to show the grief you foe);1 aay, if I ihould die to-night,And you should come to me there and thenJuit eve a hint abuut paying for entries too,I uUtit arUe the while,But I'd drop dead ftgaio.

S0LJ1D

BRETZ <l CURTiS MF.l

PATENTSr«d in th- Unrcd S »(**« oicign C nut'i -. Tri>lw- i,<U"*if{n-. lalit'l, ami c pv-

_ -. Sen<l iH'rKTipli 'I Withmodel, photograph or sketch, and 1 will let y<>u know whether you can buin * put nt. All t>-f.,riu;itiim free.

\V. K. AV'GHlNHAUfiH, McGiU 151 tig., 908-24 (i >t., N. \V.,

AV,1SHINOTO\. D. C.

When He Gives It up.Of all theu| !8 aml <U>wm of hin

\Vhicli give * cyrli-t s'lnly l>ro« n,The vuixi is thai wht-u hti _O«NI up

And tKtaks bU cycle* couilug down