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# The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World/Foreword

FOREWORD
These reminiscences, covering the most colorful chapter in all the history of bicycle racing, among other remarkable facts, brings out very clearly many of the outstanding qualities characteristic of my race, such as perseverance, courage, and that marvelous spirit of forgiveness.
It also proves to the world literally, that there are positively no mental, physical, moral or other attainments too lofty for a Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity. The records and success that I achieved in my chosen line of athletic sports, certainly the greatest of all if played fair, and the brilliant performances of other colored athletes in various branches of the sports where permitted to compete will verify this somewhat emphatic assertion.
The primary object of this narrative, however, is not for any personal glory, or self praise but rather to perpetuate my achievements on the bicycle tracks of the world, for the benefit of all youths aspiring to an athletic career, and especially boys of my own group as they strive for fame and glory in the athletic world.
A perusal of the following autobiography and chronologically arranged news clippings will reveal many of the secrets of my great success, notwithstanding the tremendous odds and almost tragic hardships that I was forced to do extra battle against owing to color prejudice and jealousy of the bitterest form. With the aid of the press, however, the strict application to the rules of training, and the help of God, I was able to overcome that bitter intensity of feeling to some extent, or sufficiently at least to accomplish my life's greatest objective, namely, "The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World."
Judging by the manner in which colored athletes have repeatedly demonstrated their skill and prowess in the athletic world, it is quite obvious what might well be accomplished on a whole as a race in other pursuits of life if granted a square deal and a fair field. We ask no special favor or advantage over other groups in the great game of life; we only ask for an even break.
I am writing my memoirs, however, in the spirit calculated to solicit simple justice, equal rights, and a square deal for the posterity of my down-trodden but brave people, not only in athletic games and sports, but in every honorable game of human endeavor.
# The Fate of Adelaide, a Swiss Romantic Tale; and Other Poems/Absence 1

ABSENCE.
"Cesser d’exister n'est rien, se quitter est le plus grand des maux,"
“And all the fix'd delights of house and home—
Friendship that cannot break, and love that will not roam.”
I will not say, I fear your absent one Will be forgotten; but you cannot feel The darkening thoughts that o'er my spirits steal, When I remember I am quite alone— That all I lov'd most fondly, all are gone. To you that deepest sorrow is unknown:
Some very dear ones are beside you now;
But cold is here each smile that meets my own;
It does not lighten o'er some long lov'd brow.
‘Tis vain to tell me soon again we meet—
That thought but makes the weary hours depart
More slowly: hope is sickness to the heart
When we so oft its accents must repeat.
Affection is, in absence, as the flower
Transplanted from the soil which gave it birth—
Dew has no freshness, sunshine has no power;
Drooping, it pines for its lov'd native earth.
# The Fatal Sisters. An Ode

For a detailed, annotated version of this poem, visit The Thomas Gray Archive
Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepares!) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.
Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane.
See the grisly texture grow, ('Tis of human entrails made!) And the weights that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head.
Shafts for shuttles, dipped in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword, that once a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Mista, black, terrific maid, Sangrida, and Hilda, see, Join the wayward work to aid; 'Tis the woof of victory.
Ere the ruddy sun be set, Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering buckler meet, Hauberk crash, and helmet ring.
(Weave the crimson web of war!) Let us go, and let us fly Where our friends the conflict share, Where they triumph, where they die.
As the paths of fate we tread, Wading through the ensanguined field, Gondula and Geira, spread O'er the youthful king your shield.
We the reins to slaughter give; Ours to kill, and ours to spare; Spite the dangers he shall live. (Weave the crimson web of war!)
They whom once the desert beach Pent within its bleak domain, Soon their ample sway shall stretch O'er the plenty of the plain.
Low the dauntless earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound; Fate demands a nobler head; Soon a king shall bite the ground.
Long his loss shall Eirin weep Ne'er again his likeness see; Long her strains in sorrow steep, Strains of immortality!
Horror covers all the heath; Clouds of carnage blot the sun. Sisters, weave the web of death; Sisters, cease, the work is done.
Hail the task, and hail the hands! Songs of joy and triumph sing! Joy to the victorious bands Triumph to the younger king.
Mortal, thou that hear'st the tale, Learn the tenor of our song. Scotland, through each winding vale Far and wide the notes prolong.
Sisters, hence with spurs of speed; Each her thundering falchion wield; Each bestride her sable steed. Hurry, hurry to the field!
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Fate of Adelaide, a Swiss Romantic Tale; and Other Poems/Absence 2

ABSENCE.
"Song is but the eloquence of truth."  CAMPBELL.
Oh! never can we feel how dear Each lov'd one is, till we have known The deep regret, the bitter tear, That comes when those lov'd ones are gone. It is not till the flowers are pass'd, That breath'd on summer's perfum'd air, Till but in memory they last,
That we can feel how sweet they were:
‘Tis only at the parting hour,
Affection claims her thrilling power.
There are a thousand ties that wreathe
Around that word of magic—home;
Cold is the heart that e're could breathe
A wish from that lov'd spot to roam.
How fondly now my thoughts retrace—
All once so priz'd, now still more dear—
Each look of love, each gentle face,
The tender word, the parting tear;
Cherish'd and unforgotten seem
The gems of memory's sweetest dream.
As pants the hart in the long chace
For streams where the cool water flows,
So seeks my soul the resting place,
Where all its thoughts, its wishes close.
So dwells my spirit on the hour,
When we shall meet in joy again;
Hope has enwreath'd full many a flower—
Oh! may her visions not be vain!
The world has not a joy for me,
Dear as our meeting thus would be.
# The Fatal Marksman

* "The Fatal Marksman" in Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations Volume 3 (1823)
* "The Fatal Marksman" in Der Freischütz: Travestie (1824) (external scan)
* "Der Freischutz; or, The Seven Charmed Bullets" in The Romancist, and Novelist's Library Volume 1 (1839) (external scan)
* "William, the Fatal Marksman; or, The Seven Charmed Bullets" in The Mysterious Avenger, or, The Trials of Love (1847) (external scan)
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# The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World/Introduction

INTRODUCTION
As I look back over my eventful career of seventeen years bicycle racing, replete with unique experiences, thrills and hardships, and the interesting part I played in the history of the great game, after having gained all the triumphs, gold, and glory possible to obtain in that line of the sport, I find that my name is now and then mentioned among that steadily increasing list of notables, placed in the immortal cycle hall of fame, commonly known as "Old Timers." I was finally beaten fairly and squarely once at least by one who is destined eventually to trim even the best of us. I refer to the mightiest champion of them all, and one who needs no introduction—"Father Time."
During my turn as champion cyclist I out-gamed and out-sprinted him over and over again, and occasionally after handing him a very bad beating I was even conceited enough to give him the laugh, but somehow he didn't seem to mind it at all. I fancy I can see him even now just plugging along steadily, with that grim expression on his face, trying to overtake me. But alas, however, the scene is changed, the table is turned, not only has he overtaken me, but has actually passed me by, and is still gaining upon me at every revolution of the pedals, for "Time Eventually Wins."
One thing, however, he was at least decent about it, and just like the good old sport that he is, he didn't give me the laugh as he speeded past me, or stop to remind me of how I used to poke fun at him. No, "Father Time" was more considerate, he let me down easy.
I tried to take my licking gracefully however, because after all is said, done, and written, I rather consider it an honor to be defeated by him and by no means a disgrace; as a matter of choice I would much prefer defeat at his hands than by "Kid Nicotine," or flattened by that other frightful bogy—old "John Barleycorn," who has the reputation of having floored more great athletes, world-beaters, and in fact people in all walks of life than perhaps any other adversary in the world.
However, I can boast of having had at least the most "colorful" if not the most unique career of any person that ever won a World's Championship title, and now I have a wonderful message for any youth aspiring to an athletic career if he will only accept it, which is a message growing out of my many years of racing and trying experiences.
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 19

PLATE 19
Eurypterus lacustris Harlan var. pachychirus Hall Page 179 See plate 12
| 1 | A right swimming leg; original of Hall's type [Palaeontology of N. Y. v. 3, pl. 82, fig. 3], showing the great width of the seventh joint. Natural size |
Eurypterus dekayi Hall Page 181 See plate 20, figure 1
| 2 | Nearly entire specimen, exposing the ventral view of the abdomen and the interior view of the carapace. The posterior portion of the preabdomen is contracted. The specimen shows the broad carapace, the great number of long spines on each segment of the walking leg, the form of the swimming leg and the long postlateral lobes of the last segment. Natural size |
The figures are from photographs. Originals are from the Bertie waterlime, Buffalo, N. Y.; that of figure 1 is in the State Museum, of figure 2 in the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 19. |
| J.A.Glenn phot. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 13

PLATE 13
Eurypterus sp.
| 1 | Gill attached to sternite of an undetermined eurypterid, possibly E. maria. Shows fine anastomosing lines of the gill. × 3 Horizon and locality. Shawangunk grit. Otisville, N. Y. |
Strabops thacheri Beecher Page 152 See plates 1, 4
| 2 | Drawing of counterpart of holotype from guttapercha squeeze. Natural size Horizon and locality. Potosi (Cambric) limestone. St François co., Mo. |
Eurypterus lacustris Harlan Page 173 See plates 9–12
| 3 | Adolescent specimen, showing well the general proportion of the parts in approximately original position. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Buffalo, N. Y. |
Eurypterus pittsfordensis Sarle Page 196 See plates 14–18
| 4 | Seventh and eighth segments of swimming leg, showing the formation of the slightly expanded blade, the subtriangular inner appendage ("guard") of the seventh, the incised margin of the eighth segment (palette) and the minute claw inserted in the same. × 2½. One of Sarle's cotypes |
| 5 | Carapace of young (adolescent) individual showing the broad frontal shoveling edge, the position of the lateral and median eyes and the posterior edge. Natural size |
| 6 | Upper view of appendages of cephalothorax. Shows one chelicera on left frontal side, two walking legs and the coxae of the swimming legs. One of Sarle's types [op. cit. pl. 10, fig. 7]; original drawing slightly corrected. Natural size Horizon and locality. Pittsford shale. Pittsford, Monroe co., N. Y. |
The original of figure 2 is in Columbia University, the others are in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 13. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 16

PLATE 16
Eurypterus pittsfordensis Sarle Page 196 See plates 13–15, 17, 18
| 1 | Coxa of left third walking leg. Natural size |
| 2 | Coxa of left swimming leg. Natural size |
| 3 | Metastoma showing notch and minute dentation of anterior end. Natural size |
| 4 | Coxa of right balancing leg (fourth endognathite). Natural size |
| 5 | Fragmentary ventral side of abdomen, showing five segments, including coxa, of swimming leg; the five sternites and four postabdominal segments with their fringed posterior emargination. Impressions of Leperditiae cover the surface. Natural size |
| 6 | Fragmentary abdomen. Shows character of tergites, notably their relative shortness and the four triangular scales on each preabdominal and on the first two postabdominal ring segments, while the succeeding two show their ventral characters. The swimming leg is also partially shown. Natural size |
Originals (Sarle's cotypes) are from the Pittsford shale, Pittsford, Monroe co., N. Y., and in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 16. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 17

PLATE 17
Eurypterus pittsfordensis Sarle Page 196 See plates 13–16, 18
| 1 | Large sternite, showing transverse suture and antelateral "ears." Natural size |
| 2 | Female second sternite, showing genital appendages. Natural size |
| 3 | Half of sternite showing transverse suture and cleft. Natural size |
| 4 | Male opercular appendage. Operculum shows median cleft and transverse suture. Natural size |
| 5 | Fragment of sternite, showing median cleft, transverse suture and lobe of antelateral angles. Natural size |
| 6 | View of two postabdominal segments and telson in approximate positions. Natural size Horizon and locality. Pittsford shale. Pittsford, N. Y. |
Eurypterus ranilarva nov. Page 208 See plate 18
| 7 | Ventral view of average specimen. Holotype. Natural size Horizon and locality. Kokomo waterlime. Kokomo, Ind. |
Originals of figures 1–6 are in the State Museum, that of figure 7 is in the collection of Chicago University (no. 12905)
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 17. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 21

PLATE 21
Eurypterus maria Clarke Page 84 See plate 22
| 1 | Smallest specimen observed. Shows broad short carapace; broad preabdomen; large eyes; swimming legs; abdomen with apparently but eight segments and short telson. Paratype. × 6. (length 5.5mm) |
| 2 | Somewhat older individual, having 12 segments, but still retaining the broad carapace and preabdomen. Paratype. × 5. (length 8mm) |
| 3 | Carapace of young individual, showing the great width of carapace, the large lateral eyes with ocular node and visual area and prominent ocellar tumescence. × 18. (length 1.8mm) |
| 4 | Carapace and first tergite of somewhat older individual, still showing large prominent lateral eyes. × 6 |
| 5 | Young carapace with a swimming leg. Eyes show ocular node and visual area. × 12 |
| 6 | A larger carapace with smaller eyes, retaining both the ocular node and visual area. × 3 |
| 7 | Another carapace, showing the crescentlike form of the visual area. Paratype. × 3 |
| 8 | Very young individual, retaining carapace and preabdomen; with slight lateral compression. Shows rim and very prominent lateral eyes and ocellar mound or tumescence. × 5 |
| 9 | Another young individual, retaining more nearly the original form and strong traces of ornamentation on tergites. Paratype. × 5½. (length 8mm) |
| 10 | An older carapace retaining the large sized lateral eyes of the immature condition. × 3. (length 7.9mm) |
| 11 | A young individual showing the carapace with the swimming leg and eight segments |
| 12 | The type specimen; a probably mature individual. Natural size |
All originals are from the Shawangunk grit, Otisville, Orange co., N. Y., and are in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N. Y. State Museum. | Plate 21. |
| G S Barkentin del | J B Lyon Co State Printer |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 15

PLATE 15
Eurypterus pittsfordensis Sarle Page 196 See plates 13, 14, 16–18
| 1 | Relatively broad carapace and first tergite, showing the triangular scales at the base. Natural size |
| 2 | Carapace, preabdomen and two postabdominal segments, showing eyes, ocellar mound, surface sculpture of tergites, and the postlateral lobes of the postabdominal segments. Natural size |
| 3 | Dorsal view of last postabdominal segment, showing posterior emargination. Natural size |
| 4 | Ventral view of proximal portion of telson, showing hinge and carina. The apparent incisions of the margin are due to cracking of the thickened edge. Natural size |
| 5 | Ventral view of an obliquely crushed telson. Natural size |
| 6 | Dorsal view of nearly complete telson. Natural size |
Originals (Sarle's cotypes) are from the Pittsford shale, Pittsford, Monroe co., N. Y., and in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 15. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 18

PLATE 18
Eurypterus ranilarva nov. Page 208 See plate 17
| 1 | Ventral view of average specimen (paratype). Shows outline of carapace, walking legs, coxae and other segments of swimming legs and the sternites. Natural size |
| 2 | Dorsal view of a specimen retaining a swimming leg (paratype). Natural size Horizon and locality. Kokomo waterlime. Kokomo, Ind. |
Eurypterus pittsfordensis Sarle Page 196 See plates 13–17
| 3 | Portion of endognathite, probably the fourth, doubtfully referred to this species. Natural size |
| 4 | First endognathite or walking leg probably belonging to this species. Natural size |
| 5 | Female opercular appendage. Natural size |
| 6 | Dorsal view of last postabdominal segment, showing the postlateral striated lobes and the median denticulate notch of the posterior edge. Natural size |
| 7 | Section through postabdomen of a very large individual. Natural size |
| 8 | Cross section of postabdomen, showing the triangular scales on the tergite. Natural size Horizon and locality. Pittsford shale. Pittsford, N. Y. |
Originals (Sarle's cotypes) of figures 1 and 2 in the museum of Chicago University (nos. 12907 and 12906); those of figures 3–8 in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 18. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 20

PLATE 20
Eurypterus dekayi Hall Page 181 See plate 19
| 1 | Hall's type [Palaeontology of N. Y., v. 3, pl. 82, fig. 1]. Interior view of the ventral side of the cephalothorax and of the preabdomen, and ventral view of postabdomen and telson. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie waterlime. Buffalo, N. Y. |
Eurypterus microphthalmus Hall Page 192
| 2 | Carapace, relatively little compressed and showing the lateral eyes and ocellar tumescence. Natural size Horizon and locality. Manlius limestone. Litchfield, Herkimer cо., N. Y. |
| 3 | Type specimen. × 2. [Palaeontology of N. Y., v. 3, pl. 80A, fig. 7] Horizon and locality. Manlius limestone boulder in drift at Cazenovia, N. Y. |
| 4 | Large carapace showing broad frontal rim and small lateral eyes. Natural size |
| 5 | Large carapace showing somewhat different outline. Natural size Horizon and locality. Manlius limestone. Cranes Corners, N. Y. |
| 6, 7 | Types of E. eriensis Whitfield. Natural size Horizon and locality. Hydraulic (Monroe) limestone of Beach point, Put-in-Bay island, Lake Erie, O. |
| 8 | Only specimen with abdomen observed. Shows inner view of carapace and ventral view of preabdomen and of three postabdominal segments. Natural size Horizon and locality. Manlius limestone boulder in drift of Onondaga Valley near Syracuse, N. Y. |
| 9 | First and second tergites. Natural size |
| 10 | Posterior tergite. Natural size Horizon and locality. Manlius limestone. Cranes Corners, Herkimer co., N. Y. |
All figures are from photographs. Originals of figures 1, 2, 4, 5, 8–10 are in the State Museum, that of figure 3 is in the American Museum of Natural History and those of figures 6 and 7 in Columbia University
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 20. |
| J.A.Glenn phot. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 14

PLATE 14
Eurypterus pittsfordensis Sarle Page 196 See plates 13, 15–18
| 1 | Carapace with three tergites; the largest observed. Natural size |
| 2 | Broken cephalothorax and portion of preabdomen, showing two walking legs with their coxal joint in position. The metastoma is partly seen, and a view from the interior of the operculum and male appendage. One of Sarle's originals. Natural size Horizon and locality. Pittsford shale. Pittsford, Monroe co., N. Y. |
Originals in the State Museum
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 14. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Eurypterida of New York/Volume 2/Explanations of plates/Plate 2

PLATE 2
Eurypterus remipes Dekay Page 161 See plates 3–8
| 1 | Restoration of dorsal aspect. Natural size Horizon and locality. Bertie (Siluric) waterlime. Herkimer county, N. Y. |
| Memoir 14. N.Y.State Museum. | Plate 2. |
| G.S.Barkentin del. | J.B.Lyon Co. State Printer. |
# The Flowers

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# The Flowers of Evil

Collection of poems important in the symbolist and modernist movements, dealing with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. The poems were written in the 1840s and 1850s and first printed in 1857. The collection was reprinted in 1861 with the thirty-five additional poems and the new “Tableaux parisiens” section. In 1866 the collection “Les Épaves” was published in Brussels that included the six poems censored from the first edition of “Les Fleurs du mal”, which were illegal to publish in France until the 1940s. The 1868 edition of “Les Fleurs du mal”, with four additional poems (three original and a fragment of Longfellow that Baudelaire had been paid to translate) was prepared after Baudelaire’s death. See also fleursdumal.org, a site dedicated to “Les Fleurs du mal”.
English-language translations of Les Fleurs du Mal include:
* The Flowers of Evil in Poems of Charles Baudelaire, translated by Frank Pearce Sturm (1906).
* Blossoms of Evil in Poems and Baudelaire Flowers, translated by John Collings Squire (1909).
* Flowers of Evil, translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks (1931).
* The Flowers of Evil, translated by Wikisource.

## See also

* Author:Charles Baudelaire/The Flowers of Evil, list of poems by Baudelaire published in this collection.