The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-10
FROM OUR BICYCLE CORRESPOND.
ENT.
WHERE HE Is, WHAT HE rs DOING, AND THE
PLACES VISITED OVER THE CULVER.
ING WHEEL.

oICyCle mounted Ia ClOthGs-pln. / dlu
not Thank Heaven because | was leaving
and might return TO these friends minus a
scalp, or worse, might never return at all.
No, that was not the idea. returned
thanks because | WAS at last leaving behind
me many thousand queries per day, such
as, how are You going to get over noun.
tainsr what will you do when you find
the roads impassabler DO you really
think you will ever get thereP Don't YOU
think you are crazy to undertake such
tripF 'How are you going to cross rivers
and so forth, aad so forth and so on, until
| was ready to how'll;
am not mad, but soon shall be-
| left Danviile, Ill.,, more than two weeks
since, but stopped at Kansas, ILL.,, fifty
miles south Of the above named city for a
visit among friends and further practice ON
the wheel. Just as | WAS ready for my
start, the rains descended and the floods
came, and the roads, never exceedingly
good in Illinois, got 'all broke up, so to
speak But WAS told it had rainCd little
farther west, and 50 | started 'onyhow.'
Bat | have failed to reach that part OF the
west yet where it has not raincd, and am
now more than two hundred miles from
my starting point, although much farther
north than west. From Mattoon to a little
west of Decatur the roads were perfectly
horrible. From Lincoln TO Peoria the
roads were moderately good in places, and
in places were more than moderately bad.
At Peoria the streets were not in the best
condition for the pleasures OF wheeling, but
found two or three streets on which quite
long smooth runs could be made, one of
them leading to beautiful park outside
the city, where numerous sign boards for,
babe the delighted visitor to kick up his
heels and have a good time.
Peoria is a good town and seems To he
quite business point, even outside Of its
whisky interests, which wa, toll are i'm.
mense,' While in this beautiful city, met
several of the Peoria Bicycle Club, who did
all they could to make my short stay pleas
ant. Secretary H. G.. Rouse got
out his elegant Expert Col.
umbia, and together we took 10
the interesting features Of the city. The
Peoria bicycle club was organized in 1881,
has now fourteen members, and all are
well practiced aud provided with fine ma.
chimes from Peoria to this business like
little city, Princeton H., the roads were
very bad At Tiskilwa a stop was made
for a short rest and a shave, for | was be-
ginning to look like the historic parsonage
who came from the land where they have
no razers. Here asked the best road 10
Princeton, and vas shown what was pur.
ported to be 49,. m united my rubber
shol horse, end the distance being told
me as seven-and .a-halt miles, was o, the
humble opinion that it could be made in
less than forty minutes by little extra ex.
ertiOn if the way WAS little rough. For
mile or two 'all went merry as mar.
riage bell, but at the end of this The gray.
ell gave out and found myself laundering
| along on the mudlest roGd had ever struck
| b titled bravcly ahead and never said u
single swear until | came to big hill,
| just recently worked and about i've inches
deep in mud. a dismount here had to be
made and for the next three miles foot pas
sage WAS the order Of march, during which
met numerous fellow mortaIs riding in
buggies and wagons drawn YEARLY along
by discouraged looking horses, whose
drivers never failed to ask me why | did
not ride instead of leading my machine.
Over two hours were occupied in getting
into Princeton instead Of less than forty
minutes, the worse time that had ever
made; and ha1 to stop half a mile from
town ond borrow water to wash off my
machine, and brushes to clean up my uni
form 80 / could enter the place in n style
becoming the great profession Of journal.
ISM Although didn't look as pretty as
a newly ironrd shirt bosom, hattercd my.
self looked moderately decent, except my
left jaw, which has insisted on raising to
awful boils upon it since my start, but
which have always endeavered to keep
turned away from the crowd. | will re.
main irAPrinceton yet two or three days,
and then, as the sun is out once more and
tho roads are drying up, continue my way
in the path of the star Of Empire | will
take an off shoot to day to llcnuepin, coun.
ty seat Of rutnum, fifteen miles north east OF
this point Am now visiting the family
of DR.. f. W. Rose, one Of my best rich re-
lations, aud therefore feel somewhat at
home. think my next letter will be bet