The Press., 1889-11-07
A BICYCLE STORY.


 ssWhy, enjoying this very fine view, and in a very comfortable position, too.
 The first speaker was the buriy MT. Hicks, especially proud of his meadow on the top of Heysham hill, and especially indignant at the trespassers who persisted in infringing on his exclusive right to the enjoyment of his private property. The trespasser on this oc- casion was young man, slim and wiry, with hair that seemed to have borrowed its stiff ness from his muscles
 ssWhat right have you got to be on here, I
 TT don't know. What right have your
 "Right? That's good un Why, this fields mine."
 "Indeeda I'm sure congratulate you on itn
 ssCome, turn off, D
 .Certainly, if it's yours. But didn't think you'd mind my being on it. m
 ss8c e0ufsa kmind. Eonara IT. s,assing. What aud you say if . f6ilew eaias tramping all over your garden, and stting on your grass, and hacking up your gravel, and eutr ting your cabbagesa' asked the farmer, wax ing eloquent and even fgurative.
 sGive it up. Ask me another" was the cool reply.
 DO you know could prosecute your
 "Really, Rowp
 'H you don't mind, then, will, sure asmy names Hicksl'
 "Good old Hicksl" murmured the other.
 If you give pe any more of your impu- dence I'll have you up.
 up whereq"
 ''In let you know a precious sight sooner than you like if you don't take care"
 Well, I'm off. Will wait for an invitation next time come this way. Good-by."
 The young man passed on his way, and had soon entirely forgotten the little episode. But the worthy Hicks was left almost chok. ing with exasperEtion. He hated these ban dyings of words. He always got the worst of it, although in the right all along He would leaveno stone unturned in order to find out way of paying off thisscorea against the oMender. He would
 H8t first he must ascertain who the of fander Was Accordingly he followed the young nan home at such 8 distance as to arouse neither suspicion nor comment. He did not have to go far. After descending the hill, and traversing few hundred yards of the lane at its foot, he saw his enemy turn into the garden of one of 8 row of lately built houses.
 "Umph! new conner, nauttered Hicks; s'one of those city chaps Just the sort I hate"
 On his way back he fell in with a neighbor from whom he ascertained that the young fellows name was Axel And among other things he learned that his enemyswas a bi-s cyclist.
 "Is he nowg" said Hicks. ssHow d'you know2 Ever sec him ridingg"
 "Oh, yes; every morning he goes out be- fore breakfast, as regular as clockwork."
 "Every morningl Where top
 'tOh, the same old run every morning; tears down Furnal Hill, and runs home round by the fiat road at the bottom.n
 "Whatever for2' asked Hicks, the praeti- cal.
 Hum! S'pose it's to get up an appetite for breakfast, but it don't make him much the fatter-he hel"
 "Noa,p said Hicks. to whom the same re- mark would by no meansapply; 'sand what times that when you see hima'
 Twenty to eight, that's when he starts. I know that, cause I meet him every morn ing"
 MT. Hicks had now heard enough, and the two soon afterwards separated. Hicks slowly retreated home, meditating an idea which had struck him. He particularly loathed bicycles and bicyclists. There was something So irritating about that superciEs ious easeFWith which they ran past him and his cart horses. eA @ss.5# A , s"Why,n he would sometimes declare, "a man dursn't leave his cart across the road on hill, but what one of them bicycle chaps comes flying down; and if he do get by with out breaking his neck he must needs storm away, as if we weren't going to take up as much of road as we precious well please"
 The next morning saw him on Furnau hill at twenty minutes to g. Barely ten minutes had elapsed when the flash of the sun among $ the plated spokes of a fifty-two inch bicycle wheel caught his eye; and down the long. smooth hillside sped its rider, the hated young Axell He had thrown up each leg over the handles, and was leaning back, his coat. confined by one button alone, flying open to the rushing air, and every line of his countenance and figure expressive of his half :. intoxicated delight in the motion, perilous and yet secure from its'very speed.
 The machine flashed by the farmer, and was at the bottom of the descent in mo- ment Hicks grunted with satisfaction. Here was 8 way towards revengel Anysob- sstacle would hs enodgh to throw into over whelming confusion a bicycle travelling at that pace. There was cross lane intersect- ing the main road about half way down the shill.E From this lanef he meant to bring cart, as if by accident, across the road in the very path of the bicyclist, and see what hap pened.
 "Yes, see what happensI' He repeated his thought, and quite chuckled at the humoroas idea. Upon the next morning Farmer Hicks har- messed his heaviest cart horse to substantial wagon, and proceeded towards the scene of this intended experiment.. A strong wind was blowing down. .FurnaN hill. ss ESQ much the better,, thought he; fsheql come down all the faster"
 When within few yards of the main road the farmer drew up, dismounted, and, through < an soppning in the hedgeyeager3y scanned the summit of the hill Yes, thereswas the flash of the nickelt Axel had just thrown up his legs in his accustomed attitude. Hicks leaped back into bis cart, and drove it on quickly to the entry to the main road. Then he slack ened speed once more, meaning to cross the road more slowly. He was Ettle too soon, however. . He waited until the whirring j sound of the approaching wheels fell on his ear, and then urged his horse forward again.
 Axel was tearing down the hill, his swift course accelerated to more than his usual speed by the stiff breeze at his back At the very height of bicyclist's happiness he was suddenly thrown into the keenest apprehen- sion by the sight of horses head and shoul- A SouND LRaA. OPINION. --E. Rainbridgt MundaY, ,.Esq., County, Atty, Clay Go, Tex. says :. Have used Electfic Bitters with most happy results. My brother also was very low with MalariaI Fever and Jaundice, but wal ci1Sof1 hvs sfiYnalv tlaa of ff1aiS SSrnadfoine A nj