Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-17

year ago, not In public, but as q means Of
personal relaxation. It was a smaller instru-
ment than the ono have now, but good It
was In every way equal to this one and had
a little fat oil can and an alarm on the
withers, which could be rung in case should
be crossing railroad at night and desired
| the engineer of an approaching train to save
| himself by instant fight.
This bicycle gave to the physician who
| set my leg for me- He did 1t so well that I
| gave him the instrument, together with the
| wrench had received while falling from it.
He loans 1t to the boys of his neighborhood
| and is building up a good practice in COM
| pound and communicated fractures, hernias
and conclusions
| Last year he tried it himself, one evening
at the twilight hour He rode down Mr..
| Gryme's celebrated hill. and killed a child
and cow He had forgotten how to play
on the brake He offered to replace the child
with one whose mother he had treated pro-
| fessionally up to the hour OF her death. But
| he could not manage it that way So he set
tied for the child, and now keeps the bicycle
mainly to loan to boys who otherwise might
| climb his fruit trees.
My new machine looks well 1t is what
have had my photograph taken with it
That is, in company with it 1t is beauti-
full picture. You can easily tell which is the
bicycle. The portrait was made by friend
Of mine who has homeopathic photograph
outfit He Is quite clever with it. He is a
Wall street operator His father was so be-
fore him. His father operated on Wall street
before anybody else. He used to sprinkle
W. N cfroot Nv friapd dooe MT mo bo hi,
living by photography. He makes his money
honestly by speculation, but desires, Of
course, to have some means Of obtaining q
livelihood in case Of reverses. So he is taking
pictures by the dry plate process.
He got good picture of my wheel and my
self the other day. I wore my wheelmaus
uniform bought my uniform before got
the Wheel and looked SO well in 1t that con-
cluded to buy myself bicycle and learn to
ride upon it.
belong to club, but do not figure in it
very much, except at the festive board, where
frequently speak or preside. l also belong
to an athletic club, which has made me quite
robust Formerly I had very poor health,
but of latterly am almost too healthy. /
go to the evening sessions Of my athletic club,
and when 60 home at night feel real hope
full
Bicycling is a noble sport. Some day am
going to 20 around the world and take my
wheel with me In shawl strap. Bicycling
tones up the muscles, enlarges the lung area
and teaches one self reliance. If could only
ride on my bicycle / am confident that it
would benefit me. It certainly benefits the
bicycle to ride on me- and it is a mighty poor
rule that will not work both ways.
Our wheel club IA keS "A SDin as we ca1l If
every week to some remote point, eating
lunch at the further point, and then return
ing in the gathering gloom. l 60 sometimes
in a hanson cab, and take part in the lunch.
! am great admirer Of manly sports, and
used frequently to jar the back teeth of a
sandbag of On evening or climb horizontal
bar and gently fall off again. | was expelled
from my first athletic club because l used to
fall on the mettress in the early part Of the
evening and remain there until time to go
home, thereby preventing other athletes from
practicing on the mattress.
Ny machine. has no cog wheels or chain at
tachments. 1t is the old fashioned, hump
shouldered bicycle, with steel running gears.
This fall am going fox hunting on it, if
can.
l swang the Indian clubs last year. 1t bene-
fitted me a great deal Formerly had oper-
ated a scroll saw and had made a lot of
fayance and things among which were a
hollywood clock, with a wealth Of holes in
it. and other little articles of vertu, including
bas relief-bass wood-of myself. In swing
ing the clubs obliterated these things, es-
pecially the clock; and So regard the Indian
club as one Of the most beneficial things in
proper hands, Of which we are at present in
formed | also have set of dumb bells,
which / use to keep the door open in summer
time, thus giving free circulation of fresh
air In this way tho dumb bell is a great
boon.
1t could also be pleasantly and proftably
placed in the church towers throughout our
land, thus adding to our general health by
taking the place Of the more clamorous bell
of the dead past. The church bell, like the
tin dinner horn, has outlived its usefulness,
and | fear that the man who has to be re-
minded, by having the whole top Of bis head
lifted off, that it is time to pray will have to
be assisted out of his grave on resurrection
day by means of explosives which will cost
more than the result will warrant.-Bnl Nye
in Once Week.
According 10 the newest English life
table. the children born in England in
any one year have now divided among
them nearly two million years Of life"
more than would have been the case
thirty-fve years ago.