Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-11-04

better, 10 eat than a chop or a steak
when your machine is put up for the
night, upon a FAR pleasanter place
than the English inn coffee room 70
spend the hour between dinner and
bedtime.
All France is the cyclists paradise.
Normandy Is the special corner re-
served FOR the English wheelman's de-
light II is 50 near and SO easily
reaehed-it comes within the posi-
bility OF an Easter or Whitsuntide
holiday. II can be entered by Dieppe.
the port Of ali Others 10 be preferred
by the man who travels with his
wheel. The custom house officials
there are men OF common sense. and
this Is consideration, since the French
custom house Is strange and unac.
couutablc institution. | do not pre-
tend to explain the exact law that
regulates the duty upon cycles aud,
indeed. IL matters little; an arrange
neut has been made by the Cyclists
Touring club here according 20 which.
nominally, the presentation OF your
mem bcr's Ncket will act like charm
and admit your cycle free. but would
advise no one 10 rely upon il too i'm
picltly,
Ay experience Is that whether sou
are compelled 10 leave a deposit or not
tthe deposit 10 be returned II YOU 90
oat Of the country within six monthsl
depends wholly upon the temper
OF the officials with whom you come In
contact on the frontier. At Calais.
for example, sometimes have been
forced 10 paw. sometimes ! have not
Bat ! think the chances are II you re-
member that Frenchman, even IL lac
be- customs officer, likes 10 be
treated with common civiiity. and
yo1 learn cnough French q be
able 70 assure him that you are
on pleasure. not on commerce bent
you will be allowed 10 pass at no heav-
Ter cost than n bow aud n smile How
ever, At Dieppe you can land with an
cut!rely easy conscience. No money
will be asked Of You. because IL has
long since teen realized that the OBJ
ject Of the visitor who arrives with q
wheel Is to enjoy the roads, not 10 In.
ture tho trade OF France.
b once the customs house ordeal Is
over. only pleasure lies before the cy-
clist. The real difficulty u 20 decide
what road 90 take, which route 10 fol-
low. The country n charming with
its stretches OF woodland, its shady
orchards. It's lines Of tall poplars and
its old chatrAuN and farms each en-.
closed IN square Of trees u is look
ing is best, perhaps, in the spring
when the apple trees are Ia blossom,
Normandy Is tho land Of the apple. as
YOU know NJ once from the elder
tina. is set before you at the table
q hDie, instead OF the wine
Of the central and southern
provinces From nIeppc, or from
Havre, 20 Rouen, you pass orchard
after orchard, at their lovcliest when
covered with the "fowery frost Of
May" ON the whole, this is the
journey / would recommend 10 the
cyclist who has never before been in
Normandy, and who has but n short
holiin 10 spend there Outside OF
Dicppe there are hills. but they are
not very terrible and for every climb
there Is u coast They give the touch
of variety which tue eyclist owes and
the peasant cannot understand. II ~
nm easy days run from Dieppe 10
Roucn, and you stop TO lunch at the
village of Totes, where there II an inn
with most marvellous old kitchen;
the laudladv may ovcrcharge you but
tho rnfters and fireplace and the brass
and copper hung walls are worth
little extra.
Than Roucn there are few finer
towns In France; II you cycle into il
from the north. true your first impress
8 on is of an endless suburb. struggling
on either side q badly paved street
where little one hors, tram ctaw,s
tircarily along. But while the town
itself. as everybody knows nowadays,
has kept many OF IT'S old streets and
tlmbcrod houses, 1t has its cathedral,