The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-12-12
CYCLING THE GLOBE.
This Feat Of Riding Around the
World on . Bicycle.
How n ID Performed These Days By
Wheeimg Enthuslasts-- Hair Rais-
ing Stories Told by
the Heroes.

A traveller just back from Japan says
that the passengers on the Pacific Mail
and Canadian Pacific steamships get
much amusement from seeing the mar
velous exploits Of the daring men and
women who are now making their per
ilous ways around the world on bicycles
in great numbers. Every ship takes
several of these heroes and heroines.
On the way to Asia the passengers do
not know the heroes, or even suspect
them. As the wheels are stored in the
cabin baggage rooms. it is impossible
for the rest of the passengers, looking
on at psllid boy who turns ill at the
smell of cigar or girl who lies next
to deaths door in her stateroom, to
dream that these are the people who are
going to write home to the papers that
they have been chased by Persian
bandits and lunched with Kaiiir kings
as they annihilated Puck S record round
the globe. When the ship stops at
ioAohanna OUT come the wheels and
the heroes ride the full length of the
Dahu@ commercial street about n
mile long. The rest Of Yokohama is on
q hill too steep for wheeling. At Kobe
and Nagasaki the town sites are more
neaiy ,ese' anu 'ne heroes rae perhaps
.~o mies' hsVihg their wheeis lltted
oAcA apoaru the steamer as she voyages
rom piace 70 pace haVing done
Japan ps Roilg asilore az three points,
'hey iorge ieariessiy ahead on the
s.ansinp, yearnihg 70 prave the ter
rors ol onina on their nying tires
onina .ney diseoVer 70 ne one Of the
'iiiese neius Ior TINS phase OF reckless
ueVi'try ID al tne world Inc shlRtakes
'neih 70 onangnai' where the Bund is
nearly '"o miles long ana all lined with
ehurches, clups' banks ana brokers' and
sh'ppihg omees-as saie and occidental
as nroauway' lhey near that they
Gan rue nye miles Oh the Maloo and the
i'unpiihg wen road before they come
- 'he liuuuy to"paths that form the
ac'uu' roaus Oh that part OF China,
aiong "nich no wleeilnan can ride.
WIN '''eif hearts IN lhelr tllroais, fan
ing every poor ueVii OF coolle they
meet W ne u murderer fresh from sack
ing inisslonarys mousse they pedal
on"alu' Mheh tley come to the tea
'sai'eiis' whose gateways swarm with
Glnese, 'iey al put taint' and could
'ie oiiiiese uaiinies anu eonrtesans at
snese gates READ whnt the bleyclists
ai'er"aru report OF their experiences
~ tie time they "ouio hnd themselves
uescriDeo as an uhuiscipliHed mob Of
'oiu'ers anu iawiess relaiiiers IN front
Vi hianuarins palace, with this ad-
'.isioi,ai S'ateIheht' lheS scowled SO
iieieeiy ana maze such threatening
estufes 'hat only the swiftness OF my
"heei prevented ahother massacre be-
W auaeu y ole lls. ot crimes against
ioieisneis IN ohiha'
i icA " .he snip the "heeiihg nero
mes anu writes no'es OF MS halrhreadth
esIapcs = central oulna until tiie YES
sel t'aHses "oosuheg ana begins TO rock
nm ~ pacA iii'o seasickness' iong Kong
- .ne ieA' piace az Wiiich the hieScie is
.Hhcnou'-a nritisn possession no more
" NC resarueu as dangerous Tor a for
eish iauy u the most liinid iempera-
inen' ~ "aih apout alohe ID tlah Is the
u,o'ea. ,-a.,.'I T. ispupiic u ollahgHal or the
Iaull. I VI my, nioan,all r aesperaooes IN New
osaa 80" ea'eu an, ,s iuasuo, oo lhe Journey
u ~, ea III ~ ~oIiu coil''hues-aooara
mp VII III i'iseuFie ~heel saie n the
passase iooin anu oniy an occasional
rahce ~ -. occurring 70 take II OUT N places
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