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servation, may we not lose our standards
OF truth and become race of inaccurate
thinkers and takers? Shoot ahead in a
narrow pathway, head on,-are not mar I.
row views the natural consequence?
Proverbs X, 26 says. IA wise king
scattereth the wicked and bringeth the
wheel over them." Thus while the wheel
Is under them there can be no scattering
OF the wicked (and this may also include
al hurtful infiuences).
The evil of the bicycle is widespread
en.ulting the artisan as well as the re.
estate agent. If any one class were spare
humanity there might be new good 81 OF
around which other good might grow.
But no. Was there not the same trouble
in the olden says? jeremiah xviii..3 says:
Then | went down to the potter house,
and behold, he wrought a work on the
wheels"
If this is to be a moral guide of the BIZ
cycle-then the purpose of this article
has been changed since it began, but there
is duty done.
Legs are going. to be stronger than
heads-in the coming generations-if this
thing keeps up. Just watch the express
siOn-a. both extremities.
Is the bicycle but a wood-and-iron met
aphor of the fashionable breakneck race
for the dollar? If persons rush madly
through the air, is it not just little
practical playful oiling of sinew-sfor
bicycle is impulsive by nature, qaick- wit
ted but wild, speedy but blind, ambitious
but treacherous-a nolseless, cold, selfish,
bounding, elbowing, aggressive, insinua-
ting. evasive, defiant. degrading, enno-
bling piece Of living mechanism-the new
demon for the new century. making o.
man and machine a strange composite
Was it not SO when Ezekiel (iii.. 13,)
said: II heard also the noise OF the
wings of the living creatures that touched
ono another, and the noise OF the wheels
over against them, and noise of great
rushing?
And Isaiah ". 2S) speaks of "thsir
wheels like a whirlwind."
Selfishness ill become hereditary. by
means of the bicycle, see if it doesn't. II
a man cling to one slender rod for hours
at time, and if at times all his affection
and strength are centered upon the wheel
(to keep it at all and keep it straight
that does not help matters. The poorer
the rider, the moro selfish, the more
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an apology. Then lie realized for the
first time that the farmers bees had
swarmed and that he was trying to hive
them.
The bloomer costume has been the
means OF breaking the marriage engage
meDt OF Frank Hammond and Lily Drew
OF walton. n. Y. Miss Drew. who Is an
expert wheelwoman, donned O bloomer
costume recently. One evening she met
her fance on the road near her home.
She was clad in the full garb o. the new
woman" and the young man was SO en-
roged at the sight that he Indignantly
demanded what she meant by making
such an appearance.
The rig is one OF the most abomina63ie .3e
outhts girl ever wore,' exclaimed tne
young man, "and / want 10 say rignt
here that unless you discard that inooe
OF dress forever our intended marriage
will not take pcace.'
The two eyed each other closely for a
moment and then Miss Drew slipped from
her finger the engagement ring ana nand-
ed it back to Mr.. Hammond, with the re-
mark, Every well. Mr.. Hammond, here
is your ring. The new woman has a
mind of her own and will not submit
to such dctatorlal spirit under any cir
cumstances."
Hammond was greatly surprised at the
outcome of the interview, but his hatred
of the new cycling costume was too strong
to admit Of repen tanCe ana he went his
way. The friends OF both persons declare
that there will never be reconciliation.
Cycling is beginning to have an apprc-
ciable effect on the London matrimonial
market.
'.'All our best racers are getting mar
ried like winking." remarked an organi-
zer of bicycle sports to a friend the other
day. I'm fact there is an epidemic Of
marriage going ON among them just now."
The accuracy of this opinion Is corrobor-
ated by the fact that the London County
Cycling club feels constrained to offer
prizes to gentlemen which will be accept
able to ladies, in the hope apparently
that the latter will induce their swains
to continue racing until at least the end
of the season and succeed in winning
something a man may becomingly pre-
sent to his wife. In announcing the con-
for the club mentioned lays special stress
on the fact that those who beat the ey-
listing record and those who finish with
in ten miutes of 1T are to be rewarded
with clasps which are described as capable
of being turned into neat brooches for
ladies and we'll worth winning. Several
OF the leading clubs have recently lost a
considerable number of their swiftest
mem Ders through marriage. After that
their pace becomes much gentler.
The bloomer has one powerful woman
voice is raised IN its favor. This woman
is Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Briefly
Mrs. Stanton likes bloomers. She says
women have perfect right to wear them
if they please. Mrs. Stanton has observed
women for geat many years. Her con-
clusions are interesting. "You see," said
Mrs. Stanton. "a woman should have
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clinging to his own. There was more Sc
curity in wheeling in ancient times and
less disastrous effects upon the morals.
History tells US they were substantial,
slow-e going, heavy. "And the work Of the
wneels was like the work of a chariot
wheel; their sxletrees, and their naves,
and their felloes, and their spokes were
all molten" G. Kings, vii, 33.)
AS long as he keeps his balance-on as
well as off a wheel-I suppose a mans
heart is in the right place. 1t is going to
be such universal evil that there can be
no fault tinders-and goodness is relative
at best. I suppose if it were fashionable
for every one to steal (Which it is not.
that he.who would be bold enough not to
do it would be punishable scamp. The
rare and single-handed antagonist to the
bicycle must not only fight the spirit of
this day. but, if he dare. let him ignore
the prophecy Nahum IL. They shall
jostle one against another in the broad
ways; they shall seem like torches; they
snail run like the lightnings. Chicago
Tribune.
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the men. With what grace and calm
ness, and infinite tenderness for others,
did Anne Boleyn and Mary of Scotland
lay their fair necks upon the block.
Even the fearless Raleigh suffers by COM
parison, for their queenly dignity ex-
celled mis- half-jocular carelessness.
When we come to physical sel'-sacrifice,
to give ones life to save the most dear to
us, wo.uen stand almost alone. Whether
to suck poisoned wound. or to inter-
vsne and receive the assassin's s dagger, or
to nurse the wounded in the midst of
battle. or to watch by the couch of pesti-
lence or death. or to commit suicide to
save their own and their husband s
honor. they have acted without parallel
stronger than her fears, and there is no
sacrifice which she will not cheerfully
make for him who sways her heart.
What she does by impulse man fecbIy
tries to do by calculation.
But it is in moral courage that woman
shines. Just as the greater strength and
training of man makes uim physically
ing of woman makes him morally her in
ferior. In loyalty. truthfulness, chastity.
fidelity, pity, sobriety. honesty and gen.
eral perseverance in well-doing, she Is
immeasurably above him. This has been
noticed by great writers of every age,and
IL WOulQ nOC DC ulI1Cult TO ulSCONeT why
she is so much mans moral superior.
Vaudeville thought it was because her
brain was more accurately balanced. We
think, however. that it is largely owing
to a higher standard of moral conduct
having been constantly demanded from
her from remotest times. But she must
insist upon further physical advance
msnt, and man should look to his morals,
that sexual harmony may result.
1t is no wonder that the towards and
the hearted among the men are
bitterly opposed to the new woman.
They see the rod OF empire slipping from
their grasp and feel that their brute force
and cunning cannot save them. Women
are already mems moral superiors, and
are fast becoming their intellectual
equals. Their physique is improving
more rapidly than he mems. Altogether
the outlook assures us of sexual equality
at no far distant date. Whenever it
arrives it will give universal impetus
to progress, and mark a new and happier
era for humanity, or right, not might,
will govern, and the worthiest wear the
crown. The brave women of the past
and the present will then be revered as
the daring pioneers in the discovery Of a
new heaven and new earth.
The herald., 1895-08-18
Another Use for Bicycles

An undertaken on Madison street fur
nished this bit of chat: do not think
the time will ever come when funerals
will be carried on bicycle, although an
inventive genius, who is wheel crazy,
came to me not long ago with plan for
bicycle which he said would carry
casket. There was wheel for two in
front and two in the rear. l told him
was not Yet prepared to conssid er:the
plan; that did not think we had vet
come to that. Then ne told me that I
might as we'll be thinking it over, as the
scheme had been discussed in several of
the wheel clubs. He further said that
] had bettsr be thinking about a burial
style OF bloomers, as some of the women
wheelers would never consent to be put
away in anything else. The fellow ap-
peared to be very earnest in what he said.
| may have to come down to this for q
livelihood, bus l will tell you right now
it will be after have failed to get Job
at ANYTHING else."
The herald., 1895-08-18
10 Clean the Wheel BEARINGS

The best way to clean the bearings Of a
wheel is to take them out and then re-
move all dirt and rust from them. 1t is.
however, no easy matter for one who has
not some natural talent to replace them.
Most persons will find it more satisfac-
tory to get gritty substances odt of the
bearings with the aid OF kerosene. This
should be poured into the oil-wells, the
wheel being kept revolving constantly.
Old clothes should be worn at this job,
as the kerosene is liable to splash. The
cleansing fluid can best be poured into
the bearings from an ordinary oil can.
generous amount of oil should be run
in after the kerosene has drained off.
The herald., 1895-08-18
New Bicycle Club

The Wintou Bicycle club. composed of
employees OF the Herald composing room,
on Friday. closed a contract with Gibson
Brothers u Fox for eight Winton bicycles
TO De delivered by September 18th. The
Winton agency has been established in
Los Angeles only short time, but the
wheel Is rapidly becoming favorite
among the riders of this city.
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Hard ON the Cyclists

Some strict regulations have been
machines are taxed - lire, those for
hire 5 lire. Each machine must be num-
bered, the number to be both on the
machine and the glass of the lamp. Every
rider must he provided with lamp, to
be lighted at the same time as the streets
are, also brake and some means of CIV
ing warning of approach.
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Pleasures of Imagination

A recent advertisement OF grindstone
worked by treadle arrangement states
that boy or man can work it and while
SO doing derive great pleasure from the
affair by imagining he is riding bicycle.
What fine elastic stretch of imagination
that boy or man would have to have.
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"FOLLOW NE 'OME"

There was no one like i'm, 'orse or foot,
Nor any o. the guns 1 knew;
An because it was So why, O. course Q
went an died.
Which is just what the best men do.
So IT'S knock out your pipes an follow
An It's finish up your swipes an ollow
Oh, ark to the big drum callin'-
Follow me-follow me 'ome!
Is mare she neighs the ole day long,
She paws the ole night through,
An she won't take her feed cause o.
waitin' for is step,
Which is just what beast would do.
rs girl she goes with bonn baroier,
Before er month is through;
An the oanns are up in church, for she's
got the beggar hooked
Which is Just what a girl would Edo.
We fought bout dog-last week it were
No more than round or two;
But l stroOk' i'm cruel ard, an | wish
'adn't now.
Which is just what man can't do.
E was all that had in the way of q
friend.
An I've 'ad to nd one new:
u Nv SifO my pay al otEipo lOL W Bou
the beggar back.
Which it's just too late to do.
So it's knock out your pipes an follow
me,
An it's finish off your swipes an follow
me.
On. ark to the flies crawlin'
Follow me-follow me ome!
Take i'm away! Els gone where the best
men go.
Take i'm away! 'sn' ths gun wheels
turnin' slow.
Take i'm away There's more from the
place e come.
Take i'm away, with the Timber an the
drum.
For it's ''Three rounus blank' an fol-
low me,
An is'o "rhir.een RANK an follow me;
Oh, passin the love o. woman,
Follow me-follow me 'ome!
--Rudyard Kipl,ng in Pail Mall Gazette.
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Romes celebration in Septembe will
last from the 14th to the 2Sth. The col
umn at the Porta PIa. where the Italian
entered the city twenty five years ago.
and the monument to Gara5aldi will be
dedicated on the Goth. monuments to Ca
your and to Minghetti on the 22o and to
the Carroll brothers at Villa Glori on tho
oath, and that to Pietro Cossa. the dra-
matist, on the Ponte Umberto, on the
18th
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"And now,'' shouts the exhorter,
"what is to be done when man is rush
ing neadlong with lightning speed along
the road to destruction--' Deacon
Jones (between snores) ~ Reduce-size
of her-sprocket! She's too high gear. :"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The herald., 1895-08-18

A discussion has been going on as to
what constitutes male attire. A glance
over the bicycle field would almost lead
to the conclusion that there is no dis
tinctively male attire left.--Philadelp phia
Inquirer.
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Woman's iirst duty to man is to be
beautiful. If she insists upon rights she
can be as ugly as sne plcases to be and
wear the dizziest style OF bloomers.-New
Orleans PicaVune.
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AS elsewhere. the bicycle craze is also
extending below Mason and Dixon's line,
At any moment the statement may be ex-
pected that the south is in the saddle
PHILADELPHIA Times.
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A bicycle dealer on Federal street, Phil
adelphia. keeps boy hired especia ally to
sweep the street in front of and near his
store. so as to prevent any possibility of
punctures occurring near the place.
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The Victor Bicycle club of st. Louis
talks of opposing the L. A.W. and assum-
ing control of all bicycle racing on Sun
day IN that city.
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Bicycles are now being constructed of
papier- -mache, and it seems that they
stand the wear and tear of heavy road
work very well.
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Albert Shock, the long distance cham
pion, will have new theatrical attrac-
ton for next winter. He will have a
young lady to work with him in a neat
little sketch.
Willie Wndle, thu old-tims cyclsr has
given up preaching and will return to
the bicycls racing track, and will attempt
to regain his old laurels on the wheel.
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Tom Roe. the old-time cross country
rider, who made trips from San Fran.
cisco to Chicago, Is now making a living
teaching society women to ride at New
port, X, L..
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Privy Councillor Alfred krupp. the can
non king of Germany. has joined the
wheelmen. Heretofore interested in
wheels only so far as they served to
move his gun carriages, he has become
very enthusiastic upon the subject, and
may be seen every morning going out on
his safety, rain or shine.
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The well-known non-bursting quality OF
the single-tube tires is simply the result
OF the superior strength OF their con-
structlon, which renders them capable of
sustaining tremendous air pressure.
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TIE most precious bicycle ia the world
today is owned by the gaikovar of Johore.
1t is of massive gold and inlald with dia-
monds ana sapphires.
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champion tive-mile runner. offers to run
half mile against any bicycle riders
mile, and will guarantee to defeat any
bicycle racer in that way, bar sZimmer-
man or Johnson.
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Abbas Hilmi, the young khedive
Egypa, rides wheel built for him of
GOLD silver.
The herald., 1895-02-09
ARRESTED FOR SEDUCTION.
A Newly Welded Monrovia Laundry
Agent Accused by an Orphan Girl.

A Newly Welded Monrovia Laundry
Agent Accused by an Orphan Girl.
Charles r. Wallace, local agent OF the
Excelsior laundry at Monrovis, was ar
rested yesterday morning in bed by
Constable Yonken of the township court
on q charge of seduction, and brought
before Justice Young, who fixed WAL
lsce's bail at $1,000 pending his examina :
tion next Thursday at 10 o'clock. Wal.
lace had to 60 to jail.
His arrest is the result OF his ma rriage
on February LIST to Miss Edith f. Tn omas
OF Monrovis. According to the story
told by Miss Mamie Gates, who swore &c
the complaint. Wallace made her ac-
quaintancs last year while she was at
service in Monrovia, and accomplished
her ruin under promise OF marriage
in August last. She trusted to his
promise. and when she found herself in
a delicate condition, still hoped that he
would right her wrongs. until she
learned that ne was to marry another
girl in the beginning Of this month.
Mamie Gates is only IL years old, and
an orphan. Wallace is blond, inclined
to badness and stoutness, and be ia 81
years. OF age. Constable Yonken had
been on the lookout for Wallace for
several days, but the latter managed to
elude him until yesterday, when he
WAS caught asleep at the house Of his
mother-in.law.
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preserve his life, and in many coun-
tries would not get it. the horror OF
being dissected after death rises with
many men to q mania, and has repeat
eddy inspired legislative acts drawn
with a puuctilious desire at once to for
ward the knowledge of surgeons and to
respect feeling too strong to be dealt
with by any kind OF argument. Mil
lions OF Christian men and women
would be Mortified a5 the idea of lying
in unconseorated ground, though not
one Of them could say clearly what was
the difference between one side OF the
cemetery, provided 1t were equally pro.
tectsd from dissertation, and the other.
Every day good and pious men pick
out the spot in which they should prefer
TO be buried, OF leave the most earnest
Instructions not only that q certain spot
shall be chosen, but that. II 1t be pos
sihls, the same spot shall be selected
when the hour shall strike for the dear
est OF those who survive-a singular, yet
as we all feel natural, interference
with their equal right OF selection.
We have known at least dozen
men penetrated with a wish to be
buried in country graveyard. grove,
garden. snywhere except in suburban
oemetery-a feeling which this particu-
lar writer, even while his reason repudi.
ates it with scorn, acknowledges to be
in his very blood and bones. The feel
ing OF the very poor is different, being
concentrated on the avoidance of a
paupsr funeral; but among the Guilt.
waited probably more than half form and
express distinct wish as to the place
and method of their own interment. and
would feel aoutely if. for any reason,
that request was refused-whichi 1t never
is, though we have known personally at
least one case in which such request
involved immense expense and some-
thing very like elaborate lying, in order
| to conceal from q superstitiouH crew the
| burden they were involuntarily escort
| ing to the grave. Men wish to be in
| tered as their forefathers were, and say
| so oftentimes in wills with come per
emptoriness, and intention to compel
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DOCTHR RE-ARRES TED.

Nemesis Boaqui still Camping on the
Drummsr's Trail.
The case of smbezzlement, pending in
Justice Owens court against Alexander
Doctor. was dismissed yesterday morn
ing.
The prosecution had anticipated such
contingency by having had prepared e
new complaint against Doctor. which
charged him with having embezzl ed a
$500 check. entrusted to him by M. L..
Polaski for M. A. Gunst q Co. also
with cashing the check and converting
the amount collected to his own use.
Ex-Detsctive Bosqui swore to this affi-
davit Ga the 9th. and the warrant Of ar
rest was served upon Doctor as he left
che police court room believing himself
free man.
Justice Young set the examination for
this afternoon at 8 O'Clock, with bail
fixed at $500. A subpoena was issued
at once for Nose Gunst, which was tele.
graphed up north for the purpose OF
securing q further continuance in the
case for the prosecution.
Frank Bacon, esq.,, attorney for Doctor,
as soon az his client was returned 10
Jail, made prepa ratons to have him
brought up in one OF the superior court
de partmenta on hsbeas corpus. The
writ will probably be heard today.
The herald., 1895-02-09
A PAWNBROKER DUPED.
A FEMALE OF THE SAME CRAFT
TRICKS HIM SHREWDLY.
The Only Hitch In the Transaction Was
the Signing of Auother's
Name.

1t would hardly seem possible to play
trick upon pawnbroker, yet never
theless IL lie done. But as the old saw
says that it takes thief to catch thief
it also takes a pawnbroker to rub it in
on q pawnbroker. In the particular
case mentioned here mine uncle was
done up by mine aunt, and this goes to
prove again that Eve. whether she deals
in second hand jewelry or is tempting
Adam in an apple trade, gets away with
the man.
Not long ago q woman. heavily yelled.
with the general appearance OF lady OF
high lineage who has seen better days,
but is constrained to keep a lodging
house since her late lamented sunk all
his money in the Comstock and there
after departed to discover ethereal lodee
in one of the planets, called at collat.
ersl loan Office located on Second near
Spring street. She had gold watch
and q number OF trinkets which she
desired to Spout" The wedding ring
racket WAS sprung on the pawnbroker,
and she went through SO many little
affecting scenes Over the rest of the
plumber that despite his conviction that
he ought not to loan more than $35 on
the jewelry offered he let her have s45.
She was so profuse in her protestation 8
that she could only temporarily be kept
apart from her gewgaws and would soon
return with the capital and interest,
that she succeeded.
But she never came back. The brok or
did not want to keep the things ever
lsstingly, neither did he want to adver-
tise them for sale, and thus increase his
costs. The precious wedding ring, too.
turned out to be gold-filled and worth
just six bits. When pledging her val,
uables the woman had given the name
OF q wellsknown lady of this city, which
she had signed in the pawnbroker' d
book, but it turned out to be not her
own. The pawnbroker put detective
ON the case who soon discovered th at
the lady in reduced circumstances was
nobody else but female pawnbroker
herself. who had taken this means of
unloading herself OF some undesirable
stock which she had received in her
establishment formerly and which did
not meet with ready sale. 1t was found
that she had put on disguise in q
Spring street store aud taken IL off again
in the same place after the turn" was
done.
The pawnbroker having learned this
much, now threatens the lady collateral
broker with arrest on the accusation of
forgery, unless he gets back his $45 and
the interest thereon ia very short order.
As she is about as shrewd as nstur Q
ever made pawnbroksrs, male or female,
Christians or Jews, it ia quite possible
that she will not come back for that
wedding ring with all its sainted recol-
lections, even then.