Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29


battery or the dynamo2"
Have you ever ridden bicycleq"
"Yes."
well, then, you know that If you
are going down steep hill on the
keen jump, you have all you can do to
sit there and steer the machine. That
was the way with me. was not go
ing down hill, but along a smooth,
level road at a greater rate of speed
than any wheel ever went down any
hill. flashed through villages faster
than lightning express, ringing nv
bell like mad, but I'll bet you no one
ever heard sound till was mile
away. Well, it struck me all at once
just what the trouble was. The more
that the little dynamo showed electric
lily into that battery the moro the
battery increased the E. NJ. T. and the
faster went the machine, and the faster
the machine went the more electricity
the dynamo produced"
But, my dear Macguire, don't you
see If that happened it would be per-
petual motion?"
That's it You're not SO dull after
all. That's just the point, and there's
where I'm going to paralyze the
world. 1t isn't what this invention
will do on mere bicycle that's the
great thing. That is mere trifie COM
pared with the vast possibilities of the
discovery"
"But what did you do on the bike?"
What did do? There was only
one thing to do. If kept on would
run smack through Marseilles and go
plump into the Mediterranean. II
ran the machine against a wall or
building would smash myself into a
thousand pieces I thought over the
situation for about hundred miles
and then saw that my only chance
was to make for the Alps knew by
the rate we were going it wouldn't
take long to reach there, and so
breathing prayer that people would
keep to their own side of the road
turned toward the east and made for
Switzerland. passed the Paris Berne
express near Dijon and left her as If
she were standing still. tell you
was happy man when saw the Jura
mountains loom up ahead of me. saw
this hotel away up among the clouds
and knew there must be road up to
it, so pointed for the tall mountain.
You see couldn't stop and inquire the
way; was on through express, and
had quite enough of riding for one
trip"
"And did the mountain stop the ma
| chine?"
well, not perceptibly for the first
| thousand feet. was afraid would
have to go clear over Mt. Blanc. The
second thousand feet she slowed quite
noticeably; the third thousand feet
still more. The fourth thousand feet l
saw could get off with safety, but I
was 50 stiff with riding could hardly
move. At last, when nearing the top,
saw the brute actually wasn't going
to stop, SO 1 made an effort just at the
summit and threw myself backward
over the hind wheel, nearly breaking
my neck. But got off, thank good.
ness"
"And where is this wonderful bicycle
now?"
Heaven only knows; the Swiss gov
eminent doesn't, for I've telegraphed
them to find out. AS sat helpless on
the summit, saw the machine give a
wobble or two and thought it was go.
ing to fall, but it didn't. 1t got on the
down grade and went at a rate that
seemed to be good for another ten
thousand miles l telegraphed all
down the road from this hotel, asking
the authorities to be on the lookout for
it, but I've heard nothing from it since.
l expect 1t took dash off the road at
one Of the turns and is lying in the for.
est somewhere. Perhaps it has crossed
the Gemmi and the Simplon and is in
Italy by this time. Next machine !
fit up you bet I'll put on controlling
gear"
II think that would be an improve.
ment."
"Yes. Well, now you see my object
in telling you all this is to give you a
chance of making your everlasting for.
tune. Ileft Paris, as told you, in a
hurry, not expecting to take trip to
Switzerland, and so brought no money.
IT you let me have fifty or hundred
pounds now I'll give you quarter
square in my invention. Remembe,
Westinghouse offered half share in
his brake for five hundred dollars and
the other fool didn't take it. He went
mad afterwards"
"Who? Westinghouse"
mo; the other fellow, because Of
the fortune he missed"
you forget what told you at the
beginning"
"What was that?''
I'm a newspaper man, and conse
quently have no money. But I'll give
you good notice."
And here it is.-Detroit Free Press.