The Forrest City times., 1895-10-18

piled to a bicycle. It worked beauti- fully-small and compact, you know but 1t always ran out just when you were in some part of the country where you couldn't get it charged again. So put my wits to work and invented little portable dynamo which could be attached to the driving wheel of bicycle and which would keep replenishing the storage battery. thought that the force going down hill would run the dynamo enough to keep the battery reasonably full and so transmit the force to the bicycle when going up hill"
 And did it work?"
 Did it work? It did work, my boy. in way that would have made your hair stand on end, and nearly ruined my constitution, but as soon as I have that invention under control I'll para lyze the world. I took my machine out of Paris for trial spin before I had everything completed. I live in the southern part of Paris and so ran down toward Fountaine bleau to try how it would go I had the dynamo in one pocket-it is very small but powerful, as l told you-and the bat tery in the other. About twenty miles south of Paris I got off the ma- chine with a smooth empty country road ahead of me, and attached dynamo and battery. But forgot one thing, and that was that the Macquire storage battery increased the E. M. +. of the electricity pumped into it. We'll, l jumped on the bicycle and ran 1t down the road for mile or so, hs- tening to the dynamo purring beauti- fully; then l put my two feet on the front rests and let her spin. She spun to the queens taste. We went along for about ten miles and 1 knew then the little battery ought to be giving out, but she didn't give out. The ma chine was running faster than ever. I reduced speed a bit with the brake and l have no doubt at that time 1 could have stopped the machine, but, as tell you, didn't realize the situa- tio0. As we went on and on I noticed the bicycle was going faster and faster. l became just a little scared. for l remembered l had no way of stopping except by the brake. I put that on hard, but it seemed to have no effect on the wheel. It began to smoke and finally snapped off. Then l was helpless"
 Couldn't you have kicked off the battery or the dynamo?"
 Have you ever ridden bicycle?"
 Yes"
 Well, then, you know that if you are going down a 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. I 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. l flashed through villages faster than lightning express, ringing my bell like mad, but I'll bet you no one ever heard a sound till was mile away. We'll it struck me all at once just what the trouble was. The more that the little dynamo showed electric ity into that pottery the more the battery increased the E. M. F. 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. It isn't what this invention will do on a 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 I do? There was only one thing to do. If I kept on I would run smack through Marseilles and go plump into the Mediterranean. fl ran the machine against wall or building would smash myself into a thousand pieces. 1 thought over the situation for about hundred miles and then saw that my only chance was to make for the Alps. l 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, I turned toward the east and made for Switzerland. I passed the Paris Berne express near Dion and left her as if she were standing still I tell you was happy man when saw the Jura mountains loom up ahead of me- I 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 l 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 chine9"