Arizona silver belt., 1896-09-10
CYCLING THE GLOBE.
The Feat Of Riding Around the
 World on a Bicycle.
How 1t Is Performed These Days by Wheeling Entkusissts-Hair Rais- ing Stories Told by
 the Heroes.

X 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 pallid boy who turns ill at the smell of cigar or girl who lies next 10 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 Kaffir kings as they annihilated Puck record round the globe. When the ship stops at Yokohama out come the wheels. and the heroes ride the full length of the Bund-a commercial street about a mile long. The rest of Yokohama is on hill too steep for wheeling. At Kobe and Nagasaki the town sites are more nearly level and the heroes ride perhaps two miles. having their wheels lifted back aboard the steamer as she voyages from place to place. Having done Japan by going ashore at three points, they forge fearlessly ahead on the steamship, yearning to brave the ter. TOTS of China on their flying tires.
 China they discover to be one of the finest fields for this phase of reckless deviltry in all the world. The ship takes them to Shanghai, where the Bund is nearly two miles long and all lined with churches, clubs, banks and brokers and shipping ofiices-as safe and occidental as Broadway. They hear that they can ride five miles on the Maloo and the Rubbling We'll road before they come 10 the muddy towpaths that form the actual roads of that part of China, along which no wheelman can ride With their hearts in their throats, fan cying every poor devil of coolie they meet to be a murderer fresh from sack ing a missionary's house, they pedal onward. When they come to the tea gardens, whose gateways swarm with Chinese. they all but faint, and could the Chinese dandies and courtesans at these gates read what the bicyclisls afterward report of their experiences ht the time they would find themselves described as an undisciplined mob of soldiers and lawless retainers in front of mandarin's palace, with this ad- ditional statement: "They scowled SD fiercely and made such threatening gestures that only the swiftuess of ny wheel prevented another massacre be. ing added to the list of crimes against foreigners in China"
 Back to the ship the wheeling hero flies and writes notes of his hairbrCadth escapes in central China until the yes sel passes Woosungg and begins to roci, him back into scasicbness. Hong Kong is the next place at which the bicycle is taken out-a British possession no more to be regarded as dangerous for for cign lady of the most timid tempera- nent to walk about alone in than is the European republic of Shanghai or the haunt of mountain desperadoes in New Jersey called Tuxedo. So the journey aroHnd the world continues-aboard ship with the historic wheel safe in the baggage room and only an occasional chance occurring to take it out in places like Singapore, Alden, Port Said, Alex andria and the rest of the desperate lurking places of European merchants on the way to Europe. Fertile mos ments are experienced and recorded on the way. For instance, on the Red srn notes are kept of the ferocious charac. ter of the inhabitants of the dark con tineIt. On the Mediterranean the ship passes Greece, with it's pirates. anal Italy, with its banditti. each of which savage and relentless bodies of people isworkcd into the wheclman's or wheel girls diary in such an effective way as 10 almost make the diarist turn pale as Rc or she reads over what has been writ ten,
 Finally comes Southampton, or Liver pool, or Hayre, and there the now world famous wheel makes it's last spin-so that its owner can truthfully say it has "done Europe"-before being hoistcd aboard steamer homeward bound for New York.-Ns Y. Sun.