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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

and later on secured a similar rig by win
ming the Derre-Webbsr road race in Mime
apolis, where he broke the worlds record
TOR twenty miles, making the rounds in
54:l7. He also won at this time the special
prize offered by Morgan & Wright. Shortly
after, he went South for a four months
tour. At Denver he again smashed another
worlds record, going a half mile in 81 sec
onds Hat At Pueblo he rode an exhibition
mile In 1:5S which Is his fastest time for
that distance. From Pueblo he went through
Texas. taking with him Miss Frankie Nell
son, the champion lady rider of the world
The pair gave numerous exhibitions. and
Bird netted something like 81, 900 for his
trouble He also won the Como road race
in ST. Paul in 1892, 1893 and 1894. Bird Is
now considering entering into the profess
sional ranks. He had an offer to go to Eng
land in February. but refused to accept it,
He will ride for the Bird Cycle company this
year and will be astride National.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

and still fewer women. give up in despair
| Children take to the wheel by instinct Boys
have been known TO ride fairly well at the
first attempt, and young girls are hardly less
apt. 81 l.
Cupid as a leveler of ranks has been super
ceded. A bicycle can do more dwelling than
Il steam roller. At a riding school, rank
fashion, age. beauty. wealth. youth and eail
the rest meet on common ground and some-
times very abruptly They occasionally get
into such confused heap that it is like play
ing mental Jackstraws to pick them out All
sorts and conditions of men and women ride.
Grandmother and the baby take their lessons
at the same time There is at least one
royal road to learning. and 1t is iexemplified in
the bicycle riding school.
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Geers has seventeen horses under his care
at Selma, Ala.
The two-year-old sister Of Phoebe Wilkes
is reported fast.
Belle Hamlin. 2:12s4, has been bred to Dare
Devil, a son Of Mambrino King.
Word comes from Selma, Ala, that Robert
J shows a tendency to become sulker.
The Montana state fair for 1896, being the
twentyseventh annual exhibition, will be held
Aug. 10 to 20.
Favorite Wilkes was injured seriously dur
ing the Poughkeepsie fire last week. Fleet
Boy was also slightly hurt.
VI. E. McHenry has definitely decided to
train at Freeport, ILL.,, where he has been To-
Gated for the past five years.
Norwood, 2.21A, pacing son of Nutwaod
dam by George Wilkes, will be in the stable
of C. A. Thompson, Independence, To-, this
year. .e
c. A. Thompson, of Independence To-, has
sold the four-year-old colt by Alerton, 2:o9A
out of Flossie G.. PISA, by Antar,,to J. P.
Fox, of Muscatine, To-.
The dam of that good four -year-old Wiscon-
sin PAGER, Afrite, 2:08A, is due to ,foal to
Gogebic, and the produce will be "a full
brother OF sister to him.
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world is matter he finds we'll known and
valued by all competitors.
Ray Macdonald. who was taken along as a
sort of understudy for the star OF the ag-
gregation is only eighteen years old and the
youngest of the party. Nevertheless he
weighs ITO pounds, in spite of the fact that
he Is only five feet six inches in height. and
is a good reliable. al-round wheelman
Anton Johnson, a younger brother of the
swift John S. Johnson is practically an un-
known quantity to the outside world, although
he has raced with considerable success in
and around his home in Minneapolis Like
his brother. Anton is Swede by birth, but
ne was only year old when he arrived in
America. He is ROW twenty years old and
taller than John S., though not so heavy The
fact that Eek is putting him on tandem with
Macdonald makes 1t apparent that he is
speedy.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

wheel Out of fifty-four starts he won forty
three times. and got seven seconds. His big
scoop at Winona during this year proved val
liable to him. Ehe total value of prizes
won in 1898 was s., 500.
All these years Birds racing was mostly
in the state of Minnesota, but in 1894 he
sought national honors and attended the l..
A. w. meeting at DeFTer. Here he met the
very swiftest riders in America and wrested
from his competitors 1.-THE great fiye-mile
event from a large field of starters, breaking
the worlds record at that time. Bird COW
cred the distance In 12:15. He also secured
fourth in the -hxe-nile national champion
ship, His winnings feE 1884 were trifle over
s., 900. In 1895 Bird attended the national
meet at Asbury Park, I4where he landed the
horse, carriage AID harness valued at $4o0,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
TOM EcK,s BIc,'cLE TRIO.
They VIII Try to Gain Gold and
Glory on European Tracks.

The European tour Of the indefatigabIe
manager and trainer of cyclists, Tom Eek,
and his fast trio, John S, johnson, Anton
Johnson and Ray Macdonald holds the at
tention of wheelmen, everywhere Mr.. Eek
and his proteges have been so successful in
gathering in the dollars on this side of the
water that much interest is manifested as
to whether they will be equally fortunate in
their efforts to secure the coin that fluctuates
among the sporting classes of England,
France, Italy and other r3enlightened principal
tiles -.4n
While the venture OF the intrepid Mr. Eek
Is OF an individual sort II will receive ample
recognition at the handssof the nations he will
visit, for the fame of Me and Johnnie" as
the lively manager puts it, has gone far in
front of him. and the vigorous manner in
which Mr.. Eek pushed John s. Johnson into
the front rank of the fast wheelmen of the
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
PNEUMATIC SADDLES NOW.
This Years improvements Add to
General Comfort

In every direction the efforts of wheel max
the bicycle the mechanical element of rigiditY
Until the invention of the pneumatic tire the
rigfdity of the wheel was such as to some
times produce a serious arrangement of the
riders nervous system. Even with inflated
tires long rides over hard roads are said to
be occasionally productive of injury to the
spinal cord This injury is rare when serious
but 1t Is no common thing for cyclists, es-
pecially women. to complain of feeling after
long ride, if they had completed an ex-
hausting Journey in railroad car. This yeaf
the little rlgidity remaining in a first-class
wheel will practically disappear. Pneumatic
saddles Will contribute to a great extent
towards this desirable result. while handle
bars made of second d-growth hickory will re-
lieve the tension of the riders arms. The
hickory possess not only the strength of the
metal tubing, but a moderate elasticity to-
tally lacking in the former.
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LID
BURNEY BIRDS SUCCESS.
He Has Made an EnviabIe Record
With His Bike.

Perhaps no other wheelman in Minnesota
save the famous John Johnson, has met
with the same success on the cinder path ss
has Burney Bird, the ST. Paul crack. In
fact, there have been but few men in the
country who have, carried off more valuable
trophies than Bird. Burney Bird is now
twenty-three years of age, and has his best
days still before HIM He first mounted a
wheel in 1888. when he pedaled over the
country roads on high wheel. In 1889 he
won his first victory in race with Charley
Steele at the state fair grounds. From that
time he did nothing until 1891, when he
purchased a cushion tire wheel weighing
ffty-four pounds. The race in which he
made such hot finish with Johnson will
be remembered by those who saw 1t. His
aggregate winnings for 1891 and 1882 amount
ed to about 81 300 In 1893 he did some Of
his best racing, riding twenty-six pound
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
WARM WORDS THESE.
southwestern Herseman Bride
groom Roasts Legislators.

While the editor of the Northwestern
Horseman is enjoying the sweets of connu-
bial felicity, the office boy is paying off some
old scores. witness the following:
The amendments to the Percy-Gray bill are
likely to pass the New York legislators New
York has had a taste of anti-racng legisla-
ton of the strictest kind and finds it quite
unpleasant. The obnoxious features in the
Percy-Gray law resulted in the closing of
several of the prominent tracks and worked
great hardships to breeders all over the state
1t Is to be hoped that in the future the bigots
and ignorant fossils who succeed in getting
elected to our legislatures will not be permit
ted to enact statutes aimed to destroy such
valuable and worthy interests. The famous
Charter Oak Park at Hartford one of
the historic tracks of this country, is adver-
tised for sale April 4. This sale and the ul-
innate destruction of track which has con-
tributed so largely in the past to the best in
terests of the breeding and racing classes is
directly traceable to the puritanical 'blue
laws" Of Connecticut, recently enacted by the
hay-seed legislators of that state.
Fossils and hay-seedsi Wow!
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
Observation-Disclosures
Yale VIII Row wisconsin.

The YaleWisconsin race is a surety Two
pair-oared boats have been added to the Madi-
son navy to facilitate coaching. enabling the
coach to take members of the crew who may
be in poor form out for practice two at a
time without putting the entire crew through
the extra work. They will also be valuable in
teaching the men to balance the boat one OF
the crews weak points last year. The pair
oar boats are twenty five feet long and thirty
inches wide, built upon the same lines as the
eight-oared shells. They hold two men with
TWO oars and coXswain.
Finest imported cigars, costing from
15 cents to 81 each, at 10 cents straight.
Dennis, Fourth and Robert.
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lee Yachting Not Yet Ended.

The Excelsior Ice Yacht club is making ar
rangements to have a first-class regatta in
the next couple of weeks, though it will prob
ably be altogether local contest, as there is
hardly any hope OF getting the foreign boats
up here again. The uncertainty as to how
long the ice will last is offered as an excuse
by the Pepin and Madison people. Mime
tonka racing men are confident, though, that
there will be good ice in the lake ten days
from now, and that If no more snow falls
it will be the best racing surface that has
been found on the big lake for several years.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

: The Yale crew which is to compete in the
Henley regatta will sail on the steamer Ber-
lin June 6. 1t has been estimated by the man
ayers of the navy that it will cost SO, 900 to
train the crew this year and to pay all the ex-
penses of the trip to England. This is very
little in excess. of what 1t has cost Yale to meet
Harvard at New London.
The regular makeup of the crew has been
as follows Stroke; Langford; No. T. Patter-
son; No. 6. Longrace; No. s. Bailey; No. i,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

In Justice to the public, to our competitors
and ourselves. wish to state that the Elgin'
Wheel, for which we have the agency, is
manufactured by the Elgin Watch Company,
and not by the Elgin Sewing Machine Com
pany. THISTLE CYCLE COMPANY,
81 to % West Fourth Street
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6'648|1(1 666811
THREE-WHEELED TANDEM.

which become integral parts of such tan
dem may possess different gearing or heights
of frame but that fact will not affect the com
bination in the least The attachment
bles man and wife TO become owners of a
well-constructed although inexpensive tandem
simply by having single wheels and the at
tachment. 1t is said the presence of the third
wheel does not cause the slightest inconyeni-
enee.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
.'ssee0Goes.'
Kenwood , Renney
BICYCLES

Are standard. high-grade $4,000
wheels of national regulations.
Frames are made Of cold-drawp.
seamless tubing, with drop steel
forged connections. and REINFORCED
thoroughly at every connection.
Bearing Cones and Cups are turned
from solid bars. OF tool steel OF the
finest quality. Hubs are also turned
in one piece from solid bar tool steel.
No finer finish is put Oh any Bicycle.
Our price on either of them, in either
ladies. or YeutIemen's models. Is
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
DEVICE TO Make TANDEMs.
Arrangement Transforms
Two Wheels Into One.

The Jacobson three-wheel tandem attach
ment should prove boon to those who desire
an effective but economically, constructed dou-
bic machine The arrangement enables a
rider to make tandem from any two bicycles
in an incredibly short time. The bicycles
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Rodgers; No. 3; Beard; No ?, Mills; bow, d.
Rogers. -f ~ "a
Treadway. the captain will, of course take
his place at No. as soon as regular coaches
are on hand every day to look after the crew.
With this change and a possible change at No.
2 the most likely makeup. of the crew that
will represent Yale at Henley is obtained.
All the positions will be declared within the
next two weeks. Treadway will keep all of
the oarsmen at work during the Easter vaca-
ton,
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29
$500.

men models.
Many wheels that are sold at this
price, and pass for reliable goods, are
made with frames made of ''braZed
tubing" and bearings made of ordi-
nary machine steel" instead Of
tool steel. Be sure and look for
these points, and buy wheel that is
made with frame of Cold-drawn,
seamless tubing, and bearing
cohes and CnpS of tool steel. The
RELIANCE is such a wheel, and is
sold strictly on its merits as the very
best that the markets afford at the
price-S76.O 90.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

Do Not Believe

That a wheel is necessarily a
high-grade wheel because it lists
at $4,000. It's the materials that
are IN itand the quality OF work
manship that determine the worth
of the Bicycle, not the price at
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-29

perienced observer. the frames
of most bicycles seem very
much alike. But they are not.
There is lots of difference between
cold.drawn seamless tubing and the
cheap HbFazed' tubing from which
the frames of many bicycles that pass
for high grade are made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22
ARTIFICIAL WILD MEN,
Kidnapped Chinese Children Mutflated For
Exhibition Purposes.

There are many curious trades in the
world, but the most strange must surely be
the artificial manufacture of wild men. ~
Yet u well known English doctor in China
has just certified from his own personal
experience that this art is regularly prac-
ticed in ;he Flowery Kingdom.
First youth is kidnapped, then bit by
bit he Is flayed alive, and the skin of dog
or bear grated, piece by piece, upon him.
His vocal cords are next destroyed by the
action of charcoal to make him dumb, and
the double purpose Of causing .etiolation''
OF the skin, and utter degradation of the
mental faculties is.effected by keeping him
immured in n perfectly black hole for q
number of years
In fact, by treating him like brute for
n sufficiently long time he is made into
one. At last he is exhibited to the entirely
credulous Chinese as wild man of tho
woods, and his possessors reap a rich har.
vest. The priests, il seems, are adopts al
the art. When n kidnaper, however, is
caught by the people. nc is torn to pieces,
and when the authorities get him they tor.
turc and promptly behead him. Such il
life under the rule of the son Of heaven.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22

two cars. just as / got on I saw several
men and heard ono of them whisper.
That's the messenger, boys I tried to
get off, but they closed IL around me. One
OF them struck me in the face with the
butt of his revolver and others hammered
me with their fists. Then they went
through my pockets, took my money,
watch and chain, pulled off my ovcrcoat
ard took oven my hat and my handker-
chiefs.
Then the fellow with the mask told
them to throw me OFF. I begged hard,
but the leader repeated his command.
The train was passing over u trestle. The
men seized me, and / fought hard with
them. There were six. instead of five, as
reported, bu: wasn't going to 30 thrown
OFF without struggle. L stood them off
anyway till got off that trcstlo, and it
doubtless savWi my lifo.
"whcn was thrown off, fell on my
side into bank of soft clay and must
have lain stunned for several moments
Then got up and started back for Gar
rctt, fer knew the train didn't stop till
it got to Bremen, 80 miles away. told
the operator what had happened, and he
wired TO Bremen. In little over an hour
word came back that the gang had been
captured"
When the message was received at
Bremen, tho marshal of that place got to-
Gethcr n posse of ten good men to arrest
the outlaws.
AS the train approached the town the
engineer saw five men with drawn revolv-
crs standing on the platform. He brought
the train to a stop, with the front end of
the express car, on which the robbers were
riding. near the armed posse in waiting.
The robbers were covered and ordered to
surrender and to give up their outfit
| crowbars and other tools and quantity of
dynamite. The outlaws submitted to ar
rest, and the ten officers started to march
them to the police station.
Half a block away from tho railroad
station one of them struck an officer to the
ground with n club which he had concealed
under his coat. Immediately all made q
| break for liberty. The officers opened fire,
and the robbers returned it. For 100 yards
| q running fight was kept up, in all about
| % shots being fired. Two of the robbers
| were brought down by the bullets from
the rcvolvcrs of the officers One was
probably fatally shot. Two succeeded in
| getting away.
Tho bandits were waiting for favor
| able place to hold up the train and rob the
| express car. If they had not waited too
long, they might have been successful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22
A Newspaper For Detective. Only.

The American Hawkshaw will go down
into literature outside of the dime novel
and the detective story, for he has a news
paper of his own This unique addition
to the list Of class papers is published
monthly at Indianapolis by the veteran
detective, Captain Webster, and il is de
voted TO the interests Of detectives and po
licemcn. Its news columns are given over
to n bulletin of more than SIS, 0CO in.casf
rewards, with veritable rogues' gallery
of pictures and descriptions Of crook.
wanted" while the latest swindline
schemes and methods of detection are fully
explained for its crime investigating read
srs. 1t is interesting to read that ''if you
want to succeed as detective. you should
understand bypnotism.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22

Q grade, the cars started down the hill.
The brakes were quickly set, however,
and the train stopped.
While Conductor Meyers went back &c
Lebanon 20 give the alarm the engineer,
Sremen and several passengers who wers
armed started in pursuit of the engine.
They figured that the robbers would soon
give up the iron horse and take to the
woods. It was found about four miles
distant
That IL how the Missouri bandits exem-
plified the art of holding up n train.
The plans of n gang of men who under.
took to rob Baltimore and Ohio train on
the same night near Garrett, Ind, did not
work so smoothly. When the train stopped
at Garrett, Theodore Beilstein of Pittsburg
stepped off to get a sandwich. This is his
story of what followed:
''While the train was waiting at Gar
rett l walked around and was on the op-
posite side of the cars from the depot
when it started. got on between the first
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22

Three Men Stop . Train, Rob an Express
Car and Steal the EnIine-On the Same
Er;~f
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22

HOLDING Up THE ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.
explosion shook the entire train. and the
last one tore big. jagged hole in the top
of the safe, rs the force OF the explosive Is
directed downward.
Through this aperture the bandits got
a. the contents. They hauled out every
thing there was in 1t and took everything
of value.
The bandits made no attempt TO secure
anything from the passengers.
Having cleaned up the express car, they
wcre ready to quit. Therefore, still keep
ing every one IN sight covered with their
guns. they climbed on to the engine. cut
her loose from the train and, putting on a
full head of steam, went flying up the
track, firing q final round to announce
their departure from the scene.
They ran the engine four miles down
the road, where they killed the fires and
took to the woods.
Meantime there was tremendous excite
mcnt on board the train. After the engine
pulled out, the brakes not having been
set and the train having been stopped on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22

A Paris advertising agent, who recently
painted the front of his establishment u
brilliant red, has been sued for damages
by a milliner. jeweler ard silk mer-
chant having stores opposite on the ground
that the reflection of color makes it impos-
sibic for their customers TO distinguish the
color Of the goods they wish 10 buy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22
DENrrsrS.

Nov Dental Psriors, over Harts . Uliemcycr
Drug store, Third avenue ard Twentieth stree.
TIE latest appointments for skilled dental work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22
4 DAREDEVIL FEAT
Stood on His Head on the Verge
of a Precipice.
THREE THOUSAND FEET THE AIR
Robert Edgren's Hair Raising Exploit ON
Glacier Point Yosemite valley-Hc Is
an Iron Nerved Athlete and Is Csed to
Fliphaps.

Fancy standing on your head on the
very edge Of a prccipice 3, 900 feet high and
kicking your feet in the air. That's what
Robert Edgrcn did in-the Yosemite valley
just to raise the hair on the heads of his
camping companions.
The whole trip up to the Yosemite had
been series of flips, cart wheels, somer
saults and running jumps. Their muscles
had been developed and hardened by q
several years course in Berkeley gymnasi
UNI. Will RobIee had been a gymnasium
instructor and could tumble and turn
somersaults like professional. Eugene
Trefethen was one of the best runners tina,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-22
Geo. 2. Steuduhar,

Architect.
Plans end suporinssndsnes for ali elsss Of
buildines. Rooms - and %, 2iseasu Lynde
build,n nc. rake elevator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-12-21
HARNESS TIE WHlRLWIND.
ExtraCrdina Proposition Of q
Noted French Scientist.
Plan OF VI. Pictet for Utilizing the Forces
Which Rise to Such Phenomena
TO IrriGate the Great
sahara.

The latest French engineering scheme
and the schemes of French engineers
are always startling, oven if some of
them never take practical shape-is to
harness up the frisky sand whirl that
goes careering about over the Egyptian
deserts, and to make it do some useful
work.
1t is high time for something of the
kind to be done. Everyone knows that
no picture of a scene in the desert is
complete without two or three of these
lofty columns of whirling sand stalking
about over the wide eXpause, with an
Arab and a camel in the foreground.
In these pictures the Arab and the cam
cl are doing all the work, and the
whirlwiuds are having all the fun. The
new plan purposes to reverse this; the
camel and his rider are to be in some de-
gree relieved and the whrlwnd is to be
made to toe the mark.
Strictly speaking, what it is proposed
TO harness is not the fully formed
Whirlwind-for when a whirlwind has
been allowed to reach its full stature.
and to get its adult strength, IL is hard
to catch and still harder to tame-but
the conditions that cause the whirl-
wind. Conditions that can set the air
to whirling for mile above the ground
carrying up with it to that height
enough sand to swamp a caravan, arc
surely able, if properly directed to 90
Just as much work in a more profitable
way. If they have strength to dance
all day like huge, untring dervishes,
they have strength to draw water from
the Nile and to pour it over the parched
and arid fields, making the desert 10
blossom as the rose.
This is what NJ. Raoul Pictet thought
one day. as he sat in the desert near
Cairo watching the sand whirls; and