Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-10-17

There is saying to the effect that
bIrtisof feather flock together; never
ffaegess it must be admitted that In real
life members of the same profession
sometimes have an unreasonable jeal-
ousy of one another. In proof or TINS
statement I have merely to cite the
well known fact that smaller cities
situated near each other are generally
bitter rivals; and in the same city
newspapers of different politics seldom
have much love lost between them; the
same, regret to say, is true or bicycle
clubs For instance, the celebrated Fly
Wheelers' association looks down upon
the Bouncing Bike club with uncon-
cealed contempt, while the Bouncing
Bfkers have no hesitation In saying
that the Fly wheelers are merely set
OF conceited snobs. When the men,
beers Of rival clubs meet in foreign
lands one would think they should help
each other rather than try to get their
fellow countrymen into trouble, but II
such We're the case, this pathetic &C
count would never have been written
As everyone knows the Fly Wheelers'
costume is subdued, almost unnotice-
able gray, while the Bouncing Bikers
wear a suit of black with scarlet trim
rnings and bright yellow stockings.
The High Flyers, as the Fly Wheelers
are sometimes called, look upon this
costume as garish and vulgar, while
their rivals maintain the others dress
like a lot of maiden ladies new to BIZ
cycling. One advantage of the
Boancers' dress is that a member OF
the club can recognize another any
where within two miles, and / must
admit that when you meet a detach-
ment of the Bouncers on smooth,
level road going at a rate of something
less than q mile minute, all bending
over their machines and exerting
themselves to the utmost, the result Is
sz0suething like a flash of lurid light
ming gone astray. The High Flyers
ON the other hand, go soberly along the
road and rather resemble a gentle
aeecy summer cloud as they pass by
Now it happens that last summer
two members of the High Players as
socIation, in their sober gray suits
were wandering around Lucerne IN
switzerland, trying to find out whether
II was safe to bicycle over the Brunie
Pass to Interlaken. They knew thai
the Brunig was the lowest pass II
Switzerland. and thought perhaps they
might be able to wheel down 1t II
safety and comfort, as they had aist
bean told that on account OF the new
xaIIroad from Lucerne TO Brfenz, ther'
was now very little traffic across TIT
Ezzs, and so they expected to find thu
roaA clear for cycling.
4 am told that it is the right thini
nowadays in the highest social eAcle
N pretend ignorance on every usefu
subject. As long as one knows abso
Eufely nothing, and has some none
and a pedigree one is welcomed anon
the upper ten all over the world.
am therefore paying high compliment
10 the High Flyers when say that
body of young men / have ever me
were more ignorant than they ar'
Their natural ignorance has been II
creased by the fact that each one Q
1isem Is graduate of very swell UNI
rersity. Nothing develops the muscle
and attenuates the brain so much as
course in one of our modern uniyers
ties. and all the High Flyers are just
uroud of their records. On the othe
urand, the Bouncing Bikers are youn
raen who are up to snuff; they kno'
n thing or two and actually are M
ashamed of it, even IL they do dress
sczlrlet, black and yellow.
The landlord of the hotel at whic
the High Flyers were stopping tol
them that he knew nothing at all I
the Brunig Pass, but that two your
countrymen OF theirs had recent
come over on bicycles and woul
probably give them every informatio
The High Flyers then sought the
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