The record-union., 1899-10-20

once a week being generally frequent
enough, unless the owner is rider who
covers his thirty or forty miles a day
Moonlight centuries and nocturnal
rides are becoming a popular phase or
cycling. They have been recently tried
with success in ST. Paul and other
Western cities. Riding by moonlight
in hot weather is far more cool and
pleasant than riding when the sun is
up. The speed is limited, SO that the
run may be enjoyed and the women
riders may not become exhausted.
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1t is the legal duty of every user of
the highway to exercise reasonable care
in every act the consequences of
which may involve the safety of the
persons or property of others. Failure
to perform this duty constitutes neg
ligence.
1t is said that Thomas Wilson,
Canadian electrician, was in 1892 the
first man to make carbide by method
applicable commercially.
Do not tighten the tire valve too
much. Under no circumstances should
a wrench be used for the purpose.
When the valve is screwed down too
hard it wears out the washers and
causes a leak that is often difficult to
find.
A wheelman who continues to use
his bicycle after a ball is broken is
foolish. That one is broken can gen.
orally be ascertained without much
trouble from the fact that the machine
runs hard, though the adjustments are
properly made. If the ball is not re-
moved soon after breaking it will cause
grinding noise, which is an indica-
tion that the cones and cups are being
worn out.
One way to clean handlebar grips is
to scour them with a nailbrush and
soap powder and then wipe off the
lather with a cloth wrung out in cold
water. A little attention Of this kind
occasionally given will keep the ma
chine looking much more attractive
than If neglected.
New York Tribune: The series of
good roads conventions in the West had
most auspicious beginning. The first
was the State convention held at Mil
waukee, with more than 600 delegates
present. AS a forerunner of those to
come, this convention shows an awak-
ening on the subject which is not only
prophetic of increased agitation, but
it shows that the wheelmen are fast
converting the farmers to their belief
that under the movement for better
roads lies an important question Of
economics. AS many of the subse-
quent conventions will follow in the
line of this one it's developments are
Of peculiar interest, and if closely
studied, will prove of absorbing inter
est to every student of industrial CON
ditions. First, it must be known that
this convention was made up of farm
ers, the class upon which the welfare
of the country largely depends. Farm
ers have maintained that wheelmen
have had only a selfish object in ask
ing for good, smooth roads and the
wheelmen have not denied it, but in
defense they have pointed out the
fact that a betterment of the country
highways means an Improvement of the
farmers condition. The latter have
been slow in accepting this statement,
but Governor Schofield sounded the
keynote Of it when, in his address of
welcome, he said THE subject of
good roads is important to every man,
whether he lives in the town or coun-
try. The interest which in the last
few years has been awakened in the
subject therefore promises we'll for the
farmer. The whole progress of the
race from the earliest period to the
present has been so related TO the
building of highways that one wonders
when he reflects that the last genera
tion in this century did not make more
advancement in this direction.
Tt is another evidence that the farmer
is coming to study closely, as the man
ufacturer has long done, how to reduce
the cost Of putting his products on the
market"