Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — The Bicycle Conquering the Horse. [ARTICLE]

The Bicycle Conquering the Horse.

The bicycle has come, and although the predominance of the horse in sport is not destroyed, it is no longer undisputed. Not like that other, that with sulphurous manifestations tumbled tbe knight from his steed, this modern machine, in quiet and orderly manner, as becomes the present, is tumbling his modern counterpart from hunter and frqm hack. Gradually it has been growing in favor, and uow it is bearing all before it. There is no dignity too great to be borne by the nimble wheel, and coquetry has been sacrificed for its sake. Every oue rides: and it is singular that the most bigoted horseman often falls the most abject victim and is found practicing ’ u]K>n the smoothly running innovation —sometimes, it is true, on the sly. A writer says in speaking of the ••retreat” of tite power-holding classes: “The effect produced on certain individuals is such that, instead of siding with the class to which by tradition and individual interest they undoubtedly belong. they take their place in the ranks of their opponents.”