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Membership In Indiana la Grovringr bjr Ieaps and Bound State Xott on i the Honor lloll.

Tho Lb. ' X. W. Is TOaklnff. the stronffest effort ia Its history to make Indiana a creat league State. Since Jan. 1, of this year, the Increase In membership has been greater than. the entire membership before that date The league i3 not organized for profit to any one, but Is solely for the purpose of .betterjns. tho condition of the wheelmen, and In every State -where the Tnembershlp la strotijr the good results have been noticeable to all. Massachusetts has appropriated, $000,000 for building better roads. Tho appropriation Is made with the provision that it shall be expended by a State commission, but that no more shall be spent "in any county than the county Itself spends1 for the same purpose, or rather that the county mu3t appropriate en equcJ amount for read Improvement before it can secure a. part of the State noney. The result has been that where many counties at first opposed the law, they are now quarreling: among themselves to secure the benefit of it. ' The bicycle bagrgrage laws have been forwarded by tha L. A. W. In New York. tMaryhtnd, New Jersey and Colorado, and with success in part of the States and flatterinjj prospects in others. STATE ROAD MAPS. With this record In other States, the I 'A. W. is now asking that riders of this State Join and help to make road improvements here. Many riders ask what good 4t will do them Individually. Aside from the general benefits of tho league, the Indiana division is now preparing1 a road map and guide and a tourists guide, giving all roads In the State and descriptions and routes to all. the prominent resorts. These. two jkubi'cations will bo mailed free to all member as soon as they are Issued, which will be in a short time. The general benefits of the organization are set out in a. folder issued by the State division, from which the following extraot is made: "Through local consuls members are able to obtain ,careful and detailed Information regarding any particular route or routes they may wfca to take. They will be able to- inform members fully concerning any specially Interesting features in their towns or localities,-can give names and addresses of other U A. W. members in their districts, point out the league hotel and a Itundred and one other little items of itvxormation that are gladly given through the roagto influence of an 1 A.' W. ticket. SAVING AT HOTELS. "Here is where a direct saving comes to members. We make contracts with the principal hotels in the leading towns ami cltiet in the State whereby all L A. Y. membera,wlll be given a reduced rate upon Jresentatiori of an Lw A. W. ticket. If, as in somo'cases, it is not thought best to insist on the special rate, then particular etresa'ksj placed upon the accommodations tfveri to' members. "Week by week we are enlarging; upon the number of these hotels. In all cases the L. A. YV". membership ticket must be shown to secure these privileges. "One of the leading wheel papers of the country " A txright, interesting and handsomely got up illustrated weekly, with ihirty-flve pages cf good, selid worth. Up to ia.t in every particular, always new and always original. IMbils'jes the latest cycling news. Is the ofheial organ of the league contains ail official matter, such as names an4 addresses of the officers of the national body cn dtfts various State divisions (forty), cli reports, notices and communications Irom division and national officers, offlclal racing news regarding:. all records, sancUona. transfers, suspensions and re Ins tit exnenta. Conducts a special department for rsod reads, also one for queries cf general Lrtrrc3t to ell members, answers to which era civea by the most competent men ob

tainable. Ladies department edited by Ida TrafTord Bell.- This paper is sent free eacji week to ail members. INFORMATION EN TOUR. "In planning vacations this will be found of invaluable assistance to members. All tours can be easily mapped out beforehand and arrangement thus made to visit the most desirable places in order. Is there anything under this head that you want or will be likely to need? If you are a member you are at liberty to call on us for anything desired in this line and with the assurance that you will get it promptly and -correctly. This embraces all detailed information that is so necessary to the successful carrying out of a tour, whether it Is for a day, a week or a number of weeks. You would like to know something Rbout the various places of Interest in this State, would you not? We can tell you not only where they are, but how to reach them and a very fair idea of what they are. , Are you hunting for some place to spend a portion of your vacation? If you belong to the Indiana Division I A. W. you can easily learn from us where the different summer resorts are located, why they are popular and how best to get to them from1 whene yon are. You will be surprised at the vast amount of Information, and a considerable-portion of it Quite in detail, that we have ready to supply our members with upon - request. The matter, is being received right along; as fast as obtained Is classified under the different heads, so if you desire to know about the hunting and fishing points in the State, the different mineral springs and their medicinal properties, the numerous large and interesting caves in the southern portion, any interesting natural formations, any particular beautiful stretch of scenery on some tour, the information is i yours, if a member, simply by making your wishes known to us." - , . .

A BEDROOM BICYCLE.

A New Machine "Which Afford All the Pleasure of Racing. New York Sun. Two machinists of Berkeley, Cal., have perfected and patented a racing machine by the use of which, a bicyclist may reel eff "centuries" in a hall bed room or a sertea of races may be held ia the parlor. The machine affords every opportunity fcr the scorcher to. get in all his fine points cf manipulation, and he is able to do all the hard work and experience all the sensations that he would on a circular track or a country road. , Of course, a scorcher doesn't care for scenery; but only for "centuries." The racing machine, or bicycle track, as the Inventors call it. consists of a set of three hardwood rollers secured in a frame. The rollers are four inches in diameter and two and cnehalf feet long. Two rollers are placed five and one-half Inches apart, and the third roller is placed a bicycle length further ahead in the frame. The hind wheel of the bicycle rests on two rollers set together and the fore wheel on the first roller. The lower part of the tire of the hind wheel sts about an Inch below the level cf the upper surface of the rollers. This prevents the bicycle from slipping. The -.rollers are connected by a strong rubber band. The biclycle Is placed on the rollers, the cyclist is held up until he has secured a good start, and then he and his machine are released and he can pedal away for, dear life, reeling off miles cf revolutions, but not advancing an inch. The wheels hold their position securely on the rollers, and are subject to the same condition as they would be on an ordinary road. The apparatus is exceedingly simple, but many experiments had to be made before the proper size and exact adjustment of the rollers cculd be fixed. The track Is substantially the sains as that on which horses race at record pace la a theater. In front of the rider Is a dial, whlcji la ccn-

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ot.uiaieiy, inanung me distance tne rider' Cias traveled. For racing a double machine is mad. Two sets cf rollers are set in a frame facing each other, and he riders pedal head to each other. The machine has been tested by bicyclist experts and under the auspices of bicycle clubs, and is said to be entirely successful. - A Revolution. Detroit Tribune. Th bicycle craze seems to amount to nothing less than a revolution. Vast changes in the eondltions of life are promised as a result of the astounding rush for wheels. With practically everybody riding the bicycle, there cannot fall to come a different manner of life al! around, new customs, new thought and new aspirations. We admonish the ethnologlrts that the bicycle face will have to be reckoned with extensively, while that hump is more likely than ever, to be universally

HOW TO HIDE A RACE

CIIA3IPIOX EDDIE BALD GIVES VALUABLES POI,TS TO CYCLISTS.

Mistakes of Many Rldern In Not Uelug Perfectly Fitted to Their AVheels : The Final Spurt.

Eddie Bald, in New York Journal. There are as many theories of the proper way to ride a race to win as there are "kinds of trees" in a schoolboy's first composition "a great many." Every Individual rider knows the method by which he achieves success, and many of them, especially those who have not had the advantage of experienced trainers, have little idea why certain plans of action, ' even In their own cases, aecomplish the desired results. So when any one attempts to set down rules calculated to guide the novice at bicycle racing in the way to make the most of his ability, he must expect to meet criticism from a hundred riders, each of whom holds his plan the best and surest to bring success in track competition. ' Nevertheless, there are certain rules upon which a majority of the best trainers are agree, though even these grave and rev-erened-seignors are likely to differ upon many points. Take, for instance, the push off, the very first thing that contributes to success or failure in a track competition. In my opinion Asa Windle has the best system of any trainer I have ever known of launching his man Into a race. Standing with his left foot on the tape (the trainer Is forbidden by the rules to step over it), he holds the handle bars of the rider's wheel firmly with his left hand and the saddle with the right." Exactly with the pistol, losing not a single Instant, he gives a mighty pull, and before the momentum acquired by this movement has h?.d timeto slacken, follows it up with a generous shove with his right against the rear of his already well-started rider's saddle. A great many trainers simply shove their men over the tape, but Wlndle's Is certainly the superior plan. It gives the rider a couple of yards' advantage at the start and affords him a superior chance in the struggle for position that Immediately ensues. Asa's combined "pull and push" is an untold boon to the rider whom he starts in a r?ce. FIT YOUR WHEEIj PERFECTLY. Before getting up to ride in a race the rider must' see (that he is perfectly fitted with his wheel. I have seen racing men riding with their saddles so high that only the ball of the foot rested comfortably on the pedal. The result was that on the downward stroke there was no spring, the muscle belnn stretched to its fullest extent. The liveliest gate Is one in which there is always a slight degree of reserve force. This may be provided for by adjusting the saddle so that the heel will rest comfortably on the pedal, which -will allow the' proper swing for the leg. I have always used the straight sprjng toe-clip, though this, of course, is largely a matter of taste. The drop crank hanger, which is increasing largely in favor with racing men, has many advantages. One of these, which perhaps is oftenest quoted, is that the chain runs down hill. "Whether this is a real or imaginary aid to speed-producing must be left to individual opinion. There is advantage, however, in the fact that the rider's center of gravity 13 near the ground, which Is a decided help in taking the curves at a rapid pace. About two and one-half inches is the proper drop. If it goes lower, there is liable to be danger on the curves where the drop crank hanger's greatest advantage should be shown. Indeed, many good riders got bad -falls while this Improvement was being experimented with. At Battle Creek last season Titus got a terrible rpill in this way from the pedal striking the ground as he was going around a sharp curve. But unless the hanger is too low, there is no danger from this source. In a paced race the merits of the drop hanger are very noticeable It permits, the rider, sitting low in his saddie, mtch fuller protection, and leaves the unfortunate who sits high to encounter all the reslstanco of the air, as he is not so well chieldM. Do cot place too much ccnf.dtsca In the c-trc:5 U-htnera cf yo.ir mount. Fcx tit

ter that it should. bea pound or two above the minimum ,apdrb possessed of sufficient rigidity . tioi stiasAl iq-i anof mous t strain to which it is ' subjected while taking the curves. As far as I am concerned I will not trust myself on a wheel weighing less than nineteen or. twenty pounds in the hurly-burly of a race, where I have to risk llfe and limb. The rigidity of the frame, too, is a great advantage to the rider, as it affords him a return tor every ounce of energy expended, which is not the case in a yielding frame. Easy running bearings of tool steel and a perfectly fitting chain are of course essentials. THE PACEMAKER. Supposing a rider to be perfectly fitted with a wheel and supplied with a good man to shove him over the tape, what must he do to stand a chance of winning the race? As a rule he knows pretty well what stuff his competitors are made of, and so he determines -In his mind who among them are likely to prove, his most formidable opponents. With the crack of the pistol the fight for position begins. With a big field It Is unwise' for-the outside riders to attempt to get the pole too soon, as bad spills may result. But the good rider keeps one eye on the pole and the other on his most formidable competitor, or at least the one he hopes to beat, and endeavors to lie up close behind him in the attempt'to make him set tho pace. This is the pronsr coure where thev'pacemaklng is not divided or where singla riders are not put in for the purpose, which I believe to be the best form of pacemaklng extant. The single rider does not give the fortunate individual next him so much advantage over the others as a tandem pacemaker, and makes the race more even at the finish, whore it is usually fousrht out. Most of the races in which I was successful lant season v.ero paced races, the majority being the mile open, which 13 usually the race of the meet. After the riders have, mutually forced some one into setting the pace, tho man who has his eye on the prize should work hard to kep with the front nush, not abreast, but about second or third, where he again gets the advantage of-pacemaklng and is In a position Jo pull out at the last quarter, where ' the real work of the race begins. If the distance Is a mile. He must keen a sharp lookout to see that some rider does not make a jump to leave the push before he can get under way and catch him. Now comes the tug. Any ordinary rider wHl have hung on up to this point, but here skill and strength, quickness of brain and quickness of muscle are necessarily combined to- accomplish the desired result. As the riders round the curve and come down into the stretch, our race winner's mind must, be on the alert while his legs are working like a set of automatic piston rods. He must not overestimate his ability-on a snrlnt, but nicely calculate Just how much distance will be required In the last few yards for him to come up with and pass his foremost competitor. At last the critical moment arrives. The rider has come to tha point where the grent exertion of the race must be put forth. He ducks his head and nuts , twice his weight into every down stroke of the pedal. His wheel weaves from side to side under the tremendous strain It is undergoing. The tape and victory are Just ahead, the confused sound of shouts from a thousand throat9 Is heard from the -grand' stand, he shoots over the ribbon like some mighty human projectile, and the race is won! On the Road. All In the morning sunlight we gayly.take the road; ? By mount and vale we glide along, no spirit's step rnoreXleet, Past fields that wait the daisies bright, past acres yet unsowed. And skimming bv; great meadows green with springing blades of wheat. How different this ecstatic dream of motion swift and lad From that slow Jogging progress which our dear forefathers knew. When lumbering coach or pinioned steed was all that comrades had. If minded then to take the road in gleam of morning's dew. Yet haply, in those older times, when stage coach suited folk. And little kenned the wayfarers of flying through tho world. -Hearts beat at quite "as quick a pace, and sometimes even broke. If then. as now, : the flags of Joy were overborne and furled. . ; Nay, this is not the musing age of persiflage and dream; Our women, brave to do ana dare, go with .us side by eide. ' And wheels like ours are. splendid things as in the sun they gleam; We take no odds frcra bygone days, as fast and fir rs ri-3.

. Two Bicycles and a Color Box. VThis might be called a wheel within a wheel," said he, meditatively." 1 "It might better be called a most unfortunate and unnecessary catastrophe," said she, severely. They sat facing each other on the ground, and between them lay a battered and entangled mass of spokes and tires and pidals which a minute earlier had been two bright and shining bicycles, each pursuing its ap-. pointed way. She was an expert rider, he a mere beginner; she had been coasting, he wobbling along with frequent eccentric deviations, when the crash came. "Why didn't you turn to the right?" she demanded, still severely. "You must have seen me coming from the very top of the hill, and you must have seen that I was coasting." "I couldn't," said he, with commendable spirit. "Of courso I saw you coming, and if 'you had given me a glance of the smallest discrimination you would r.ave een that I had all I could do to keep my balance. My whole soul was concentrated pon holding on till you had passed. It is my first experience on the road." ( She' smiled a sudden, charming smile. "Then it Is really I who am the transgressor," she said sweetly. "I oirght to go down on my knees and beg your pardon. But the truth is I can't. The way of the transgressor seems likely to be hard. I am afr.v'd my ankle is rather badly twisted. I hope you are not much hurt?" "I'm not hurt at all," he declared. Jumping up, and ignoring a cut on his cheek, which she saw then for the first time. "The question is, what can I do for you?" "Oh, your cheek is cut!" she cried pitifully. "I am so sorry! I ought to have been more careful. I would bandage It for yotr-I have taken the 'First Aid to th Injured course but I can't get up to save my life." "I might come over there by you," said he, doubtfully, "butjt's the merest tilfle.' I ought not to trouble you," Thereupon, of course, he went over, and having carefully helped her up to a convenient stone by the roadside, he knelt before her while the toro his handkerchief Into strips and bandaged his cheek. ' "There! I only wish my professor could see that!" she remarked, with the frankest satisfaction in her handiwork. , "You den't happen to have a pocket-mirror, I suppose?" T have; but It's smashed to smithereens," said he, with his hand in his trouser3 pocket. "In that case -since you are not above carrying one, I mean I don't mind lending you mine, which has escaped. as by a miracle." She handed him the article, and he surveyed his bandaged face with approval. - , "A surgeon couldn't have done better.". he declared. "I wish I could do something for your sprain." - "Well, you can't," said she, shortly; "and now I am to get home Hark! Isn't that a wagon?" "I'm afraid It Is," said hey with engaging jandor. ... . She made a slight grimace. "Do you consider it kind," she inquired loftily, "to desire to keep me chained to a rock like Prometheus r - "Extremely kind to myself," said he, calmly. The wagon came clattering down the hill, and he hurried cn: "You see, it is quite out of the question for you to ride in that. It has no more spring to it than the north pole. Your sprained ankle would rise up and rend you." , . ' ' "I'm afraid it would." she sighed, witn.'a little gasp of pain as she made an attempt to rise. - " ' - ' W , ' "Hold on there a minute!" shouted he to the driver. Then he went out and held a short consultation, which resulted irf Jils lifting the disabled bicycles into thewa;nv which jolted off with them. , 4 "The man is gains to ths city fc'c: plxlcjd, ; "csd will t' 3 tita ? 0 V

rooms for repairs and bring us back two others for use meantime. He will be along here again in three or four hours." "Do ycu for a minute suppose I shall stay here, like Patience on a monument, for three or four hours V she cried. "Why, I haven't had my breakfast yet, and I'm half starved! Besides, what earthiy good would a bicycle do me? If I could use my ankle I could walk." "You wen't have to use your ankle," said he, "but if you would prefer me to go and try to knock up a horse and carriage, I am at your disposal." "1 couldn't conscientiously subject anybody el?e's property, to say nothing of an unoffending beast, to the knocking-up process," said she, demurely. "Besides, I don't think there is a house anywhere within miles. I didn't pass one In the five miles I came over. How far did you come?" "Well, you see," said he, hardily, "I wobbled along so outrageously like a drunken sailor that my entire attention was given to not tumbling off, and I didn't count the mile posts, but I'm sure I passed no houses. Yet a saving faith within me suggests that if I take that turn In the road down there I shall come to a beneficent fairy who will give me some sort of sustenance for you. Shr.ll I try?" "i devoutly wish you would," she said, "for I'm half starved. Make the fairy not that I have the slightest faith in her convenient proximity mane her send me some coffee, and suggest that a bottle of arnica would be appreciated." "Is your ankle really painful?" he asked, seriously. "Not a bit," said she, blithely. "I shouldn't know I had an ankle if I didn't try to get uo." "Then the remedy 'indicated' is quite simpl. However, I'll speak to the fairy about the arnica." In a surprisingly short time he returned, bringing a basket packed with fruits of various kinds, a small glass jar of coffee, and some delicately made sandwiches. "You see, my prophet soul was Justified," he remarked, as he served her with a cluster of glowing cherries, and poured some coffee into a thin china cup. "The fairy even proved tractable in the matter of the arnica," he continued, tossing a small bottle into her lap: "and when you have finished these fairy viands, I will retire while you put your admirable 'First Aid to the Injured principles into practice again." "This coffee is nectar and ambrosia," she sighed. "Couldn't your obliging fairy materialize a horse and carriage?" "Alas! it was the one thing beyond her power." "Seriously, wasn't there a horse of any kind about the place?" "Seriously, no." "Then there is nothing to do but wait for another wagon." He cheerfully whistled a bar of "Wait for the Wagon." and paused to remark, "You are not a very heavy weight for the wagon, but how are you going to get in?" "I shall explain matters to the driver, who will be an elderly market gardener with a family of daughters. He will glance reprovingly at you, say, Sho. now, that's tew bad and lift me in bodily." "Oh!" "Perhaps I will intercede for you, and get him to give you a lift, too." "I appreciate your magnanimity. Meantime, would you kindly permit me to sketch you? That box in the grass, toward which I have observed ycur eyes wandering with the kindly interest of your sex. is my box of colors. It seems happily to have escaped the general wreckage due pardon me to your precipitation." "Oh! do you sketch? How delightful! 80 do I. I will use you for a model, and the day needn't be quite wasted, after all." He made a slight grimace. "Ycur candor Is refreshing, if not flattering." "I will do your profile," continued she. "I always prefer profiles, if tne model's nose isn't a hopeless pug; yours Is almost Cl2tslc'9 "Thank you! You are now more flattering than considerate. Has it happened to occur to you that while you paint my almost classic profile I cart paint you at all?" . "Oh, never mind As Hcwells makes his artist-consul remark. 'Pictures needn't trouble themselves to be painters" "If I remember rightly, the painter chap you mention had an uncommon regard for the young person to whom he said that." ' "The analogy ends with its artlrtic application." she said, severely. "Please turn your head a trifle to the left." t ""Pardon me. I decline to serve as a gratutitous model. Reciprocity is my mcto." "Then you win have to take the cons equenoes. Neither your full front nor your three-quarters compares with your profile " "Emerson says, 'Every advantage has its tax.' Yours are, if possible, better." "He r-!so remarked that a man draws tola own portrait by every word he speaks You are net oblidnsr." "I may be Just before I am reneroua.

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say nothing of my fibula and. my plans for the day, you could scarcely do Ws!" "Ye gods! 6he accuses iae of smashing things in general, when anybody with half an eye could see I've been hard hit myself." "Please hand me the Prussian blue," she said, hastily; "and tell me where you were bound when I stopped your triumphant progress this morning." "1 was going to pay my unwilling respects to a tiresome young paragon whom my misguided aunt desires me to marry. I held off as long as I decently could " "Shake hands!" she cried. "Oh, never mind the pose. I know exactly how you fed. Isn't it simply disgusting to have one's relatives dispose of one like that? Now my unfcle wants me to marry a young man he considers perfection. I trave met his aunt, and I must confess she is charm

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Dieaenoy ' "I ay!" he cried, with dawning intelligence in his ejies; "I have accumulated an idea!" impart it at once," commanded she. "You are my aunt's paragon!" Her look of dismay gave place to a laugh of bubbling amusement. "Are you Jack Esterbrook?" she demanded. "Very much so, at your service." "Then you are my uncle's ideal! I knew the 'peerless one, as I have Jong called you. was in the country somewhere, but I never dreamedi he was here, though. I believe now that my hoary reprobate of an uncle knew it perfectly well. Never mind; we'll show them whether we are to be thruit upon each other in fpite cf ourselves!" "That seems to be a fact already accomplished. And you can't deny that you mt me more than half way. In tpite of your aversion to the 'peerless one " "On the contrary, I hould have passed you without a glance if you hadn't wobbled directly across my path." "Oh, I didn't allude to the manner ia which you rode rough-shod over me! Magnanimity forbids that. I merely alluded to the fact that my aunt's sylvan retreat Is only a dozen rods or so down the road, behind that clump of trees." She looked at him In amazement, "Do you mean to say," she cried, . "that you h&vs kept me here all this time when there is & house right at band?" "Do you call it keeping?" said he. coolly. "How could you possibly have got there unless, indeed. I had played the rele of ths kind-hearted market gardener end taken ycu up bodily and carried you?" "You said you didn't pass a house on; the road," said she. . "Neither did I. This is as far as I had managed to get when you rode me down." "You told me there wasn't a hrse about the place, and I know Mrs. Esterbrook keeps horses." "Certainly; but they're out at pasturs this morning." "I wonder why you tell me at all." sh cried. "Why don't you keep me here chained to this rock' "Like the classical duffer you mentioned once before?" finished he. "Simply because I heard the musical kerchunk of that springless wagon which is to bring our fresh bicycles approaching; and there it comes over the crest of the hill down which you rode to such widespread devastation." He went out Into the road and held a short conversation with the man on the wagon, from which he lifted two newwheels. A slender stee! rod followed, some silver changed hands find the wagon clattered on its way. "Now, if you will permit me." said he. "I will lift you on to this bicycle and take you to my aunt. She will be charmed to see you, and we shall be just in time for dinner. This bicycle coupler, which causes the two wheels to support each other in an upright position, thougn motlonles. r-ill. you perceive, prove of mutual benefit, t will relieve you of the necessity of pedaling with your injured ankle and me of keeping my own balance. In other words, I shall propel you and you will keep me steadily in the path, from which I might otherwise deviate. Shall I put it onT "Why so serious about it?" she a?ked. lightly. "A bicycle coupler, however blessed by circumstances, isn't a tie that binds irrevocably." "Suppose it were?" he cried, with sudden ardor. "And suppose I managed to screw up courage to say to you still. 'May I put it onT What would you answer dear?! "Even in that cae I don't see how we could either of us finish the Journeywithout it." Elisabeth B. Walling, in Harper's Bazar. A Ha li Prormi. Teacher Suppose, Johnnie, your mother cuts a pound of meat into eight parts what will each part be? Johnnie Chaffle One-eighth of a pouni. "Correct, Now suppose she cuts tap eighth in two, .what will each part o thenr "One-sixteenth of a pound "Jut so. Now. suppose she ruts each teenth ia cis pieces, what wlU each, pic "ii"vr'