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EEV. DR. TAIJ1A.GE.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TH1I
NOTED DIVINE.
Subjcct: "The Mighty Hunter."
Text: "He was a micrhty hunter before
the Lord."?Genesis x., 9.
In our day hunting is a sport: but in the
lands and tho times infested with wild beasts
it was a matter of lifo or death with the
people. It was very different from going
out on a sunshiny afternoon with a patent
breechloader, to shoot reedbirds on the flats,
when Pollux and A.chillesand Diomede? wf*nt
out to clear the land of lions and tigers and
bears. My test sets forth Nimrod as a hero
when it presents him with broad shoulders
and shaggy apparel and sunbrowued face,
and arm bunched with muscle?"a mighty
hunter before the Lord.'* I think he used
the bow and the arrows with great success
practicing archery,
I have thought if it is such a grand thing
and such a brave thing to clear wild beasts
out cf a country, if it is not a better and
braver thing to hunt down and destroy those
great evils of society that are stalking the
land with fierce eye and bloody paw, and
sharp tusk and quick spring. I have wondered
if there is not such a tbing as gospel
archery, by which those who have been flying
from the truth may be captured for God and
heaven- The Lord Jesus in His sermon used
the art of angling for an illustration when
He said, "I will make you flshers of men."
Anrt <ar? T f-Mnlr T hftrfl AiifhoritV for USiiig
hunting as an illustration of cospel truth,
and 1 pray God that there may be many a
man to-day who will begin to studv gospel
archery, of whom it may. after a while, be
said, "Ho was a mighty hunter before the
Lord."
How much awkward Christian work there
is done in the world! How many good people
there are who drive souls away from
Christ instead of bringing them to Him! All
their Angers are thumbs?religious blunderers
who upset more than they right. Their
gun has a crooked barrel and kicks as it
goes off. They are like a stupid comrade
who goes along with skillful hunters. At
the very moment when he ought to be most
quiet, he is crackling an alder, or falling
over a log and frightening away the game.
How few Christian people have ever learned
the lesson of which I read at the beginning
of this service, how that the Lord Jesus
Christ at the well went from talking about
a cup of water to the most practically religious
truths, which won the woman's soul
for God. Jesus in the wilderness was breaking
bread to the people. I think it was good
bread. It was very light bread and the
yeast had done its work thoroughly. Christ,
after Ho had broken the bread, said to the
people, "Beware of the yeast or of the leaven
of the Pharisees." So natural a transition
it was, and how easily they all understood
Him! But how few Christian people
there are who understand how to fasten
the truths of God and religion to the souls
of men! Truman Osborne, one ol tne evangelists
who went through this country years
ago, had a wonderful art in tne right direction.
He came to my father's house one
day, and while we were all seated in the
room he said, "Mr. lalmage, are all your
ehildren Christians?" Father said, "Yes, all
but De Witt." Then Truman Osborne
looked down into the fireplace and began to
tell a story of a storm that came on the
mountains, and all the sheep were in the
foli1, but there was one lamb outside that
perished in the storm. Had he looked me in
th? eye I should have been angered when he
told that story. But ho looked into the fireplace.
and it was so pathetically and beautifully
done that I never found any peace until
i was sure I was inside the fold where
the other sheep were.
The archers of olden times studied their
an. They were very precise in the matter.
The old books gave special directions as to
how an archer should go an 1 as to what an
archer should do. Ho must stand erect and
firm, his left foot a little in advance of the
right foot. With his Jeft hand he must take
noia or me oow m me miuuie, tuiu meu
with the three fingers and the thumb of his
right hand he should lay hold of the arrow
and affli it to the string?so precise was the
direction given. But how clumsy we are
about religious work! How little skill and
eare we exeroise! flow often our arrows miss
the mark! Oh, that there were more institutions
established in all the towns and cities
of our land where men might learn the
art of doing good?studying spiritual archery,
and known as ' mighty hunters before
the Lord."
In the first place, if you want to be effectual
in doing good, you must be very sure of
your weapoD. There was something very
fascinating about the archery of olden times.
Perhaps you do not know what they could
do with the bow and arrow. Why, the chief
battles fought by the English Plantagenets
were with the Ions bow. They would take
the arrow of polished wood, and feather it
with the plume of a bird, and then it would
fly from the bow string of plaited silk. The
broad fields of Agmcourt and Solway Moss
and Neville's Cross heard the loud thrum of
the archer's bow string. Now, my Christian
friends, we have a mightier weapon than
that. It is the arrow of the gospel; it is a
sharp arrow; it is a straight arrow: it is
feathered from the wingof the dove of God's
Spirit; it flies from a bow made out of the
wood of the cross. As far as I can estimate
or calculate it has brought down 400,000,000
30uls. Paul knew how to bring the notch of
that arrow on to that bow string, and its
whir was heard through the Corinthian
theatres, and through the 'courtroom, until
the knees of Felix knocked together. It was
that arrow that struck in Luther's heart
when he cried out: "Oh, my sins! Oh, my
eins!" If it strike a man in the head, it kills
his skepticism; if it strike a man in the heel,
it will turn his step; if it strike him in the
heart, he throws up his hands, as did the
Emperor Julian of old when wounded in the
battle, crying, "O Galilean, Thou has con
querea: '
lathe armory of the Earl of Pembroke
there are old corselets which show that the
arrow of the English used to go through the
breastplate, through the body of the warrior
and through the backplate. What a symbol
of that gospel which is sharper than a twoedged
sword, piercing to the dividing asunder
of body and soul, and of the joints and
marrow! Would to God we had more faith
in that gospel! The humblest man, if he had
enough faith in it, could bring 100 souls to
Jesus?perhaps 500. Just in proportion as
this age seems to believe less and less in it, I
I believe mon- and more in it. What are
men about that they will not accept their
own deliverance? There is nothing proposed
by m^n that can do anything like this gospel.
The religion o/ Ralph Waldo Emerson was
the philosophy of icicles; the religion of
Theodore Parker was a sirocco of the desert
covering up the soul with dry sand; the religion
of Kenan was the romance of believing
nothing; the religion of the Huxleys
and the Spencers merely a pedestal on which
human philosophy sits shivering in the night
of the soul, looking up to the stars, offering
no help to the nations that crouch and
groan at the base. Tell mo where
there is one man who has rejeeted
that gospel for another who is
thoroughly satisfied and helped and contented
in his skepticism, and I will take the
car to-morrow and ride 500 miles to see him.
The full power of the fjospel has not yet
been touched. As a sportsman throws up
his head and catches the ball flying through
the air, just so easily will this gospel after
wvt-.**,-* T^sN.t.1 fl.-irw. ifc
orbit and bring it back to the heart of Christ.
Give it full swing, and it will pardon every
sin, heal every wound, cure every trouble,
emancipate every slave and ransom every
nation.
Ye Christian men and women who go out
this afternoon to do Christian work, as you
go into the Sunday-schools, the lay preaching
stations and the penitentiaries and the
asylums, I want you to feel tnat you bear in
your Dand a weapon compared with which
the lightning has no speed, and ava'anches
have no heft, and the thunderbolts of heaven
have no power; it is the arrow of the omtiiponent
?osp?l. Take careful aim. Pull
ih" arrow clear r noli until the heal strikes
the t ow! Then let it fly: And may the
Si?iin ol tilt* Lord bo many!
Again, if vou want to be skillful in spiritual
archery you must huut in unfrequented
and secluded places. Why does the hunter
go thrie or four days in the Pennsylvania
forests or over Ruquette Lake into the wills
of the Adirondack*? It is the only way to
do. The deer are shy. and one "bauu" of
the gun clears the forest. From the California
stage you see, as you go over the pi tin*,
her- and there a coyote trotting alouir, al
mo^t within ranjre of the irun?sometimes
quite within ratine of it. No one cares for
tnat; it is worthless. The vrood came is hidden
anls clu ed. Every hunter knows that.
Bo, many ol the souli Ua. will be of most
worth for Chrlat and of most value to th<
church are secluded. They do not come ii
your way. You will have to go where the;
ure. Yonder they are down in that cellar
yonder they are up in that earret. Far awa;
from th? door of any church, the pospel ar
row ha* not baen pointed at them. The trao
distributor and city missionary sometime
catch a crlimpse of them, as a hunter throuel
foac rrotc o nf a? TMlff
riden or a roebuck. The trouble is, we ar
waiting for the came to come to us. We ar
Dot eood hunters. We are standinsrm som
street or highway expecting that the ttmii
antelope Trill come up and eat out of ou
hands. We are expecting that the prairi
fowl will liprht on our church steeple. It i
not their habit.
If the church should wait 10,000.000 o
years for the world to come in and be saved
it will wait in vain. The world will no
come. What the church wants now is to lif
its feet from damask ottomans and put then
in the stirrups. We want a pulpit on wheels
The church wants not so much cushions ai
it wants saddlebasrs and arrows. We hav<
poi: to put aside the jcown and kid gloves anc
put on the hunting shirr. We have been fish'
ins? so long in the brooks that run under th<
shadow of the church that the fish know us
that they avoid the hook and escape as soon
as we come to the bank, while yonder is Upper
Saranac and Bic Tupper's lake, where
the first swincr of the srospel net would breai
it for the multitude of the fishes. There fc
outside work to be done. What is that I see
in the backwoods? It is a tent. The hunters
have made a clearing and camped out
What do they enre if thoy have wet feet, 01
if they have nothing but a pine branch for a
pillow or for the northeast storm? If s
moose in the darkness steps into the lake tc
drink, they hear it risrht away. If a loon
cry in the moonlight, they hear it. So in
the service of God we have exposed work.
hnvft cot to enrrm ont andronorh it. We
are putting all our caro on the people who
come to our churches. What are we doing
for the thousands upon thousands that do
not come? Have they no souls? Are they
sinless that they need no pardon? Are there
no dead In their houses that they need no
comfort? Are they cut off from God to pro
Into eternity?no wing to bear them, no light
to cheer them, no welcome to greet them? I
hear to-day surging up from the lower
depths a grcan that comes through our
Christian assemblages and through our
beautiful churches, and it blots out all this
scene from my eyes to-day, as by the mists
of a great Niagara, for the dash and the
plunge of these great torronts of life dropping
down into the fathomless and thunderinn
oKi-ce nt cnffdMnr? anH rono Tanmpfimf?J
think that just as God blotted out the
churches of Thyatira and Corinth and
Laodicea, because of their s'oth and stolidity,
He will blot out American and English
Christianity and raise on the ruins a stalwart,
wideawake, missionary church that
can tske the full meaning of that command,
"Go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature."
I remark, furtber, if you want to succeed In
spiritual archery yon mnst have courage. If
the honter staud with trembling hand or
shoulder that flinches with fear, instead of
his taking the catamount, the catamount
takes him. What would become of the Greenlander
if. when out hunting for the bear, he
should stand shivering with terror on an iceberg?
What would have become of Da
Chaillu and Livingstone in the African
thicket with a faint heart and a weak knee?
When a pantber comes within twenty paces
of you and it has its eye on you and it has
squatted for the fearful spring, "Steady
there!"
I think it was tn 1793 that there went ou
from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign,
the greatest hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10,000 armed men in
that hunting party. There were camels and
horses and elephants. On some princes rode,
and royal ladies under exquisite housings,
and 500 coolies waited upon the train, and
the desolate places of India were invaded
by this excursion, and the rhinoceros, the
deer aud elephant fell under the stroke of
saber and bullet. After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth 50,000 rupees,
having lett the wilderness of India ghastly
with the slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that, instead of here and there a straggler
going out to fight these great monsters
of iniquity in our country, the million membership
of our churches would band together
and hew in twain these great crimes that
make the land frightful with their roar and
are fattening upon the bodies and souls of
immortal men! Who is ready for such a
party as that? Who will be a mighty hunter
for the Lord?
I remark, again, if you want to be successful
In spiritual archery you need not only to
bring down the game, but bring it In. I
think one of the most beautiful pictures of
Thtrwaldsen is h s "Autumn." It represents
a sportsman coming home and standing under
a grapevine. He has a staff over his
shoulder, and on the other end of that staff
?rf? hunca rahhlt and a. brace of birds. Everv
hunter brings home the game. No one would
think of bringing down a reindeer or whipping
up ft stream for trout and letting them
lie in the woods. At eventide the camp is
adorned with the treasures of the forestbeak
and fin and antler. If you go out to
hunt for immortal souls, not only bring them
down under the arrow of the gospel, but
bring them into tho church of God, the encampment
we have pitched this side of the
skies. Fetch them in. Do not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our prayers
and sympathies and help. That is the meaning
of the church of God?help. 0 ye hunters
for the Lord, not only bring down the
game, but bring it in!
If Mlthridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors, what
enthusiasm ought we to have who are hunting
for immortal souls! If Domitianus practiced
archery until he could stand a boy
down In the Roman amphitheater, with a
hand out, the fingers like that, and then the
king could shoot an arrow between the
fingers without wounding them, to what
drill and what practice ought not we subject
ourselves in order to become spiritual
archers and "mighty hunters before the
Lord!" But let me say, you will never work
any better than you pray. The old archers
took the bow, put one end of it down beside
the foot, elevated the other end, and it was
the rule that the bow should be just the size
of the archer: if it were just his size then ne
would go into the battle with confidence.
Let me say that your power to project good
in the world will correspond exactly to your
own spiritual stature. In other words, the
first thing in preparation for Christian work
is personal consecration.
Ob, for ft closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
I am sure that there are some here who at
some time have b?en hit by the gospel urrow.
You felt the wound of that conviction, and
you plunged into the world deeper; just as
the stag, when the hounds are after it,
plunges into Scroon lake, expecting in that
way to escape. Jesus Christ is on your
track to-day. impenitent man! not in wrath,
but in mercy. 0 ye chased and panting
souls! here is the stream of God's mercy and
salvation, where you may cool your thirst!
Stoptbat chftseof sin to-day. By the red
fountain that leaped from the heart of my
Lord, I bid you stop. Is there in all this
house anyone who can refuse tne offer that
e ? a# /lninr* kJrtn Af
comes irom iuc uc?n uuuc uim),
God? Why, do you know that there are. in
the ban shed world, souls that, for that otter
you get to-day, would fling the crown of the
universe at your feet, if toey possessed it?
But they went out on the mountains, the
storm took them, and tbey died.
There is in a forest in Germany a place
they call the "deer leap"?two crags about
18 feet apart, between them a fearful chasm.
This is callej the "deer leap" because once
a hunter was on the track of a deer. It came
to one of these crags. There was no escape
for it from the pursuit of the hunter, aud in
utter despair it gathered itself up and in the
death asjony attempted to jump across. Of
course it feil, and was dashed on the rocks
far beneath. Here is a path to heaven. It
is plain, it i* safe. Jesus marks it out for
every man to walk in. But here is a man
who says- "I won't walk in that psitn. i
will take my own way." He comes on until
he confronts the chasm that divides his soul
from heaven. Now his last hour has come,
and he resolves that ho will leap that chasm,
lrom the heights of earth to the heights ol
heaven. S:anJ bae< uuw, and give him full
sw &for no soul ever did that successfully
Let nim try. Jump! Jump! He misses th(
mark, and he goes down, depth below depth
"destroyed without remedy." Men, angels
devils, what sha I we call that place of awfu
catastrophe? Let it be known forever as thi
sinner's death leap.
Unique ?ol<t!flrg* Monument.
Chicago is contemplatinc usinp: as a sol
dier.s'monument the bis stono pillar quat
rie.i in Wisconsin for exhibition at the Co
lumbian Exposition. It is thn largest mono
Uth in the world, being 100 feet long.
;| DRESS DEVICES.
7
f THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
LADIE3' WRAPPER WI1
tre front is invisible under a band of <
insertion. The gown is shaped in (
the favorite princess style, fitting 1
smoothly below the waist where each 1
seam is gradually widened to produce i
the fashionable fluted effect in the t
skirt. The bishop sleeves are gathered <
top and bottom, cuff bands finishing 1
the wrists. A frill of embroidery and t
a band of ribbon with bow forms the <
dainty decoration. The gown can be 1
made up with or without lining, the j
style being equally well adapted to i
wool. silk, cotton or linen fabrics, j
cashmere, batiste, grass linen, cam- '
brie or China silk, and are favorite
materials with lace, embroidery, ribbon,
gimp or bias bands for decoration.
The quantity of material 44 inches
wide required to make this tea gown
for a lady having a 36-inch bust measure
is 6 J yards.
NAVAL JACKET 07 BLUE WOOL.
For yachting, boating, seaside or
ordinary country wear no other style
ol jacket is half as fetching or appropriate
with a sailor hat as the one delineated
in the second large picture.
Navy blue wool canvas cloth and white
duck are the materials eelected, the
vestand collar of duck being decorated
with rows of blue braid. Single bust
darts and under-arm gores perform
the smooth adiustment, the neck is
finished with a standing collar and the
lower edge is shaped in rounded outline.
The naval jacket is of fashionable
length and flares widely in front,
the broad sailor collar forming pointed
rtevers to the waist line. The duck 1
collar is removable and overlaps the '
oanvas collar to within an inch of the ]
edge. Two handsome white peart but- 1
tons decorate each front. The back i
and sides fit closely to the waist line, J
falling below in rippling folds that *
are induced by the shaping. The
sleeves are in gigot style, shaped by 1
single seams and are of fashionable '
size, the fullness at the top being ar- 1
ranged in Hide plaits with a single box <
plait at the top. Jackets in this style 1
can be made to match or contrast with
the skirt and are adapted to the linen, 1
cotton and woolen fabrics that are now '
eu vogue for summer wear. Insertion,
embroidery, bias bands, braid or I
gimp can be used in decorating or a '
plain finish can be given if so pre- 1
ferred.
The quantity of material 44 inches 1
t NATAL JACKET
[
; vide required to make this jacket lor
a lady having a 36-inch bust measure
j is 3 J yards.
3 OUTING QOWNS.
Heavy Iinene, Russia crash and
piques are the favorite materials for '
outing gowns. Following the craze
for embroidery on everything, there
-- n-rnr> linon whioh hns tin
j lb u cumod gioj *?? *... ?
all-over scroll pattern worked upon it
' in chain stitch, with white, brown,
IN FEMININE FASHIONS.
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9
1 Handsomely Trimmed Wrappers
9 With Bishop Sleeves?Naval
o Jackets With Vest?Oth0
er Dainty Designs.
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? T N the first large illustration white
| dimity is handsomely trimmed
t I with delft blue and white em?
broidery and insertion to match,
t blue satin ribbon forming the stock
1 collar, cuff bows and tied semi-girdle
at the waist line. The closing in oen3
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2kms
blue or black thread. The embroidered
linen is used for the skirt and for
a deep square collar on the ooat or
blazer, which is made of plain linen.
The newest piques have tiny Dresden
flowerets embroidered in silk scattered
all over them. Sometimes the entire
suit is made of the embroidered fabric,
but it is better to have the skirt plain
and the jacket embroidered. A skirt
of pale pink pique is effective with a
little coat of embroidered white
pique; and the same coat can be worn
with several skirts.?Demoresl's.
SHIRT WAIST OF GBASS LINEN*..
Grass linen, with figured design in
white embroidery, is here stylishly
worn with white linen collar and
:h bishop sleeves.
mffs, which oan be made removable
)r attached permanently as desired.
Che great variety of styles in the
litherto popular summer shirt waist
irgues for it an unprecedented vogue
;his season. The style here presentid
is unusually attractive and aensijle,
being very generally becoming,
;he fullness at the neck and shoulder
jdgeB produces a soft and graceful effect
over the bust. A box plait finishes
the right front edge through
ffhich buttonholes are worked to effect
the closing with studs or buttons,
rhe back is gathered at top and joined
SHIBT WAIST OF GBASS LINEN.
bo a yoke lining with straight lower
sdge, the double pointed yoke being
placed over the gathers ancLstitched
rtrmlv down on its lower edge, thus
insuring a durable finish. A shaped
eck band completes the neck when
the rolling collar is mdde separately.
The bishop shirt sleeves are slashed at
the back and the opening finished
with cuff laps, wrist bands completing
the wrists to which the rolling cuffs
ire buttoned. Plaits or a casing and
draw strings adjust the fullness at the
waist line, and the dress skirt is worn
aver the full lower edge. A narrow
belt of white kid encircles the waist.
Percale, cambric, lawn, batiste and
gingham in stripes, checks, figured
ind plain effects all make up stylishly
by the mode.
The quantity of material 35 inohes
wide required to make this shirt waist
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, WITH Yf&T.
for a lady having a 30 inch bust
measure is 3J yards.
PANAMA HATS ARE PRETTY.
Panama hats trimmed with morning
- * 1 il LU,.
glorie.0, daisies, clover, nawiuoru umasoms,
and lilacd are very pretty with
thin gowns.
The bicycle habit may not be attractive,
but there's something in it.?
Adama FreemaD.
THE SPECTRAL LEHUB.
The Monkey's Queerest Relative and
His Luminous Nocturnal Eye.
The spectral lemur, who lives in the
Malay Archipelago, has about the
oddest appearance of any known animal.
In this newspaper, says the New
York Journal, you will eee the first
really life-like picture of him ever
printed.
This little animal is a relative of the
monkey. Naturalists give the name
of primates to the group of animals
consisting of man, the monkeys and
the lemurs because they come first for
description. Of all the primates the
spectral lemur comes first for oddity
of personal appearanoe.
His greatest but not his only peculiarity
is to be found in his eyes,
which are enormous. They cover the
greater part of his face, leaving only
room for a ridiculously small nose.
In color the eyes are a greenish yellow
and ore exceedingly luminous at night
They shine out green and brilliant,
when the rest of the body ia totally
invisible to man. This is how the
little lemur has acquired the title of
spectraL
The spectre is only six or seven
inohes long and lives in the dense
forests of the Malay Archipelago,
where there is darkness at all times.
He makes a sort of nest at roots of
the great bamboos and climbs up
them with the agility of a squirrel,
but by a different method.
In his tree-climbing operations he
is aided by large, round suckers, which
are attached to the ends otall his long,
slender fingers and toes. He glides
up a shiny bamboo trunk with all the
ease imaginable.
He is thoroughly harmless and would
be an ornament to any household.
ABYSSINIAN DWABFS.
Armed Pigmies Who Fought for
Sleaelek's Cause.
These are probably the smallest and
queerest soldiers which, armed with
modern rifles, have ever foncht acainst
ABYSSINIAN DWARFS.
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civilized troops. They are Central
African dwarfs, and in the service of:
Vegus (or Emperor) of Abyssinia as-*
sieted in the ront of the Italian troops.1
These pigmies are scarcely more than j
half the height of an ordinary man.
Despite their diminutive height, they
are fierce, cruel and cunning, and'
armed with firearms are as formidable
as big men. (
It is only within the past few years
that the existence of these little people
has been generally accepted. Herodotus,
the Greek historian, wrote about
them, but he has been scoffed at and
his accounts characterized as fiction.
Du Chaillu and other African explorers
who claimed to have found tbe
nicmiflB in Central Africa had to en
jr-o?-?- ?
counter just as sceptical a public. ,
Stanley's account of the dwarf people
of the Dark Continent is the first that
really gained gene al credence.
Akkas is the name given to these
curious little people, who are supposed
to be the survivors of the aboriginal (
inhabitants of Central Africa. There
have been three Akkas brought to
Europe. Two were men. They were
called Lebo andChairallah. The third
was a lady Akka, named Saida.
Up-to-Dale Ci.iUircn.
"Then, Elsie, you won't have me' ?
When I grow up I'll 6hoot myself?sc ,
sow I"?Fliegende Blaetter. ^
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SOME CURIOSITIES IN THE
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A Three-Year-Old Rider "Who Mattes
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bicycle rider in Chicago,
if not in the world,
asks the Chicago Times-Herald.
This is his picture. The vonncr
man is just three years old and ]
he lives at 2760 Commercial street, ?
Ravenswood. His name is Allison t
Fried berg. He rides an odd little i
baby bicycle, the wheels of which are i
only sixteen inches in diameter and c
the seat twenty-two inches fiom the e
A. THBEE-YEAR-OLE
ground. Not long ago he rode from <
Bavenswood to Lincoln Park and hack, ]
a distance of ten miles, in less than <
half a day. He learned to ride very i
easily, and is not at all afraid. i
A FANCY RIDEB'S STABTLDTG TEICK. I
It is a matter of freqaent oomment <
that the safety does not present the '
opportunity for fancy trick riding that i
the ordinary did. With all that, some <
very remarkable "stunts" have been 1
thought out by the professional entertainers,
one of the most startling of
which, as performed by young Lee
Bichardson, is herewith illustrated, j
The rider turns himself around and j
suddenly lies down on the handle bar, j
his feet out ahead. In this uncomfor- j
table position he ride?, twisting the ^
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A PEBTLOtrS RIDE. ^
pedals "with, hia band. Then he turns
over, so to speak, and takes the almost
indescribable position show in the illustration,
looking as though he was Q
pulling his wheel along after him by t
main force. ^
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PERILOUS RIDING. n
The attention of the foolkiller is 0
directed to the young men who race b
with railroad traine, cross railroad a
bridges on the ties, ride down steep e
Bights of stairs or pedal along the
brinks of precipices, after the manner 0
of Maltby, who recently shocked the p
staid people of Aberdeen, Scotland, tl
by nis perilous ride on the Darrow top c
of the wall of the ocean pier. That ti
Maltby can do such a trick is not so t]
remarkable as that he is willing to do ^
It at all for a little notoriety. T
A SIMIAN CYCLIST. tl
"Little Joe," a most intelligent s<
ourang outang, of Portland, Oregon, tl
A STARTLIis'C
earned to ride in three lessons, so his ai
>ress agent says. Like all beginners, [
ie is very enthusiastic, and shows a j
>ad temper when forced to dismount i
rom his bicycle, which is of special i to
construction with a twenty-inch wheel, j th
'Joe" has a brother, who is a resident or
if Spokane Falls, where he is giving p<
xhibilions. The brother is booked
or a metropolitan appearance daring
he next theatrical season. lo
NEW DEVICES AND INVENTIONS.
The latest device for the production
>f rubber tires, for which an American
)atent has been secnred, is officially
lescribed as "A protective covering
or pneumatic tires consisting of a
padding over the tire, a circumferential
spring-metal band lying upon said
wadding, and a flexible metallic cloth
itted over and surrounding said band
ind said padding and adapted to be
ittached to the rim of the wheeL"
Nothing can stop the bioyole inven:or.
His applications are received at
;he rate of a hundred daily at Waehngton,
and already outnumber the
;otal of washing machines, ohurns and
lutomatio couplers for railroad cars,
le seems to be filled with the idea that
i bicycle to be operated by hand initead
of foot power is the real, origilal,
long felt want. Such a machine
night be operated by the legless won*
ler of the dime museums, but what
my one else would want with it is not
BICYCLE RIDER. 9
jloar. Many of the inventions are, B
aowever, of merit, and they relate to H
ietails in the intricate portions of the Q
nacnine. mere are some new tfimgr
in the line of package carriers, and is
;he smooth paved cities a year heno#
it least ninety per cent, of the lighf
lelivery of dry goods, millinery, hats^
ihoes, flowers, confectionery, grocerr
es, provisions, etc., will be through
he medium of vehicles operated by
soys and young men.
BICYCLE DISEASES. *
Tne dootors are still busy discover'
ng new bioyole diseases. There is the
ricyole throat, the bioyole eye, and
he nose, spino, arm, foot, longs,
iver, heart and possibly the cyolist'l
rermiform appendix. As a matter o1
aot, however, the thing that is worry
ng the dootors is the general pre?
dence of bicycle health.
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COMBINATION GABMENT.
A remarkable combination garment
or men only comes from Germany,
rhere they make gasoline motooyoler
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uut weigu xuu puuuue. xxurr jl>tuuis.*
ier is the father of this interesting H
)air of "pants," which may, by pull< B
ng a string, be converted from knict H
irbookers into trousers, suitable for 0
my occasion. n
Trra. BICYCLE A BEF0BME3.
A New York minister of the gospel, H
rCtive in temperance work, said at a HI
rablic meeting that the bioyele had
lone more for the cause of sobriety fl|
han anything else in the past twenty !
ears. Keep a man in health and he
rill care nothing for rum. By the H|
ray, talking about the bioyele as an BH
id to moral reform movements, the H|
lalvation Army will have a fully bH
quipped bicycle corps for suburban IB
ervioe on wheels, and the plan of or<
anization for the new military body
rithin the ranks of the Episcopal
ihurch, which is to be known as the HH
Inited States Church Army, calls for^H
i bicyole corps with each regiment,
rhioh, in New York Oity, will assume JJj
he proportions oi a "bicycle brigade. IH
-New York Journal.
Wares of an Iron Bridge. SH
A train always exerts greater a train
n an iron bridge when going quickly HE
ban when going slowly; bat the^H
difference in the strain depends on^H
he strnotnre of the bridge, and is^H
inch more in some cases than in
thers. When the train goes over the
ridge it causes a wave to travel II
long the structure, owing to the H|
lastioity of the iron.
That part of the bridge just in front
f the train is raised a little, and the HBj
art under the train is lowered, so
hat each part of the bridge is sue* flfl
cssively raised and lowered as the
rain goes over it, and the more quiokly
tae train travels, the more sudden this
ill be, and consequently the more
iolent.
The strain produced will vary with
ae square of the velocity the wave, HH
) that the train will exert four times
le strain wben it doubles its velocity,
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k! nine times when it triples its
jlocitv. H
An admirer of Wagner has offered H|
i the city of Berlin 81250, providing BB
10 municipal authorities will name HH
le of the new bridges after the com)ser.
Oar portraits show as how we would Bjj
ok if we were handsome.?Pack, j Bfl