FELT A man may be all right-his goods A. 1, and his prices surprisingly low-yet it is advertising of some sort that protects him from oblivion. EASY WAY TO CARRY A COAT ON BARS. The directions given on August 19th for attaching a coat to the handle-bars of a machine without the use of straps or twine, were somewhat difficult to understand without illustrations, so No. 191,787 has furnished further details. He says that he has never had a coat so arranged come off the bars or anything fall out of its pockets. The first picture shows the coat spread out and the buttons and button-holes numbered. The first 1 operation is to take hold at the bottom and fold it over on the line 4, 4, so that the bottom will come just to the line 2, 2. The second operation is to take hold of the top and fold it over on the line 2, 2, bringing it over the double thickness resulting from the first folding. The result is that the coat is folded into three thicknesses, and makes a long, narrow package, as shown in the second picture, with buttons just under the two corners of one end, and button-holes similarly placed at the two corners of the other end. For the third operation, take hold of the coat, as shown in the second picture, at the end having the buttons, and fold it over on the line 1, so that the end just reaches the centre of the coat at line 2. Then fold over this double thickness at line 2, to bring it to line 3, and fold over the triple thickness thus produced, at line 3, so that the coat is now just one-quarter the size shown in second picture. If the folding has been accurately and neatly done, two button-holes will be at two corners on top, and directly underneath them, close to the edges, will be two buttons. To attach to handle-bars as shown in third picture, stand over front wheel and hold the folded coat against the head. Carefully bring the buttons at the corners just to the edge of the package, behind the bars, and the button-holes over the bars in front, fasten the buttons into the button-holes and the package will hang in place. L. A. W. BULLETIN AND GOOD ROADS. Time to Begin The Study of Law at Home. 387 UMMER SPORTS are ended, and we are asking, "What shall we do with the long evenings of the fall and winter? Shall we use them or misuse them?" Let us make a suggestion. The study of law is a most interesting and profitable study; it is not a difficult study; it requires concentration of thought, but so does the study of anything, if the study is going to be profitable. Why not study law this winter? There certainly is nothing to prevent your doing so if you have some spare time every day, some ambition and a little money. Perhaps you never thought before that you could study law. You felt you could not spare the time and money to go to a law school. Does not the opportunity to study at home, offered by us, open up to you an attractive prospect? To be educated in the law is to have a good foundation for almost any pursuit. We can give you this equipment if you will occupy your spare time as we direct. More young men have entered the regular law schools this fall than ever before. We believe the increase is due in no small degree to what we have been doing, through the press and otherwise, in the past eight years, in the way of urging young men to take up the study of this important subject. Most of them will become lawyers; but many are taking up the study as a means of culture and as a preparation for general business. We will take you just as you are, with your time more or less occupied. with your unsettled habits of study. with perhaps your unsettled purposes for the future, and by next spring we will guarantee that you will have completed to your satisfaction a good part of a regular law college course-not all of it, but enough so that you will allow nothing to prevent your going through our two years' course and obtaining a thorough education in the law, that will fit you either for the bar or for business. Would this not be infinitely better than frittering away your time this winter? We offer a preparatory Law Course. a Business Law Course, a regular two years' College Law Course that prepares for admission to the bar. A postal will bring you catalogue and full particulars. ...ADDRESS... The Sprague * School of Law, No. 273 Telephone Building, Detroit, Mich. GROWTH OF CYCLE MAKING. Twenty years ago a few high bicycles were beginning to be made in this country, and for ten years after that a large proportion of the machines. used were imported from England. In 1890 there were only twenty-seven factories here, but five years later the number was over two hundred, and in 1897 over a million machines are supposed to have been built. No wheels are now imported, but bicycles were exported to the value of $6,902,737 in 1897, and nearly a third of which went to England. There are reported to have been 365 bicycles stolen in Toronto within one month and only 55 of them recovered. 388 L. A. W. BULLETIN AND GOOD ROADS.. KNOW THAT RAMBLER QUALITY IS RIGHT, WHATEVER THE PRICE. "GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO.: "Please send me your 1899 catalogue of RAMBLERS; also tell me who is your agent in this city. I want to talk '99 mount with him. "I am pleasantly surprised to note your price ($40) for '99 RAMBLERS. My present Rambler (1893 model) was $150. Have worn out three sets of tires by five years' constant use. "My :887 pattern of your wheel is still in use on our streets." Thus writes a man who has not been disappointed, nor will he be if he buys an 1899 RAMBLER, as contemplated. 1899 PRICE, $40. Catalogue free. More Agents Wanted. The College Favorite. He's the favorite, quite, in his college, For while others surpass him in knowledge WIDE TIRES IN HISTORY. In reading a "History of Cherry Valley, New York," I came across an item that may be of interest to BULLETIN readers: "In 1815... in addition to the through stage lines from Albany and the New England states to Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and the West, local stage lines connected Cherry Valley with Albany, Schenectady, Catskill, Canajoharie, Burlington, Monticello, the Worcester towns, Cooperstown and Utica. Stages were usually drawn by six horses, though eight and even ten horses were used at times. "Regular freight transportation lines were also run between Albany and Buffalo. Huge wagons capable of drawing three or four tons, drawn by seven horses, were used on these lines. They moved slowly, the journey from Albany to Buffalo often taking two weeks. These wagons had tires six inches wide and were allowed to pass through the numerous toll-gates free of charge, owing to the fact that their wide tires were of great benefit to the roads by filling in the ruts made by the ordinary wagons." I have a hazy notion that I have seen in the BULLETIN a reference to this ancient encouragement of wide tires; but here it is, with date and circumstance, anyway. HOWARD A. PARDEE. A DOUBLE-TUBE TIRE REPAIR. "If you use a detachable, double-tube tire and happen to be without rubber when punctured," says Cycling, "and have solution, give a piece of paper a good coating of the latter on both sides, stick it over the puncture; then cut a corner off your tool cloth or pocket handkerchief, solution that, clap it on the paper, rub more solution over all; let the lot dry fairly well, powder it all with chalk, and you will find that you will have a patch good enough to carry you home. Once there, mend the puncture with rubber, as the paper quickly perishes, and will leak. As a temporary repair this may often be found very useful." A man bent on doing crooked things will go straight to ruin. Don't put your wheel away until The drifts are deep and winds are chill. If a man is a "brick" he won't let people walk on him. If the head of a machine tightens in riding, stop instantly and examine it thoroughly. There is a strong possibility of a broken fork-stem. We offer, for what it is worth, a French recipe for preserving the tubes of tires, which is to introduce into each tube three spoonfuls of boiling milk. HAVE watched with much interest the progress of the new vehicle in its various forms, and have for some time been convinced that there is a great future in it. On such roads as we have around Boston, for instance, there is no reason why the motor road carriage should not be as practical as the motor railroad carriage, which has long since established its reputation. And when we consider that the locomotive takes along not only its own weight but many times its weight, and hauls after it from thirty to fifty heavilyloaded cars running on hundreds of wheels, the motor carriage looks to be the more practical of the two, since it has only to move itself and a comparatively light load, all on the one set of pneumatic tires. Dear reader, imagine for a moment that there is not in existence either a motor carriage or a railroad locomotive, and that the two came to you as new propositions, which, in view of the facts, would you be most likely to believe in? The locomotive — efficient as it is on the rails would be helpless, even with no train attached, on one of our country roads. The motor carriage has delayed its coming until there was something for it to run on. Good roads will invite the motor wagon inventor to do his best. A first-class macadam road and the pneumatic tire is a combination not so far behind the steel rail and the steel tire. The steepest grades found on wagon roads can be overcome by some form of "back gear" which merely converts speed into power. There are at present but three kinds of propelling force used, to any extent, in motor vehicles: Electricity, steam, and gasoline. No one of them is all that could be desired, but it looks probable that the present generation will have to make the best of them, especially since Mr. Keely has died without developing his "vibratory ether." Briefly, the electric carriage is the easiest to manage, - I mean for an inexperienced person. It is odorless and noiseless, and is in many respects a very fascinating affair; but it is necessarily heavy, requires considerable time to recharge, and cannot be replenished except in towns where there is a supply of the "juice." The gasoline motor driven carriage is much lighter, will go farther with one "charge" and can obtain additional "vitality" at any country store; but it gives off an offensive odor, makes a noise and requires some skill to operate it. The steam-driven carriage will develop more power and go farther on a given investment for fuel, and will travel at a higher speed than either of the others, but it requires a driver who is something of an engineer, and the pressure necessarily carried in the boiler under the seat does n't tend to calm the nerves of those who are inclined to be "hystericky." "You pays your money and you takes your choice." Will the motor carriage affect the bicycle business? It certainly will-favorably. The new vehicle needs a much better road than the bicycle does. The demand for the motor carriage will be enormous as soon as they get down in quality and price to a business basis. The motor carriage will be purchased, at first, by an older, wealthier and more influential class of "It is the DIM HAZE of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit." But enchantment is n't worth two cents on the dollar when it comes to paying a sight draft. DON'T LOSE THE POINT of your pencil. Carry it in the Improved Catalogue of these and other novelties AMERICAN RING CO., Box 43, Waterbury, Conn. GIVEN AWAY with black composition tips, we will mail one of our L. A. W. Valves FREE. This offer is to introduce L. A. W. Valves to users. to every purchaser of a pair of these fine CORKALINE GRIPS TRADE ORKALINE people than the class to which the average wheelman belongs. While the wheelman wants good roads, the "motor man" must have them, and his voice, when it becomes numerous enough, will form a grand accompaniment to the cry which we now have so well under way. The motor carriage, with its broad, soft tires, will improve the road as the bicycle does, only much more so. Every motor carriage is supposed to displace one or more horses, and the horse is a nuisance on the road. Ten years from now no horses will be seen on good roads, though they may still be necessary in the mud. The motor vehicle will never use narrow, metal tires, this fact and the absence of the horse, with his destructive "calks," will allow a good road to remain in that condition almost indefinitely, provided, of course, that it is properly shaped and drained. The "motor," as I believe it will eventually be called, will no more take the place of the bicycle than the steamship takes the place of the row boat. On the contrary, it will bring in a new and very powerful influence for highway improvement, and will do much toward opening up communication at all seasons with many parts of our glorious land which are at present accessible only during a drought or a frost. Extended good roads enlarge the demand for bicycles, and more bicycle riders make more good roads legislation possible. Assuming, of course, that they are organized. Unorganized individuals can do little compared with a "pull all-together." Moral: Join the L. A. W. |