This Verse for Sale.

When Jack and Gill, that careless pair, Went down the hill, with courage rare, As though they'd crowns and bones to spare, 'T were better had they thought to take The pains to use a brake.

HOME-MADE TOE-CLIP.

This is made from a leather strap having its ends laced together and slotted to fit over the ends of pedal.

The man who says this will do the business, and that he has tried it, is B. F. Rounds, of Kansas City, Mo.

The first appropriation in New York under the new road law is so small that all the petitions for road improvements cannot be granted, and it is therefore proposed to improve a section of road in each county, as far as practicable, to serve as a model.

ROAD-BOOKS USEFUL IN THE ARMY. Driving-parties, equestrians and pedestrians have long recognized the usefulness of L. A. W. roadbooks for their trips and tours, but it has remained for the Government to discover their value in connection with military movements. This seems now to have been done, judging from the following ex

Rapid. Easy to Develop.

Low in Price.

THE FAMOUS

STANLEY PLATES

give wonderful gradations of

Light and Shade

Sometimes called "Chemical Effects."'

YOUR DEALER HAS THEM, if not, write to the factory..

tract from a letter from General Wirt, of the U. S. Geological Survey, to the chairman of the Pennsylvania road-book committee. He says:

"It may be pleasing to you to know that I furnished from one of your books information to an army office as to the best routes for the transportation by road of a company of heavy artillery from Washington, D. C., to an objective point well up in Pennsylvania. I have also mentioned to the Military Information Bureau of the War Department that they could make good use of the L. A. W. books."

A MAKER'S NAME PROTECTED. It may be "sharp" business but it is not always wise nor safe to attempt to trade on another's reputation or copy his trade-mark too closely. A concern lately took the name of a party connected with it, which happened to be almost identical with that of a large bicycle maker, and used a very similar trade mark on their bicycles; but it changed its name and agreed not to use the word hereafter, in connection with cycles, on legal action being taken by the aggrieved manufacturer. The name and good will of a firm are considered legal assets and may not be infringed with impunity.

WOULD INCREASE DRIVING.

An officer of a carriage company expresses himself in favor of four-inch tires as the narrowest that should be used for a wagon carrying more than 800 pounds and says, "we think it would be very hard, indeed, to estimate the benefit to be derived by the vehicle industry from wide tires or good roads. We believe that anything that would add to the pleasure of driving would benefit the carriage industry, and the improvement of roads would certainly add much to this pleasure."

Simple, Accurate, Beautiful.
We Guarantee it. Registers 10,000 miles.
Send for Booklet, No. 59.

"MILLER" ALWAYS MAKES THE BEST.

NEW YORK STORE 28 W. BROADWAY.

EDW. MILLER & CO., Meriden, Ct. BOSTON STORE 63 PEARL STREET.

& South.

WHO WAS TO BLAME?

North

We are asked who was responsible for the following accident: A was riding west on the right side of the street; B was riding south on the right side of a cross-street; B turned as shown, intending to ride into the street from which A was coming; while A wished to go south on the same street that B was on. C is intended to represent a hand-organ,

East

FIG. I.

though it doesn't look it. A was entirely to blame; sketch (Fig. 2) shows why. When reaching a crossstreet and intending to turn into it, it is always well to observe the following rule as far as it can be done with due regard for varying conditions.

HERE is nothing a man can look for with so much certainty of finding as trouble. Sometimes a man finds it when he isn't looking for it. But if he is really searching after that article his hunt is more than likely to be successful. Fault is the only thing that can be found where

it does not exist. The fault-finder has a defect in his eye that makes everything appear to be covered with blurs and blotches. He looks for that sort of thing and, quite naturally, sees it. His ear is out of tune, so he insists that all the melody of the universe is but sorry discord. It has never occurred to him that sunshine is better than storm and that a song in more comforting than a sigh.

in a world peopled with princes of the royal blood. Some in a world of paupers and privation. The man whom we distrust is more than likely to distrust us. About all the meanness in the world has been engendered by other meanness that preceded it.

To believe a man a man helps to make him so at heart. To believe him a rascal is a start for him in the wrong direction. The world smiles at us if we smile at it. If we frown, it frowns. It is the armor of war and not that of love that invites the arrows of misfortune. The man who remembers it was a beautiful day yesterday is happier than the one who is sure it will storm to-morrow. "Out

"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh." In the thousand and one little every-day affairs of life the man who is disposed to take things by the smooth handles saves himself and those about him an endless amount of trouble. The optimist, who believes things are going to be all for the best, is rest and joy and peace, but the trouble-seeking pessimist is a sorrow amid a world that holds for all of us some glints of sunshine and some shreds of song.

"If to hope over-much is an error
'Tis one that the wise have preferred,
For how often have hearts been in terror
Over evils that never occurred."

BIRDS AND BICYCLING.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture. -BROWNING.

The destruction of the birds has become so serious a matter that many of the most thoughtful minds of the country have anxiously considered means by which this wanton slaughter may be stayed. We have the testimony of the leading

scientists of the United States to show that, unless the killing of birds soon ceases, only a very brief time will elapse before the feathered tribe will become extinct. In such event the evil consequences to our agricultural interests are past all computation. The destruction of our crops by myriads of insects

A BIRD

in the hand does n't need

salt on its tail

Any more than "those figures" need an affidavit.

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WILL BECOME AS POPULAR AS....

46 Lubricant

"ArcticTM

Chain

Sticks of "Arctic," 5 cents.

Never-Hot

Tubes of "Neverhot," 15 and 25c. of your dealer or sent by mail by ARCTIC LUBRICANT CO., 129 Furman Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

MAKES ITS ROAD.

The Strauss Puncture Proof Tire goes anywhere
and everywhere without fear.

STRAUSS TIRE CO., 127 Duane St., New York City.

ELASTIC STOCKINGS

For the Support of Varicose Veins, Swelled Limbs, Weak Joints, Rheumatism, Etc. Knee Caps, Anklets, etc. Special prices to bicyclists. Send for price list to manufacturer, L. H. SCOTT, 515 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. T" It's Such a Good Lamp it becomes your best friend. It cannot blow nor jar out. Send for Booklet 338.

THE "SEARCH LIGHT"

For sale by all dealers. BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO.

Bridgeport, Conn.

WANTED 10,000 2nd-HAND SADDLES.

Send us 50 cents and your old saddle by mail or express, prepaid, and we will ship a New Saddle without further cost. Take your choice of following makes: Hunt, Garford, Sager, Wheeler, Duplex, Cutting, Hollenbeck, Mesinger, Beck, Shoe or Dandy (Brown pattern). BICYCLE SADDLE EXCHANGE, 26 W. Broadway, New York.

TIRES.

will be as disastrous as was the fearful famine which has just devastated India.

To avert such a calamity various plans have been devised. Among the statesmen who have become interested in this matter are Hon. George F. Hoar, Senator from Massachusetts, and Hon. John F. Lacey, Representative from Iowa, both of whom have introduced bills in Congress relating to the question. Mr. Hoar's bill provides restrictions upon the importation of the bodies or plumage of certain birds; and upon the transportation of the same between the several States. Exception is made in the case of the ostrich, and some other birds whose plumes can be taken without loss of life. Mr. Lacey's bill provides for extending the powers and duties of the Commission of Fish and Fisheries so as to include game birds and other wild birds useful to man, "by the propagation, distribution, transportation, introduction and restoration" of such birds.

If you feel friendly toward these bills, write your member of Congress and say so. All those willing to contribute a small amount toward furthering this object will confer a favor by forwarding their contributions to Miss Kate W. Grove, assistant editor of the Epworth Herald, Chicago. Names of Congressmen from the several States, literature relating to the subject, suggestions concerning the formation. of clubs, and other matter of interest to bird-lovers may be obtained by writing to Horace H. Waters, 357 W. Van Buren street, Chicago.

PROPOSITIONS

We will allow you a good price for your old wheel, in exchange for our elegant, 3 crown, Model 33. Write for proposition.

MANSON CYCLE CO.

153-155 W. Jackson Street, Chicago.

A GRINDING, SNAPPING CHAIN Pleasure of an

may mar the otherwise delightful trip awheel. You may think it impossible for a bicycle chain to always run smoothly. If so, you have not used ALLERTON MICA CHAIN LUBRICANT. All dealers. Sample by mail for 2c. stamp. ALLERTON LUBRICANT COMPANY, Warren, Pa.

And there is another and a more forceful way by which the destruction of birds may be lessened, if not entirely stopped. In the report of the American Ornithologist Union, published in 1886, it was estimated that about five million birds were annually killed to supply the demand for the ornamentation of hats for the women of this country. What a wholesale murder of the most beautiful and harmless of God's creatures! How many shady lanes that once were musical with song are now silent and tenantless! How many a forest bower is lonely for the return of its feathered friends whose once sparkling plumage now adorns some lady's (?) hat!

There is a close relationship between birds and bicycling. Shady lanes, green fields and the leafy coverts of the woods will have lost much of their charm when all the birds of beautiful plumage and charming song have been swept away. What cyclist, while resting by the wayside, has not felt his soul lifted up to the gates of joy by the song of the bobolink, the oriole, the robin, the bluebird, the lark or the brownthrush?

"Life and joy and song, depend upon it,

Are costly trimming for a woman's bonnet."

Every wheelwoman can refuse to wear a hat the trimming of which has robbed the world of life and song and beauty. Every wheelman can protest against such a desecration. Ostrich tips, flowers, ribbons, etc., etc., should afford quite enough grace to any head possessing charms of its own. Every