THE OMAHA DAILY 1JBT3 : SUNDAY , MAY 21 , 1809.
HERO OF THE PHILIPPINES
Hails from Kansas and is a lighter from
Fightorville.
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1'aricy a little man , with A slight limp , n
Jktlo man who welgha less th.in 100 pounds
, ifhd Is under five feet four ; a llttlo man with
n Vnn Dyke beard ana a sense of humor that
bubbles in Mm like the offcrvesonco of wine ,
mid you have1 the exterior picture of Colonel
Kunsion of the Twentieth Kansas , the man
who glorified the army In his famous charge
nt Malolos , o.nd who was a credit to the
navy by his swimming fonts before Calura-
jlt. ) Fancy n jnan who hates ( .hams , who
jeers nt pomp nnd circumstance , who loves
to sit In his fllilrtslcevcs In the wilderness
reading Kipling,1 who Is Impulsive , generous
nnd always kind , who avoids the forms ,
functions and punclllltlcs of thin world as
Jic would obim a pestilence , fancy a merry
heart that tokes nothing seriously save the
noodwill of a friend nnd the honor of his
country , fancy Cyrnno do llergorac minus
Ills bluster , and the gadfly without his
tiling , rolled Into OTIC body 33 years old and
Blvcn a wandering foot that has taken him
from the Arctic ocean to the tropics finding
adventure , and you have a picture of the
Iiappy , courageous , knightly soul of the llttlo
Kansas colonel who Is winning fiuno In tbo
1'hlllppliics.
Fred Funslon came from the farm on Deer
Creek , Allen county , Kansas , to the State
University of Ki lisas fourteen years ago.
Ho remained In the university off nnd on
for flvo years. lie was o round-faced fellow
full of fun nnd of the typo that Instructors
yearn to strangle , for the levity that ho
bred In the class room. If Funston ever got
u grade above 85 In any study the Instruc
tor who gave that grade will have to answerer
( or a great crime ; for his sin of silence
has established for Funston a record for
unbroken scholastic mediocrity that has
ibcen rarely equaled In that Institution. Ho
was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fra-
tornlty the fraternity which ex-President
Benjamin Harrison helped to establish In old
Miami university half a century ago , and
which counted among Its members Eugene
Field , ox-Vlco 1'rcttldent Stevenson and
Senator Blackburn and Stephen Crane of
these latter days. Funston gave more atten
tion to his fraternity than ho did to his
books , and It Is a matter of fraternity rec
ord that ho broke four chairs learning to
waltz with them. On festal occasions Funs-
ton grow solemn and melancholy and felt
called upon to go forth without hilarity and
ribaldry , but In terrlblo earnest , and tear
up the board sidewalks of the town of Law
rence because ho deemed their presence
dangerous to the public welfare. Because
lie was small of stature ho mocked athletics
Into disfavor while he was In school ; ho was
the maker of nick-names , the dictionary of
jnlrth Ten years have elapsed since he
called the Greek professor "Zues , " and the
auburn hair of the professor whom Funslon
callcJ "Old Sunset" has turned gray ; Purple
Whiskers hnvo lost their luster , but the
names still stick and afford comfo't ami
solace to those unfortunate students who
flunk in the departments where the digni
taries reign. Perhaps the shudder of horror
that ran through the faculty at the mention
of KuiHton's name years nnd years after ho
had loft school has somewhat subside ! , but
It la likely that the faculty of the Unl-
versliy of Kansas can come more nearly
luio\\liig how Agumaldo feels than all the
niiti-lmperiallstlc leagues In this broad and
patriotic land.
IIlM University Yearn.
Funston spent much of his tlmo In the
university llbrnry , reading whatever his
bands could ilnd , of the fiction of war nnd
the poetry of romance. Early In life he had
tire prairlo boy's knowledge of every sort
and condition of firearm In the hardware
Btore. Ho had n Yankee knack for screws
nnd bolts nnd nuts , and could tinker. This
Know ledge Is as much a part of every farmer
( boy's education ns the knowledge of the
points of the compass. The farm Is n man
ual trclnlng school ; It also teaches Individ
ual Initiative , and many of the recent mili
tary exploits of Funston before aClocan
Smith's
are the
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m the
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to my uddroia flvo bottles Rllo Ilcana.
I have been suffering from constipa
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beat remedy I have found yet.
H. CL.AV WOOD ,
Paymaster. U. S. Steamer "Yantlc , "
Nfivport , R. I.
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Heans irom your druge t. send Kc
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bottle < o J. & Pmlth & Co. , proprie
tors of BUe Beans , N. T.
a ml Maloli s find Calumpll nro merely out-
cropplnRg of the farmer hoy's training to
RO ahead and not clear across the field nnd
buck to the home for orders.
During his off yenrii the years when ho
earned money to attend the university -the -
next year , ho turned his talents to various
and profitable account , find ho accumulated
the capital of experience which ho afterward
Invested In glory.
For Instance , in 1888 , an off-school year ,
ho became a Santa Ko train collector. At
different times his route lay nil the way
from Kansas City to Albuquerque nnd Bouth
to the Gulf of Mexico. Among his other du
ties was that of "train bouncer. " Ho
weighed little moro than 100 pounds then ,
but that didn't stand In the way of his suc
cess as a bouncer. The record of his grit
Is still In the clogged supreme court of
Kansas , \vhcro damage suits against the
Santa Fo are "nwnltlng the Judgment day. "
And among the greasers and cowboys of
Now Mexico. Colorado nnd Western Kansas
there Is n myth to the effect that the Santn
Fo once put n human marmot on Its trains ,
who concealed death In his right hand nnd
lingering Illness In his left.
After n peaceful year In the university
Funston longed for something less monoto
nous than encounters with cowboys and
sought to satisfy the lust In his soul of ex
citement by going Into the newspaper busi
ness.
NvwM'niicr 1,1 fo.
Ho had never been In n city newspaper
part House , nn abandoned Hudson nay
company's trading pest situated far to tha
north of the Arctic Circle , where the Porcupine
cupine river crosses the eastern boundary
of Alaska. Here Funston and n missionary
named Pralty spent the winter.
Probably no other man on earth ever paid
nudyard Kipling the compliment tlmt Fun-
ston paid him , for on this long journey up
1,000 hills , over the backbone of the con
tinent , down the lakes and up the river
where Funston dragged his boat up stream
walking along the bank , he carried In hie
pack , where every ounce of weight became
n torture during the long day's Journey ,
copies of the Barrack Ilooin Ballads ami
the stories of Mulvnnoy nnd his friends.
HtmdtiK n AVhnlltiK I'trct.
As the night of winter deepened It Is
probable that the good brother Pretty got
on Funston's nerves , and when the Indians
brought rumors that a North American
whaling fleet was being crushed to pieces In
ttio leo oft the Arctic ocean , some 200 miles
to the northward , Funston beguiled nn old
Indian into starting on the Journey to the
ocean with him on snow shoes. It wns 200
miles as the crow files , but Funston and the
Indian got lost and went 400 mllra out of
their way. After running out of food and
starving for two days Funston nnd the In-
dlnn picked the dog In the pack that woula
mnko the best pot pie. But In the nftcr-
noon of thnt dny they came upon ft band of
Indian hunters carrying fresh caribou to
the fleet. When Funston came up to the
then went out to fight. Then they brought
lilm n dynnmllo gun the first ono that had
over boon used In actual warfare. This Is
his story of It "Well. I looked her ovei
and prodded nround her for a day or two
till I found from the printed directions
that came with her whleli end was the
Bhootlrit , end. I didn't let the Cubans know
that I was scared , but 1 was ; we got Into
n llttlo mlxup ono dny and the old man
sent for the dynamite. I waltzed her out ,
kept the directions ! ! my head as well ns I
could and loaded her up. When the order
came I sighted her nnd let her go. For
second she seemed lo wheeze ; It's nil up 1
thought ; the Cubans ran ; but I didn't dare
to ; It was only n second nnd then she
coughed nnd the air In the Spanish fort
was filled with misfit logs nnd debris nnd
J Unow that It wns all right. 1 turned
around and grinned llko the cat tfiat had
swallowed the canary and no ono knew that
I had Just finished making four or flvo
kinds of a fool of myself. After they had
set 'cm up In the other nlleyvo rolled 'cm
agajn. "
Clnip CnllM.
Funston wns wounded three times lu
Cuba , once through the arm , once through
the litngri , nnd once his homo fell upon him ,
fracturing his thigh. From this wound ho
wns lame when Jiu left Kansas with the
Twentieth last spring. Ho came homo from
Cuba on sick leave ; ho had an order from
Garcia to the president of tie Cuban repub
lic for his parole , but ho was captured by
COLONEL , FUNSTON AS A CITIZEN AND SOLDIER. HIS CAUEER ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS.
office , when by the force of sheer audacity
ho struck a Kansas City city editor for a
place and got a probatlonnl job. Luck
brought him a run which the first dny con
vinced the city editor thnt Funston wns a
phenomenal reporter. When a letter came
from a mnn In Fort Smith to the newspaper
ofllco asking the city editor to send him n
first class man to take care of a country
dally , Funstonwont. . Ho didn't know anymore
moro about a country dally than ho did
about the climate of Mars , but he tackled It.
When the United States district court met
at Fort Smith Funston started In to tnko
sides In n murder case , nnd Judge Parker ,
the famous hanging judge , who has sen
tenced over n hundred murderers to death ,
called Funston Into his study ono evening ,
ostensibly to talk about the case In ques
tion. The Judge opened the conversation by
tolling Mr. Funston In confidence that Jour
nalism wasn't hla profession , nnd closed the
Incident by Intimating that the cllmato of
Arkansas was very , very unhealthy nt that
particular season. Not desiring to go to
jail for contempt Funston got out of town
on a night train and the owner of the paper
found n now man the next morning. But
Funston had enough money saved up to go
to Hchool another year , and M > went back
to the university. At the end of the year
ho took thu iclvll service examination and
got a place In the Agricultural department
nt Washington and was sent to Montana
and Dakota making a botanical collection of
grasses. After thnt ho joined the govern
ment expedition that made the first official
survey of Death Valley , the famous Califor
nia death trap.
The rlsors of the undertaking may bo In
ferred from the fact that Funstou , the
youngest member of the expedition , la .tho
only one nltvo nnd eano today. A.ftor . the
work In Death Vulloy wns completed Funs-
ton , rondo ono of the party of flvo that
effected the first "back-door" entrance into
Yosomlto valley down the sheer sides of
the mountains.
In Frnrrii Wllil * .
In the winter of 1S91-2 this man's work
began when the government sent him Into
Alaska to make a botanical survey of certain
parts of the coast. Later , In 1893 , ho returned <
turned to Alaska to make a botanical sur
vey cf the Yukon river.
Today the trail over Chllcoot pass Is as
familiar as the walk along Broadway. But
In 1893 the pass was known only to Indian
guides , and Its devious ways had been found
cnly by the feet of n low daring miners nnd
fugitives from society. Then it was tlmt
Funston and two miners went up the pass
and over to the Yukon. The Indian guides
struck ono day nnd Funston tells about It
in one of his letters : "Tho Indians carried
the loads , whllo wo dragged the empty sleds
nnd did the swearing. The snow fell In
cessantly for live days nnd It laid along our
route from live to fifty feet deep. It was day
after day of wallowing awl struggling
through the enow ns wo worked our way
gradually up to the summit of the range ;
ono cheerful llttlo diversion occurred on tbo
second day. The low-browed ex-cannibal
who was chief packer nnd seemed to ha\o
charge of the other Indians , throw his load
into the snow ami announced that unless
their pay was materially Increased ho and
the other packers would get themselves buck
to the village nnd thus leave us In a pretty
pickle. My temper bad been at a white heat
all day and without thinking what might bo
the consequence * ) of such a move , like a fool ,
I shoved the muzzle of a Winchester Into the
face of tbo advisory committee of the strlko
nnd tha way that the most serene grand
master of the Amalgamated Order of Chll
coot Salmon Biter resbouldered bis pack of
beans and tugged along through the broad
expanse of the beautiful snow shows that
It Is good thing for ovsry well regulated
family to have .a gun In the house. "
Ho went ilown the Yukon to the mouth
of the Porcupine river whore ho left the
miners and went up the Porcupine to Hum-
ships with the Indians ha found the story
of the destruction of the fleet a fiction. A
great crowd of the men from the fleet wan
watching a ball game on .the Ice , and wheii
Funston in his Esquimo dress spoke to a
captain of ono of the whalers In English
there was a whaling captain who refused
to believe his eyes and his cars and Fun
ston was obliged to show his government
commission. Then that captain took Fun
ston to his cabin and called another cap
tain , and they learned two-year old "news
until they were glutted. Here the devil
whispered something to the first captain
and ho whispered It to the second captain ,
and together they persuaded Funston to al
low them to fill the flowing bowl until It
ran over several consecutive times. Ana
subsequent proceedings Interested Mr. Fun
ston no more for several hours thereafter.
Whereupon the devil nnd the two captains
won't out and set about their devices. What
they did and what they told made Fun-
ston's coming to that fleet a greater sensa
tion than anything ho will ever do in the
Philippines. For the devil spoke these
things through the mouths of the captains
to men who had been away from homo for
three long years. England and Russia have
united and declared war against Uio United
States. New York City has been captured ;
San Francisco Is being bombarded ; Russian
troops are coming through Siberia to Alaska
nnd down through British America to Chicago
cage ; the owners of the North American
whaljng fleet have paid this white man ten
thousand dollars to bring this word : "Go
north as soon as the Ice breaks ; push north ,
stay north , as far north as the Ice will per
mit , for two years or until peace has been
declared. Also avoid communicating with
other ships. "
SuIIiiiur HCMVII the Yukon.
What is a llttlo matter of swimming a
tropical torrent under fire as compared with
bringing news llko this and being sound
asleep and locked In the captain's cabin
when it strikes three hundred homesick
Yankees who want to go homo and fight.
Funston "will never again In his life make
the sensation ho made In the Arctic ocean.
Nor will the devil and two captains over
have so much fun over him.
When he returned to Rampart House lie
had made a journey of 900 miles In the dark
night of Arctic winter. Perry's famouo
journey was made In the Arctic summer and
It was not so long as Funston's cither.
When summer dawned Funston took up
his kit and left Rampart House and with
two Indians came down the Porcupine to
the Yukon. There Funston left the Indians
and alone In nn open boat drifted down the
entire lontgh of the Yukon to Its mouth ,
making a botanical survey of the country.
The pressed flora that ho gathered are now
In the Agricultural department at Washing
ton. And bis report Is a matter of record ,
Howas picked up by the revenue cutter
Bear and came homo In the fall of ' 91 , It
was a hard trip , But Funston thought
nothing of It and was too busy to go to
New York and get fame.
A DiiHh for Culm.
When ho got back to civilization Funston
tried to establish a coffee plantation In
Central America , and lived down under the
cquajor for a few months. Later he drifted
"
Into" Now York and was. made assistant
auditor of the Santa Fo railroad when It
was being reorganized. But the task of
signing his name to bonds eight hours a
day grew Irksome , and Funston felt what
ho thought was bis life call to duty , and In
August , 189C , ho packed his kit and went
with n filibustering party on the Dauntless
to Cuba. Ho entered the Cuban army un
der Garcia. He was with Dana Osgood
when bo fell , and Funston was promoted
to Osgood's place and rank and made com.
mandant of Cuban artillery. Now FunMon
didn't know anything about artillery whun
ho begun , but ho kept his Ignorance to him *
'
self , Ho looked over the guns as u farm
boy looks over a cultivator and pulled them
apart and put them together again , ana
the Spaniards whllo making his way across
the country to get the order honored. His
quick wit and good nerve served him. Whllo
ho was explaining to his Spanish captors
thnt he was coming In to surrender he
seemed to be mopping his face with his
.handkerchief , but really -was slipping the
order for the parole from his handkerchief
Into his mouth. The Spaniards did not dis
cover the trick. Funston stuck to his story
of surrender and the court-martial released
him. General Fltzhugh Leo fitted him out
with his passage money and a suit of hand-
me-down clothes and Funston struck New
York In the winter of 1S97-9S , racked with
fever , broken in body and discouraged in
mind.
This Is briefly the Funston that they know
out .west when the war broke out. And this
Is why it was good politics for Governor
Leedy to make Funston a colonel. Ho did
not apply for the place and did not ac
cept It at onco. .Ho feared that ho did not
have military training though the had ex
perience enough to do the work. But
when ho took his _ reglment Into camp ho
1 took up the gcntlo' art of murdering , and
learned Its theory ns well as ono can In a
few months during which the Knnsas boys
were kept Ir the United States. In the dull
time he met a pretty Callfornl nglrl Eda
Blankert and at the end of a six weeks'
acquaintance he married her. His wedding
trip was a walk nround the block and a
few hours later ho inllcd away with his
regiment. A month later his wife followed
him on a Hong Kong steamer and the In
terrupted honeymoon began in the Philip
pines , Just before the battle. The Kansas
iboys who write homo say that Funston
sleeps and eats with them on the firing line
and that ho has not been In his tent since
the outbreak began lust February. Ho Is
their Idol. 'Ills ' lame leg dues not keep him
from limping ahead of them when they
charged Into Caloocan. Ho was the flrfat white
soldlor to enter 'Malolos. ' Ho was the first
American officer to croLS the river at Cal-
umplt.
The people of the Missouri valley knew
he was a hero before the world found him
out. And it "will bo a happy dny when
the young man comes homo with stars on
his shoulders back to Grlgsby station ,
"Where ho used to bo so happy and so
poor" and If the start ) are not on his
chouldors the laurels will bo on his brow
and Knnsas , although a prohibition state ,
will drink stone blind when Johnny comes
marching home.
home.WILLIAM
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
bltiilu'N liniitcNtccil ,
Mr. A. . P. Allvla of Barcelona , Spain ,
spends his winters nt Alken , S. C. Weak
nerves had caused severe pains In the back
of his head. On using Electric Bitters ,
America's greatest blood and nerve remedy ,
all pain soon left him. Ho says this grand
medicine Is what lila country needs. All
America knows that it cures liver uud kid
ney trouble , purified the blood , tones up the
stomach , strengthens the nerves , puts vim ,
vigor nnd new life Into every muscle , nerve
and organ of the body. If weak , tired or
nlllng you need It. Every bottle guaranteed ;
only 50 cents. Sold by Kuhn & Co. , drug-
Mini } ' MJIIIK-H.
Few countries have suffered BO many
changes of name as Ireland , says the Wav-
erly ' .Magazine. In the time of Ptolemy the
Island was known as Scotia , Dlodorus Slcu-
las catls the 'island ' Iris , or Irlsl ; In the Do
Mundo , credited by BOIDO scholars to Aris
totle , It Is called Ircnno ; In the Araga-
nautlca of Orpheus It appears as Irlnus ;
Strabo called It Irene ; Caosar. Tacitus nnd
Pliny mentioned It as Hlbornia ; Mela called
It Juvernn. The native names In Celtic are
Ir , Erl or Erin. Plutarch mentions it under
the name of Ogygla. The name Ireland is
no doubt derived from the native Ir or Erl ,
but when It cume Into general use Is rt
question concerning which scholars are
much at variance.
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The Omaha Wheel club will glvo n picnic
nt Sarpy Mills Sunday , Juno 11. This Is goIng -
Ing to bo the largest thing of its kind ever
attempted by Omnhn wheelmen. Invita
tions have been sent to nil the leading clubs
nround Omaha nnd Council Bluffs and nil
unattached wheelmen nro specially Invited
to attend. The object Is a grand reunion of
all the bicyclists In this part of the country.
All wheelmen bringing ladles with them will
be doubly welcome and a special effort made
to entertain them. A band has been secured
nnd the dancing pavilion put In first-class
shape. A special prlzo will bo given to the
woman with the most becoming bicycle out
fit. There will ho a ball game , foot races ,
wrestling matches and nil kinds of athletic
sports nnd pastimes. A merry-go-round ,
greased | MJO ! and peanut stand will nlso bo
In evidence. Boating and short trips on the
steamer will also bo Indulged In by those
preferring the water to the land. A greased
pig will bo among the attractions nnd a
large reward will bo given the expert who
catches It. No pains will be spared to make
the affair a success and the Omaha Wheel
club's well known reputation of never falling
In nny project of this kind will bo sustained
to the limit. The cntertnlnment will probably -
, bly conclude with fireworks In the evening.
Owing to the postponement of the Omaha
Wheel club's picnic from May 28 to June
11 , the club will , on the former date , have a
flfteen-mllo scorch In the morning nnd a
club run to Fort Crook In the afternoon.
Scorch to leave club house nt 9:15 : n. m. and
club run at 2:1G : p. m. It gives the captain
and his lieutenants a great deal of pleasure
to announce that the scorch Is called for the
special benefit of some of the members who
when riding always Insist on having their
front wheels a foot ahead of the riders bc-
sldo them , with the Inevitable result of
starting something , nnd nlso for those who
hnvo been "looking for It" during the last
thirty days , and who have not been accom
modated on account of the rule of easy
riding on club runs , which has boon and
will bo enforced at all hazards. An
especially warm and cordial Invitation Is ex
tended to tandems and satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded at the gate.
The bicycle trust Is a go. A. O. Spauldlng ,
the Chicago promoter , has succeeded , ac
counts agree , in whipping Into line the re
calcitrant factory owners who throw up
their hands and pulled out of the game a
month ago. Coleman of Chicago has been
"Induced" to renew his option until Juno 1 ,
and the Indianapolis kicker has doubtless
been reconciled to the Inevitable In the
same way. The Chicago people evidently
put up a pretty stiff bluff. The value orig
inally placed on their plant was not wholly
satisfactory nnd they threatened to organize
a rival trust. That would never do. Com
petition cannot bo tolerated by a trust. To
strangle competition is what they are or
ganized for. Spaldlng was obliged to come
down and did the right thing by the Chicago
cage men and they have ceased squealing
about the dangers of a bicycle combination.
The new trust will thoroughly inflate Its
stock tires. Its capital is placed at $80-
000,000 $33,000,000 preferred and $45,000,000
In common stock. The copious array of
ciphers represents considerable pneumatic
pressure. If the valuation of nil plants Is In
llko proportion to that one in Indiana. For
trust purpose It was valued at $80,000 ; local
papers assert it could bo duplicated and
equipped with all modern machinery for
$125,000.
The purpose of this trust , like all of Its
class , Is "to cheapen , the cost of production
and sell the product cheaper. " That Is what
ono of the promoters says. "Tho principal
aim of the new company , " says this philan
thropist , "will > bo to Improve the product ,
reduce the price and control the output.
The control of the output will engage our
special attention. For several years It has
been the custom of thf. makers of the
cheaper wheels to flood the market In mid-
season with bicycles nt reduced prices , seas
as to be able to got money to meet obliga
tions. This practice has had two effects.
It has tended to lower the standard of
American bicycles and It has materially In
jured the business. With the combination
of skill In manufacture and a consolidation
of Interests wo shall be able to control this
mid-season output and at the same time
produce a better wheel for less money. "
The report of Secretary Abbott Bassott
shows the membership of the League of
American Wheelmen to bo 61,771 , as com
pared with 03,399 for the week ending May
0. This is a drop of more than l.GOO mem
bers , which Is unusual at this season when
renewals nro generally made. There has
been a loss of several hundred every week ,
excepting one , since the election of the now
president , but this Is the tlmo when the re
newals of these who comprised the 11,000
dropped on the 1st of April should bo swell
ing the figures. President Kecnan docs not
attempt to explain the falling off , but hopes
that the ranks will bo Increased after the
national event. That the prospective meet
Is already affecting the membership is Indi
cated by the fact that while New York state
loses 408 members this week and Pennsyl
vania C71 , ( Massachusetts loses only 217.
A'bout ' the hardest blow the League of
American Wheelmen has received In Us
light with the National Cycling association
was the defection of the Kings County
( N. Y. ) Wheelmen. TMils Brooklyn club Is
the strongest In New York nnd Its annual
race meeting has been one that has brought
champions together. It has always been an
League of American Wheelmen body , but
Its meeting this year , which has been set for
Juno 21 , will bo under the auspices of the
National Cycling association. The an
nouncement came llko a thunderclap to New
York cycledom and has created Interest nil
over the cycling world.
American bicycles are now being ridden
In all parts of the world. Statistics of ex
perts just Issued by the Treasury depart
ment show that the value cf bicycles ex
ported during the fiscal years 1896 , 1S97 , 1693
and 1899 amounts In round number.- $20-
000,000.
That such largo numbers of a machine re
quiring such high grades of workmanship
In Its production should bo continuously and
successfully oxporu-d In competition with the
workshops of the meat successful manu
facturing countries of the world Is a fact of
which American workmen and Americans
generally may Justly feel proud. Four
million dollars' worth of American
'bicycles ' mill , during the fiscal year
about to end , go to European
countries , countries In which the manu
facturing Industries antedate by generations
thceo of the United States. To Fran.-o . , with
all her skilled workmen nnd Ingenuity , ox-
portatlona of American bicycles In the fiscal
year 1S9 will be more than double In value
these of 1897 , while the fact there has been
n general lowering of prices Indlcatrs that
In numbers the Increase has been very much
greater. To Germany the cxportationa of bl-
cycles In 1S99 will 'bo ' 60 per cent In CXCPM
of these of 1897 , though something lota than
those of 1SUSTo other countries on the
continent of Kuropo the bicycle exports of
1&99 arc CO per cent In nxcegs of those of
last year or the year before. To the Unllod
Kingdom thu bicycle exports of the year are
materially less than these of 1S9S , no meas
ured by values , though the fall In prices
probably accounts for much of the apparent
reduction ns shown by the figures which give
values exclusively nnd do not Indicate the
number of machines exported.
A tenderfoot correspondent trnvcllng In
the Sunflower states makes these observa
tions : "Tho ladles of Kansas wear sunbonnets -
nets and calico dresses when they go out
on their wheels. They look comical In that
sort of n costume , but It Is the most appro
priate and comfortable that could be de
vised for this kind of country. There Is n
blcyclo In nearly every farmhouse , and the-
women use them more than the men. When
they want to do a little shopping lu town ergo
go to the postofllco or attend a meeting of
the sowing circle , It Is no longer necessary
to take a team out of the Held. The femi
nine portion of the population of Kansas
has thus been emancipated from the shackles
of farm life. Expect for a few weeks In
the spring , when the frost Is coming out
of the ground , the roads nro tolerable , and
even when the mud Is dpcpcst a Kansas
girl can go to town and back before her
father can get half way there with a team
and wagon. The calico costume nnd the
sunbonnet obviate the only other great dif
ficulty , which Is dust. "
Ono curious nnd Interesting fact In regard
to the exports of bicycles Illustrates the
general tendency of our export trade In
manufactures. This Is the fact that a very
largo proportion of our exports of manufac
tures goes to manufacturing countries. Two-
thirds of our bicycles go to countries which
mnko a specialty of manufacturing , and this
export to manufacturing countries Increases
rather than otherwise. It will bo remem
bered that predictions were made n year or
two ago that the exports of bicycles to
Japan would decrease as soon as the Japa
nese had obtained sufficient numbers as mod
els < far their own factories and established
themselves in the manufacture of wheels.
This prediction , however , has not proven
true. The exports of bicycles to Japan ,
which in the fiscal yeur 1897 amounted to
$52,179 , were In 1898 $88,905 , and In the fiscal
year which ends next month will reach fully
$130,000.
The largest single buyer of our bicycles
In the fiscal year 1898 was the United King
dom , which took 41,552ICC , though , as al
ready Indicated , the figures as to values for
the current fiscal year will not bo as largo
as these of last year. Germany's purchases
of bicycles from us lost year amounted to
$1,724,404. Canada came next in amount of
purchases in this line , the total being $611-
402 , while France was next with purchases
amounting to $482,682 ; British Australasia
next , $309,906 ; Netherlands , $251,918 ; Den
mark , $228,370 ; British Africa , $148,503 ;
British East Indies , $90,388 ; Japan , $88,905 ;
China , $27.449 ; Dutch East Indies , $13,368.
and Africa , $11,647. To many of these dis
tant places the exports of bicycles In the
present fiscal year will exceed those of last
year. To Japan , as already Indicated , the
present year's exports are nearly 50 per
cent In excess of those of last year ; to Ar
gentina they have more than doubled , and
to the British East Indies the increase Is
more than 150 per cent.
The racing board of the League of Ameri
can Wheelmen has Issued the following Im
portant bulletin : "Racing men , with the ex
ceptions hereinafter stated , shall not bo eli
gible to compete In open races after May 1 ,
1899 , until they have registered with the
racing board and have been assigned a num
ber , which they must insert In entry blank
and must exhibit a certificate of registration
to the clerk of the course before starting
and to any other proper official on demand.
Entrants to novice races , closed races nnd
boys under 16 years of age need not bo reg
istered. The registration fee for profession
als shall .be $2 per annum. The registration
fco for amateurs who are members of the
League of American Wheelmen shall bo 5C
cents ; non-members , $1.50 ; riders 10 and 17
years of age , 50 cents. All applications fet
registration must 'be ' accompanied by the
fee and must give full name , number , street ,
city and state address of the applicant. Ap
plications of members of the League ol
American Wheelmen must bo accompanied
by membership ticket. Riders 16 and 17
years of ago must furnish a proper state
ment from their parents or guardian certi
fying to their ago. One object of registra
tion Is to enforce proper discipline and to
protect racing men from 'ringers , ' schemers
and Ineligible parties attempting to compete
against them under assumed names. "
Another new gear case has been intro
duced by a well known firm and appears to
be the best shown thus far. In brief , the
attachment consists of sprocket cases con
nected by telescoping tubes covering the
chain. The outer halves of the sprocket
cases close over the Inner halves , forming a
dust-proof connection. Both the cases and
the connecting tubes nro lined with raw-
lildo , eliminating all noise and wear In the
case of a slackened chain. The case Is de
signed to keep the chain lubricated at all
Running Sore
on His Ankle.
Obstinate sores nnd ulcers are ft sura
flign that the entire circulation is in ft
depraved condition. They nre n severe
drain upon the system , nnd are con
stantly napping away the vitality. In
every case the poison must be olimi-
nnted from the blood , nnd no amount of
external treatment cun hnvo nny ellect.
Mr. L. J. Olnrk , of Orange Court
house , Va. , writes :
"Kor six years I had
an obstinate , runiilng
ulcer on my ankle ,
which nt times caitieil
nielntciisotrnfTerlMB-
was FO disabled for u
lontf while that I was
wholly unfit for busi
ness. One of the best
doctors treated mo con
stantly , but did me no
good , I then tried Yft-
rloiiH blood remedies ,
without the least bene
fit. 8.H.8. was St , high
ly recommended that
I conuludeil to try it ,
ami the elleot WAD won
derful. It necined to
uot right at thn Boat
of the dlsenso and
force the pol on out. .
and 1 was BOOH completely curca. "
Swift's Specific drives out every trnco
of impurity in the blood , and in this
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the only blood remedy guaranteed
purely vegetable.
cures contagious Blood PoisonScrofula ,
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trouble. Insist upon S. 8 , 8. ; nothing
cun take its place.
Valuable books mailed free by Swift
Speclllc Company , Atlantu , Gu.
times. When In position It adds materially
to the appearance of the machine nnd | iri c
tlcnl trets have demonstrated Its dust-proof
qualities.
A blcyclo without nny semblance of a
handle bar , but which Is steered entirely
by the motions ( it the rider's body , Is the
Invention of Simon Metzger of Limn , In-
Many wheelmen have the present typo of
wheel so completely under their control
that they can guide the mnchlno In this way ,
but only on smooth ground , whereas with
the bicycle of Mr. Metzgcr this font U ren
dered not only easy , but absolutely safe on
all roads. In the construction of this ma-
chlno the stem of the steering wheel Is sup
plied with rearwnrdly-exlendlng steadying
bar , having n spring causing it to bear
slightly on a support. This pressure la sulll-
clent to hold the wheel steady , but not grent
enough to Interfere with Us free motion , so
that It yields to every motion of the body.
The fork of the- front wheel Is turned
slightly under Instead of outward nnd the
steering wheel Is slightly smaller than the
other , whereby the guiding of the machine *
Is rendered moro easy. Thp steadying bar
also offers a mrani of steering by the hand
In case of any sudden emergency.
The Jlo * < Itcninrknlilv It cm rely of ( ho
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pins , nchliiK nnd weariness of the lower
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