Show A COUPS of the Connecticut militia has a special bicycle service and a United States army officer who inspected its maneuvres a short time ago has made a complimentary report on them The men wore armed says Lieutenant Bowen with Colts repeating re-peating carbines and revolvers A man mounted on a bicycle can go many places where it would be impossible to take horses and can beat the flag in sending messages in nearly every case But wouldnt it be a more satisfactory way to settle war by dividing the contending armies off into nines and determining the issues by the arbitrament of base bal |