Show WANTED TO SEE A BICYCLE owned a horse ranch and his dusi r liess was Kuli Rilin cd there goes one er th goldar gold aiDed Ded things george thu the speaker was a whito white boarded bearded man dian fully au 11 ll 3 cars of age and alid from his appearance evidently a farmer tho the person addressed addi essed was a younger mau dian ills high heeled boots and led necktie also dello denoting ting the agriculturist it was at the morrison orrison SI street bridge and just before 5 in the morning in the gray night mist hall had not yet lifted f from rom the river river but those these two men had risen from their beds impelled by a curiosity to see a bicycle yes ar all answered the older elder of tho the iwo wo in response to a 1 question we re out 3 yere ei e on this bridge tor ter see a bicycle a critter neither of us hns has ever seen I 1 afore you see we live in tile mountains back lack of clatskanie an bicycles dont conic our wiy way 1 0 come up river on oil th ill G 11 Y shaver in an cobill up george says ter me pop poll lid did yer ever see a bicycle in an I 1 had to admit that I 1 altho I 1 understand th ill pesky things are plenty enough budgin front from th ill figures published in ill th papers re gardin th ill output of ill tl factories buil build din ln them but this lb th first time ive bin bill ter town in I 1 nigh on thirteen years an for th tb life of me I 1 blut L recollect one of th machines then thell so I 1 jest asked th ill purser where th best place to catch sight of a 1 bicycle early in th mornia was in rOrt portland laud an lie he told me th ill bridge here ahead ot of I 1 th steamer well I 1 wits that pestered ered to see one that I 1 routed george out so soon as it was daylight an all weve been s sl andin on oil this bridge ever since wait in for a bicycle man dian ter come along I 1 then turning to his companion the old ul man it said well awell if I 1 did rout yer out kinder early yere the most interested I 1 george 1 11 yer bet I 1 am george replied and then tile the younger man went on to tell what tile the bicycle has done tor for the horse raiser and farmer lie has a band of some CO 60 horses on tho the range ge and ninety acres of oats five fire years ago these horses would average 25 per head unbroken and lie he received CO 60 cents per bushel for the oats oata not asod in retting getting ills his horses in condition for market today the horses can call hardly be given away and his oats bring 31 cents and this he ascribes scribes 1 to the bicycle and so the alie two men sat ant perched on tho lie bridge railing watching as tile the morning grow grew ou on tile the increased number of bi cyclists crossing the bridge 1 and pouring out their ana anathemas themas on oil I 1 I 1 that hat gol gold arnod darned thing tile the silent t steed portland telegram |