THE CYCLISTS' DECALOGUE

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2303, 25 January 1897, Page 4

THE CYCLISTS' DECALOGUE

Thou ahalt have no other toys before me. Thou shalt not dole through the streets with me drpssed m any old soiled or ragged togs tiiat may be fished out of a closet, but shall keep thyself neatly clothed and clean, and look genteel and civilised rather than like a tramp. Thou shalt not take up all the road, but m riding, keep to the left, and make others do likewise. Kemenibeij 1 the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou ride and do all thy royetering, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, go not forth on loud talking or otherwise boisterously objectionable expeditions. Hide, if thou detest at all on the Sabbath day, quietly, decently, and with a staid and decorous bearing. Honour at all times {he city by-laws, also give due lieed and attention to the local police constable, and at all times pay attention to thy lamp, that its light is clear. Tliou shalt not scorch. Thou shalt not " hump " over the handle-bars, making thyself look like a monkey. Thou Bhalt not steal (intended more particularly for the good of bicycle editors). Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour's records or performances. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's bicycle, nor his wife's bicycle, nor his costume, nor his wife's bloomers, nor his saddle, cyclometer, nor anything that is his. The cook, a negro woman of, perhaps, twenty-five years, was engaged to be married. Tlir wedding day arrived, the ieremony took place with all due formal ity, and the next day the cook was, as usual, with characteristic faithfulness, attending to all her duties as if there had been nothing special occurred. But her husband was missing. When somebody asked hoy where her husband was, the answer came : "He done gone on his bridal tour. He hab no money for to tuk bofe of us, so he done gone for de tour." The New York WqtUl gives some extraordinary figures concerning the expenditure by both the .Republican and Democratic managers over the recent election. It c6st £283,400 of campaign funds to elect to Mr Mc.Kinley, and there was about £15,000 left m the Republican treasury at the end. The Democratic National Committee Fund was nearly as large, and three-fourths of it were raised m the five silver-produc-ing States, and from the owners of silver, mines. No national committee, it is stated, ever had such enormous financial resources at its disposal as Mr MeKinley's. In one week 30,000,000 documents were disseminated by mail from the Chicago bureau, pach of them with a two cent stamp. This meant an expenditure of £12,000 m that week for postage alone. Little money was subscribed by the West but New York and Philadelphia produced £100,000 apiece. The World moralises on the expense of the national campaign by the remark that the aggregate of the election expenses was " more than enough to keep up the English royal establishment."

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Temple, tells a story against himself. He entered during a popular "service m an East End church one night, and standing m a back pew, joined m the singing of a Moody and San key. hymn. Next to him stood a working man who was singing Justily m tune. The bishop sang lustily also, but not m tune. The working man stood the dissonance as long as he could, and then nudging the bishop, snid m a whisper. 'VHere, dry up, mister, you're spoiling the show !" DrGilmour, the Central Prison Warden of Vancouver, 8.C., is about to in».ro4u6e a number of reforms m the prison. The keystone of. the warden's plan is to have the prison not only a penal but a reformative institution. To this end prisoners who are m the institution for the first time, who are there through a lapse from rectitude, induced perhaps through cruel circumstances, will be segregated m a wing of their own. They will not be barbered ro ignoniiniously, and will have somewhat better food. More than that they will be clad m a neat grey suit, hardly distinguishable from the dress of an ordipary citizen.