They Were Both Amateurs

The Adrián Evening Telegram relates the following incident which is very apropos at the present; time when there are so many new bioycle riders in the city. They will doubtless recognize the symptoms and kuow that tliey are entirely applicable to their own case: "Anyone who has ridden a bicycle kuows the irresistible tendency of a machine in the hands of a beginner to run directly at any living object it meets. This inclination is stronger towards other bicycles than towards anything else. The flrst time a beginner rides alone in the streefc nis bike insista opon darting at every one that appears, andno exercise of wit or judgment can control it. People who have had no experience .laugh at this and say it is sll nonsense, bnt every person who ever learned to ride will agree that the total depravity of the ordiuary bicoyle is beyoud comparison with all other inaniniate objects, and that ita combative insfcincts are highly developed. The other uight a lady wbo was riding alone for the flrst time carne down a hill at a brisk pace, and was cougratulatiug herself upou her success as a rider, when to her horror she saw a gentleman on a wheel approaching aloug a narrow roadway. 'Keep out of rny way,' she screamed, 'I am an amateur.' 'So am I, ' he gasped. 'Then heaven help us both !' was her fervid responso, as she shut her eyes and awaited the catastrophe. "