the sure cure for that tired feeling so often complained of.

Many persons are afraid to try to ride a bicycle, thus depriving themselves of this agreeable exercise. It is far less difficult to ride, than it is to gather courage to try it.

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The qualities of a good machine are many and it is often hard to make a selection. Each make is claimed to be the best. Although a light machine is always in demand, the difference of a couple of pounds should not be enough to induce a hasty selection and above

all, the cheap machine, is sure to prove the costliest in the end, and a source of continual annoyance and expense.

It would be difficult to get exact figures of the number of bicycles on the Pacific Coast today. All the cities and most towns have flourishing road clubs and even small villages and isolated ranches show enthusiastic wheelers. During the vacation season it is hard to find a nook anywhere in California where excursionists ever go in which the wheel is not found. Over the grades into Yosemite and through the passes into Lake County the sturdy wheelmen push. The certainty of sunny weather in summer makes California the ideal country for bicycle touring, and this form of sport is sure to flourish.

Bicycling as a sport has been with us. several years. Races, century runs, and club meets, are familiar to all, it is the development of the bicycle as an every day vehicle that has given it its new impulse, not athletics alone, but the great mass of people, young and old, men and women, clerks, mechanics, messengers, -everybody has adopted the wheel.

The procession of wheelmen that passes up and down Market street in San Francisco, at the hours when clerks and business men are going to and from their work, shows what a hold the wheel has on the community as a practical matter, and the stream of wheelers, men and women, that may be found in Golden Gate Park at any hour of the day proves its popularity as a means of health and recreation. Doctors have approved of it, parsons have adopted it, and Mrs. Grundy herself wears bloomers.

H. Ansot.

VOL. xxvi.-10.

HE best State-building has for its purpose the promotion of progress and peace along lines of natural development. The > contribution of amassed wealth is of far less importance than of intellect and muscle, moved upon by high moral purpose and vivified by fearless energy. The State that does most for its fellow in this direction, contributes to it men, brain and brawn, the forces which create real wealth out of natural conditions.

What has Indiana contributed to California? So much, that it may not be here related, but left to judgment and imagination after suggestion of types. She has not given great wealth, but better, a manhood from an American civilization springing out of the union of widely separated and diverse families. It is my purpose to select without their suggestion or prior knowledge a few men who stand representative of the contributions of the Hoosier State to the Golden State. I am persuaded that no State can make a better showing. A collection of types from all the States, as found in California, would form the basis of a valuable and profoundly interesting study of the composite Californian.

It is impracticable in this paper to consider in detail the representation of Indiana in the pioneer immigration that swept over "the plains," and surged

along oceans and across continents to California, but I find sufficient in the meager annals and traditions of the pioneer era, to justify the statement that when California sprang into existence, she came into the Union equipped with Indiana. courage, intellect, business energy, intellectual vigor, and moral purpose, in as large proportion as came from any other State. Indeed, Indiana, contributed far more than her due proportion; she has given to California of the richest of her native born brain and brawn, and the choicest of her adoption and fostering.

Around the early history of Indiana clusters more of the romantic and heroic than attaches to any other section of the

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first great West. Her annals so overflow with the tales of heroic deeds of her builders, that he is a degenerate son indeed, who does not flush with pride at mention of her name. Indiana owed its earliest promise to the days of Louis the Great, was the focal point of Western conquest under the sensual Louis XV, and paid tribute to George III. The impress of monarchical institutions is still discoverable; for laws, manners, and nomenclature, foreign to our system, long lingered in the little State after her founders had given place to the sovereigns of

America. Indiana was the romantic field of adventure and the battle ground of royal contention before some of the much older States of the Union were inhabited. The white man bore kingly warrants in her territory one hundred and thirty years before she had a capital. Her seat of government swung between Quebec, Montreal, New Orleans, Paris, and London, for ninety years before it settled down at Marietta, Ohio, after having hovered over Richmond and briefly paused at New York; the sun of the nineteenth century had lifted before it located within the territory proper.

Photo by Taber.

The fief of Vincennes, Indiana's earliest town, was established in 1672, and the nephew of the second Sieur, François Morgan (e), founded the Post of Vincennes in 1727, and not the Bissot, his uncle, to whom some have given that credit.' It was made a post of trade as early as 1669 by French explorers seeking the fabled silver mines of Mexico while

Ill.). Lasalle was assassinated in 1687, the Indians shortly after returning to their old hunting grounds at about the period when English and French made Indiana the stage of their bloody contention. Fort Ouiatanon on the Wabash, 'The Encyclopedia of American Biography. for instance. No one has cleared away the mists from Indiana history so well as Mr. J. P. Dunn, Jr. ("Indiana-A Redemption from Slavery." American Commonwealths Series make no apology for adapting from him freely and following his outline. Self-exiled Indianians, as well as those in home land, owe him grateful thanks.

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