THE ANGLING S@YCLISFE, 
[We solicit for publication, under this department heading, contributions of interest to Angling 
Cyclists, particularly outings on the wheel to fishing waters]. 
The Increasing Number of Angling Cyclists. 
Scarcely a day passes that several robust 
knee-breeched young fellows do not stride into 
our office with the greeting: 
“T’m off for a fish, and I want to get a point 
or two about ’’—such and such a place. 
And we sit down and have a chat over where 
and how to go, what bait to use, the fish likely 
to be caught, etc., etc., and the communing 
does us all good, for the intending outer brings 
into our sanctum the fresh air feeling of the 
woods and streams, and the visitor gets into his 
storehouse all that we know about the locality 
and fish that he purposes to visit and catch. 
Now in this connection we want to let every 
angler, and particularly every angling cyclist 
(forhis fieldof sportisas yeta virgin one), know 
that we have no latch strings on the door of our 
editorial room, for it always stands wide open. 
Every day we see evidences of the increased 
use of the wheel for angling purposes. Last 
week we paid a visit to a friend, whose life- 
lines are threaded with golden strands, and 
thereis nota sharp edged stone along his smooth 
macadamized road to puncture his pneumatic, 
no matter where he goes. Standing upright 
and against the broad verandah was a wheel, 
as well groomed as the blooded horses in 
his stable, for the nickle mountings were 
brighter than sunlight on a pellucid trout pool. 
Knowing the number of horses he had, and his 
love of speeding them, we asked what use he 
could possibly make of “ that bike.” 
“Why, my dear fellow,” said he, “I goa fish- 
ing on it. Don’t you know that we are within 
two miles of excellent salt water fishing, and 
about twice a week I strap a fishing rod in front 
of the handle bar and run down to our club 
house to spend an afternoon among the sque- 
teaugue and the tautog. There I meetat least a 
dozen club members, who live in our town, who 
have taken a spin down on their wheels to go 
a-fishing.” 
And so it goes on, just as we predicted some 
time ago in THE ANGLER, when a fishing 
tackle dealer bemoaned the loss in his spring 
trade through what he called “ This new bicy- 
cle fad.” We toldhim then that matters would 
adjust themselves, and that in less than three 
years there would be more angling cyclists 
than railroaders or steamboaters for a like pur- : 
pose. The only mistake we made was in the 
time set. We should have said next year, not 
three. 
Trouble Ahead for the ‘Scorcher’ Cyclist. 
“There’s a man that is going some day to 
experience one of the evils caused by riding a 
bicycle,” remarked a well-known Buffalo phy- 
sician the other day to an Axfress reporter, as 
he pointed to a youthful rider who was rushing 
along in the familiar scorching attitude. 
“Kyphosis Bicycleistarium ?” queried the re- 
porter. 
“No,” was the reply, “that scare has had its 
day. We don’t hear anything nowadays of 
any such affection, but there is a real danger 
in the position assumed by such would-be 
crackajacks as that fellow, and the worst of it 
is few realize it until they are so far gone that 
there is no hope of reeovery, except by painful 
and slow processes of cure. I refer to what I 
have named cyclists’ paralysis. It is a most 
peculiar affection, and I have at present three 
cases of the disease under treatment.” 
“Why do you call it cyclists’ paralysis, 
doctor, and how does it differ from any other 
form of that disease ?”’ asked the reporter. 
“T call the disease cyclists’ paralysis, although 
scorchers’ paralysis would be a better name, be- 
cause it rarely affects any but those who ride 
bicycles in the humpbacked position known as 
scorching. Yet, there have been cases known 
where the patient had never ridden a mile ona 
bicycle in his life. The disease attacks the 
nerves of the hand and forearm, and is pri- 
marily caused by the pressure on the palm, due 
to the effort of sustaining the weight of the 
body on the hands. -Of course, similar pres- 
sure on anything else, like the head of a walk- 
ing stick, would produce the same results, but 
these cases are rare, because few persons use 
a cane enough for any deleterious effect to 
make itself felt. But with bicyclists it is dif- 
ferent. They will ride sometimes for ten or 
