Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — MUST THE HORSE GO? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MUST THE HORSE GO?

The manufactureire of automobiles will have no difficulty in watering their stock. St. Paul Dispatch. The automobile never gets its leg over a shaft or kicks holes in the dashboard. '-Minneapolis Times. The assertion that the automobile has come to stay should be amended to read come to go.—Tacoma Ledger. The horse will never be wholly displaced until the automobile can be nsed in an anise-seed fox hunt.—Detroit Trbfune. “They tell me Jim Brewster has a new road wagon that’s a hummer.” “Yes; it’s a gasoline motor.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The public are accepting the horseless wagons because they may lead to the extinction of the horse shows.—Birmingham Age-Herald. Dr. Playfair, the London physician who was condemned to pay $50,000 damages for libel a few years ago, was hurt in a qneer automobile accident recently. He was going up a hill when something gave way and the carriage began, to roll backward down the slope. The driver applied the powes brake to the rear wheels, forgetting that he was going backward, with the result that the carriage stood up on end and tipped backward, braising Dr. Playfair aa it fell upon him.—New York Sun. The automobile has the distinct advantage of not being obliged to wear s net in fly time.—NCw York Telegram. While the automobile may eventual# tend tejm Ae hoi^romenervc^driT-