Show HEARTS GROWING COLDi Tip of the Tongue In the New York Press says that a member of the Automobile club whispered the other day Tvc got one of the finest machines in the market but strictly entre nous it aint in it with a pair of bays and a road wagon We suspect thnt is the feeling of a good many people who own automobiles automo-biles It must naturally be so because there Is a close bond of friendship between be-tween the man and the horse and none whatever between man and a machine We wonder if the fate of the latter world is not to bo that all the gentler graces will be eliminated from mens souls when It gets to be a question merely of a struggle for food Will all the beautiful horses disappear all the live stock exccut such as will be kept for food all the singing birds and If man Is to become more and more material ma-terial so that he will not have an anxiety except for food and the menus to obtain it Will he be moved only by machines Will ho estimate men simply as he does machines and count with men as he does with machines how long they will probably last how much the ordinary repairs ought to be and whether considering con-sidering the life and the needed repairs they will pay or not An old farmer was hero not long ago and was tolling of his horses He said ho had four beautiful horses that he had raised and I he added They like to l work for me When that feeling passes away from the world will It be a better world Whenboys in country and city grow up without ever feeling tho dependence I r of a domestic animal upon them and without their ever knowing an animals affection will not their hearts bocomo as hard as the machines which they will rely And will I not that culminate in such utter selfishness that the race will have to be wiped out and a new programme adopted The man that likes an automobile better than he does perfect driving team has already begun to take on some of the world that this is to be when men finally settle down to a struggle for bread I |