Show AUTOMOBILE AND HORSE The other day a in the senate a motion was made to appropriate for the purpose of dr driving maint maintenance main- main t cnance nance and care of carriages b or other vehicles and horses for the use of the thc speaker which brought Mr lr Bailey of Texas to his feet with an m amendment to o strike out the words or or other vehicles and upon his lis amendment Mr 1 Bailey made a speech which was really an apostrophe to the horse and in which he lie declared that the horse has an ancient and prescriptive tive ive right to the highway and he lie did not think he ought to be driven awn away b by these machines lIe He thought bought too that the horse was the noblest animal in inthe inthe the he world and next to the dog the best friend of man Mr l Warren tried to quiet Mr rr Bailey b by pointing out to him that horses were appreciating in price despite de de- spit spite pite the use of the automobile Mr lIr Bacon of Georgia Georgin feelingly declared that he hc wished the automo automobile had never been invented or 01 manufactured But on the same sarno day in the house the motion was carried carded to allow aHo the thc president elect for purchase purchase pur pur- chase hase care and maintenance of automobiles it haying hay hav- ing ng been understood Mr 11 Taft would no ilo longer use the he horse We Yc confess to a great deal of sympathy with Mr 11 Baile Baileys Bailey's s 's talk and still we are not averse to the acion action ac- ac tion ion o of or the house because our love for the horse isso is so o great that it would b grieve us to think that Mr lr Taft proposed to take horseback exercise as the present pres ent cut president has been taking it unless he would agree to mount a or 01 a CI Clydesdale or a Shire or a Suffolk Punch f pony on because while the president elect is a great statesmen lie he is at nt the thc same time gaining gainin ill in avoirdupois It is said when he was in the Philippines he rode a Philippine pon pony and the contrast between the rider and the horse was so marked that an army oO officer who was with him taking in the ensemble could not refrain from saying b Why Tuft you ou are arc a nature fakir Mr Bailey Bailer of Texas will have to accommodate himself to the swift events of the world The majority of business men have no hearts for dumb animals We Yc believe that in the old elemen- elemen iary books the definition of a straight line was the shortest distance between two points r Well ell the thc modern definition of the tho word necessity when applied applied ap ape ap- ap plied to travel is to get over the distance between two iwo points in the quickest possible space of time and hence the automobile was invented and is growing in Favor every day dar The farmers arc are beginning to use them and when by br and by hr the practical an and very cheap machine is manufactured the farmers will use them altogether on the roa road l. l and ver very possibly will plow their fields and thrash their grain with them It is all right As the hearts of men grow coI cold cold cold- which they do as a rule role always they always they will have less and und less sympathy for dumb animals more and marcuse more marc use for machines until the time will win come conic in the near neal future when to tap one of them on the chest just over the heart the the- blow will sound like tapping pot metal and if tho the blow is higher up and goes to the cheek check then the echo from it will will willbe be as sounding brass or tinkling cymbals r |