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Show TWO GREAT INDUSTRIES. In France 22.000 people are engaged in automobile automo-bile eoniitruction and 20,000 more in making cicatrical cica-trical machinery. In Germany and England not so many automobiles are built, but more traction wagona. 'The Germans use many traction wsgons In the army and aend very many to their East African colony. How many men are employed em-ployed in the construction of automobilra in the I'nited Statea we do not know, but they must be S host. Constructing sntomobijes and electric machinery ma-chinery are induatriea which have sprung up in the psst thirty-five yesrs snd have only been great industries in-dustries about half that time; but the world, eould hardly do without them now. Almost every form pt work nowsdsys hss more or leas use for electri-csl electri-csl mschinery, from running pile drivers snd great swinging ersneg and cars, steering ships and firing great guns, and all the gradea of work down to filling teeth and running sewing machines, and the field is expending daily until, unconsciously, if men snt anything the first thought ia to touch a button. but-ton. A cheaper automobile will have to come before be-fore the poor can employ them; but ws are convinced con-vinced that th horse aa a work animal will soon bt banished from the great cities, both on the score of economy snd cleanliness, and still the number of horses is greater and ths average price higher ia our country than ever before. The poor need him; the farm wanta him and the armies of the earth cannot get along without him. But our advice ad-vice to horsemen is, raise only the finest strains for men's hesrts are growing hard and machinery suits them better thsn animala. |