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Show RULES OF THE ROAD Adopted by the Farmers' Anti-Automobile Society. 1. Upon discovering an approaching team, the autoniobilist must stop offside off-side and cover his machine with a blanket to correspond to the scenery. 2. The speed limit on country roads this year will be a secret, and the penalty pen-alty for violation will be $10 for every mile an offender is caught going in excess ex-cess of it. 3. In case an automobile makes a team run awa-, the penalty will be $50 for the first mile, $1UJ for the second, $201) for the third, etc., that the team runs; in addition to the usual damages. 4. On approaching a corner, where he cannot command a view of the road ahead, the autumobilist must stop not less than 100 yards from the turn, toot his horn, ring a bell, tire a revolver, hallo, a:d send up three bombs at intervals in-tervals of five minutes. 5. Automobiles must again be season" ably painted, chat is, so they will merge with the pastoral ensemble and not be startling. They must be green in spring, golden in summer, red in autumn, and white in winter. 6. Automobiles running on the country coun-try roads at night, must send up a red rocket every mile and wait ten minutes for the road to clear. They may then proceed carefully; blowing their horns and shooting Roman candles. 7. All members of the society, will give up Sunday to chasing automobiles, tooting and shouting at them, making arrests and otherwise discouraging country touring on that day. 8. In case a horse will not pass an automobile, the automobilist will take the machine apart as rapidly as possible and conceal the parts in the grass. , 9. In case an automobile approaches a farmer's house when the roads are : dusty, it will slow down to one mile an hour and the chauffeur will lay the dust in front of the house with a hand sprinkler worked over the dashboard. |