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Show Still Plenty Of Horse Drawn Vehicles A great many peoplo havo gained the Impression, because of tho coming com-ing of tho automobile, tho commercial commer-cial truck, and tho farm tractor, thnt tho horse is doomed to extinction. Superficial observation and thinking may lead to such a conclusion, but n rovlow of tho progress of former Inventions In-ventions which seemed at tho tlmo equally calamitous to horno Mesh will not pormlt us to think that any mo- ' ' W, P""-LJ """" JO""' chanlcal contrivance whatsoever will do away with the horse. Tho horse has been man's coworker cowork-er toward civilization ever since Noah grasped tho halters of his horse and inuro and led them down tho gang plank to dry land. When man has at last achieved tho destiny towarJ which civilization Is leading him ho will still find tho horso at his sldo, perhaps no rcoro a drudgo and a slave, but a companion for tho pleasant plea-sant rides and drives of his lolsuro hours. It Is well to remember, when predicting pre-dicting the elimination of tho horso by tho motor vehlclo that thcro havo been other occasions when tho horso was apparently doomed to extinction through thn introduction of mechanical mechani-cal meatis nt transportation, . Tho railroad, from tho vlowpolnt or tho old tlmo freight and hack driver, wns a calamitous Invention from which tho horso could nover recover. Rallying nobly from this terrlblo blow thoro aro now moro horses utilized In hauling mnturlal to and itrotn railway rail-way stations than wcro beforo devoted devot-ed to traffic on the turnpikes. Tho bicycle again wiped tho horso out of tho futuro consideration ot many peoplo, regardless of tho demonstrable dem-onstrable fact that nine out ot ten ot those who purchased wheels never had owned a ahorso and nover woula own ono. Then camo tho automobile. That sealed tho fate of tho horse for all tlmo; but strnngo to say tho horso has not only remained with us on better terms than over, but ho is about to come back In gldrlflod form ns an aristocrat. Personal Distinction Attaches to Good Horses Automobiles will probably never bo less numerous. Tho fcaturo of fashion fash-ion may pass for tho slmplo reason that thoy havo becomo common. Such was tho fato oCtho bicycle. Already Al-ready tho vory rich who aro nblo to efploy veterinarians, tralnors, nnd grooms aro turning their attention to tho saddlo horso, and gain a personal distinction that can nover como from lounging luxuriously In tho finest au-tomobllo au-tomobllo over mado. Later will como back tho coach with Its matched teams of two, four nnd six horses, nllowlng tho owners the privllogo of constituting a class that cannot bo "imitated by chonn makes, that will never bo mado tho object of rldlculo as out of dato models. mod-els. Thero Is something about tho coach and four or coach nnd six, with liveried liv-eried driver, and grooms, and possibly possi-bly with outriders that has that tang of roynlty so dear to tho hearts or many radical Republicans and hum-bio hum-bio Democrats. Tho Idea has struck' tho East nnd It will travel West. Fn-uhlon Fn-uhlon must llnd something new oven if tho customs ot several yenrs ago , must be revived in order to secure tho Innovation, |