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Show ' one such there will be a score to whom the self-propelled car come3 aa a business necessity. The practical use of the automobile has but just begun. The horse is groins to disappear for city delivery for all purposes, from the early milk wagon to the last department Btore bundle at night, as the horse has disappeared from street car lines, and for the same reason the auto is cheaper. In the end every farmer will see that a team of horses, which eats every day and all the time, whether used or not, is dearer than an autocar, which eats only when it is running. Nothing can get the better of a practical economy like this. "Transportation is civilization." The automobile business is transportation, and the need for it grows with the growth of civilization, civil-ization, of which it is the last and moat wonderful child. THE AUTO AS A NECESSITY. The automobile began as a luxury. It has become a necessity, ft is safer and more profitable to supply a community with its neces-lities neces-lities than with its luxuries. This is the full and sufficient answer to the assertion that tho automobile trade is to be less profitable and Is nearly at an ebb. A few people who have foolishly bought an automobile auto-mobile as a luxury, and borrowed money to do it will drop out. For |