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but with the auto it is different. If billy-cooing between you and your 

 lady love be a necessity, you had better do it in the lawn swing before 

 you start on the joy ride, and continue in the parlor after your return. 

 The auto is not so conducive to matrimony as was the old horse and 

 buggy or horse and sleigh. While this is an age of lightning, yet there is 

 a limit to human celerity and the automobile on bigh speed is too soon 

 for trusting abiding love to get hold and bind two hearts into one without 

 taking resting spells occasionally. The auto is too rapid to enable love 

 to weave its woof into the tendrils of the heart so it won't ravel. 



With these directions I believe the whole family will be able to go 

 auto riding and get home safely. 



GASOLINE ENGINES AN AID TO AGRICULTURE. 



(Breeders' Gazette.) 



Economic necessity invented and is perfecting the gasoline engine for 

 the service of agriculture. Remarkable has been tbe brief history of this 

 practical, efficient machine. A response to an important need long felt 

 by farmers, it has outgrown its chief original purposes, and is doing work 

 to which its pioneer inventors probably never dreamed of devoting it. 

 And the uses to which it may be put are not yet exhausted by the long 

 list that stands to its credit. Every year witnesses the discovery of new 

 "positions" for gasoline engines to fill, and strengthens their record of 

 performance. 



Man has a genius for harnessing the forces of nature and making ma- 

 chinery do his manual work. Watt and Franklin laid the foundation on 

 which this dazzling age of machinery is established. Since their days 

 the applications of steam and electricity have extended far beyond the 

 limits of their imagination. To their simple yet profound works the gaso- 

 line engine's pedigree traces in an unbroken line, and yet it has an indi- 

 viduality which sharply distinguishes it from its ancestry. As the exten- 

 sion of an idea it is as truly wonderful as the idea itself in the mind of 

 man. 



Agriculture has been relatively slow to receive direct aid from mechani- 

 cal inventions, because it is a conservative occupation in which old meth- 

 ods and crude appliances are continued in use through a sort of religious 

 reverence for external inheritances. But time compels constant change in 

 all things. As farming assumed the aspects of a science and men began 

 to appreciate the advantages of using improved machinery, agricultural 

 inventions increased enormously, adding effective power to the elbow in 

 many spheres of its activity. Extensive as is the use of modern implements 

 and tools in agriculture the field has barely been touched except in the 

 more progressive regions. Gasoline engines could be employed with profit 

 on thousands of farms where there is perhaps no thought of their intro- 

 duction, but they are sure ultimately to "chug" their way into every 

 niche to which they are adapted. Whenever farmers begin serioulsy to 

 study the business side of their vocation they discover the need of. econ- 



