StNicholas [serial] . s, as you may see if you look at the vol-umes of St. Nicholas read by your fatherand mother when they were children. To-daythe great horse hotels, with guests, attendants,waiters, and all, are gone. Only in a few streetscan the jangling bells of the poor old car-horsesbe heard, and in other cities than New Yorkmany readers of St. Nicholas have neverseen a horse-car. The trolley-car has thrownperhaps a hundred thousand horses out ofwork, and these horses have been moved awayto farms and smaller towns, or have foundnew employment. Naturally, in the twelveyears that this cha
StNicholas [serial] . s, as you may see if you look at the vol-umes of St. Nicholas read by your fatherand mother when they were children. To-daythe great horse hotels, with guests, attendants,waiters, and all, are gone. Only in a few streetscan the jangling bells of the poor old car-horsesbe heard, and in other cities than New Yorkmany readers of St. Nicholas have neverseen a horse-car. The trolley-car has thrownperhaps a hundred thousand horses out ofwork, and these horses have been moved awayto farms and smaller towns, or have foundnew employment. Naturally, in the twelveyears that this change has been going onmany thousands of horses have died of workand old age, and, while many young colts con-stantly come in from the farms, there are notso many horses in our streets as in the daysbefore the trolley-cars. There will be a newcensus of the country next year, and then weshall know, for the first time, whether it is truethat we are not using so many horses as tenyears ago. Up to the last census the number. <. k vr- A MOTOR TRICYCLE. of horses rapidly increased. This increase ?may stop and it may not; because, while therailroads, steamboats, and trolley lines havethrown so many horses out of employment,new work has been found for them, and wemay find that, as they became cheaper, moreprivate families were able to own horses. If, on the other hand, the next census showsthat we do not own as many horses, or that in-crease is less rapid, we shall be glad, becausewe are now learning to get along withoutthem. With fewer horses we shall have betterhorses. We have had too many horses in allour cities, and the trolley lines have proved tous that it would be far pleasanter if there wereno horses at all, except in the country. Thelight, fast-walking horse used on the cars israpidly disappearing. We do not want himany more, so the farmer does not bring thatkind of colt to market. We have now onlytwo kinds of horses—the truck- or work-horse,and the pleasure-carriage and ri
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