THE BEST OF REASONS.

"This soap is is simply lovely." "Of course, dear, it's Pears'."

All sorts of people use Pears' Soap all sorts of stores sell it,especially druggists.

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WHAT IT COSTS.-HOW IT IS OPERATED.—WHAT IT WILL DO.

ESTERDAY, a mere mechan- number of horseless coaches for an Arizona mountain route, and at least two cities are using self-propelled fire-engines. A trip of 720 miles, from Cleveland to New York, over all kinds of country roads, has actually been made in a gasoline carriage, and an enthusiastic automobile traveler is now on his way from New England to San Francisco. And all of these doings are chronicled in a weekly journal devoted exclusively to the new industry.

ical wonder fresh from the hand of the inventor; today, a gigantic industry on two continents that is the history in brief of the motor vehicle. Five years ago there were not thirty selfpropelled carriages in practical use in all the world. A year ago there were not thirty in America. And yet between the These are a few of the important things 1st of January and the 1st of May, 1899, which have been accomplished in America companies with the enormous aggregate cap- almost within the year. Never before has italization of more than $388,000,000 have Yankee genius and enterprise created an imbeen organized in New York, Boston, Chi- portant business interest in so short a time. cago, and Philadelphia for the sole purpose The experimental plaything has become a of manufacturing and operating these new practical necessary. And yet the motor vehicles. At least eighty establishments vehicle in America is in its babyhood comare now actually engaged in building car- pared with what it is in France and England. riages, coaches, tricycles, delivery wagons, Here it has hardly passed the stage of proand trucks, representing no fewer than motion and promise; there it has become 200 different types of vehicles, with nearly an established and powerful factor in the half as many methods of propulsion. Most common affairs of life, as well as a fashionof these concerns are far behind in their or- able fad. France has an automobile club ders, and several of them are working day numbering 1,700 members. At its last exand night. A hundred electric cabs are ply- hibition 1,100 vehicles were shown, repreing familiarly on the streets of New York, senting every conceivable model, from milkand 200 more are being rushed to completion wagons to fashionable broughams and the in order to supply the popular demand for huge brakes of De Dion and Bouton, which horseless locomotion. At least two score carry almost as many passengers as a railof delivery wagons, propelled chiefly by elec- road car. Some of the expert chauffeurs of tricity, are in operation in American cities, Paris have ridden thousands of miles in their and the private conveyances of various makes road wagons, have climbed mountains and will number well into the hundreds. A mo- raced through half of Europe, meeting new tor ambulance is in operation in Chicago; mo- accidents, facing new adventures, and using tor trucks are at work in several different strange new devices for which names have cities; a motor gun-carriage for use in the yet to be coined. In Paris, electric motor army will be ready for service in the sum- cabs are becoming quite as familiar as the The Santa Fé railroad has ordered a old-fashioned horse cabs. Before the openCopyright, 1899, by the S. S. MCCLURE Co. All rights reserved.

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