The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-05-23
NEW ROAD MOTOR
Discovery That Makes the Auto
mobile Look Like About
:''" Three Dimes


of locomotion on the country high.
ways may possibly interest some of
your readers. In truth it was my
experience, especially my later ex-
perience, that prompted me to inquire
about and subscribe to your cstim-
able journal. I am a recent convert
to the use of animals for tractile
power, especially to the use of the
horse. consider. after due expert
ence, the horse to be the most mar;
velous motor yet invented and think
his running-gea very admirable.
While I do not care to work him at
his extreme. speed and find that he
steers little uncertainty as yet, still
1 think him an astonishing advance
over any form of petroleum or alcohol
engine. and even more dependable
than is steam, Writes correspond
ent Of the Breeders Gazette.
Let me explain that my bringing
up has been in town and my exper-
ience with various automobiles upon
city streets and suburban roads, with
an occasional jaunt into the country
1 have. owned and driven six ma
chimes, of my oYn and have tried a:
good many others. For rapid work
with large loads on hot. days and
over good roads give me the big steam
or gasoline motor car 1t is a sue
cess, and it does not sweat or get
weary unless your engine gets crazy
or your tires explode. 1t has al
ways seemed to me that the horse is
an awkward soaring senseless dirty
brute and that would never have any
use for one I thought that until a
desire for quiet and peace drove me
to buy my little place at Stillbrook.
Then bought my first horse. She
is a clipper built female horse, rated
at one horsepower, but really work
ing up to about ssix,or eight in the
mud or at a hill. Her engine works
automatically and there is but one
lever to throw on power or speed; 1t
costs from quarter to dollar to re-
place this lever. and there is q
break and steering gear in one place.
One can work her and think of other
things at tha same time,
I never realized until got this new
motor. I call her "the Morgan Clip
per-" how much Of my life had been
devoted to studying machines. Now
have time and opportunity to think
as I ride along, to think and notice
things. It is astonishing how many
things there are in this world to see
and 1 never saw them before, nor
knew that they existed. till began TO
drive my Morgan Clipper. I did not
know that birds sang along country
lanes, nor that wild grapes had a
smell, nor that country people that
one meets now and then in their old
buggies had human souls. I have
honestly learned more about my
neighbors and shout the life around
me since began to drive Morgan
Clipper than I ever knew.
But there are, so many other things.
My Clipper burns hay, which is always
at hand and is cheap; she can be
trundled out in my front yard and
there she will fill up her tank in an
hour and incidentally help the locks of
things, and then she is good for a
ten-mile spin, and no fear of her tank
running dry. or if IT. did no matter,
there is more hay or grain anywhere
along the highway: So much for fuel.
I find in the matter of gears the
Clipper is built marvelously. I have
never had her apart to examine her
gears, but she attends to oiling them
herself and when they get bit hot
she herself turns OF the power and
slows down, which the Internal en-
gines 1 have used heretofore never
did.
But what induced me to write this
article Il am more used to a monkey
wrench and a greasy oil can than a
pen) was an experience. that had
with my Morgan Clipper last week. I
had started. her going and run her
ten miles in the smorping. and run her
into the garage where a man filed
her tank with. .hay for. . quarter, and