The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-14
IN The HOTEL LOBBIES

There's more than one way Of skin
ming a cat" and by h same reason
ing route there Is more han one way
of making a balky automobile go over
a steep hill.
w. w. King of this city. state sec
rotary of the retail merchants asso-
citation, who travels about consider
able during the summer and fall
months, also in the spring when the
roads will permit, has a handsome
touring car and one day during the
summer while he was out on business
found a hill, at the foot of which his
car ~stubbornIy stopped and refused to
go. He got out, prodded around
through It's "innards" for a season, but
1t was all to no avail.
Finally noticing that the "critter"
was determined to go backwards, he
bethought himself of an old joke, and
to back his way up. Imagine his sur
prise when the car began to grip the
dirt M paw its way up the elevation
without a single groan.
Mr.. King thought he had made a
discovery and was about to name the
car The Crab, because 1t went back
ward, when he decided that he wouldn't
ak much about the matter until he
had consulted the authorities.
When he entered the garage and told
his experience. the auto man instead of
being astonished, remarked, between
laughter:
That's nothing wonderful. Bet'chu
there wasn't much gasoline in your
tank, and when you started to go up
hill face-foremost it all ran pack away
from the feed pipe. When you turned
around you had the tank in front
which gave you all the juice you need
ed"
And he was right, for Mr.. King had
TO admit that at the next stop he didn't
have a pint of power-maker left. Pat
ent not applied for. -
II read in the papers in the east
about some Of the things that you have
been doing in North Dakota" said
James w. Morgan of Niles, o., who
was a guest at the Waldorf, a day or
two ago, and when I found that l had
to com out this way or some business
matters, I thought / would stop and see
the city, and | just CHANGED to be here
during different shows you had dur
ing the week of Jan. 10. l had seen
something in the papers about your
corn show and l want to tell you that 1t
was a great surprise to me. When |
went down and say your Home Prod
ucts show I was given a greater sur
| prise. Then l went over and saw the
dogs and the chickens and let me tell
you that when l get back home and
tell the natives all about these things
and that q horse show was going on in
the streets at the same time, l honest
ly think they will tell me l am a de-
scendant Of Ananias. Really, the
sights that were witnessed in Fargo
at that time were simply astonishing.
l don't know how nan people you had
in town from out Of town, but this l
do know that ] had the hardest kind
| of a time getting settled in a hotel and
even when l did, l had to sleep in a
room where there were four cots beside
the bed. Most of us we're strangers at
that, but we all became acquainted
during the few minutes we were awake
and | found the whole bunch, farmers
they were, to be the best ever. Yes,
you certainly do things out here in the
northwest. I'll have plenty to tell
when l get home, but the Lord only
knows whether they will believe me,
and my reputation is pretty fair, too"