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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15
SELECTING A MOTOR TRUCK
To Be Sure You Are Getting Real Value for Your Money the
Greatest Of Care Is Essential.

Two questions OF vital importance
70 the purchaser OF a motor truck
should be settled 10 his complete salts
faction before considering a truck from
a mechanical or transportation stand
point. The two questions are: Is the
manufacturing company strong? Is it
reliable?
OF all the problems confronting the
merchant who contemplates buying
his first motor truck, or increasing his
installation, these two issues Of
strength and business integrity must
be squarely met, else grave conse-
quences are sure TO ensue The mat
ter OF truck design and its adaptable
fly to the particular work TO be done,
while important. may well be subor-
dinated TO the matter Of stability and
service.
Truck buying today has many pit
falls for the man who is unaccustom-
ed to the purchase OF installations
eventually requiring parts and replace
ments. The first tendency is to de-
termine the truck that fits the work
and, while this is a natural inclination,
IL lie fraught with danger to the buyer
unless he first limits his choice TO the
products OF strong and reliable manu-
facturers. One of the FIRST things to
be done IS 10 eliminate those firms
that are hampered By hopeless lack of
working capital
Many years OF manufacturing and
financial strength are the greatest
safeguards a motor truck buyer can
have-a form Of insurance against the
vicissitudes that are inevitable TO frail
manufacturing enterprises II the ele
ments to be considered in the buying
OF motor trucks were placed in the
order Of their Importance to the buy
er. they would appear as follows:
Strength Of company. business integri
ty, service the company is capable Of
giving, suitability of truck, design OF
truck and guarantee.
II Is a fact that many truck manu-
facturers have neither the equipment
money nor the facilities TO make anC
sell motor trucks as well as to be re
sponsible for the continued operation
OF them. This state Of affairs. how
ever. is rapidly becoming normal a!
II does in all things where a LITTLE
line and experience differentiates be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15
A Fish Story.

A fisherman caught seven bass In the
Potomac river above Washington at
one time.
This is how he did it: The bass were
caught and strung on n line and kept
swimming in the water alongside the
boat When the last fish was being
placed upon the line the entire bunch
slipped away from the fisherman. But
imagine his wonderment when at his
next cast the last fish strung upon the
line took the bait and the whole seven
were safely landed.
The gentleman who vouches for this
story is without doubt an honest and
truth telling man.-New York Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

tween the good and the poor either in
policy or In manufacture.
This industry is reaching that point
where the truck that is designed par
ticularly for the work 1t is to do, on
the lines that experience has shown
10 be the best, built with care and the
best materials by a strong and reliable
company, and, finally, sold on legiti-
mate business basis, is the truck that
is being appreciated by the thinking
business man.
Impossible guarantees, rebates, free
rentals and offers Of service, by which
many trucks have been sold heretofore
are now practically things Of the past
The careful merchant realizes that a
motor truck, like any other piece Of
merchandise. must first Of all possess
practical quality and back Of It from
its manufacturer there must be a good
reputation and responsibility, which
not only are the best guarantees Of the
product but of the continued service
of its makers as well.
The superiority Of the motor truck
over the horse is no longer a mooted
question. Merchants must consider
not alone the truck itself, but the &C
tual value It has for them, as demon
strated by long and constant service
in the hands Of similar concerns and
the permanency and responsibility of
the manufacturer behind it.
The demonstration problem is also
one that is rapidly answering itself
+ because people are beginning to real
iZe that an inefficient, cheaply con-
structed motor truck will, for a brief
If trying demonstration, compare fav-
orably with a high-priced, carefully
designed truck of the first quality, but
only for a brief period. This is true
Just the same as it is generally con,
coded that dollar watch will run for
short time as accurately as one cost
ing 5000. Reputation is reflected al
ways in the excellence Of the product
The surest guide in all these matters
is the action taken by large companies
who employ fleets of motor trucks OF
a single make, invariably purchased
after a searching investigation. When
ever a truck maker can point to any
great amount Of repeat orders" from
such concerns il may be taken as proof
positive that the service given by the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15
LUXE OF THE CIRCUS.
Hold Of the Music and Sa~dust odor
Upon Old Performers.

Upon Old Performers.
Sometimes l think there must be
two distinct varieties Of humanity.
said an old circus man. one OF which
we might call the rovers and the other
the stay at homes. With my own taste
for rowing it was hard for me TO IN
derstand that ninety-nine persons In
every hundred are content to stay in
one place most OF their lives and even
are unhappy II taken out OF II. but
there are such people, and they are the
vast majority. The rover, who Is one
man or woman in a hundred, likes to
wander and is unhappy If confined to
one place. Probably II 1t were not for
him there would be no circus. Love
the circus people, from performers to
canvasmen and drivers. when you
hear the band play you join outr' is
the way they put 1t themselves, and
once l had a striking illustration Of
this.
was checking window paper in a
small town and came TO a fine plate
glass front. II was the best tailoring
establishment there and ordinarily
would have been passed by the lithog-
rapher as understandable. but 1t had a
single sheet Of our paper and | went
in to take up the order. II developed
that the tailor's brother was a rover
and had uouped with circuses as a
bandsman-a windjamner, in the YER
I nacular His influence had put that
Autograph there, and he chatted with
me.
You won't catch me round here to-
morrow, Mike, while that show is in
/ town" he said. IF saw as much as
/ a side wall half a mile off I'd be join
/ ing out again. No, sir. I'm going up
/ into the country tonight My brother
/ pays me good wages here. and there's
nothing in trouping."
A week later | dropped back to the
show. 1t was 10 in the morning. and
the parade was just leaving the lot.
Somebody shouted, Hey there, Mixer
from the big band wagon, and on going
nearer l saw the tailors brother. seat
ed among the other windjammers
with red and gold coat. plumed hat
and his cornet.
81 thought you were going up into
the country"
Forget it," he replied. 81 didn't go
He had heard the band play
Circus people are OF all sorts-old
and young, Americans and foreign
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

There is one thing like about your
husband-he never hurries you when
getting ready to go out with him.
Very little credit is due TO him for
that, my dear. Whenever | see that l
am not likely to be ready in time
simply hide his hat or his gloves and
let him hunt for them up and down
until / have finished dressing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15
Astronomers Work.

The popular idea of the astronomer,
says n writer in the Worlds Work. as
one who spends his time in sleeping by
day and peering through the small end
of a telescope by night must be dis
missed. The greater part of the mod
ern astronomers time" says the arti-
Gle. lis spent in studying photographs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15
His Little Task.

very suspicious man, they say"
Very Bought dictionary last
week. and now he's counting the words
to see if it contains as many as the
publishers claim. "-Washington Her
aid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

often with microscope Paradoxical
as it may seem, an astronomer today
gazes more often through a microscope
than a telescope"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

How are you. old man? Feeling
pretty strongT
mo. only Just managing to keep out
OF the grave"
"Oh. I'm sorry to hear thatr'-Judge's
Library.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

trucks and their makers during long |
periods of use has been proven salts /!
factory.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
Thanksgiving Day Be
comes Secular Holiday
BY HENRY M. WING, Boston. Mass.

small company OF settlers together with fairly unanimous swelling
hearts gratitude the Divine their belief All
probably accounted congregation
accord Its members felt alike thought alike and themselves
the grave ways
In its conception and the response the first Thanks
doubt feelings aspirations
those of religious distinguished by psychologists nowadays
from the ucubron of the intellectual nationalist point of And
very likely the day continued be celebrated several
manner perfectly valid because spontaneous and inevitable
Later had e optimistic carried the motion that
that day thanksgiving should be expressed program foot
for youth beaux and competitive exhibitions needework for maiden
and or free and public debate the
thought them witches and Quak admitted Divine Providence
would have smiled them pleasing offspring of
Now Thanksgiving day become people
day. and the idea divine favorm its appeal the magna
hon feelings and forces of might be of advantage those who
would employ seriously day intelligent consideration of
those natural and of their just Intensive
farmers liberal religions and of industrial education
need not hesitate call conferences for that day for want of intrinsic
fitness and propray
Thinking doing open mans
modern conception incidentally Of Thanksgiving and
is deemed advisable balance the account with natural laws charging
profit and os en than whether be question OF nd
vual social cooperative action By the rule Thanksgiving
days are of intelligent doing enjoyment and they cannot
be appointed advance Journalism such matters commits mems minds
substance has tendency exclude the
substance of things they which must always be the basis of things
wished
A. present Thanksgiving day any holidays
Of ouved the spirit Of their observance
yet prevent many healthy Of the time not
ago public opinion which did fact but enforced
by the PONCE the majority Oh people to vege every seventh Gay
Every tradition finally arrives at fow stage wheeupon people
begin something suited to their needs The present fa
of Thanksgiving daye rising overeang and promiscuous
eaergog not all the good plays be town that day.
with occasional family reunion extenuatng circumstance
that in this the is found
The question really to what the just of leureo
holiday They for all people, and if
solved the question their complete satisfaction it be noted
overusy the opportunity
to choose work enjoyment comparatively tradition
question being solved proportion to the solution of the ques
ton to what the just uses of HS>~A.<IZ uc..,
work
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
Factory Whistle Is
Declareda aNuisance

that factory certain time The factory whistle has
not place In modern industrial economy
In the days of small manufacturing inadequate transportation faci
expensive Watches when the workmn all lived the neghbo
hood Of the factory perhaps the factory whistle served useful
but that time has passed.
In these days of quick transportation comparatively few operatives
enough the factory pay attention the whistle
long hrl the blowing. The modern factory operative
watch that purchase for
ISL or ST.
discern the the bell the farm but for the life
could understand why much Importance attached
ITO factory whistle the old days before the of the electric
trolley and the dollar watch
working out in the field long distance from the farm
house. places dependence the dinner bell but that the
lease with the factory whistle
Unqueona factory whistles blowing must be placed the
category unnecessary predict the day will when the
factory whistle will heard blow the old year and the
year the stage
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28

may lose money that way, but I'll bet
I've saved lots Of it too. Still, If ! did
happen to buy gold brick that some
sandy mustached guy had swiped
from the sub-treasury. and found out
afterwards that it wasn't what it had
been cracked up to be, l wouldn't
make no complaint to the government
mo, don't you never holler Some
of these days you may buy an orange
grove in Florida and be sort of dis
appointed with it, but you'll stand a
better chance of trading it off for
west side unimproved if you haven't
been too noisy about it to your circle
of acquaintances. Ever know sue
cessful politician to squeal when he
was thrown down? Not on your life.
He lets bygones- be bygones and keeps
his little snickersnee sharped up for
future use. You may not go into poll
tics, but it's cinch you'll get mar
ried, and there's another game where
you're liable to get the worst of it.
guess most every married man thinks
he has at times, and the women are
dead sure of it. But why bellyache?
Here I've been married now close on
to twenty years and
mo, Nels, my friend, it doesn't do
no good to holler. Every holler is a
knock-and it isn't the other fellow
you're knocking. though you may
think it is.
And if you'd had a five dollar bill
change you'd have been two and a
in your kick instead of the small
quarter worse off than what you are.
Think of that and be happy"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
The Basement
Philosopher
(copyrisht 1913. by w. C. chapman)
BY KENNETr HARRIS

mo, Nels, my friend" said the jani-
tor to his sorrowful Scandinavian as
sistant. mo, Nels, would not make
a complaint to the police" He shook
his head slowly and solemnly. mo,
would not" he repeated. Not that
grudge the police any harmless
amusement; they've hard life of it,
them boys, what with Investigating
committees, grand juries and the like
There amt none too many rays of
sunshine on their paths. But I'm con-
sidering it from your standpoint and
as matter Of principle. First of all,
what good is it agoing to do you?
'Now, as understand it, the guy
that sold you the ring was medium
sized guy with a sandy mustache. If
you look close and careful at me,
you'll see that I'm medium sized and
while / wouldn't want no one to call
my mustache sandy to my face,
amt got no doubt but what sandy is
the word a stranger would use de.
scribing of it. And l amt the only
one. There's medium sized. sandy
mustached guys on the police force
even. If they was to throw out the
drag and bring in all the sandy runts
in Chicago. business would be at a
standstill and the cars would stor
running. You wouldn't want that
would you? Sure you wouldn't.
'In the next place, Nels," continued
the Janitor, this here guy didn't give
you no written guarantee that it was
a genuine six-carat diamond that he
sold you for two-seventy-five. He may
have give you the impression that il
sidewalk, but impressions don't cut M
was, when he picked it up of the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
Just Properly Cool.

The late Henry M. F1agler, the
Standard Oil millionaire. married
thrice, his third marriage taking place
when he was seventy-one years old.
This rich experience gives Mr.. Flag
ler's views of marriage interest and
Importance.
"I don't believe in these marriages
of passionate love-" the millionaire
once said at a dinner at Whitehall" /"
his superb residence in Palm Beach.
Passionate love doesn't endures
Therefore it's a poor foundation to try
to build happy, lifelong marriage
on"
"But, Mr.. Flagler," interposed a
beautiful woman, surely you wouldn't
Danish love from marriage?"
NO." replied the millionaire. mo,
1 wouldn't Danish sensible, calm type
of love-"
Then, with a laugh, he added:
"a successful marriage refrigerates
love-refrigerates it just enough to
make it keep"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28

There was one disappointment for
those who attended the wedding, for
the gifts were not put on display. It
is known that these included many
beautiful and valuable articles sent
by relatives and personal friends of
the bride and groom and Of their fam
lilies and by admirers of President
Wilson. Handsome presents were
sent by both the senate and the house,
that of the latter being diamond la
valliere which Miss Genevieve Clark,
daughter of the speaker, bought for
the representatives in New York.
Guests Limited to 400.
Those who were invited to witness
the wedding were mostly personal
friends and the number was kept down
close to four hundred. The list was
pared and revised several times, and
as has been said, the operation result
ed in many heartburnings. From the
house of representatives. circle, for
instance, the only guests were Speaker
Champ Clark, Mrs. Clark and Miss
Genevieve Clark, Marjory Leader I'm
derwood and Mrs. Underwood, and
Minority Leader Mann and Mrs. Mann.
As might be expected, the streets
outside the White House were as
crowded as the police would permit
with curious persons eager to watch
the arrival and departure of the guests
and trying to obtain through the win
dows a glimpse Of the doings within.
The police arrangements were admir-
able and nothing happened. in, the
White House or outside, to mar the
happy occasion.
The wedding of Mr. Sayre and Miss
Wilson was the thirteenth to be cele-
brated in the White House, but the
bride has always considered 13 her
lucky number instead of hoodoo.
There have been more than twenty
weddings in which either the bride or
groom resided in the White House,
and the last wedding ceremony per-
formed there was the one which united
Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Long
worth. Today's event was much quiet
er than that one, and the guests not
nearly so numerous
Mrs. Sayre Social Worker.
Mrs. Sayre was born in GAINESVILLE,
Pa, twenty-five years ago. She at
tended the Women's college at Balti-
more and was an honor member of
the class of 1908, being also elected a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. For two
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
Free Drinks for ItaIian Lawmakers.

Free Drinks for Italian Lawmakers.
Stormy sittings of the Italian cham
Der of deputies have lsd to increased
consumption of liquids, and some
economists are endeavoring to abolish
free drinks. When a deputy rises to
deliver set orator. coffee and iced
water are brought him by messen-
ger. One of the speakers neighbors
pours him out a cup, and keeps it re-
plenished. There is buffet in the
outer lobby where deputies are sup
piled gratuitously with beer, wine
spirits, coffee, ices and mineral wa
ters, and in hot weather this is well
patronized.
AS, however, the value of the
drinks consumed last year by the
sos deputies was barely $4,000 (of
which $4,000 went for mineral waters)
they cannot be accused of excessive
thirst.
Parliamentary representative in
Italy receive no pay. Free drinks and
free railway travel are the only priv
ileges they enjoy.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
JEssIE's WEDDING CAKE.

Jessie Wilson's wedding cake
was triumph Of the pastry cooks
art. It was two and a half feet
tall, counting the white orchids
that were placed on top Of it, and
weighed 1876 pounds. The first
layer was four inches thick and %
inches across. The cake contained
10 ingredients and its cost was
about $500. Over the body of the
cake was nodded a thick white
icing scroll work, on it's top was
design for the initials Of the bride
and groom, done in silver, and
around the sides were lilies Of the
valley in white sugar. This deli
cious confection was distributed in
1900 dainty white boxes tied with
satin ribbon and each of the proper
size to go under the pollow of the
recipient to bring dreams.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
Increase of Lunacy,

A famous British physician, DR.
Forbes Winslow, collected figures that
in all civilized countries lunacy was
largely on the increase
in 1859 there was one lunatic in
every 536 of the population. Today
there is one in every 275. In France
60 years ago there was one insane per.
son in every $50 of the population
Today there is one in every 800"
This increase he attributed to al.
cohol, social competition and strain
heredity, and injudicious marriages
adding that if the present rate of the
growth of lunacy continued we should
have more insane than sane in the
world 800 years hence.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28
For Abandoned Children.

Hungary maintains IL institutions
of INDECENT, abandoned, delinquent and
abused children. 1t is the custom to
receive every child applicant, to give
him bath and clean clothes and then
to investigate his condition. If the
investigation warrants the states in,
reference the child is admitted. Sew
enteen thousand children were thus
received in 1908. Most of these are
placed out in the country or smaller
cities with farmers or artisans of
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28

years after her graduation she en-
gagged in settlement work in Kensing-
ton, Pa, and she is member of the
executive board of the National Young
Woman's Christian association. She
has delivered several excellent ad-
dresses in public.
In appearance she does not resem-
BILE her father as much as do her sis
ters, having rather the features of her
mothers family, the Axsons. She is
an accomplished swimmer, rider and
tennis player and also something of
an actress.
Something About the Groom.
Francis Bowes Sayre is twenty
eight years old, and was born at
South Bethlehem, Pa, son of the
late Robert Heysham Sayre, who built
the Lehigh Valley railroad and at
one time was assistant to the presi-
dent of the Bethlehem iron works,
since known as the Bethlehem steel
works. He was also once president
of the board of trustees of the Lehigh
university.
Francis Bowes Sayre graduated from
Lawrenceville school, Lawrenceville,
N. J., in 1904, and from Williams col
lege in 1909. He entered Harvard law
school and graduated cum laude. "
He was a member of the Sigma Phi
fraternity, Gargoyle society and the
Phi Beta Kappa at Williams. For the
past year he has been working in the
Office of District Attorney Whitman of
New York. During the summer he
was admitted to the bar of New York
state.
Mr.. Sayre's mother is Mrs Martha
Finlay Sayre, daughter of the late
William Nevin, who was president of
Franklin and Marshal college at
Lancaster, Pa. She is descendant of
Hugh Williamson Of North Carolina,
one Of the trainers of the Constitution
Of the United States, and is a sister
Of the late Robert Nevin, head of the
American church at Rome, and cous-
in of Ethelbert Nevin. the composer
Other White House Weddings.
The wedding Of Jessie Wilson and
Francis Sayre was the thirteenth to be
solemnized in the White House. The
first was that of Anna Todd, niece OF
Dolly Madison's first husband, and
John G. Jackson. Then Mrs. Madi
sons sister, Lucy, was married to
Judge Todd of Kentucky. The third
wedding, that of Maria Monroe, daugh.
ter Of President Monroe, to Samuel
Lawrence Gouverneur in 1920 marked
the first social use of the east room
Eight years later John, the second son
Of President John Quincy Adams, mar
ried his cousin, Mary HELEN, in the
/ blue room. While General Jackson
was president there were three wed
dings in the White House, those OF
Della Lewis to Alphonse Joseph Yver
Pageot of the French legation; Mary
Eaton to Lucien B. Polk, and Emily
Martin to Louis Randolph. Many
years passed before there was anoth.
er marriage ceremony in the presi.
dents mansion, the next being of Mel
lie, the only daughter of General
Grant, and Algernon c. F. Sartoris
In 1876 Emily Platt, niece of Mrs
| Hayes, was married in the blue room
to Gen. Russell Hastings. The elev.
enth of this series of weddings was
that of President Cleveland to Frances
Folsom, and the twelfth that of Presi
dent Roosevelt's daughter Alice, to
| Nicholas Longworth.