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Q. HOPE JONES He Deliver? a Lecture oi) Sticking to Iu [Copyright. 1903. by C. B. Lewis.] CITIZENS of Jackson's CornersIt cost uie the stun of $1.50 t( bill this .tov.-n for the enter tninmem - trt.w- awaiting you but I have a feeling deep down in my breast tlia't after the usual collectioi has been taken up I shall come out ai least a quarter ahead and be able t( move on to the next town. The subject of my lecture, as yoi nave Ut'CU luiuiuicu, xo iciscictauvc or, Sticking to It." Give me liberty 01 death, but also give me a man wbc won't let go after he gets hold. Truth ambition, virtue and honesty are good building stones, but you must have the mortar of perseverance to cement them together. Let us take the case of Caesar. He began looking ahead when he was ter years old. At fifteen his father wanted to apprentice him to a cobbler, and his motner wanted to establish him in a Troy laundry. He had made up his mind to be a ruler of men and events, but for five years every sort of dis couragement was thrown in his way His father got bim into a baseball team, hoping that wonld satisfy his ambition; his uncle got him a country school to teach, thinking he would in time become an Uncie Rube; bis brother-in-law tried to get him to go partners in the windmill business, and tlie family doctor said he was threatened with consumption and should put iri most of his time fishing. < Some young men would have given up and started out as tin peddlers or joined a eireus. but Caesar bad the root in his teeth, and he never let go. It was sticking to it thut shoved him along until he reached the position where he could send a thousand people to jail by a nod of his head. They bored in on him at last and finished him off, but that simply came from jealousy. He had lived to elucidate my contention that sticking to it beats even a beef trust. Some of you here at Jackson's Corners, which I find consists of fourteen bouses, a store and a blacksmith shop, and is picturesquely situated on three sides of a horse pond, must have heard of Christopher Columbus. At any rate. I will take it that you have and call your attention to the fact that if he hadn't stuck to it we might have been born in Africa instead of the United States. He first got it 'into his head that there was an acre or two of land ent ^ " . v NAPOLEON WAS A FAKMEK HOI. side of Spain. It took kim ten years to make the Spanish believe it. and to this day they haven't sot over their surprise. After once trotting started he never let up, and he was finally furnished with an outfit and tohl to sail away and be hanged to hi in. They had got tired of his gab and wanted to send him to the bottom of the sea, but he didn't go there. lie headed straight for America, sure that maple sugar and muskrat skins Awaited him here, and even when his sailors threatened mutiny if he diu not turn back he would not yield. : No American ought to lie down at night or rise in the morning without blessing the memory of the man who made it possible for us to be born here and grow up to be big enough to wear :i A mm ? ^ lUii OIJIIS jmiti Some lightning rod man may have come along. here some day and to!d you of Najx'N'or ^m-parte. lie prcb ably told you ten lies to one truth, but the truth is interesting enough. There was a boy born on the farm,- and a mighty i>oor farm at that. His parents hardly knew enough to figure out how much four dozen eggs would come to at 13 cents a dozen, and the nearest schcolhouse was three miles away, and the teacher was drunk half the time. There wasn't one chance iu a thou sand of that boy making anything of himself above a chicken raiser, but lie said to himself that he would rule the world some day. and he stuck to ;t until he did. He was cuffed by bis mother, licked by his father and rolled in the dirt by all the other boys for a mile around, but he never let go of his idea. lie hung to it and pushed it along, and foot by foot he climbed up. They tied grindstones to his coat tails, but they couldn't hold him down. J here was ho one to pat him on the head and talk abou1- "Excelsior," but he wouldn't let go. When he did got a start. th?r'were tliose who did their best to stand b!m on his head, and he had to tight against envy nd malice. From a fa. ner's boy to the ruler of the world's destinies! Think of that! He had ambition and energy, but, better than all, he had the stick to it. I notice among the audience a red \ i headed boy who is half asleep. He Is I redheaded, freckle faced and stub nosed, and be has probably never been to a circus or had his till of lemonade, but can I say that thirty years hence he will not be a greater man than Tom Piatt or Mark HannaV If he's got the stick to it under all that red hair, he's bound to get there, and only death can keep him back. ) My friends, I don't want to hurt your feelings by making comparisons. I 'have no doubt that if you had been born when George Washington was 1 you'd have been as big a man as he t was and perhaps bigger. It wasn't > your fault that you had to wait FX) years later, and I'm not the man to bui miliate you. I simply quote him as an; other successful specimen of the stick to it policy. After he had determined to ? heenmp the Father of His Country lie never let go. He got the worst of it on I a hundred occasions, but he felt that hanging on would bring success in the i end. and he hung. And I now come down to Q. Hope ? Jones, the man who stands before you. i I am a living illustration of what perseverance has done and can do. When I you look at me you see perseverance i itself. My parents were honest and ; respectable, but my father didn't know enough to sharpen an ax or my mother enough to make-A*atnip tea. As a baby I was lop shouldered and [ knoekkneed; as a child I was humpi backed and had the earache. When I was five years old 1 didn't know a i goose egg from a barn door, but down " in my own mind I had a plan. I bad '< determined to become great and fa> mous and to place the name of Q. Hope I Jones beside that of the greatest of i earth. Once I had made up ray mind I ali lowed nothing to discourage or dissuade me. I was fed on johnnycake and buttermilk. I wont barefoot in winter and bareloaded in summer. I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to feed the hogs and sat up till 10 o'clock at night to feed the cows. The only schooling I had was what I taught myself from reading over the tax receipts and mortgages on my father's farm. As a young man I wasn't looked upon as anything too good to hoe corn fit 30 cents a day. and those who didn't predict that I would go into the drive well business were sure that I would eventually c;>en n side show with a cannibal for the leading attraction. They threw me dowu and piled it on to me. but they could not hold me down. 1 got up to stick to it stronger than ever, and you see the result before you. Q. Hope Jones stands before you as a man whose name is known from pole to pole, and it is known nowhere but to be honored. Be like me. You can if you will, and it is not too much to hope that my remarks here this evening will incite such aims and ambitions that twenty years hence North America will be ruled from Jackson's Corners. I will now close aud pass around the hat and it is needless for me to say that if any one here has made up his mind to drop in as much as a dime I shall expect him to stick to it and not put me off with three coppers and half a dozen buttons. M. QUAD. For Over Sizty Tears. Mrs. Wmalow'a Soothing Syrup has been in use for over sixty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It poo^hee tbechild, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is me best remedy for Dianhova. Ii will lolicve the poor ! ttf- sufferer iminediste'v. Sold by Dist in every part of the world. i?wpuiy-liv^ rpo4-" Be sure 0 \ k !*? ? Jylrn. ''VV'-'fiu '-''h Soothing S ?' u JJ. ' iLHl take IIO :;ihef kiud. li Will Fvn Tip. Beryl ? Mrs. Ileavyswcll wears so many diamonds at receptions that she is fr:rl:tf"!'y overdressed. Sibyl?Well. she makes ut> for that in her decollete evening gowns. ? Baltimore Herald. Attention. Ye Golfers! "Why do you always smoke that big pipe when you're golfing, Mr. Budge? 1 should imagine it would be in tbe way." "I smoke it 1 cause I am a religious man." "Where's the connection?" "Weil, whenever I foozle badly, the pipe prevents nio from opening my lips in swear words, and by the time I am able to remove it from my lip:? I've eonquervd the temptation." You Sao^r What You Ars Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless I Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simplv Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50c It's a wise man who knows which dog will stand kickiDg. LIGHT AND DARK, Day and night, sunshine and shadow are not more different from each other than a healthful from a sickly woman. The healthful woman carries light and sunshine with her wherever she goes. im. The woman who suffers rcasts a shadow fVk * *?^111 on ^er own haP~ piuess^and the ? ' > ^ smile and sing. Ill-health in woman is generally traceable to disease of the delicate womanly organism. Many women have been restored to happiness by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. If there is an invalid woman, suffering from female weakness, prolapsus, or falling of womb, or from leucorrnea who has used r\ t\1 m t? !i.. r? i.! i i jjt. rierce s ravonie rrescripuon wiinout complete success Dr. Pierce would like to hear from such person?and it will be to her advantage to write as he offers, in perfect good faith, a reward of $500 for any case of the above maladies which he cannot cure. "I feel it ray doty to inform you that I had been a scfrcrer for many years from nervousness with all its symptoms and complications," write* Mrs. 0. X. Fistoer, of 1861 Dwdagto* Ave,, Mew York, N. Y. "I was constantly gciag to ate a physician. I was indued to ask Dr. Pierce's sdvior. I then took five bottles of ' Favorite Prescription.' I am not now cross and irritable, and I have a good color in my fitce; hare aid gcrmod about ten pounds ta weight and on* fJk+vsmnd of comfort, for I am a new woman once more." The dealer who offers a substitute for * Favorite Prescription" does so to gain the Httle more profit paid on the sale of leas meritorious medicines. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Seed 21 one-cent stamps for the paper-covered book, or 31 stamps for the cloth bound. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. ' THE QUALITY OF GENIUS. Itn Practical Absorption of a Man's Best Faculties. To be a great lawyer is incompatible with being a great poet. Nevertheless, Shakespeare was fond of showing his little legal knowledge, and F?acon has written some verse. There have been writers of eminence, like Waiter Scott and Thackeray, who were lawyers by profession, but they must have made law quite subordinate to literature, although some of them, like Walter Scott, have got mouey by following the law. ttonman. me autiior 01 me rui of Gold" and other imaginative stories, was a man of genius, who was also a judge or a magistrate. I think, however. that his legal duties sat lightly on him. His connection with the law seems somewhat similar to that of Walter Scott. It was neither absorbing nor permanent. Politicians turn to literature. Literary men, like Chateaubriand and Lamartine, have held high places as politicians, but they never were real statesmen, and 1 should not call them men of great genius. A man of action may be great in more fields of action than one. Julius Ca?sar and Napoleon Bonaparte were statesmen and generals, but they were not and could not be poets, though Julius Caesar was a writer. Among the ancient Greeks and later Spaniards and Portuguese 'we find poets who were soldiers and even generals. Tbev. however, were not wholly military. Only a part, and sometimes a small part, ef their lives was spent in service. Horace's experience of war was very short, and. although lie was a military tribune, he was not a distinguished soldier. A man may be excellent in more ways than one. but he cannot be a man of genius in two different ways. A few instances, such as that of Sheridan, might he given which seem to he exceptions to the rule. T doubt whether they are so. The same inclination made Sheridan an orator and a writer of comedy.Notes and Queries. SiCO Bsvrard $100. X-e rps^e^s of this paper will hp oh-*- to !-*rn that t.her* is a? leas4 ( e ?1readed disease f h?>t science ba'>-<-n el.le to care irt all : '? udo 'h;jt is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Carw !be only {positive cnre known t tit^ rij*-d?cai fraternity. C*tanb b-t'i:* R constitutional disease, rcQuires " ccusttntioual treatment Haii'C-tbfih Core is taken internally, actdirectly npon the blood and mo cms surfac-s of the system, thereby Ohs!r?iy uy tb? foundation of the disK*se. ned giving the patient strength l??- building np the constitution and listing nature in doing its work The proprietors Lave so much faitb in its ?Mirative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case 'b*t it | ;ils to cure. Send for list of Ustitnoiii-ils. F. J. Chenev & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggistp, 75c. Hall's Family P'lls are the best. A.sket! "Wlfe'n A**I?taiice. Mrs. Hayfork (in country post office) ?Anything for ine? Postmaster?I don't see nothin'. Mrs. ITavfork?I was exnectin' a let tor or post card from Aunt Spriggs tellin' what day she was comiif. Rural Postmaster (calling to his wife) ?Did you see a post card from Mrs. Hayfork's Aunt Sally? His Wife?Yes; she's com in' on Thursday.?Lyre. Mer<> Conjecture. "Have you ever known any one." she asked, "who was actually killed by happiness?" "Well." replied the crusty old bacheIt, "I can't say positively as to that, but I did know a chap once who was found dead on his mother-in-law's frave."?Chicago Record-Herald. * CUTTIN' CORN. Folks may hanker all they keer to Fer th' country in th' fall; They may rave about th' beauty Of th' autumn leaves an" all; They may talk about th' glory Of th' sunshine an' th' haze; They may gusli about th' grandeur Of th' gold an" purple days, But they's just one reckollection Makes me glad, as sure's you're born! Gee. I'm glad 'at I'm not out there Cuttin' corn! Spanish needlc-s in yer jumper An' yer threadbare overalls: Cockleburs as thick as hops that's Growin' on th' garden walls; Dead ole blades that keeps a-sawin' At yer blistered neck an* ears; I recall it jest as easy. Though it's been a heap o' years Senee I ust t' take my cutter An' go growlin" out at morn To put in a whole long day at Cuttin' corn! Heap o' things a man don't fancy In this city life o' ours. Where ye've got t' keep a-spurrin' At yer mind's an' body's powers; Sleep don't find yer eyes so easy As it did when _ye was tired With the lone day's tug an' rustle That lh' farrain' work required. But ye'll never catch me frettin' Ner a-pinin' round, forlorn. While I realize I'm safe frum Cuttin' corn! ?S. W. Gillilan in Baltimore American. Hard Lack. "You look hungry. Foxy." "I am. All the people in this neighborhood are getting to be vegetarians, and they've quit raising chickens."? Chicago American. A Scientific Discovery. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does for the stomach that which it is unable to do for itself, even when but slightly disordered or over-loaded. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure supplies the natural juices of digestion and does the work of the Stomach, relaxing the nervous tension, while the inflamed muscles of that organ are allowed to rest and heal. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and enables the stomach and digestive organs to transform all food into rich, red blood. Sold by all druggists. . Kot iBvitiusr. She had heard a great deal about heaven, and she had also beard considerable about the other place. As msual, her idea of the. other place was muvk less hasy than her idea of heaven. People are net very specific when they speak about heaven. "Heaven isn't like the bad place." ghe remarked inquiringly on one occasion. "Xo, my dear.*' her mother replied, j "It's just the reverse of it." The little one was silent for some time while she figured out what the reverse would he. "I don't believe I want to go there," she announced at last. "I never did like void weather."?Chicago l'ost. ("oniluencc*. Willie and Tommy are two Michigan youngsters who are pugilist icaliv in* . . dined. The other day the following i conversation look place between them: j "Aw." said Willie tauntingly, "you're ! afraid t' tight?that's wot it is." "Xaw. i ain't." protested Tommy j stoutly. "Put if I fight my 111 a '1! l?nd | it out an* it'-k me." " low '11 slie find it out. eh?" "She'll see the doc;or goin' t' your j house."?Lyre. i Hi.s Kxjiericiicc. "It's funny what mistakes dose newspapers make," said .Meandering Mike. ! "What's do matter?" asked Plodding i Pete. ' "Here's one dat keeps talkin' 'bout de prisoner at dp bar. My observation is that you don't have to keep a man prisoner at no bar. Mos* likely de only way to git him loose is to tell 'im it's 1- o'clock an* put out de lights."? Washington Star. Favorite of Proviileuce. "I declar'," said Brother Dickey, "I got ter be mo' keerfui in future?I sho' has!" "What's the trouble now?" "Well. suli. I whirled in en prayed for rain des two hours cn a half, en dey come a regular deluge dat come mighty nigh drowuin' de bes' mule I had. Providence is so partial ter me!" ?Atlanta Constitution. A Policeman's Testimony. J. N. 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