The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, November 11, 1903, Page 2, Image 2
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
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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.
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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
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Day and night, sunshine and shadow
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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~
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' 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
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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.
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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.
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