The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1905-02-23

bis mother wondered IL he had struck
a new kind of collie. He was simply
wondering why Ii didn't rise up to the
ceiling instead OF falling to the floor.
Before he was three years old he
was spanked a dozen times a day for
INDUCING in experiments. and but for
the spirit of perseverance the world
have lost one of its greatest dis
ers. The more and the harder he
was spanked the nor he experiment
ed. From the age of zen to twenty he
was employed In a pottery and bad to
give up his idea of grayitation to make
golden jugs TO hold cider and
thing stronger, but at the latter age he
cut loose from bis Job and went back
to his original idea.
You have all read how he made his
discovery. He was lying on his back
under an apple tree n day when he
saw an apple fall to the ground. He
was amazed that it didn't 60 up into
the sky instead. lie began to think
and PONDER and reach out for an ex-
PLANTATION and finally decided that
gravity pulled the apple down instead
of boosting 1t up. l can't say that pre-
yious to his discovery barrels used to
roll uphill instead of down and that
c~ocoanuts went sailing skyward in
stead of striking the earth. but l do
know that since his time if you throw
a rock at n dog it will be found lying
around loose somewhere after having
served its purpose.
Do not let your attention be distract
ed by the boys peering In at the win
dows or tie antics of the yaller haired
young man who is now peering about
as IL in search of the cage of the Ben
gal tiger, but listen closely to my next
illustration. Who and what was the
great Napoleon at the age OF ten? Sim
ply a sickly child coming along with
the last run Of shad and being fed on
milk and sugar.
At fifteen no n would say that be
would ever amount to shucks. One
could name twenty things or more In
which he was lacking, but there was
one certain thing he had In plenty, per
severance. If he went for the wood
chuck. he got him. He had made up his
mind. puny and sickly though he was.
to become a ruler of men and boss OF
Europe, and 1t Is needless to tell you
that he did not stop until he got there.
Perseverance was the pushing power.
No matter how often he was thrown
down. he got up to try it again. Water
loo finished him, but he had had bis
day and could afford to retire.
II you need another case to convince
you, take that of Columbus. At an
early date he got the Idea into his head
that Europe wasn't the only pebble on
the beach, and he wanted to set out
and look for others. It seemed to him
that there might be a few acres Of
good land lying around the west. and
the idea never left him. 1t took him
twenty years to convince people that
he was no fool, and when he set out at
last he was generally looked upon as
being light In the top story. You know
what his perseverance accomplished.
We might have been discovered a hun
ded years later by some other fellow,
but II so we'd have been a hundred
years behind the times today.
AS a last case, and the yaller haired
young man having 6 titled himself
down for an all nights sleep, take my
own. My father was lame and my
mother red headed, and We were so
poor that cold potatoes and sulphur
water were luxuries to Us. l was first
apprenticed to a cobbler. then ent to
a tanner and a brickmaker In success
sion, but l had ideas, and l had perse-
verance, and the result Is that l stand
here before you tonight with the laurel
leaves Of fame dropping from my mar
BILE brow. Others might have given up
and become your cobbler. your tame
or your bricklayer, but Q. Hope Jones
was not Of that sort.
Day by day he stuck to the tracks
Of the woodchuck, and when he finally
holed the critter he dug him put and
asked his due reward from the world
at large. The receipts of the house to-
night teach the traits of perseverance
again. They are just sufficient to pay
my board bill and buy cheese and
crackers for a lunch, but / shall walk
the foul teen miles TO my next stopping
place and turn up smiling. l am here
to stay. and those of you who know
the Jones family must know that with
ID cents in cash end their natural per-
severance nothing is impossible to
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