Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-08-13
nan or woman had predicted that they

man or woman had predicted that they
would make history later on, the pre-
dicters would have been laughed at.
Miss Borgia In particular was looked
upon as a chump, and II was not until
her opportunities began coming that
any one went out of his way to pat her
on the head and say how smart she
was. Women, you cannot do what
Joan or Charlotte did-not right now
but any one of you can go home and
become a Borgia and make name for
yourself
II see before me your village cooper.
He coons because he thinks 1t the best
thing he can do at present but does 1t
follow that he Is always going to coopf
Far from it. He is simply waiting for
opportunity to come. 1t will come, and
II he is ready for It no one can tell the
heights to which he will climb. What
the opportunity will be is beyond our
ken. He may start his career by lick
ing windmill man or knocking the
horns off a kicking COW, Demosthenes,
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portunity and wondering how 1t would
come when an old goat hunted him off
the fence and started train Of philos-
ophy that stopped not until all the
world had heard of him.
II see among you a farmers hired
man. He is working for SO per and
board and mending. AS he follows the
pillow he wonders If he will ever be
any greater-if fame and riches will
ever be his. 1t is discouraging out
look. and yet how did Socrates begin?
He was a swineherd, and there did
not seem one chance in a thousand
that he would ever get beyond hogs.
He wasn't half asleep, but very wide
awake. when opportunity came along.
and he was quick TO seize ii.
II see among my audience a hired
girl. Her duties are TO wash. scrub.
bake. cook. iron and fifteen or twenty
other things. She hasn't the slightest
hope that the future will bring her
greatness, but who can tell2 She must
wait and see and get up at o'clock in
the morning while waiting. The occa-
sion may arise for another Charlotte
Corday. and If so let the young woman
be ready.
World Wants Heroes.
my friends. the world wants heroes
and heroines today just as much as it
did when the boy stood on the burning
deck, and 1t is as ready to grant them
fame and renown. And further tell
you that the opportunities are just as
numerous. Do not he disheartened
Take my case as an illustration. At
the age Of twenty l had never had a
two shilling pair of pink suspenders.
l had gone barefoot all my life, and
the only schooling l had was about
two months a year. | didn't know
enough to take of my hat to a COW.
If any one had talked about Plato in
my hearing l should have supposed
the old chap was a hog driver. 1t was
town talk that l was lunkhead and a
doughhead and that I didn't know
enough to come In when It rained.
Yes. / was all that at twenty and
worse at twenty-five, and then oppor-
tunity came along. I was ready for
her. She gave me the cue, and two
days later the shirt that opens In the
back. the Q. Hope Jones shirt. was
invented, and the world was mine
from the farm to the rostrum, from
poverty to affiuence, from nonentity
to fame. from Q. Hope Jones the
doughhead to Q. Hope Jones the man
who has given mankind the blessing of
the century. Despair not. bGs wait 1t
will come to you as 1t has come to me
and others You may not be hero or
heroine today or tomorrow, but who
shall say Of the next day, Of the day
after that, Of next week? Wait. but be
ready to grab the opportunity as II
comes gliding by" NJ. QUAD.