Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-20
CAP ANSQN AN ideal
SAYSAUTHOR-LECTUREP
Robert j. Burdette Puts Him II
Glass of Jacob and Joseph
of Old.
From the Chicago Rccord-lierald.

From the Chicago Rccord-Ilerald
An eloquent vindication Of the
great dreamers of history and
sly digs at the legislators of tht
United States whose titles to thei,
seats in Legislative halls arc undcl
clouds, that only Il moment before hac
delighted an audience which last nigh,
filled Orchestra hall to the outer doors
were almost forgotten by that self
same audience when Rev. Robert j
Burdette. humorist and author. told
how Captain Adrian -. Arson Wrested
victory from defeat in the ninth in
ming of a hard fought game in Phila-
delphil i'm a manner that made De
Wolf Hopper's famous rendition OF
Casey at the Bat" fade into medic.
GRITTY.
Arson an Ideal.
Speaking before the Sunday Evening
club on the subject OF "Rainbow Chas-
ers." Mr.. Burdette held out cap" An
dreams. who never despairs. but takes.
victory from the enemy in the very
hour of seeming defeat.
The greatest example o. the mar
who never gives up. to my mind, il.
your Uncle Adrian said Mr.. Bur
dette.
"One hot summer day / saw him and
lily lSoil III ~ SdIIlC w FlIlIaQclRil!G
The score stood 8 to 4 in the ninth. TIL,
fans said the game was Won. by the
home team. Not so. A game I'm tina:
day vas never won until your Uncle
Adrian bad been consulted.
Arson Lands on the Ball.
Arson came or the field. Hit 'er out;
nail the FIRST he shouted. The bate,
got TO first.
"One man struck out. A second
knocked a fiy. Then two more got or
the bases. With two men gone and
the bases full. the Grand old Mar o;
baseball came to the bat.
Picking up a bat as big as a Wagon
tongue. ne faced the pitcher. Alon,
came a hot one. J. could not hay.
reached that ball With a telegraph
post. With a .ong swing Anso1
caught the ball on the nose of the bat
The ball went up. up. up and lande,
out OF the lot. The game was won.
There is a specimen of the MAJ
who dreams and never gives UP.
From the beginning of history tn,
reamer has been the man who ha:
really done things. Take, for example
Jacob. Then there was his son. 10
He dreamed SO much his brother.
threw him in a pit. While he was there
dreaming. he was taken out by "A band
of s.ypsies. n sold later in Egypt
There he dreamed. and studied political
economy. AS a result Of his dreams
Joseph got II corner on the wheat OF,
Egypt that would have made Chicapf
green with envy.
a man named Bunyan. a dreamer.
lived i'm Bedford. England. They locked
him up in h Bedford iail. There he
continued to dream and also wrote q
book. That book Is the most widely
cad book in the world next to the
bible. There is not a civilized tongue
into which Pilgrims Progress has not
been translated.
Cyrus Field dreamed that a cable
could be laid across the Atlantic. He
was called crazy and the men of sci.
ence showed by their mathematical
calculations thai to lay the cable was
impossible. Field dreamed on and the
cable was laid.
Another dreamer. Colonel Parker. of
PENNSYLVANIA. dreamed tha more oil
could be obtained from underground
than from all the whales in the ocean.
He was called crazy. but he made #
possible for the Standard Oil company
TO own most OF the United States.
$50 it is through the pages OF HIS
tory. 1t has been the man of dreams.
whc had high ideals and did not know
defeat. who has really been the practi-
cal man and accomplished things"