The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

| Esteemed Fellow Citizens-The subject
| Of my lecture tonight is not Napoleon at
Waterloo; It Is not washington at valley
Forge: it does not refer TO Ceasar. and
| has no reference to Aristotle. The sub
| Ject stands before you In the person or
q. Hope Jones. 1 shall present MS case
(, TO you as an example of what the
| humblest man among men may accom-
plish by integrity and perseverance. Be
| fore ! have half concluded my remarks
1 shall doubtless be bombarded with an
egg plant or plunked with a cucumber.
and as We leave the hall for our homes
! and step out under the stars of heaven
| 1 may get carrot in the neck or a
potato in the ear. but let me assure you
right here and now that my progress
VIII continue to be onward and upward.
Our frst picture this evening repre-
sents Q. Hope Jones starting out in the
world with his stereopticon out1t on his
back and determination to conquer or
die in his heart. lie was advertised TO
give his first exhibition at the town OF
Tuckahoe. lie had only ~ cents IN mis-
vest pocket. but he felt that his mission
was one which will appeal TO both senti-
ment and generosity. The first lecture
was on the subject of Patriotism" 1t
was illustrated with pictures OF the bat
tlefields OF the revolution. Children
hurrahed. women waved their hats and
men climbed over benches TO patrioucaIly
punch each others heads. IL was con-
ceded on every hand that nothing since
the landing of Columbus nad so aroused
the enthusiasm of the Tuckahoenians,
but at the same time the cash collection
was only II cents. and / vas rendered
unconscious for eleven minutes by a
cantaloupe which struck me on the lower
vest button. Caesar would have gone out
Of the lecture business. Cato would have
called the people ungrateful: Alexander
would have been completely discouraged.
q. Hope Jones simply waited for his
breath to come back and then got up
and continued his appeal to American
patriotism. The man whose heart was
set on success can't be discouraged by
such wayside incidents. Had Shakespeare
ceased to write when he sawed his neck
on clothesline in the back yard; had
Milton turned from his Paradise Lost"
when he fe off the woodshed; had Plato
gone to keeping a grocery after rolling
down the cellar stairs the world would
have had no praise of them.
Our next picture represents Q. Hope
on the lecture platform at Horse Heads.
He got ou. of Tuckahoe alive and in
cheerful spirits. and at Horse Heads he
greeted a large and enthusiastic audi
ence and lectured on the subject of the
African heather. His remarks were fer
vid and his illustrations red-hot. He had
figures and statistics TO prove without
cavil that there Were 100000 people in
| Africa who had never seen Bible or
| heard of camp meeting, and his stere-
optical views. taken by special artists on
the spot. portrayed the natives bowling
| before idols. Draining each other with
clubs and feasting on tried white man.
The idea was to arouse the audience to
action, and the audience was duly aroused.
Four vegetables Of liberal growth struck
the orator and illustrator in chorus. and
as he lay down to collect his scattered
thoughts the cultivated audience fell to
punching each other with unbounded zeal
and dispersed just before a collection
could be taken up. Julius Caesar would
have limpcd out OF that hall and turned
to the butter and egg business for liv-
ing. but .. Hop: was made of sterner
stuff.
He had made a beginning and he
would follow it to the end. Thanks for
the applause. / need 1t in my business,
though my face is set toward the pin
nacle and my motto is Excelsior.
Did Alexander the Great ever cover
sixteen miles of highway with fifty
pounds on his back? Did Nero have the
sand to rise up like the Phoenix after
being plunked with a turnip-rise up
with empty pockets and his coat ripped
up the back and set of anew? Not on
your life. but Q. Hope Jones did. He
was billed 10 deliver his next lecture in
the town of Potterville and he got there.
Our next picture illustrates an Incl