Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — The “Fruits” of Ambition [ARTICLE]

The “Fruits” of Ambition

"If you are ambitious and want to get on in life, don’t wait for your opportunity—make it.” So counselled Mr. Kalestick to young Kabbage, whom he had just appointed to the management of a green grocery stall. All that day the youth pondered the advice, and he still remembered it when his eye suddenly caught an item in the sporting columns of his favorite paper: “Clod Ville Football dub requires dates for December." Two minutes lajer -Kabbage was busy with pen, ink and paper, and in ten more minutes he was proudly conning the following note to the Clodville secretary: “Dear 8ir —I beg to inform you that we have a choice lot of dates in stock. Inclose one as a sample, and will be pleased to supply any quantity at twopence a pound, or four pounds for seven pence ha-penny!”—ldeas.