Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-04
BY and by you will be men and
won.en Your school DAYS Will

WOLHeOs xOuI oSAoSs ~"s
have ended. You Will come 10
take the places now occupied ~
your fathers and mothers, and 1t IS
to be hoped that you will be an
improvement upon them. They
hope it, they expect it, and they
have a right to expect. it because,
the advantages they are affording
you are so far superior to those
which they enjoyed.
Childhood. youth, early man
hood and womanhood, look anxious
ly and hopefully to the future, tax
ing a rosy view of life. Boys and
girls want the time to harry swift
ly along and make them men and
women. With the young, time
moves too slow, with those of us
who are older, too fast.
You who are now neryously long
ing for the time to come when your
boyhood aud girlhood will be ended,
will after a time wish you could DO
children again, and this feeling Is
most sure to come to you with
great force, if in after years you
are compelled to look back with
regret at your m~isspent opportunI-
ties.
1t is your duty then to take every
possible advantage Of the present.
The earlier and the more thorough
ly you bring yourselves TO under
stand the value of Your own efforts,
the better it will be for you.
Those of us who are older have
learned that there is no royal road
in this world to that which is de-
sirable. There is no royal road to
wealth, no royal road to knowledge,
no royal road to happiness. Chill
dren are sometimes the inheritors
of the fortunes which their fathers
have accumulated, but they seldom
last. Hc who begins life poor and
would succeed in acquiring property,
must early learn that industry aud
economy are the foundations upon
which his structure must be built.
Whoever would acquire knowledge,
must know that 1t can only come
from persistent, untiring study.
There Is nothing of happiness in
this world of q lasting character
but 1T costs something to attain.
These are conditions by which
from our natures we are surrounded,
and there is 10 way for us to
avoid them, if We would. We
ought to be glad that 1t IS so, when
we know hat we are made stronger
and better by every well directed
effort We put forth.
We admire men who are self-re.
liant, II it be wisely tempered.
They are the men who accomplish
great things, who move the world
along. SO it must be with you.
If you would hold honorable
positions among your fellow men,
1t viii be required of You that you
manifest your fitness.
Life is most of a success to those
who know their duty and do it.
Make your parents to know
that money is wisely expended,
that their hopes for their children
"a q sure to be realized. In later
years, when you have gone beyond
the precincts of the school room.
when your heads and your hand.
are busily engaged in working ouI
life's destinles, your remembrance
of your school days will bring you
pleasure unmixed with regret.
can only say to you in conclu
sion, be good, make the best posi-
BILE use of your name knowing tina
perseverance oYercomes all obstacles
that every effort brings added
strength.
We people Of South Dakota ar,
proud our boys and girls. Tn,
exercises which we have here wit
messed give us great assurance
Grow mp to be good men anC
women. Be glad of and grateful
for your privileges, love you.
parents, and last but not least, al
ways love and be faithful 70 tba