Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1910-11-03
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4 new term las come into our won
aerful American phraseology. already
rich with expressions from the ~dia-
mond," the S'gridiron'. and the .tnrf !.
Now from the Squared circle comes
another, q SO called Renoism. re is
stated positively, like an axiom In
geometry, that they don't come
back" That is, he-to quote certain
famous colored lady-that sbrjngs
home the bacon" must be one who
hasn't had defeat or hasn't been too
long out Of the game. To step out OF
line, or worse, to be pushed out, marks
the beginning Of the end. No rabbits
foot talisman can ward off the ineyi-
table hour From that time 'sthe paths
Of glory lead but TO defeat.
i 1t True?
Let's face the question bravely and
sensibly. After one has reached the
zenith Of his powers and there comes
reverse, more or less serious. can
be ''come back?" Physically seldom
or only for time. For the fighter,
| the Splinter, the ball player, the ath-
| lete, the man who has had break
| down CHS friends tell him vertigo"
the doctor says slight stroke'), the
woman with nervous prostrat1on, it's
| a mighty SOLDERING thought-but you've
touched your limit. You've caught
sight Of the day when you can't come
back" In that vague thing we call
| success" can one come back" after
defeat or failure2 Yes, frequently.
| Mark Twain did. And the business
world is full Of men who went down
in defeat onlys 20 rise again to greater
heights. But, mind you, I'm an opti-
mist. Cold blooded statisticians say
rs per cent do not. .'eome back" How
ever, p do. You may be among them
| Ii the moral world can one "come
back?' Thank God, yes. Not al
ways into the society against which
they have sinned. but into regard
Of right minded men and, most Of
all, into their own self respect It
is old fashioned, it seems, to quote
while the lamp holds out to burn,
the vilest sinner may return" but it is
| an eternal truth.
Is Defeat FaiIure7
| You cannot always measure man
| By his defeats You must know what
use he makes Of them. The injured
| oyster turns his wound into a pearl.
| The young Jew Disraeli sits down
amid bowls OF derision at his maiden
speech in the house Of commons. His
| answer is. 4sThe day will come when
/ you shall hear me!' Carlyle through
many weary years, in poverty and
pain, writes his first volume Of THE
/ French Revolution" He lends the
priceless manuscript to Stuart Mill,
and Mills servant lights the fire with
| it. II spite Of his hardship and de-
SPAR again he wrote the masterpiece
Of today. Milton is blind, Dante and
Hugo exiles, Bunyan, Raleigh and Luz
Their are in prison, Darwin and 4. L.
! Stevenson are invalids "Yes, but
they all made good; they came back.
| MIR. Preacher" True. But Robert y.
Lee didn't, He surrenders his sword
/ and the. Army OF Northern Virginia.
Yet north and south say he is greater
| than if he had triumphed, Some men
| fight and win: others fight just as
| faithfully and lose Many a splendid
success is built upon a heroic failure.
/ Up In the dungeon at Machaerus
there's q fash Of steel in the shudder-
inc light, and John the Baptist has
| failed-onlv to succeed. Sunset at
midday on Golgotha. mangled body
| is hustled into borrowed tomb, and
the Man Of Nazareth lies among the
failures Of time-only to succeed Tor
eternity
The Dial Of Ahaz.
wen. when we are all done here, will
there be another chance to come
back?' Is there somewhere Id the
shirt world where we have another
opportunity? Can we take up the task
:Esiigmed here? viii God turn back the
universe. and give US yesterday No
one seems to- know. "'Iis not So
nominated in the bond'-that IS the
/ Rible. There's no encouraging word
from ..that undiscovered country from
whose bourne no traveller has ever re-
turned. Better not count on a. -
| j tree falls 50 shall it lie" Each new
morning is the surest chance TO come
back Sometimes your day may be
prolonged. Once upon q time az an
Gent king named Hezekiah was SICK
about to die. Prayer was offered TOT
his recovery. In the courtyard VS.
ibIe from his palace window, was Tue
town clock, q great dial, Duli1 y hlns
Ahaz years before. As q slgia=ol -
vorabIe answer the shadow was g 60
| hack ten degrees on the dial. At high
| noon some supreme light shone from
I the mercy seat, like that shone1 above
the brightness of the sum- TO Saul On
| the way to Damascus, rose on the ON
or side Of the dial Of Ahaz, aud heze :.
kiah had fifteen years added to MS
life. Nevertheless the end came
eventually. But don't build On mir