Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-09-18
" "a. tx'l9EIE
AZ WAYS HAS HOPE.
Prospector for Gold One Of For.
tunate Men.
with Belief In Ones Luck 70 Be
"Just Ahead" the Bullets Of Fate
Are Things at Which
s. to LAUGH.

met with In the fur hills and deserts,
may well be taken by all men as an
example and I'M inspiration as far as
the blessings Of staying hopes are
concerned, says the Los Angeles
Times.
"Hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK" says the proverb. But 1t is not
good proverb. No matter how long
deferred hope may be it should
never be abandoned. It should never
be anything but an inspiration and an
Indictment.
Take this nomadic tribe of prospec-
tors. for instance. The typical pros
pector IL man who has spent per-
haps the most Of his life pursuing q
hope that has never been realized. Yet
we never ind them discouraged. We
never know them to end their days
In despair. No matter how many their
years Of failure may be they will tell
You that just beyond the next chain
Of hills or in the heart Of still unex-
plored desert the treasures they seek
are surely awaiting them.
A most sincere and persistent man
10 the prospector. He believes In his :
quest and respects 1t. The little or
the much that he wins by spasmodic
toll he invests In his dreams. He
braves the solitudes and the lonely
wastes Of the world to reach the goal
for which he strives. Hunger, thirst
and other hardships and sufrerings he
endures with willing heart.
And he never despairs. That's the
glory Of the prospector- never de-
spairs. -
The average man. hedged in by the
traditions Of towns and cities or set.
tied in the humdrum Of the country.
looks upon the prospector az a queer
and somewhat demented individual.
We laugh at this strange fellow whos
Is pictured to us as ploddlng along in
the .wildernesses and the sandy desc
lations with his pack and his burro,
following the will-o.the-wisps Of for
tune. -
But the prospsctor is only doing in
his way what we are doing in ours.
We are following each our own dream
as the prospector Is following his.
The only difference is that we pro-
coed In safety and without adventure.
Otherwise we are the same as the
wanderer Of the desert and the hills,
And also we ARE soon discouraged and
We are easy prey to defeat, while 1t IL
death alone that can defeat the pros.
pector.
It seems to us that Of all the mis-
fortunes there are In life-and heaven
knows there are many-the misfor.
tune Of hopelessnessa Is the worst.
eOnly for hope the heart would die"
said q poet. It was q true thing to
say.
And about this wonderful thing Of
hope there is another way to look at It
and that is that we should always
have at least one hope ahead. That
Is to say, we should always have some
thing that We look forward to. Then,
Il What We have in hand fails nj, tho
other tAI1f that We look forward to
Will 1ts9
Il dops a 1ng to be busy with.
p which i've. xs should ssl!a
% hopeksl h them "a that
KIN ftsl FaeeA ope Hast away into
he Fears ef the futHl
There 10 really som hing .nysteri-
ous about hope. II ydn will cherish
II faithfully and keep Il warm in your
heart you will be almost sure to some.
time realize II. II 10 said that we are
what we believe ourselves to be. But
perhaps we might better say that We
are what our hopes are,
Since then q lons-oAerished hope is
most likely to be realized, surely it
were foolish Of 10 to harbor hopes that
will not bring US comfort aud Joy.
Hope for the best there is-not great
riches. not any material possession,
but peace for the heart and-a serene
path for the white years Of old aga.