Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1921-12-29
old Year and NEW
Forget Past, Start Anew With
No Apology for Yesterday.
Box Up All Mistakes and Trouble,
That Never Happened and
Bury Them Deep. +

0iI7.NN1 VISITED penitentiary
N|LQy82@1|N one time. The turnkey went
H.@HaDs9 before, unlocked all the
N|ghE1H doors and carefully
Q!A-Ayp locked them after we had
gone through. We went
from dollhouse to dollhouse, and from
corridor to corridor. We could not 20
back, but we could go forward. For
get about last year. December 81
locks its doors securely forever. You
can't unlock those doors. What has
been done cannot be undone. Perhaps
you began your life's journey quite
awhile ago. 1900 is gone! 1910 is
gone! 1920 is gone! Those years all
sped by, and they are locked forever.
They are gone with lost opportunities,
wasted privileges, broken pledges. You
cannot call them back.
Regrettable it is we cannot 90 back.
and. with the added experience of
years live a portion of our lives again.
Every high-minded person would do
differently II he was given the last
ten or twenty years to live over. But
why think over the past? Why nurse
the unfortunate in your bosom?
You cannot go back If you would {;
If you are sensible you would not If
you could. To brood over life's un-
forgotten past only doubles the pres
ent load, makes one more morose and
grabbed, and deepens the burrows in
ones brow. Wipe off the slate. Box
up all omissions all shallow mis-
cries." oil mistakes, all the troubles
that never happened-and bury them.
Then about face! Head erect, chest
out, shoulders back, and-forward
march Look every person squarely
in the eye, make no apology for yester-
day, for tomorrow is before you. The
new year is yours. The world lies ut
your very feet. ~
This is not message simply for
youth, because no person is exempt
from moral obligations. There is no
age limit in life's battle. When we
are through with the world the world
is through with US. Too many per-
sons consider it fashionable to ire
tire" at certain age, and that age
is getting constantly lower.
If one has not found life's place be-
fore forty, the more the reason for
his doubling his efforts after forty.
A man should not consider Withdraw
ing from LIES toll at fifty, and one
should not think himself old at sixty.
Gladstone was doing the best work
Of his life at eighty-five, and at eighty
seven toured England on speech
making trip In behalf Of Armenia.
Little streams often dry up in the
desert, but great rivers run full
strength to the sea, and turn the
wheels Of commerce before they finally
plunge into the ocean. Small lives are
easily discouraged, but every great
life is rooted in the past, blossoms to-
day and bears fruit tomorrow.
The great life is ahead, because we
have the blessed results Of yester-
days experience. The future il full
of promise. Americas greatest his
tory is yet to be written. The best
days are yet to come. 1921 was far
better than 1920; 1922 will be better
than 1921, II we will make It 30. We
shall find this e very good old world.
IL we are willing to do our part.
Success consists not In never fall.
Ing, but In rising every time we fall.s
Nathan Howard Gist In Grit