Show f I 1 BY DAMEL I 1 it is custo customary mary while bearc searching hinc hinr for tor the practicable to reter to experience as the infallible arbiter between disputed points the churnin human mind is prone to take a thin thing that haa has the sanction of the experienced for granted and established so BO much so that much original ingenuity is allowed to lie dormant or its suggestions t ions lons a are re made to succumb tot to the he pre precepts ce als of of experience but instead of blindly bowing bo w jg to the authority of every expert 1 ence it would be better tIn to inquire ln quire guire first into the same and ascertain its value since this I 1 must necessarily be estimated in proportion to the quantities the intelligence observation manners and practices of those thole whose possession or property the experiences are some germans were conversing onee once about swimming across the danube and one of them hem engaged to perform the fete but was told by y another that it was thoroughly impracticable you will go down he sal sai sald said with the utmost assurance 1 I have tried it 1 I halva experienc experienced ea it one sinks every time goes to the bottom like a whetstone it needs no DO argument to prove that this experience is not sufficiently valuable to be accepted i aa aln a standard yet many experiences deservi deserving ng no better regard are often considered a license to give advice to the inexperienced A man may engage in a branch of business and through want of skill penetration or perseverance utterly fail and then say the thin thing I 1 is no g good od I 1 have experienced it it will wil I 1 no not t pay y it I 1 is s not worth pursuing 11 1 1 but let an another tb pr one who is capac forthe for the business undertake it and his experience will diner dinen from that of the for he cewill 1 will ably succeed and pronounce the business a goo good d one A person who is a stranger to manners and decency may pay a visit to a family and perhaps give so much offense offence that he be does not only invite coolness of reception but a request to withdraw his attendance and he may state that the f family imily are of a very cool and uninviting disposition and even rude to visitors for ton he has experienced it while another person going to the same place mag maj max may by exercising good manners and amiable deportment gain quite a different treatment form a different opinion and deliver it as the result of his experience quite at variance with that of the former again there is a mean sordid detestable vile lecherous villain who pesters the society of our mountain bome kome lue with his bis odious presence he reports the inha dinha inhabitants stants of these valleys to be a queer suspicious uncongenial people and alleges his experience in support of the asser asder assertion tion but here i is i a another person whose life ilfe is regulated by the principles nePes of unflinching virtue which he f feels eels in duty bound to revere and adore whose association asso asto clation is appreciated because it is honorable whose purposes are one with those of the noblest among the people and his te t mony toony will biffi differ er materially from that of the former in fac fact be entirely the reverse tho quite as strictly b a gred sied up upon on experience instances might be multiplied to infinity to prove that the worth of oe experience depends U upon 0 n the ability intelligence and and quality of f the Y possessor ome ova ove agor hence the she lesson lesion that we should walk by the light of noble principles and ae let iet them be the source of every action learn to make our observations from a correct point of view employ in our enget enterprises ses sea skill and courage commensurate with the work to be performed or hwe uwe if we have not sufficient cl ent of those qualities to attain success turn to a task for which we are capacitated sethil so that t our experiences may not only be pleasant but valuable to ourselves and thase those who ra may ay chose to solicit our suggestions or be deter mined by our experience to form their conclusions clu I 1 |