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Show Experience. There fs no educator like experience. It is the stepping stone in life's Btreani, and the man who does not heed its les-Bons les-Bons slips into the creek and gets drowned. Yes, experience iB an excellent teacher, although it often charges high wages, Its lessons aro always valuable and firmly fixed in the memory stamped there by the force of circumstances. The little child that gleefully tries to mash a wasp on the window pane under the delusion de-lusion that he is going to have some fun with a fly never makes that mistake a second time. All through life we learn a great deal by merely finding out things we don't k now. In the language of the great apostle to the Gentiles, Carl Pretzel, "Oxberience y;i3 bully deacher. Der only trouble mil him vas dot ho gives his knowledge oud vhen it vas pooty late." Very often experience ia a physician who never comes until after the disorder is cured. The old and those who have mixed largely with the world comprehend compre-hend the fact that no education is available avail-able that is not practical. These are the men who, when they go to New York, are cold and unsympathetio when the bunco man calls them by their right names and asks for information about the old folks and all the neighbors. On the other hand, the man whose life has been spent in study is easily taken in, and has to telegraph home for money tc pay his hotel bill. When he returns to his quiet study in the romantic little coun-trv coun-trv village, he is the mark for ridiciik. and Die uuconscious butt of men who dc not possess one tithe of liis learning. Thero ore men who utterly fail to profit by tho lessons of experience. For in-fitfince, in-fitfince, (.here is a man in Illinois who b living with his ninth wife. The othoi eight attempts look iikeexperiments that have failed, but from which he has derived de-rived no wisdom. To such men experience expe-rience is like the stern light of a ship which illuminates only the track it ha passed. Texas Siftings. |