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Show KNOWLEDGE NOT ALWAY8 GOOD. Ignorance Has Its Uses, According to Philadelphia Writer. Knowledge Is no help to courage Fools rush In where angels fear to tread; and how useful these fools are sometimes every general knows. It Is said that tho British army was beaten three times during the day ot Waterloo, only It did not know it. Napoleon raged at Its stupidity. Education Edu-cation cultivates the imagination, which is the greatest foe of courage. When in the dead of night, you hear a noise In the front parlor, :ou remember remem-ber all the stories you have read ot worthy householders being shot by ilreco burglam; you wonder how it feels to be hit M the head with a jimmy, jim-my, and 70a take a long time finding your slippers.1 Ignorance would have f-ave you from these fancies, and you would have gone downstairs without a tremor and found it was only the cat y It was the acquisition of knowledge that lost pur first parents the Garden of Eden. It they had only been content con-tent with their Ignorance we might all be living tbera now, instead of only getting an occasional week's end. This, at any rate, Is the belief of a writer in the Philadelphia Record. |