swered the other, "I was one of the
'wealthy-customer' class."

Experience is a dead loss if you can't sell it for more than it cost.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.--_A. Bronson
Alcott_.

I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.

--_Shelley_.

EXTRAVAGANCE

"What made you a multi-millionaire?"

"My wife."

"Ah, her tactful help--"

"Nothing like that. I was simply curious to know if there was any
income she couldn't live beyond."

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.

--_Young_.

FAILURES

BROWN--"Back to town again? I thought you were a farmer."

GREEN--"You made the same mistake I did."--_Judge_.

There are people who fail because they are afraid to make a beginning.
Who are too honest to steal, but will borrow and never pay back. Who
go to bed tired because they spend the day in looking for an easy
place. Who can play a tune on one string, but it never makes anybody
want to dance. Who would like to reform the world, but have a front
gate that won't stay shut. Who cannot tell what they think about
anything until they see what the papers have to say about it.

A first failure is often a blessing.--_A. L. Brown_.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.--_Lowell_.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.--_Whately_.

FAME

After an absence of four years a certain man went back to visit his
old home town. The first four people he met didn't remember him and
the next three didn't know he had been away.

"That antagonist of yours says he is going to leave footprints in the
sands of time."

"He won't," replied Senator Sorghum. "His mind is in the clouds. He is
an intellectual aviator. When he comes down he will leave a dent, not
a footprint."

Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call:
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.

--_Pope_.

For what is fame, but the benignant strength of one, transformed to
joy of many?--_George Eliot_.

Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds.--_Longfellow_.

FAMILIES

A Kansas man is reported to be the father of thirty-two children.
It is not known whether he will apply