A FEW DROPS OF INK.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 20 June 1925, Page 3

A FEW DROPS OF INK.

(From the pen of G. IT. Lorimer, While writing “Letters from a belimacto Alcrchant to His bon. ). In life there is plenty of room at the top; but there is no elevator in the building. . , It isn’t so much knowing a whole let, as knowing a littje and how to use it, that counts. College doesn’t make fools; it develops them, it doesn't make blight men; it develops them. Some men learn the cussedness or whisky by having a drunken lather, and some by having a good mother. Anything-that trains a boy to get the answer before the other fellow gets through biting the pencil, pays. Some learn the value of truth by having to do business with liars; and sonic oy going to Sunday School. The boy who does anything just because the other fellows do it is apt to scratch a poor man’s back all his life. When a boy’s had a good mother, lie’s got a good conscience; and v hen he’s got .a good conscience he don’t need to have right and wrong labelled for him. . i was started off with a kick, buJ that proved a kick up, and every ono L’ve got since has lifted me a little bit higher. ft doesn’t make any difference how much sugar and fancy pic-klo .you soak into a fellow, he is no good unless he is sound and sweet at the core. _ , There is one excuse for every mislake a man can make, but only ci.e. , When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he lias got to throw i p both hands and own to carelessness or cus- • sedness. I

The meanest man alivo is the cne who is generous with money that lie has not had to sweat for, and the 1-c y who is good fellow at some one elso’s expenses would not work up into firstclass fertiliser. Education is about the only tiling lying around loorsa in this world, and it’s about the only tiring that a fellow can have as much of as ho is willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight, and the screwdriver