GREAT SENTIMENTS.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 4, 5 January 1906, Page 3

GREAT SENTIMENTS.

“ I have been requested,” said . the great captain of industry, addressing his third assistant secretary, '■ to write a magazine article on how to become a magnate. I want you to get up something that will Reflect credit on me and make my friends wonder at my literary style.” Three days later the great man read the article, to which his name was signed, and again addressing his third assistant secretary, said : “ This is excellent. My reasoning is perfectly clear. The young man who can’t, after reading this article of mine, start,right out and become a captain of' industry is a hopeless case, and don t deserve 3 ‘ success. My logic can’t be beaten, my literary style is beautiful ; I have free and easy command of a whole lot of big, fine-sounding words that I don’t know the meaning of, and, taking it altogether, I’m mightv proud <d my ability as a writer. ‘‘ In fact. I’ve never read a better article than this one of mine on how to get to the front. The qualifications needed ; how to secure the best returns lor the efforts expended; where, when, and how to begin —all these things are so clearly set forth that I don’t see how any one can read them without understanding why I have cl tun to the top. “That’s a mighty good point you make there about the importance of asking for what’s wanted, too. That’s always been one of my principles. Things don t come to people in this world. You ve got to reach for them, and if you can’t see what you want, you’ve got to ask somebody topass it along. I’d be mighty sorry if you’d forgot to put that in. Everybody who knows me will at Once recognise them as my sentiments. “What! Raise your salary? Young man, do you know that two pounds a week is a whole lot more than you’re worth. You ought to get down on your knees every day and thank me for keeping you here. But I’m a libera] minded man, and I’ll tell yon what I’ll do. I’m to get fifteen pounds for this article, and I’ll give you one pound of it as a present, just to convince you that I’m generous to a fault. “ I’m glad you put in that passage about honesty being needed by a man who’s trying to succeed. There’s no use of anybody trying to win without it.”