Show ahm crane says S up sw 0 TITU mir MIN ano KEEPS ins HIS ivonn it Is like the shadow ot of a great rock in a 0 weary land to run across as we do oc occasionally casio nally a man who keeps his word you may be able to sue on written promises es and contracts put in writing which are usually binding but somehow the ma man n w who ho does not keep his word strictly strictly y Is a slippery custo customer mer and it Is 15 haro hard to get hold of him even with a piece ot of writing the fundamental security ty tor for a man doing what he promises Is after all character II 11 a man has character and Is upright you are safer iri in lending him money than if lie he gives you a mortgage on h his Is farm doing business with a liar Is never satisfactory somehow he win w I 1 11 it attempt to wriggle out of his promises it Is easy to detect the strictly honest person when he owes you money he be does not avoid you but openly and frankly ay pays you something on account right along it if he cannot pay the whole amount the test of the fundamentally honest man Is his bis punctuality in meeting his engagements or la in frankly explaining to you why those engagements cannot be met the courts ore are full ot of people trying to evade their plan engagements A roan man who Is in debt sincerely arely tries to meet that debt whether it hurts him or not it Is very trying and very disturbing to our faith in human nature to find a person who Is always looking lor for alibis always seeking explanations tor for not doing as he said bald he be would do the good loser the man who loses and y yet t Is cheerful is the man who Is it after ae all 11 one or of the chief pillars of the social fabric |