The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-13

there were two very fine business men who were chums, and mighty fond of each other. One of them failed in busi- ness, ond when he failed he went home and said to his wife: Wife, I have fail ed in business; I have lost everything I had No she said, you are mistaken, you still have me; I am here yet" And l tell you a man who has a good wife,
 has power. Like a fellow up here in Kentucky, who bet his last dollar on Cleveland, when Grover didn't get there He went home and said to his wife: 'l have lost everything" "Oh mo-" said she, the laws of Kentucky give us a few
 things; let the servants go." The next morning she said: 'I am going to milk
 the COW, you come and keep the cali away" Her husband kept the calf away, while she did the milking, and she turned and looked into his face, with lovely smile, and said: "oh, my dear husband, if you would only give your heart to God if you would only give your life to Jesus Christ, I would count it blessing that you have lost everything you had in this election" He said, Well, 1 have been thinking about it, and I made up my mind this morning that l am going to give my heart to Christ" She ran and threw her arms around his neck; he was happy, the calf got his breakfast Oaughter), and
 tell you there was something doing all around. Gaughter5.
 Sympathy Needed.
 We'll this mans wife in New York said: "No, you have me yet. There is a little flour in the barrel, and l can make the same kind of pies that mother used to make. You go down to the street corner and sell the pies, and we will start right from the ground" He went down there Ioh the tahI urith niaq
 and one day the other fellow, his friend who had not failed, drove by, looking out of his carriage window and called out:
 q say old man, I heard you had gone down, but didn't know 1t was as low as this' "As low as what?' Why, selling pies" "Why, man, I am selling the finest pies in the world; my wife made them" This other fellow stood round for while and then said, ''Well, good bye, old fellow you have my sympathy" He says, "Confound your sympathy-buy pie" That is the kind of men we want these days-men who have heart enough to put out their hands to a brother
 I would like to say to you business men, that when fellows are going around hunt ing work and can't get job and some of them seriously considering the subject of suicide, you might save them if you will put your arm around them and speak a klnQ ana nelDlu1 WOiu, IL WOtio not hurt you who have little to spare to help them there also God wants men of heart.
 Men of Faith.
 Then he wants men of faith. There never was a time when men were more needed who believe-believe in themselves for one thing. You will never do one thing if you don't believe In yourself. You have got to believe that you your self, the man who bears your name can do the thing you want to do. When the Confederate general or officer who was commanding at Fort Sumpter was at din- ner not very long after the war with the commander of the navy who was attack ing Fort Sumpter, he said, Why didn't you come and take us?" Why" said he,
 tour guns were not of sufficient range; you were too well fortified, l could not take you" "No, that was not it.' Why couldn't I take you, then?' the federal commander asked. He said, You did not believe you could. If you had believed you could 1t would have been as easy as turning a hand over we were ready to surrender" What we need these days is men who believe in themselves, and men who believe in each other Men should have confidence in each other. The law lays down the maxim that we must be- lieve every man innocent until his guilt Is proved Don't let us believe every man a rascal until he shows himself a true man. Let us believe in one another. I had rather be deceived day in and day out by men than to go through the world believing in nobody that l see or know.
 Believe in your fellowmen, and above everything else believe in God. Believe in
 Jesus Christ. Believe in this old book; believe in the old fashioned religion that
 made your mother what she was, and your father what he was.
 Men of Principle.
 And another thing: God wants men of principle; men who will act under all cir cumstances along the lines of principle. I tell you, brothers, you and l are first rate fellows at home, but when we get off somewhere where no one knows us, we are mighty apt to do things we would not do at home proper principle VIII | lead us right everywhere. A great many of us might remind each other of a story I heard up north about the governor or Massachusetts and one of his constitu- ents. The man who had loved the gover-
 nor. and voted for him, one day when | fishing caught a beautiful salmon. When he got home he said to his wife: T am going to carry that salmon to the gover- nor. 1t is the prettiest salmon I ever pulled out of the river" She said: "He will be mighty glad to get it. So the old man | put 1t in a box and put it on the table and went in to get his Sunday coat, and while in getting the Sunday coat some | bad boys took the salmon out of the box | and put a cod fish in it. When he got | to the governor he said ''I have brought you the most beautiful salmon, the finest 1 I have ever seen," and made his little | speech, and the governor made his-"of l all fish, he liked the salmon best'-and when his speech was done the old gentle | man took the top off the box, and there was the cod fish. He took it down home | in all the sorrow of his heart, and said | to his wife: "Old lady, that is not a | salmon, that's cod fish. She said: NO,
 1t ain't; reckon I know a salmon when | I see one. It aint anything of the kind' | She said Don't dispute with me-" You know our wives never like to be disputed. An illustration.
 l In Scotland a man was taken very sick | once and they thought he was dead. They | sent for the undertaken. who came and l said: "Yes, he is certainly dead but l the undertaken said he felt little warm
 around the heart. So they sent for a l doctor. and the doctor examined the man
 and said: Yes, he certainly Is dead"
 About this time the man sat up and said: |: NO, I ain't dead" but his wife said | Lay down. Jim, lay down; you always would contend; but the doctor knows bet l ter than you; lay down." Well, the old l lady said. ''I know a salmon when I sec one; don't you contend with me- The l old man says: You can go and look for l yourself" While he was talking to his wife the boys took the cod fish out of the | box and put the salmon back. They went
 out. and the old lady took the top off the