The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-10

went something like this: What is the use of men i'm business complaining that their employees are slothful and ignorantg What is the use in saying that your help is lazy and untrue and selfish? Men nave always been lazy and untrue and selfsh ever since the world was started It IS the strong leader and the successful man who takes his employees as they are and does not sit down and complain about them The successful man, In spite or drawbacks uses all men for the best purposes for which they can be used. "Ah. yes" l said when I read that ar tiele 'how true. how true' The success ful merchant is not the merchant who has perfect clerks, but he takes his clerks as they are and drills them and keeps on drilling them until in spite ol themselves they are compelled 10 do ms bidding, The successful captain IS a man who like Paul Jones, can inspire q mixed crew, made up of all different na- tionalities to fight his battles as though tbev were made out of the stuff of he- roes. And the strong man for God Is not tho man who sits down and repines over the weaknesses of his fellow men. lie is like Joab ready to shut his eyes 10 other mems faults and out of mems weaknesses build up his own towers of strength.
 Even lion can be strangled to death with spider webs if you can weave enough of them together into one rope
 The sunbeams can change snip s null into coals of fire if you can only iochs the suns rays upon 1t by powerful pufn- ing glass.
 What Gladstone Said.
 Ruf I must not close without drawing your attention to one other face. The awakened king was not a young man.
 He was not even a middle aged man. think his hair was white and his step oln xyifh and nt knew 1t. William k. Gladstone said Just before he gave up his English premier shin q feel that the sands of my l1fe are running out King David must nave felt his sands of life running away also His grown children proved 1t. Absaion must have been grown man. NO mere boy could have had the brains or the mower to raise the insurreetion which hs did Absalom was evidently fully de veloped man. This meant that Davld, as his father, was probably past the htteti milestone If not nearing his three score years of age. Now, methinks when thl' l insurrection started, David lost all ms l moral backbone. l can almost hear mn 1 soliloouizing something like this
 What is the use of my fighting? l an 1 an old man. If | were young, as In th' 1 days when I fought Goliath, could hgh 1 now; but, old and worn out there 5 no l much use. I think l had better abdicate
 It will only be few years at the most l and then I must die But Joab haf
 none of this nonsense in him. He cam' l to the king and practically said: '1oul majesty, your best days are ahead. Ge
 up out of this room and go to work l Your last years of reigning over lsrae are to be your best years My friends my middle aged or white haired friends 1 l bring to you Joab's salutation, 'Youl best days are ahead, up and out, Ina l is what your motto should be, Yea, III l and out now.
 You are discouraged, like David 1 Things have not been going right in bus l mess, have they? The younger men II 1 the partnership want to push you to the