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Also let us fig ure with you on Carpenters Tools Nobody likes to seU Good Qoods any better than we do, and we will take pleas ure in showing you : Building Material iH Jill! f j i GET OUT OR GET ' IN LINE Lincoln's Famous Letter to and the Sens Me Advice Booker Con- talnei Therein. (Elbert Hubbard.) ii aii me letters, messages and speeches of Lincoln were destroy ed, except that one letter to (looker, we should still have good index to the heart of the Rail-Splitter. In this letter we see that Lin coln ruled his own spirit; arid we also behold -the fact that he could rule others. The letter shows frankness, kindliness, wit, tact, wise diplomacy and infinite pa tience. Hooker had harshly and unjust criticised Lincoln, his Command er-in-Chief, and he had embarrass ed Burnside, his ranking officer. Bat Lincoln waives all this in de ference to the virtues that he be lieves Hooker possesses, and pro motes him to succeed Burnside. In other words the manwho had been wronged promotes the man who had wronged him, over the head of a man whom the promotee had wronged and for whom the promoter had a warm personal friendship. But all personal considerations were sunk in view of the end de sired. Yet it was necessary that the man promoted should know the truth, and Lincoln told it to him in a way that did not humil iate nor fire to foolish anger: but whicli certainly prevented the at tack of cerebral elephantiasis to which Hooker was liable. Perhaps we had better give the letter entire, and so here it is: Executive Manson, Washington, January 26. 1863. Major-General Hooker: General: I hare placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I be- leve you to be a brave and skillful sol dier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which vou are right. iou have confidence in yourself. which is a valuable if not indispensable quality. lou are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during CJeneraV Burnside's command of the army y6u have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong tn the, Ptrvand to a most meniorious auu uuuuiauio viw officer. I have heard, in such a way as to be ieve it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of j t :n you is mill wry auccja, iuiu x win iioa. the dictatorship. The government win support you to the utmost of its abili ty, which is neither more nor less tnan has done and will do tor au com manders. I much fear that the spirit vou have aided to infuse into the army. of criticising their commander and with holding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were aliye fcgain, could get any good out or an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness; Deware rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us vic tories. Yours very truly. A. LINCOLN. One point in this letter is espe cially worth our consideration, for it suggests a condition that springs up like deadly nightside from a poisonous soil. I refer to the hab it of sneering, carping, grumbling at and criticising those who are above us. The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticised, vilified and misun derstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands too, that, it is no proof of greatness. I he final proof of greatness lies in be ing able to endure contumely with resentment. Lincoln did not re sent criticism; he knew that every life must be its own excuse for being, but look how he calls Hooker's attention to the fact that the dissension Hooker has sown is going to return and plague him! Neither you, nor Napoleon, were he alive, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit pre vails in it." Hooker's fault falls i Hooker others suffer, but Hooker suffers most of all. Not long ago I met a Yale stu dent home on a vacation. I am sure he did not represent the true Yale spirit for he was full of criti cism and bitterness toward the in stitution. President Hadley came in for his share, and I was sup plied items, facts, data, with times and places, for a peach of a roast." Very soon I saw the trouble was not with Yale, the trouble was with the young man. He had mentally dwelt on some trivial slights until he had got so out of harmony with the institution that he had lost the power to derive nv benefit from it. Yale is not a perfect institution a fact. suppose, that President Hadley and most Yale men are quite will im? to admit: but Yale doessupply certain advantages, and it depends nnnn the student whether they will avail themselves of these ad vantages or not. If you are a student in a college, seize uoon the good that is tnere. Yori tret ood bv giving it. You gain by giving so give sympathy nd cheerful loyalty to the institu ting Be proud of it. Standby voup. teachers 'they are doing the WADESB0RO. N. C, faulty, make it a better place by an example of cheerfully doing your work every day the best you can. Mind your own business. T 0 .1 . Ar tne concern where you are employed is al! wrong, and the Old Man a curmudgeon, it may be wen tor you to go to the Old Alan and confidentially, quietly and I - If ... II 1 . m Kinaiy ieu mm that he is a cur mudgeon. Explain to him that his policy is absurd and preposter ous. Then show him how to re form his ways, and you might offer to take charge of the concern and cleanse it of its secret faults. Do this or if for any reason you snouia preier not, men use your choice of these: Get Out, or Get in Line. You have, got to do one or the other now make -your choice. It you work for a man; in heaven's name work for him I If he pays you wages that sup ply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man would work for him. I would not work for him part of the time. and the rest of the time ' work against mm. i would give an un divided service or none. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of clever ness. Jf you must vilify, condemn and eternaiiy u is parage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's con tent. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution not that but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part. you disparage yourself. More than that you are loosing the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away in he buzzard's track and proba bly you will never know why. The letter only says,- Times are dull and we regret there is not enough work," et cetera. L very where you find those out- of-a-job fellows. Talk with them and you will find that they are full of railing, bitterness and con demnation. That was the trouble through a spirit of fault-finding they got themselves swung around so they blocked the channel,, and M 5P mfrmBfirWn wVmim n; and no longer being a help they had to be removed. Lvery em- plover is constantly looking for people who can help him; natur ally he is on the lookout among his employees for those who do not help, and everything and everybody that is a hindrance has to go. This is the law of trade-" do not find fault with it; it is founded on Nature. The reward is only for the man that helps, and in order to help you must have sympathy. You cannot help the Old Man so long as you are explaining m undertone and whisper, by gesture and suggestion, by thought and mental attitude, that he is a cur mudgeon and his system dead wrong. You are not necessarily menacing him hy stirring up dis content and warming envy into strife, but you are doing this: You are getting yourself upon a well-greased chute that will give you a quick ride down' and out. When you say to other em ployees that the Old Man is a cur mudgeon, you reveal the fact that you are one; and when you tell that the policy of the institution is "rotten," you surely show that yours is. Hooker got his promotion even in spite of his failings: but the chances are that your employer does not have the love that Lincoln had the love that suffereth long and is kind. But even Lincoln could not protect Hooker forever. Hooker failed to do the work, and Lincoln had to try some one else. So there came a time when Hook er was superseded by a Silent Man, who criticised no one, railed at no body not even the enemy. And this Silent Man, who ruled his own spirit, took the cities. He minded his own business, and did the work that no man ever can do un less he gives absolute loyalty, per feet confidence and untiring de votion. Let us mind our own business, and work for self by working for the good of all. Mai Dosr Plays Havoc in Davidson. (Concord Times.) A horrible story comes from Bombay, in Davidson county, to the effect that a family of people living there have been drinking milk from a cow , that went mad last week, and have been eating pork that there is reason to believe had the poison in it when the hog killed, as another hog in the same pen has gone mad. Not long ago a mad doe passed through the community and bit animals righ and left. Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette N. Y., veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, gays: "The good Elec tric Bitten have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. Ispen much money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little purpose I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them aa a. tome and they keep m strong and well. DECEMBER 8, 1908. EDITOR WALLACE TO SOUTHERN FARMERS Practical Farmer Tells Bow Southern Farms May Be Mile to Ylel J Big Crops More Ramos Reeded. StProgie sive Ft rm3r.) Humus is the life of the soil. ana watchful as we must be of its , .... . preservation in the North and West, you have to be doubly watchful in the South where your open winters greatly facilitate the leaching out of fertility. Contrast this with conditions in Iowa: Our land is frozen two feet thick in winter, bacterial action stopped. wns ieruniy ; locsea u p. ana cover crops kept on the land to save any tnat would otherwise be lost. First of All. Get More Humus It seems to me therefore that with conditions as they are. the first and biggest thing for South ern farmers to do is to try to get more humus in the land, growing more cowpeas especially, with vetches and clover as cover crops in winter. The saddest thing I have seen in the Cotton Belt is the washing away of so much land. and this is largely due to inefficient humus. Without it the lands can not hold moisture nor give it out slowly. IMirying would be a great help to you, but you need cattle of better type and blood to make it profitable. The best cow in mv herd last year gave 11.300 pounds of milk. A rule with us is to keep one head of stock to the acre all summer. Heavier Horses and More of Them "You need better horses, in mv judgment, and more of them. A one-horse plow in Iowa is almost a curiosity, and so is a plow horse weighing less than 1,200 pounds. I bought a team last spring weigh ing 1,600 pounds each. On heavy ands we put in three horses. "Another great need of the South is to break up your ruinous tenant system. You need to pray to be saved from the farm-owner who lives in town and lets tenants butcher his land. The hope of any state is its prosperous farm- owners, each living under his own vine and fig-tree. You need better roads, too, of course, and I would especially com mendneen X ti16 sPHt-log drag. It, st,the cheats ukic$rph ular good roads maker we have m 1 T ll a 1 ever iouna. it win not ao on sandy land, as 'you know; but on clay and gumbo types it is every thing that is claimed for it. Making Corn in Iowa 'I am asked about the way we make our bumper corn yields in Iowa, and if there is much hand cultivation. No, there is practi cally no work by hand from plant ing to shredding and busking, lo begin with, we usually have a clo ver or bluegrass sod and plow in all before the ground freezes, in the spring discing thoroughly. We usually plant 3 1-2 feet apart each way check planting and harrow before it is up. As soon as up, if and is weedy, we take one-horse i ; .1 a or two norse weeaer witn two- horse weeder we can cover thirty i ii ii ii ii acres per aay) ana kiu an sman weeds in this way, plowing after ward from three to six times. The corn oreeaing associations nave done much to stimulate interest in improved seed and the need of im proved methods generally in Iowa, but it cannot be too often empha sized that the whole stalk, and not the ear alone, must be taken into consideration in judging the value of a plant and its desirability for seed purposes. This is one mis take our corn shows have not yet come to-realize. How the Iowa Farmer Beats us on Profits "The price of farm lands in the South naturally interests me, as prices in Iowa range so much high er from $75 to $150, with an av erage of perhaps, $80. As to how we make them pay pronts on so much I would answer: 1. We keep them full of hu mus, growing; legumes and apply ing barnyard manure, so keep them increasing in value while spending practically nothing for commercial fertilizers. "2. We grow stock and so make two profits instead of one on what we raise, farming 12 months in the year 3. We practice careful rota tionfor instance, corn two years, then wheat, then clover. 4. We use improved labor-saving, horse-power implements and machinery, at once cultivating, harvesting, etc.,, better and at less expense than by hand labor. . . "But if you can remember but one thing in this message of mine to Southern farmers, let it be this: Get more humus into your soils. That is your hope and your great est task." Hal a Close Call. Mrs. Ada L. Croom, the widely known proprietor of the Croom Hotel, Vaughn, Miss says: "For several months 1 suf fered with - severe cough, and con sumption seemed to have its grip on me, when a friend recommended Dr. King's New Discovery. I began taking it, and three bottles affected a complete cure." The fame of this life saving cough and cold remedy, and lung and throat healer is world wide. ' Sold by Parsons Drug Co. 50(O and $1.00. Trial bottle free. - - v Sunday School Department Conducted if special Editor. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13. Lesson. Solomon Dedicates The Temple. I Kings 8:1-11. Golden Text. "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." Psalm 122:1 Time. The Temple was begun in the fourth year of the reiirn of Solomon, B. 0. 1012 and completed seven years later. The dedication was in the twelfth year of the reign. Place. The Temple occupied the summit of the large hill on the eastern side of Jerusalem. CONNECTION After the story of Solomon's choice, there follow instances of wisdom and practical sagacity and prosperity. There is an account of his alliance with Hiram of Tyre, who assists in the building of both Solomon's palace and the Temple. The story of the dedica tion of the Temple is also told in 2 Chron 4:2-7:10. In the fourth year of his reign. Solomon began the work and push ed it to completion. Materials for the Temple had been provided in immense abundance bv David. but they were not sufficient. Im- mense blocks of stone were cut, hewn into shape, and bevelled, ready for use before being brought to the spot where they were re quired. Hiram supplied cedar and cypress. THE TEMPLE The Temple was not intended as a place ior the conerreeation. but rather. as a dwelling place for Jehovah. It was not a large build ing, but it was a magnificent one, nothing but the most expensive materials being used in it. It is saddening to remember that the arger part of the labor was forced and this was the beginning of that oppression which marked the reign of Solomon. None but the priests entered the Temple proper and even these priests did not en ter the Holy of Holies but once a year. he people gathered in the Court which surrounded the Tem ple, where.fckrcourt, tfnowu as the - - e 4.U0 pontiles. x lie Aciji- feT'served a great purpose, it symbolized the presence of God and ministered to spiritual wor ship. The dimensions and architecture of the temple are not altogether clear, but in the main we can judge of its plan. The central features were the same as in the tabernacle, m 1 1 1 ii 1 a holy or nones, wnere trie arK was deposited, a boly place lead ing to it, and without a court in which was the great altar of sacri fice. The temple was built of stone, but was lined with cedar, and this in turn, in the holy ol holies at least, was covered with gold. The holy of holies was a square of thirty feet on each side. It had no windows, being lighted only from the holy place, or the front room of the temple proper. Two beautiful and gold-covered doors, with purtains behind them, separated it from the other part of the temple. In it was placed the ark, which rested beneath the out stretched wings of two great figures of gold called the cherubim. The holy place was sixty feet long, thirty feet wide and thirty- feet high. In it was placed the altar of incense, the table of shew- bread, and the great seven-branch ed candlestick. It was closed with two beautiful doors, before which was a court or porch thirty feet wide, in the center of which stood two great pillars made of bronze. Before the holy place was the court, and in this was the great brazen sea, a vessel holding a large quantity of water for purifying the priests for their labors, lhe altar was a magnificent affair, built over a great rock which is still to be seen on the hill of the temple. THE DEDICATION It was a great national occasion. Great throngs of people, with the elders, princes and officials as sembled. The time chosen was in the fall and was arranged to in clude the feast of the tabernacles. The ceremonies covered a period of two weeks and a large force of priests and singers were assembled and aided in the services. The first thing was to transfer to the new house the furniture already in the Tent and it is likely the taber nacle was taken down and stored away in some pf the rooms of the Temple, lhe great object was the Ark of the Covenant, which had been brought to Jerusalem by David. This was the symbol. pf the covenant presence of Jehovah witrrhis chosen people, it was placed within the Holy ot Holies. The ceremonies of dedication cen tered about this sacred relic. This ark was carried by the priests and as they came from the holy place, after having put the ark in its place.' something occured which was not on the program. A grea cloud settled down over the house Such a cloud had come upon the tabernacle when it was set up in the wilderness and was the symbo of the abiding presence of Jehovah and a sign that he had accepted the Temple and would make it his abiding, place. It is beautifully said, '!The glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord." THE EXERCISES rouowing the chapter a little further. We learn of the order 01 me ueuication services. Solo mon throughout standing on a platform in the court, where he could be seen by all those present 1 The Sentences. Verses 12, 13. 2 Chron 6:1,2. 2 Solomon turns and blesses the congregation. All standing. VS 14. 2 Chrnn 3 Address by Solomon. Stand ing. s 15-21. 2 Chron 6:4-11. . 4 dedicatory prayer. Kneel ing. s 23-54. 2 Chron 6:13-40. 5 Psalm 132. Fire descended on the a tar and glory filled the house and the people are prostrated before the altar. 2 Chron 6:41, 427:1-3. ' 'FHr nis mercy end ureth for ever, uy the Chron 7:3 congregation. 2 Closing address Standing. Kings 8:54-61. 1 PRACTICAL Prayer is a part of true worship. God wants the service of our hearts. This Is Clothes-Buying Time For Economical Men and Young Men Why Hot Boy UR Mid Winter Clearance save dollars on clothing that is really worth having. Every garment is of the most advanced fashion, and made of ma terials of known quality. Don't $15.00 Suits. Get ready for the cold weather cial-priced OVERCOATS. See Trousers Bought right and things for you. Here they are: $ 1.50 and 1.75 Trousers now $2.00 Trousers now $3.00 and 3.50 Trousers now S3. 50 and 4.00 Trousers now SMALLEST CLOTHING HOUSE IN TOWN. H. B. ALLEN Sc CO. Christmas GBftts In the shape of Nice Photographs to our best friends are not to be eaten or worn out and forgotten, but are placed upon the parlor table to be kept a lifetime as a most interesting memento from the giver. Father, Mother, Brother and Sister, ' all have a special invitation to visit Bland's Studio to see Samples and look over the beautiful line of Mounts and Folders. Just below Blalock Hardware Co. m Or jm Or Or t Cfonstmroais Books And Other Presents E have received a pret f 1A7 1 ty line of Childrens 4ft Bks and others by standard authors, xc These are most appro priate for presents and you will do well to select early. Many new gifts for all pnrposcs. Come see them. NUMBER 20 God wants us to build places where men can worship his name. It is not the magnificence of the house, bat the presence of God that counts. The sacrifice of a humble, coo trite and willing heart is our best offering to God. Temples teach us that God is a Spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Mr. A. D. Covlartoa Exoaeratcf His many friends here will be pleased to know that Mr. A. D. Covington, a native of this city. has been completely exonerated by the corner's inquest held at Quincy, rla., a few weeks ago over the body of Thomas R. Smith who was killed there recently. 31 r. Covington was present as a peace maker and had nothing to do with the shooting. Merrill Brown, a negro charged with a secret assault on a white man in Greenville county, was carried to Wake county jail last week to prevent lynching. Yours Now? Sale offers you an opportunity to fail to see those $10.00, 12.50 ami that's coming with one of our spe them. From $3.50 to $16.50. sold right. Got some extra good $1.25 .$1.50 $2.75 $3.00 1 s I ttttttttttttJ tart thev can. II tne piace is
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