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THE CONSTITUTION.
VOL. XVIII.
WEEKLY EDITION— ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3 1885.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ARROYO CITY BANK.
fffao X(t«blfabmont or • Dank in tho Woitora Coun
try-katlur# and Defalcation-4rr«lcnm*iit
Beforo tho Court of tbo ■Unuin-rha
rowar of Woman, *to„ Bto.
Arroyo City, In her oirn opinion, was very
nearly the Letdville of the southwest. In
order to become so entirely, it was only neeoa*
Bary that the should hare a bank. The honest
miners were tired of using due'bllls and
grocery orders and ivory disks as currency
even postoffico orders could not always be
cashed on demand. They wanted to haye
little book to carry in their pockets* They
Wanted to have a bank recount. They wanted
to have a place where they could assume more
intimate relations with that vaguely under-
Btood commodity which they had heard apoken
©f at eastern exchange. And, reasoned they,
In addition to the vast increase of personal
dignity which would be brought about by the
establishment of such an institution, the tone
of a city which could support it must needs
be infinitely above that nf any low-down camp
like Bonito Canon, which had but two news
papers to its name, and no prospects whatever
of a bark.
But as yet there had appeared no prophet
In Israel, and it is probable that Arroyo City
Would have been forever barred from this last
pinnacle of glory had it not been for Messrs.
Sorson, Chalmers, Thompson k Co. This firm
Of capitalists, who were bent on developing
ihe camp, had been attracted to it in its early
days. It was they who erected the electrie
. compensating mill.
At the joint capital of the firm amounted to
ft Very few thousands of dollars, they had de
cided not to build onoof tho old-fashioned
Btamp mills, but to erect one which would do
twice the work in ono fourth the time, and
Cost only one-half the money. By this, it is
plain to be aeen, they would secure very great
ftritbmcffcal advantages; and this, thoinven-
tor told them, the electrie compensating mill
Would do, or money cheerfully refunded.
Thero arc a great many kinda of gold mills in
the Rooky mountains, but I do not believe
there aro very many electric compensating
mills. It is said thst the inventor tried to
build-another like that at Arroyo City, but
Sailed to do ao, and soon thereafter died, his
, occrct perishing with him
A But I would not be understood as laying a
Word sgainst this mill. It was a sourco of
great pride to Arroyo City; for she knew that
neither in the heavens above nor in the waters
* under the earth was there anything that
, ’ “itmblcd it. It certainly gave employment to
£ a large tody of men, although it was a very
^ am; -1 mill. And it certainljr did, by its
L ^peculiar ejitem of grinding and 1 crushing, ao
K far reduce H j local ora that it was possibly
is».-
_ Juderable quantities of “Juft" from its “tail-
* lug*;" so that if one found himself in that in*
iensiirg condition usually called “dead
broke," ho could always securo therefrom a
retpectnhle return for his labor. To be sure,
I he mill should have saved all this gold; but,
as th>* honest miners rossonpd, it was much
better in the tailings than not at all. The
. mill did not run very long. It was of tew
dayaard full of trouble. But its history was
eo intimately connected with that o f tho
Arroyo City bank that I must not here further
pursue it. Enough has b#en said, I trust, to
show that Messrs. Borson, Chalmers, Thomp
son A Co., were shrewd, enterprising, and
eon a v<> , wero sorewu, cmvrpruiug, uuu
thoughtful business men, and very fair typee
of the indomitable eastern capitalists who
Lave developed the mineral resources of our
Western territorial. Indeed, Mr. Chalmers's
resident manager of the company's interest!
Cthey owned several extensive mining claims,
for the most part in an excellent state of pre
servation, by reason of their having boen
thoroughly “salted" before purehase) has
often been heard to say that he andhla
company were indomitable, and thatthoy
meant to davelop tbe cam p.
Mr. Chalmers was a abort young man, who
wore very high bools, a rery large rerolver,
and, it is alleged, a full beard. He always
spelled tbe manager part of h!s name with a
ve?y large M. He was well qualified to sue-
ceed in the mines,by reasons of having studied
geology, and likawise well qualified to succeed
in life, and by reasons of having studied politi
cal economy. He often said that the secret of
securing wealth lay only in finding a want
and then filling it.
Therefore, alter filling the want of tho com
munity for an oleetnc compensating mill,
Messrs. Borson, Chalmers, Thompson A Co.,
observing the evident desire of Arroyo City for
a benk, determined to supply that want also.
To be sure, they by this time bad much less
than their original capital; but I feel it my
duty at this point to explain that the popular
ly eonc< ived idea that to start a bank requires
a great deal of money, or a knowledge of bank
ing, or a more or less mysterious understand*
ing with government, is a serious mistake. All
that is necessary is to be indomitable. For,
please observe, not long after Messrs. Borson,
Chalmers, Thomwon A Co., resolved to start a
bank at Arroyo City, there arrived, seven day*
out from Las Vegas, several wagons, which
bore, among other things, numerous kega
marked “Specie," which were very heavy.
“Wbat a blessing," said all the honest
miners, ‘ that the road agents did not hear of
this money train 1 In that cue, we could net
have had our bank l” ..... ,
Now it had so happened that in conducting
their milling enterprise, Messrs. Borson,
Chalmers, Thompson A Co., had reached a
point where they could not put their hands
upon sufficient cash t# pay off the men who
were employed by them as operatives. These
men, being much pressed by the saloon
keepers in regard to tnelr own little accounts,
became more than gantly insistent upon the
•object of their dues, and gave Mr. Chalmers
• great deal of trouble, ue repeatedly ex
plained to them that he was developing the
oaup, but that failed to satisfy them. He
of r jed them any amount of orders on th*
grocery store, but these were declined on the
ground that the •tore-keeper would give noth-
rag for them In exchange. He offered draft*
on the home company, out the men did not
appear rightly to understand who or what the
“noma company" was, and ao refused them al
so. Then a happy thought struck this indo
mitable young man. He offerad them check*
on a Las Vegas bank. To bo sure, he was
ftwarethatne had no fund* in that bank; but
hew should he know that a large amount
might not at any time be deposited to hi*
credit? And surely, thought he, by the time
the protested cheeks come back, we can have a
dean-up In the mill.and take out gold enough
to satisfy all demands. Bo he drew a number
of these cheeks, and, as the men all knew
where Lu Vega* was, tbeyaceepUdth*ma*
payment. Then Mr. Chalmers wrote to the
home company, in Philadelphia, and told of
MSuTn^t. and added: • “We have
struck It big fn the forty-foot lower level, but
you had better send me all the mosey you can
^■d all this time tbe to of spyrfestood
tmopeaed in the back room of the adobe hat
which was to be the bank building. It was
explainea that the arrival of the banlc fixtures
was awaited, and impatient citizens were
asked to remember that a bank could no more
be atsrted without a mahogany counter and a
plate'glara teller's table than It could without
a keg of specie.
But Arroyo City grew impatient. A public
meeting was held upon tbo plaza one evening,
wherein it was unanimously rsiolvod that
upon the following day, first, tbe bank should
open;second, a clean-up should be made.
This action was communicated to Mr. Chal
mers, but so far aa being pleased at the interest
manifested, he appeared much discoacsrted,
and, with a very pale face, hastened ovor to
consult his colleague, Mr. Azrtel McPhuntion,
a young man of small chin, large revolver and
a diamond ring, who was to assume the duties
of cashier in the bank. Mr. Mcrhuntion was
• cousin of Mr. Borson, and was resident
manager of a very large corporation whose in
terests (on paper) were centered at Arroyo
City.
Now I ah all scarcely be credited in faying,
as I nevertheless must lay, that these two be-
whiskered and be-pisteled young borderers
were natives of the good old Quaker city of
Philadelphia, and themselves retained the
habits of their youth. To bo sure they bore
arms, but they never, never used thorn, nor
would either of thorn have slain ao much as a
rabbit, oven could bo have bit it, aa indeed
neither could have done; nor yet a concourse
of largo rabbits.
“1 tell thee, Mac, wo’roin a box I" said Mr.
Chalmers, manager.
“Well, Eli, don't I know that? I’m just as
badly soared as thee is," said Azrael, nervous-
iy-
“No thee isn't.”
“Yes I nm, too, I tell thee.”
“Well, I wish thee’d tell me what to do,
“Well, so for aa I can see, Eli, we’ll have to
open the bank." And so it was concluded.
Tbe first thing fn order on the following
morning was the clean up. And it reiuUod
in a large amount of mercury and a small, a
very small amount of gold. In fact, so small
was it that I feel diffident about mentioning it
at all. A abort time later, as all were diiouss-
ing this result, up camo the Lsa Vega* mail.
And this mail curtained thirty letters from
Las Vegas. And each letter held, not a post-
office order, or a draft, or ourrency, but—a
dishonored check.
Then it was asked where Mr. Chalmers
could be found. He was not present.
All at once some one called outs “The
bank! Let’s make the bank pay our checks!
A few minutee later tbe Arroyo City bank
was filled with a quiet, cool crowd of mon;
tbe foremost bore each two bits of paper. One
was a check; tbo other said “no funds."
To meet this uncxpocted run upon the
bsnlr,sicod behind tho counter Mr. Azrael
McPhuntion, pale and trembling. A hatchet
waa handed him, and ho was requested to
open tbe kegs of speoio. Mechanically he
drove in tho heads of tho kegs. Tho first
showed silver dollars; the second, unopened
s of coin; the third—“Gentlemen,"
rouleaus
cannot honor these checks. Thoy are not
drawn on this bank, but on the bank in Las
Vegas. Of course, it’s all right, but I can't
pay thorn till the technicalities aro straight
cncd out," Ho further explaiued, very earn*
fitly, that other parties besidos Messrs. Bar
ton. Chalmers, Thompson A Co. wero interest*
4 d in the Arroyo City bank, and that to make
oeh payments, before oven the books wero
fairly opened, would cause acrioua complica
tions throughout tbo banking world, would
probably destroy the Now York clearinf
ftcrv-. cndc*?ate*rc *
lor eastern exchange.
“Eastern exchange be——I” eaid Andy
Johnson. “You open them.kogsl"
Mr. McPhuntion stepped from in front of
the third keg. Andy Jonnaon bent forward
and looked at its contents. “Boys," said he,
carelessly drawing his revolver ana resting it
upon tbe counter, "boys, this is the first bank
openin' 1 ever 'tended, and mebbe I aint very
well up on lech matters, but I never could
see, ner i can't aeo now, wbat’a the use—
what's the uso. boys, in a bank's s-hsvin' its
epcchurcy mixed in with ten-ponny nails!
“Bsy." he continued in tbe silence which fol
lowed, “Petty Morgan's got somo the best
packin'rope ever come to the camp. You
better git ft there. I reckon."
Bo they got it there, and twenty minntes
later two tripoda stood in tbe street (tor there
wss not a lamp post in Arroyo City, and not •
free cr a house ora cross.beam where a mas
could be decently banged,) and tbo two mana
gers were having their trial. The summons
wss served so promptly on Mr. Chalmers that
he had not time to brush the shavings from
his coat.
“Pria'ners at the bar," said Andy Johnson
In his arraignment, “the charge ag'imt to is,
first, that je have been play in*a blind game
on to this camp from first to last, an' bluffin'
on no kind of a hand at all; second, that ye
ain't paid yer honest debts, an' don't intend to;
(bird,that ye havejimposea on thcfconferdenco
sn' fooled with the isxerdeit feefin’s o’ this
here community, by s portendin' to start •
bank here when you hadn’t money enough fer
to sit into a decent game of poker,an’ a spring*
in' a game onto us ss’U make us the laughin'
stock o’ the whole Bocky mountains an'» by
word an* reproach fer even|Boniter canon;
fourth, that yo have been guilty of acka
herein which la rcsndorlous an'
on forgivable; fifth, that yor a
pair of mis'ablo, white livered cowards, that
this here camp ain't got no uso fer. Now what
lay?"
George F. Boal, Jr., tbe pilgrim
Jaw yer from Kentucky, here thrust in his buz*
zaid face end aaked to bo allowed to mako a
speech for the prosecution. His request was
declined, whereupon be dispatched a note to
tbe prisoners, offering to defend them for $10
cash. A very industrious practitioner, Colonel
George F. Boal, Jr., and one well qualified to
succeed, by reason of his great flow of language
and his very imposing signature.
But precisely at this juncluro happened
very strange thing—the only thing which
makes this story of any interest to me at all.
There appeared at the edge of tho crowd a
comely and well dressed young woman, who
at once made her way to the aide of the prison
ers. White faced, wet eyed and beautiful, the
put her hand upon the bowed shoulders of
Che creature nearest her, and, looking about
her, saidt “I am sure you will not hurt him,
sirs. Be is my husband."
A gasp, a very groan, went up from the
crowd or men.
But it was indeed Mr. Chalmers’s wife, who
bad unexpectedly arrived during the past
week to pay her husband a short visit, and
whose presence in tbe camp was not goucrally
known. At the very tableau instant the
whole htetorj of these two couldj be read—the
cld, old story of fins* touted, womanly woman
joined for fife to a despicable pretense of a
man; a man in this esse to whom the woman
was devoted; a man who had married her for
her money, which b* had squandered. Why
are these things ? In the south west one says t
“Quien sabe?"
“Be is my husband," aha laid again.
“Pris'zer at tbe ber," said Andy Johnson,
slowly (baking bis finger in the face of Mr.
Chalmers, “the last charge ag’inst ye is th4
worst. Why didn't you tell us you had such a
w Ue ? Not content with ruinin' the reputation
o' this camp, you have oome blame near
thronin' onto na the 'ditionsl disgrace
havin' acted oncourteoua to a wo
man, an' the pnrtieet woman aa ever
struck Arroyo City." He removed hi a hat.
to have it said of ber thet she left a port
young woman a widder an* alone In this cus
sed country—"
(A trice* “We can take care of her!")
“To he sort we can take care of her, an'
very likely better than this feller; but, boys,
I really must say that ain't the point. A wo
man's almighty particular about such things,,
an'—I couldn't, aa far's I’m concerned, I jest
couldn't—oh, wby a woman alius did make
ool o' me!"
There was tilerce. Colonel George F. Baal
Jr., began to make a speech. Somebody sup
pressed him. The two managers sat with
tear streaked facts, looking from sido to side.
Above them stood the woman, head upright,
braver than they.
“He is my husband," she murmured.
And that is how it happened that the prli
eners were allowed to depart from Arroyo
City; Mr. McPhuntion being contemptiouslv
pushed after his comrade (with the remark
that tho “tail of the ox went With the hldo").
A hundred men watched thorn, hands in
pockets and profanity allow.
And as the yjwcnt, tbo woman—unnatural
sight—wiped sway the tears from tho eyes of
him who should always have dried her own.
And tho full tun in tbe west shone hard upon
the ahame of it aa she led him up the hill.
TUB 8TAGB DRIYBR'S STORY.
Tragical Meeting with Olka's Gang on the
Road to Belena,
From tbo New York Bun.
Ae the stage from Helena, Montana, to one
of the mining camps was making iti trip last
fall, the driver told this tragical story of au
encounter with road agents
“It wus in ’67," said he, “an’ I wul drirln'
between Balt Lako and Helena. Road agents
wus pretty thick then, an' there wus one gang
run by Bill Dike thot used ter make thing*
pretty lively fur us. It got to be quite the reg
ular thing at a certain point in tne road ter
hear the yell, 'Hands up I' Yer can’t ever get
used ter it. Every timo it would make me
jump just the same as the first tim«, We
used ter caution the passengers not ter fire ef
they waa attacked, but just to let tho agents
have some small sum to pay toll like.
“Wall, one morning 1 started outer Salt
Lake with a half a dozen insido passengers—
all men, and one of the purtleat young women
I ever see as a deck passenger. Bhe was go
ing to meet her husband, who waa stationedin
Montana at some army post. Bhe had the
cutcat little girl with her. The lady wasn't
more'n twenty, and the little gal was about
two. Bho hadn't seen her husband for more'n
a year, and was wild to get to him. Juit be
fore we pulled out o' the hotel Jim Lano (he
druv the down coach, and bad just got in)
camo over and says:
“ ‘Bay, Tom, Dike and bis outfit held me up
'bout sixty mile up the road.'
“Little Mrs. Baird heard what Jim had
said, and, ’stead of gottin' scared, ahe jest
clapped her hands and said,'Oh, how I should
like to see the stage thieves!' It jest seemed
to me that it waa a temptin' Providence to
make a remark like that, an* I spoke up protty
sharp that she might eeo more stage thieves
than she wanted to.
“Wall, we pulled out of tho city, and went
along slick as could be. Tho little lady never
complained of nothing, she nevor seemed tar
get tired, but she'd set there and sing the
sweetest little songs to her little gal. Then
she’d talk to me about what the west was like,
Bho was lest from New York City, and had the
greatest lot of news ter talk about. Wall, about
eight o’clock of the second evenin' we was
going along slowly with brakes on down a
hill. Suddenly a couple of mon jumped out
of the bushes and yelled:
“‘Hands up l’"* .
“Half ft.bzfn .'.V-n- wuj r.'-.ngHi.’- tbe
f'-a-b m n j.j:y >ViL. t'jeir t x-.irt.) >utj j. ;-t -l
at us. It isn’t pleasant havin'a six-shooter
lookin' you square in tho face when thar’a a
man behind it that has his linger on the trig
ger end meins shoot every time, so I up with
my hands and jest yelled out to the men in
side. 'don’t shoot, gents.* Then they stood us
out in a row and went through us. My little
lady acted jest aa plucky as could be. Jest
grabbed ber little gal and then gave up her
n onsv. I will say it for Dike and his gang
that they wus mighty civil to her.
“After they had gone through the pasaou-
>rs they told ’em to get back into the coach
_ j they wus gettin’ back one of the psi«ea>
^ ers dropped a pocket book ho had hid from
Iron. This got ’em mad, and they hit him a
couple of licks over the head with the butt of
a six shooter. The passenger grabbed the
six shooter from the road agent, fired at him,
and ho fell.
“I knew what waa coming then. I jest
S ave a yell, an 1 let the horses have
io whin. Off we started
down tho hill at • twenty* milo-an hour
jolt, but before w. got for them devil, je.t
turned lo§o on ue and cave ue a volley. I
felt aibarp pain in my left arm. Ibaarda
yell from tb. coach, and, wort, than all, aaw
that purty littlo lady give on. look at mo—
I'll naver forget that look aa lone u I lira
—and then .ha feet fell over forward.. Wall,
wo waa ont of dinger then, but I had my ale
horaec, all of ’em mad with fright, ter atop on
a down grade, and my lalt arm nearly uioltti.
“Wall, I drove up to the next atation that
night with two dead people and two wounded
men ineido the coech. An’ tha eaddeat light
I ever aaw waa whan that young lottonant u
had come down ter meet hla wifo waa led up
to wh.re the lay. Fnr you no one buckehot
had gone through her heart and tha head of
tho little girl aa aho bold her to her broaat to
ahelt.r her. That young man jee* took on.
look, an' then turned away. In a mini! tho
hjuk, rq meu uirniu rwr/. ao • iiiiuii mo
crack of a revolver was heard, and the bus-
bon* and falber had joined his wife and
daughter. That was tbe last thing that Dike’s
outfit ever done. We had the vigilant* onto
’em in less than a day, and never let up on
'cm till they wss all banged or shot."
BxtraoidlQftrjr Coon Ranting.
From the Greensboro, Go., Herald.
It wasn’t many Saturdays ago that a num
ber of gentlemen atandfng upon the streets at
Greenesboro discussed fox hunting, bird hunt
ing and kindred spona. Each one had told a
story, remarkable in a high decree, when the
climax wa» reached by one of the gentlemen,
who told the following story:
“Coons I" said he with a sneer. “You don't
know anything about coons in this country.
Wby, you ought to go to southwest Georgia.
J lived there once, end my favorite pastime
wss coon hunting. Early one morning I start
ed out with my dogs for a hunt. Tha morning
was damp and heavy, and we hadn't gone tar
before the doga struck a trail, and away they
went! How besutifhl it was. Throngh the
underbrush they rushed, crashing, barking,
the sounds coming to us like low musio on the
morning air. It wasn't many minutes before
the long howl of the leading aog told us that
be badlreed.
“We put out after them, going through tbe
iwsmps, and down into a canebrake. There
we came upon the doge all clustered about a
cypress leg. They smelled it, and then all
started back aa if they didn't know what was
to Pay. We drew near and endeavored to
urge them on. But they wouldn't urge. We
went up to tho Jog, and ft seemed to be mov
ie?. 1 didn’t know wbat to make of it. The
sides of it rose end fell es regular as the bast
of a clock. We hnally cut into it, and there
it was packed with coons. We killed a hun
dred and forty and I don't know how many
got away."
“What made the log move?" innocently
asked a bystander.
“Oh, plain aa day. The coons were packed
to close thst every time they breathed the log
would expand."
There was a ghastly alienee and the crowd
oved away.
“It wasn't a good day for coons, either!"
be yelled after them, and putting a fresh ehew
of Ubaceo In bis mouth he walked rapidly in
tha direction of the “Cotton Bourse" on wall
street, and In a moment more vis buying tbe
fletey staple with a serene and unmoved
ctunienenc*
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
PRBACHBD IN BROOKLYN TAB8R*
NACLB YBSTflnDAY,
me dabjcolt "rhoQuaan’a Vla!t M -Xow flalomia'*
Xcftniflo.no* iaprccMfl Sic Boyd Vuttor.and
tn* earn'd Manner in Whloh it waa
Bollt Up-Uctful Lcaaoac—Btc.
Bbooklyv, November 1, 1835.—[Special.]—
Tbe Bev. T, DoWitt Talma go. D. D., preached
this morning in tbe Brooklyn tabernaole, on
the subject, “Tbe Queen's Visit." Before tbe
sermon bo expounded a chapter of the Acta of
the Aprstle*. Tha opening hymn begins:
Grace! 'tie n charm Ing loaitd,
Harmonious to the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall resonnd,
. Ami all the earth shall hear.
The text was taken from I. Kings x. 7: “Be*
bold the halt'Waa not told me." Following is
the sermon in toll:
Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem should
be tb# center of all sacred, regal and comrner*
rial magnificence. He set himself to work
and monopolized the surrounding desert at a
highway for his caravans. He built the city
of Palmyra around one of the principal wolls
of the east, so that all the long trains of mor
chandiso from tha east wero obliged to stop
there, pay toll and leave part of their wealth
in the bands of Solomon's morchauts. He
lamed the fortress Thspsacus of the chief part
cf the Euphrates, and put under guard every
thing that passed there. Tho three groat
products of Pslestine—wine pressed from the
richest clusters nnd celebrated all tho world
over, oil which in that hot country ia tho
entire substitute for butter and lard
and waa pressed from the olive branches un
til every tree in tho country became an oil
well, and honey which was the entire aubsti*
tuto for sugar—these three great products of
the country Solomon exported; and reoeivod
in return fruits and precious woods and tho
animate of every clime, no went down to
Esiontgeber and ordered a fleet of ships to be
constructed, oversaw the workmen and watch
ed tha launching of the flotilla, which was to
go cut on moie than a year's voyage to bring
home the wealth of the then xnown world.
He heard that the Egyptian horses were large
end swift and long-nianed and round-limbed,
and be resolvod to purchase them, giving
eigbty-fivo dollars apioco for them, put
ting the best of those horses in his
own . stsll and selling tho sur
plus to foreign potentates at groat
profit. Ho hoard that there was tho best of
timber on Mount Lebanon, and be sent out
180,000 men to how down tho forost and drag
tho timber through tho mountain gorgoe to
construct it into rafts to be floated to Joppa,
and from thcncoto be drawn by ox toaine
twenty*fivo milt• across tho land to Jenna-
lorn. Ho heard that thnre were beautiful
flowers in other lands. Ho sent for them,
planted them in his own gardens, and to this
verv day thero aro flowers found in the rains
of that eily, such as are to be bund in no other
part of Palestine, tho lineal descendants of
the very flowers that Solomon planted, lie
heard tout in foreign groves thoro were birds
of richest voice and most luxuriant wing.
He sent out people to catch them ana brtug
ihsrn there, and he put them into his cages.
BUnd hick nowand see this long train of
caHemcdmingnp U> the king’s cate, amNihc
ox trains from E-ryvt, gold and silver #nd
r rccfoua stones, ami beasts of every hoof and
Irds of every wing and fish of every soale.
Bto the poacoclis strut uudor the cedars, and
tho horsemen run, and the chariots wheel.
Hark to tbo crehestra. Gnze upon tho dance.
Not stopping to look into tho wonders of thb
tnnpJo, step right on to tbe causeway and
pass up !o bolomo&’s palace. Here we find
ourselves atnid a collection of buildings on
which the king hid lavished tho woaith of
many empires. The genius of Hiram, tho
architect, and of tho other artists is here soon
in the long line of corridors and the suspend
ed g$llerf and tho approach to tho throne.
Tracer led window oppoeito traceried window.
Bronsed ornaments bursting into lotus and
lily and pomegranate. Chapiters surrounded
by network of Icavos in which imitation fruit
iecm«d suspended as In hanging bas*
kei». Three branches—so Josephus
(ells us—three branches sculptured on tho
marble, so thin and subtle that even the
leaves seemed to quiver. A laver capable of
bolding five hundred barrels of water on six
hundred braien ox heads, whleb gushed with
water and filled the whole place with coolness
and crystalline brightness and musical plash.
Ten tables chasea with chariot wheel and
lion and churubim. Solomon sat on a throne
of ivory. At tho seating place of the throne,
on each end of each of ihe steps, a brason
lion. Vlbjf my friends, in that place they
trimmed their oandlea with anuflfert of gold,
and they cut their fruits with knlve* of goldj
#nd they washed their facet in basins of gold t
acd tbay scooped out tbe ashes with shovels
social position. Alas, thst it is so! If there
•re those hero today who havo boon favored
of fortune, or, os I might bstter put it, favor
ed of God, surronder all you have and all you
expect to be to tbo Lord who blessed this
queen of Sheba. Certainly you are not
athamed to be found in this queen's company.
I am glad that Christ has nad his ir
friends in all ages—Elizabeth, Chi
queen of Prussia; Maria Feodorovna, "qiieon
r gold. Gold reflected In the water,
lined from tho apparel. Gold biasing
in tbe erown. Gold, goi l, gold!
Of course tbe news of tbe affiuenoe of that
place went out everywhere by ovory caravan
and by wing of every ship, until soon the
streets of Jerusalem aro crowded with curios
ity seekers. What is that Ions procession up*
preaching Jerusalem? 1 think from tho pomp
of it there must be royalty in the train. I
smell the breath of the spices which arc
brought aa presents, and I hear tho shout of
the drivers, and I see the dust covered cara
van allowing that they come from far away.
Cry the news up to the palace. The quesn oi
Bheba advances. Let all tbe people oome ont
to >eo. Let the mighty men of the land come
out on the palace corridors. Let Solomon
come down the ataire of the palace before the
queen baa alighted. Shake ont tbe cinnamon
aud the saffron and tha calamus and the
frankincense, and pass it into tbe treasure
house. Take up the diamonds until they
glitter in the sun. Tha queen oi Sheba
alights. Bhe enters the palace. She washes
et the bath. Bbe site down at tbe banquet.
Tbe cuo-bearors bow. Tho meats smoke. The
music trembles in the hsll and through the
corridors until it miugles in the dash of the
waters from the molten tea. Then she rises
from the banquet, and she walks through the
conservatories, and the galea on the archi
tecture, and ane asks Solomon many strange
questions, and she learn* about tha religion of
the Hebrews, and she then and there becomes
a servant of the Lord God. Bhe is over
whelmed. She begin* to think that all tho
spices she brought, and all tbe precious woods
which sre intended to be tnrnsd into harps
and peslteriee and into railing* for the cause
way Between the temple and the palace, and
the $180,00# in money—the begins to think
that all these preset*to amount to nothing In
such a place, and she is almost asnam-
cdtbatahcbss brought them, and she says
within herself: “I heard a great deal about
this place and shoot this wonde/ful religion
of tbo Hebrews, bull find it far beyond my
bighest anticipation*, I must add more than
fifty per cent to what has been related. It ex
ceeds everything that I could have expected-
The half—the half waa not told me."
Learn from this subject what a beautiful
tbfog it is when serial position and wealth
surrender tharaielves to God. When reli
gion comes to a neighborhood the first to re
ceive it are the women. Borne men aay it ie
because they ere week minded. I say it Is
be cause they have quicker perception or what
it righ'.,more ardent affection end capacity for
knbteroir emotion. After the women hat** re
ceived tbe goepel then all the. distrear*! M d
poor of both sexes, thos|p'w’ai have
to friends, except Jesus. Last of all come
the people of affluent# and high
of Russia; Marie, empress of France; ifelons,
the imperial mother of Constanktnc; A read in,
from her gieat fortunes, building publio baths
in Constantinople and toiling for tho atlovia
tionof the masses; Queen Clotilda, lead in
her husband and thrpe thousand of hia arm*
warriors to Christian baptism; Elizabeth,of
Burgundy, giving her jeweled glove to a beg *
8 ar and nattering groat fortunes among tho
iitressed; Prince Albeit, tinging “Rook of
Ages" in Windsor Castle and Queen Victoria,
incognito reading tho soripturea to a dying
pauper. 1 bless God that the day is camiog
wbou royalty will bring all its thrones and
niunic, all its harmonies and painting, all its
pictures and sculpture, all its statuary and
crrhiUdure, all Us pillars and conquostt, all
its scentros, and the queens of tho earth in
long fine of advance, frankincense filling tho
air and tbe camels laden with gold, shall
proach Jerusalem, aud the gates shall __
boisted, and tho great burdon of splendor
stall be liflcd into the palace of this greater
tbon Solomon.
Again, my subject teaclios m« what if
enrncetDefs in tbe search of truth. Do you
ki ow where Sheba was? It was in Abyssloit,
or rc me ray in tho southern part of Arabia
Felix. In either case It was a great way off
from J*rusah-m. To get from thoro to Jerusa
lem elm had to cross a country infested
with bandits, and go aoross
blistering deserts. Why did
not the qur on of Sheba stay at homo, and send
a committee to inquiro about this neir reli
gion, and have (he delegates' report In regard
.to that religion, and tho wealth of King Solo*
mon. Bho wanted to see for herself, and hear
for herself. Bhe could not do this by work of
committee. Bho frit she had a soul worth ten
Ibcurard kingdom! like Sheba, and ahe
vented a robe richer than any woven by ori*
ciifai shuttles, and ahe wanted a crown set
with tho jewels of eternity. Bring out the
f arnels. J ut on the apices. Gather up the
jewels of the throne and put them on tho car
avan. Start now, no time to be lost. Good
en tbe cimeli. When I see that caravan
dust coveted, weary and exhausted, trudging
on across tho desert and, among the bandits,
until it reaches J. rosalem, I say: “There Is
an earnest seeker after the truth." But thoro
are a great many of you, my friends, who do
not act in that way. You all want to get the
truth, but you want the truth to come to you;
you do not want to go toil. Thero aro
1*1 o who fold their arms and aay: “I am
ly to bccomo a Christian at uny time: if I
Io be saved I shall bo saved, aud if I am
to bo lost I shall bo lost." A man who says
that and keeps on saying it, will be lost. Jo-
riiHoUm will never coino to you i you must go
in Jcnwali’in. TJio religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ will not come to you; you must go nod
gt t religion. Bring out tho camels; put nu all
tho street spices, all tho troasuros of 'tho
heart's aflcctiou. Start for tho throne. Or in
and hear tho waters of salvation dashing in
fountains all around about tho tbroao SU
down at the banquet—the wine prossod from
tbe grapes of tbo heavenly Kslieol, the Angels
ol God, the cup bearers. Goad on the oamete:
Jerusalem will never enmo to you; you must
io to Jerusalem. Tho Biblo declares it: “!“*
South,“ that is thh jfvy ,woi:
i«Tho Quseu or
- In Judgment
agalniithls generation and condemn it; for
she came from the uttermost parts of tho
earth to hiar tho wisdom of Botomon, And io!
n greater than Solomon is here." God holp
me to break up the iulatuntion of thoso peoplo
uho aro silting down in idlonosa expecting to
bo saved. “Htrive to enter in at the strait gate.
Ask and it shall be given you; soek and ye
shall find; knock and it shall bo opened to
you." Tnko tbe kingdom of heavon by vio
lence. Urge on tho camute.
Again, my subject impresses mo with the
fact that religion in a surprlio to any one that
S ets it. This story of tno now roligion in
crusolcm, and or tho glory of King Bolouion,
who was a typo of Christ—thst story rolls on
and on, and is told hy ovory travrior coming
back from Jerusalem. The news goes on tho
wing of every ship and with evory caravan,
and you know a story eulergea na it is re-told,
and by tbo time that story gots down iuto tho
southern part of Arabia Felix and the Queen
of Sheba hears it. it must bo a tremondou*
story. And yet this queen declared in rogsrd
to if, although .he nad heard ao muah and
had her anticipation, railed » h!|b, tho half
—tha halt tra. not told h«r. Bo religion la
alaaja a turprlia to an, ono that got. It
Tha itonr ol trace—an old itor,. Apsatlaa
prtaebed It with rattla ol chain; martjra de
clared it with arm ofdra: deem-bode hart
.) in jrruauiem. 'j no
QM|<M|ftbo HootV’tl
t TR^ipcekinjt of
South 4 ahall ri.o
affirmed It with viaione of glory, andmlnla*
teiaof religion havo Bounded It through the
lanes, and tha hlghwaja, and the ohapale,
and tho oathadrala. It haa boon out into atone
with cbiael, and apread on thooanraa with
pencil | and it haa boon recited In tho ilozolo*
IT •>> great congregation.. And ,ot whan a
man lint cornea to look on tho paUeo ol Qod’a
mere,, and to l«e tha ro/eltr of Ohrl.t and
tha wealth of tha banquet, and tha luzurlanea
ol Hi] ettoedanta, and tno lorloiuoaa of Ule
lace, and thojopol Ilia aorrlca.ha exclaim*
with prayer., with tear., with asnga, with
triumph.: "The half—the half wee not told
mor I appeal to thoae in thia homo who
aro Cbrletlana. Compare tha Idea you had of
the joy of tho Cbrl.tUn Hr#
before you became a Chrl.tlan
with tha appreciation of that joy you bay*
nowiinco you haw become a Chriitl.n, and
yon aro willing to atteat before angola and
menthatyou oarer I n t bo daya of your ap iri t*
no! bondage had aay appreciation of what
waa to come. You are ready today to anawor,
and if I gave you an opportunity fn th. mld.t
of thl. uacmblago you would .peak out and
lay In regard to tha dlacovarfee you bar#
uadaol tho many and tha graee and tha
gcodnata of God: "The half—tha half waa not
told mol" Well wo hoar a great deal about the
good timo that la coming to thta world when it
la to bo girded with aalration. Holluoaaon the
bell, of the horse. The llnn'a mane patted
by tbo bond ol a babe. Bhipa of Tarahiih
bringing cargoee for Jeaue, and tho hard, dry,
barren, winter-bleached, atorm-aeamd, thun
der* aplit rock, breaking into Hood, of bright
water. Deaerta Into which droniodariea throat
their noatrila, beoauao they wero ofrald of tho
eimoon, deaerta blooming fnto carnation roeea
and eilrer tipped lilfee. It to the old etory.
Everybody toili It. Iiaieh told it, John told
II, Paul told It, Etokiel told it, Luther told it,
Calvin told It, John Ifllton told it, everybody
tella it; and yet—and yet when tha midnight
ahall fly the hilla, and Chrlat ahall maranal
hia great army, and China, daahing bar idol,
into tha duat, ahall bear tha yoieo of God and
wheel Into line; and India, deetroying
ber juggernaut aud matching up bar fittla
children Irom the Gangaa, ahall haar tha voioa
(I God aod wheel lotolloai and vine covered
Italy, and wheat-crownad Kuraia, and all tha
tatkina of tha earth ahall hear tha volea of
God and fall into lina; than the ohurcb, which
haa bean toiling and etruggUng
throngh tba eenturfaa, robed and gar
landed Ilka a brida adornad for bar huaband,
ahall nut aelda her veil aad look up iuto tha
face of her Lord, the King, and aay ■ "Tha
half—tba half waa not told me I”
Veil, than la coming a greater aurprlat
to every Chriatien—a greater aurprlat than
anything I bare depleted. Heaven U au old
etory. Everybody lelka about it. There ia
hardly a hymn in the hymn kook that doe#
tot refer to it. Childraa road about It ia their
Babbath-eehoo! hook. Aged mm put oa their
•pectaelaa to atudy It. We aay
it it a harbor ftom th. ttcro.
We rail It our homo. Wo aay It ia the houat
of many mamioia. We weave toictber all
awret, beautiful, delicate, exkilarant words;
wo weave them Into letters, end then we epall
it cut in rote nnd lily and amaranth. Aud
yet that place ia going to bo a aurprUo to the
moat intelligent Chrl.tlan. Lika the queen of
Bheba the report haa come to ua Irom the far
oounlry, and many of ua havo atartod. It le
a desert march, but wo urge on the etmeij.
What though our foot b. blistered with the
way? Wo aro haetening to tha palace. Wo
lake all our lovea and hopea and Chriatien
ninbitiona, aa frankineenao and myrrh aud
ratlin, to tho great king. Wemuat not rest.
Wo mint not halt. Tho night li coming on,
and It ia not aafe ont here In tho desert.
Urge on tha eamcla. I aeo tho
domea againat Uio aky, nnd tho
house, of Lebanon, and tho templea, and tha
gordene. Bee tho fountain, dance in the aun,
end tho gate, flaah aa they open to lot in tha
poor pilarima. Bond the word up to tha
pa'ace that we aro coming and that wo aro
wrary of tho march of tho deiort. Tho King
will oome out and aayi "Welcome to the pal
ace; batho in their watera, reelino on tneea
banka. Take thia cinnamon and frankincena.
and myrrh, and put It upon a eonaer and
awing it beforo tha altar.’’ And yot, my
Iriende, whan heaven bunt upon ua it will ba
a greater aurpriaa than that—Jeaue ou tha
throne and wo madcllkehiml All ourChria-
tlan frlenda surrounding na In glory I All our
•orrowa and toara ana etna gono by lorcvorl
The thouaanda ot tbouaanda, tbo on# hundred
and forty and four thouaand, the groat multi
tude! that no man can number, will cry world
without end; -The half—tho hall waa not told
IN SSAROM OP THB POLE.
Engineer Blelvllle anxlona to Start on Anv
other Attic Expedition.
From tha Philadelphia Timce.
New Yonr,'Oetoberl7.—Lleukmenl8ohwet-
ba den lea that honed Engineer Mol villa ire
■ ‘ng In eetrch of the north pelt. When
cd if Melville had any aunh idea ho aaldt
I believe he hat. Ho haa lately bean try
ing to get up an expedition, I underataud,
wlththoobjssstof discovering tha north polo.
Dot I doubt about hla alerting, for ha aakt for
from $100,000 to $160,000 from patron., and I
think that ia too largo a aum to ba railed for
such a purpoao and an appropriation for reek
ing tba north polo la a good deal Ilka making
appropriation, lor lire works. Bolides, thero
oan ba no material gain in diaoovarlng the
north nolo unles. you oan And tbo anuth polo
aa well, and our nhlpa hero been noirhera aa
near the latter aa tho former."
-Wbat era Engineer Molvillo'a plans!”
Ilia object la purely polo aeekiog and to
gtt nearer tba polo than any on.al.obaa
been. Iti. quite natural that, altar having
been a eubordinato officer in ono expedition
that lilted, he should want to be eommaador
olono oxpecled to bo lueouilal. Ilia Ido. ia
to proceed to Freni Josef-. Landbyvwael
and beyond that point by maana of aladgaa. I
also think that thia la the beet way, and, lu-
deed, whatever la faturo ia done thero in tho
way oi auch expedition! will, I believe, ba
done by llidge..
"Would not aueb an expedition aa Engineer
Melville proposal he quite dangaroua!"
"Yea, even to reach Frana Juiefa Laud.
Only two vaaaeia oyer got than aad got away
from it aatcly, and tsw> voaohod It only to bo
atnek laat and abandoned^’.
"1)0 js.u disc ppr.)vo entirely of laluro polar
that tho public h.a th .tellerptdlliuni to t
Arctlo regfona are pole leaking. Thia Is not
Iheoaso. There aro a number ol expeditions
cow proposed, wish tbe object of 1010011110
rilicovrrlee, ethnological knowledge and the
cilebliebmrnl ol meteorological at iti >ns
which I believe era worthy or full eupporb
tnd whoea mult, would he moat vaiutblo.
Ono of tboao I. tho establishment of a magnol
ia North Folo. It would be a splendid
arblevcmeot, no Important data to whloh to
refer and of gnat value to navigation. Thia
point should be batwoen Klnjj William’. Land
and Victoria Laud, at a placo abont Ally to
one hundred miles north of Oan* Felix, tba
northernmoat point ol King Willlain'a Land.
It never baa been reached by ahip, all at-
tempta having failed. It would have to ba
reached by a alsdga party. I havo been lu
algbtol Iba plara myaalf, when the compass
failed Io work, tho needle 'remaining when
ever placed.”
"Would not auob an expedition ba danger-
out”
‘'Certainly. Tha mortality about tho mag
netic polo haa baon alghty-aix per oent of all
who went thero. Bir John Franklin, who
reached tbo apot, lost 126 mon thoro. But it
would ba with a definite, practical objest la
view. Tbo eoat of euch an axpadltlon would
ba probably not over $10,loo or $16,WO.
Whan 1 want tharo In 1878-80 II waa
tba aama point and at a eoat ot
only $8,000. But for tha purpoao a Ana dlp-
ncadle would hava to bo taken, and that
would coat aa much aa my whole axpadltlon.
To aocompllah thia objael thoae who wont
would not havo to remain at the point where
tho atation waa to bo eatablisbad mor* than
two wceka or a month—only long enough to
aetUo upon the exact apot. Then the gain la
determining from thia magnetic curve, alto-
where, and the eatabllahmeut ol n determined
magnetlo pole, would-be of great value. Mag-
naliam la coming ia aa a force and power ay-
ary where, and, to determine any point ol tor-
realrlal magnetism would ba a groat aront.
"An Intareeting loot that New Yorktra may
not generally bo .waraol, la that tbo alta of
Ibeir oily waa dleeovored during a polar ex
pedition, tbla having baan.tbo object of Hen-
diick Uudaon’a expedition."
"What about tho other propoaed axpadl-
ttouaT”
"Ono ol much importaneo ialoraavaral
olbnologiat* to taka a party tba whole length
ol the land occupied by tha Baquimaux, and
live with them aaveral years, atudying their
way ol life, ate. Thay are one of tha moat In
itialling ot racea. Undaratand that Germany
la about to aand four expedition, to tha arctic
region* thia year aad Ruaala throo. But non*
ol sham have either of tha objects In view that
I have apoken of, being rather to obtain gen
eral geographical end ecientlAo knowledge.*;
Drawing tha Una.
From tba KanaaaOlty Tlmaa.
It waa a HabsaakaJaU, tavern, saloon and raa
citatoagancy combined. The aherffretmeoak tr,
welcome tbe traveler; and he awmed to be a vary
nlceiortofa man.
■•Tbfbga Isn't Juit aal'd wanfam.youkaqrw,”
be ayolocetlcally e beery ad, "but tbu la a new
country, and wa can't have averytntngat onoes
Make yoaraalf right to boat while tha oM woman
coobadlinir.”
While waiting lot tba practised meal one ol Ue
Ava or sU man lounging around tha place entered
tbo room and aaksd Ua traveler lor a chaw of
U "Jhw!yoemnen’t do It-you nelly muea-t,’*
mid tha landlord. -I want to do what'a right and
fair, but I muw draw tha line aomewhere. You
jtUMrde moat not try to put youraolvu on an
equality with tba gneata of my koliL"
"A Jailbird, did yon aeyf" queried th* traveler
aa Jim wiUdraw.
"Yea. Ile'a Id for two month*. AU that crowd
out UmaialnJaU.”
:.So b ."b*eS,° TbSStif.VoZ on an rd T ;-
cmtooioouMiSoitTubftU pox sad 1 bfflo
sSsiwaw-ws,!^"''"’
