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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,!^"''"’