jh WITH A MOIR AND APPENDIX. ; ¥) ps 4 epbe i i a THE IRON WORKER KING SOLOMON. ee Thea haha 4 atin dn sen x 50H 1614 THE IRON WORKER KING SOLOMON. BY JOSEPH HARRISON, Jr. WITH A MEMOIR AND AN APPENDIX. “ Behold, I have created the smith, that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work.”—Isatan, liv. 16. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. PHILADEERP HLA: Pee PLN Orr To & CO, i869. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the yea JOSEPH HARRISON, JR, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States District of Pennsylvania. 5 j * ‘ : ; > _— ’ , : on o . — a , “Fp: a : * < ae Sach") F Dedication. SS TO THEE, ! = - WHO HAST BEEN y+ YR MORE THAN HALF MY LIFE, ms Ee a) om “ “MY TRUEST FRIEND, MY COUNSELOR, ¢ nal “MY WIFE. it e' — —_—— 4 A * | * H * e . . - 7 i * i S , , . * + ) = »- TO MY DEAR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, I wave written the verses in this little volume, entitled the “Iron WorkeER AnD Kine Sotomon,” for your amuse- ment and instruction, and to impress upon your minds the value of what is but too frequently thought to be very humble labor. The narrative fairly illustrates the Photograph, taken from a picture which, as you know, “I value very much, and which you all admire, called the ‘‘Iron WorKgER,” painted for me four or five years ago by Christian Schuessele. The story from which the picture is painted will be found at page 41 of the Ap- pendix, in which will also be found another version of the story of “The Blacksmith and King Solomon,”’’ fur- nished to me by my friend, Mr. Charles G. Leland, who wrote the verses at the close of the book. Iam indebted to Mrs. Sarah J. Hale for a corrected copy of her beauti- ful poem called ‘“‘IRon,” printed in the Appendix. This poem was entirely unknown to me until within a few days. It has been said by some one that the story of the humblest life, if faithfully written, would prove both (vil ) ae INTRODUCTORY. interesting and instructive. As mine has had some unusual phases, I think it will not look like vanity or egotism on my part, if I reproduce the Memoir here. It must always be interesting to all who are so near to me as yourselves. Yours ever affectionately, JosEPH [IARRISON, JR. Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Christmas, 1867. CONTENTS. Mememivon. Worker atid King Solomon ..........s.seccseseccnsessses 11 ‘UG ee eee sede pe eas cek es vs cia eaateosevates a1 Meme rociaxion, by jJoseph Harrison, Jr.........-.secsssssesscees 39 ace ase ce cscs es sccwices eases ses eccessees 41 Remarks of Joseph Harrison, Jr., on the Mechanic Arts, at a public dinner given to Henry C. Carey, April 27th, 1859... 43 Ree eeme cei, Oy cate | Hale, .....c..cccssccsessscacesesseasen 49 The Blacksmith and King Solomon, a Rabbinical Legend...... 55 fee acksmith, a Poem, by Charles G. Leland................. 59 . — - — ‘ * . ~ bs a SE aA RA A a Roam ca Joseph Harrison, Jr., Philadelphia. ey ; = i } 7 i é } . ni 7 i | “ = Pst « iA +e Fa) Pe b =m, z ous b aos aut = Fi 3 7 _ : | : 2-4 . ; y 18 Fs: f 2 “ F e | = 4 rons ; * ' rar 4 ¥ 2 ir. i + = ar ’ -“ - ; . ’ % nm * x } Gf. & 4 ‘ =" oro x se ee 4 ; A t A . * x x i F ¢ 7 ; 3 1 ; oa ee ee eee st SB se eo ef ‘ ‘ ~ N rs ‘ a a ctl a Ee a Ld 1 fen TRON WORKER AND KING SOLOMON. a I. Adown the street the Blacksmith strode, As to his home he went; His brawny chest heaved to and fro, His brow with rage was bent. LE His threshold reached, he entered in, His wife and child came near, But heedless of their greetings kind, He muttered, “Tll be there!” 18 ae He sat him down in sullen mood, Still clouded was his brow; Ilis wife with anxious look breathed out— “There's some great harm, I trow! (Il) 12 THE IRON WORKE IV. “Husband! what wouldst thou? art thou wronged, That thus with glower and gloom, From out thy firm-set clenchéd teeth, Thy thoughts in anger come? Va- “Tell me I pray thee. Calm my fears, As I thy meal prepare; Speak! break my deep solicitude.” He muttered, “Tll be there!” ver ‘‘Where wouldst thou be, my husband, say? What is *t that moves thee so? Is ’t aught that I can aid thee in? What wouldst thou have me do? VIi. “Thou answerest not, art moody yet; Untouched the meal I’ve laid; And knotted is thy forehead still; In sooth I’m sore afraid AND KING SOLOMON. Vil. “That some untoward dire mischance Hath caused thee great dismay. Oh, speak, my husband, tell me all, And drive my fears away!” rx Sadly his eyes were lifted up, Sadly his speech began, And all attent, his good-wife heard. As thus his story ran: X. “Dost thou not know that our Great King To-morrow opens wide, The portals of the Temple rare, His glory and his pride? >a E “The Great JEHOVAH willed it all, And naught remains, I ween, Save its solemn consecration, Which comes at morning’s sheen. 13 14 THE TRON WORRKESE XIT. “Hast thou not heard who, at this rite, Are honored by the King; Summoned in full insignia, To the sacred opening XIII. “Of the noblest Sanctuary Her made by human hands, As now in finished excellence, Before the world it stands? RIV. “The Architect, the Carpenter, All cunning in their art, Surveyor, Mason, Draughtsman, too, Are each to take a part. Ae “And though we hail the wisest King That eyes have ever seen, The wit of world-wise Solomon Is now at fault, I ween,— AND KING SOLOMON 15 XVI. “At fault in having slighted me, "Mongst those who did their best To rear this peerless wonder-work, To fill the King’s behest. XV.LT. “Twas I, the now neglected Smitu, In grimy suit bedight, Who fashioned curious INSTRUMENTS, To build this Fane aright,— ve T: “Without which, those who now are placed Above me,—and apart, All helpless would have found themselves, Mere children in their art. AIX “From first to last, at morn and night, Beside them I’ve been seen, And lacking me, and what I’ve made, This Temple ne’er had been. 16 THH [RON WORKER DOT, “They say that I ne’er carved in Stone, Gold,—Silver,—Bronze, ne’er wrought, Nor made rare things in Cedar wood, From Mount Libanus brought. XXI. “That all I’ve done, is humble work, Mere labor of the hand, Nor Mind nor Science needed. It No honor can demand. XXII. “And that I am unworthy deemed To aid in what’s to be. In all things I too humble seem, For this great pageantry. OED “I tell thee, Art-proud Architect, I tell thee, Carpenter, I tell ye all, ye craft-proud men, Unbidden, I'll be there!” AND KRING “SOn0 MON. SOCLY The morrow’s sun came glinting o’er Tower, obelisk, and plain, Came with the sun vast multitudes To view the hallowed Fane. XXV. And Salem’s streets were full that morn, To see the fair array, As onward to the Temple gates It bent its glittermg way. XX VI. The doors were opened, entered then The King, with heralds bright, Ti With guards, with all that showed his power, In gaudiest hues bedight. XXVITI. Came Priests in Holy vestments clad, With Sacred Ark up-borne, While fragrant incense curled around, In the pure breeze of morn. 3 18 THE TRON WORKER XXVIII. Came Beauty, singing as she went, To harps that filled the air With sweetest music,—and more loud, - The trumpets’ distant blare. XXIX. In sooth ’twas glorious to behold, Such pageant ne’er had been, And since that hour, in all the world Its like has not been seen. XXX. Through lofty halls, in splendor decked With cedar and with gold, O’er polished floors, down marble aisles, Their onward way they hold. XX XI. The dais is reached, where now the King His regal seat would take, From whence, in well-appointed phrase, ~ His royal speech would make. AND KING SOLOMON. 19 XXXIT. The curtain. raised, strange sight is seen, For next the chiefest seat, Sits, in defiant attitude, A figure all unmeet. 2. DD. 4 4 OF His head is bare, his brow is grimed, Bare are his arms and chest; A leathern garment hides his limbs, His hand on hammer rests. | SCKLV: “Whence came this hind?” “What doth he there?” Was passed from man to man; With threatening looks, with flashing steel, The guards full at him ran. XXXYV. “Tear down the caitiff!” ‘Rend him sore! Sure he no mercy needs!” Still there he sits, in conscious pride, Nor sword nor clamor heeds. 20 THE LEON Werke XXXVI. “Hold!” cries the King; “nor do him ill, Mayhap he can explain Why thus he comes unbidden here Amidst our glittering train. XXXVI. “Speak freely, man, heed not my power, — Full justice thou shalt share, _If thou canst show in very truth Why thou art sitting there.” XXXVITI. ““All hail! Great King, forever live!” Thus spake the intruding guest; “Hear me, O hear thy servant’s words, Then urge thy high behest. AAI. “T do not sit unbidden here, I came but at thy call; Though not amongst the honored ones, Tm not the least of all. MND ICING SOLOMON, 21 dG 5 “Didst not, O King, ask here to-day, All those who most have done This marvelous work that round us glows, In this bright morning’s sun? XL. “Hast thou not asked the Architect, Surveyor, Mason, those | Under whose skillful, cunning arts This wondrous Temple rose? X LIT. “The world doth hail thee wisest King That eyes have ever seen, Yet the wit of mighty Solomon May be at fault, I ween. XLII. “For thou hast overlooked the Smit, Whose ever-needed skill, In modest labor aided most Thy royal wish to fill. THH TEON WORKER XLV. “Ask these who stand round thee to-day, Above me, placed apart, If they all helpless had not been But for my curious art. XLV. “To thee I turn, proud Architect; Canst thou my words gainsay ? I speak to all ye craft-proud men, Come, answer as ye may. XLVI. a “Ye know that I, from first to. last, Your surest aid have been; Lacking my Iron Instruments, This Temple none had seen. XLVI. “T wait reply.”-—With eagle glance, The Blacksmith looked around, His rivals in the King’s regard, Their eyes fixed on the ground, AND KING SOLOMON. XLVIII. Nor uttered word. “What! no response ? Great King, O live for e’er! Have I not shown in very truth Why I am sitting here ?” XLIX. King Solomon a lesson read, And forja moment mused, Spake to the Smith in kindly word, “Thou hast been much abused. L. “Stay where thou art a moment; let All those who thee contemn, Receive with me thy just rebuke: Thoua art the best of them. LI. “Then haste to get thee clean attire, Then haste to make thee neat ; For at the royal feast to-day, Thowlt fill the right-hand seat.” 24 TE i OLR ON PaO hae ih The Smith a brief space sat erect, Then o’er his shoulder threw His faithful hammer. Justified, He quietly withdrew. LIfl. The people shout; King Solomon His royal speech did end; The Temple’s consecration oer, The throng all homeward wend. LIV. Adown the street the Blacksmith goes, How changed from yesterday ! No more in sullen mood doth he Pursue his onward way. IVs His threshold reached, he enters 1n, Not now with brow of care, But with exulting voice exclaims, ‘““T told thee I’d be there!” AND KING SOLOMON. LVL. ‘His wife in mute amazement clings Close to his side the while; His little boy looks up in fear, And meets his father’s smile. LVII. “Greet me, ye loved ones, greet me well, Join me in glad acclaim, The Blacksmith now has justice won! He'll ne’er be scorned again ! TVET. “Get me, good wife, my best attire, Help me to make me neat; I DINE with our great King to-day, I fill the honored seat.” LIX. Then spake the wife: “I feared this morn That thy determined will, Might lead thee to assert thy right, And bring thee grievous ill. 4 25 THE IRON WORKAHER LX. “TI, to the Temple trembling went, And saw thee sitting proud; I saw the naked steel gleam out, I heard the tumult loud. - EXE ‘But ere our Monarch interposed, To stay the impending blow, I, to the earth in terror fell, And nothing more did know LXIT. “Till at our humble roof once more, I waked to conscious thought, And met the smiles of kindly friends, Who homeward me had brought. LXIII. “ But thou art saved, art honored, too; Let all our thanks ascend To Him, who stands our sure firm rock, Our ever-constant friend!” ! . | AND KING SOLOMON. 27 LXIV. | The wisdom of King Solomon, Is still our highest praise ; The Blacksmith has his full reward, As in the ancient days. oie = -_ » ’ i i Chee —- ¢. 4 7 u@ ~ \\ F j = MEMOIR. [Reprinted from Bishop’s History of American Manufactures, 1866.] JosEPH Harrison, JR., whose successful enterprise at home and abroad has made his name a familiar one to the manufacturers of two continents, was born in the district of the Northern Liberties, now a part of the Consolidated City of Philadelphia, on September 20th, 1810;* and at the age of fifteen was indentured an apprentice to the art of machine-making—a trade that he had himself selected. A foreman at twenty in the shop in which he had served his time, he commenced life at twenty-one with a fair knowledge of his craft, correct industrious habits, but with little chance, appar- ently, or expectation of special preferment, except in the usual routine of his calling. Employed in several prominent machine shops of that day, and as foreman for Messrs. Garrett and Eastwick, he in 1837 became associated in partnership with these gen- tlemen in the manufacture of locomotive engines. This firm, soon changed to Hastwick and Harrison, were the originators of several important improvements, that have * The house in which the subject of this memoir was born, stood, up to 1831, on Noble street near the N. W. corner of Front street. It was built anterior to 1752. (31) tie MEMOTR. contributed to the present perfection of the American locomotive. In their hands the eight-wheel engine, with four driving and four truck wheels, was first brought into a practicable shape. It is now almost exclusively used in this country for passenger trains, and is obtain- ing a sure and steady reputation in Europe. The present modes of equalizing the weight on the driving wheels, indispensable to this engine, were patented by Joseph Harrison, Jr., the subject of this notiee, in 1839, and are now applied by all the manufacturers of loco- motive engines in this country. Lae In 1841 a locomotive called the “Gowan and Marz,” weighing but little over eleven tons, was designed and built by this firm for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The performance of this engine in drawing one hun- dred and one loaded coal-cars over that road, attracted great attention at the time, as being without a parallel in the history of railroad transportation. Locomotives, designed and built by Eastwick and Harrison for the Beaver Meadow, Hazleton and Sugar Loaf Railroads, burned anthracite coal successfully as early as 1835 and 1836, and in a regular freight business over these roads, surmounted higher gradés than had ever been practically overcome in this country or in Europe. In 1840, Colonel Melnikoff and Colonel Kraft, two eminent engineers, were sent to this country by the Rus- sian Government to examine and report upon the Amer- ican Railway System, with a view to its adoption in that Empire. The reputation already acquired by the firm MEMOIR. 39 of Eastwick and Harrison attracted their attention, and induced these gentlemen on their return to Russia to propose that Mr. Harrison should be sent for to under- take the construction of the locomotives and rolling stock for the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway, a road more than four hundred miles long, then about being commenced under the direction of an eminent Ameri- can, Major George W. Whistler, who had been called to Russia in 1842 as Consulting Engineer of the Railway Department of the Russian Government. In the spring of 1843 Mr. Harrison embarked for Kurope, and in December of that year, he, in associa- tion with his partner in Philadelphia, Mr. Eastwick, and Mr. Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, concluded a contract with the Russian Government, amounting to three mil- lions of dollars, the work to be completed in five years. It was a condition that this work was all to be done at St. Petersburg, by Russian workmen, or such as could be found on the spot. With workmen entirely unacquainted with the work to be done, and without knowing the language or the peculiar manner of doing business in a foreign land, Messrs. Harrison, Winans and Eastwick, the new firm established at St. Petersburg, set about the aifficult, and to almost every one but themselves, the impossible task of complying with the terms of their contract. Commencing their business in the straightforward manner they had pursued at home, they asked only not to be hindered, and so well were their plans arranged and carried out, that all the work contracted for was 5 34 MEMOTR. completed to the entire satisfaction of the Russian Gov- ernment, and paid for, more than one year. before the terms of the contract had expired. During the progress of this work, other orders, reach- ing to nearly two millions of dollars, were added to the original amount, including the completion of the great | Cast Iron Bridge over the River Neva, at St. Peters- burg, the largest and most costly structure of the kind in the world. To complete this structure, another year was added to the original term of the first contract. Before the close of the first term, a second contract was made for a further period of twelve years, for main- taining in running order, the rolling stock of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway. The parties to this contract being Joseph Harrison, Jr., Thomas Winans, and William L. Winans. This second contract was car- ried on, and finished to the satisfaction of both parties in 1862. During the year just mentioned, a contract was made with a French company for maintaining the rolling stock of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway. This company commenced their work with the ma- chinery in such perfect order, as was not perhaps to Le found on any railway of similar length in the world. From this perfection, with all the workshops, tools, and other arrangements ready to their hands, which their pre- decessors had been twelve years in bringing to completc- ness, the rolling stock was so much run down in three years, as to compel an abrupt termination of the French company’s contract by the government. A new contract was made in 1865 with Mr. Thomas Winans and Mr. MEMOTR. 35 William L. Winans, who were then in gas for another term of eight years. It will thus be seen that enerican reputation in rail- way mechanical engineering, first begun in Philadelphia, by Mr. Harrison and his partner, in their intercourse with Colonel Melnikoff and Colonel Kraft, in 1840, has since maintained itself in Russia against all comers, and has now no competitor. | In 1847, the Emperor Nicholas, accompanied by his second son the Grand Duke Constantine, Prince Paske- witch, Viceroy of Poland, with all the high officers of the Russian Government, visited the Alexandrofisky Head Mechanical Works of the St. Petersburg and Mos- cow Railway, where the work for the road was being done. After spending many hours in a minute examination of the establishment in every part, the Emperor offering his hand at parting to the American contractors, and thanking them, expressed the greatest satisfaction at what had been shown and explained to him. As an additional mark of his approval, his Majesty sent to each of our countrymen engaged in the firm, most beautiful rings, set with diamonds, of a present value of not less than three thousand dollars each. On the occasion of the opening of the Neva Bridge, in the autumn of 1850, then just completed, the Emperor Nicholas, as a further mark of esteem, bestowed upon Mr. Harrison the ribbon of the Order of St. Anne, with a massive gold medal attached thereto. On the superior side of the medal is a portrait of his Majesty, the re- 36 MEMOTR. verse side having the motto, in the Russian language, ‘“‘Hor ZEAL.” In 1852 Mr. Harrison returned to Philadelphia, and set about employing the means that had rewarded his enterprise abroad, for the adornment of his native city. He erected numerous and costly buildings, some with original features, not heretofore seen in this country; and established the most extensive, and probably the first private gallery of Art in Philadelphia. Though twelve years of the last twenty of his life have been spent abroad, it is evident that he has not lost affection for the place of his birth, or forgotten the duties of a public-spirited citizen. Early in his engineering life, Mr. Harrison’s attention was directed to the means of improving steam genera- tion, more particularly with a view of making this pow- erful agent less dangerous, and less liable to explosion. The result of his efforts in this direction is now before the public in his most original “ Harrison Steam Boiler,”’ now largely coming into use. The first boiler made on this improved principle was put in operation at Messrs. William Sellers & Co.’s works in 1859, and supplied steam for their entire establishment for several months in the summer of that year. Mr. Harrison’s first patent for the Harrison Boiler is dated October 4th, 1859, though improvements on the original idea have since been the subject of several patents in this country and in Europe. At the International Exhibition, held in London in MEMOTR. 37 1862, the highest class medal was awarded to this boiler, “for originality of design and general merit.” Mr. Harrison is now pursuing, with the zeal and per- severance of his earlier life, the highly important object of making steam generation safe from its present de- structiveness to life and property. He is aiming at a complete revolution in the form and material of the present system. Success will place him among the benefactors of our race. fog ORUCIFIXION. Written in a Lady’s Album in 1834, BY JOSEPH HARRISON, JR. WHAT means von sad procession onward wending, With measured tread, up Calvary’s Mountain side? What mean those vast assembled hosts attending? Thousands on thousands swell the living tide. Amidst moves one whose face with love is beaming; Bowed to the earth, a heavy cross he bears. | See! o’er his brow the sanguine flood is streaming: Pierced are his temples with the crown he wears. Tis our loved Saviour they are upward leading ; To death they bear him on, with ruthless hands; Fainting and worn, his heart for sinners bleeding, Now on the summit, meek and low he stands. To the dread cross his hands and feet they’re nailing ; Unmurmuring, unresisting, see he yields; All are relentless, none his fate bewailing, Save the sad group that in the distance kneels. (39) THE CRUGA ICT OR: The cross is raised, is fixed; and now, toward Heaven, The Saviour’s voice is heard, plaintive and low: “Father, O Father! be thy pardon given! Forgive! forgive! they know not what they do.” Again he speaks; hear his deep accents breathing: ‘Tis finished; all on earth is done,” he cries. He bows his head; his spirit now is leaving Its earthly tenement. He dies! he dies! All nature mourns; the sun, his rays withholding, Spreads gloom around; the Temple’s vail is rent; The dead arise, their ceréments unfolding. Stricken with fear, the throng in terror went. Man, cruel man, how couldst thou, in thy blindness, Thus vainly strive to thwart thy coming good? How couldst thou thus repay his every kindness, And deeply dye thy hands in precious blood? Oh! why was this tremendous deed permitted ? Why was thy hand, O God, uplifted still? ’Twas this: by it were all our sins remitted; ’Twas done, obedient to Jehovah’s will. \\ DIX. > PEN = “ a , Sami te ; 7 A eer Whe {oo ’ ; ; . ~ ‘5 — ~~ - " o : vi REMARKS OF JOSEPH HARRISON, JR., At the Public Dinner given to Henry C. Carey, Esq., at the La Pierre House, Philadelphia, April 27th, 1859. “Der Gott der Eisen wachsen liess, Der wollte keine Knechte, Drum gab er Siibel, Schwerdt und Spiess, Dem Mann in seine Rechte.” A. METHFESSEL. “The Lord, who made hard iron grow, Ne’er wished to see a slave; And, therefore, spear and faulchion true To man’s right hand he gave.” In attempting to say a few words on the Mechanic Arts, I am sure you will find the task in unworthy, if not in very prejudiced hands. Webster defines ‘‘ Mechanic” to be ‘a person whose occu- pation is to construct machines, or goods, wares, furniture, and the like.” And the ‘mechanic arts,” he says, ‘are those in which the hands are more concerned than the mind, as in making clothes and utensils.” Perhaps no single word in our language embraces a wider field than the one first named, while the latter definition hardly does justice to the term “Mechanic Arts.” I think I am right in inferring that the venerable lexicographer was not a mechanic. The Great Jehovah himself was the first, the Great Mechanic; and when our first parent was compelled to earn (45 ) 44 APPENDIX. his bread in the ‘sweat of his face,” as stern a necessity compelled him to turn mechanic, and he thereby became the first human promoter of the mechanic arts. Adam could not till the ground with his bare hands, and we can imagine him pointing a stick against the roughened surface of a stone, and thus, by mechanical means, making the first rude instrument to aid him in his new vocation. The first altars reared for sacrifice required some mechani- eal skill to give them form and_ stability ; and are we not told of Tubal Cain, “that he was an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron”? Noah was an eminent mechanic, and promoter of the mechanic arts, as were also those who planned and built the Tabernacle with its ~holy contents. World-wise Solomon swells the list, with Hiram of Tyre, and all those who so cunningly worked in iron and in brass, | in gold and in silver, and in cedar wood, on the holiest and grandest of temples. Thus, from the fall of man to the present hour, the “Mechanic” and the “ Mechanic Arts” have been minister- ing to our comfort, our conveniences, and to our intelligence in every walk of life, and will thus go on ministering to the end. That glorious metal, Iron, must ever be the great agent for promoting the mechanic arts. Iron is the true precious metal—a metal so interwoven with the wants of life, and our very enjoyments, that to do without it would be to relapse into barbarism. Take away gold and silver, and the whole range of baser metals, leaving us iron, and we would hardly APPENDIX. 45 miss them. Take away IRon, and we lose next to life, and that which sustains life, the greatest boon the Almighty has - bestowed upon man. I need not take up the time of this company by referring to the uses of iron, or how much our necessities, our com- forts, and our enjoyments are dependent upon its uses, whether in out-door labor, in the home circle, the manufac- tory, the hall of science, or the field of art, but I will say a word touching the importance of the worker in iron. I remember reading a story in my early boyhood, that impressed itself so strongly upon my mind that I have never forgotten it. I wish I could find it now. I do not remem- ber the exact words, but the matter ran somewhat in this wise : When King Solomon had finished the Temple, and having set apart a day for its consecration, he invited to the cere- mony all the great men of the kingdom, logether with the Architect, the Surveyor, the Chief Carpenter, the Chief Mason, and others who had been engaged in planning and directing the work. The vast edifice rested with closed doors awaiting the arrival of the King. He came at length, the doors were opened, and to the sound of tabret, harp, psaltery, and trumpet, the solemn and imposing procession entered the house then to be dedicated to the worship of the living God. As the King moved toward the seat prepared for him, to the amazement of all, a stalwart Smith was seen sitting on the right-hand seat nearest the throne. 46 ; ALP EAE ANCA Hammer in hand, bare-armed and head erect, with reeking sweat upon his brow, showing him fresh from the forge, he sate, nothing daunted by the near approach of Majesty. ' ~ .. 2 ion = 5 - ‘ ‘ + = " 5 > i 4 Ss 3 - ‘ o - . ~ = * : oa. / * ‘ = a 2 : . a * + r € i r os . * ' : . - ~ = A a - é - . . <, . n bs 7 = + 5 5 ‘ Sh ‘ as 7 me » Akg port me hiked * aoe. ete eaaee Race ns sie Lees Sac Sates: a oe . : See 5 ; 5 Ser tomemmeryese aoe ete yee : Nee ed *. Ss = io Bs es we eects Renee riore ne Nees iste ae ro}: Ber rs AF practres ase fone teeta, Fone & Seen