Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-08

KING SoLoxoN's BLACKSMITH And it came to
pass when Solomon, the son of David, had finished
the Temple of Jerusalem, that he called unto him
the chief architects the head artfcers and cunning
workers in silver and gold, and in wood, and in
ivory and stone-yea, all who had aided in rearing
the Temple of the Lord, ard he said unto them:
"Sit We down at my table; have prepared a feast
for all my chief workers and cunning artfcers.-
Stretch forth your hand therefore, and cat and drink
and be merry. Is not the laborer worthy of his
hire? Is not the skifu artifcer deserving of hon.
or? Muzzle not the that treadeth out the corn"
And when Solomon and the chief workmen we're
seated and the fatness of the land and the oil there
of were set upon the table, there came one who
into the festal chamber. Then Solomon, the King,
was wroth, and said: "What manner of man art
thou?"
And the man answered and said: "When men
wish to honor me, they call me Son of the Forge;
but when they desire to mock me- they call me
blacksmith; and seeing that the toll of working in
Gre covers me with sweat and smut, the latter rame,
King ia not inapt and, in truth, thy servant de-
sires TO better"
But" said Solomon; why come you thus rude
~ and unbidden to the feast, where rome save the
chief workmen of the Temple are invted?"
"Please ye my Lord l came rudely," replied the
man because thy servant obliged to force my
way, but I came not unbidden. Was it not pro
claimed that the chief workmen Of the Temple were
invited to dine with the King of Israel?'
fellow is sculptor"
And he who inaid the roof with pure gold said
Neither is he workman in fine metals"
And he who raised the walls said "He is not
cutter of stone"
And he who made the roof cried out: "He is
not cunning in cedar wood neither knoweth he the
mystery Of uniting pieces of strange timber togeth-
err"
Then said Solomon, "What hast thou to say,
Son of the Forge why should not order thee to be
plucked by the beard with scourge, and stoned to
death with stones"
But when the Son of the Forge heard this, he was
in no sort dsmayed, but advancing to the table,
snatched up and swallowed cup of wine and said !:
20 King live forever! The chief men of the
workers in wood and gold and stone, have said that
am not of them and they have said truly ] am
their superior; before they lived was I created
am their master, and they are all my servants."-
And he turned him around and said to the chief of
| the carvers in stone;
"Who made the tools with which you carveP'
| And he said: "Tbe blacksmith"
| And he said to the chief of the masons: "Who
made the chisels with which the stones of the Tenn
| pie were squsred?"
And he said: "The blacksmith"
And he said to the chief of the workers in wood ::
| "Who made the tools with which you hewed the
trees Lebanon, and formed them into pillars and
roof of the Temple2'
| And he said 1.-THE blacksmith"
Then said be to the artficer in gold and in ivory
"Who makes your instruments by which you work
beautiful things for my Lord, the King?"
| g And he said: "The blacksmith"
| Enough, enough, my good fellow" said Solo,
mon, "thou hast proved that invited thee, and
thou art all mems father in art. Go wash the smut
of the forge from thy face, and come and sit at my
right hand. The chiefs Of my workmen are but
men-thou art more" at.-
So it happened the feast of Solomon, and black
smiths have been honored ever since-Iondon
| Magazine. ~.
| A CANADIAN LEGISLATORS OPINION OF NEGROES -
bill being under consideration in the Canadian
Parliament, to lay capitaton tax on foreigners,
| amember moved amendment. to include blacks from
the United States He said the black people who
infested the land were the greatest to the Pro.
whence. The lives Of the people of the West we're
made wretched by the inundation of those animals.
and many Of the largest farmers in the county Of
Kent had been compelled to leave their beautiful
farms because Of the pestilential swarthy swarms.
The blacks we're worthless useless thriftless 81
a. beings they were too INDECENT lazy. and iRno.
/ rant to work, and too proud 70 be taught And not
only that if the criminal calendars Of the country
4 were examneds it would Be found that thsv wefs
msority q the criminsl They were So detests.
eses4h 1nless some method were adopted Of pre-
venting thsir influx INTO this counssy BY the uuiler.
ground talsesd,P the people Of the West would be
o0!lRoQ to drive them IN nr,av,