The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-08
AT THE STATION.

| Job can always get it here. Those who
are at all dissatisfied with former work
! done by me and who desire to return il
now and have it tersed can do so.
The name Jerusalem, as most students
are aware, is Canaanitish, though il
would seem to have a Hebrew root.
The Hebrew name is Jerushalaim, and
as painted in Hebrew characters ON the
railroad station of the Joppa and Je-
rusalem road looks to me like the stem
ographic report of Chinese autopsy
Joshua speaks of Jerusalem as the
shoulder of the Jebusites (Joshua XIV,
81; also, if my memory serves me prop
erly, in chapter xviii, verse 16. Joshua
farther on refers to the nice fresh figs
which are still to be had Of the pea
nuttist who has the day run from Jaffa
to town.
Four hundred years or more Jerusa-
lem was in the grip Of the Jebusites,
and the primaries were in their hands.
A nomination by the Jebusites dur
ing that period was tantamount to an
election.
Il use the word tantamount by per-
mission of Rev. Joseph Cook, with an
agreement on my part not to muss it
up.)
Jerusalem naturally seems to have
been located upon a succession of hills
and reminds me of Asheville, N. c., in
that respect.
After David's conquest of Jerusalem
1t came more into prominence and ceas
ed to be regarded as tank town.
Il should have said at the start that
am only undertaking to give some of
the profane history of the city,
During David's rule and for AGO years.
in fact, Jerusalem ranked with Thebes,
Tyre, Babylon and Nineveh. But she
had no opera house, no railway connec-
ton with tide water, no system of light
ing the town, and even the royal palace
was big stone cistern less cheerful
than the Tombs of New York city.
People wore their bath gowns to
meeting, and candidates for Office bathed
the feet Of voters-prior to election
after which the candidates reversed mat
tiers.
We hear much Of the magnifcence Of
Jerusalem, but Grand Rapids issa bet
ter town for investment, and Solomon
in all his glory never lived in half the
style that / do when times are good.
OF course ideas about style were diff
ferent While like fine stock and lit
erature he ran more to harems and So
Cfo 1r,t l, har CD
soapstone tubs in tho laundry or hot
and cold water elsewhere in the house.
Jerusalem was thus for 400 years the
county seat and metropolis until cap
tured by NebuchadneZzar. Il is said
that when the city was taken by Shi-
shak he gathered up the magniicence of
Solomon, and among other bric-a- brac
the 500 shields OVERLAND with gold
which Solomon had in his country house
in the forest of Lebanon. These shields
represented the sum of S720. 600, which
in those days, when one could buy
whole Dorcas society for $50, represent
ed sum that could hardly then be
comprehended.
Jerusalem again regarded her indie
pendence s. c. Gal and began sending
out commercial men ON tie road. This
victory filled Jerusalem with JOY, and
times were better in every way. The
commercially speaking all wool clothing
trade picked up, and there Were less
red figure and fire sales.
For so years prosperity seemed to fol-
low the fortune of the ancient city IN
der Asa; but, alas, there came then AN
alliance with the idolatTous old man
Jehosaphat and the vulgar Ahab and
Jezebel
In all secret or profane history per-
haps there was never more unpopular
person at the time Of her death than
Jezebel. She was turned down by all
the better class Of people, and her funer-
al may be regarded in the light Of ais
torical facts as frost
Jehosaphat's son married a daughter
of Ahab and Iezebel, and idolatry was
revived. He began probably by idoliz-
ing his wife. This shows that We can
not be too careful, for inside Of year
idolatry became general.
This went on I'LL the city was inyad-
ed by Philistines and ATabians. who
captured the majority of the kings
children and q plurality of his wives
Idolatry and polygamy seem TO have
gone hand in hand after Solomon's time