Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-23

lad any and, 10 would Ike 70 have mm
come oyerI lad get himsslf q sasured for
uair Of vines. Day sftef day % would walk
out With his bomb proof clothes on and cor
disllv invited the Israehtes, to come over
one at time and let him paralyse EN-:
And Saul, on behalf Of bis people, declined
the invitation with thanks He told Goliath
that while he would be glad to meet him
for a little soft-gloYe tete-a-tete, he would
have to decline any meeting on basls OF
omen hostility. This caused the campaign
to drag and the daily papers in Israel began
to criticise Saul and to ask why he did not
come home and hoe corn instead OF toolins
away his time on the Philistines.
just then David came down from his
fathers sheep ranch on Independence
mountain, over against Bethlehem, judah,
on the California trsil, to see hou the war
was progressing. he wanted to take . trip
to some place where there would be no
danger Of bodily harm, 30 his parents
thought it would be safer perhaps for him
TO 90 down to the front where war waged
its wild desolation, and threatened our land
to Destroy They told him to 20 down
where the two armies were engaged in apen
hostilities and they would feel perfectly easy
about him; but they cautioned him not to
wander away from the army into the woods
and get lost.
So David went over to hear Goliath speak
bis piece. Every morning for eighty days
the dime museum giant came, and opened
court requesting the lsraelites to come over
and meet fate wore than death. But the
Israelites preferred death BY general debil-
ity and old age. They had relations at
home on whom they were dependent.
Just as David got to the front, Goliath
came out and spoke with loud voice and
cried out and deied the armies Of Israel,
and Saurs army scattered and fell over
each other trying to get into the woods, and
behold there were not trees enough tor all
the soldiers Of the armies Of Isral to climb.
And David was disguised and told Saul
that he would like to 60 out and fight the
Philistines if some courageous lsraelite
would come along and hold his coat for
him. Everybody laughed at David, and his
brothers especially, as soon as they had
stopped RAINING, and got behind tree and
recovered their breath, began to ridicule
David. But David insisted on it and. told
Saul that one time when q mountain hon
and a grizzly bear came and carried
off several of his fathers sheep
he ran after them and overlook
them, and after be had knocked the lion
silly with his fist, he ran his hand down the
bears throat and turned him wrong side
out. The King said, We'll, did you really
do that2 If you did, I've q good notion to
give you the freedom of the Philistine
camp, and if you will bring me Goliath's
scalp, stretched on single, will give
you all the money you want and my on.J
daughter, for Id just as soon tell you in
confidence, that this side-show giant is get
ting to be perfect eyesore to me, and be-
tween you and me, think he is OVERRIDING
this thing and making nuisance Of him
self"
So David said he would 60, and Saul
dressed him up in railroad iron overcoat
but the boy couldn't handle it. He took
of the fire and burglar proof overcoat and
filled bis pockets full Of rocks and sailed in.
When Goliath came out he turned his
nose up at David and asked him if his
mother knew he was out He talked mean
to David and finally he told him to come
over and he would feed him to the coyotes
Then David in gentlemanly way told
Goliath that he didn't claim to be much Of
talker in public, but that he relied on the
Righteousness OF his cause. He came not
with words and banners and torchlight pro-
cessions, but he believed he was right and
came there to prove it. He was no public
speaker, he said, but he thought this thing
had gone about far enough. He then sur
prised Goliath with q moss agate behind
the ear. The gentleman from Gath fell to
the earth with a" sickening thud' and David
cut bis head Of with the giants own sword.
From these injuries Goliath never fully re-
covered, and finally deceased.
Then the men OF Israel and Judah rose
mp and whooped with @ loud voice and pur.
sued their enemies, and they fed the fowls Of
The air with Philistine on toast for forty
days, and David became solid with the king
and made money and wore his good clothes
every day. Wherever he went he was re-
arded as q great success, and all the giants
were perfectly friendly towards him.