Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-10-08
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Goliath was originally a giant In |
side show in Gath at thirteen dollars a |
week, but when the war broke out he |
enlisted In the army of the Philistines !,
more for the bounty than anything else.
This life seemed to hit him about right,
for Goliath was naturally lazy and
trifiing. OF course Pm telling you this
In my own language, but Pm giving it
to you stright. ABB .ii.
When the army of Egypt camped
over in the valley of Elah, 1t looked
pretty squally for Saul and he felt like
sending in his resignation. sr'
Every morning after breakfast, Go
Hath, dressed in his brass plug hat and
cast iron eorsets and copper clothes,
would sail out and poke fun at Saul and
his home guards. 4....
Goliath was large, husky yahoo
from the headwaters of the Chug and
had a hand on him like horse block.
He was muscled up in good shape. too.
When he began on man, it meant six
months in the hospital with careful
nursing, and if Goliath felt grieved or
hurtrabout something man had said
about him and took the man aside to
have little talk about it, the mans
widow applied right off for life insur-
ance. In this way Goliath used to be
respected very much about Gath.
| So every day he would come out and
sass the armies of Israel and tell Saul
that If he had full grown man who
had any sand he would like him to
come over and get himself measured
for a pair of wings. Day after day he
would walk out with his broom proof
clothes on and cordially invite the Isra-
elities'to come over one at a time and
let him paralyze 'em. And Saul, on
behalf of his people, declined the invi-
tation with thanks. He told Goliath
that while he would be glad to meet him
for little soft-gloved tete-a-tete, he
would have to decline any meeting on
a basis of open 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 fOoling away his
time on the Philstines.
i Just then David came down from his
old fathers sheep ranch on Independ-
ence Mountain, over against Bethle-
hem, Judah, on the old California trail,
to see how the war was progressing.
He wanted to take trip to some place
where there was no danger of bodily
harm, and so his parents thought it
would be safer perhaps for him to go
down to the front "where war waged its
wild desolation, and threatened our
land to Destroy"
| They told him to go down where the
two armies were engaged in open hos
tilities and they would feel perfectly
easy about him, but they cautioned
him not to wander away from the army
in the woods and get lost.
| So David went over to hear Goliath
speak his piece. Every morning for
forty days the dime museum giant
came out and opened court, requesting
the Israelites to come out and meet a
fate worse than death. But the Isra-
elites preferred death from general de-
bility and cldage. They had relations at
home on whom they were dependent.
Just as David got to the front, Goliath
came and spoke with loud voice and
cried out and defied the armies of Israel,
and Saurs army scatterd and fell over
each other trying to get into the woods,
and behold there We're not trees enough
for all the soldiers of the army of Israel
to climb. '
And David was disguised and told Saul
that he would like to go out and fight
the Philistines if some courageous Isra-
elite would come along and hold his
coat for him. Everybody laughed at
David, and his brothers especially, as
soon as they had stopped running and
got behind a tree and recovered their
| breath, began to ridicule David. But
| David insisted on it and told Saul that
one time when mountain lion and a
grizzly bear came and carried of several
of his fathers sheep he ran after them
and overlook them and after he had
knocked the lion silly with his fist, he
ran his arm down the BEARS throat
caught him by the tail and turned him
wrong side out. The king siad. "WeH,
did you really do that? If you did I've
a good mind to give you the freedom of
the Philistine camp, and If you will
bring me Goliath's scalp, stretched on a
shingle, will then give you all the
money you want and my daughter, for
I'd jvst as soon tell you in confidence,
that this side show giant is getting to
be a perfect eye-sore to me, and between
you and me, think he is OVERRIDING
this thing and making nuisance of
himself.n ........ ...
So David said he would go, and Saul
dressed him up in a railroad over
coat, but the boy couldn't handle it.
He took off the fire and burglar proof
over coat and filed his pockets with
rocks and sailed in. H'''''' "'- +''''
When Goliath came out, he turned
his nose upat David and asked him i'll
his mother knew he was out. He talked
mean to David and finally told him to
come over and he would feed him to
the coytes. otqG} laa r. ra. .t l,y ey
Then David in a gentlemanly way
told Goliath that he didn't claim to be
much of a talker in public, but that he !
relied on the righteousness of his cause.
He came not with words and banners
and torchlight professions, but he be-
lieved he was right and came there to
prove it. He was no public speaker he
said, but he thought this thing had
gone far enough. He then surprised
Goliath with 9 moss agate behind his
ear. The gentleman from Gath fell to |
the earth with a tsickening thud'' and !
David cut his head off with the giants
own sword. s 9fil >.iif .EaS.ra
Then the men of Israel and Judah
rose and whooped with a loud voice
ard pursued their enemies and they fed
the fowl Of the air with Philistine on |