Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-11

found. hut woman among all those
bora mot fonnd" My answer is, that
If Soloman had behaved himself with
common aecency and kept out of infa
mons circles he would not have had so
much difficulty in finding integrity of
character among women and never
would have uttered such a TRADE. Ever
since my childhood have heard speak
ers admiring Diogones, the cynical phi
losonher who lived in tub, for going
through the streets of Athens i'll broad
daylight with lantern. land when asked
what he did that for, said: Il anu look
ing for an honest man.
Now, warrant that that philosopher
who had such hard work to find an hon.
est man was himself dishonest. ] think
he stole both the lantern and the tub.
SO when | hear man eXpatiating on the
Weaknesses of woman | Immediately
suspect him and say: There is another
Solomon with Solomon swisdom left out.
Still | would not have the illustrations l
have given Of tlelscending eNcellency
7 fe,ea:,. biography lead you to sup
pos: i:.a. t::@ls are no perils III woman's
pathway. Gods grace alone can make
an Isabella Graham, or Christian AL
sop. or Fidelia Fiske, or Catherine
of Siena. Temptations Turk about the
brightest domestic circle. 1t was no I'M
meaning thing when God set up amidst
the splendors of His word the character
of infamous Deiilah.
Again, this strange story of the text
leads me to consider some Of the ways
in which strong men get their locks
shorn. God, for some reason best known
to himself, made the strength of Sans on
to depend on the length of his hair;
when the shears clipped it his strength
was gone. The strength of men is
variously distributed. Sometimes it lies
i'll physical development, sometimes in
intellectual attainment, sometimes in
heart force, sometimes in social posi-
ton, sometimes in financial accumula-
ton; and there is always sharp shears
ready to destroy it. Every day there are
Samsons ungianted. l saw young man
start life under the most cheering ad-
vantages. His acute mind was at home
in all scientific dominions. He reached
not only all ruggel attainmcnts, but by
delicate appreciation he could catch the
tinge Of the cloud and the sparkle of
the wave and the diapason of the thun-
der. He walked forth in life head and
shoulders above others in mental
stature. He could wrestle with giants
in opposing systems of philosophy and
carry off the gates of opposing schools,
and smite the enemies Of truth hip and
thigh with great slaughter. But he be-
gan to tamper with brilliant freethink-
ing. Modern theories of the soul threw
over him their Establishments. Skep-
ticism was the Delilah that shore his
locks off, and all the Philistines of
doubt and darkness and despair were
upon him. He died in very prison of
unbelief, his eyes out.
Far back in the country districts-iust
where 1 purposely omit to say-there
was born one whose fame will last as
long as American institutions. His
name was the terror of all enemies of
free government. He stood, the adj
mired Of millions; the nation uncovered
i'll his presence, end when he spoke
The plotters against good government
attempted to bind him with green withes
and weave his locks i'll !. web, yet he
walked forth from the enthrallment,
not knowing he had burst bond. But
from the wine cup there arose destroy
ing spirit that came forth to capture his
soul. He drank until his eyes grew dim
and his knees knocked together and his
strength failed. Exhausted with life
long designations he went home to die.
Ministers pronounced eloquent eulo-
gums, and poets sung, and painters
sketched, and sculptors chise4ed the
majestic form into marble, and the
world wept, but everywhere it was
known that it was strong drink that
came like the infamous Delilal and his
locks were shown.
From the island of Corsica there
started forth nature charged with I'M
paralleled energies to make thrones
tremble and convulse the earth. Pied
mont. Naples, Bavaria, Germany, Italy,
Austria and England rose up to crush
the rising man. At the plunge of bayo-
nets Bastiles burst open. The earth
groaned with the agonies of Rivoli,
Austerlitz, Saragossa and Eylau. Five
million men slain in his wars. Crowns
were showered at his feet, and king
doms holsted triumphal arches to let
him pass under, and Europe was lighted
up at the conHagration of consuming
cities. lie could almost have made a
causeway OF human bones between Lis
Don and Moscow. No power short of
the omnlpotent God could arrest him.
But out OF the ocean of human blood
there arose a spirit in which the con-
queror found more than match. The
very ambition that had rocked the world
was now to be his destroyer. 1t grasped
Tor too much, and in it's effort lost all.
he reached up after the scepter of uni
versa! dominion, but slipped and fell
back into DIES ISOLATION and Punishment.
The American ship, damaged of the
storm, to day puts in at ST. Helena and
the crew go up to see the spot where the
French exile expired in loneliness and
disgrace, the mightiest Of all Samsons
shorn OF his locks by ambition, that
most merciless of all Delilahs.
l have no time to enumerate. Evil
associates a sudden successes, spendthrift
habits, misery proclivities and dissipa-
tlon are the names of some of the shears
with which men are every day made
powerless. They have strewn the earth
with the carcasses OF giants and filled
the great prison house with DESTROYED
Samsons, who sit grinding the mills of
despair. their locks shorn and their ewes
out. II parents only knew to what
temptations their children were sub
]ected they would be moro earnest in
thelr prayers and more careful about
their example: No young man escapes
having the pathway of sin pictured in |
bright colors before him.
Ihe first time l ever saw city-it was