Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12

man may have had moral character
enough to break the green withes Of
10000 Philistine ~allurements, but he
has been overcome by coaxing.
Two young men passing down this
street come opposite TO q drinking sa-
loon with a red lantern hung out from
the door TO light men 10 peridition.
Let us 90 IN" ssys one. "No, / won't"
Gays the other; II never go TO such
places" "Now, you don't say you are
as weak as that. Why, ! have been go
ing there for two years, and 1t hasn't
hurt me. Come, come now, be a man.
II you can't stand anything stronger
take a little sherry. You need 70 see
the world as it is. j don't believe in
intemperance any moro than you. L
can stop drinking just when / want to.
You shall go. Now, come right along"
Persuasion has conquered. Samson
yields 10 the coaxing, and there is car
nival in hell that night among the
Philistines. and they shout, 'Ha! ha!
We've got him" Those who have the
kindest and most sympathetic natures
are the most in danger. Your very dis
position L please others will be the
very trap they set. II you were cold
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you would not be tempered with. Peo-
pie never fondle a hedgehog. The
most sentimental Greenlander never
kisses an iceberg. The warmth and
susceptibility OF your nature will en-
courage the siren. Though strong as a
giant look out for Delilah's scissors.
Samson. the strongest man who ever
lived, was overcome by coaxing.
--gu III z.--Gg-o &n,.hnZ so Alo
power of an i'll disposed woman In
the portrait gallery Of Bible queens we
find Abigail and Ruth and Miriam and
Vashti and Deborah, but in the rogues'
gallery of a police station you find the
pictures of women as we'll as men.
Delilah's picture belongs to the rogues'
! gallery. but she had more power than
all Philistia armed with sword and
spear. She could carry Off the iron
gates Of Samson's resolution as easily
as he shouldered the gates of GAIA. The
force that had killed the lion which one
day plunged put fierce from the thicket
utterly succumbs 10 the silken net
which DeJilah weaves for the giant. he
who had driven an army in riotous re-
treat with the bleached jaw bone, smit'
ing them hip and thigh with great
slaughter, now falls captive at the feet
OF an unworthy Delilah in the
Bible stands in tho memorable com.
pany of Adah, and Zillah, and Bath,
sheba, and Jezebel, and Athaliah, and
Herodias.
How deplorable the influence of such
in contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe
and Huldah and Tryphona and Jeph'
tha's daughter and Mary, the mother Of
Jesus. While the latter glitter in the
armament OF Gods word like constella
lions with steady, cheerful, holy light
the former shoot like balefu.
meteors across the terrified heavens
ominous OF war, disaster and death
III there Is a divine power in the good
mother, her face bright with purity, az
unseliish love ~beaming from her eye,
g~entleness that by pangs and suffering
and holy anxieties has been mellowinl
and softening for many q year, ~utterinl
itself in every syllable, q dignity tina
cannot be dethroned, united with tn,
p~inyfulness that Will not be checked
her hand the charm that will i~nstantl,
take pain but of the child's wors
wound, her presence n perpetual bene
diction, her name our defense when W,
are tempted, her memory an outgushinl
well of tears and congratulation ant
thanksgiving, her heaven a palm wav
ing and a coronal; then there is Just q
great an influence in the opposite direc
ton in the bad mother, her brow be
clouded with ~ungoverned passion, he
eye flashing with unsanctified fire. he
lips the fountain OF ~fretfulness and de
pravity, her example a mildew ard
blasting. her name . disgrace to comm!
generations, her memory a signal 70
bitterest anathema, her eternity a whirl
wind and a suffocation and q darkness
One wrong headed, wrong hearte,
mother may ruin one child, and that on
child, grown up, may destroy a hundre,
people and the hundred blast a thousand
and the thousand q million. The wife
sphere is a realm Of honor and a powe
almost unlimited. What a blessing wa
Sarah to Abraham, was Deborah TO Lapi
doth, was Zipporah 10 Moses. was HUI
dab TO Shallum.
There are multitudes of men in tn
marts of trade whose fortunes have bee.
the result OF a wife's frugality. Fou
hands have been achieving that estats
two at the store, two at the home. tn
burdens OF life are comparatively ligh
) when there are other hands TO help u
: lift them. The greatest dificultie
} have often skunk away because Their
were four eyes TO look them out c
; countenance. What care you for tn
, hard knocks in the world as long as yo
, have a bright domestic circle for Ia,
| Dor. One cheerful word in the evenin
tide as you come in has silensed th
clamor Of unpaid notes and the disar
, pointment of poor investments. You
table may be quite frugally spread; bu
it seems more beautiful to you tina
|, many tables that smoke with veniso
and blush with Bergundy. Peace meet
!, you at the door, sits beside you at tn
table, lights up the evening stand, an
sings in the nursery. You have see
! al aged couple who for scores of year
D have helped each other on in life's pi
, grimage going down the steep of years
Long association has made them niue
} alike. They reioiced at the same az
: vent, they bent over the same cradl,
| they wept Mt the same grave In tn
evening they sit quietly thinking of tn
past, mother knitting at the stand
, father In his arm chair ut the fire.
! Now and then a grandchild come
and they look at him with affection ur
told and come we'll nigh spelling hir
| with kindnesses. The life currents bcs
t feebly in their pulses and their wor
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