Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-10-05

.Ae>b .7fft Eta. TILT! G''iF nave Iidu -.--
character enough TO break the green
whites OF ten thousand Philistine a.
luremcnts, but lie has been overcome
by coaxing
Two young men passing down this
street come opposite Il drinking saloon
with red Lantern, hung out from the
door 10 light men TO pcrdition. Let
us go in, says one. No, won't, )
says the other; Il never go to such
places. Nov, you don't say you are
az weak as that Why, l have been
going there for two years and it hasn't
hurt me. Come. come now, be man.
If you cant stand anything stronger,
take little sherry: You need to see
the world as il is. don't believe in
iDtcmperunce any more than you.
can stop drinking just when | want
TO- You shall go. Now. come right
along" Persuasion has conquered.
Samson yields to the coaxing and
there is carnival i'll hell that night
among the Phiistincs and they shout,
Hal hal We've got him." Those
who have the kintlcst and most sym
pathetic natures are the most in dam
ger. Your very disposition To please
others will be the very trap they set.
II you were cold and harsh and severe
III your nature you would not be tam.
percd with. People never fondle q
lie nosl sentimental
aCGscenlaii dcFslle over Kiss s. eeberg,
Tie @armth;dntslisce ptibilitYofsy your
nature will encourage tlics siren:
Though strong US giant, look out for
Delilahs scissors. Samson, the strong
est man who everlived. was overcome
by coaXing.
WHAT BAD WOMEN CAN DO.
Again, this narrative teaches us the
power of all 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 i police station you find the
pictures of women as well as men.
Delilali'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 shouldcred the gates of GAIA.
The force that had Killed the lion
which one day plunged out fierce
from the thicku4 utterly succunibs to
the siIien net which Delilah weaves
for the giant. He who had driven all
army in riotous retreat with the
bleached jaw bone. shifting them hip
and thigh with great slaughter. now
falls captive at the feet of an I'M
worthy woman. Delilah III the Bible
stands i'll the memorable company OF
Adah, and Zillah, and Bathslieba, and
Jezcbel, and Atfaliah, and Herodias
How dcplorable heinlluence ofsuch
in contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe
and Huldah and Tryphona and Jeph-
tlla's daughter and Mary, the mother
of Jesus. While the latter glitter in
the armament of Gods word like con-
stcllations with steady, cheerful, holy
light, the former Shoot like baleful
metcors across the terrified heavens.
ominous of war, disaster and death.
If there is Il divine power in the good
mother her face bright with purity,
an unselIish love bcaming from her
eye, gentleress that by pangs and
suiferings and holy anxictics has been
mcllowing and softening for many a
year, uttering itself in every syllable,
dignity that cannot be dethroned,
united with the playfulncss that will
not lie checked, her hand the charm
that will instantly take pain out Of the
chiltl's worst wound, her presence a
perpetual -bcncdiction, her name our
defense when We are tempted, her
memory an outgushing well of tears
and congratulation and thanksgiving,
her heaven u palm waving and coro.
nal; then there j., just us great all in
lluence in the opposite direction in the
bad mother, her brow beclouded with
ungovcrncd passion, her eye flashing
with unsauctilicd fire. her lips the
fountain Of frctfulncss and deprayity.
her example midcw and Il blasting.
her name disgrace To eoming gen
crltions, her memory Il signal for bit
tercst anatlieni;l, her eternity u whirl.
wind and sulfocatiol and Il darkness
One wrong headed, wrong hearted
mother may ruin one child. and that
ono child. grown UP, may destroy a
hundred people and the hundred blast
a thousand and the thousand mill.
ion. The wifes sphere is a realm of
honor and power almost unlimited.
What blessing was Sarah to Abra-
ham, was Deborah TO l.apidotl. was
Zinnorah TO Moses. YVES Hulduh to
Shalluni.
There are muititudes of men in the
lnarts of trade whose fortunes have
been the result of wife's frugality.
Four hands have been achieving that
estate, two at the store, two at the
home. The burdens OF life are com
paratively light when there are other
hands to help us fttlicm. The great.
est difficulties have often Sunk away
because there were four eyes to look
them out of countenance. What care
YOU for the hard knocks in the world
as long rs you have u bright domestic
circle for llarborl One cheerful word
in the evening tide rs you come i'll has
silcnccd the clamor of unpaid notes
and the disappointment Of poor invest
mcnts. Your table may be quite fru
gally spread, but it seems more beau
tiful to you than many tables that
smoke with vcnison and blush with
Burgundy. Peace meets you at the
door, sits beside you atlllc table, lights
up the evening stand, and sings i'll the
nursery. You lave seen an aged couple
who for scores of years have helped
each other OIL in LIES pilgrimage go
ing down the steep OF years. Long
association has made them much alike.
They rejoiced atthe same advent. they
bent over the same cradle, they wept
at the same grave. In the evening
they sit quietly thinking of the past,
mother knitting at the stand, father in
his arm chair at the fire
NOW ana then O grandch1ld comes
,oI tI,ax, looly ~ him with affection