Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-06

patlons; come, now, l have the car
riage engaged and we shall be back
soon enough TO 60 to church in the
evening; don't yield to Puritanic no
tons; you will be no worse for a ride
in the country; the blossoms are out
and they say everything is looking
glorious" We'll. | will go TO please
you" is the response. And out they
go yer the street, conscience drowned
in the chatter Of the swift hOufs and
the rush of the resounding wheels.
Uninterrupted mau may have had moral
character enough to break the green
witheS of ten thousand PhiliStine al
luFcments. but lie has been overcome
by cOaXing.
Two young men passing down this
street come opposite adrinking saloon
with n red lantern hung out from the
door TO light men TO pcrdition. let
us 20 in, says one. No, | won't
says the other; II never go 10 such
places" Now, you don'tSly you are
Us weak rs that. Why. ! have been
going there for two years aud il hasn't
hurt me. Come, come now, be a man.
If you can't stand anything stronger,
take u little sherry. You need 10 see
the world as II is. ] don't believe IN
intemperanCe any more than you. /
ran stop drinking just when | want
TO. You shall go, Now, come right
along" Persuasion has conquered.
Samson yields 10 the coaxing aud
there is carnival ia hell that night
among the Philislines and they shout,
"Hal hal We've got him." Those
who have the kindest and most SYM
pathetic natures are the most in dan,
Ger. Your very disposition 10 please
others will be the very trap they sci.
Ii you were cold and harsh and severe
in your nature you would not be- tam
percd with. People never foudle a
hedgehog. The most sentimental
Grcenlandtr never kisses an iceberg.
The warmth aud susceptibility OF your
nature will encourage the siren.
Though strong rs a giant. look out for
D~elilalls scissors. Samson, the strong
est man who ever lived, was overcome
by coaxiug.
WHAT FAD woMEN CAS- DO.
Again. this narrative teaches us the
power OF an i'll disposed una In
the portrait gallery OF Bible queens we
find Abigail and Ruth and Miriam and
Vashti and Deborah, but in the rogucs'
gallery of a police station you find the
pictures of women as well as men.
Deiilah's picture belongs TO the rogues
gallery. but She had more power than
all Phllistia armed with sword and
spear. She could carry off the iron
gales Of SamsOn's resolution Us easily
rs he shouldercd the gates Of GAIA.
The force that had killed the lion
which one day plunged out fierce
from the thickct utterly succumbs TO
the silken net which Delilah woaves
for the giant. lie who had driven an
army in riotous retreat with the
bleached jaw bone, shifting them hip
ana thigh with great slaughter, now
falls captive at 'rhs feet Of an un-
worthy woman. Delilah in the Bible
stands in the memorable company OF
Adah, and Zillah. aud Bathsheba, and
Jezebel, and Athaliah. and Hcrodias.
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 ia
the ornament of Gods word like con
stellations with steady, cheerful, holy
light, the former shoot like balcful
meteors across the terrified heavens,
ominous of war, disaster and death.
II there is a divine power in the good
mother, her face bright with purity,
an unselfsh love beaming from her
eye. a gentleuess that by pangs and
suiferings and holy anxieties has been
mellowing and softening for many q
year, uttering itself iu every syllable,
a dignity that cannot by %dethroned.
united with the p~layfuluess that will
not be checked, her hand the charm
that will instantly take pain out of the
child's worst wound. her presence a
perpetual benediction, her name our
defense when We are tempted, her
memory m outgusbing well of tears
and congratulation aud thanksgiving,
her heaven a palm waving and a coro-
nal then there IL Just as great an in
lluence in the opposite direction in the
bad mother, her brow beclouded with
%ungoverned passion, her eye flashing
with unsanctiiied fire, her lips the
fountain of fretfulness and depravity,
her example a mildew and a blasting,
her name a disgrace to coming gen.
~erations, her memory a signal for bit
terest anathema, her eternity a whirl.
wind and q suifocation and a darkness.
One wrong headed, wrong hearted
mother may ruin one child, and that
one child, grown up, may destroy a
hundred people and the hundred blast
n thousand. and the thousand a mill
ION. The wife's sphere is a realm of
honor and power almost unlimited.
What "A blessing was Sarah TO Abra.
ham, was Deborah TO Lapidoth. was
Zippprah 10 Moses. was Huldah 10
Shafum.
There are multitudes of men ia the
murts of trade whose fortunes have
been the result Of a wife's frugality.
Four hands have been achieving that
estate, two at the store. two at the
home. The burdens of life are com
p~araiiycly light when there are other
hands 10 help US liftlhcm. The great.
est difficulties have often skunk away
because there were four eyes W look
them out Of countcnauce. What care
you for the hard knocks in the world
as lorg as you have a bright domestic
circle Tor haTbor, one cheerful word