The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
pELILAH IN HISTORY.
nmson, Sardanapalus, Mark
Antony and Parnell.
ms. o'sHEAs OF oLDEN TIMES.
- Great Men Have BATTERED King.
xsms for . woman's Smiles Down
fsll OF Sir Charles Dixie.

,.lrsw my heart, but IT Is wondrous strange
E7e there Il something more than witchcraft In
80 matters ev'n the wisest of us all.
--Rowe: Jane Shore
whatever may have been the uncx-
.vssed introspections or rctrospections of
- aufhor of these lines, he embodied a
~ Of which history abounds In conhrma-
Sons. It may be said to have come in
IN our first garments, and bids fair to
- uutil the race has run it's course. In
IA the latest illustrious example may
1.f;ye a peculiar satisfaction from the re-
serfiou that our common forefather lost a
NV desirable position somewhere between
| He Tigris and Euphrates by yielding to q
imilar temptress on memorable occa-
! bon.
That marvellous character OF whom we
d,Iehted to hear in boyhood, Samson,
nuld, If he were alive, sympathize with
Kim. The Biblical character had no Tory
,srty to contend with; no Liberal allies to
sonciliatc, and is not recorded as having
made any struggle for home rule or rule of
NV sort, but he was man of great
strength, and had an imperious way of
/ overriding opposition, carrying of city
rates. swapping new cords Us flax that is
burut. overcoming remarkable Philistine
maiorities, and conceiying and carrying
ant other radical measures in some
that Parnellan fashion. Whether, in
| thesc days, he would have carried
| His jaw-bone of an ass into the
INKS of the landlords or pulled down the
supports of the house of commons is a
| natter Of speculation. The tale of Sam
oou,s glory was told and the scroll laid
essy when, in the valley of Sorek, he
I bred woman. Then,came the shears of
1 Dslilah and the world has the wonderfully
mshetic picture of the blind giant trailing
i lis elanking shackles the weary round of
/ the trcadn,ill.
The royal warrior of Israel, of whom it
Ii said that his fame went out into all
Iands, and the fear of him was upon all
nations, was conquered by the trick of a
mile His long life passed to the ringing
d steel shafts on brazcn shields. s.He
mote the Philistines from Gideon even to
i Gazern Moab and the Moabitcs met him
! md were like dry grass before the flames.
! From the time the death missive of Goliah,
l tie giant, whistled from his sling, until
agood old age he died, full of days,
\ riches and honor, he was clad in breast
I pate and helmet and his wars were
victorious. But David. TO his sorrow,
hsd weakness for the soft light of a
l DIRK eye and the ripple of dusky' hair over
Ne white CLEAN of u woman's shoulders.
One night in Jerusalem, at the time when
hngs went forth to battle, David walked
l q the roof of the royal palace to be alone
I With his thoughts. There was to be bat
Elm the morning and the streets of the
I city we're filed with his chariots and horse
men, foot soldiers and archcrs. He could
hear below him the murmur of voices in
thetents and around the camp-hres the
danking of armor and the impatient
Stamping Of the war horses. The palaces
,bout him doomed up in the moonlight,
/ pale and ghostlike and afar off among the
bafien rock-faced hills he could see the
glitter Of gold where bristled the spears
q the hosts of the foe he was
2 meet in the morning. But across
she court the kings eye fell upon the
.ninag white form of woman bathing.
hxas Beth-Sheba, the wife of Uriah, the
hittite, and .'she was beautiful to look
upon." David evidently looked too long.
Everybody knows the sequel and to what
numberless complications this moonlight
siroll OF the royal observer of women was
me prelude. For his sin the sword never
departed from his house and evil was
raised up against him out of his own home
great many years ago there stood in
mont OF the Roman capitol a gentleman of
good address and fluent of speech, cngi-
neering with as great skill as the Irish
kader ever displayed. campaign for
/ IA Il
plous now of tears over dead CAESARS
wounds. Mark Antony had sown his
xid oats IN his youth, and a plentiful crop
twas TOO, II the published accounts are
correct, but at % he was presumed to have
settled down into respectable Roman citi-
fenshlp, and until he appeared in his
famous Grafton over the body of Cesar had
eeen steadily climbing the ladder. He
nad shown himself a brave soldier during
.ne war IN Syria, and in the three years,
campaign against Arstobulus i'm Pales-
tine, when he led the Roman troops
through a series of brilliant victories.
saci, bravery and military skill had he
aispiayed under Cesar, in his Gallo wars.
Mat the imperial butcher had made him
Mouhe OF the people and, later, the gov
amor OF Italy. Antony's political star was
uecidediy III the ascendant till he under
3ok the restoration of Ptolemy Auletus to
sne throne OF Egypt and met that digni-
ny attractive daughter. Cleopatra. The
n ,aSs that ms enchantress had been pub
nriy known as the mistress of the great
sssar years before, and the additional fact
as s ne was the spouse of most estimable
sne, octavia, were forgotten, and the
s.sa. antony, orator. statesman and war;
WI iwI, nung away the world with a laugh and
aelu ont his wrists to be hound-a slave.
snnleshed III the net of the ..accurscd
Igyptian.' Frail human nature will ind
. many excuses for Antony, for il is said
ner people out upon her. and Antony
Wss s,i,nnesu N the market place did sit alone,
rnnsstlng 10 the air, which. but for vacancy
Ara Ara s svus 70 gaze on Cleopatra too,
~au naaae gap in nature.
= mere was another. long before the days
~ smntohy, III whose veins flowed the blood
/ Nnnrod and Semiramis; descended
a s race OF kings who knew no prede-
fsofs; OF q civilization which looms
saniy up TO us through deep mist of
Ms, majestic and mysterious; of time
aen tne storied hills of Greece and Italy
e,.s Ioshed by savages, and the Eternal
/ ~ naa not begun to exist. Sardanapalus,
e ,ast King of the Assyrians, was shorn
~, :, me shears of pelilah. What magniti-
s,as heritage was his. \ line of imperial
h..t Isdcnhlg thirteen centuries into
~ fasti the stately civilization of Nine
49, W ana the intellectual empire of the
/ k.,M. stray fragments only of his tragic
s sssofy have come down to us. Byron has
E'sa US picture:
j - enefninatc heart is
Hs.saess courage which corruption
Rev. qoenehed, aud latent energies
S.sssssssseu hy circumstance but not destroyed.
Sled but not drowned in deep voluptuous.
I -. M0
inaaa peasant he had been man
/ xieaehed an empire,
| ~ aeaih gives us hint of his life. He
Ayrha and ' WV - ~
/ rrsn Would not Yield
4 - iur The sake of alf that ever stirred