The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-05-25
STARTING WITH ADAM.
Exhaustive Discussion of the influence 90
Marriage to Famous Women.

Vi 'he influence of
Marriage to Famous Women.
A recent New York paper has an edi-
torial devoted to the subject of men who
nave become famous or prominent on
account OF their marriage or association
with noted women, and adduces a num.
/: Der OF modern instances in support of its
theory.
1t occurs to us that the writer should
have begun at the beginning, if he want
ed 10 make an exhaustive article on the
subject. There's old man Adam. for ex-
ample; where would he have been and
where would the rest of us be, perhaps
| II Eve had not made a sneak on the an
pie orchard? We cannot, it is true, tell
what might have been, but if there had
| been no Eve there would have been no
! apple eating, and for all we know the
pair Of them might have been in the gar
den yet and none of the rest of MS have
| been heard of.
Later on we find Jacobs mother plav-
ing what Modern slang writers would
call gum game" on old father Isaac.
! 0y which young and smoOth-skinned
jacob counted all the points in the game
and left poor hairy Esau out in the cold.
Ot course 1T Is all speculation. but none
the less we have often w0ndered how
! things would have turned out If ESau
had caught on to the little game and
( broke up the combination. Esau was
the Oldest, aud was entitled to all the
| honors and privileges belonging to au
: elder son. II Is natural to suppose that
iit ESau had gotten his rights there
! would have been no twelve sons of Jacob
to found Jewish nation and no jewish
nation to be founded That is Aaa,a
! reasoning.
/ On the same line is the case of Moses
and the daughter of Pharaoh. 1t is Curl
GUS to speculate on the probable course
of events if the dusky princess had not
rambled down TO the banks OF old Nilus
! just at the proper time. If the little
/ Hebrew kid had escaped being snapped
/ up by an unappreciative or codile the
chances are that some low bonn Egyplian
! would have found him and either
slammed him against stone or raised
him as disciple of some one of the
thousand or more deitias of their relig-
in. There, to follow merely human
reasoning, would haze been another
break in the succession Of events and the
Hebrews left to labur as slaves of the
haraohs for all time TO come.
Coming further down the line we reach
the lion-tearing and jawbone-welding
Sampson, whose exploits form one f he
! most stirring portions of Bible history
| If Del lah had not corraled him and
| prdcuc ID the birber's act on his luxuri-
| Gus HAIR he m ght have gone on killing
| Philistines and wild animals and tying
| foxes tails together till he died OF old
age like other people. But Wien he suf-
tered himself deIuded by a woman, as
many an ,ther man has done, he laid the
foundation for a tragic ending to his al
ready stormy life and played the deuce
with some of the best people among the
\ Phlistnes.
And 50 we might follow sacred and
prOfane history from the beginning of
time and find that woman has managed
to have more or less influence on the
lives and histories of prominent men in
all ages and all countries. It's a way
they haYe.--MontgOmery Advertiser.