The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-26

he saw the carcass filled with honey
At the wedding feast he Wagered
thirty garments with the guests that
they could not guass his riddle:
"Out OF the cater came forth food,
And out Of the strong came forth
sweetness"
| His bride leased Samson into tell
| ing him the answer, which she told to
her countrymen, that they might not
! have to pay the wager. Samson
thereby lost the wager ard the wife,
but he went out and slew thirty Phil
! istines, and paid the bet with their
| raiment.
/ Later Samson sought a reconcilia-
ton with his heather wife, only to
| find that his father-in-laW had given
her 10 another. Our immature hero
! could be stirred to action only by in
| dividual wrongs: he had not the i'm
! aginatio to visualize a whole peo-
| pies suffering. An affront to himself
put him into action. He was like the
rich woman who thought OF the
poor'S need Of coal only when her
OWL fire went out. SO this affrOnt
! led Samson TO gather doubtless with
the help Of companions) three hun
dred jackals, which he tied tail to
tail. A frebrand was attached to
each pair OF conjoined tails, and the
animals were set loose amid the ripe
grain fields of the Philistines-an eX-
plot which led the latter to burn the
faithless wife and father-in-laW.
Whimsically, this Weather-yane fell
low thereuDon undertook vengeance
for the murder of his wife and her
father, and slew a host OF Philistines.
Tha LOT
and Samson, in their midst by a ruse
slew a thousand OF them with the
JaWbone of an ass. III personal
proWess the strong man was not l:.ck
ing. Later, besieged at GAIA (the
city that is figuring in the days war
dispatches) he carried away the gates
OF the city Oh his shoulders, and
dropped them on a mountain. A
! giants prank, that.
Betrayed BY Woman
, AS samson Is name for physical
strcenth and spiritual folly, SO Delilat
= IS hiStory'S synonym for disloyal
r woman. Samson was Infatuated with
! her, and his enemies bribed her t.
betray him by learning nd disclos-
| ing the secret Of his strength. He
. jeSted with her by misleading an
! sWers 10 her opportunities, so that
1 she Successiyely bound him with
I green withes, with unused ropes
and a Wcayer's web crying each
time, 1.-The Philistines are upon thee
: or course, Samson was foolish not tC
= perceive what ali this meant; bur
= Solomon later observed that the way:
S OF man With woman are past find
t ing out
9 leased, reproached, nagged with
= out ceasing, Samson at length di
: vulged his secret: the Nazirite vow
1 which made him a dedicated ma
e was the secret Of his strength. TIL,
g cutting Of his hair would mean tn,
Shearing Of his strength. T. perfid,
: OF the woman, and the patience 0
his enemies, had az lasts CONQUERED
II Samson. lie was in the Philistines
l. hand, and they blinded him, an,
= bound him with letters of brass an,
made him TO grind st the mill, lilz
:. dumb animal.
y Samson never really s:4w arigh
= unit! his eyes were put out In hi
:, blindness he perceived the folly ,
- his youth, and his missed oppOrtuni
% ties. A pathetic figure he, the re
~ doubtab]e Ind invincible hero no,
% the sport OF children and loafers.-
IS those bitter days there grew up j
,a his heart a great purpose to do O.,
$ service for his nation. AS he felt hi
p strength return-a fact which h
concealed from his captors-a pla
l. shaped itself il his mind
IL So when called into the great ha
V OF assembly to make sport for h
so enemies his hour came. The inc
~ dent. the climax Of Sa1nson's caree
le is best told in the words OF ScTiI
y | ture:
as And Samson called unto Jehoval
r. and said, 9 Lord Jehavah, reIncnbe
re me, / pray thee, and strengthen m
n pray thee, only this once, . Co
st that | may be at once avenged Of tt
er PhiiiStines for my two eyes. Al
lis