New-York tribune., 1918-01-27

ter collect the entertainment committee of
Gaza called an executive session and lost no
time in getting down to cases.
THEN follows the episode of intrigue
L. which ends in his marching off with
the gates of GAIA slung over his shoulders.
However,
The whole affair only made him think that
he could control more votes even than he
had been counting on and that if it came
to showdown he could stuff the ballot box
and squeeze into Office in spite of the opposi-
ton.
He began to worship his muscles more
than overland to shove God more and more
into the background.
1t never occurred to him that he was only
four-Hushing around-that he was only fan
nlng the air with those splendid muscles of
ms when it came to anything that count
1t was not long afterward that Samson ad-
ventured into Philistia again. He wasn't
satisfied, and some never are, after they have
sampled sin-and think they have gotten
away with it.
countered the most accomplished vampire of
the bunch in the perfumed person of one
Deliah.
II she were living to-day she would bank
rupt the magnates of the movies.
Her salary would be something like
hundred dollars a minute-and then she
would think she was selling herself cheap.
But it needed humdinger to put it over
Samson in final neck-and-neck finish for
the tape.
He had had some experience with yam-
pires in his young life
He even considered himself an expert on
the matter.
&AMSON blew himself for lot of hot
~ house foliage, and approached DeliIah
with all the ease and grace of a seasoned
flrt.
The Philistines noted his fondness for the
girl and decided that nothing could be bet
ter.
He is going to put his knob in the moose
this time like a house afre," thew said.
"Patience, brethren"
Dellah was the queen vampire of the
whole cast She was the finest chef in the
trouble kitchen.
She was the busiest angel of the eternal
triangle.
Delilah didn't have chance to lose Soft
boiled conversation was her forte. She had
Samson woozy inside of five minutes, and in
ten minutes he was ready to give her his
auto and unlimited credit at the gas-filling
station.
Delllah strung Samson until he looked
like perch trailing through the water back of
a rowboat at the end of a perfect fishing
day
He was a mountain of muscle. and she was
a fral little thing, but, when she gazed into
his eyes, Samson lost his last vestge of
Judgment, and fell with splash that shook
the whole river.
Of course Delilah had been fixed with a
nice fat bribe.
1t was up to her to find the secret of Sam
sons strength so she could pass it along to
The Phlistines
Up to this point, even in his most reck-
ess moments, Samson had never told any one
that secret
He still kept sufficient faith in God to be-
ieve that if he lost his covenant with the
Lord, as typitied by his hair he would lose
MS strength with it,
But we cannot gaze too long or too often
IN sin without being blinded entirely to God
You are the strongest man in the world.
SAMSON" Deilah iattered him.
you've got them all leary of YOU. Tell
ne how you do it. Where do you get that
stuff ."
Take the ferry for Hoboken," he jollied.
Now, you are teasing mel" she pouted.
Nix on the stalling! If you love me, you'll
'ome through"
HE had him roped and branded at last
- "If my hair was cut" he said. "I
wouldn't be any stronger than any other
'ald-headed gent. | wouldn't have enough
'ep to punch railroad ticket"
Then Samson went to sleep, and Delilah
,ook the scissors and removed his Seven
sutherland Sisters, which had been his pride
md joy.
The crowd rushed in, and gave him the
and tied him. The terrible giants
vas in their power.
They showed him no mercy
They made him prisoner and put out his
yes with hot irons.
And yet in another, and even more vital
way, they restored his sight
Samson didn't begin to see God until thew
nut his eyes out.
1t is often So
He could hear the laughing and jeerinr of
he mob that had once fed before him.
With sudden strength he groped his way
indy to the pillars of the temple, torn by
espair, and rage. and agony
with last desperate prayer on his Inns
nd last desperate heave of his great mus
les, he caught the pillars of the temple in
us hands, bent his giant body until the
weat oozed from every pore, and then q
urge of returning strength and power swept
through his veins.
The mighty temple above him creaked. and
wayed-and fell in crash of ruin and
cath.
Samson's prayer had been answered.
Samson's finish was as foolhardy as his
fe had been.