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The Gall of thf Cumberlands i * By Charles Neville Buck With Illustrations f from Photographs of Scenes in the Play ? ' (Copyright. *913. by W. J. Watt & Co.) 2 SYNOPSIS. On Misery creek, at the foot of a roc from which he has fallen, Sally Mille finds George Lesoott, a landscape palnl fcr, unconscious, and after reviving hln goes for assistance. Samson South an Sally, taking Lescott to Samson's hom< are met by Spicer South, head of th family, who tells them that Jesse Purv haa been shot CHAPTER I!?Continued. **I hain't a-wantin' ter suspicion y< Samson, but I know how ye feel about yore pap. I heered thet Bu Spicer come by hyar yiBtlddy plum full of liquor an' 'lowed he'd see: Jesse an' Jim Asberry a-talkin' tei gether Jest afore yore pap was kilt. " He broke off abruptly, then added \Te went away from hyar last night an* didn't git in twell atter sunup? just heered the news, an' come te look fer ye." "Air you-all 'lowin' thet I shot thei f shoots from the laurel?" inquired San son, quietly. " "Ef we-all hain't 'lowin' hit, San son, we're plumb shore thet Jess Purvy's folkB will 'low hit They'r jest a-holdin' yore life like a hostag fer Purvy's, anyhow. Ef he dies they'! try ter git ye." The boy flashed a challenge abou the group, which was now drawin rein at Spicer South's yard fence. Hi eyes were sullen, but he made no ai swer. . ^ - A* *- - I ? f une 01 me men wuu uau uowuw *. silence now spoke: \ ii "In the fust place, Samson, we hain' a-sayin' ye done hit In the nex' plac( ef ye did do hit we hain't a-blamii ye?much. Bat I reckon them dawg dont He, an', ef they trails in hya yeU need us. Thet's why we've don ' come." ' The boy slipped down from hia mul and helped Lescott to dismount. H deliberately unloaded the saddlebag i &n<f kit and laid them on the top ste fj- of the atile, and, while he held hi ^ peace, neither denying nor affirminj his kinBmen sat their horses an waited. Even to lescott it was palpable the somebf them believed the young hei to clan leadership responsible for th shooting of. Jesse Purvy, and tha other* believed him inriofcent, yet non the less in danger of the enemy's vei geanc?L But, regardless of divide opinion, all w?re alike ready to stan at his hack and all alike awaited hi final utterance. Then, In the thickening gloom, San ?? ? .? tk/. * * ?0 ?L. _*?! pun IttlUOU Ob UiC lUUt Ul LUO BUI and faced the gathering. He stoo rigid, and his eyes flashed with dee passion. His hands, hanging at th seams of his jeans breeches, ciinchei . and his voice came in s alow utte: ance through which throbbed the tei dity of a soul-absorbing bitterness. "I knowed all 'bout Jesse Purvy' beln' shot. . . . When my pap la '] ardyin' over tbar at his house I wa a little shaver ten years old . . Sf Jesse Purvy hired somebody ter ki = * him . . . an* I promised my.pa that I'd find out who thet man wai an' thet I'd git 'em both?some da: ' V So help me, Qod Almighty, I'm a-goii ter git 'em both?some day!" Th boy paused aid lifted one hand a though taking an oath. "I'm a-tellin' you-all the truth . . But I didn't shoot them shoots thl mornin'. I hain't no truce buster, gives ye my hand on hit. . . . E them dawgs come hyar they'll find m hyar, an' ef they hain't liars they' go right by hyar. I don't 'low ter ru away, an' I don't low -ter hide out I'i a-goin' ter stay right hyar. Thet's a i've got ter say ter ye." For a moment there was no repl: Then the older man nodded with i gesture of relieved anxiety. "Thet's all we wants ter know, San son," he said, slowly. "Light, men a1 come in." ' "CHAPTER III. In days when the Indian held th Dark and Bloody Grounds a plonee felling oak and poplar lofeF, for tb home he meant to establish on tb banks of a purling watercourse, let hi y- ax slip, and the cutting edge gashe his ankle. Since to the discovered b longs the christening, that watercours became cnppieshln, and so it is toda set dtara jgn atlae pages. A few mile away, as t3ie^ crow flies, but', man weary leagues -as-^ man must trave a brother settler, racked with rheumi tism, gave to his creek the name < Misery. The two pioneers had com together from Virginia, as their ance tors had come before them from Sco land. Together they had found on of the two gaps through the mountai wall, which for more than a hundre miles has no other passable rift T< gether, and as comrades, they ha made their homes and founded the race. What original grievance ha sprung up between their descendanl none of the present generation knewperhaps it was a farm line or dispute title to a pig. The primary incidet was lost in the limbo of the past; bi for fifty years, with occasional inte vals of truce, lives had been snufte ^^^^out In the fiercely burning hate ( flBflnhese men whose ancestors had bee nVcomrades. Old Splcer South and his nephe H Samson were the direct lineal descei dants of the namer of Misery. The; kinsmen dwelt about them: the South the Jaspers, the Spicers, the Wiley the Millers and McCagers. Other fan ilies, related only by marriage an close association, were, in feud aligi ment, none the less "Souths." An over beyond the ridge, where th springs and brooks flowed the othe way to feed Crippleshia,, dwelt 'th Hollmans, the Purvys, the Asberrles, b I the Hollises and the Daltons?men ti I equally strong In their vindictive o fealty to the code of the vendetta. e; By fountain standards old Spicer b South was rich. His lands had been S claimed when tracts could be had for p the taking, and, though he had to make h his cross mark when there was a con- ft tract to be signed, his Instinctive mind n was shrewd and far seeing. The tinkle P of his cowbells was heard for a long n distance along the creek bottoms. His tl hillside fields were the richest and his a coves the most fertile in that country. t< Some day, when a railroad should burrow through his section, bringing the S development of coal and timber at the E head of the rails, a sleeping fortune Is would yawn and awake to enrich him. 1* There were black outcropplngs along ri the cliffs, which he knew ran deep in tl veins of bituminous wealth. But to ft k that time he looked with foreboding, e: >r for he had been raised to the stand- b ? ards of his forefathers and saw In the M d coming of a new regime a curtailment n \ of personal liberty. For new-fangled e: y ideas he held only the aversion of J' deep-rooted prejudice. He hoped that ti he might live out his days and pass s< before the foreigner held his land and 01 Vi/i Iftm A nnwrfin afvAnanf fhntl 111 J iMO t? ucvauio a yvnoi ovtvu^u* ? 8' the Individual or the clan. The law d was his ener-.y, because it said to him, cl b "Thou shalt not," when he sought to a take the yellow corn which bruising ni r. labor had coaxed from scattered rock- sl ? strewn fields to his own maeh vat and al ; still. It meant, also, a tyrannous 11 t, power usually seized and administered Q' T by enemies, which undertook to forbid r the personal settlement of personal h quarrels. -But his eyes, which could J1 n not read print, could read the signs T of the times. He foresaw the inev- 41 itable coming of that day. Already he x. had given up the worm and mash e vat, and no longer sought to make or ri e sell illicit liquor. That was a conces- r< e sion to the federal power, which could a; H no longer be successfully* fought. State * power was still largely a weapon in J' Lt factional hands, and in his country c g the Hollmans were the office holders. r< s To the Hollmans he fcould make no r< i- concessions. In Samson, born to be ^ the fighting man, reared to be the w q fighting man, equipped by nature with 11 deep hatreds and tigerish courage, n< t there had cropped out from time to ** time the restless spirit of the philos- n< i' opber end a hunger for knowledge. CJ s That was a matter in which the old n: r man found his bitterest and most se- pi e cret apprehension. ai It wai at this house that George el e Lescott, distinguished landscape paint- ^ e er of New York and the world at large, a s arrived in the twilight w p Whatever enemy might have to be s< 3 met tombrrow, old Spicer South rec- p rt ognized as a more Immediate call 6 d upon his attention the wounded guest K of today. One of the kinsmen proved p t to have a rude working knowledge of :r r bone setting, and before the half hour j* e had passed Lescott's wrist was in a splint, an<T his injuries as well tended R e as possible, which proved to be quite well enough. d i a d While Splcer South and hie cousins ^ had been sustaining themselves or c] building up competences by tilling Q, their soli the leaders of the other fao- Q, e tlon were basing larger fortunes on gJ . the profits of merchandise and trade. ^ So, although Splcer South could netp ther read nor write, his chief enemy, h ? -Micah Hoilman, was to outward seem- n ' ing an urbane and fairly equipped man ^ r" of affairs. Judged by their heads, the clansmen were rougher and more llllt- . erate on' Misery, and in closer touch with civilization on Crippleehin. A * y deeper scrutiny showed this seeming g 8 to be otoe of the strange anomalies of * - the mountains. . 11 Mlcah Hollman had established himP self at Hlxon, that shack town which ( a, had passed of late years frqm feudal 7. county seat to the section's one Doint I I d '"Ef It Hain't Ask in' Too Much, Will q. Ye Let Me See Ye Paint One of ie Them Things?" 8 y of contact with the outside world; a 18 town where the ancient and modern A J orders bruehed shoulders; where the a * new. was toieratea, d;u aarea not De- " a" come aggressive. Directly across the )f street from the courthouse stood an e 10 .ample frame building, on whose side 8" wall was emblazoned the legend, "Hollman's Mammoth Department h 16 Store." That was the secret strong- d n hold of Hollman power. He had al- si d ways spoken deploringly of that spirit P of lawlessness which had given the S d mountains a bad name. h 'r When the railroad came to Hixon si d /ft found in Judge Hollman a "public- A -8 spirited citizen." Incidentally, the tim Der tnat it nauiea ana me coai tnat u 'd Its flat cars carried down to the Blue- r< it grass went largely to his consignees, n He had so astutely anticipated coming f< r- events that, when the flrst scouts of d capital sought options they found ei >f themselves constantly referred to tl a Judge Hollman. No wheel, it seemed, h could turn without his nod. It was p natural that the genial storekeeper a a- should become the big man of the w Lr community and Inevitable that tpe one si s, big man should become the dictator. b, His inherited place as leader of the d i- Hollmans in the. feud, he had Beem- o d lngly passed on as an obsolete pre- ? a- rogatlve. d d Yet, in business matters, he was it e found to drive a hard bargain, and o >r' men came to regard it the part of n e rgood policy to meet rather than com- s; f .'Vjii'*[>.. at his requirements. It was essen- lat al to his purposes that the officers Ju: f the law In his country should be in ea: ympathy with bim. Sympathy soon bn ecarae abject subservience. When a < outh had opposed Jesse Purvy in the bei rimary as candidate for high sheriff lis, e was found one day lying on his sid ice with a bullet-riddled body. It hei lay have been a coincidence which ' ointed to Jim Asberry, the judge's "tl ephew, as the assassin. At all events, i?< le Judge's nephew was a poor boy, ' nd a charitable grand Jury declined pe: j indict him. It.' In the course of five yearn several outh adherents, who had crossed bu [olman's path, became victims of the snj iurel ambuscade. The theory of co- re< icidenoe was strained. Slowly' the 70 umor grew and persistently spread,' lough no man would admit having ' ithered It, that before each of these be' xecutions star-chamber conferences in ad been held In the rooms above ' * [icah Hollman's "Mammoth Depurtlent Store." It was said that these stfi sclusive sessions were attended by wl udge Hollman, Sheriff Purvy and cer- we lin other gentlemen selected by rea- wh jn of their marksmanship. When If ae of these victims fell John South I g ad just returned from a law school iown below," wearing "fotched-on" &1 lothing and thinking "fotched-on" 611 loughts. He had amazed the com- Ke mnity by demanding the right to asst in probing and prosecuting the pai ffair. He had then shocked the com- "Y mnity into complete paralysis by re- int nesting the grand Jury to indict not ( 1 lone the alleged assassin, but also ret Is employers, whom he named as of ndge Hollman and - Sheriff Purvy. stc hen he, too, fell under a bolt from rid le laurel. . by That was the first public accusation A* gainst the bland capitalist, and it cared its own prompt warning against wfc jpetitlon. The Judge's high sheriff sni * -ii_ ?ii ? J J -ta ? _.?a mj>i a caiei any reurou iruui vmce huu ? ent abroad only with a bodyguard. sh< esse Purvy had built his store at a ce< rossroads 25 miles from the rail- de: jad. Like Hollman, he had wou a pli jputation for open-handed charity, ' bei as liked?and hated. His friends in ere legion. His enemies were so nu- ' terous that he apprehended violence th< ot only from the Souths but also doi om others who nursed grudges ;ln fee o way related to the line of fetid co[eavage. The Hollman-Purvy comtii- an ation had retained enough of its old fee ower to escape the law's retribution spi ad to hold its dictatorship, but the ov (Torts of John South had not been be [together bootless. He bad ripped th< way two masks, and their erstwhile ha earers could no longer hold their old th< ambiance of law-abiding philanthro- ah lets. Jesse Purry's home was the loi bow place1 of the countryside/ comtodlouB verandas looked out over feasant, orchards, and In the same iclosure stood the two frame buildigs of his store?for he, too, com* Ined merchandise with baronial * y owere. But back of the place rose a le mountain side, on which Purvy p ever looked without dread. Twice 8 Impenetrable'thickets had spat at , \jn. Twice he had recovered from ounds that would have taken a less p0 harmed life. And in grisly reminder f the terror which clouded the peace :0^ t bis days stood the elgbMoot log U/ilraila at thn PAor nf tho nlaiu P^' hich the proprietor had built to tileld his daily journeys between t0T ouse and store. But Jesee Purry wan ^ ot deluded by his escapes. He knew lat he was "marked down." 80 The years of strain were telling oil ho im. The robust, full-blooded face atl as showing deep lines; his flesh was co; rowing fiaccld; his glance tinged '1th quick apprehension. He told fcie wc itimates that he realized "they'd get. Pa lm," yet he sought to prolong bis be arm of escape. ^ Yesterday morning Jesse Purry had ^ [sen early as usual, and, after a sat- ws rfylng breakfast, had gone to bis 80! tore to arrange for the day's buBlees. One or two of his henchmen* eemlng loafers, but in reality a bodyuard, were lounging within call. A pa larrled daughter was chatting *with on ar fnthfip while her youn? baby layed among the barrels and cracker oxe8- - co: The daughter went to a rear win- ^ o.w and gazed up at the mountain. . he cloudlesB skies were still in bid- ' ig behind a curtain of mist The CQ, roman was idly watching the vs.nish- , ig fog wraiths, and heif father came . ver to her side. Then the baby cried J nd she stepped back. Purvy himself emained at the window. It was a hing he did not often do. It left, him xposed,^ but the most cautiously uarded life has its ^moments of re uced vigilance. He stood there posibly thirty seconds, then a shirp fulllade of clear reports barked out; and ras shattered by the hills into a long everberation. With a band clssped s bis chest, Purvy turned, walked to he middle of the floor, and fell. ^ The henchmen rushed to the open ash. They leaped out and plunged p the mountain, tempting the assae- ^ In's Are, but the assassin was satised. The mountain was again as Tl ulet as it had been at dawn. Inside, t the middle of the store, Jesse Pirvy Yc bifted his head against his daughsr'a knee and said, as one stating an xpected event: "Well, they've got me." An ordinary mountaineer would gi' ave been carried home to die in the mi arknees of a dirty and windowless ha hack. The long-suffering star of Jijsse Pr urvy ordained otherwise. He might w o under or he might once more beat a is yay back and out of the quick- co andB of death. At all events, he would sic ght for life to the last gasp. an Twenty miles away in the core of co: ae Wilderness, removed from a rail- dr ntirt Viv a anriTa nf noml-riern*>nrtlfMllftT 1.01 llles, a fanatic had once decided to ar jund a school. Fo Now a faculty of ten men taught ea uch as cared to come Buch things as 24 ley cared to learn. Higher up the an illside stood a small, but model hos- ap ital, with a modern operating table foi nd a case of surgical Instruments, to 'hlch, it was said, the Bt&te could not of! urpass. all To this haven Jesse Purvy, the mur- eri er lord, was borne In a litter carriod bli n the shoulders of his dependent*, co [ere, as his steadfast guardian star mi ecreed, he found two prominent mod- dr ?1 visitors, who hurried him to the br peratlng table. Later he was re- an loved to a white bed, with the June ca parkle In hla eyes, pleasantly modu- wt y , ed through diawn blinds, arid the tie rustle and bird chorus in his rs?and his own thoughts In his iln. SongclouE, but in .great pair:, Purvy ckoned Jim Asberry and Aaron Hol, his chiefs of bodyguard, to his bedie and waved the nurse back out of aring. 'If I don't: get well,", he said feebly, i8T#ira; Job for you two l?o;rs. I ikon you know what it is?" > rhey nodded, and Asberry whlsred a name: - . "SatnBOfl South?" "Yes," Purvy spoke hi a whimper; t the old vindlctiveness wan hot tottered. "You got the old mail, I :koix you can manage the cub. If u don't he'll get you "both one day." rhe two henchmen scowled. Ill gft him tomorrer/' growled Asrry. "That hain't no sort of use a-waltin'." 'No!" For an instant Pui-vy's voice ;e out of its weakness .to itii old iccato tone of command, a tone tich brought obedience. "If !r get II I have other plana. Never mind .at they are. That's my business. I don't die, leave him *alon?, until lye other orders. Tf 1 get well and Samson Sputh ls led meanwhile I won't liv4 long her. It would be my life for his. ep olose to him. The minute you it 'ijf my death?get him." He ised; again, then supplemented, ou two will find something mighty erestln' in my will." ;t was afternoon when Pnrvy ichei the hospital, and,: at nightfall the same day, there arrived at his ire's entrance, on stumbling, hardden mules, several men, followed two tawny bounds whose long ears pped over their lean Jawe, and lose eyes were listless and tired, but tose black muzzles wrinkled and [fled with that sensitive .instinct ilcb follows the man scent. The exBriff':i family were Instituting prosdings independent of the chiefs or re. The next morning this party ingert into the mountain tangle and. at tte cover with the bloodhoonds leash. The 'two gentle-faced dogs picked 3ir way between the flowering rhodendrons, the glistening laurels, the ithery pine sprouts and the mossrered rocks. They went gingerly d alertly on ungainly, cushioned it. Just as their masters were deairing they came to a place directly, er the store, where a branch had en bent back and hitched to clear 3 outlook and where a boot heel d crushed the moes. There one of im raised his nose high into the *, opened his mouth* and let out a ig, deep-chested bay of discovery. CHAPTER IV. 3eorge Lescott had known hospital. of many brands and degrees. He d be<m the lionized celebrity in ices of fashion. He had been the ??* onn?llir fammiR hrnthflr artlsta the cities of two hemispheres, and, tee sincere painting had been his le sta r, he had gone where his art's inderlust beckoned. He had tolled tie lure of transitory biiauty xemole sections of the world. Tbe went trip wan only one of inf.ny :e It, which had brought him into ich with varying peoples and <li?ctlve types of life. He told himself it never had he found men at once crudo and eo courteous as those sts who, facing personal perils, bid U tlm?i' and willingness to regard hla mfort rbQ o:>mlng of the kinsman, who tuld stay until the present danger ssed, tad filled the house. The four ds In the cabin proper were full, d some slept on floor mat treses, scott,' because a guest and woui.ded, is given a siaall room aside.. Hama, however, uhared his quaiteis in ler to perform any tiervice that an lured man might require, it had en a full and unusual day for the inter, iind ltd incidents crowded in him in retrospect and drove off the selbilitp of sleep. Samso;o, too, Bmed wakeful, and In the isolation the dark room the two men fell into nversal ion, which almost lasted out 9 night. Samson went Into the conjsional. This was the first human ing he had ever met to whom he uld unlurden his soul. The thirst to taste what knowledge / beyond the hills; the unnamed ^ $ GAINING BOYS FOR WARFARE iuth of Australia, From an Ear ly Age, Undergo a Compulsory Military 8ervice. Australian lads of twelve years be* i a more or less voluntary form of litary training. It Is an indulgent, ppy-go-lucky sort of thing, designed Imarily to be of physical advantage, hen the lads are fourteen years old, limited military service is severely mpulsory, with penalties for eva>n, and fineB laid upon employers d parents who interfere, and thus ntinues, with physical exercises, II, parades, and rifle practice, for nr yeare, whereupon these cadets e passed into the citizen forces. >ur wiiu. e-uay unus m o icquu i ch year, and 12 half-day drllla and night drills. A perfunctory attendee upon these grave obligations?lnt, sullen, frivolous behavior?counts r nothing at all. If the cadet fails be marked efficient, by his battalion leers he must perform his service i over again. In Kalgoorlie of westn Australia?a great dust storm owing that night?we watchcd a lumn of these "little conscripts" irch past with rifles and bugles \arid ums; and they were smart to s;ee? own uniforms, with tricks of green, d wide-brimmed Australian ha>:s ught up at. the side in the Australian ly. It is no farcical affair. ' When wanderlust that bad at times brought him a reetlveness SO poignant as to be agonizing; the undefined attuning of bis heart to the beauty of sky and , bill; these matters he had hitherto kept locked In guilty silence. . . In a cove or lowland pocket, stretch- 1 lng into the mountain side* lay the small and meager farm of the Widow Miller. The Widow Miller was a "South;" that Is to say, she fell, by ( tie of marriage, under the protection of the clan head. She lived alone with her fourteen-year-old son and her six- ? teen-year-old daughter. The daughter was Sally. The sun rose on the morning after Lescott arrived, the mists lifted, and the cabin of the Widow Miller stood, revealed. A tousle-headed boy made his way to the barn to feed the cattle, s and a red patch of color, as bright J and tuneful as a Kentucky cardinal/ "I Couldn't Lfve Withouten Ye, '8a rn- ] ion., I Jest Couldn't Do Hit" .. . , appeared at the door between .the '1 morning-glory vines. The red patch < of color was. Sally. , She made her way, carrying a , i bucket, to the spring, where she knelt i down and gazed at her own image in - ; the water. ' i Before going home she-set down her. bucket by the stream, and, with a ; quick glance toward the house to make i sure that she was not observed^ 1 climbed through the brush and wae lost to view. She followed a path that j her own feet had made, and after a j l steep course upward came upon a bald I face of rock, which stood out storm , battered wh'ere a rift went through , the backbone of the ridge. This point j I of vantage commanded the other val- ( | ley. Down below, across the treetons, , were a roof and a chimney from which < l a thread of smoke, rose in an attenuated shaft That was Spicer South'a , house and Samson's home. The girl leaned against the gnarled bowl of the < white oak and waved .toward the roof I I and chimney. She capped her hands , and raised them to her lips like one who means to shout across a great distance,. then, she whispered so low that only she herself could hear: 1 "Hello, Jamson South!" She stooJ for a space looking down, and forgot to laugh,^ while her eyes grew religiously and softly deep, then, / turning, she ran down the elope. She had performed her morning devotions. That day at the house of Spicer South was &n off day. The'kinsmen 1 who had 'stopped for the night stayed on through the morning. Nothing was said of the possibility of trouble. The men talked crops and tossed horseshoes in the yard; but no one went to work in the fields, and all remained within easy call. Only young Tarn* rack Spicer, a raw-boned nephew, wore a eullen face and made a great show of cleaning his rifle and pistol. Shortly after dinner he disappeared, and when the afternoon was well advanced Samson, too, with his rifle on his arm, strolled toward the stile. (TO BE CONTINUED.) * jpiSis we were in Brisbane of Queensland, a score of truant youngsters were packed off to the military barracks for ten days of close confinement and drill; and away they went, in a big cape wagon, in charge of a sergeant major, and under escort of some brilliant artillerymen?a melancholy little crew, these truants, then, facing ten days of absence from home, with six hours of drill on the hot paradeground, under a sergeant major, who doubtless knew how to improve the patriotism of small culprits, and would do it with a switch.?Norman Duncan, in Harper's Magazine. I ne Dime. The Bible Is not "losing ground." On the other hand its circulation is steadily rising. Since 1850 the British Bible society has published 240, 000,000 copies of the Bible, and the American Bible Bociety, since 1816, has published 100,000,0u0 copies. Total publication for past century equals 500,000,000 volumes. Friend of the Farmer. Dr. Marion Dorset, bi-chemist of the federal bureau of animal industry,. Is the scientist who first isolated the germ responsible for that farm scourge cholera in the hog. That accomplished, he perfected a serum to combat it, protected his processes by patents and then turned them over to the public, to be used without chazge. By Er O. SELLERS, Acting; Director, of Sunday School .Course. J&oiajSf Bible In'UU?e; CM^,.> , y : LESSON FOR lAWUARY 31 THE BIRTH OF SAMSON. >1 LESSON TEXT?Judges 13:S-16, 24-25. % QOLDEJN TEXT-KBewAre. I pray tbeefc md drink no wine nor strong drink.-fudges 13:4. ? ' The story, of SamgoaiOulKa large t In he book of Judges and to the interest ind imagination of all men ever since lis day; This being the only lesspn in i seven years' course* we suggest^'tn mtline, Samson's entire life. I. Qamsoi^s Parent*. jGod ^hocu^B i humble man and woman; folk of piety ind player, to bring forth and rear :hi8 great delivered/ The ang^'a ttopt mprobable promise (1&3) is accepted ly Manoah and his wife. (1*:6, 7). rhey' express a desire to be able to measure up to the responsibility?a; suggestion to parents. There Is also a lint of the dual responsibility of par3nts in the, .words, "teach us." (See B1..W C.A. T 1.C ? V T*. C4JIU. U.l, UM? XV- 4WWUable to believe that the one who brought the promise could also tell them how to train and nurture the child. God honored the mother's prayar and Bhe shares her experience with Che father (v. 9). Aa the mother of a Nazarlte she must keep herself from ill..things nwlean (v. 14; H.Cor, 6: 17), even as Mary, the mother of feaus (Luke 1:38). The experience of Ate: sacrifice, the worahlp of Manoab ind his wife and the fact of SamK)n'?. birth completes^ the record' of inapter ui. Manoan coma hoc wpnuuii the angel, but could show him hospitality. ;Verse 18 (R..V.) seems to indt late that, this was another' premanitestation of bur Lord Jesus. ' ' II. Samuel's Power. Every rac4 has Its' superman, and usually it is one oil physical strength That Samson had ao- physical evidence Of his superior jtrengta is evident. fro;n the fact1 thai Delilah asked to know his secret Not was his strength In his half, else there was no need that the "Spirit , oi Jehovah" should come upon him. The secret of his power is Indicated in 13:25. The word "move" suggests to piayupona harp, as if Samson's heart was open to God as a harp is open to iiuman touch. "Samson's power. was the result of a faith that wap ppen tothe infinite storehouse <*f the dicine dynamic." SUch spiritual powet Is within the reach of every man Samson ("sunny") was full of laugh; ter; not thecomic, but the jdyous. He lid the big things God gave him t*J dc and was filled with gladness. But Samson came under the spell of an evil woman and all of this true laughter and gla# joyouBneas left his soul Chapter 13, verse 25, illustrates the pointing of the Holy Spirit for service as perhaps distinguished from tfyl same Spirit for holiness. TOe laughi?i heard In the haunts of sin has lots it* buoyancy, is forced/ is different, it that pf men whose hearts are unclean III. Samson's Impurity. A woman can make Or mar the man With whom she associates. As a Nazarite, Samson was dedicated unto God, must not'allow a razor to touch his head, was noi to touch anything unclean, nor drini Intoxicating liquor. This vow wac asualiy for a short period* Samuel and John the Baptlzer are other Naza rites recorded in Scripture, and ttOWA KAOTV an/lit' Mr** DOiU W U(kTD VSIOU* OMVM ;**vw (WMW (3:14; 16:17; Luke 1:15). /flatasoi'i Btrength burned out when he, lay Mi head in a hftriot's lapt and the laugh tei went out of his soul. It was thai which broke the contact, between hlix and Ood Samson's birth in a godlj home, his knowlege of his relation it God and the experience of Qod's powei did not keep him from an ignchli failure. He left the .atmosphere rO! God's spirit for that of sin (Prqv. 4: 23). . IV. Samson's Imprisonment. We fine him after his excesses grinding in th< DhllloHno rHo?? mharo ho rtarhnm X UUXBVUiU iHVlif nuv* v uv |rw* overheard praises being sung to Dagoi who had overthrown Jehovah's judge It is never safe to play with tempta tion though conscious of our own strength; then it is we are most apt to'fall (I Cor. 10:12). One- act anl the gay hero is grinding in a prisoi house. Directly a man goes into im purity, whether in act or thought, h< loses the power that formerly moved men or worked wonders. Year aftei year Samson plodded his round of en forced toil, a type of the force anc power of intemperance and other lm pure habits. During these years h< doubtless put his hand upon hiB heal and said, "My hair is growing again,' and it gave him courage to bellev< that God would yet give him anothei chance. Finally, "when their hearts wen merry" (16:25), he |s brought out t< make sport. During one of his resting periods he said to a boy near by, "Lei me feel of the two pillars," those upot which the main walls rested anc which were within a man's reach Then It was that he was able to gTlj the mysterious power of the unseei (16:30). Was Samson a suicide? No! He accepted death as the inevltabl< consequence of his act of duty (Se< Heb. 11:32). The growth of his hair was only t token of that consecration which hi had surrendered when he failed t< withstand the wiles of Delilah. The Temperance Teaching of thli lesson is all too Dlaln. It must beeli in the home and continue throughou all of life. As we have scattered In formation throughout our land w< have seen the work of temperance ad van'cing mightily. Samson's exploi with the lion is a temperance sermoi in parable (14:5, 6; Prov. 20:1). Th< business of the temperance forces ii to slay the lion. We are also to ea "-honey out of the rock," to gain vie tories, within and without, and, lik< Samson, we can give honey to others To have a part in helping to redeem i lost world requires that we keep clean 'i ' to dealers and famers at prices, Potash sales increased I cent. In one a dear proot-^tet|| M ' arsare^S^ ' wishes and sellhim what he thicks he 9 1 needs. ThesemaAnfecturers ot nto?#?W willing to furnish as much Potash as. they can secure'. They, offer goods I 5 per cent, and even Inlwflietases t* -Xm > percent. Potash, If the farmers insl?t . ^ Shipping condltlo^^are^^MP?5jin& i price of fertilizers is not'dne w^^^^H ! to the slightly higher cost of Potaiflfci^aMi t Much of the Potash-that wijl be uecgn , in next spring's fertilizer had reachftfrTM I America before the war started. V There is no substitute for PotartL^* ' .,.We ^n no more return tv the ffer- , :fl > tlllzer of twenty years ago than we M i can return to the inefficient farm im ! plements or unprofitable > that period.?H. A. HUSTON. i " 'Man was made to mourn,'" quoted ? ? the philosopher. - ; j "That's right!" snapped the xniaogy- M nlst. "And women was to put on . ^ j earth to see that he does It" \ "Money Back" Medicine. . Our readers never risk a cent they buy Hanford's Balsam of Myrrfc fl because every dealer la this liniment;\ I is authorized to refund the money.Jf'jM . the Balaam is not satisfactory. Adv. 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