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DAMON AND PYTHIAS. According to Ye Editor of the An derson Daily Mail.-"The Truth About the Afair." (Editor's Note: In the issue of the News and Courier of March 11, ap peared an inquiry by Mr. A. E. Evi son, of Barnwell, regarding the real history coucerning Damon and Pv thias. We are here reproducing the real "history'' of t'he story, as told by the editor of the Auderson Daily Mail, and trust that it will prove satisfactory. Perhaps, Mr. Evison i3 not acquainted with our good Xriend, Bro4her Carpentqir, if not, this will prove a most eQellent in -troduction.) The "history'' is as follows: Pythias wfs a married nan ni an cient Syracuse. He went on a whiz one night and got into an awful sesrape. He smashed a show case in a cigar store, and ate a steak in the cafe and wouldn't pay for it, and raised a rough house generally, and finally wound up by trying to go to bed in the piano at the moving picture show. The police got him, Cf couiise, and the next morning the Recorder, Dionysius, gave him a sen tenee of thirty days without the al ternative of a fine. Now, as they were taking the prisoners down the street to the rock pile, Damon, one of Pythias' neighbors, icame along. "Hail!" cried Pythias, or words to that effect. ".Say, you've got to be .a friend. I want you to go to my wife and prove an alibi for me. Tell -her the firm (has sent me to Green 'ville to look after some had debts, ,or any other lie that you can think .of if it is a better one, and maike her 4believe it. I'll do as much for you some day." He would have talked more, but the guard ipunehed him in the ribs and told him to gadap. Now, about three months before this Damon and Pythias had boffi been trying to hire the same stanographer and Pythias had won out. So, on this beautiful, bright spring morn ing Damon didn't do a thing but go to Pythias' hoiuse and told, just what had :happened. He told the whole -aked truth without concealing a -single thing. And about fourteen aninatzes later he came hotfooting it into the police station, minus his hat and with .his face torn and his shirt -front all blooded up, and this was th story he told :"Run for your d1ives, you fellows. Pythias' old w~ is P io e a,is n,the warpath . .zor and a hat pin, and she says she is coming here and clean out this ,whole works. And she '11 come jolly -well onear doing it, too, for you see w'hat she h'as done for me.'' Now, .the sergeant was a m'arried man hmself. He sent an offeer post taste to the chain gang, and had Py thias brought back to the station 'house. They took the stripes off of' him and gave him back his elothes and a bromo setzlei, which braced him up, and sent 'him to his offie, and whein Philopena got there they -said they hadn 't seen Pythias in a anonth and didn't know anything .aibout him. Philopena went on to -Iier husband 's office, and w~hen she get there he was wor'king on the books like all possessed. But he 'wasn't napping--no, ind'eed. He -beat her to it eand lit in and gav. ..her a line off talk about how he had - been called out of town suddenly the .afternoon s. before, and couldin't get ther on the 'pihone and had told the boys in the offie to let her know. about it an.d they had forgotten .it, -...na he had just gotten in and had to stop by the offie and go over the o,ok~s ;becausd he gooud't d4pend en anybody to keep things straight, -and be was going on up to the house in a little while for he came from over yonder on the early train and hadn't 'had any breakfast, and, oh, dear, do sit down, -.e said. When Philopana toald him what Damon had said he was very much astonished, and then looked sad, 'and he said he ~did not intend to tell her, but that he had noticed that Damon: had been acting strangely for some time, and, really was afraid he had 'begun dop ing. Philopena believed it, or pre tended that she did, which always ~amnIs to the same thing. She said she hlad been so worried, but it was tall .iiht -now, and it was a pity he hiaa .te work so hard and be away &aom home so much, for she 'did miss' him so mu -when he was awvay. And then she sighed and said it was suceh a pity about Mr. Damon, but she wasrit surprised, -considering The kind of a wife he had, for she was so extravagant and didn 't half keep the house, anid was always nag ging at him. Whereupon Pythias ~shook hands with himself behind his ~back. Then Philopena straightened uip the papers on the desk and fid geted about for a while, and then sighed again an.d again and said +atnow tm hat a s was up town she guessed she had better do that s;hopping that she had been thinking about as it would save another trip acd it was so much trouble to fix up, and would Pythias please let her have forty dollars. Pythias coughed up the money without batting an eye, and Philopena took it and went out, winking at herself as she went, and Pythias spent the rest of .the day talkii7g to himself and kivking the chairs around. And now we come to the saddest part of it -all, for Damon and Pythias were never friends any more. In fact they never spoke to each other again as long as they lived, and they always acted as if they were afraid to get within- reacih of each other. Damon moved to New berry not long afterward and that was the last that anybody ever heard of him. -This, children, is the true story of it. Of course it is told somawhat differently in the histories, but his tories are always unreliable. You would do well if you would never be lieve anything you read in the his tories unless you just know it is so. Now, Pythias was a pretty good sort of a chap in a way, and he had a lot of friends, and they managed to cover up the scandal. It would have been awful if it had gotten out on him, you know. The way they managed to reover it up was that they organized a lodge, and li this man ner they kept the secret all to them selves. They called -the Lodge the Knights of Pythias. Other lodges were organized, from time to time, to meet similar emergencies, and the thing kept on growing, until to-day the Knights of Pythias is one of the )sJrongst secret soieti(q in *e country. It also claims to be one of the noblest. Some of the very best people belong to it, for, you see, you can't get so many people into a thing without having some of them above the average. Your papa be longs to it. Thank you, children. ,The Knights of Pythias is really a splendid organization, and it does a lot of good. The only deception it practices on'the public is in the name, for it is not the Knights of Pytihias at all, but the Nights of Pythias. For when the Lodge mee'ts the members get up and talk about what an old soak Pythias was, and how he used to spend his nights, aind how we must never go and do like wise. Whien new memibers are brought in, -the first lesson impress ed upon them is that while it is pos sible to fool a woman if we will afl stick together, it can't be done every time, and it is ~ever so muc~h better if we do&'t do anything .to make it necessary to try it. Another lesson imipreelsed upon the young membhers is that if they will stay at 'home of night and behave themselves they may not have quite so much fun, but they will feel a whole lot better the next morning and they won't be afraid to go uptown. It is a very beautiful lesson. You just ought to hear Frank Lander giving the lee-' ture. He is fine on it. One of thae motto'es of the Knights of Pythbias is that those who make. hay should live inw glass houses. An other 3is -that an honest man never gets fat. It has been' said by envious and malicious people-those who hav,e been blackballed, perhaps-that another of the mottoes is that the Lord admnireth a cheerful liar, but that is a miistake. There is no snch! motto in our noble Order. We have told you all this, children,. so you will understand why it is that papa has to go up tawn tonight. in Anderson County are .comng to the .city~ tonight to 'be the guests ofI Chiquola Lodge at a banquet in Maple Hall. 'There ares ix or eight lodges in 'the county, ewad every member is coming, or most of them, so there will be a big crowd. It is a great honor for Chiquola Lodge to be able to en tertain all her brethren, and we are going to spread ourselves. It is' going to .be a scrumptious affair. There will be eatables and rdiinkables and smokeables from swho laid the rail, and speech making to beat the' band. There will be speeches by such men as George Rembert and Elbert Aull anid Paul Sullivan and other big noises, and your papa,may have to make a speech himself. You see, when a man belongs to a lodge he has certain duties ,which 'cannot be shirked. Of course, this banquet is putting a lot of hard work on some of us,' but we don 't mind it, for there is no:thing nobler in all this world than to make other people happy. Remem ber -that, children. Now, childlren, it may 'be 2 or 3 o'clock before your papa gets home. He will be all tuckered out and will want to sleep la,te in the morning. Pease don't make any fuss when you get up. And now, children, good night. Pleant Areams.| FIGURES INDICATE CANNON'S DEFEAT More succinctly than it can b told in any other way, the complet, downfall of t-he Cannon forces i1 the house of rdprosentat'ves i shown by the various roll calls. 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