The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-02-02
PREsENT DYY cRArITUDE.

/ WAANh VIC hCGA AlaNEIAAA VIII "
point moral or adorn a tale"
We all do so admire, (but dismally
fail to emulate the example off, Abram
and Zimri, two brothers. who owned
a field together-a level field hid in a
happy vale" and who, when the har-
vest day was Ger, each took of his own
by night and placed 1t with his broth
er's.
And we read how David loved Jona-
than with love that stood the test;
and how Damon loved Pythias with a
love that did excel but didn't stand the
strain. And this eases us down to the
present day when brotherly love rapidly
runs to seed for lack of cultivation
these be the days when MANS inhu-
mainly to man makes countless thou
sands mourn"
This moralizing vein of thought brings
gently meandering into memory's Wis
ion, modern illustration of the Da-
mon-Pythias episode, right here in Leon
and counties that do adjoin the whirl-
igig Of time creating a political BOSS"
of our Damon and a badly duped and
disgusted individual of his friend-the
modern Pythias.
For, 10, these many years, these
twain were as but one, and together
they used the same brand of plow in the
one political field; and when the major
ity harvest Of votes was gathered into
sheaves, Pythiss' brow radiated the Joy
that filled his soul-for did he not re.
ceive an ample recompense and was
it not pure labor of love to root for
Damon?
What If Damon did freeze to the
lions share; were he not entitlev, by
virtue Of boss machine and he the bal
ance Wheel to size the pile and whack-
up with the ring?
And thus these two dwelt in amity
together and let not the voice of dis
cord mar their friendship and remuner-
alive transactions, and all went merri-
~ as marriage bell. But, alas for
the mutability of human affairs Dis
cord was only doing up its back-hair-
rolling up its sleeves-preparatory for
business.
One day our Pythias, letting his tenn
per Out-hank his judgment, gave a vi
cious, insane kick and hit the immacu-
late boss machine. And he made the
paint and varnish fly and then it was
the public eye could see graft" on hub
spoke and seat and not half try. Then
trouble loosed its parachute and peace
scrambled to a more congenial cline.
Ere many days, Pythias, girded up
his loins, with half-hitch in his de-
meanor, and hied him unto Damon; and
these were his words or substance of
his words: 1--WE mashed the corn and
fiicked the pet carbuncle ofthe powers
that be, 'one of whom you are which;
and 10 and begad, I'm fired. l pray
thee hand me down another ripe per-
simmon.
And these were the words of Damon
in reply: There be asses, long on ears
but short on understanding; and Pythias
thou art chief among them. Thy kick
hath knocked thy prospects into Hades;
henceforth thy name is Dennis"
The little birds chatter amid the
dew-kissed bouRhs of the gently sway
ing trees the grasshoppers chirp in
chorus sweet as they NOV the garden
truck and the small boy, ever and anon,
neglects to stone the browseing goat;
but no more will these twain, who once
were one, weep o FER each others woes,
Or hold sweet converse in the green field
Of politics.
Nay, Elizabeth Pythias hath blood
in his eye, and he longs for the day
when he can reach forth and take the
scalp of the recreant Damon and frame
It with his hide.
Christian TX, the aged king of Den.
mark, father of King George of Greece,
Of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain
and Ireland, and of the DOwager EN-
press, Maria Feodorovna, of Russia,
grandfather of King Haakon VII of
Norway, and related by blood or by
to most of the European
rulers, died with. startling suddenness
n the AmalienbOrg Palace Monday