Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-03-25

| In human nature, HloStiy Soou, uuI OIL
furnishing an admirable chart OF con-
duct to be emulated or avoided:
COMPASSION. "
Sentiments.
Compassion is the sense Of our owr
misfortunes in those Of another man
IT Is a wise foresight of the disasters
that may befall us, which induces us
to assist others, in order to engage
| them to return II on like occasions;
J so that the services we do the unfor-
| tunate are in reality so many antfci-
pated kindnesses to ourselves.
Compassion proper to mankind ap'
i -.,- pears, ,..---s.---..-
Which Nature witnessed when she lent
2 us tears; "E. :
To show by plying looks. and melting
eyes, ...
How with a suffering friend we SYM
pathize.
Who can all sense Of others ills es-
Is but a brute, at best, In human shape
Examples.
The Sicilians in general exercised
kind Of tyranny over their slaves; pu'
a citizen of Emma, a city In the centre
Il
had made himself more odius thar
| the rest by inltaHuelties to greater
| number of thoyeunhappy men who
cultivated his large possessions. They
were all marked with hot iron In
their foreheads, shut up every night II
| close prisons and let out early In the
morning to their daily labour In the
fields; though, at the same time, they
were scarcely allowed the necessary
provisions I support themselves. Or
the other ha nd, Megallis, the wife OF
Damophilus, was no less cruel TO-
wards the slaves Of her sex, exactine
their tasks with insupportable rfgour
and causing them to be unmercifully
whipped for the least fault. These
two tyrants had a daughter, who was
very different from themselves; though
she was very young, she had good-na.
ture enough to pity the afflicted. She
often alleviated their sufferings; ap.
peased her furious mother; supplied
as far as she was able, the wants OF
the necessitous; and, In short, was the
only refuge Of those unhappy persons
We are sorry history has not transmit
ted the name of this humane and vir-
ltuous woman. The oppressed slaves
not being able to bear any longer the
unspeakable miseries they groaned
under, entered into a plot against the
author Of them. On the day appoint
ed, the slaves in the city Joined their
comrades in the country, to the NUM-
Der Of four hundred, on Damophilus's
estate, armed with forks, hooks and
other instruments of husbandry; and
marching directly to Emma, surprised
and pillaged 1t. AS Damophilus was
gone with his wife and daughter to
take the air in garden near the city
Ennus, who had taken upon him the
Office Of general, sent party to seize
him, which was done with the greatest
sense Of barbarity; however, they
treated the daughter with all the hu-
manity and respect due to her virtue;
so true 1t is that goodness commands
regard, even from the most furious
Ennus, being now master Of Emma, as
sembled the slaves he commanded In
the public theatre, and having erected
kind of tribunal, commanded Damo-
philus and his wife to be brought be-
fore him, In order to be tried. Some
Of the slaves were accusers,F others
witnesses, and the multitude judges.
Ennus presided and gave the accused
leave to speak in their defense. But,
while Damophilus was endeavoring to
raise compassion, and some began to
show pity for him, Hermias and Quex-
Is, two of the d. slaves whom he had
treated with great cruelty, came UP
to him, and with repeated blows des-
patched him, His wife, Megallis, was
sentenced to be delivered up to the
slaves Of her own sex. whom she had
treated without mercy. These furies
set no bounds to their cruelty; infiict-
ed on their mistress every torment
that revenge could invent; at length,
after having satiated their rage, threw
her down a precipice, and put an end
to her unhappy life. AS for the daugh-
ter, she was treated with the utmost
respect, conducted with the unani-
nous consent of all to Catena, and there
delivered untouched into the hands of
her relationship. Epit. !. lvi.-Diod.
Sic. in Excerpt. e..
Vespasian, the Roman emperor, was
|so far from seeking the destruction OF
any man, that he could not behold,
without many sighs and tears, even
the greatest criminals led to execu-
tion.-Sueton.
1t was a custom with Alexander the
Great to oblige the captive women
whom he carried along with him to
sing songs after the manner OF their
country. He happened among these
women to perceive one who appeared
in deeper affliction than the rest, and
who by a modest, and at the same
time, a noble confusion, discovered a
greater reluctance than the others to
appear in public. She was perfect
beauty; which was very much height
ened by her bashfulness, whilst she
threw her eyes on the ground, and did
all she could to conceal her face. The
king soon imagined, by her air and
mein, that she was not of vulgar
birth; and inquiring into it, the lady
answered, that she was grand-daugh-
ter to Octius, who not long before
had swayed the Persian sceptre, and
daughter Of his son; that she had
married Hystaspes, who was related to
Darius, and general Of great army.
Alexander being touched with compass
sion, when he heard the unhappy fate
of a princess Of the blood-royal, and
the sad condition to which she was re-
duced, not only gave her her liberty.
but returned all her possessions, and
caused her husband to be sought for,
in order that she might be restored 10
him.-Q. Curt. |. vi. C. 6.
AS Alexander drew near the city OF
Persepolis, he preceived a large body
of men, who exhibited a memorable
example of the greatest misery. These
were about four thousand Greeks, very
far advanced in years; who, having
been made prisoners Of war, had suf-
fered all the torments which the Per-
sian tyranny could inflict. The hands
Of some had been cut off. the feet of
others, and again others had lost their
noses and ears; after which the Per-
slams having impressed by fire barbar-
Gus characters on their faces, had the
inhumanity to keep them as so many
laughing-stocks, with which they
sported perpetually. They appeared
like so many shadows rather than
men; speech being almost the only
thing by which they were known to be
SUCH Alexander could not refrain
from tears at this sight; and, as they
unanimously besought him to commits
crate their condition, he bid them with
the utmost tenderness not to despond {;
and assured them, that they should