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Updated: May 18, 2025
Imagine Damon and Pythias, Euryalus and Nisus, Orestes and Pylades at twenty-two one joyous, loquacious, noisy, the other melancholy, silent, dreamy; sharing all things, dangers, money, mistresses; one the complement of the other; each rushing to all extremes, but forgetting self when in peril to watch over the other, like the Spartan youths on the sacred legions and you will form an idea of Montbar and Adler.
The class to which Hugh belonged was one day standing waiting to be heard, when the master was giving a subject and directions for an English theme to Dale's class. The subject was the Pleasures of Friendship. In a moment Hugh thought of Damon and Pythias, and of David and Jonathan, of the last of whom there was a picture in Mrs. Watson's great Bible.
More than two thousand years ago two young men who were intimate friends lived in Sicily. Their names were Damon and Pythias. The ruler of the country, named Dionysius, was a cruel man. He put Pythias in prison and fixed a day for his death. Pythias had done nothing wrong, but he had angered Dionysius. The father and mother of Pythias lived far away.
Pythias is seventeen by the way and wants to work his way through college." "Mother of men!" said Kenny softly and thought of Joan's relief. "Sounds very beautiful and lofty in a letter," went on Whitaker, angling for sympathy, "but of all the damned, high-falutin' lunacy I've ever seen in men, that's the limit." He waited, confident in his expectation that Kenny would agree.
They are most acceptable in the present crisis, and much suffering has already been relieved by them. The Knights of Pythias have received a large donation of money from Pittsburgh lodges. Appeal to President Harrison.
As the days pass, you grow stronger; and Frank comes in to tell you of the school, and that your old tormentor has been expelled; and you grow into a strong friendship with Frank, and you think of yourselves as a new Damon and Pythias, and that you will some day live together in a fine house, with plenty of horses, and plenty of chestnut-trees.
Everybody at Naples remarked the separation of the Damon and Pythias indeed, Marrowfat had saved my life more than once but, as an English gentleman, what was I to do? My dear friend was, in this instance, the Snob RELATIVE. It is not snobbish of persons of rank of any other nation to employ their knife in the manner alluded to.
On the heels of this train came another and then another. These gay cars were filled with members of the Knights of Pythias going to their convention in Denver. At the sight of these men in their Pullmans, my friend the communist first turned pale, then green, then red. His eyes narrowed and blazed like those of a madman.
No wonder that Damon and Pythias have become such a byword that they seem too well known to have their story told here, except that a name in everyone's mouth sometimes seems to be mentioned by those who have forgotten or never heard the tale attached to it.
The Knights of Pythias were not organized until 1864 in Washington; but the Grand Order of Galilean Fishermen started on its career in Baltimore in 1856. The benefit societies developed apace. At first they were small and confined to a group of persons well known to each other, thus being genuinely fraternal.
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