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PEOPLE’S
Volume 1.
PEOPLE’S FRIEND
8 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING
BY
A. B. S. MOSELEY.
ROME, GA.
ST’BSCKI r»T I OIK,
One year in adv.n.r,*; -------
ad vicivrisi:xc4,
iu<>ne first insertion - - - - .sl.
I.shbseq:tont insertion, each
r2eti*er >1 contractu m i Itor six or twelve mouths
merits.
BRIGHT HOURS ONLY.
A lesson in itself sublime,
A lesson worth enshrining,
Is this : “1 take no heed of time,
Save when the >un is shining,”
These motto words a dial bore,
And wisdom never reaches
To human hearts a better lore
Tbi.n this short .-eritence teaches,
As life is sometimes bright and fair,
An 1 sometimes dark and lonely,
Let us fbrg-t lhe toil and care,
And notice the bright hours only.
There is no grove on earth’s broad chart,
Biit has >ome bird to cheer it,
So hope e’er sings in every heart,
Although we may not hear it.
Arid if to day the heavy wing
Os sorrow is oppressing,
Perchance to-morrow’s sun will bring
The weary heart a blessing.
We bid the joyous moments haste,
then forget their gli ter,
We take the cup of life and taste
No portion but the bitter.
But vv s should teach our hearts to deem
Its sweetest hearts the strongest,
And p’ea s. mt hours should ever seem
To li»:.? , r round us longest.
The darkest shadows of the night
Are just before the morning,
Then let us wait, the coining light,
All boding phantoms scorning,
And while we’re passing on the tide
(JI Time’s fast ebbing river,
Let’s pluck the blossoms by its side,
And bless the gracious Giver.
The Sailor-Boy’s Farewell.
We know not to whom belongs the au
thorship of the following lines—but ail will
agree w.’.h us in saying that nautical prua>e
never wa ; more beautifully interwoven in
sentiment of the heart’s best ioye for those
we clierish with the highest, holiest and
purest a flection :
Farewell to father blessed hulk !
In spite of met il, spin* ol bulk,
Ills cable soon may slip;
Yet while the parting tear is moist,
’I lie flag <4 gratitude I II hoist
In duty to the ship.
Farewell to mother fit st-da s she—
Who launched me on life s stormy sea.
And rggt'd me fore and aft :
Maypro'.idi i: h» r »itulH'i> spare,
And k«-c| het hulk in good repair,
To tow the smaller matt.
Farewell to sGter- lovely yacht;
But whether she 11 be manned or not,
I cannot now foresee ;
M iv some good ship a tender prove.
Well found in Mar." of truth and love.
And t ike her under lee.
F n*wi ' to Geor o —l’< i‘ !’y boat—
An lUI the lilt e crafts . ,•
I u home s dvli/i tful 1....,
When they at rive at .-ailing age
May wi- h'tu prove the wrath, r-gunge
And guide t : cm on their way.
G< l PIN < I . HV.--
T, a u.i. • ' true fhv-oT
If ou the tru
Toy soul must oxf'.low, if thou
A iotl’.er soul wouldst reach:
It i<. id> d e over-tiowmg heart
To ive the lip.- full speech.
Ti tik tri. .. at 1 thy tlwu.ht
,'l .t’l the world’s fame read;
<j. sk truly, and thy word
Sha i be a faithful seed :
Live truly, and thy life sb*’; be
A auu uuu.v* citicJ.
Home Georgia, Saturday, March. 8, 1873a
[From the Sun, January G, 1873.
THE NEW LABOR PARTY.
Women to be Elevated to the Rank
of the Negro—The Politi
cians to be Ousted.
The delegates from the various trade
unions who met yesterday adopted the fbl
i lowing;
Whereas, Owing to the passions aroused
by our civil war, corrupt and bad m?n, by
monopolizing the trade of polities, have es
tablished a system of robbery, fraud and
oppression, of which the working classes
are the victims ; and
Whereas, Ail legislation is by and in the
interest of classes who oppress, rob and
murde> the poor with impunity; and
UTtereas, As corruption has spread from
ad legislators and officials, even to our
courts, asylums, reform and benevolent in
: stitutions, until there is no piotcction to the
j persons or property of the poor; and
Whereas, The pre.-ent system of wrong
I cannot endure, but must end by reform or
l revolution ; be it
Resolved, That we, as representative
workinvmen, do call upon ali persons, with
out regard to country or class, creed, party
or sex, to unite with us to fori..- 1 a party of
equal privileges, equal rights, equal laws
and equal punishments, under the name of
the Labor Reform party, and with the fol
lowing platform :
FIRST PRINCIPLE-
Free speech, free press, free schools and
free church.
2. Reference to the people of all laws
I for their approval or rejection.
3. Election of ail officers for short terms
and fixed wilnries.
4. Yearly reports of the workings and
expenses of all public officers and institu
tions.
5. Puni.-hme: tof all corrupt officials ano
ail swindlers of the people.
6. The abolition of old feudal laws and
the enactment, of all simple and just laws
suitable to the country and the age.
7. Compulsory education and military
training in the public Schools-
8- Progressive taxation according to
' wealth.
9- The substitution of the city, State and
nati n for all monopolies and chartered
: robbers of the people.
10- The granting of work, not alms, to
1 the poor-
i II The elevation us woman and the for
| eignerto th" level ot llu colored man
12- The elevation of the worker and the
reduction ol the hours of labor.
13- Sympathy and aid to the oppressed
; of all nations.
baying the Country.
“If. ns you >ny, the Re| üblienn party
tolerates the whiskey trade, why do vou
continue to vote with them?”
( onsist* ncy
“Because I am so situated that I am
compelled to choose the least of two evils.’’
St rri i'.
Yes, there is thunder in the sky, there
is an avalanche in the mountain, and al!
the eartlupiakcs are mad. The Dcmoera s
will muzzle the press, - pu-1.-h the r-nur.-L,
blow out the sabbath day, burn ali the
I bibles, juggernaut all the Christians, sink
! our fleet, batter down our fortresses, tear
down our flag, submerge out commerce,
resurrect slavery, mid cede the whole I ni-
■ ted States to St. Domingo
Yes indeed, the Nation would ki k the
fn'ani quick if you should drop off. Hang
: on I iotl’.er. ter the sake of ah the earth
hang on, and save Cue Repu’ iicai: paity,
pi i « whi-kiy that it n ay not h
Though you bv < • -><. I I• ,( vote for th
id< ith of ' ),(> .I .! 1 ’..k :t !- a - iij ill,, 1
the blighting h< r.- >rs f dririkcnaess, .-’ill
stand to your post and null for !il»erty.—
Stick h-r your ; .rn an • n*- ver min 1 prin
cij I , ' mgh tie? h ” m burn out and rhe
whole -aperstiu.tuie d:. p into hell. 7'7-
• -V
An Honorable C ailing.
“Bid men bring th? wh -key trade into
' disrepute. ’ Tyro.
I Ye-, drunk nr. •" and th-ft and wi lful
murder wuuld be res pee: ft e, au i 1 c a.--
sost blasphemy would be th- -w<?te< mu
; sic, if all the liquor dealers w\ re honora: ic
| Luvu t 1 ilal WuUtu uC<i a 2iliju.
.
be the day when sweet rum-blossoms shall
bloom on the cheeks of innocence and vir
tue, and when the breath of love and prayer
shall be fragrant with whiskey : when the
pulpit shall be ornamented with a beautiful
bloated face, a blunt blue nose, and a pair
of bleared eyes. When venerable deacons
.shall stagger gracefully along the aisles,
and when Christian belles shall languish in
the aims of their lovers, filled with all the
charming witchery of whiskey. Oh the
loveliness of respectable drunkenness ! No
romantic pen can ever paint its exquisite
delights.
Nay, it is a compound curse, an unmiti
gated. concentrated, most intense, wither
ing, blighting, damning curse. Though
the cup be received from an angel’s
hand, and though the drunkard be mauu
factuicd on his knees at the altar of God,
he would be a stenchful wretuh, hated and
accursed both by God and man.— Exchange.
A Solemn Reflection.
; “ Within a year the cotisumpjon cfopium
has increased about 1,000,000 ounces per
month.”
Add to the above the alarming fact that
’ hundreds of tons of the new narcotic,— —,
are being manufactured ami sold, and you
may form some idea of the demand of the
shattered nerves of men. The fearful
truth is. the vitality of the people is failing
fast by hereditary weakness, and the per
sonal use of intoxicants. It is no strain
upon the perspective glass of science to
j discern the day when the ii'eof our nation
; will cellaose under this horrid regime.
Valuable Receipts
Sit.ver Cake. —White of 8 eggs, 2
I cups of sugar, one-half of butter, <me
i half cup of milk, two and one-half cups
flour, one-haif teaspoon soda, one teaspoon
cream or tarter-
Gold Cake. Yolks of s eggs, one and
one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of but
ter, one-half cup of milk, two cups flour,
one-half teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cream
of tartar-
Oyster Fritters-—Take good sized
oysters, make a thick batter with four eggs
and a tablespoons ul of milk, dip each oys
ter into the natter and then into grated
bread and fry them a nice color.
Velvet Pudding.—Two quarts of milk,
6 tablespoons ot corn starch, yolks of 5
eggs, one cup of sugar, flavoring to taste.
Dissolve the corn starch in one quart of*
milk, beat the yolks of the eggs with the
other quart, then add the sugar and boil all
until thick ; then pour into a pudd ng dish,
Beat the whites <d‘ the eggs with a little
sugar, and put on the top and brown in the
1 oven a few minutes.
French Ka.li.s- One pint milk, one
' tea cup yeast, and flour enough to make
a stiff sponce ; let it stand 3 or 4 hours to
rise, then add i th butter and two eggs ;
knead in as much flour as necessary to
roll; let it again stand 3 hours to rise;
when light, roil out and cut the rolls a half
inch thick, placing two together to make
th'm open nicely let them stand a couple
ot’ hours in the pan and thm bake them a
light brown.
Lei n.E Tiiixtis.— Little words
are the sweetest to hear: little
charities ilv furthest, and are
lollies 1 on the wino - ; little lakes
are the stillest ; little hearts are
the iu’lest. and little farms the
Lest tilled; little books the most
re ttl. and little sonns the dear
est loved. .Magnitude is not
\nine.
What is the dinercuee between
fixed stars and shooting stars ?
’! la* one are suns, the others dar
-11 • r .
Jacob.l‘rice, of Lancas’er, I’a..
losi ills noseina tight, the other
da;, li aas a priceless mt.se, but
i:ov. l.i“ G a noseless Price.
I'lie man who comes on the
stag * e' .iet! v at his cue is prompt:
but the man who does not come
on at ail is prompter.
“1 haic to hear people talk be
lli ml one’s back.” ns i he robber said
when the constable v.a> chasing
liiiu ami ur\ ing, “Stop tniel.’ ;
FRIEND.
The Jonadabs-—Th-'“Jonadabs”— or,
as they call themselves in their charter, the
“Sons of Jonadab,” are.a remarkable body
of temperance men at the capital of die na
tion They take what they denominate the
“Iron-clad Pledge.” If a man violates it
he is expelled/or Zi/c. Re is taken by the
hand if he falls, and encouraged to join
some other total abstinence association—
but he can never return to the Jonadabs.
The society is founded on the incident
recorded in the 35th chapter of Jeremiah,
where the sons of Jonadab took the pledge
to drink intoxicating liquor “no more for
ever.’’ Every nPn, properly vouched for,
who will take the “Iron-clad Pledge,” mav
become a “Jonadab.” The present num
ber of members in Washington is six huu
dred. Os these, five hundred and forty
have thus fur stood firm. There are kin
dred councils in Rhode Island and Massa
chusetts.— Temperance Advocate.
Acts and Thoughts.—lt is not acts
which blacken the soul; it is not conduct
which destroys. These are but the holes
which the worms, bred in the very fibre of
the wood, have eaten. These are but the
fruit and visib’e witnesses of a disease which
holds the entire body in its power, making
the veins its channels, every drop of blood
its servant, every pulsation of the heart its
slave. The thoughts destroy. The imagi
nation puts the knife's edge to the jugular
vein of virtue, and lets the precious cur
rent out. You cannot reform a drunkard
until yeu first reform his mind. What
needs to be done is to have the craving for
stimulus taken out of him. Over against
his inordinate desire you must raise up
some stronger repulsion which shall be
more than a match for his appetite for
liquor. This is the true philosophy in
every branch of morals. You must change
the man himself if you would change his
habits. There is no life so hard as a reli- I
gious life to a mar, without religion. I
Which.—One of our ioong, slab-sided
newspaper men is in trouble, He wanted
to know what character to assume at the
masquerade - A kindly disposed neighbor
advised him to braid his legs and go as a
whip-lash; swallow himself round and
round a few dozen times, and go as a roll of
tape : wrap himself in the American flag
and go as a barber-pole; b’istle his hair
up and go as a white-wash brush ; swallow
a tew marbles and go as a rattle-box ; put
an insulator in hi- mouth and go as a tele
graph pole : or walk on his hands as a pai r
ol scissors. He is in worse trouble now
than before, but will probably straighten
himself out and go as a lead pencil.
Courtesy.
Boys, do you ever think how much real
couitesy will do for you? Some of the
gieatest men were ever cautious in this re
spect. When the Duke of Wellington was
sick the last he took was a little tea, On
his servant asking him if he would have it,
the Duke rcplii*i, “Yes, if you please.”—
These were his last words. How mnch
kindm-ss and courtesy are expressed by
'hem ! He who had commanded great
armies, and was long accustomed to the
tone ot authority, did not overlook the
small courtesies of life. Ah, bow many
boys do ! What a rude tone of command
they often use to their little brothers and
sisters, and sometimes to their mothers!
They order so. 1 hat is ill bred, and shows,
to say the least, a want of thought. In ail
your home talk remember “If you please.”
To aii who wait upon or serve you, believe
that “Jfyou please’ will make you better
fervid than ail the cross or ordering words
in the whole dictionary. Do not forget
three little words, “Il yeu please.”
•’Speak gently ; it is better far
To rule by love- than fear.”
The Seven Wonders.
The seven wonders of the world are
■im mg the 'radition.- ol childhood, and yet
it is a remarkable fact that ninety-nine per- ■
'•on.-, out of >. c hundred wh*« might a-k the
jim-uion <-i>uid r. >t name tnem- They are i
the Pyramids—the mystery of the past, the
enigma il the pre.-ent —and the enduring
for the future age- of this world. The
lem; Ic, the walls and the hanging gardens
of Babylon, the most celebrated city of
Asyria, and the residence of the kings of
that country after the drstruetion of Nine- !
vah. The Chryselephantine statue of Ju- i
Number 8,
piter Olympitus, the most renowned work
of Phydias, the illustrious artist of Greece.
The statue was formed of gold and was sit
ting on a throne almost touching the
mits of the temple, which was seventy feet
high. The Temple of Dianna at Ephesus
which was 220 years in building, and which
was 425 feet in length and 220 feet in
breadth, and supported by 127 marble col
umns of the lonic order, sixty feet high.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, erected
in the memory of Mansolus. the King of
Caria, by his wile Artemesia, B. C. 353.
The Pharohs at Alexandria, a lighthouse
elected by Polmey Soter at the entrance of
the harbor of Alexandria. It was 450 feet
high, and could be seen at a distance of one
hundred miles, and upon which was in
scribed “King Ptolmey, to the gods, the
savior, for the benefit of sailors.” Lastly,
the Colossus at Rhodes, a brazen image of
Apollo. 105 Grecian feet in bight, and
which was to be located at the entrance of
one of the harbors of the city of Rhodes.
Temperance.—There is being made now
a heavy run for the Temperance society at
this place. Some thirty or forty accessions
have been io the order within the past
three week-;, and we learn there is a floor
full of twenty-three to be thrashed out at
the next meeting. Temperance is a migh
ty good thing if it is lived up to in good
faith. Cleveland, Tenn., Banner.
Never too Late too Mend.
Sir Henry Spelman neglected
the sciences in his youth, but com
menced (he study of them when
ho was between 50 and GO years
of age. After this timelie became
a most learned antiquarian and
lawyer.
Boccacin was 35 years of age
when he commenced his studies
in polite literature. Yet he be
came one of the greatest masters
of Tuscan dialects—Dante and
Petrarch being the other two.
Ogelby, thetranslatorof Homer
and Virgil, wasunacquainted with
Latin and Greek till he was past
50.
Fudoyico Monaldesco, at the
great ageof 115, wrote the mem
oirs of his own time.
Franklin did not fully com
mence his philosophical pursuits
till he had reached his 50th year.
Plutarch, when between 70 and
<SO, commenced the study of
Latin.
Socrates, at an extreme old age,
learned to play on musical instru
ments.
Calo, at 80 years of age, com
menced to study the GreeK lan
guage.
HAD HE A MOTHER? .
“How does God seem to you
when you try to pray?” I asked
of a Sunday school scholar.
He looked up rather sadly, and
said slowly,
“I never prayed.”
“Never?” I said, wonderingly,
“Did you never try ?”
“No,” he answered, and a sad
look eame into his eyes.
1 wa.-. sad too, and could only
exclaim,
“What a sweet lesson you have
yet to learn.”
Some one who heard thestrange
remark, asked me.
“Had he a mother? She sure
ly must have taught him ‘Now 1
lay me,’ or ‘I >ur Fat her’ ”
Strange she did not, strange
t! at she could allow him to say,
“No one, not even my mother,
ever taught me to pray.”
I hope there are few mothersill
this gospel land whose sons and
daughters can speak thus.
Oh, mothers, teach your chil
dren to call on their Heavenly
Father, even if you cannotyour-
M -Ives.
Try, best of all, to teach them
by example, so that in afterlife,
in the great hereafter, your sons
and daughters may gladly say,
“Aly mother taught me to
[ pray.”