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From the German of Heine.
BY JOHN R. THOMPSON.
'Where shall yet the wanderer jaded
In the grave at last recline ?
In the South, by palm-trees shaded ?
Under the lindens by the Rhine ?
Shall I in some desert sterile
Be entombed by foreign hands ?
Shall I sleep, beyond life’s peril,
By some seacoast in the sands?
Well, God’s heaven will shine as
brightly
There are here, around my bed,
And the, stars death-lamps nightly
Shall be hung above my head.
—Galaxy.
[Written for the Morning News.]
*l?he Condemned.
The scaffold in ths distance stands.
With welcome in its outstretched bands ;
The gloom that in this cell is shed,
Seems like the pall above the dead.
The phantom’s of the past arise,
And chill me with their stonj a/cs ;
Bin back, fur back before their birth,
Comes up a vision, scarce of earth.
I was a chi’.d—gay, bold and free,
Aim! never meant for misery ;
I loved the sun, lite air, the light,
The stars that gemmed the peaceful night.
I loved the moon, whose silver beams
Spoke of fond manhood’s living dreams;
I loved the days whose hours were spent
In plays, with duties in them blent —
The weeks whose endings ail were peace;
That told of life which ne'er should eease;
The years whose birthdays made me king
With magic power o’er everything.
With crown ar.d sceptre strong and bright
As ever seen by mortal knight,
And will, defying even late,
So armed I seemed ’gainst harm or bate.
Oh, boyhood’s hours, so full of joy I
Ch, boyhood's days, witbout alloy !
Oh, boyhood's faith and boyhood’s trust I
Where are ye ? Crumbled into dust.
A mother in whoso deep brown eyes
A world of love lay, wreathed in smiles .-
A father whose strong voice and wilt
Bade my impatient soul be still ;
A sister, gentle ns u dove —
Whose every movement said, “I love !”
Whose fragrant breath 1 feet e’en now,
Far, far below this tain-marked brow ;
A brother, whose brave heart, strong hand,
My courage raised, my spirit manned;
A wife 1 loved, but whose fair fame
Is tarnished by mjj dreadful shame ;
A daugh'er, sweet and fre-h as dew.
For whom my drcams were ever new,
tout who forever more must bear
A herritage of crime and care.
And still no more. I name her not —
1 even envy not her 101.
No sun can o'er her pathway rise;
She lives, but living, daily dies.
AU, nil are gone, ami 1 am loft.
Os everything but sin bereft
Through all the labyrinth of my brain
A cry of ‘‘save me !” wails in vain
No sun, no moon, no stars for me—
No friend, in all my misery;
No will to dare, no heart to t rave.
No hope for aurbt except a grave.
M.A.B.
Fla.
Rome, Georgia, Saturday, April
A MAN’S WILL;
OR
A WOMAN’S RIGHT.
BY MARGIE P. MOSELEY.
CHAPTER 11.
As Maj? Duprey seized the two
men who had attacked his com
panion, he received a blow upon the
head which sent him realing back
ward and before he could recover his •
equanimity, tine man who had lowered
himself by the rope from the cliff, seiz
ed his collar, pulled him to the
ground, and gave him such a lick on
the brow that he was rendered uncon- '
scions. May who was held firmly by
the ruffians, looked on in silence. She
feared the worst fate for her compan
ions, and looking up at one of the men I
she said, “If yt»u wish to rob and
plunder us, you have the power, do
so quickly, and let me go, I wish to do
something for my friend whom it
•earns you have nearly killed.!”
“Haf’ha!—New that’s cool ain’t
it ?” intend to part with you
so soon my little Patridge, come, pick '
up your traps and lets git away ?” 1
One of the strongest tooK Maj. Duprey
on his shoulder, and the other two,
laughing, took, each an arm of the
youqg girl, and then marched off.
May looked back at the cliff, but saw
nothing of Mr. Leighton, it was a
source of gratification to her, how
ever, to perceive that he had not been
thrown over the cliff, and with the
hope that he was alive, and would
meet her again, she went on, too. busy
with shought, to be very badly fright
ened. She had not told her Uncle
wl'ere she was going, indeed she iiad
not seen him for two weeks, that wor
thy specimen of manhood having been
in that blissful state, termed “boozy,” ;
ever since he h »d< ’ .L'V<_d May irbtn j
hi* home.. The young girl loved her i
Uncle with all his fault, and although
be had dealt with her very roughly,
she had, after a little term of parting,
forgiven him, and gone back to tell !
him so, but had found him completely !
under the influence of his old time
e»emy, whiskey. Thus she had gone
ov this pleasure excursion without
having told either Col. Johnson on
bar Uncle. Mas this a judgment
sent on her for disobeying her Uncle
apd the man who was to be her hus
band; She asked herself the question
as she walked silently along between :
the ruffians, who gazed at her |
and at each other; with admiration
and wonder, as they, by signs and
winks, unseen by her, conversed
in pantomime. They were awe struck,
by a woman, who, though their cap
tive manifested, no fear of them, and
thus they kept silent, and Irft May to
her own reflections
When they had gone seme distance,
May turned and looked back for Maj.
Duprey. He wns not in sight, and she
was alone with the two men who held
her; looking up she said; “where are
you taking me?”
“To whose headquarters?”
‘To headquarters!’
“The Chiefs.”
“Who is he?”
“Ma’br he'll tell ye,” said the other
laughing.
“What will he do with my friends?”
‘Loose ’em 'fore they gits that, I
'speet'—replied the first.
May looked up and shuddered, she
remembered what ‘loosing’ a man
meant in the war-days, and she knew
that these men had been familiar with
those days, for their language told
the fact. She too had seen and full
some of the terrors and adventures
incident to the inhabitants of the ‘de
batable land,' and she had learned i
self-control in the struggle through ;
she had passed. Looking quietly at
the man who had sp >ken last, slit con- '
tinned: ‘And you intend to loose me !
also ?
They both laughed, and the first ,
who had s]>oken replied ; spects as how
if we does. ye wont stay loss, the Cap’n i
will find ye pow’ful quick! come don't ;
get s keered, he s got plenty o' nice i
things; and if ye’re a little tired he got '
plenty of the over-joyful, and it’ll do
ye heart good to smell it!”
May lowered he head and walked
on in silence. After a short time!
they arm ed at the river’s edge wh« re 1
° I
' "%&*&*■ lifiroß^-'
a boat awaited them. A tall finely
developed man stood resting on the
oars, and there was, to May’s curious
eyes, something familiar in the easy
grace with which he brought the boat
ashore, and advanced to meet her, but
his face ivas unknown, yet hei' quick
perception recognized the ‘Chief,’ in
the individual before her.
She was ledtothe boat 41 silence,
in silence they all embarked, and in
silence rowed away to the mouth of a
cave overhanging the river. The en
trance to the 'cavern was several feet
above the water, May could not help
smiling at the novelty of her position,
as her now silent companions seated
her in a sort of swing, and drew her
up to the cave’s mouth. A kind of
rocky shelf served for a platform at
the entrance, and upon this May was
surprised to find a young handsome
negro girl, who greeted her as a guest,
welcomed her warmly, and immedi
ately proceeded to perform the duties
of hostess, as she lighted her through
the intricate windings of the cave.
They passed through several rooms
which bore evidence of haring been
used, and finally entered one whose
ceiling was a wonder of beauty, with
its hundreds of stalactytes guttering
in the lamp light. May looked around
and saw a handsome apartment in
which the girlbade her to be seated,
and make herself at home, and here
we must leave the contrary girl who
persisted in doing what she termed
right, in opposition to the sworn ‘will’
of her masculine representative. We
leave her to return to that highly of
fended representative, and his col
league Col. Johnson.
It was morning of the day succeed
ing May’s visit to the Falls, and the
city, at least, a part of it, was on
the i-iue” about the missing edit
or, and the banker. Where could
they have gone, and why did thuFV not
return. Thi? the -quStJk*
every mouth. There were various
surmises, and rumors, one said May
had run away with the banker and
another said with the editor, a third
that she had gone out with the two
lovers to see them fight, and had run
away with the victor. Uncle Eth
ridge thundered, and sputtered, and
swore, and coughed, and drank, and
vowed revenge. Col. Johnson was in
the “calm of dispair” the town said,
for he pretended to hide, but man
aged to let (‘very body find out, that
be was eng.tgt>l to May. He searched
the town, offered rewards, searched
the country far and wide, and ended
by avowing publicly, that he would
never Bleep until he had revenged the
insult offered Miss Ethridge by the
two villians who had enticed her off.
A company of young men, with native
chivalry, volunteered, and thus he
soun found himself at the head of a
company ready to shed their heart
blood to ‘avenge a woman’s wrongs.’
The city rang with praises of the chiv
alry of Col. Johnson, and the Belf-sac
nficing devotion of his gallant young
townsmen. Man’s unselfish attach
ment to woman became the theme of
universal praise, and although May
was in distress, and the heroine of the
occasion, there were plenty of tongues
running, in abuse of a woman who saw
things as they were, and dared to tell
a few of those, most creditable to the
sex. Amid shouts and cheers and hojies
for his success, this modern Don
Juixote sallied forth to avenge the
w rungs of woman, to bring back in
triumph the girl who had treated him
so shamefully, or to die in trying to
save her! The town was on tiptoe
w itL hope expectation, and adminis
tration! Don Juixote departed with
his gallant hand and the town col
lapsed —it was like a world without a
sun—when would he return.
The night succeeding his departure,
the town was alarmed by the
cry of lire. There was wild rushing
to and fro, and gathering of pallied
groups. All was done that could be
Uonc, and yet the flames were not
cheeked, until the printing office and
hank were consumed. Uncle Ethridge
waddled up and down the streets and
puffed, a..d cursed until he was purple
with rage, and ready to burst with his
unselfish anxiety for the property of
his mice and the banker, Col. Duprey.
Bat the devouring element, laughed
at him as May had done, and went on.
He called on all to w.tness the visita
tions of Heaven upon the disobedi-
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ence of a girl who dared to advocate
the doctrine that a woman had a right
to do as she pleased with her own prop
erty. It was a telling example, and
Uncle Ethridge made unsparring use
of it, and abused May in the terms us
ually employed against women who
dare to have an opinion— abused her
until even his own sex became asham
ed, and remonstrated.
The evening of the day upon which
Col. Johnson and his chivalrous friends'
departed in quest of the missing girl
a carrier brought intelligence that
tracked been, discovered of the misses
ing party. That a delicate kid glove
and a handkerchief marked May Eth
ridge had been found just below the
falls that stains of blood were upon
the white sand, and evident, sizes of a
severe struggle were also visible. It
was feared the yoang girls had been
murdered, and her companions had
escaped. Col. Johnson was nearly
wild with grief, he neither ate nor slept,
and the whole town was eloquent in
praise of his loving and earnest, regard
for May Ethridge, and loud in its con
demnation of the ungrateful girl who
could trifle with such a man, in order
to do as she pleased, and set up a
newspaper. Finally, when they
had been out some three long
hours or more, regardless of his
his oath, the Col., overdone by fa
tigue, was prevailed upon by his
friends to take a drink; it would
strengthen him, cheer his drooping
spirits, and restring his scattered
nerves. The friends -prevailed’ and
the Col. was cheered and strengthen
ed.”
They had determined not to go back
until they “came triumphant,” and so
they built up fires under the cliffs at
the falls, and determined to remain.
Having been “cheered” a little the
gallant and heart-broken Colonel de
sired a Little /«««•»'“ch“<»r/’ ai.d as thv
essence of cheerfulness, more familiar
ly known as whisky, had all been ap
propriated, a runner was dispatched
to the city for recruits, in the form of
jugs, or black bottles. This was the
courier who came ostensibly to give
“tidings of the missing girl,” and the
town, overflowing with the milk of hu
man kindness, offered to send the
cream of its good things, to these self
sacrificing young men. Thus the cou
rier returned laden with good things
of every desription, and overladen with
the essence of cheerfulness. Notwith
standing their hurror and grief at the
mysterious disappearance of Miss
Ethridge, and the danger she might
be in, these earnest, noble champions
of woman’s cause sn.t
“As drunk as druuk could be.”
and spent the night in singing, jesting,
dancing and cursing. Then, like many
heroes have done before them, they
laid themselves down upon the cold
hard ground, and slept until the sun
of the next day, was high in the heav
ens.
It was about noon of the next day
when they prepared to resume the
search for the missing girl. They took
each a little for the stomach s "sake,
just after awaking, then just a little
more when breakfast was ready, and
finally another swig to settle their
breakfasts, and our gallant youths
were off' on the arduous duty of serv
ing a woman. It was inconceivable
to them, how women could receive bo
much at their hands, and then dare to
have wills of their own, but each one
consoled himself with the idea, that
when he did get a wife, he d make her
walk a chalk line, and so these noble
young men went on their errand of
mercy and disinterested kindness,
cheered by the winsky, and this manly
reflection, to do their duty if they died
in the attempt, they determined to tell
all of the hardships, such as sleeping
on bare rocks, riding hard all day anti
night, the tension upon nerve and body
which May s position rendered unen
durable, etc; but they universally
pledged themselves to say nothing
about the whiskey. And this was
manly and right; never Ixttray your
comrades!
Mounting their horses they <et out
in various directions, examined the
bushes and leaves for traces of the lost
one, and strange to say, Col. Johnson
after long and dilligent search, traced
her, step by st« p, to the river s edge
and there found the very print of the
boat which had borne his ladv awav.
Number 13
This so Overcome him, that his nerves
gave away completely, and ho
was again prevailed to take a little.
At this juncture the party were at bay,
and after debates and mighty argument
pro, and contra, it was decided that in
stead of one part going up the river,
and the other down, they should all
remain together and rest, and send
back to the city for refreshments, and
refillings of empty vessels, and also
foi^tools to make a boat. The courier
departed a second time,and our heroes
nerved themselves, (with the last drops
in the bottles,) to stand their anxiety
and impatience like men. And it was
really astonishing how bravely Col.
Johnson overcame his fellings, and how
effectually he concealed
The canker worm of grief,
Then gnawing at his breast ;
for he was the life of the party, and
only a sigh now and then, told how in
tensely the danger of his betrothed
wrung his bosom chords.
(concluded in our next.)
Tall Men
As a country becomes settled,
and especally in cities, where great
numbers of human beiugs are
crowded into a comparatively
small place, men degenerate in
hight and the women are not only
proverbially shorter than in the
country, but they are less muscu
lar. As there are thought to be
exceptions to all rules, there are
both tall gentlemen and tall ladies
in old cites. A majority of them
however, if traced to their birth
place, will be found to have come
from ihe country. Kentucky and
Tennessee produce the tallest
men in this country. A young
boy taken from the city, whoso
parents are below the usual hight;
and reared in either of those States
would probably quite over
top any ot his family. The ma
terial abounds in the grains ami
meats of these splendid regions
for developing the bones. Tho
Patagonians haA e long been cele
brated for being the tallest race of
men in existence. Magellan’s
associates give their average sta
tue at seven feet four inches. Co
mmodore Byron’s officers seldom
saw one below seven feet, and
some exceeded that measure. At
the polar circles, especially north,
the Esquimau rarely towers above
four feet and a half or five feet.
As a whole, the English are finely
developed, tall and energetic.
Americans are a compound of al!
nations on the globe, varying in
size, strength,hight, weight, men
tal capacity and energy accord
ing to the predominance of blood
from any particular source. A
milk diet, of all food, is most
favorable for a large, tall frame
in early life.
A Lesson. —A well known man of
letters in London a few weeks ago attracted
the attention of a policeman by his manner
of entering his own house at night. After
having much difficulty with the night latch,
he entered, leaving the key on the outside.
The policeman easily followed, and finding
the man busy at the sideboard, cam** to the
conclusion that he had a hankering after
silverplate, although the latter insisted that
it was only a glass of wine that beguiled
him to the enticing spo*. The literary
gentlemen was only relieved from the official
when members of the family had been
aroused to identify him, when the police
man was sent away with half a crown fcr
his vigilance.
■
An exchange refueses to
publish the poem commencing—
“l breathe on the face of a
maiden”—until the editor knows
what its author drinks.
‘‘l say Jim, vould you rather
a lion tore you in pieces or a
tiger !” “Why, you goose, of
course I’d rather a loin tore tiger
in pieces.