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PEOP L E ’ S Volume 1. PEOPLE’S FRIEND, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY A. B. S. MOSELEY, ROME, GA. IST iBSCRIFTION, One year in advance ------- $2.0 ADVERTISING, iuOne square, first insertien - - - - sl. ■Su(»b*>cquent iiwertion, each - - • 50 Liberal contracts m xle for six or twelve month :><i vert HCHients. 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- F RIE N I). 1% 1873, 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.