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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. lij SMITH, WIKLE & CO.] Written tor liio Standar 5 A Express.; EDUCATIONAL PAPERS. BY MISS A. C. HAFFORD. NO. V PROFESSION AI. ETIQUETTE. It is agr<*<yl by common consent that the “small, sweet courtesies of life” should not tie neglectetl, even amidst the active competition of business. All professions and all trades code* of etiquette, and any in cm tiers who overstep these codes attd act unfairly, Rain a most unenviable reputation. So strong is this community off<*el ing and interest, that it finds a lodg ment in the breast of the most de graded. It is said that a gentleman visiting a prison, asked a convict who had belonged to an organized band of robbers, “ Hid you ever steal from one of your gang?” The man replied with genuine dis gust, “ What, steal from any of my gang, sir! 1 was never moaneuough for that.” This seems to verify the oh! proverb, “ Honor among thieves.” Said honor may he a shaky thing, but when we ascend in the social scale to the classes where refinement and cultivation “walk in golden slippers,” we expect the exhibition of the genuine quality in all its beauty. Os all professional characters, it would seem that teachers ought to be most kindly and courteous to wards each other. As they profess to train children In all that is morally noble, they ought to set an example by striving against petty jealousies an«l little meannesses. Hut it must Ik* acknowledged that too often the opposite of this prevails. Whilst etiquette between teacher and teacher demands a polite recognition of professional standing, careful ab stinence from the very appearance of traducing the attainments and work of one’s fellow-laborers, and a scrupu lous regard to the maxim, “ Live and let live,” when conflicting interests clash; there are, unfortunately, i teachers who so far forget what is ! due to themselves and their calling as to strive to injure others in the same ' profession by covert insinuations and ! open sneers, and who turn land pi rates in search of pupils. There may he a slight tinge of pro fessional jealousy in the intense de light with which some criticise and depreciate tin* work of their associ ates. If It is good they make it out had, if it is bad they make it out worse. An idle and not very bright pupil was taken from one I school and sent immediately to an-1 other where (only a lit punishment for her Indolence) she was turn ed hack in all her studies. The new teacher also tried to make capital of the girl’s ignorance by telling every body that, “ Mary knew nothing lit all, for She had been so neglected at I her last school.” In course of time j the report reached the ears of the j former instructress, who remarked with a smile, “ I was aware of the j melancholy fact that Mary ‘knew nothing,’ long before Miss Layton, ! but the charge of neglect -is rather amusing. (Jive any teacher a lazv girl, not particularly gifted with sense, and who refuses to study des pite all efforts and entreaties, and is that teacher to he blamed for the girl’s non-improvement? We teach ers engage to cultivate all the capaci ty that God lias given, but we do not bargain to furnish capacity.” No teacher, who is so disposed, can fail to find deficiencies in the most thoroughly-trained pupils, and it is supremely senseless, as well as dis honorable, in any teacher to make the performances of an inattentive or stupid scholar the criterion of the in struction hi* has received. Really su perior teachers are commonly the most ready to accord praise and to suspend censure, for they know from experience that the very best of the | profession, if judged by their pupils, ; would often appear lamentably deli- j dent. Professional etiquette not only do- i mauds that teachers should be gener- j ous towards each other, but common ! sense whispers, “ People who live in glass house's should not throw stones,” while religion, in a certain old-fMll ioned book, warns us, “ With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again,” Little tricks practiced in any trade or profession stamp the character of j the trickster and assign it a low po-! sition. Things very small in them- ’ selves point to things very large, and j lay open a whole history of uncertain j social status, and of moral and educa- | tional short-comings. What would be thought of a physi- j chin who, when a man had already 1 employed a practitioner in his fami ly, and had faith in his capacity, should persistently try to shake that faith, saying in effect, “2 am a much better doctor, do employ me, and turn him off.” Suppose a merchant should follow you into a store where you were in the habit of dealing and whisper, “ Come around the corner to my store. This man’s stock is poor, and I sell cheaper than he does. Do’nt patron ize him.” Is it any more suitable for a teacher to endeavor to destroy the confidence of parents in another instructor, and to go from oue patron to another urg ing, “ Take your children from that school, and send them to me.” The practice of soliciting patronage, when carried to excess, and united with the disposition to praise self at the expense of others, is not consist-, ent with dignity and modesty. Drummers, whether for commer cial houses or for schools, are often terribly pushing and impertinent. We have known a few Presidents of Colleges, who, as soon as vacation commenced, would start on their travels, compassing sea and land to get scholars. Sometimes two or three happen in the s:>! .o place at the same time, and then nappy is the father who can turn the street-comers fast enough to avoid being button-holed, and har angued on the topic of Ids interest and duty in “ patronizing >/*y school, sir.” I remember an example of the way in which professional ettiquette is sometimes violated, as it occurred in a pretty little western village where I was visiting a friend. It was about the time when schools were being made up for thesession, and really 1 pitied the people, because they had more solicitations for patronage than they had patronage to give, and, be ing a kindly set of villagers and wanting to please all applicants, they had a hard time. Persons anxious to secure scholars for themselves, or for kinsfolk and friends, worked like troopers. La dies went to houses where they had never visited before, asking for pu pils who were in actual attendance at various schools at the time. The pleas of old acquaintanceship and fam ily connection were urged unceasing ly- They went from house to house taking up the cry, “ Here’s your good teacher, send to me,” varied sometimes by an appeal in behalf of some relative, “ send to him or her.” My friend Mrs. II had several daughters whom she regarded as fix tures at a school they had attended for sometime, but she was often so licited to send elsewhere on various pleas. Once a lady urged, “I will make it to your interest to send to me, for I will teach lower than others. I want even the poorest to have an ed ucation, and I don’t need money.” “ How very benevolent you are,” said Mrs. H. “ I should think you would open a charity school at oncu, or, I dare say, Mrs. Ardis would give you the pleasure of teaching a few el assess in her school for nothing. My present teacher is a good one, who makes her daily bread by daily labor, and as Mr. if can afford to pay tuition, I prefer to send to one who needs it.” As the door closed after the retreat ing form, Mrs. II observed, “What nonsense! You need not tell me that teachers are mere intel lectual creatures influenced only by the high-pressure motive of duty. They have to dress, eat, and drink, like the rest of us,and need moneyjust as much. It is all cant, or false pride, that talks about teaching as if it were not, partly, to make bread. ( an not one serve God and adorn a profession, and yet want to live? I have a weakness for the honest man or woman who says, “I teach fora liv ing, and want to be paid that I may pay others.” On another occasion, a gentleman of tall form and pompous exterior, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, and bearing, as the symbol of authority, a big cane, called on Mrs. II and introduced himself asateacher. Hav ing blown his own trumpet long and loud, lie begged her to send her daughters tea school lie was aliout to establish. “ But,” says Mrs. II , “ I am sending them to Mrs. Ardis, ami I have uo reason to change.” “Tut! tut!” cried the pedagogue,, “ No woman can manage a school.” I do not recollect Mrs. II ’s re ply to this absurdity, hut as I have heard it urged more than once since, in other places, I will give it a pass ing notice. It is too late in the day for sensible men to make such declarations. Some of the best female schools in our country are managed, or were founded, by women. Even where a man’s name appears at the head of a Catalogue, you will generally find that one or nToro ladies behind the scenes control the school and give it tone and spirit. The Principal will have Chapel-prayers in the morning, hear one or two Senior recitations during the day, and leaves the hard work of keeping order and the rou tine of discipline, to his lady assist ants, whilst he pockets the praise and the pay. But many women have successful ly controlled large schools in their own name. The names of Mary Lyon, Margaret Mercer, Emma Wil lard, Almira Phelps, Julia Tevis, Augusta Baldwin, Agnes Bates, and a host of others, are written too high and shine too brightly on educational records to be effaced, and hundreds of their graduates who rise up and call them blessed, nut to silence the insin uations and slanders of those who traduce the ability of woman to teach. In fact, a woman is best gifted to manage a girl’s school, because she has more ready tact and sympathy, is more ready to sacrifice self for the good of her pupils, and with a ten derness and patience which few mas culine minds possess, comprehends and bears with a girl’s nature and wants in the memory of her own. The pedagogue with his offence against etiquette, and “slam” at wo man, vanished. Time would fail to tell of all the visits mv friend had, how she was bored, and. went through great tribulation, but finally sent her children to their first school where they are to this day. There is time enough left to say that professional etiquette does not forbiu the use of any legitimate and honorable means for advancing one’s interest. A teacher, for instance, would have no hesitation in asking her own patrons to continue their pat ronage and give the school the bene fit of their influence. She will not try to pull down the work of others, but she will labor to the utmost to teach her pupils well, make them happy, and by giving satisfaction merit patronage. She may not go, or send, from house to house hunting scholars, for people like to judge for themselves, and an independent thinker does not wish one’s own report as to ability and suc cess, nor docs he generally believe it when given, since “ Self-praise is half scandal ;” but the newspaper col umns are open for advertisements, circulars do not cost much, and a lit tle honest energy will scatter them broadcast over the land. Then, have respect enough for the ability of people to form an opinion of your school and act accordingly, to leave them alone. There is something moral j}’ wrong and dishonorable in persecuting peo ple, even for conscience sake, and it is really cruel to persecute them for the sake of their children. Nor is it ever right to sink the lady or the gentleman in the profession. Not only professional etiquette, but a higher law', even that of Christian modesty and courtesy, bids us, “Look not every man on his ow r n things, but every man also on the things of oth ers.” Better shut up every schoolhouse in the land than to open and fill them by unfair means. THE GREAT LOVE OF GOI). A lady gives the following account of the way in which she was brought out of deep eonvinetion of sin into peace: “ 1 do not kno w what made me go to see Dr. Cabot, the minister. He received me in that cheerful way of his, that seems to promise the taking one’s burden right off one’s back. “ 4 1 am very glad to see you, my dear child,’ he said. 44 1 intended to bo very dignified and cold—as if I were going to have any of Dr. Cabot’s undertaking to sympathize with me! But those few kind words just upset me, and I be gan to cry. “ 4 You would not speak so kindly,’ 1 got out at last, ‘if you knew what a dreadful creature 1 am. lam angry with myself, and angry with every body, and angry with God. I can’t be good two minutes at a time. Ido everything 1 do not want to do, and do nothing I try and pray to do. And God does not answer any of my prayers, and 1 am just desperate.’ 44 4 Poor child!’ he said in a low voice, as if to himself. 4 Poor, heart sick, tired child, who cannot see w’hat 1 can see, that it’s Father’s loving arms are all about it.’ 44 I stopped crying, to strain my ears to listen. He went on : “ 4 Katy, all that you say may be true. I dare say it is. But*God loves you, he loves you.’ “ 4 lie loves me! ’ I repeated to myself. ‘He loves me! O, Dr. Ca bot !if I could believe that! If I could believe that, after all the prom ises I have broken; all the foolish, wrong things I have done, and shall always be doing, God, perhaps, still loves me!’ 44 4 You may be sure of it,’ he said solemnly. 4 1, His minister, bring the Gospel to you to-day. Go home, and say over and over to yourself: lam a wayward, foolish child. But he loves me! 1 have lost faith in some of my dearest friends, and am very desolate. But he loves me! I do not love him. lam even angry with him! But he loves me !’ “ J came away, aud ail the way home I fought this battle with my self, saying: 4 He loves me!’ 1 knelt down to pray, and all my wasted, childish, wicked life, came and stared me in the face. I looked at it, and said with tears of joy: 4 But he loves me!’ “ Never in my life did I feel so rested, so quieted, so sorrowful, and yet so satisfied.” Persons who have recently traveled through Russia say that country re sembles more a vast camp than a na tion on a peace footing. Soldiers abound in all directions, and the great [ otit military activity prevails. Written for the Standard A Express. INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. From an Unpublished Manuscript. >r A LADT or BSkTOW COCNTT, GEORGIA. “ Scenes of domestic peace and social bliss Are changed to >oene» of woe and wretched ness. Houses sacked, towns wrapped in flames. Just Heaven, say, Is this the bar. Which w arriors gain, 13, this called Fame ?” Monday morning tame bright and beautiful; the scenes of yesterday were giving way to the realities of farm life. The servants were all out early, engaged in repairing damages, removing breastworks, and replacing fences, when suddenly a whole troop of Confederate soldiers dashed by, and, to our dismay and consternation, stopped just in sight and arranged themselves in line of battle. I could see them all sitting on their horses just ready for a charge, and they sent me word that they were momentari ly expecting the enemy, and should they come, they would have a fight right there. So after all the of yesterday, perhaps a worse fate was in store for us to-day. Visions of the dead and dying rose up in all their horror before me. It hail been my one continual prayer that I might see no bloodshed, but now I feared the worst, for “ foe was about to meet foe.” But I had the promise, “as thy day so shall thy strength he.” I felt that my heaven ly Father would enable me to pass i safely “ under the rod.” I sent the ; servants with my children out of im mediate danger, and I alone remain ed in the house. I watched and waited awhile and then called up Ben and sent him to them and beg ged them if it was possible to move off a little further, which they kindly did. After waiting an hour or two, no enemy coming, they retired in the same direction from which they had come; and we all felt so thankfnl to find that we were alone and quiet j once more. Our own soldiers never ; gave us any trouble. Occasionally j one or two in passing would call and I give us some intelligence of the ene emy, or ask for provisions for them- j selves or horses, but only once did I j have any trouble with them, and I knew at that time that they were not regular soldiers, hut deserters whose j object was plunder. The next day I found myself really sick from having passed through so j much excitement, and, scarcely hop ing to have the presence of our phy- | sician, I wrote to him for medicines, | and to come if he could pass their | lines. I found Ben ever unwilling to go in their midst for any favor, what- j ever. He would always say: “ I will stay with you and by you, and work for you, and tight for you, if necessa- | ry ; and when they come here I will j not run from them, but I can never go anywhere among them. I prom- j ised my master to stay with you as j long as he was in the army , and I will i keep my promise;” which he did faithfully, even unto the end of life. [ He died the very day Lincoln was as- j sassinated. Os all the dark hours of j my life, that was the darkest, when I saw the grave close over that faithful, i devoted slave. Had I known then | that the war cloud was passing away, | and that peace was about to dawn upon us once more, possibly, my grief had been somewhat alleviated; but I j had no ray of hope to cling to; death ' had claimed him who had been ser vant, friend and all to me, through I the drearest period of my life, and never, never, while life lasts, can Ii forget that there was one who was I faithful to the end. We had thanked God for giving us so faithful a ser vant, and we lived to thank him that he had taken him while he was yet j lour own. I was talking with him one day when several Yankees rode up to the gate. Said I, “ Ben, you had better leave before they come in.” 44 What for,” said he quickly, “don’t you want them to see me talking to you?” 44 Why,” continued he, “ I always take particular pains to call you mistress when they come about; 1 love to have them know 1 have a master and mistress; what do I care for them, and who are they that I should be ashamed of you? I nev er came near striking one of them but once, and that was the other day, when one of them told me to take an axe and cut into the corn crib. He cursed me, and told me that if my master was there, he would give me blows. 44 1 told him I had had two masters since 1 had been a grown man, and never had one of them given me a blow; that when I was a boy, 1 was a bad one, and was punished when I needed it, but never once since a boy.” Many a night through the long summer months, when my little ones were in bed and asleep, and I would lx* sitting out alone, “with naught but the stars” for my companions, I would hear a gentle step around the corner, and I would know it was Ben. 44 Are you there?” he would ask, 44 1 know you are lonely, and I have come around to keep you company,” and for hours he would cheer, com fort and console me, and for the hun dredth time assure me that I should never want for any thing, so long as his health aud strength lasted. Then he would plan for the future, and tell me wluit he had stored away where he knew the Yankees could not find it. Alfred came up and said he would go, that he was never afraid of any of them. So he started, and succeeded in passing all the picket-posts but one, and they would not let him go any farther, but he prevailed on them to pass the note through for him, which they did, and they succeeded in getting the medicine for me. That night just after dark Gen. Kilpatrick sent a guard, and had Alfred taken and carried up to his headquarters, and examined him himself. He made every etfort to find out through him if I had not sent him up as a “spy.” He told them that he did not suppose I had ever thought of such a thing. 44 But,” said Gen. Kil patrick, 44 did she not tell you to find out something about our camp, and how it was situated?” “No, sir,” said he, 44 she did not.” “ But,” still persisted he, “she told you to look around and see how many men we had ?” “ No, sir,” said he,* “my mis tress would never have done such a thing; she only wanted a physician or medicine, and she gave me no oth er instruction whatever.” lie was fi nally compelled to dismiss him, and let him return home. He did have the humanity to say to him as he was leaving: “If your mistress is really sick, and should require a phy sician after this, and will let me know, she shall have all necessary at tention ;” which was really of some comfort to me. The next morning when Alfred came in, and was telling me this, I said: “ Why, Alfred, there was one other mission 1 had charged you with.” “What was it?” asked he. “ Why, I told you to look around, and if you should see any of my mis sing china, to try to make some bar gain with them for it.” “Oh!” said he, 44 when they first came for me, I was really frightened, not knowing what they were taking me off for, so that I never once thought of it. Gen. Kilpatrick then had his head quarters in the physician’s house that i had sent to for medicine. In the spring when the Yankees passed through, they had taken from him his horse-waiets, and destroyed the most of his medicines. After that they had even carried off his own and his wife’s clothing. This time as CARTEBSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL -25, 187-2. they came through he and his family happened to be away from home, and when they returned, they found they had taken possession of two rooms in the house, and were cooking supper in the kitchen, and had nearly emp tied their pantry, and they could not even serve up their own supper. Gen. Kiljatrick very- generously sent and invited them in to take tea with him, which they were compelled to do or do without. One night, in the sum mer. a party of Yankees rode up at midnight. They woke the Doctor, and called for him to come out. H** walked out to see what they wanted, and they actually compelled him to pilot them over'the town, not per mitting him even to put on his boots. He complained that the rocks hurt his feet; they cursed him, and told him, with an oath, “to step high then.” SOMETHING NEW ABOUT PATRICK HENRY. Rev. Edward Fontaine of Louisia na, recently read a highly interest ing paper before the Long island Historical Society on Patric Henry, the great Virginnia orator of the rev olution. Mr. Fontaine is a decendant of the distinguished man of whom he spoke, the facts being compiled from unpublished family documents 4 and correct many erors to be found in the biographies which have already ap peared. Rev. Mr. Fontaine said that ever since he was seventeen years of age he had kept a journal, and all the anecdotes told him of Patric Henry by the oldest of his grandsons and three of his daughters hud been care fully written down. From that source he should draw the material for his lecture, and at the same time endeav or to correct many mistakes in what had been said of him. The biography written of him by Wm. NVij*t, in 1797, had past through fifteen edi tions, but it abounded in mistakes and some of them he hoped to he able to correct. The Father of Patric Henfy was Colonel J ohn Henry, of Aberden, in Scotland, who came to this county in the year 1689 and settled in Vir ginia. He became a Justice of the Peace, a Magistrate, and was also a Colonel in the Colonial forces. He married a Mrs. Sim, the widow of Colonel Sim, of Winchester. She was formerly Miss Winston, and de cended from the celebrated welsh family of that name. Patrick Henry inherited the prudence of his Scotch father and the fire of his Welsh mother, and they combined to make him an orator who spoke as Homer wrote. Although Patrick Henry filled almost every position of honor and trust which it was in the power of his fellow-citizens in Virginia to bestow upon him. He teas a Poor Man when elected Governor for the fourth time. He declined the honor on account of his poverty. The times, however, have changed in that respect for now men take their seats without being worth a cent, and retire from office worth millions of dollars. But the idea never seemed to occur to him while the sword and the purse of Virginia, were at his disposal that he could amass wealth by a judicious use of his patronage. Although he never attended college he received an excellent classical education from his uncle, and was also taught “to be true and just in all my dealings, to bear no malice or hatred in my heart, - to keep my hands from picking and stealing, and to do my duty in that state of life which it shall please God to call me.” An error lias been com mitted in regard to the stalementput forth of file apparent want of prepar ation of his speeches; and from wjiat Mr. Wirt has said it might be sup posed that there was nothing of the “smell of the lamp” abdutthem. He was, however, another illustration of the saying that “ a poet is born, but an orator is made.” He had poetical abilities of very high order, hut his speeches were all carefully prepared. His Personal Appearance was exceedingly striking; he was six feet in height, iiad dark curly hair, and a very commanding countenance. But liis most remarkable feature was his eyes, which were deeply set, and of a hazel hue; his organ of speech was perfect, and its tones wer like that of some grand wind instrument and always under perfect control. He had a poetic temperament, and, although born a poet, he made him self a great orator, and in his speech on free trade he said, “ Fetter not commerce. Let her be free as air, and she will return upon the four winds of Heaven to bless the land with plenty.” Those were words which could not have been uttered by any man unless he had been a poet. In preparing for his work he spent one hour every day in prayer, a prac tice which is now very seldom ob served sxcept by Ministers of the Gospel and old fashioned men and women. In 1789 he retired from public life very poor, and the next nine years he spent in securing a competency for his family. During that period he laid up an ample for tune for each one of his thirteen chil dren, and then, in 1796, finding that his family was in easy circumstances, he retired from the practice of his pro fession, but with a constitution sadly shattered by a complication of dis eases, not one, however, which had been brought on by vice or excess of any kind. HOW TO BE POLITE. Do not try too hard to be polite. Never overwhelm your friends by begging them to make themselves at home, or they will soon wish they were there. Show by your ac tions rather than your words that you are glad to see them. Have enough regard for yourself to treat your greatest enemy with quiet po liteness. All petty slights are merely meanness, and hurt your self more than any one else. Do not talk about yourself or your family to the exclusion of other top ics. What if you are clever, and a little more so than other people, it may not be that other folks will think so, whatever they ought to do. It may be interesting to you to talk over your ailments, but very tire some for others to listen to. Make people think you consider them clever and agreeable, and they will be pretty apt to have a pleasant impression of yourself. Treat people just as you would like to have them treat you. It is much easier to lose the good opinion of people than to retain it; and when any one does not care for the good opinion of others, he or she is not worthy of respect. Do not excuse your house, furni ture, or the table you set before your guests. It is fair to suppose their visits are to you, not to your sur roundings. The whole machinery of social in tercourse is very delicieate and intri cate, and it is our business to keep all places of possible friction well sup plied with the oil of politeness. President Juarez, of Mexico, is not a half-breed, as some of our contem poraries suppose. He is a pure In dian—one of the “ Pueblos.” Hence his strong hold upon the affections of the Pueblos, who form about four fifths of the entire population of Mex ico—the unmixed “children of the sun,” but most deeidely sunburnt. They are very excellent people—on ly a little too*fond of war and garlic. -*•* Hon. Jared I. Whitaker and his former clerk have been arrested at the instigation of the State Road Com mittee. The warrants charge the parties with presenting wrong ac counts to the extent of $18,195. Both were bound over to appear before the City Court in June, ia bonds of $2,- 1000. I WORD TO PARENTS. To expect to darn a river with a feather, or stop an earthquake with a plaster, or drown a hurricane with a tin whistle, is about as reasonable as to expect by argument or advice to ; change inclinations of young folks when they are under the influence of the passion which they call love, and are determined to marry the object of their desire. “ Say what you will, and do what you will, I will have him!” said one girl, and she did have him, with intemperance, poverty, beggary, in sanity and death to close the scene. “ Would you marry him if you thought these stories weije true?”said a Christian minister to a young rela tive who was committing her heart to the keeping of one against whom all evil charges were brought by mutual friends who had opportunity to know the truth. “ No, I would not,” said she, but no one could convince her of the truth of the statements. Twenty or thirty years of pain and sorrow, and broken heart and broken spirits have done the work for her at last. “ Would you marry him if you knew he drank liquor!” said a woman to a fair young girl. “Certainly I would—marry him and reclaim him”—was the answer; and she did marry him, and ere she had passed a month with her husband she was advised by her friends to leave him, and after a year aud a half of abuse and sorror she returned to her father’s house a poor wrecked shadow of her former self—fleeing from her brutal, drunken husband to Save what little life she had left. Ten thousand girls stand upon the verge of the same abyss to-day, and nothing you can say will affect them in the least, except to hurry them on to their terrible doom. Why is it? Partly because they! have never yielded their wills to! parental control, and, have always i had their own way, and partly, be cause their parents have never warned ! them of this danger, till it came on like an overrunning flood. Parents do not win or encouragetheconfidence of their children. Old people forget that they were young, and young I people do not remember that they may yet be old. Mutual confidence is needful to mutual comfort or im provment If the mother would say to her daughter in early life—long before: the dangerous period comes: “My child, there will come a time when ; new feelings, impulses, instincts and emotions will sway you, and when the opposite sex will awake in you passions which often prove stronger j than judgemet, reason, and consci ence; and coming under the influence of some young man , you will be | liable to lose your self-control, and be : swayed bv Ins will, and think his ; thoughts, and feel his feelings, and j say “ves” to his request, because it is i liis will and mind that makes you i speak the words he desires to hear; all this will come, and you be liable ; to be swept to ruin by the force of an influence which you do not under- i stand, and can neither control or j resist, and which may be strong in proportion as its source is vile and ; worthless, and your only security j from it is to place your future in the j hands of God, and watch your paths j and thoughts, and avoid even the j outer circles of this dangerous whirl- ! pool, by investigating and judging first and loving afterwards, and only yielding your .affections when and ; where unbiased judgement will de- j clare that it is safe and right to yield i them.” If such warnings and instructions as these were given from day to day early in life, how many a young girl would ponder the path of her feet and walk carefully that her feet might es cape the ruin that attends so many in their wayward course. Mothers and fathers, begin in sea son with your children! Prepare them to rightly estimate the new in stincts and emotions of maturing life; not by joking and hectoring them, but by wise and loving counsel. Win their confidence and keep it. Pre serve their privacies; shield the se cret of their hearts from the rude gaze and mocking laugh, and let them feel that it is the safest thing they can do to show their love-letter to father, or whisper their first tender secret in their mother’s ear, assured that they will find for such communications a patient, courteous, reasonable and tender reception ; find they have the best of counsel, with no danger that their confidence will be betrayed. Parents, train your children in time. They have this sea to sail over —see to it that they study the chart and know the rocks beforehand. Tell them the things they need to know. Guard against the wreck and ruin that destroys so many of the young. “ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” AN IRON FAMIME FEARED. With every furnace in blast, and importations large, the United States is threatened with an iron famine. Since January 1, American pig No. 1 has advanced from $36@37 to $50@52 per ton, rails from S7O to 85, and bar iron from SB2 50@87 52 to $103@105. In imported iron the rise is propor tionate, English rails having anvane ed since the beginning of the year from SSB to gold; old rails from $39 to $52<a53, and scrap iron from $42@43 to $62@65. The reason is, an enormous increase of consump tion; and production has not kept pace with it because the necessity for new iron was not felt until surplus stocks were exhausted. Last year the consumption in the United States was about 2,600,000 tons, of which we produced about 2,000,000 tons aud imported the balance. Os the con sumption last year, one-half was used in railroads. We have now 60,000 miles of railroad in operation, to keep which in repair will require, in ad dition to old rails rerolled, three tons to the mile, or say 180,000 tons. Last year we built about 7,000 miles of new road. If we build as much this year, we shall require of new rails about 88 tons to the mile, or 016,000 tons. To this may be added for bolts, spikes, joints, switches and the like, say 10 tons to the mile, or 70,000 tons. The capacity of the furnaces now in operation is 2,000,000 tons to which may be added 150,000 tons as the probable product of new furnaces now building.— Constitutionalist. The Committee of Arrangements for the Cincinnati Convention have issued a circular inviting voters, with out distinction of party, to join in sustaining the Constitution as it is, in securing civil service reform, a tariff for revenue only, general amnesty for past political offences, and local self government. The Atlanta New Era printing of fice has been levied on as the proper ty of John Rice, in favor of the State. The Constitution says: We learn that Mr. Scruggs contem plated publishing a paper with the material —to be called the Atlanta Whig—in fact, the paper was nearly ready for the press. Robt. E. Lee, Jr., son of Gen. R. E. Lee, with his lady, was in Macon Last w r eek. A number of prominent Republi cans, of lowa, have issued a call for a mass meeting to appoint delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. The Knoxville Press and Herald says it was a noticeable fact that there was not a single German present at the Knox county Radical meeting on the Ist iust» WORDS OF WISDOM. Keep got si company or none. Naver be idle; if your hands can not be usefully employing attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. When you speak to a persou, look him in the face. Good company and good conversa tion are the very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things else. Your character cannot l>e es sentially injured except by your own acts. If any one speaks evil of you, let your life be so that none will believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating li quors. Always live (misfortune excepted) within your income. When you retire to bed, think over what you have been doing during the day. Make no haste to be rich if you would prosper. Small and steady gains give com petency with tranquility of mind. Never play at any game of chance. Avoid temptation, through fear you may not withstand it. Earn money before you spend it. Never run into debt unless you see a way to get out again. Never borrow if you can possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. Never speak ill of any one. Be just before you are generous. Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. Save when you are young, to spend when you are old. OLD COPARTNERSHIPS. Whisky and Ignorance. Whisky and Poverty. Whisky and Sensuality. Whisky and Crime. Whisky and Degradation. Whisky and Disease. Whisky and a Broken-hearted Wife and Ragged Children. Whisky and the Poor House. Whisky and Destruction. ROBBING BIRDS OF THEIR YOUNG. 44 1 have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pig eon breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say ’twas a barbarous deed. “ For he ne’er could be true, she aver r’d, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I lov’d her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.” Shenstone. SOCTH CAROLINA. This poor State does indeed seem to be the subject of special spite from the administration. Scenes of cruel wrong, outrage and oppression are of daily occurrence. The Laurensville Herald, describ ing a Federal raid upon that village on Sunday before last, at which time one of the editors of the Herald was arrested, says: “ Many citizens were arrested without knowing what were the charges against them, and no warrants were presented. The scenes in the streets of Laurensville, during the quiet Sabbath day that was selec ted for the raid, are described as heart rending—-wives, sisters, mothers and little children clinging to the necks of husbands, brothers, sons and lath ers, and sending up a wail of grief that was pitiable in the extreme.” A sect of Mohammedans has arisen in Persia, now numbering 200,000, which recognizes the Bible as the Word of God, and attempts to recon cile the creed of Islam and Christiani ty- The Labor Reformers.—These factionists have pitched their head quarters’ tent at Washington, and it is said expect to spend a large amount of money in the presidential cam paign, in the usual line of documents and speeches. J. 11. Caldwell, the psalm-singer, chicken-lifter and Radical preacher, has migrated. Georgia, it is to be hoped, will know him no more forev er. Cobb county is to have anew court house, to cost alß,ooo. —Marietta .Jour nal. Dr. J. E. Laurence, of Rome, com mitted suicide a few days ago.—Cou rier. One hundred acres of land in Hous ton county brought SSO last Thursday week. St. Louis, April s.—The horse shoers have struck against machine made shoes. The Western aud Southern Railway Association will meet in Atlanta on Tuesday next. The Superintendents to arrange time tables will meet at the same time. Washington, April s.—The Com mittee on Executive Affairs of the House are considering a bill for abol ishing the Freedmen’s Bureau. A letter from General Howard says that it will require a hundred thou sand dollars to wind up the whole concern. A petition praying for the pardon of Dr. Westmoreland is being circu lated and numerously signed in At lanta. In regard to the distribution of arms to re-organized volunteer com panies, Gov. Smith hopes to be able to furnish as many companies as may be organized. One hundred gentlemen having subscribed 820 each to defray the ex penses of Mr. Howard’s mission, he will leave for Europe about the Ist of May. Gardens are assuming a green ap pearance, and vegetables will soon be plentiful. It cost the people of the United States forty millions of dollars to sup port the army during the past year. This seems high ; but when we reflect that that army has killed nine Indian women and children, and arrested twelve hundred people under the Ku-Klux law, we can’t conscientious ly say that it is too high.— Courier- Journal. A ll it. — “Did you present your account to the defendant ?” inquired a lawyer of his client. “ I did, sir.” “ And what did he say?” “ He told me to go to the devil.” 44 Then what did you do?” 44 Why, then —came to you.” Olive Logan will lecture in Rome shortly. The Democrats of Rhode Island elected their candidate for Lieutenant Governor. A juvenile Georgian was petition ing for “ our daily oread” previous to retiring, when he was interrupted by hts younger brother, who whis pered, 44 Ask for cake, Johnny, ask foe cake.” “ Did he bring those chickeas to your house in a secret way ?” “ No, he brung ’em in a bag.” Agricultural Depart iiient. CLOYER. If any of our farmers doubt the adaptability of our soil and climate to production of clover, they can have their doubts removed by examining a small lot we had sown in oats and clover last Spring. The stand was a very poor one, an j there was a drought of unusual severity, as will be remem bered. We neither cut nor pastured our clover last year, and now we have as fine a -tand and as pretty a patch of clover as can be found in a thou— and miles. The land is a very stiff red clay, and when it came into our possession would scarcely sprout peas. It is aitogethera mistaken idea that clover will not grow to advantage here, and those who are paying from forty to fifty dollars per ton for hay would find it greatly to their advant age to devote a few acres to its pro duction. Every farmer ought to have some pasturage and some for hay. When desired for the latter purpose, it should be sown with timothy. This not only saves trouble, but prevents waste in handling the hay. There is no difficulty about growing timothy here, either. Look at the profitableness of raising hay! An acre of land which will bring a bale of cotton will produce from three to five tons of hay. The bale of cotton , 400 lbs.) is worth, at 20 cents, SBO. Three tons of hay, at $2.25 per cwt. is worth $135, and five tons, i which such land ought to produce! would amount to $225.00 ! It will not pay to grow cotton to make money with which to buy hay. —Southern Watchman. Beefsteak^. — The meat should be cut from a sir[oin that has been hung for two or three days in cool weather. Broil them on a gridiron over a clear coal or charcoal fire. Have the dish as hot as possible, with a very little i minced snalot, and a tablespoonful of catsup in it. Put a small piece of but ter on the steak when done, and while doing turn it frequently to pre vent the gravy from escaping on either side. Sprinkle with pepper and salt when taking from the fire, and serve as hot as possible. To eat beefsteaks in perfection they should be the only dish. To Remove Grass Stoppers.— When the stopper of a glass decanter is too tight, a cloth wet with hot wa ter and applied to the neck will cause the glass to expand, and the stopper may be removed, in phials the warmth of the hand may be suffi cient. To Cut Glass. —Any hard steel tool (says the Boston* Journal of Chemistry) will cut glass when kept freely wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. The ragged edges of glass vessels may be thus easily smoothed by a flat file. To Cool a Room.—Wet a cloth of any size, the larger the better, and suspend it in the room. Let the ven tilation be good, and the temperature will sink from ten to twenty degrees in less than an hour. To Prevent Rats from Gnaw ing Harness.— Mix with the oil ap plied a little Cayenne pepper, say a teaspoonful to the quart. To Prevent Lamps from Smok ing.—Lay the lamp-wicks in vinegar for an hour, and dry them well be fore they are used. That nation will thrive and grow, and strike deep root in the earth, whose young men and women are taught to cherish happy and honora ble homes. And the nation is dying a horrible death, whose young men and women loath home, or know not its value. It is the homes of a peo ple that give all its character and solid worth. HE ECONOMICAL. Look most to your spendings. No matter what comes in, if more goes out you will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but in keep ing it; little expenses, like mice in a barn, when they ai'e many, make great waste. Hair by hair heads get bald; straw by straw the thatch goes oft’ the cottage, and drop by drop rain comes in the chamber. A barrel is soon empty if the tap leaks but a drop a minute. When you begin to save, begin with your mouth; many thieves pass down the red lane. The ale jug is a great waste. In all other things keep within your compass. Never stretch your legs further than the blankets wilt reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose sui table and lasting stuff, and not tawdy fineries. To be warm is the main thing; never mind the looks. A fool may make money, but it needs a wise man to spend it. Remember it is ea sier to buihl two chimneys than to keep one going. If you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and work hard while you are young, and you will have a chance to rest when you are old. —(Jr iff in Star. SCR ATS FOR IHE GARDEN. In planting peas, if the ground is not excessively poor, ashes from any hard wood is ali the manure which is required. Plant them in rows about six inches apart, and put one row of sticks between these two rows, then plant the next two rows about three feet wide, and so on through the patch. In this way one-half of the pea-sticks will be saved, labor of sticking, &c. When you plant beet seed put a little salt near the seed in the ground, and give them a little salt whenever you work them. Remember asparagus cannot have too much salt, or at any rate so much should be put over the bed, that weeds or nothing but asparagus will grow upon it. In cultivating celery, use salt, as advised for beets. The best manure tomato plants can have is soap-suds. If you have not time to make frames for all your to mato vines, place some large brush over them when very small, through which they will grow abundantly. The ground cannot be too rich for lettuce or cabbage. Any good eom mersial fertilizer will ensure them if well soaked. Cover your potatoes with straw or something similar, and if the soil is friable and good, the crop is certain. Preserve all your hen-house manure for the onions; work well and keep clean of weeds, and your crop is cer tain. Be sure to sprinkle plaster on your melon or cucumber vines, for it is a specific* remedy for the striped or melon bug. —Georgia Cultivator. Best Fertilizer fob Fruit Trees. —Ground bone is mentioned by experienced fruit growers as the very best fertilizer for trees. Apply it during the winter and see that you get that which is not too fine. Pow der bone is best for grain, but for trees it should not lx* ground too fine. A gentleman of large experience, and claiming to be as humane as the rest of us, communicates to the Ag riculturist the fact that he rids his premises of rats by putting potash in their holes and dens. The poor wretches get it over their feet and fur, they lick it, and don’t like the taste of it; it burns them somewhat, and the more they see of it the less they like it; and so they clear out almost as soon as the application is made. To get rid of mice, the same person uses tartar mingled with any favorite food; they take it, take sick, and take their leave. MOLASSES BEER Six quarts of water, two quarts of molasses, half a pint of yeast, two spoonfuls of cream of tarter. Stir all together. Add the grated peel of a lemon; the juice may pe substituted for the cream of tartar. Bottle after standing ten or twelve hours, with a raisiu in each. “High farming meansunderdrain ing, thorough tillage, irrigation, and the purchase of manures or feeding stuffs. It means soiling in summer and roots in winter. It means large crops every year and crops that can be turned into money.” From present indications we mav reasonably expect, at no distant pe riod, to see agriculture, from the jxr fection of its processes, enabled to iis sume that high position among the industrial arts which is justly tor it on the ground of its pre-eminence ns a means of national prosperity. TO DESTROY INSECTS ON PLANTS. Very weak phosphoric acid, say one ounce of the acid of com merce dissqjved in thirty gallons of water, is a strong poison for all kinds insects, and yet helps plants, by ad ding to the soluble phosphates in the soil, and can do them no harm. VERMIN ON STOCK. A correspondent of the 44 Practical Farmer” says he feeds his stock on a teaspoonful of sulphur to each ani mal, with their salt, once in two weeks. When he has done so, no vermin has troubled them, and his dairy cows have not been affected with garret, nor his sheep with grub in the head. He has practiced this for twenty years. Manure. —Manure may be drawn out on grass land when other work is not pressing. Spread it evenly as fast as it is drawn, and harrow to break lumps. Everything in and around the garden that can be coverted into manure must be saved and composted with stable manure. Where there is peat near by, dig out for the compost neap. Land for early spring crops is better if manured in the fall. In broiling a beefsteak, whenever* the coals blaze up from the drippings, j a pinch of fine salt thrown upon them ' will Instantly extinguish the flames. By carefully attending to this matter, j you may have your broiled steak or chicken crisp, but not scorched, and juicy, yet well done. Cucu mber Bug.— A correspondent of the Maryland Farmer says: The following effectually protected i my melon, squash, ououmoer, and other vines from the “striped or cu- i cumber bug,” the past season, with only one application, viz: a strong so lution of hen house manure to one ■ and a half gallons water, let it stand ! twenty-four hours and sprinkle the j plants freely with it after sunset. The j above was suggested to me by a ne gro woman living on my place, who j has some practical experience in gar- j dening, and says she has never known the first application to fail to drive them off, and they never return. Value of the Hay Crop,— The total value of the cotton crop for 1870 in the United States, according to the figures of the Agricultural Bureau, amounted to $286,000,000. The total value of the hay crop $339,000,000, j showing the value of the latter ex ceeding the former $35,000,000. In | Georgia the hay crop that year was estimated at $1,283,150, while that of j New York was $77,000,000. Relieving Choked Cattle.—A very simple instrument for relieving choked cattle, is simply a tarred rope one and a lialfinches in diameter, and five or six feet long. The end that is intended to go down the throat is trimmed off and wound with a piece ■of cotton cloth smeared with soft ; grease before using. With this I have * relieved five within two years. Tie : the creature up, let one man hold the left horn with liis right hand, and luke the creatures tongue out with his left, while another man runs the rope down. It is limber enougli to follow the passage, yet stiff enough to re move all obstructions. There should be one or more in every neighbor hood. Bugs and Cockroaches.— The Journal of Chemistry publishes this remedy for water-bugs and cockroach es : 44 Boil one ounce of poke-root in one pint of water until the strength is extracted; mix the decoction with molasses and spread it on plates in the kitchen or other apartments which are infested by these insects. All that have partaken of this luxury du ring the night will be found ‘organic remains’ the next morning.” How to Soften Putty or Paint. —lt frequently happens in every household that paint is to be removes!, or old putty taken from the window sash. The Harness and Carriage Journal gives the following receipt for accomplishing this without injury to the wood work : 44 Mix equal parts of good soap, potash, and slack ed lime, add sufficient water to form a paste ; apply this with a brush, and let it stand some three or four hours, and your putty or paint will be soft ened, so that it ran he easily removed with a blunt chisel.” To Remove Proud Flesh.—Pul verize loaf sugar very fine* and apply it to the part afflicted. This is anew and easy remedy, and is said to re move it entirely without pain. Chocolate, the flour of the cocoa-nut, was first introduced in England from Mexico, in the year 1520, andsoon af ter became a favorite beverage in the London coffee-houses. A Nice Summer Drink. —One quarter of a pound of tartaric acid, four pounds of sugar, two quarts of boiling water ; when cold, add one half an ounce of any kind of essence, and bottle it. When used, put a lit tle into a tumbler of ice water, add a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, stir ring quickly until it foams. There is nothing equal to a thorough stirring of the soil. Experiments have shown that a mellow, loamy soil is capable of absorbing in twelve hours, when exposed to a moist at mosphere, an amount of water equal to two per cent, of its weight. This property possessed by a mellow soil is one that in a dry season is able to give it the power of maturing a crop, when a hardening surface would be unable to do so. A surface that is im penetrable to the atmosphere of course could not absorb any of the moisture with which the atmosphere is charg ed. But when rendered free from lumps by repeated harrowings, each change of temperature causes a circu lation of air through the mass of soil, which is free then to absorb all the moisture coining in contact with it until saturated. C’h ick en Chole ha. — Ben ja mi n Sheppard, Cumberland connty, N. J., says he has had great success in check ing chicken cholera, by administer ing a strong decoction* of black-oak bark. It was given to the fowls by moistening their feed with it, and re straining them from other diet. French Rolls. —Rub an ounce of butter with a pound of flour; mix one beaten egg, a little sweet yeast, and as much milk as will make the dough of a good consistency. Beat it well, but do not knead; let it rise and bake <m tins. VOL. 12-NO. 42 WIT AND HUMOR. Bridget came to her mistress and asked for a needle and thread. “Do you want it line or coarse?” asked the lady. “Sure an’ Y don’t know, ma’am,” said Bridget. '* What do you want It for?” ask<*d the mistress; “if you tell me that, I may know what to give you.” “ Well, mum, the cook has just tould me to stilting the beans, au’ shure 1 want a nadle an' thrid for that.” A Canadian editor announced that “he had a keen rapier to prick all fools ami knaves.” His contempora ry over the way said he hoped hi,-, friends would take it from him, for he might commit suicide. An Irish drummer, who now and then indulged in a glass or two, was accosted by the Inspector-General. “What makes your fact* so red?” “ Plane, your honor,” said l'at, “ I al ways blush when I speak to a general officer.” An artless newspaper man, who lately bought a few sausages, thus re lates His troubles: “ 1 got them sausages home with out getting bit, and I cut them apart and left them. In the morning I vis ited them. Throe of ’em had huddled up together, and were sleeping sweet ly. Two of ’em had crawled to my milk-pail and were lapning the milk, and one, a black and white one, was on the back fence trying to catch an English sparrow. 1 drowned the whole lot.” An editor whose subscribers were remiss in payment, lately published the following announcement in his paper: “To save our readers the trouble of sending their subscriptions by post, and to relieve two unfort unates, we shall send to each of our debtors, in the course of a few days, two collectors, one of whom has hardly recovered from the smallpox and the other of whom has just taken the itch.” The delinquents did not want to be called on, but paid their dues promptly. The latest dodge of a parent to overcome his son’s aversion to medicine, and “ doctor” him at the same time, occurred in Cleveland, whence a eroupy youngster was in duced to make a hearty meal of buck wheat cakes and “maple syrup;” but the latter proved to lie nice syrup of squills. The boy said he thought something ailed the molasses the minute his father told him to eat all he wanted to. A story is told of a soldier who was in Siberia. His last remark was, “It is ex—” He then froze stiff as mar ble. In the summer of 1800 some physicians found him, after having lain frozen for one hundred and fif teen years. They graudually thawed him, and upon animation being re stored he concluded his sentence with —“ceedingly cold.” A GENTLE REBIKF. A lady riding in a car on the New York Central Railroad, was disturb ed in her reading by the conversa tion of two gentlemen occupying the seat just before her. One of them seemed to lie a student of some col lege on his way home for a vacation. Housed much profane language, greatly to the annoyance of the lady. She thought she would rebuke him, and on begging pardon for interrupt ing them, asked the young student if he had studied the languages, “ Yes, madam ; I have mastered the languages quite well.” “ Do you read and speak Hebrew.” “ Quite fluently.” “ Will you be so kind as to do mo a small favor?” “ With great pleasure I am at your service.” “ Will you be so kind as to do your swearing in Hebrew?” We may well suppose the lady was not annoyed any more by the un gentlemanly language of this would be-gentleman. RATHER SLIM. A Detroit man who had contribut ed a bundle of his cast- olf clothing for the relief of the victims of the Min nesota fire, received from one of tho sufferers the following note: “The com mi tty man giv me amungst other things wat he called a pare of pants, and ’twould make me pant sum to ware ’em. I found your name and where you live in one of the jxxikets. My wife luffed so when I shode ’em to her that I thought she wood have a eonnipshun fit. She wants to know if there lives and breethes a man who has legs no big ger than that. She sed if there was he orte to he taken up fur vagrinsy, for haying no visible means of sup port. 1 couldn’t get ’em on my old est boy, so 1 used ’em for gun eases. If you hav anuthur pare to spair my wife wood like to get ’em to hang up by the side ov the finvplase to keep the tongs in.” A SIIABP RETORT. During tho sitting of the Court in Connecticut not long ago on a very j cold evening, a crowd of lawyers had i collected around the fire, which blaz ed cheerfully on the hearth in the bar-room, when a traveler entered, I benumbed with cold, but no one I moved to give him room to warm i his shins, so he leaned back against i the wall in the back part of the • room. Presently a smart young limb o | the law addressed him, when the fol i lowing dialogue took place: “ You look like a traveler?” “ Waal, I suppose I am; Icameall the way from Wisconsin afoot at any rate!” “ From Wisconsin! What a dis tance to come on one pair of legs.” “ Waal, done it, anyhow.” “ Did you ever pass through hell in any of your travels?” “ Yes, sir, I’ve passed through the outskirts.” “ I thought likely. Well, what are the manners and customs there? Home of us should like to know.” “Oh, you’ll find them much the same as in this place— the lawyers sit nearest (he fire.'' 1 The only man not spoiled by being “ lionized'” was the prophet Daniel. A FLOCK 01 WILD GEESE DRI NK One Tom Mosely, of Stockton, California, is reporfeible for this story: Up in the vicinity of Groyson, on the west side of the river, since the storm, wild geese have become so numerous as to do serious damage in the way of picking up wheat lately sown. A farmer friend of Tom’s who resides in that locality, hit upon a novel but effective plan of freeing himself of the ravages of the millions of wild fowls that swarm that region. He poured whiskey over a quanity of wheat until it absorbed about a gallon; he then scattered the wheat over his fields and awaited theresult. The geese came in flocks; they alighted and devoured the wheat, I and in a little while the fields were filled with drunken geese, tumbling about and fighting for all the world like drunken men. Now was the time for the farmer, and with a club he killed no less than six hundred of the drunken crowd. He gathered up the slain and set a lot of Chinamen to pluck their feathers, from the sale of which he expects to realize the value of the whisky used, if not of the wheat eaten.