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NAPOLEON AS A FARMER. He Fathered Sugar Beet Cultivation to Head Off a Revolution. The method of extracting >ugar ; from beet? by which more than half the world's supply of sugar i> tjow produced was the discovery of a \ German scientist, but tne credit for establishing the culture of beets as a world industry belongs to Napoleon. In the course of his great struggle with England the emperor o!" the French issued his famous decrees forbidding commercial rela- ! tions with that country and speciti- i cally prohibiting importations from ' British colonial possessions, from which at that time practically the entire supply of sugar was obtained. Cut off from this supply, the price /N.* cnn.ir .n Vranno rnto within fl few. VI OU^ax 1U X 1UUVV 4VWV v. ~ - | years to $1 a pound and threatened a revolt among his own subjects. Napoleon, however, had had eminent French scientists studying the sugar beet and experimenting to determine its possibilities. As a result of their investigations he was able to meet the difficulty by directing that 90,000 acres of land in various parts of the country should be devoted to the culture of sugar beets. At the same time he called attention to the fact, discovered in the experiments conducted by his experts, that "the growing of beet roots improves the soil and that the residue of the fabrication furnishes an excellent food for cattle." In such dramatic and arbitrary j fashion did the humble beet make j no a fonfnr /I colino^ 1 it? appctti autc OJ9 a xatvvi uvovtuvu to assume worldwide and mighty commercial importance. To Napoleon it was only a minor incident in his herculean struggle for dominion, but it stands today as the most beneficial single act of his career, for the demonstration that beet culture | improves the soil and increases the , yield of other crops used in rotation j with this one has revolutionized the j agricultural methods of the leading countries of -continental Europe, has halted the fiood of emigration that formerly psured out of these countries and has solved for a long time to come, and perhaps lor an , time, the threatening problem with j which they were confronted of providing a food supply for their people.?National Magazine. , A Scot'u Strategy. Sandy MacDougal was a braw lad of twelve. One day he fell off the roof and broke his leg. His parents carried him ben the hoose and stretchit him on the bed, where ! he groaned and gfat while the doctor was 6ent for. When the doctor came Sandy didna want him to touch his leg for fear it would hurt. | But the doctor explained that it maun be done. "Whilk leg is it, Sandy, lad?" i speired the doctor. "This ane," whined Sandy. The doctor seized the ankle, pit his fut in Sandy's oxter and gied ' the leg sic a yeric that the lad was nigh pu'ed in twa. He yammert ; like a boggle. Then the doctor pit , on a bit of bandage and went awa. ! "Did it hurt, laddie?" asked the ' auld feyther. "Nae sae muckle as it raicht," | answered the lad, grinning. "1 i wasna sic a fule as to gie him ma sair leg."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Mother of Queene. When Charles I. was king of Eng- ! land a country girl came to London in search of a situation and applied t il. w ? lur vuc |/udiliuu vi tuu numaii) # or carrier of beer at a brew house. The brewer, struck by her good looks, married her. In a snort time he died, leaving her a hrge fortune. She gave up the brewery and for the proper settlement of her husband's a:Iairs was recommended to Mr. Hyde, a rising young barrister, whom she afterward married. This gentleman ultimately became Earl of Clarendon, and from ilia marriage *mi uex :ie uau uuc i daughter, who became the wife of ' James II. and mother of Mary and Anne, both subsequently queens of England. . 8ound of Light Curiously enough, a beam of light may be made to produce sound. A ray of sunlight is thrown through a lens on a glass vessel containing lamp black,'colored silk or worsted, or any like substance. A disk having slits or openings cut in it is made to revolve svriftly in this beam of light, so as to "cut it up," thus causing alternate flashes of light and shadow. When one places his ear to the glass vessel he hears strange sounds so long as the flashing beam falls upon the vessel. Wealth and Happinesa. "Wealth doesn't bring happiness." "You really believe that?" "1 know it. It never brought me any." "1 didn't know that you were wealthy ?" "I'm not."?Houston Post. 1 / ? " ' SALONIK! THE CONTINUOUS. It May Ee Called the Eternal City of the Near East. The city we now call iialoniki has ! had a continuous history for more than *i,500 years. Kven before it was refounded and renamed by | Alexander the Great, in the year ; 31.? 1?, C., a city had existed on thi> beautiful gulf, facing mighty Mount Olympus, lint its known history I dates from this year, when Alexan- ( der rebuilt it and called it Thessaloniea after his sister, tie wife of Cassander. It is said that Philip of i Macedon named his daughter The.? | salonica because on the day he heard of her birth he won a victory over the Thessalians. Thus the vie tory of Philip and the name of his , daughter, the half sister of the conqueror of the world, are all em- ! balmed in the name of the city. It was a great city, its harbor full : of shipping, its houses rising in ! tiers one above another from the edge of the water to the summit of the acropolis behind the city and around all a white wall five miles in extent. Through the heart of the ; city stretched forth the great artery of trade, the Egnatian way. At the eastern end it passed under a magnificent marble arch, which was ; Knilf i-n Vinnnp nf Iho vintnrv of Oo- ! \J Uil V 1A1 tlVitV* VA vuv ? aw?v? J v. w v . tavius and Antony over Brutus and Cassius in the battle that took place in the plains of Philippi. Fortunately for Thessalonica, she had sided with the monarchists against the republicans in this battle, and when it was over both Antony and Caesar visited the city and commemorated their triumph by erecting the arch of victory, which remains to this day. Under this archway doubtless Paul and Silas passed many times during their somewhat lengthy stay in the city. It has been my privilege more than once to visit Saloniki, to en- j ter it from the sea as one jour- , neys from Athens and to leave by rmito whifh Paul entered it on his first visit. It is interesting to j note the characteristics of the city, which are the same now as in Paul's j time, as well as the changes which the centuries have wrought.?Christian Herald. J Little Economies. "I once made up my mind," said a London man, "that I would be- j come the possessor of a good gold ! watch. I saved up the money for it i in this way: When 1 felt like eat- j ing a shilling luncheon, as 1 often i did, I kept it down to tenpence. I j ? . Xm. A A.iifeA *? I AmAW/] *> > *7 put nit; iw upeiiuw^ptt> eu iuhuiu uij watch fund. You will hardly believe me, but with little economies like this I had in less than six months saved enough to buy my gold watch." "But," sai^ a listener, "where is your gold watch? You are wearing a poor little gun metal j thing." "Well," was the reply, ! "when I found how easily I could j get along without shilling luncheons I concluded I could get along with a ten shilling watch instead of a ten pound one. So that the watch fund grew until it purchased for me my own house."?London Mail. Didn'i: Depend Upon Noah. Highlanders cling so tenaciously to the honors and antiquity of their kindred as to be amusing to others. One day a Campbell and a McLean disputed, and the latter insisted j that his family was in existence as a clan from the beginning of 'the world. Campbell asked quizzically j if the clan McLean lived before the flood *that drowned all the world but Noah and his family. "Pooh!" said McLean. clan | was before the ?ood." "I have not read anywhere," observed Campbell, "of any one of the name of McLean going into Noah's ark." "Noah's ark!" retorted McLean, in contempt. "Who ever heard of a McLean that did not have a boat of his own ?" The Hessians Played. It is a matter of record that upon ' the first official celebration of Inde- ; pendence day by the Continental j congress music was secured for the j ? L < / AMA1M M "Of AAfll an I occasion Vy luruuig iuc ULCSOiaa band, which had been captured by George Washington at Trenton in the previous December, to play in the public square all day, to the great delight and amusement of the people. It is also stated that these involuntary celebrants tfere obliged to practice appropriate airs for three weeks previously in order that they could not plead ignorance as an excuse. Carried to Exces*. "My husband is too tender hearted altogether to get on," said Mrs. Muggins dolefully. "It shows his good points, certainly. Why, he won't even speak a cross word to me, nor whip the children, nor even kill a fly." "Oh, that's nothing," said Mrs. Buggins. "My husband is so tender hearted that he can't even beat the carpet."?London Stray Stories. DEEP SEA WONDERS. Life Where Light, Sound Nor Change of Any Kind Can Enter. What happens in those impenetrable depths of the ocean where it is %ur and live miles deep? What manner of life do their weird denizens lead? Some of the conditions liave been conjectured by Mr. 1\ L. Lowe in "A Naturalist on Desert Islands:" "The creatures of these nethermost depths brood forever in the appalling silence of uttermost night, preying one upon another in constant carnivorous strife, living under a pressure that is almost inconceivable and in a temperature so low that it actually seems to defy the possibility of organic life. "Every hour of their life, every day, every year, is passed in the same stagnation of hideous changelessness in circumstances of almost absolute uniformity. For them there is no night; there are no seasons; there is no Sun, no moon; there are no changes from warmth to cold or from cold to warmth. We cannot even conceive that there in Aotliro CAIinrl IB tiling Hi IIIC .11 al UA v VA UVUUVlt I There is absolutely nothing to mark the flight of time. "The great cold of the < bottom water of the ocean is best brought home to those who have examined the contents of a haul of the trawl. The bottom ooze in intensely cold, and it is a strange sensation, while your back is broiling beneath a tropical sun, to have your hand nearly frozen off by the stiff cold mud or ooze that you are compelled to handle wfiile sorting the contents of the trawl. "The pressure at a depth of 8,634 feet amounts to nearly two tons to the square inch. We ourselves, living at ordinary levels, are subjected to a constant pressure of nearly fif teen pounds on every square inch of our bodies. We can calculate, but only feebly conceive, what the pressure must be at the bottom of those abysses. "Take again the question of light. Photographic plates let down beneath the surface of I^ke Geneva showed that at a depth of 510 feet the effect on the plates was no more than that which would be produced on a dark, moonless night. Similar results in the Mediterra- ; nean, whose waters are unusually clear, were reached at a depth of 1,200 feet, so that we may conclude i that in general at any depth below 1 this a profound darkness exists. This complete absence of sunlight at once puts out of account the possibility of plant life. And this all i important factor in the economy of ; animal life, human or otherwise, at ; once raises the question, How do i deep sea animals ultimately live?" Bamboo In the Orient. Bamboo, one of the most provi- , dent gifts of nature to a people, is pqt to so many uses by the natives of the tropics, especially in the orient, that it is difficult to see how ( they could live without it. Among , the principal uses to which it is ( put may be set down: Building ( houses, furniture of all kinds, casing of artesian wellSj water buckets, rafts, pipes, window shades and blinds,, mats, umbrella ribs, hats, raincoats, outrigger on native ( prows, cover for junks, palanquin i ? -1 1-1 mno puititt, UlUHfJlJTCB, nail n;o, decorative purposes, including paint- . ings; paper and paper pulp, baskets, j small bridges, walking sticks and ( flutes. , Gold Horeeahoes In Olden Times. Koman writers inform us that ' Commodus caused the hoofs of his horses to be covered with gold leaf ' and even the fetlocks to be gilded. 1 Nero's short journeys were invari- ' ably performed on white mules ' wearing gold shoes on their fore 1 feet and silver behind. The beasts ; which drew the chariots of his wife, Popoae, were shod all around with 1 gold. Several others among the : dignitaries and potentates of the riotous days of the Roman empire ] shod their horses with gold and used the same material for bridle bits, buckles, spurs, etc. Uncomplimentary Huebande. 1 In China the wife is seldom men- i tioned by her husband, but when he i does mention her it is always in ] some roundabout way. He has some ] name that he calls her in his flowery 1 language which takes the place of j the word "wife." One man calls i his wife "my hand the clothes," an- ] other calls her "my dull compan- 1 ion," another "my thorn in the < ribs," another describes her as "the 1 mean one of the inner rooms." 1 Helping It Along; "It's' almost certain that (he'll marry that good for nothing chap." ( "Has the engagement been an- j nounced ?" j "Not yet. But they'll get mar- t ried all right." \ "What makes you think so?" t "Her mother and father hare j both started in to knock him."? , Detroit Free Press. < HOW MUSSELS ARE CAUGHT. ! I And What Happens to the Mollusks j After They Are Landed. The gathering of mussels forms | an important industry in the middle west. The mu.-sel fisherman's outfit consists of a boat and a pair of dredges. A dredge is composed of ordinary gas pipe whereto a limn ber of hooks are attached, each hook showing four prongs. Fastening a stout rope to his dredge, t he hunter drops it overboard, and as the boat drifts-with the current the dredge drags along i the bottom of the stream. The j mussel lies with shell open, and when the prong of a hook strikes ; within the opening of the mussel's . two shells the deluded mollusk, un- i der the impression that it has cap- | tured something edible, closes down on the hook with a viselike grip. After flowing twenty or thirty yards the dredge is pulled up and the remaining dftdge is dropped from the opposite side of the boat. It is not unusual for a fisherman to capture as many as a hundred mussels at a single drop of the dredge. When the fisherman has got as many mussels as his boat will conveniently carry he rows ashore and undertakes the "cooking out" process. The mussels are transferred from the boat to a tank that holds I from 500 to 1,000 pounds. Here the mussels are boiled for one hour, a process that loosens the meat from the shell. The shells are placed upon a platform, where they are sorted and cleaned for shipment. The price paid for the shells in too lots frequently touches the $10 mark. While the shells form the prin- i cipal p-oduct of mussels, the fisherman not infrequently has the luck of finding a valuable pearl in his catch. A pearl to be of first qual- |.j ity must be of good luster -and ai a : round, button or pear shape. If it is irregular in form, but has a brilliant color, it has some value. An irregularly shaped pearl is called a baroque. A pearl to be of any great value should be not less than one-eighth of an inch in diameter and in color should be white, pinlj, purple, brown or black. Frequently the mussel fishermen find pearls of perfect shape, but of a dull lead color. These are worthless and are known as "dead pearls." Another product of the mussel deserving mention is the "slug." The "slug" is always irregular in form and is composed of the same matter that goes to make up the pearl, although it does not possess sufficient brilliance to be classed as a baroque. "Slugs" are employed in the manufacture of cheap jewelry, and the price for them ranges from $1 to $1.50 an ounce. ; Pearls, baroques and slugs are thought to be formed by the mussel as a means of protection against irritation. A foreign substance, such as, for example, a grain of sand, effects an entrance between the shells. This irritates the mussel, and to protect itself it envelops the offending object in a coat of nacre of varying thickness. ? Harper's Weekly. The Cauliflower. Of the word "cauliffower" a writer in the London Chronicle says: r'The modern spelling is artificial, and if we were to write it as we pronounce it, 'collyflower/ we should he taking a step hack in the natural direction. 'Coleflorye,' as they spelled it in the sixteenth century, brings out the true meaning of the vegetable's name?'fiowered cabbage'?'cole' being an old word for ? ??.J JUUUa^K ttllU UUIJIC lCJJlCDCiiuiij the French 'flori/ or 'fleuri/ flowBred. But because in Latin it was Bailed 'cauliflora' it began to be written 'colieflorie' or 'collyflorie' in English, probably by deliberate assimilation to the* Latin, and eventually even to be written 'cauli/ though still pronounced 'colly/ Meanwhile the second part of the word got popularly corrupted to flower.'" "Naming" a Mtmbtr. It is an ancient belief that a man's name has some mysterious sympathy with his nature, whence irise such stories as that of Rumpelstiltskin, whose power ever a human being vanishes the moment that his name is pronounced aloud, [t has been suggested with some show of reason that the modern practice of "naming" a refractory member of the British house of lommons is merely a survival of this belief, which the Norsemen Drought into England. St nrlv Vnursalf. In order to judge of the inside of" others study your own, for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing pasnon and another has another, yet their operations are much the same, ind whatever^engages or disgusts, Dleases or offends you in others will engage, disgust, please or offend >thers in you.?Chesterfield. * - ' -A- _ - t "" m'" """ Furn Why live on bare floors v roundings when you can :- li.. I 4-:..^ scrviceauie anu aiiracuvc Carpets, Matting, R on easy payments if you cash. Our line is larger, tractive than it has ever I Dining and Bedroom Suit ing Chairs, Wardrobes, e and service of the best m; We carry a big line of Quns, B< Edison and Columbia Phonagrt popular musical hits. Iron Beds in many styles, Sprli Carolina Furnil mers all over the South are satisfied ^ with results obtained from our fertilizers. Ask our agent. PLANTER FERTILIZER' PHOSPHATE ( ^CHAF^ESTONjS . a Mr. Stock do you give yoiu doped medicines ever think of th Many animals d ment with dop< which are worse all. An animal with a w down condition can drugged. When the they usually die. Yqu Should take t doctoring your 9tod your family. Noah's Horse are medicines?not d safe side by giving yc tested remedies. Noah's Colic Remedy la 1 moat dangerous disease, Col its eilect. Simple to adm tongue. Cheep m price?60 ISO to any stock owner. Noah's Paver Remedy is coughs, colds, distemper, in and the treatment oi milk on the tongue. Two sizes,' Noah's Liniment Is the bet stable remedy on the mark* hoi, chloroform, ammonia, poisonous drugs. 26c, 50c Gallon cans at 10.00. These remedies are sold ? cine. Made tn Richmond by ? "I have been as brig Noah's Liniment ana . Noah's Colic Remedy on our stock with the best results, and find them to be the best remedies of the kind I have ever used and recommend them to 1 stock owners.?D. J. Orlfflth, Sup't 8. C. ^ ^oUte^ttaryf CotumW Sold and guaranteed by Kings IT PAYS TO ADVERTI / vr*? x iiurc | yith uncomfortable sur- 1 fit your home out \^Jth j lugs and Furniture; M i have not got the ready t more complete and att>een before with Parlor, s. Lounges, Sofas, Rock- , W tc? constructed for style I fl aterial ?-U 3th single and double barrel*-?1 ??H 1 iphs and Records of the latest I I li J m ijjs and Mattresses. | ture Company | i' We selected and registered I I lis trade-mark and it ap- I ! tars on the bags of aH our I rtilizers. It is your guar- I itee of 100 % quality and otection against inferior rtilizers. I } Thii Giant Lizard?a land animal, weighing 25 to 30 tona, lived in Sooth Carolina during the form* tion cf our phosphate bsds. \ L &" ' } I LOOK FOB THtS X 1 ON THE BAG I IHD lljl' i miam registered *d medicines ^ i than none at _ . m eak heart or run- 4 not stand being I reaction sets in i \ is much care In c as you would "S - A Remedies I ope. Be on the ; tur animals these 1 ecommended for that I lc, and is harmless in ; 1 lnister?given on the I io a bottle, and worth * a medicine for fever, fluenza, lung troubles, ferer in cows. Given 0c and $1.00. it all-round family and st Contains no aloonaphtha, benzine, or 5, and |LOO a bof.le. it all dealers In medlthe Noah Remedy Co. tnr 1>auu V BlfcUlO ;he Noah Remedies are BWWBH JD| he best he ever used, specially the Unlment j^H or the cure ot sore flB ihooldere, with which *8<W$8H H| ire have had so much QTjj^J rouble He also eo- TT7VvVy3 lorses your colic rem- i llfllaKl m >dy as be tog toe and a LIVmIBISI ture cure?T. J. Davis, 3up^ State^ Farm, &H reTeViw |X tree Drug Co. and M. L. Allen. J ISE IN THE RECORD J s*'J> i f ^isSm