The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
CURRENT TOPICS.


SPEAKING OF German Democracy, NJ. DE LAvELEYE
says: ieWo have just seen that the diffusion of
instruction and scientific knowledge is the prin-
oipal cause Of the recent progress Of Prussian agri-
culture. We may add that the habits Of the well
TO do GLASSES have contributed towards it, and that
the economic action of the State has placed no
obstacle in it's way. 2 . . Nearly all tho
landowners cultivate their own estates; except for
detached portions renting is the exception. They
are therefore retained in. the country by the care,
Of their own interests, for nothing more imperi-
ously requires the eye OF q master than rural in
dustry. 1t is true they are by class OF employees
who are not found in any other country. They are
educated young men belonging to famfi6s in o
good position. often just leaving an agricultural
college, who FaMAin for o. certain time ON. come
large estates TO initiate themselves in tho practi-
cal direction Of one of their own. This n~ovitiate
is an ancient custom still preserved in many
trades. Thus, frequently tho son Of a, rich hotel
keeper will not hesitate to enter another hotel, %
butler or waiter lKellncr) to be initiated into oil
the details Of the service over which he will one
day have TO preside. Whom any one visits the
farms (H.tterguaey) he is astonished to see as
superintendahts the son OF a baker, q baron or q
rich landowner. These young people drive o cart
or guide the plough. At noon they return, groom
their horses and then 70 and dress themselves and
dine at the owners table, to whom they are not
inferior, either in instruction, birth or manners.
After the meal they resume their working dress and
return without any false shame to their rustic ocou-
patton. Thus we find in feudal Prussia q trait of
mannors sHited to the demooratic'society ofthe Uni
ted States, and which hereafter will become general.
In France, in England especially, o. yourAHe man of
the upper GLASS would believe his dignity compro-
missed in performing tho work Ola farm laborer.
The disdain of manual. labor-that prejudice Of
ancient times-stil infects (whatever may be said)
our modern society In Words, labor is lauded,
that creator of capital; but, in fact, Il is the CAPT.
taist and not the laborer who is respeytod. BY
degrees, as the laborious classes shall be elevated.
these sentiments will change. 9, The moment will
como when there will be no distinction between
tho haEdicraf&man and the man Of science. It is
singular that 1t should be in Prussia, the land OF
caste and aristocfatic notions, that must be sought
this type Of the producer such as he will be in the
future. TO these considerations the author adds
Others OF nm economic order. t"'In many ooun,
tries" he says, "the central power has hampered
the progress OF agriculture by taking away the
money it required. Prussia has had the:good for.
tune to have neither colony, which. exhausted IL.
nor capital. which devoured it." We do not wish
at this moment to touch upon that other side Of
the question to which M.'de Laveleye himself only
gives the second rank. Besides, tho exaggerated
development Of capital, and Of towns OF amuse-
ment In general, is o malady Of our civilization
which arises again from the fatal source, which We
remarked just now with him, Of that false educa-
lion which places idleness in honor, and enter
tains a disdain for manual labor in the scions Of
the Independent class. .a.r l!,.
AN EMINENT English agriculturists writes thus
from the other side OF the Channel, and was I'M
Hat kho srpNraoc:0o rILck - .I--A . .
from foreign farming and .sugar-nlaking except
what to avoid but a,day or two with M. Dscrom-
becque, nj. Gail, and NJ Dailly,, at Trappes,. has
convinced mo to the contrary. NJ. Gail has on one
farm 1850 acres Of splendid boot, 1900 acres a,r 81 OF
wheat, and 1900 acros OF grasses. i have been
much struck at the statements made as the feed
ing value of the pulp from Silesian beet after the
sugar has boon extracted. M. Decrombecque, M,
pah, and othera, assured mo that q ton OF pulp ia
equal to the Same weight OF raw mangold. The
pulp keeps good for months, If stored in tanks
sunk in the ground and properly secured Now.
as they can grow sugar beet in Holland, Denmark.
Russia, as wen'as in Germany, Belgium, and the
cold North Of France, why cannot wei Z" Wen. it ia
not very easy to answer this question and the en-
couraging history and prospects Of the manuRao-
cure are enough to make us reconsider our
attitude with respect to it. A hundred and.
twenty years ago, Marggraaf, at Berlin,
made the discovery that pure sugar couldA
be extracted from the juice Of beet root.
In 1893, Arthur Young announced that "M
Achard, professor of chemistry at Berlin.
has discovered g method of making sugar
from beetroot. He makes from two-thirds of
ON English acre "a owts. Of raw sugar.
equal in quality to the West Indian. He present.
ed to the King OF Prussia q loaf of it, who offered
N. Achard 100000 for the invention. The discoy-
cry makes q great noise in Germany, and ia con-
sttdered as an object Of vast Importance. The Ger
man name is s'Kunkel Kube." The manufacture
received o great impetus in France In 1sfa. Ex-
pPriments were made with different roots: and At
Last, after various crossings in the seed, q kind OF
beet was produced which has been since known "a /
the French yellow beetroot." this, with the Bile +
sian and Prussian beet, now forming the raw mate |
rial OF a very extensive trade. In the year 1866. |
France raised and consumed go, 600 tons of beet
sugar; the German Zollverein. 1870, 600 tons; and
tqlssla, 6O,OOO tons. Throughout Europe more |
tfan l4oO manufactures are at work, and between |
them made CSC, 900 tons of sugar in that year. The
afea OF land under the crop was 297 900 acres. Weld
me on an average sixteen tons Of beetroot per acre.
nile the sugar extracted was at the rate OF ? per
cont, costing Id. per pound. Moreover although |
business was somewhat precarious, last year
having been favorable only for France, while in |
Germany the weather brought an inferior produce.
and in Russia caused o failure of the crop, il IL q
fact that tho breadth OF land sown has steadily in,
creased year by year. .ts & |
! Hours AT HoMR " we read the following OF |
things which are immortal: The Gospel Of Mark Ia /
nPw read in languages and in lands OF which. thu /
learned dresk and the oonquering Roman Knew
NOT the existence. The creed Of AShknnanaituia n /
accepted by greater numbers nov tn iNniv w iIie1li No
ruled as q bishop or when he was canonized' a ne a
The museum and the theological SCHOOL at
were long since extinct. But leaYnin q
afd religion, there joined together, are still
marching on, hand in hand, for the conquest of
world. The mosques are now crumbtine and
crescent waning to disappear forever. But the
protest against ~idolatry, hierarchy, ambition. and
corruption in the church, which Mohstnmedsuiism
with the shout Of victorious armies
affdP wrote in blood. wiltnot be forgotten Of lost.
ihe Alexaiidrian library persisted BY. successive
and confia grationlsg /; but the sep2tHnuaagyint sur sur
the, Bible is studied in HellenisticS dreeelk. IN |,
schools without number In every rye, quarter Of tha |