The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

The interest in Napoleon is undying,
and the following from the London Spec
tator is a characteristic anecdote of that
wonderful man:
Sir,-1n 1887, while working in London
as a curate to the Rev. Canon Fleming
| was called in my Wears absence to adj
minister religious service to an old adj
mlral in Eaton Square The admirars
name was Eden. After the service was
over he took my hand and said: shake
hands with me, young man. There are
not many alive who can say what l can
say You are talking with q man who
has talked to Napoleon the Great y
Sir I said, that is history. May I
hear 'more?" The old admiral then told
me that he was once returning with the
feet-1 think from the West Indies, but
OF that am not Sure-and touched at
ST. Helena. The admiral said: Il am
going up to Longwood TO pay my re-
spects to Napoleon. and the senior mid
Shipman comes with me-"
Il was the senior midShiDman" said
the old gentleman, and so went We
waited for Napoleon in an outer room
and you must imagine how eagerly ex-
pected his entrance. The door was
thrown open at last and in he came. He
was short and fat, and nothing very
attractive, but for his eye! My word
sir, have never seen anything like it.
to me. and then l understood for the first
time in my life what was the meaning of
the phrase, a born ruler OF men, l had
been taught to hate the French as
hated the devil; but when Napoleon
looked at me there was such power and
majesty in his loGll that if he had babe
me lie down that he might walk over me.
l would have done it at once English
MILDLY though l was, The look on Napo-
Icons face was the revelation of the man
and the explanation of his power. He
was born TO command
Such was Admiral Edens version to me
of an incident which at ninety years old
or thereabout seemed to him as fresh as
il it had happened only the day before.
JOHN ROCKER.
Christ Church Nicarage, Beckenham.
The growing Of tea in South Carolina is
getting to be a moro and more lucrative
field for Investment. The Atlanta Consti-
tuition says:
1t has been demonstrated that good tea,
both green and black, can be raised in
South Carolina, and that when properly
planted and cultivated ii may be made a
profitable crop. DR.. Shepard sold $500
worth of tea from his farm at Pinehurst
Gardens, s. c.. in 1899, and for some he
received 81 pound.
DR.. Shepard gives as his opinion, based
on experience, that good tea can be
grown in his section of South Carolina
for 10 cents pound, and that such tea
will bring from so cents to so cents a
pound on the market. He says an acre
of tea properly attended to will bring 400
pounds. The entire expense of the crop
will not be over $50 at the outside, leav-
ing a profit from $50 to over 500 an acre.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal says:
It is gratifying to observe that the press
of Arkansas is heartily ashamed of its
Legislature on account of it's resolution
of sympathy for the Tagal bandits and
Ingoroto bolomen who are shooting down
American soldiers from ambush in the
Philippines. This sympathy for the Ia
gals is one of those spectacular idiocies
that have been dignified by the name of
policies and which have led the Demo-
cratic party to disgrace and defeat. The
idea seems to prevail that this war in
some way or other. is u Republican war
exclusively, and that it is to endorse the
Republican party. The idea seems to pre-
vail that to dcnounce the effort to sub
due the bandits in the Philippines is the
way to down the Republican party and
eXat the Democratic party. Never was
greater error. While war with Spain
sooner or later was inevitable, it is fact
that the Democrats precipitated II. AIr.