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A New Cotton Disease. Correspondence Atlanta Constitution. Iii the face of the fact that we have the brightest prospect for a bountiful cotton crop this county has had in-years is the further fact of impending disaster. The fields of waving, loading cotton present a spectacle cheering and hopeful. Suggestions of peace and plenty come sweeping over the minds of the weary toilers as they look out upon the scene. But the spell cannot la9t. A close in* tolligent inspection of the hang ing fruit brings to lignfc the silent but threatening approach of death and destruction. May the ad vance of the monster in some way he averted, is the prayer of hun dreds of anxious tillers of the soil in Putnam county. Anthracnose, that most destruc tive enemy of the cotton plant, is abroad iu the land. It will be remonibered that last year it ap peared in many localities of the state, and that great damage was sustained wherever it wss found. While it is a new disease and but little understood, it has been no ticed to a limited extent by one o? two observant farmers in Put nam co.iuty fortlie past ten years. While some years it would be very noticeable, in others it would apparently disappear. Until last year it has been very limited i scope and mild in character. Last year, however, it presented a most formidable front and was quite widely scattered. Iu .several instances ' great damage was \Vrought. Iu one. particular, es pecially, that your correspondent recalls,’ the crops of cottbn, that promised well, was cut to two bales to the plow. In consequence of its destructive nature the farmers are watching its reappearance and development with considerable interest and dread. In several important res pects the malady is more serious than ever. 1, It has made its appearance the present year fully one month in advance of its arrival last year. 2. Its appearance is decidedly more general than ever before. Last year the eastern and central portions of the county seemed to have monopolized the unwelcome visitor. This year it is devel oping in almost every part of the county. 8. Its advent this year dates back but a short while, and so far its damage has been slight, but it spreads and develops rap idly and does its deadly work well and quickly. The malady has re ceived at the hands of experts much investigation, and no little speculation, too, has been expend ed, but as yet it seems to be but little understood. It has been oalled a kind of fungus growth— a disease that resembles the brown rot or blight common to fruit trees. It is said to be the work of no insect. The conditions that are favorable to its develop ment are practically unknon, for it has been known not to thrive one season under conditions that apparently favored it another year. Fertilizers seem to have nothing to do with it, pro nor con. Damp, low plaoes that produce rank growth in cotton are no more subject to the malady than up lands. The character of the laud plays no part. The different varieties of cotton, according to last year’s experience, seem to be affected differently. The “New Era,’’ a variety considerably used in this county, seems to stand the ravages of the trouble better than other kinds. The agricultural department last year advised the farmers to secure their planting seed from remote localities where the dis ease was unknown. This several parties iu the county did, but without success. The first appearance of the malady is exactly as if the green boll had been stung by an insect. A small puncture (bo it looks to the eye) in the outside hull of the boll is visible. Surrounding this is a small purple circle, resemb ling a bruised spot. It might nat urally seem that the outer cover ing of the cotton boll would first be attacked and consumed, but not so. From this small, bruised looking 0pot the deadly poison seems, to enter the interior and to attack the lint, and praotioally to destroy it before the hull is even blackened to any considera ble extent. Its work is usually complete. What will be the outcome of the appearance of the disease in this couuty cannot be told as yet. If it continues to develop, and its ravages are in proportion to its widened scope and increased ac tivity much damage may be surely expected. No little anxiety pre vails among the farming popula tion iu consequence of this terri ble disease, against which they are powerless to fight. Productive Education. The social, commercial and in dustrial state of the Common wealth has almost wholly changed in the last thirty-five years, says Governor Montague of Virginia. These changes have imposed new conditions that must be met with courage, energy and intelligence, or we must fatally lag behind in the march of progress and civili zation. Education'for speculative thinkers and professions will not save the people. But few of the many who ever enter public schools make their living other than by the use of their hands and eyes. Why not, therefore, educate those faculties and mem bers which produce the substance anul comforts of life? Such edu cation is not merely material. Upon labor till civilization prima rily rests, and the education of this labor will teach knowing by doing, and blend science with art. It will beget habits of order, accu racy, industry and intelligence; it will produce contentment and develop skill and productive pow er; it will dignify labor and ener gize the creative forces of society. These momentous needs can be greatly facilitated, if not accom plished, by some forms of indus trial education. Ample experi ence affords indisputable proof of the practical and ethical value of this form of education, which in some branches may be introduced into many of our public schon' > with little, if any, additional c -t : and in a few years we shall hr- a system of teaohing that v i popularize the free schools ilid powerfully advance the State. You find here and there individ ual men who talk against educa tion for one class of people or on- other, but when you get down to the facts of the case, says Edgar Garner Murphy, you usually find that these men are objecting, not to education in itself, but to some specious and unpractical form of miseducation. For all olasses of our people, there has been too much of the education that looks toward vanity, and not enough of that education which looks to ward a common sense, practical equipment for the actual opportu nities of life. This is the form of education in which we are espe cially interested. Summer complaint is unusually prevalent among children this season. A well developed case in the writer’s family was oured last week by the timely use of Cham berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy—one of the best patent medicines manufactured and which is always kept on hand at the home of ye scribe. This is not intended as a free puff for the company, who do not advertise with us, but to benefit little suf ferers who may not be within easy access of a physician. No family should be without a bottle of this medicine in the house, especially in summer-time.—Lansing, Iowa, Journal. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. An anti-kissing order has been issued by the Pennsylvania Rail road company, as follows: “All trainmen, gatemen and ticket ex aminers in charge of the Jersey City exits will stop all persons from exchanging kisses upon the arrival and departure of trains in this station. This order must be rigidly enforced.” SMITH’S NERVE RESTORER. This medioine is guaranteed to oure all oases of Nervous Prostration oaused by overwork. It is a true Nerve Tonic and restores Nervous Vitality or Loss of Manhood. It will not only relieve these nervous troubles and weaknesses, but will restore them to fnll vigor and man hood. Guaranteed. Sold by Dr. R. L. Cater. Subscribe for the Home Journal. The Scientist’s Right. The members of a certain learn ed society had been indulging in birthday festivities, and when dinner and tho subsequent enjoy ments were over, Prof. Jones start ed off to trudge the half mile or so to his home, says the Pittsburg Bulletin. The professor is a very clever man, and noted for the keenness of his intellect. The excitement and the unu sually hearty dinner, followed by the abstruse discussion in which he had been engaged, had given him a headache; so, approaching an electrio light post, he pressed his throbbing brow against the cool iron. Thus he stood for a few minutes. Then, feeling a lit tle chilly, .he buttoned his over coat preparatory to proceeding on his way home, but, to his horror, when he attempted to leave the post he found himself unable to move. A brain such as the professor’s works quickly, and the reason for his detention soon seemed clear. Evidently the current which fed the lamp above had become divert ed from its course and was pass ing through his body, binding him to the post in the process. Death, ghastly and horrible, star ed him in the face. Gradually his backbone would become dis solved to a jelly, and while the awful process was going on he must stand there as helpless as a butterfly pinned to a cork. In his terror he gave vent to his feelings in a mighty yell. This attracted the attention of a po liceman, who hurried up, and then shaking with laughter, listened to the professor’s ' explanation. 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