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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Onr Regular Correspondence.
, Ambassador Pauncefote bas been
interviewed in London and bas ex
pressed bis belief that a treaty will
be arranged before congress meets
which will provide- for the building
of the Nicaraguan canal and will be
acceptable to both nations. If so, it
will undoubtedly provide for the
right of defense of the canal by the
United States in time of war, this
being a sine qua non in any treaty
to which the Senate will agree. The
other amendments made in the
treaty may also be insisted upon, but
this is uncertain. Meanwhile, the
indifference with which the whole
subject is really regarded in Great
Britain is shown by cabled extracts
from editorials in the London pa
pers in regard to Lord Pauneefote’s
interview, in which it is invariably
assumed that the United States in
sists on the right to fortify the ca
nal, when, as a matter of fact, forti
fications were expressly barred by
the treaty as adopted by the Senate.
From this indifference and ignorance
it may be argued that had Secretary
Hay taken the Senate into his confi
dence in the first place and provided
in the original treat}’ for the amend
ments afterwards made, that Great
Britain would have accepted it as
willingly as she did the treaty actu
ally submitted to her. In other
words, there is good cause to be
lieve that the only reason why a
treaty is not already in existence is
because of Secretary Hay’s bungling
and Great Britain’s touchiness.
Postmaster General Smith has at
last issued his long expected orders
limiting the extent of the second-
class mail rates. These orders, how
ever, have been very greatly modi
fied from the form in which they
were first proposed, and now do not
go so very far beyond the correction
of the manifest abuses. Summed up,
the new orders bar from the mails
at the pound rate paper backed nov
els and similar publications; deprive
of the pound rate newspapers and
periodicals which have no bona fide
subscription lists, but which are
merely thrown in to the purchaser
of some more or less attractive pre
mium; and prescribe that unsold
copies of newspapers cannot be re
turned at the pound rate, either to
the publishers or to central news
agencies. The order is believed to
be sufficiently sweeping to effect a
saving of many millions of dollars in
the expenditures of the postoffice
department, while at the same time
it is claimed that it will not do any
injustice to legitimate newspapers
and periodicals, for whose benefit
alone the law was passed originally.
The department asserts that the sav
ing effected by the new rules will
probably enable one-cent letter post
age to be adopted, but says nothing
of the undoubted fact that a still
greater saving could be effected by
cutting down the utterly extortion
ate rates paid to the railways for
hauling the mails.
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The law that holds this uni
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things of time that go into eter
nity with you.—-August Ladies’
Home Journal.
O James White, Brvantsville, Ind.
says DeWitt’s Witch ‘ Hazel Salve
healed running sores on both legs.
He had suffered 6 years. Doctors
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Cotton Disease Investigated.
Atlanta Constitution.
Waycboss, Ga., July 12.—W. A
Orton, associate pathologist in the
United States agricultural depart
ment, spent the day in Wayeross.
He was enroute to Boston, Ga.,
where he went to investigate the
“wilt disease” in cotton, which is
reported to have made its appear
ance near that place.
The Constitution reporter obtain
ed an interview with Mr. Orton. Be
mg a specialist in the culture and
diseases of cotton, his observations
touch upon many points that are not
only interesting to the public, but
helpful to the cotton growers, espe
cially of sea island cotton.
“In regard to the ‘wilt disease,’ or
‘black heart,’ said Hr. Orton, “it is a
disease that has come into promi
nence only in recent years, and the
appearance at Boston, Ga., is the
first that has been noted in this sec
tion.
“Once it gets a start it appears in
the same field year after year, and
gradually spreads. It is recognized
by cutting across the stem of the
blighted cotton, and the heart of the
stem being black.
“It is caused by fungus in the soil.
It enters through the water vessels,
king them up, and shuts off the
water supply, producing wilt. When
it appears it is useless to plant the
land in cotton again, as it will take
the disease. It may be reduced by.
selecting the field seed from healthy
stalks that have withstood its rav
ages and have not been affected, and
by this method may be eventually
overcome or broken up in a field.
Indeed, there is no other known
remedy,
“The fungus lives in the soil six
years, we know, and perhaps longer.
Other crops may be planted on the
soil without infection, but it may re
quire many years to eradicate the
fungus. In certain districts of South
Carolina it is out of the question to
raise cotton on lands where the dis
ease has gotten a hold.
“Wilt is more prevalent m sea isl
and cotton, but occurs also in short
staple. The government is using ev
ery means possible to destroy the
disease, and we are now importing
and distributing a quantity of Egyp
tian cotton seed, which is a very
healthy variety of cotton and is not
so much subject to infection.
“Whenever wilt appears in a field
the farmer should cut off the part
affected and not allow the plow to
drag the germ from that pait of the
field to other parts. He should also
communicate at once with the de
partment at Washington, and the
matter will be taken up.
“The department is experimenting
with a new species of cotton, which
is a cross between the sea, island and
the short staple. It. is the purpose
to produce a cotton with the sea isl
and staple and a stalk similar to the
short staple that will grow in all sec
tions where the short staple grows,
and withal a more healthy plant
than either. We have been able to
produce this cotton, and now we are
trying to fix the type.
You see, by producing that type
we shall be able to grow in this
country all the long staple we use
and shall then not have to import
Egyption cotton. Sixty thousand
bales, or $5,000,000 worth of this
cotton was imported last year. It
does not sell for quite as much as
our sea island, and the price is not
affected by either our short or long
staple cotton.
“The lower grades .of our sea isl
and—that is, the grades grown in
this section—are in greatest de
mand. The finer grades, grown on
the Carolina coast, are a drug on the
market.”
Mr. Orton went into the country
while here and secured some speci
mens of diseased cotton which he
found near the city and he will di
agnose it. He does not think the
specimens he obtained are affected
with wilt, but are affected by over
moisture.
3 A Remarkable Octogenarian.
Although eighty-two years old this
summer, Mrs. H. P. YanCleve, “the
first white baby bom in the north
west,’’ is still vigorous of mind and
actively interested in the world’s af
fairs. She lives in Minneapolis, Min
nesota. Her life story, as told in the
Ladies’ Home Journal for August, is
a picturesque and exciting one. Born
at Fort Crawford, Wisconsin, on Ju
ly 1, 1819, the daughter of one reg
ular army officer and the widow of
another, she passed through all the
trials, hardships and adventures of
military and pioneer life on the
frontier, and although she has spent
most of her later years in cities, her
experiences have still been of a va
ried and nnnsual character. Her
golden wedding anniversary was
celebrated more than fifteen years
ago.
flitting ttie
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The English “Society for the Pre
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definitely known that every case of
consumption began with a germ
communicated from some other case.
There is no such thing as inherited
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