The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-30
A common cold should not be neglect
cd, Downs Elixir will cure it.
Celery Leaf Spot.

Z According to recent bulletin of the
New Jersey station, celery leaf spot was
observed in a field of celery in that state
in 1891, and is due to a species OF fungus
which DR.. b. D. Halsted proposes to call
Phyllosticta apii. He says of it: 1.-The
phyllosticta begins as dull brown
patch. The leafet may be attacked only
in one spot, which continues to enlarge
until the whole becomes brown and life
'ess, followed by torn condition. Two
or three large, dead, shredded places
may be all the leaf contains, while the
remainder is healthy and deep green.
This is rapidly growing fungus, is par
ticularly fond of moisture and fourishes
in the shade, being found usually upon
the younger or lower leaves. While ex-
periments have not been made upon this
leaf spot fungus, it is probably true that
the same remedy as that for the ordinary
leaf blight (cercaspora) applied in the
same manner would prove effective. 1t
is important to begin early with the
spraying"
A New International Law Needed.
Europe is only nursery to raise pop
/ ulation for America, the able orators
say. If this is true then we ought at
least to have some choice as to the kind
of children that are raised for MS. We
would be better off today if our popula-
ton were a million less than it is, pro-
vided the right ones could be weeded
out. Mere increase of population is no
credit at all to a family or nation un.
less the quality of the increase is an i'm
provement on its progenitors. Where
this quality remains the same or even
deteriorates it would be better to dis.
pense with the increase.
| We have had the offscouring OF
Europe and Asia poured upon us long
enough. AS long as the paupers and
criminals of other countries know that
they and their children can be landed at
any time on the shores Of the United
States, and be sure of living, it will
not matter to them how many millions
additional of paupers and criminals they
breed. We cannot prevent these
wretched, wicked and filthy classes from
breeding and swarming like maggots in
Atheir own country, but we can prevent
them from swarming over upon us.
We owe it to our own preservation as a
nation to do this.
| When to filth, wickedness and crime
are added pestilence, like cholera and
| typhus fever, then the civilized nations
of the world ought to take some con.
certed action to stop the food which
threatens to overwhelm them all. Ger.
many, Great Britain, France and the
| United States ought to enter into q
health league for self protection. They
j ought to pass international immigra-
ton regulations that will be for them
/ all mutual barrier at least against dis.
ease, and while they are about 1t they
might quarantine against crime and
pauperism as well. Eastern Europe
must DO taught that she can no longer
pour a poisoned stream upon western
], Europe and the United States. It Is
better that the scum population Of east.
ern Europe should be starved to death
at home than that all the rest of the
civilized world should be made rotten.
AS to the international precautions
that will stamp out cholera at its source,
DR.. Popof writes in the New York Sun
j: The delta of the Ganges is the permanent
, abode Of cholera. While 1t remains there the
world at large is safe and well. But when
under special meteorological conditions, II
oversteps its usual boundaries, 1t is high time
to beat alarm, and the civilized world should
-, unite its forces against the common deadly
. foe that carries away more human lives than
any war.
In case Of cholera tho solidarity of interests
of all civilized nations is self evident. Why
, then do they not unite in establishing some
measures that would tend to keep the plague
: at its home for good7 This is an opportune
time to raise the question Of Of an interna-
tional aDticholera congress. II Europe up to
this day has not done anything OF the kind
why should not we, the Americans, raise this
vital question? Common sense suggests that
an international sanitary Gordon should be es-
tablished on the very delta Of the Ganges
+ The cholera comma is pretty well known
nowadays there are plenty Of telegraph lines
, even in India; why then is the world not
warned Of the danger In due time? Is II mol
an international crime to let cholera ravage
the world over?