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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
The Yield of q Single Ear.

| A farmer in Ohio has recently mads
an experiment which suggests An idea.
He had procured an ear of very fne
yellow corn, and wishing TO procure
seed from it, planted it in good soil,
having first ascertained that there we're
about five hundred grains on the cob.
The corn produced from these five hun.
dred kernels measured nearly nine BUSH
els, or about nine hundred ears froEu
one. The seed SO obtained was as good
as the specimens planted. If farmers
in this State world strive to obtain i'm
proved seed--and improved seed does
not necessarily mean new vsrieties--
they would make money by the operG-
ton The truth is that little or no at
tention is paid to saving seed. When
wheat is to be sown the farmer goes To-
the store and buys his seed wheat, ig-
norant. perhaps. that on. sack OF good
wheat may be mixed with two Of bad,
and not knowing where it comes from.
BY such carelessness TIE field is often
seeded with thistles or weeds. which re-
quire years to eradicate. We have
case IN mind Of little wheat. growing
valley which ten years ago was innocent
Of weeds or thistles. But since that
time one of the farmers boTght his seed
wheat without taking proper precau-
tions in regard to where 10 was raised,
and the following season he found his
field with a very little wheat and a great
many California thistles. The next year
the wind had scattered the seeds broad.
cast over the valley, and to-day it is ais
most useless to SOW grain of any kind
in that valley, for the thistlesschoke ii
out completely.
1t would be an excellent idea to go
through tine wheat fields in the fall aud
pick out few choice heads, we'll filed
out, and thresh them ont by rubbing in
the hand. Put the seed in water and
skim off the floating grains which are
not we'll filled out. Save the balance
carefully and in the spring SOW or plant
in some good mellow ground, spd not 50
thick but that the soil around each
stalk can be stirred with the hoe, and
where it can be watered if necessary. A
quart of seed planted in this way would
produce large amount OF grain supe-
rior to a large majority OF the seed
wheat in the country. In this way the
crop can be renewed, and not only high
priced grain, but more of it. will be the
result
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
The Will of Peter the Great as to
the Policy of Russia.

There is eXtant document often
quoted called "The Will of Peter
the Great" 1t is said to be genuine,
but doubted by some. II is apparent
ly genuine, for it points out the policy
Russia has pursued, and things to be
done not yet accomplished 1t points
to the weakening of Sweden, the neu
traliziug of Poland (Which was done by
destroying and absorbing it, to the &C
QUESTION of the Crimea and the territor
les ronnd the Black Sea, to the marri.
s8es with German Princesses, to push
ing on to the Persian gulf, and to re.
suming commerce with the Levant
through Syria. This, the reader sees,
points directly to the march ofthe army
of the Caucasus to Alleppo. This pas.
sage is SO interesting that We giveit en-.
| tire:
"9. We must progress as much as
possible in the direction of CONSTANT
nople and India. He who can once get
possession of these points is the real
ruler Of the world. With this view we
must provoke quarrels at one time with
Turkey, and at another with Persia
We must establish wharves and docks in
the Euxile. and by degrees make our.
selves masters of that sea, as we'll az of
the Baltic, which is doubly important
element in the success of onr plan. we
must hasten the downfall of Persia,
push on tothe Persian gulf; if possible
re- establish the ancient commercial IN
tercourse with the Levant through
Syria, and force our way into the Indies,
which are the storehouses of the world
once there, We can dispense with Eng
lish gold.
40. Moreover. We mnst take pains
to establish and maintain an intimate
union with Austria, apparently ooun-
tenancing her schemes for fnture ag.
grandizements in Germany. and all the
while secretly rousing the jealousy of the
Union states against her. In this way We
must bring it to pass that one or the 9TH
er party shall seek aid from Russia, and
thus we shall exercise a sort of protec-
torate over the country. which will pave
the way to future supremacy.
I'll. We must make the. house OF
Austria interested in the expulsion OF
the Turks from Europe, and we must
neutralize its jealousy at the capture OF
Constantinople. either by preoccupyine
it with war with the old European
states, or by allowing it shars of the
spoils, which we can afterward resume
at our leisure.
10. We must collect around oul
house, as center. all the detached SEQ
tions of Greeks which are scattered
abroad in Hungary, Turkey and South
Poland: We must make them look tc
us for support. and thus. by establish
ing beforehand sort of eccles' astical
supremacy, we shall pave the woy fol
universal sovereignty"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
A Happy Man.

/ noticed mechanic, among nurs--
ber Of others, at work in q house erect
ed but little way from my office, who
always appeared to be in kind Of ner-
ry humor. who had kind word and a
cheerful smile for every one he met.
Let the day be ever so cold, gloomy or
sunless. happy smile danced sun
beam upon his conntenance. Meeting
him one morning, I asked him to tell
me the secret of his constant happy
flow of spirits. ''No secret, doctor. /"
he replied: II have got good wife,
and when / go to work she has always a
word of encouragement for me; and
when ] 60 home she always meets me
with tender kiss; and she is sure to
be ready with my meals, and she has
done SO many things through the dsy
to please me, that l cannot find it il
my heart to speak unkindly to any
body" What influence, then, hath 9
woman over the heart of man, to soften
it, and make it the fountain of cheerful
and pure emotions! Speak gently
a happy smile and kind word Of greet,
ing, after the tolls of the day are over
cost nothing, and 60 far toward making
!. home happy and peaceful. II Dr.;
Franklin.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
M1isre1law.
Mr.. Potts's Little Story.

While was over at Pecander the
other day. 1 called on Potts. Mr.
Potts is liable to indulge in extrava-
gance in his conversation, and rs Mrs.
Potts is an extremely conscientious
woman where matters of fact are con.
cerned, she's obliged t. keep her eye on
him, Potts was telling me about an
incident that occurred in town a few
days before, and this is the way he re-
lated it:
Potts-You see old Bradley over here
is perfectly crazy on the subject Of
gases and the atmosphere. and such
things-absolutely wild; and one day
he was dispnting with Green about how
high up in the air life could be sustain
ed; and Bradley said an animal could
live forty million miles above the earth
if
Mrs. Potts.-Not forty millions, my
dear. only forty miles, he said.
P.-Forty was it? Thank you. Well,
sir. old Green, you know. said that
was ridiculous; and he said he'd bet
Bradley couple of hundred thousand
dollars that life couldn't be sustained
half tbat way up, and So
Mrs. P.-William. you are wrong; he
only offered to bet fifty dollars.
P.-Well. any how, Bradley took
him up qnickern a wink, and they
agreed to send cat up in a balloon to
decide the bet. So what does Bradley
do but bay II balloon about twice as
big as cur barn, and begin to
! Mrs. PIT was only about ten feet in
, diameter, Mr.. Adeler; William forgets
P.-Begin to initiate her. When she
was filled, it took eighty men to hold
her, and
Mrs. P.-Eighty men, Mr. Potts
Why yo1 know Mr.. Bradley held the
balloon himself.
PIE did, did he! Oh, very well
what's the odds? And when every
thing was ready they brought out Brad
ley's tom>cat, and put it in the basket
and tied it so that it coudn jump out.
you know There when about one hund>
red thousand people looking Oh, and
when they let go you never heard such
Mrs. P.-There was not more thar
two bundled people there, I counted
them. myself.
P.-Oh, don't bother me! I say yor
never heard such yell as the balloon
went scooting up into the sky, pretty
near out of sight. Bradley said she
| went up about one thorsand miles, and
now don't interrupt me, Henrietta;
| know what the man said, and that cat
| mind you, a bowling like a hun
dred fog-horns 30 you could a
heard him from here to Peru
Well, sir, when she was up sol
che looked as small as a pin-head
something or other burst. ! dunno
how it was, but pretty soon down came
that balloon a Pickering toward The
earth at the rate Of fifty miles minute
| and old
Mrs. P.-Mr. Potts. You know thai
balloon came floating down as gently
| as
| P.-Oh. do hush up? Women dom
know any thing about such things
| And old Bradley he had a kind of regis
tering Thermometer fixed in the basket
along with the cat. Some sort OF pat
ent machine; cost thousands OF dollars
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
The Way the Chinese Stop an Ass
i.- Braying.

In 1910 (saJs the Able Huc) we were
once making u Journey In wagon III
the province of Pekin. Our equipage
was under the guidance OF an old
schoolmaster, mounted upon magnifi>
cent ass, so full of ardor and agility that
the two mules that completed our team
had all the difficulty in the world to
keep mp with him. This ass, however,
was so filled with sense of his own
superiority, and 80 proud of it, that
whenever lie became aware of the pres
ence of any of his brethren, he never
failed to commence boasting of it in
such loud. sonorous and harsh tones
that his folly became quite insupporta-
BILE.
When he got to an inn, instead OF
trying to rest himself, the beast passed
the whole night practicing music, set
ting all the donkeys in the neighbor-
hood to singing the same tune, so that
it WAS impossible to sleep.
One evening we said to the school
MASTER:
"Your donkey is an abominable
brute; it prevents my getting wink ol
sleep"
"Why did you not tell me so before?'
said the schoolmaster. 81 would soor
have stopped his singing"
As the old pedagogue was somewhat
of wag, and indulged sometimes in {
small joke, we took little notice of his
reply. but that night We slept quite
soundly.
"WeIl, did the ass make a noise las
night?" he asked, when We met in thu
morning.
perhaps not" said we; "at al
events we did not hear him."
NO, l think not" said he; II saw
to that before l went to bed. You
must have noticed" he continued
that when an ass is goirg to bray, he
always begins by raising his tail, and be
keeps it extended horizontally as long
as his song lasts. To insure his silence,
you have only to tie a large stone tc
the end of his tail, SO that he cannot
raise it.
| We smiled without reply, thinking
this was only another piece of pleasant
ry; but he cried:
Come, now, and see; you can easily
convince yourself"
And accordingly we followed him tc
the courtyard, where we beheld, sure
enough, tie poor ass with large stone
attached to bis tail, and with the air Of
having lost his accustomed spirits
His eyes were fixed on the ground
his ears hung down, his whole
appearance denoting humility and
detection. Feeling quite com
passionate towards him, we now
begged his master to unite the stone
directly; and as soon as ever he felt the
musical appendage at liberty. the crea-
ture raised first his head. then bis ears,
then bis tail, and at last began to bray
with all his wonted energy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
saarm Nofes.
Feeding Young Calves.

As we have seen, fresh milk is the
best food for the young calf, and the
most natural method of taking it is for
the calf TO draw it from the udder OF
it's mother. But there are maDv con-
siderations that come in to prevent this
natural method among the five hundred
thousand dairymen of the United
States. This natural method is only
practicable among the breeders OF ptre.
blooded and high-priced stock; and II
such breeder is located in q dairying
district where milk is valuable, it is
quite unnecessary that he should feed
new milk longer than two months. Afs
ter that period the calf may be fed on
1he skim milk and linseed or fax seed
Cruel, with an excellent chance of grow
ing prize animal. In two months the
calf will have made an excellent start
and be ready for the modified diet. Aud
| il the calf is to be taught to drink, 1t 10
better to do this when ten days or two
weeks old II will learn easier at that
age than later, and the COW will give
more milk through the season than il
the calf is permitted to suck longer.
| The milk being fed warm from the
/ COW, Jile Chil Will uluhc u RTONtu HOb
perceptitly different from one that
sucks. This blooded calf should have
the free run of dry yard, with little
hay or grass to eat, that IL may early de-
velop its first stomach and chew its cud.
A small field of grass in summer is still
better. When the time comes for feed
ing skim milk, the ration may be made
about as nutritious as the new milk by
adding to it fax seed Cruel, made by
boiling pint of faK seed and pint of
oil meal in ten to twelve quarts of Wa
ter. Mix this in equal parts with skim
milk, and feed blood warm. Let the
calf have its fill twice per day, at regU-
lar times, until six months old.
During this time teach it to- eat a few
oats, and in case of q tendency to scour,
give, for a meal or two, in the milk,
quar-. of coarse wheat -four, sometimes
called by farmers camel. 1t will be
perceived that the oil Of the fax seed
will make good the loss Of the cream Ia
the milk-in fact it is ration as rich
as milk itself; and we have seen calves
raieed upon it quite the equal of calves
running with the dam. We have also
used fax seed and pea meal 10 make the
Cruel to mix with the skim.milk, and it
has proved an excellent combination.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Power of Faith.

81 can conceive" said Lord Erskine,
"a distressed bnt virtuous man, sur
rounded by his children looking up to
HIM for bread when he has none to give
them, sinking under his last days la
Dor, and unequal to the next; yet still
supported by confidence in the hour
when all tears shall be wiped from the
eyes of affliction; bearing the burden
laid upon him by mysterious Provi-
dence, which he adores, and anticipat-
ing, with exultation, the revealed prom
ise of his Creator, when he shall be
greater than the greatest. and happier
than the happiest of ma nkind."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

"MARY, I do not approve of your en-.
tertaining yorr sweetheart in the kitch-
en-, said lady to her servant. "Well,
ma am. it's very kind Of you to mention
it; but he's from the country. you see,
ma'am, and I'm afraid he's too shy and
orkard In his manners. ma'am, for you
TO like HIM to como mp into tbe parlor, >
replied Mary,
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1iferary.
The Revenge of HninsIn-thc
Face.
LON0FELLOW.

race.
LoNoFELLow.
In that desolate land and lone,
Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone
Roar down their mountain path,
By their fires the Sioux chiefs
Muttered their woes and griefs
And the menace of their wrath.
"Revenge.' cried Rain-in-the-Face,
"Reyenge upon all the race
OF the White Chief with yellow bair!
And the mountains dark and high
From their crags re-echoed the cry
And his anger and despair.
In the meadow, spreading wide
BY woodland and river side,
The Indian village stood;
All was silent as dream,
Save the rushing of the stream
And the blue jay in the wood.
In his war paint and his beads,
Like bison among the reeds,
In ambnsh the Sitting Bull
Law with three thousand braves
Crouched in the cletts and cayes,
Savage, unmerciful.
Into the fatal snare
The White Chief with yellow hair
And his three hundred men
Dashed headlong sword in hand;
But of that gallant band
Not one returned again.
The sudden darkness Of death
Overwhelmed them, like the breath
And smoke Of a furnace fire;
By the rivers bank aud between
The rocks of the ravine
They lay in their bloody attire.
But the foeman fed in the night,
And Rain-in-the Face, in his flight,
Uplifted high in air
As ghastly trophy, bore
The brave heart, that beat no more,
OF the White Chief with yellow hair,
Whose was the right and the wrong?
Sing it, o, funeral song,
With a voice that is full OF tears,
And say that our broken faith
Wrought all this ruin and scath,
In the Year Of Hundred Years.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

RECENT competitive trials between
American and English plows in Russia
have resulted in complete victory for
the American Implements. This snpsri-
ority was acknowledged by the Russian
commissioner at tho Oeptsrnisl.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

REFER all the actions of this short
life to that state which will never end;
and this will approve itself 10 be wis
dom At the last, Whatever the world
Judge Of " now.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
0he Brookharea 9edgfr.


Marriage notices and deaths. not cX.
ceeding sir lines, published free. All
over sia lires ch afgsd fof 81 regular nd-
yertfsing rates. ~
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
In Walkers Rheumatic Cure

In Walkers Rheumatic Cure
the proprietors have not attempted to
make a magic cure-all, but have concen-
trated their study upon this one aiIment
and '.if there is truth to be found in
this world" the testimony of numerous
cures made Immediately around them at
home appear to substantiate the fact
that this cure will actually relieve ~
per cent. of these who give it a fair trial.
They are willing to guaranteA every
case who will take the cure under their
narSonal lireptiOn
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
SALICYlIC ACID,

Manufactured from the Purest Vegetable Oils
with the addition OF that Greatest known
Anti-Septic and Disnfectant
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

ENURE FOR Badness sent C. o. D.--2 OF.
bottle, 50; 6 OF. bottle, $s. OF. bottle will
last two and q half months. II properly applied.
He me Testimonials given. Circulars free. DR..
A. GAY, Cuncordia. Kansas. marl5 8m.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

An ex-Lieutenant Of the United States
navy writes 10 the London I,aes letter,
in the course of which he says:
If General Grant ex-Pre<ident q the
United States, and formerly Commander
in Chief Of the armies of the United
States, who Is expected to arrive in Eng
land within two or three weeks, and who
viii, it Is reported, leave shortly after for
Russia As the guest of the Emperor, should
undertake to direct the movements Of the
Russian troops, as he did the 100000 OF
men under his own command. the United
States Government would be powerless TO
prevent him, as General Grant Is simply
now : private citizen. During the War in
America several officers, who then held
commissions in her Naiastv's navy, served
both IN the Confederate service il com
mand Of blockade runners and also in the
United State navy, having, as they ac-
knowledged, been tempted to enter The lat
/ ter service by the certainty ofhigh pay and
] the prospects OF prize money.
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Some Black Hills Facts.

The Deadwood City mining camp is
small, but it pays well what there is Of it.
They have quartz veins opened. and have
one mill and two arastras at work, which
are making a good yield to their owners,
and they also intend to build three or four
more this summer. There is very little
business done here now, and it is showing
and freezing every night. There is the
worst class of men here that / have eyer
seen in any camp where have been, and
they are nearly all from the Eastern States.
l do not think there is anything here for
me, but | shall 20 out prospecting and see
what ! can strike as soon as the weather
permits. This is no place for poor man,
as everything is very high and work scarce.
You can make plenty of money if you
have anything to sell. wish / had some
of your potatoes here, for they would sell
like hot cakes at twenty five cents per
pound. If don't strike anything soon |
shall start for the Big Horn or the Wind
River Mountains, where | think there is a
better show 10 make II raise. have mined
all over California, Montana and Idaho
for good many ysars, and must say that
this Is the poorest camp have ever struck
yet. 1t may improve as the season opens,
but have my doubts,
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Sod as Manure

correspondent of the Utica Herald
gives the following opinion which is against
the use of commercial fertilizers. While
we can indorse his opinion of the benefit OF
good heavy sod, yet we have found bone
dust or good superphosphato very good
article to produce this sod: "'The most sue
cessful farmers within the writer's ac-
quaintance are those who make the most
home made manure, who depend mainly
upon sod, heavy turf, which means heavy
crops, whether of grass or of grain, if the
sod is inverted. Here, all the way from
seventy to a hundred tons per acre of rich
material is turned down to rot and from
pabulum for the crop to succeed, and of q
exactly suited to plant growth, containing
all the properties. being in fact q repro
duction in the growth. Here no art is ne
cessary to compost or select for the differ
ent soils, adapting manure 10 ground or
product. Sod, supplemented by the manure
of stables, answers all the purposes, and is
| of high fertility, lacking but little of the
highest ii the manures are kept under
cover so NJ TO retain and concentrate their
strength. All the elements are always in
good proportion, 1t only needs applying
properly, what is made, on all the land
the soil originally lin its mineral compost
tionl not materially defective, %hich EN-.
braces most of our drift and all our alluviaI
soil. And this mode can be prosecuted
successfully for an indefinite period We
know farms on which it has been practic
ed, uninterruptedly, for more than thirty
years, where adjoining land has been in
corporated, sometimes of a reduced ani
almost worthless character and, in a few
years, made as good as the rest, the whole
farming the most successful, the most pro
ftable farming within the writer's llnowl
edge, continuing, unabatedly, its higT
yields up to the resent. We see more o.
less Of this all over our dairy section 1
needs but concentration, an adoption of tn
full method, to reach the highest success il
farming; this is because the manure is OBJ
tanned cheaper, and full use is made of
/, all the land will bear
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SOMERSET, OHIO, MAY 81, 1877.
To the Delegates.

Iouraction next Monday will be watch ID
by the people Of the county at large with
interest. They win hold the delegates re-
sponsible for the doings of the convention;
and If you allow the ring to take charge Of
the different committees and adopt plat.
form to suit Themselves, you will find that
the people Of both political parties will
raise their voices and cast their ballots in
opposition TO the ticket. You have good
men asking for the different Offices from
which to select. See to your platform
Favor economy in every respect The peo.
pie Of this county are compelled to pay a
heavy tax to support a few mechanics and
the county organs. IF the conventions
throughout the state will do their duty
hundreds OF Thousands Of dollars will be
for saved the people.