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Division Of Labor sn AGrIcuI-
aure.

A communication to this De-
partment, from Mr.. Daniel r.
GOOdloe, of Warren county, North
CarOlina, advocates q greater di-
vision of labor in farming. The
following is condensation of the
considerations presented: All
branches of mechanical industry
depend largely for capital and
skill in carrying them on, and for
consequent profitable results, on a
judicious division of labor. Were
there a class of producers of wear
ing apparel who undertook to
manufacture all varieties of cloths,
buttons. thread, leather, boots,
shoes, hats, bOnnets, and garments
of all sorts, for men, women and
children, the demand for capital
would be too great, and for intel
ligence and skill too multiform,
for the capacities of any one per-
son. Yet this is not unlike what
the farmer undertakes under the
present system. In order to the
highest success and profit in his
business, he needs to be posted in
agricultural chemistry, botany,
and entomology; the nature of
di fferent soils and the best mode
of treating them; the relative val
ues and effects of all varieties of
fertilizers; the best processes OF
tilling and culture for each kind
of crop; the comparative profit in
raising them; the relation OF sup
ply and demand in market for
each; the adaptation of all varie
ties of grains, grasses, vegetables
and fruits to soil and climate; the
breeds, characteristics, and rela
, tive adaptation and profits of al
, kinds OF farm-animals; and so on
? almost without limit. And then
r in addition 20 these demands fol
| manifold intelligence and manifold
{ skill in applying it to department.
E of agriculture so distinct and var
f led that they are equivalent to :
dozen distinct arts in mechanics
3 there is the further demand FOL
: sufficient capital to carry on al
these branches adVantageOusly
t as it surprising, under such cir
, cumstances, that country-lif e ant
: agriculture are so little attractiyei
{ Can We wonder that capital an(
population accumulate in the citiel
? and towns out OF all proportion t.
. what they do in the country"
Some steps have already beel
4 taken in the division of agrieul
? tural labor, greatly 10 the advan
t tage Of the farmer. At q remot
> period every farmer ground hi
E own grain by hand; at q perio'
: comparatively recent every farm
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FOR ALL FEMALE CON.
PLANTS

n othing equals DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription. It is a most
powerful restorative tonic, also
combining the most valuable ner
vine properties, especially adapt
ing it to the wants of debilitated
ladies suffering from weak back,
inward fever, congestion, inflamma-
ton, or liberation, or from ner-
vousness, or neuralgia pains.
Mr.. G. w. Seymour, druggist, OF
Canton, n. Y, writes DIR. Pierce
as follows: "The demand for
your Favorite Prescription is won
derfnl, and one man stated TO me
that his wife had not done q days
work in five:months when she com.
menced taking your Favorite Pre-
scription, took two bottles and is
now on the third bottle, and il
able to do her house-work alone
and milk fourteen COWS twice &
day" DIR. Pierce's FavOrite Pre-
scription is sold by all dealers il
medicine.
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or thrashed his own grain. Now,
at much less trouble and expense
to the farmer, thrashing is done
very extensively by those who
make that q business. Formerly.
each farmer had to keep great
teams and wagons, and spend a
laage share of time in hauling his
products, it might be a hundred
miles, to market, and hauling back
his supplies; now this is generally
done by the railroads. and ''at 3
third or fourth of the former cost.
1t is not practicable to carry this
division of labor in farming still
further, and thus, by a greater
concentration of capital and skill
employed in agriculture, to bring
back to the rural districts por
ton of the wealth and population
which have been drawn of from
them to the cities? For example,
may not that fundamental branch
of successful farming, blowing, be
done, at least to a wide extent,
much better and much cheaper
than it now is, by class who shall
concentrate capital and skill on
t hat as a distinct business?
$50 long as agriculture depends
on individual enterprise, steam
blowing will be regarded as i'm
practicable. 1t requires too much |
capital, and its capabilities are too
colossal for individual farmers in |
connection with all other farm
work. There may he few who
possess sufficient means to make |
the experiment on u small scale;
but in order to success, it must be
done on scale sufficiently large
to make that the business" Mr.
GoodlOe recognizes the fact that
the business of blowing would not
last all the year round, but thinks
that the same company that should
do the blowing could profitably
apply the steam power to various
other uses; among which are spe
Gifted thrashing and grinding grain,
lumber, pulling stumps,
picking and packing cotton, and
manufacturing sugar. He believes
that such a division of labor. once
would result in the
of companies for the use
Of steam in agriculture, who would
have the requisite capital, intelli-
gence, and enterprise for bringing
science to their aid, would make
blowing by steam and improve
ments therein q thorough study,
and consequently would effect,
throughout the sphere of their
operations, a large increase in the
of the soil and
profits of farming. ''Deep plow-
ing and subsoiling would every
whore and thoroughly be intro
duced," and the expenses for
teams, plows, &c, would be so di-
as to enable thousands
Of laboring men to set up as far
mers, who, under the present sys-
TEN, are unable to do so."-July
Report Department of Agriculture.
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EQUAL MuLEAsE RATES.

The theory of what is known as
"equal mileage rates" is that rail
roads shall be required by law to
transport persons and freight of
the same kind at = uniform rate
per mile, charging no higher rates
for short than for long distances
and charging the same rates in
both directions of movement. A
committee of the British Parlia-
meat, in their recent report on the
different plans for regulating rail-
ways, pronounce this method OF
regulation "impracticable," for the
following reasons:
al. 1t would prevent railways
from lowering their fares and rates
so as to compete with traffic by
sea or canal or by \ shorter oil
otherwise cheaper railway, an(
would thus deprive the public o
the benefit of competition and thu
company of q legitimate source o
profit.
"2. 1t would prevent railways
from making perfectly fair ar
engagements for conveying, at low
er rates than usual, goods brough'
in large and constant quantities
or for conveying for long distan
ces at u lower rate than for shor
distances.
SO. 1t would compel 3 company
To carry for the same rate over {
line which has been very expen
sive in its construction, or which
from gradients or otherwise lie very
expensive in working for which i
carries over less expensive lines
There is good sense in thes.
reasons, and they are just as ap
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Nice Little Game.
From the Omaha Bee. Nov. 90.

A. Kuhn, commercial traveller
for Philadelphia wholesale liquor
house, arrived here on Wednesday
from California, whittier he had
been to purchase wines. Soon af
terward he started homeward he
formed a chance acquaintance
with a fair blonde on the train,
who was travelling alone. He no.
ticed the lady was handsome, and
determined to get acquainted.
So he threw out his bait In the
shape of Olive Logan's book,
I'VE Met by Chance" and sent it
to her through the medium of the
train boy. She graciously con
scented to permit him to come and
sit by her side, and they had fine
time. He wore 3 diamond ring
valued at $500, and when she ex.
pressed a desire to wer ait for s
little while, he took it right off and
placed it on the finger of his
charmer. When they arrived
here, she still wore the ring
They crossed the river together
and took seats in the Chicago
train. Then she remembered sht
had left her book in the transfel
car, and he went back to find it
When he returned, she had gone
and so had his diamond ring, anC
his pocket-book containing abOu
$500 in cash, and valuable papers
which she HAD managed 10 picl
from his pocket q few minutes be
fore, probably while they wer,
seated in the Chicago train a
Spoon Lake. He couldn't fine
her, and he hasn't since been abls
to get the least clue Of where sh,
went to. Kuhn went East yester
day morning, but not until he hAt
told his story, as above narrated
to Deputy Sheriff Davis Burley
who gave it to the newspapers.
The word OF f0oIS has such . store,
That be who would not see an ass
Must bide at home, and b0ldt his door,
And break his l0Okiag-glass.
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abnndantly proved by railway ex
pelience that the actual cost pei
mile of transporting a given guam
tity OF goods over q short distance
Is greater than the cost per mile
of transporting the same goods
over q long distance. This ques.
ton of distance is q very import,
ant item in that of cost. Goods
that go one hundred miles can be
carried at cheaper rate per mile
than the same goods if moved only
ten miles. 1t takes no more hand
ling in the former than in the lat
ter case, while the cars are more
constantly in action. A difference
of mileage rates founded on dis.
tance is, therefore, reasonable, pro
vided it be graded to the difference
of actual cost.
1t is equally clear that railway
company doing large and con-
tinuous business for q given Gus
toner can afford to do it at a
cheaper rate than if the business
were small ia amount and hut oc-
casiOHal in time. 1t may enter
into perfectly fair arrangements
with this customer in view of the
quantity and regularity of his
business, as well as the profits ac-
cruing therefrOm, which it cannot
extend to the general community
without serious loss. This is q
well-understood principle in bust
ness transactions, and we see no
reason why railway companies
may not avail themselves of it.
There is also q very marked diff
ference in the actual cost per mile
of building different railroads, and
also in The cost per mile of work
ing them If one road costs $780,
600 per mile to build it and an
other costs but $25, 900 per mile, it
is manifest that the freight rate
per mile that would be excessive
for the latter would be ruinOus to
the former, supposing the amount
Of business done by both to be the
same. Even the more expensive
road with a large amount of bust
ness could afford to carry at cheap
er rates than the less expensive
one with q small amount of bust
ness.
The quantity of business is Of
ten very materially affected by the
in which the cars are
moving. In one direction they
carry full freights, and in the 9TH
er they may have very little bust
ness to do; and, hence, the com
pany may be compelled to send
its cars nearly empty over the road
unless it sollcits freights by re-
its rates. There is moth
ing wrong in such = reduction for
such q purpose; and yet it might |
be very unjust to require the COM
pany to adopt the same rates when
its cars are moving in the Oppo-
site direction.
We offer these suggestions to
show that the equal mileage rate"
system is not practicable" as q
means of legally regulating rail-
roads. The experiment has been
tried in Great Britain, and aban-
doned as a failure. It can he no
more successful in this country.
1t is not based upon sound prin-
ciples. 1t undertakes to make |
hat quail which is unequal. 1t
creates more difficulties than it |
removes. The remedy, on the
whole, is worse than the evil which
it proposes to correct. In some
cases it would actually increase
the cost of transportation to the
public, and in other cases it would
be unjust to railway companies.
IN. Y. Independent.
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the desks, down to the floor, are Oc-
cupied by the immense catalogues
of the library. The desks for read
ers radiate in all directions from
near the central desks to near the
walls OF the room. These are sup.
piled with shelves and racks for the
support of books and manuscripts
while In use.
The Museum is open free to the
public on three days of the week,
but the reading room aud library
are not embraced In this privilege,
as they are designed for the use of
those who come here to study. A
ticket which admits to its priVileg-
es can only be obtained by those
who furnish the proper recommend
aIions. Wishing to enjoy it's privi-
leges while here, i did not find It
impracticable TO obtain the necessa-
~ ticket, which proved that the
privileges OF the place are not con-
fined TO Briiish subje els. The reading
room is open to those who hold
tickets on all days OF the week, and
an order which will admit the hold
or TO an inspection of the room, can
be obtained by others on the days |
the Museum is open to the public.
An exterior view OF the whole |
premises should not be neglected.
as ii has no rival among the public
or groups of buildings In
London. 1t consists OF what APP
pears as succession OF fronts,
which extends three hundred feet
along Great Russell street. The
stand back at various dis
tances from the street, but are stu
Ated SO as to present combined
view that is peculiarly tasteful. A
enclosure OF bronze, sup
ported by a granite base, and about
feet high, extends along
The whole south front. A blemish
to the premises, which consists of
nnsightly sheds, partly enclOses by
glass, occupies the porticos and COL
lOnades on each side OF the main
entrance. These were erected for
The temporary storage of some an
,ient Greek sculptures. which were
brought from Asia Minor, and
mostly from the Mousoleum of
HalicarnAssas. The cost of this
structure was about FIVE millions of
dollars, seven: hundred and fifty /
!housa nd having been for the read
ing room. G. b. e.
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Butler Is the only county in which
the Temperance candidate for Govern
or had = majotity.
DR.. Wagner, accompanied by VIM.
HobIet and Fl. C. McDofman- on q deer
hunt, among others, killed fine buck
weighing 204 pounds, on the bank OF
Cedar creek.-WInfield Courier.
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of the Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe
-ailrnAd, through the Cottonw God
GALLEY, and into and along the Ar
kansas valley, passing through a
sec ion OF the state where the grass
hoI,pers came in as overwhelming
MISSES and proved as destructive,
probably, as anywhere. By the time
they reached eastern Kansas, the
corn had so far Hatured that, while
hey cut of blades and tasseIs, they
AefI the ears OF corn hanging upon
The stalks. Further westward, the
ears being in a milky state, were al
so destro. ed, leaving the bare stalks
standing in the fields like so many
walking canes stuck in the ground.
In western and in central Kansas
the grasshoppers came early enough
tn find the corn in 8 tenderer state,
aud they destroyed not only blade
sud iasseI and incipient ear, but ate
even the stalks down to within a
foot or two of the ground, leaving q
Geld not of bare canes, but of bare
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READ THIS
SDartSMGl and PreSSDaSSGrS.

WYE, the undersigned, have proven up
w and made payment on the following de
Scribcd lands. situated on Cahola creek, on the
kaw Diminished Reserve, to-wit: East half
of northeast quarter of section thirty-four
go, township seventeen 40. of range nine
i9l: the southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter Of section thirty-four go, township
seventeen 40; range nine (9); the north half
of the northeast quarter of section thirty four
go, township seventeen 40. range nine 10;
the southwest quarter of southwest quarter
9f section twenty-siN 800, and southeast quar-
ter, OF southeast quarter of section twenty
seven (2tl, township seventeen 40. range 90;
west half of northeast quarter of section thir-
ty-1lVe (35l, township seventeen 40, range
nine (9); east half of the northeast quarter of
section (35), and the west half of the north
west quarter of section thirty-siN 1861, town
ship seventeen 40, range nine 80; northeast
quarter Of section thirty-four (34), township
seventeen 40. range nine %; northwest
quarter of section thirty five 1857, township
seventeen 40, range nine 90; northeast
quarter of section thirty five 1851, township
.eventecn az, range nine 90: Therefore all
persons are forbidden from cutting or taking
any timber from the above premises; or from
hunting, fishing or trapping upon said lands,
or from trcsspassing upon them in any form.
We are determined to prosecute any and all
persons violating the terms of this notice to
The full extent Of the law.
J. II. KIMPTON,
j. X WALkUP,
4. W. HISCHMAN.
Emporia, Nov. 9th, 1874. 1851
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A Bargain.

NOR sale or trade, for Kansas cattle or Iowa
l. real estate l2J acres of good farming
land in Lyon county, southeast of Emporia
and a house and two lots in the city of Empo-
ria Apply TO or Address
VAN r. HOLMES,
Emporla, Kansas.
or j. L. FOSTER.
46-fI Dies MoincS Iowa
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DR.. w. II. Carter, II. A. Chamber
lain and John Gold1eight, In four
days. huntiRg last week, killed upward
of two hundred quails. Beat that ye
who een.-Chase County COurant.
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ADVERTISERS.

The NEWS has bona .fde circulation
ofnearly fifteen hundred copies weekly
and is the best advertising medium TO be
found in Southern Kansas. Its prices
are very little higher than papers with
from One-third TO Oae-balf its eIrcnlatIo .
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LOCAL AND STATE NEWS
4 SPECIALITY.

1t works for the People. The People
support it. Under no obligations except
70 its patrons, and 60 society generally.
1t don't publish offensive advertise
ments to poison the minds OF the young.
1t publishes the official advertisements
for the county.
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KANSAS.
The Experiences and sI'srS.
V11IOns OF = Traveller
Among Her PeO-
sketch OF the GraS~hOPPer .
Plague wish f1s ElaeesS
In DGMerenG Paris.
NEAaG she skA4snS People
IhInEx 0f the sta a.
and Of e0CRs
other.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. IS. 1874.

Correspondence K. C. Journal of Commerce.
Having just returned from a
months leisurely journe, ing
through Kansas, / can now redeem
my promise to mako some reports
to you of what 1 have seen and
heard. 1t is taken for granted
that anything pertaining 70 that
young and irrepresible common
wealth will be of interest, for in
some way or other our sister al
ways engrosses a large share ofat-
tention. Her perils, conflicts,
hopes, fears, progress, achieve
ments and her disasters. have
kept the state in the forefront of
public interest for nearly a score
of years. Those who have known
Kansas in the years of jubilant
prosperity, will desire to learn
how she bears herself at the pres
ent time, in what is so generally
to be her season of
gloom and dependency; for the
report has gone abroad that the
plague has come upon her, that
the grasshoppers have devoured
her, that she is destitute and desc
late
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Advertisements calculated by the inch ~
length OF column. For cuts and double col
ulnn display, add IS per cent. TO above table
OF rates. Al legal and transient advertising
To- be paid for In advance. except when order
e'l 10y regular patrons. Our rates ar
rerg irio In proportion to our circulation and
must be strictly adhered to.
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REJECTS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF
THE STATE

In eastern Kansas the damage in
ficted vas comparatively light. Ny
route Of travel over the Kansas
Midland railroad took me through
the KaW valley, as far as Topeka.
Vegetation generally appeared to
be about 80 luxurlant as eyer sud
but for the coFnfields one WoGld nOs
have discovered that he was in the
egrasshopper Iegion.' From Tope-
ka / travelled westward, on the line
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Hnon Poles Wantad.

HEVERLING. FARBUHARSON Il Co.
L l. will pay cash for one million -four hbl.
poles to lie delivered at EmpOria
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HOW THE STATE LOOKS.

Before making my visit to the
state, l had read the lamentations
of numbers of her citizens, who
repeat the wall of the Hebrew
prophet: "The field is wasted /;
the land mournetS, for the corn
is wasted. = The vine is
dried up, and the apple
tree, even all the trees of the field
are withered. Alas! for the day!
= The seed is rotten under
the clods; the gamers are laid
desolate; the barns are broken
down; for the corn is withered.
How do the beasts groan! The
herds of cattle are perplexed, be-
cause they have no pasture. l
was therefore expecting to find
what was so frequently described
to be q dried up, desolate country;
q discouraged, disheartened, al
most bankrupt population.
Let me say at once (without ig-
noring any wants actually exist
ing in Kansas) that in passing
through the state, from east to
west, right through the "grass-
hopper region" nowhere found
that "dried up, desOlate country"
l nowhere met with that ''discour-
aged, disheartened, almost bank
rupt population" The fact seems
to be this: The aggregate loss
caused 10y the locusts at least in
some of the counties through
which passed) no greater than
that often suffered. in the course of
q year from drouLh rot, mildew,
storm. flood, etc, by farmers in
other sections of the country; but
here the destruction
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WINDSOR HOTEL.

MIR. LUTHER. at n heavy expense. has
M just completed new hotel, opposite the
depot. lie il now prepared to furnish better
accommodations than any hotel in the city.
- w. r. LUTHER.
STILL ANOTHER
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AND THE TRUTH.

The tone of the Kansas reports,
official and other wise, during the
panic, created n general impress
ion that the visitor to this state
would see o land utterly denuded
of vegetation, a country compelled
to send abroad for every ounce of
sustenance for man and for beast.
The official report from Lyon
county, for instance, was: "Grass-
hoppers destroyed aAl green crops
and vegetation Some six or
eight weeks later / was in that
county, and found the prairie
bearing abundant pasturage for
cattle, the forest trees in full foil
age, and the apple and pear trees
laden with fruit. l learned that,
excepting corn, fair harvest had
been gathered, and in some cases
corn was not wholly wanting.
Mr.. H. H. Gray, from his field of
thirty acres, had harvested 22S
bushels of wheat AID $50 bushels
of oats, and gathered from 200
trees 500 bushels of apples. His
corn failed. Mr.. John Fowler, of
the same county, had this year
the following crops: wheat, 50
acres, 1 ,009 bushel; oats; 3 acres.
1876 bushels; corn, 100 acres, g
500 bushels" A number of 9th
ers gave similar reports. After
the grasshOppers had come and
gone, peaches were plentiful there
at twenty-five cents per bushel
and apples at sixty cents. Evi-
IDENTIFY Lyon county had not been
LEFT altogether destitute.
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THE SILVER LINING.

I know not how many people
have assured me that the grasshOp-
pers are to be credited with one
blessing-ridding the state Of this
class OF inhabitants. A home mis-
sionafy in one of the western cOun-
ties said to me: ssThs grasshOppers
have cleansed KAnsas.1 Some Of
the recent egnigraats, who remain,
will need and receive help from
their neighbors- Some were LEFT
without the means TO procure eeed
wheat; but in SEINE way or other
this want was sapplid. A large
proportion of the latest corners had
purchased lands of the AtchisOB,