THE HEK: OMATTA, THUKMhW, SEPTEMBER 0. 1!15. BUMPER CROPS OF WHEATAND CORN September Estimate Placet Total Yield of Wheat at Nearly Bil lion Bushels. CORN MAKES TREMENDOUS GAIN "WASHINGTON, Bept. 8. Prospects of a bllllon-bushel wheat crop this year were Increased by today's gor ernment report, which forecast 981, 000,000 bushels, based on Its Sep tember 1 canvass. Spring wheat Indicates a crop of Hi. 000,000 bushels, an Increase of 16,000,000 since the August predic tion was made. More definite Information as to the sit ef the Important farm crops, several of them the largest ever grown, and which ate now being harvested or approaching harvest, wn given today bjr the Depart ment of Agriculture's crop reporting boar W'hlch forecast the production from re ports showing the condition of the crops on Beptemher 1. Theee forecasts are given below with the forecast based on August 1 conditions, the final produc tion In 1014 and the average production for the five years from to 1913 (in millions of bushels, I. e., 000,000's omitted.) Sept. Aug. 1914 1909-13 forec't forec't crop. sv. Winter wheat t 6T.9 G6 441 Spring wheat 3-11 2" 2 All wheat SM 98H m Corn 2.9H5 2.91S 2,ti73 2.7U8 Oals l.W 1.4'n! 1,141 1,131 Hurley 2: 217 19ft Rve !.. 44 44 43 Buckwheat 18 IS 17 White potatoes .... 4" 431 Bweet potatoes VV 63 67 Tobacoo (lbs.) 1,130 1.0S3 1.03 Kin x IS 18 1 Rice 26 39 24 Hay (tons) 81 7"i "') Apples 214 2tt 253 Pt-nches 64 GO 54 Preliminary estimate. Comparison of the September with the August forecasts will show the change In buKhels In the harvest prospects as ef fected by weather and other conditions during August. Details of Prod action. Details of each crop, other than total production, as announced by the depart ment follows: Spring Wheat Condition, 54.6 per cent of a normal, compared with 93.4 last month, 68.0 last year and 76.8, the ten year ' average. Indicated acre yield, 16.8 bushels, compared with 11.8 last year and 13.3, the 1909-13 average. Corn Condition, 78.8 per cent of a nor mal, compared with 79.S last month, 71.7 last year and 78.1 the ten-year average. Indicated acre yield, 27.S bushels, com pared with 25.8 last year and 25.9 the 19 13 average. Oats Condition, 1.I per cent of a nor mal, compared wtlh 91.6 last month, 7i.8 last year and 76.1, the ten-year average. Indicated acre yield, 8S.0 bsuhels, coin pared with 29.7 last year and 30.6, the 1909-13 average. Barley Condition, 94.2 per cent of a normal, compared with 93.8 last month, 82.4 last year and 79.7, the ten-year aver age. Indicated ' acre yield, 30.2 bushels, compared with 25.8 last year and 24.3, the 1909-18 average. Buckwheat Condition, 88.6 per cent of a normal, compared' with 82.6 last month, 87.1 last year and 84.9, the ten-year aver age. Indicated ' acre yield; - 21.9 bushels, compared with 21.1 last year and 20.6, the 1909-13 average. White Potatoea-Condltlon, 82.7 per cent of a normal, compared with 92.0 last month, 75.8 last year and 76.4, tho ten year average. Indicated acre yield, l'S6 bushels, compared with 109.5 last year and 87.1, the 1909.-13 average. s 1 Sweet Potatoes Condition, 80.5 per cent of a normal, compared with 92.0 last month, 75.8 last year and 76.4, the ten year average. Indicated acre yield, 89.6 bushels, compared with 93.8 last year and 9i7, the 1909-13 average. Tobacco Condition, 80.7 per cent of a normal, compared with T9.7 last month, 71.4 last year and T9.4, the ten-year aver age. Indicated acre yield, 850.6 pounds, compared with 845.7 last year and 815.1, the 1909-13 average. Flax Condition, 87.6 per cent of a nor mal, compared wtih 91.2 last month, 72.9 last year and 79.1, the ten-year average. Indicated acre yield, 9.7 bushels, compared with 8.3 last year and 7.8, the 1909-13 aver age. Rice Condition, 82.3 per cent of a nor mal, compared with 90.0 last month, 88.9 last year, and 88.6, the ten-year average. Indicated acre yield, 32.0 bushels, com pared with 34.1 last year and 32.3, the 1909-13 average. Hay Indicated acre yield, 1.58 tons, compared with 1.43 last year and 1.34 tons, the 1909-13 average. Apples Condition, 62.7 per cent of a normal, compared with 61.5 last month. 61.9 last year and 63.3, the ten-year aver age. The Crop Reporting board's next gen eral report will be Issued on Thursday, October T. Billy's Cupid Thrusts When you were courting her, you kept nice and clean, but now you go around with a week's beard on your face, look ing like a rummage sale in a second hand store. I like to see a woman look neat. I hate to see a Mother Hubbard; it looks like a feather, bed tied In the mid dle. Let me give you young men some ad vice on matrimony. Never propose to your best girl when she is dressed up In her best bib and tucker. Go rail on her and stay until about 10 o'clock. Then leave, but leave your glove also. Call the next morning to get your glove. If she comes to the door with an unlaced shoe on .one foot and a slipper on the other, her hair down and an old dress on, take to the woods as fast as you can. Beat it. 11 any a time the money spent for "Gates Ajar." wreaths and broken wheels ought to have been spent for a hired girl. Give your flowers now; do not wait until a person Is dead. I would rather have one rosebud today than lO.ooO.dK) after I am dead. God has to take many a man and yank him on his back and shake a shroud over him before he will pray. He has to take a society woman and throw her on her back and shake a shroud over her to make her stop and think and pray, and realise what she is doing. Borne big fellow will yell out at a political meeting, but put him In a prayer meeting and he Tl mumble around :ke a rabbit munching cabbage. Try This Iwr .Nearalgla. Neuralgia is a pain In the nerves. Sloan's l.lnlment penetrates and soothes the aching nerves. Get a bottle now. By all druggists. Advertisement. Apartments, flats, Houat ana eottages can be rented quickly anu cheaply by a "For Bent Billy Sunday is Tagged He Empties His Pockets for a Tag to Help Swell Fund for the Visiting Nurses Billy Smiles Just Like He. Enjoys Beinr Tagged for Charity by Pretty Girls. MRS. PATTERSON LANDS HIM Was Billy Sunday tagged? Yes, he was, and he paid $4.90, all ha had in his pockets, for It. Mrs. Ronald Patterson was the pretty matron who Bold htm the tag, al though a bevy of beauties surrounded hi 01 and tied a tag to every button cn his coat and filled his hat band with the red cards. "Where Is 'Ma?' Did you sell 'Ma' a tag yet? I want 'Ma' to be In this licture," exclaimed Hilly," as tha photographers snapped him in the midst of a crowd of enthusiastic tag gers. He didn't know that "Ma" and all the members of the party had been tagged at the breakfast table by a Tarty of taggers, headed by Mrs. O. Li. Dradley, Each young girl selling tags for the VJsltinfc Nurse association at the Loyal hotel yesterday, was eager to sell "Billy" Sunday the first tag but Mrs. Patterson knew she wai going to be the one. "I've made up my mind that I'm going to sell him the first tag and I'm going to stay right here until he comes down," ex claimed Mrs. Patterson, stationing herself at the elevator. Mrs. Patterson did not desert her post until 11 o'clock, when It was nolpoj through the lobby that "Billy" Sunday would come down in a few moments. To make certain of not missing him, sh ascended the elevator to the second floor. Intent on meeting 'Billy' as he left his apartment. "Billy" Sunday was In the parlors to tho left of the. elevator. "Are you Mrs. Patterson, who sent me a note asking if you couldn't sell me a tag for the Visiting Nurse association?" asked Mr. Sunday as He noticed Mrs. Patterson's arm-band and bunch of tags. "Let's go down stairs, then, where it's light so we can take a good picture," he said, on receiving an affirmative reply. 'Billy" and Mrs. Patterson then de- More Prayer, Clean Living and Decency, Is Plea of Sunday (Continued from Page One.) of my friend?' I said: 'Yes, I will. Won't he come to the meetings?" He said: 'Oh, yes, he comes quite regularly Then he went , away and sat down. The chief usher brought a man in and gave ,liim a seat right In front of him, so the fellow who anked mo to pray waa sitting back of him. He sat In front with his head on hi hands all through the sermon, and when .the invitation was given to come forward he was the first one to respond and come forward. When the services were over this fellow who made the re quest to pray for his friend rushed up to me,' with beaming face and said: "I had no more than taken my seat than the chief usher gave the seat to the one I asked you to pray for, right in front of me. I waa praying for him and he was the first man to go front. I was never so surprised in my life. Doesn't that get you?' "I was down at a mission In New York Clt' one night and eleven people went foiward and fell on their knees. Nine f these people Bnld nice things; these nine people seemed to tell God that He ought to feel Himself complimented that they were In a place . like that. Thera was one little girl who had lost her virtue and was selling her womanhood for gain. She said: 'Oh, God, .save me for Jesus; I ask forgiveness for my sins, and Tou have said that though they were crimson they would be made whiter than snow.' There was another hopeless, helpless drunkard who had staggered in and reeled with misery and squalor and want, and he said: 'Oh. God, save me; I am a hopeless drunkard; I have broken my mother's heart, sent my wife to her grave, but save me for Jesus.' Out of those eleven God only saved two people, because while they were miserable sin ners they were honest enough to tell that they were sinners and deserved hell; they didn't try to fix the thing up and make God believe that He ought to con sider Himself complimented. Come as Toi Are. "Don't try to smooth things out with God; come as you are. "The year I was born my father went to war. He never came back, and I never looked in my father's face. I fought my way through poverty and squalor, and once made an application for a Job as janitor of a school house, and the board of education gave me the job. I got $ a month, but nobody called me a grafter then. "One day I went to the bank with my check for a month's pay. A man ahead of me tossed a check through the win dow to the teller and I threw nilns in. I received my money and walked out. to the street, where I counted it. I found I had $W Instead of S2T. I told a friend about It. 'Bill,' he said, 'if I had your luck I'd buy a lottery ticket.' I wanted to return the extra money, but my friend said no. " 'Buy a suit of clothes, and you will still have the $23.' So I did. But years later I was convinced of sin, and when I was praying the Lord told me about the money I owed the bank. " 'But, Lord, the bank doesn't know I owe It,' I said. " 'No,' replied the Lord, 'but you know you owe It.' "Itight there I began a M iggle to be a man or a fool. Every time I'd pray I'd see that $15 and Interest So I sent the bank a check and explained, and ever since I have felt all right. Tou owe some merchant a bill. Pay up; don't be a deadbeat. "I dtsire tonight to ask a few ques tions and ansaer them questions that I think will lay the foundation of success in your life for every Individual, which all) arouse you and make ou better men or women; make a betty community and a better honw. What will give us power alth God? What will give us power with man? God will not hear you be cause you are wis or simple. God is no respecter of persons; he doesn't care whether you wear a tailor-made or a hand-me-down. "Una Urns a dirty laboring men wetst f . ...... " "" ' " f f UiN aaaaaaaaaaawi V ' .fe ' fi fe ' - M V - XI r - m . v.-K,v'v--r bp V ' Left to Ulifht Mrs. O. U Bradley. Mrs. C. II, Grant. "Billy," Mrs. Ronald Patterson, who tagged him; Mlsa Lucille Bacon, Miss Helen Johnson and Miss Florence Jenks. scended the stairway together and almost fought their way through the lobby, where a crowd of young girls were wait ing for the Mlrrlng revivalist. Mrs. Pat terson piloted him successfully through the crowd and received tho handful of money in exchange for a tag. "Billy" was smiling and shaking hands all tho while. The other members of the Sundav party were tagged at tho breakfast table, but Into a church and knelt beside the duke of Wellington. The fool kid usherette told the man not to kneel there, as that was the duke of Wellington, and the duke replied by putting his arms around the man and saying: 'When we kneel be fore God there are no dukes, princes or earls, but we all take the same level. Power In Kmtremlty. "You will have power with God when you reach an extremity. If I had my choice of a tabernacle filled with praying Christians and one of nonchrlstlans I would take the former, for If we get the lnxlde right we can get the outside. The city doesn't stand that won't move for God If. the church people dq Omaha, Philadelphia, New York. Chicago and London will fall on their faces In repent ance If the church people move. "At one place where I was preaching a mother came to me asking me to help save her son who was a drunkard, who was breaking the heart of his parents, his sister and his wife. I searched for Mm, but could not find him. That nlRht In the tabernacle I led a drunken man from a post against which he was lean ing down to the altar. There was a scream, and the mother and sister came running forward. They had sown in tears, they reaped In Joy. They had reached an extremity. "I think the Church of God has been eating too much, sleeping too much and taking things too easy. Man should be an active force, not a Dead sea. On one day in the week you live like a saint and ' the other six like a devil. "All sorts of crime are on the Increase. Listen. I'll give you some figures that j will startle you. "There Is one murder for every hour day and night, year In and year out In this country. Elghty-alx out of eighty seven murderers are never caught. In Germany there are eight murders to every million in population; In England, nine; In Canada, fourteen; In France, fif teen; In Belgium, seventeen; In the t'nltcd States, eighty, and It la a 10-to-l bet that they never get caught, and SO to-1 bet they will never be hanged. "Graft has a strangle hold on religion, on everything. Investigation shows It permeates everything. I know of an un dertaker that offered a preacher a rake off on all the funerals turned his way. School superintendents are offered graft by publishing houses if they will recom mend their books. Labor leaders call strikes because contractors won't come ; across. "Church members rent their property I to saloons. If you do you are Just as low as the suloon. If you rent property for houses of 111 fame you are living di rectly off the product of graft. Graft Is destroying religion. It has Pennsylvania by the throat. It won't let you vote for local option, but It makes you vote for some judge who Is to do the deciding. The present political system Is one of graft and plunder. Adalteratrd Kavds. "Dr. Busby tails me 2.0U) babies die every year because of Impure food. Food adulteration In our country is amaslng. Mud U shaped like coffee beans, glased with egg and sold for coffee. They grind peanut shells and sell them for breakfast food. Glucose Is sold for maple sugar. There Is nothing so hard on the kidneys as glucose. It causes many cases of Brlght's disease. "Crime produces poverty, and if you do away with that which produces crime, three-fourths of the poverty will be abol ished. The cause of crime Is the saloon; get rid of that. What's the cause of all this? The political economist says It is becauss the working man is getting a higher scale of wages than ever before and he is not prepared to withstand the Increasing temptations. "Bah! How much does butter and eggs and meat cost today? Witn the high prices It. Is not hard to see where the worklngman's extra money goes. I tell you I wonder how the average man gets along and keeps his family out of poverty and starvation. "After the country freed itself from England there were four strong states, each Jealous of each other, and nine weak stales, all Jealous of the strong ones. When they were joined Into a na tion it was by prayer, suggested by Ben jamin Franklin, the wisest of our po litical forefathers. Our old ship of state was launched la preyvr. At Valley Forge, "Ma" took Billy's breakfast up to him "Ma" had no money with her to buy a tag, nor did Miss Grace Saxe, but Homer Kodeheaver emptied his pockets. "But he only had about 23 cents," pouted pretty Helen Johnston, who sold him the tag. Kodeheaver asked the girls If they didn't want to sing In his choir and aesured them they would have a great deal of success in selling tags if they would go to the tabernacle flrxt. George Washington knelt among the leaf less trees that looked like skeletons and prayed to God to give victory to the continental army. When north nnd south were fighting at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln spent the night In prayer, asking for a victory for the army in blue. "I heard William Jennings Bryan, a man as clean as a hound's tooth, say that when he first started out ho was afraid to mention religion for fear of hurting his political chances, but that he soon came to declare that religion of Jesus C'hrlBt shall bo first In his life, if he never even held tho orflco of consta ble. 8uch men as Theodore Roosevelt, the Hon of the west, men who are not afraid to tuck a Bible under their urm and lead a prayer meeting, are tha right sort." (Copyright, William A. Sunday.) School Children In a romarkiiblo test, roeently mado under the supervision of tho Stute Board of Health of Minnesota, over 9,00') school ' children wero questioned as to what they uto for breakfast. A largo percentage of the breakfasts consisted of coffee, bread and butter; cof fee and oatmeal or some other cereal; col'f ce and lioteakes; coffee nnd biscuits; noffeu and coffee cake, or coffee alone. Probabl y the same conditions prevail everywhere throughout tho country. "IS IT ANY WONDER," SAYS THE EXAMINING PHYSICIAN, THAT 23 PER CENT OF THESE CHILDREN HAVE FRE QUENT HEADACHES?" lie was thinking of tho chief cause--coffeo. And it IS no wonder when wo con sider that coffee contains tho powerful drug, caffeine, a nerve poison and notorious cause of headaches, hert trouble, sleeplessness, irritation, and other ills! Parents often wonder why their children are sickly, dull nnd backward in school, when frequently the causo lies in the homely, uccepted habit of giving them a bev erage containing an insidious ioison. When scientists and Boards of Health everywhere are speaking out against the dietetic dangers to which children have been po long subjected, it is high time thut parents take heed and correct then conditions. No child should be permitted to use coffee. It Is easy to furnish them instead the pleasant, pure food-drink listanmt FdDSlliM Made from wheat, roasted with a bit of wholesome molasses, Postum contains the goodness of the grain and is a most delicious beverage, economical, convenient and free from coffee drugs or any other harmful substance. Postum comes iu two forms: The original Postum Cereal, which haa to be boiled; Instant Postum soluble made in the cup with hot water instantly. They are equally delicious, and the cost per cup is about the same for both kinds. Postum for Children Avoids Coffee Troubles! "There's a Reason" George Sunday paid 15 cents for his lag. Miss Florence Miller was tagged as aha was leaving the hotel, "It's a hard time to strike me now. It'a the end of my va cation," laughed Miss Miller as she paid a uuarter for her tag. Mrs. Bradley had a large corps of as alxtants on hand to tag the crowds going to and from tho tabernacle for the after noon meeting. BIG BEQUEST FOR FAITH HOME AT TABOR, IA. TABOR. la.. Sept. 8. (Special.) The Itcpzlhah Faith Missionary association of Toihor has been notified that It has been remembered In the will of the late Jacob Resslcr of Monroe, Mich., whose will Is soon to be probated there, The associa tion has not been apprised as to the amount of the bequest, but certain news papers from Michigan state that It Is f'Jt.OOO. Mr. Itcssler has been a frequent contributor of smalt amounts to the ' Faith Home," as It Is popularly called. The Faith Home association conducts an orphanage In Tabor and a day school of over 100 pupils, where religious In structions as well as other learning la imparted and has sunt about thirty mis sionaries to foreign countries. NICHOLAS TAKES COMMAND OF HIS ARMY AND NAVY (Continued from Page One.l to defend our country to the last. We shall not dishonor the Russian land." The action of Emperor Nicholas In transferring hla rotialn, the Grand Puke Nicholas, to tho Caucasian front. Is per haps the moat Important change of this nature which has been made by any of the belligerent natlona The only pom parable Incident was the retirement by Emperor William last October of Lieu tenant General Count Helmuth Von Moltke as chief of the German general staff. The post to which Grand Duke Nicholas has been transferred Is of relative unim portance aa compared with the prestige and vast powers of his former office as .onimande.r-ln-ch.lef of all Russia's great fighting forces. The Caucasian cam paign presents only a minor aspect of the war. The Russian and Turkish forces Involved In the struggle In the Black Sea region are not large. Although there was heavy fighting In the Caucasus earlier In the war, hostilities have been conducted In only a perfunctory manner for several months, as both of the nations Involved had need of all available forces In other quarters. French Official Report. PARIS, Sept I. -The artillery fighting along the battle line through Franc con tinue, according to the statement given out this afternoon by the French war office. There has Iwen cannonading from Bel gium north as far south aa the Woevre district. German aviators have bombarded towns In Franca and aviators of the allies have thrown down bombs on Oa- tend The text of the communication follows: "Last night was marked by artillery fighting In Belgium. "At several points along the front In the Champagne district between Rhelms and the Argonne. there hae been fight ing with bombs and rifle firing, together with Intervention on the part of the ar tillery, but without Infantry taking part. 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