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THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1002. 111 LABOR ON HARVEST FIELDS Eflriona Froblem in the Great Wheat BelU of Northwest and Southwest, HOW IT HAS BEEN MET IN KANSAS T"lr Thooaaad Hnrvratera, Thoa. nil ( ooka nnd Aaalstants and Three Tbuaaaad Trimi Wanted Thla Year. The demand for labor In the g;rrat wheat fcrlt of the west promises to be quite ai great during this year's harvest time as ever and the problem of meeting the de mand Is already occupying; the minds of those directly Interested. Less than a score of years ar;o few farmers would think of owing nv.re wheat or corn than their own regular nelp could gather at harvest time. The iiiost a farmer In any community would io was to call a few of the neighbors to as sist. If the grain threatened to ripen too fast during th cutting of the same. The Importing of labor was unthought of. Hut today the wheat belts of the north west and the southwest altord a striking contrast to the relatively small Industry of those days. Hundreds of acres In one field, cno farmer operating twenty-five binder and employing 100 harvest laborers, was be yond the wildest dreams of the old-time agriculturist. Yet this is common enough In tho wheat growing districts .today. And Just so long as the individual farmer con tinues to ralBe large areas of grain the labor problem will confront him, though the "harvest hand" problem has already been worked dwn to a fine point In eome great grain-raising communities. System In Wheat Ralln. In Kansas there Is quite as much system ab;ut the harvesting of the great wheat crops as there is id the turning out of steel from the mills of the Pennsylvania Iron region. The laborers of the field need not be skilled to perfection like those of the hops, yet harvesting requires no little training and the most strenuous physical exertion. David W. Blaine, a farmer of Pratt county, Kansas, has arranged a plan to furnish 20,000 extra men every year to tho Kansas farmers. Hi itihuiiie Is simple and has already proved valuable, though It hns been in operation only three years. In 1901 alone It saved several hundred thou sand dollars to the farmers of Kansas and better results are expected the present acason. This aavlng has been accomplished by securing help in ample time. x Mr. Blaine began three years ago by ad vertising through the daily press for har vest "hands" to go to his home commu nity, Pratt county, and asBlst himself and neighbors in raring for surplus grain. Thousands of Idle men In the cities read the information and hurried out. He turned the surplus over to the railroad companies and the men were sent where most needed. Prior to that farmers of Pratt county have been depending upon neighborhood help. If that were not forth coming the wheat must die of rotting before It could be gotten into the stack. Over ripe wheat cannot be allowed to stand la the field more than a week before it com mences to mould and grow musty. Two years ago Blaine improved upon bis Idea of advertising by purchasing more pace and having the harvest hands go to Kansas City as a central point, from there to be distributed to wheat growers as they called for them. But not one-fourth enough men answered the advertisements and farmers appealed in vain to the Kansas City employment bureau. Last year Blaine began earlier. He asked all of the farmers to meet in their respective communities about a month before harvest and decide upon the number of men they would need. These reports were sent to him and as a result he appealed for 15,000 laborers and 3,000 teams. The state employment agency at Kansas City agreed to take care of the harvest laborers and send, them into the wheat belt as Blaine directed. He pre pared a list of the needs of every commu nity and as rapidly as the laborers arrived at Kansas City they were sent on. But he neglected to send a specified number of men into each community, depending upon the county reports. So while the majority of the farmers were supplied, those living In Isolated portions of the state were neg lected and the harvest hands were all em ployed before they reached their destlna tlon. Plana for Thla Season. This season Blaine secured even more detailed reportB of the needs of the farm era aa early as April, getting the names of the farmers and number of banda they wanted in every township. He also se cured a report on tho condition of wheat lit that time. By keeping a close watch on the weather report he will know In June vhether tho number of laborers shall be diminished or Increased as compared with the supposed needs of three mouths pre- tiuub. mer since ne nas Deen sending circulars to the various employment agen cies in the United States stating that 20. 000 men, 1,000 women and 3,000 teams can be used in the Kanaas fields, beginning In June and lasting thirty days or more. A general distributing agency haa been established at Kansas City, another at To peka and still another at Wichita in the Tory center of the wheat belt, where ,tho Bn Girlhood! There U great need of motherly watch fulness and care. A growing girl needs all her streugth, and if she is nervous and melancholy, and loses appetite there It surely something wrong. This is espe cially true as the young girl approaches mat important pe riod of change when the woman ly function is es tablished. Time ly care and proper treatment at this period auay save much after suf fering. The best medi cine for young girls who are nervous, melan choly, and irreg ular of appetite, la Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescrip tion. It cures nervousness, du llness, and melan choly, promotes the appetite, and gives the body robust health. There is no alco hol in "Favorite "rescription and it is entirely free from opium, co caine, aud all other narcotics. My daughter was troubled with aiasibeaa and conitlpation an waa wry nervous lor tva vtara write Mrs. U Carter, of IS5 4th Street, but they gave her no relief. At time she wjuld eat nothing, had green tni purple arc Ira adrr her eyes, and melancholy. A woman ! 01 mint told ma to try your ' Favorite l-rwcription and Pleasant Ftlirta ' which I aid. Altrr taking aae bottle of each aha began ta iim P",ir"'1 "ill tmrortof. People a Id aha Sii " ,BouS" she were going into a decline. fcUie la twelve ware old. There are na circle round her eyes now and she ia healthy and rrtaiat. eata aa much aa any child, and la grow 14 lallrr rrcry dy ... a.icixo'aPrilcUrxsuiaLU bowels. Queer Things at Crownings A royal coronation is an event of such solemn Importance, at least to the partici pants In It, and the preparation for It are made so long in advance, that one would think It impuMlble for anything about it to be allowed to go amiss. But there baa seldom been a coronation which has not been disturbed by some Incident, either tragic or ludicrous, not down on the pro gram. William the Conqueror wss Inveeted on Christmas dsy, 106$, with a brand new crown richly decorated with gems. The Saxon and Norman nobles were gathered In Westminster Abbey, and the spectators of each nation were called upon tn their own language to say whether they ac cepted William aa king. The Saxons, anxious to prove how thoroughly they were reconstructed, shouted, "Yea, yea, King William!" so loudly that the Norman guards outside thought, or pretended to think, that they were raising a riot, or perhaps murdering the king. Instead of going to the rescue, it seemed more ap propriate and agreeable to them to set fire to the neighboring buildings and loot the property of the English. The glare of flames lighted up the abbey and panic broke out inside. The spectators poured out, the Norman and Saxon nobles prepar ing for battle, and the king and clergy were left to finish the ceremony alone. The prelates were trembling and it Is Intimated that William himself, for the first and last time In his life, may have shivered a little, too. Nevertheless, the coronation went on. to the accompaniment of the flames and uproar without, and all the ancient ceremonies- were performed. Unfortunately there were no red extras to take ad vantage of this Incomparable sensation. When Henry I married his second wife, Adellcla or Adellza of Lcuvaln, he had a econd double coronation, and on this oc casion the performance was well worth the price of admission. Thene are' different versions of the actual happenings, but one of the stories Is this. Roger, bishop of Salisbury, claimed the right to perform the marriage ceremony because Windsor was in his diocese. Ralph of Escurea, archbishop of Canterbury, vehemently denied this pretention, and an ecclesiastical council decided that the king and queen were parishioners of the arch blBbop In whatever part of England they might be. So Ralph, tottering with age and palsy, tied the knot. But Henry tried to give Bishop Roger a consolation prize tn the shape of the management of the cor onation ceremonies the next day. Accord ingly he secretly arranged for an unusually early coronation and Roger rattled the cere monies along with such celerity that when the paralytic archbishop arrived the crown was already on the king's head. The king wilted like a whipped schoolboy before Ralph's indlgnact questionings, and when he apologetically said that if the ceremony bad not been properly performed It could be done again, the archbishop, according to some accounts, knocked the crown from the royal head with his crozler. At any rate, he got it off in some fashion and then put it on again himself. Queen Elizabeth had some trouble In be ing properly crowned for lack of prelates No Religious Decline Some Interesting statistics have been gathered by E. M. Camp to controvert the statement that growth in church member ships is not keeping pace with the Increase of population; that lesa money proportion ately is given to religious causes and that spiritual conditions show declining Interest. The statistics are published in the laat number of the Church Economist. The population of the United States has increased since 1860 nearly two and a half fold. In 1860 the Congregational church membership was 253,765 and In 1900 It waa 633,349. Here is a ratto of growth slightly greater than that of population. In 1860 the Presbyterians North num bered 276,308 and in 1900, 1,025,388. To gether these two religious bodies have in creased a little more than three-fold. In 1860 there were 146,600 Episcopalians and In 1900 there were 714.575. The Luth erans have increased from 232,780 In 1860 to 1.665,878 in 1900. Adding to these figures those for the Baptists, Methodist Episcopal, the Disci ples of Christ snd the Roman Catholic churches, it will be found that the growth In church membership in the last forty yeara stands to the increase in population in the ratio of 16 to 5. Mr. Camp makes out an equally strong argument to prove that people give more to the churches proportionately than they did forty yeara ago. Here are some of his figures: Presbyterlana gave to mis sions in 1825 $12,517, in 1850 $406,672, In 1875 $2,723,068, and in 1900 $4,186,288. In 1850 the total gtfta of Presbyerians North for all purposes were $1,462,023, In 1875 $9,625,594, and In 1900 $16,338,376. In 1892 Lutherans gave to missions snd benevo lences $829,000. snd tn 1902 $1,285,775. "Young Men's Christian association work of thla country cost last year $10,000,000, which waa $2,000,000 in advance of any previous year, and people gave enough to enable the year to be closed without debt. "Take Congregational, Baptist, Metho dlat. Disciple, Episcopal, Reformed any thing you please and compare total gifts by years. All of them are before me as I farmers can meet and employ their help. Wages ranging from $1.50 to $2.50 per day are paid for eight hours' work, double pay for extra time. On moonlight nights, should there be any prospect of rainy weather in the near future, the whole force of harvest handa may be found tolling away until nearly midnight. Sunday Is no exception to the rule. The immediate cutting of a wheat field after It ones begins to ripen is necessary if it is to be saved. This is why so many thousand extra men are needed. A farmer with four good horses, his gang plow and a drill will plant from 200 to 300 acrea of grain in the fall, but to handle thla grain when ripened requires ten horses and seven men, or six mors men than are usually found with the average farmer. Naturally these men and teams have to be imported. aa well aa women to prepare the food for the workers. Halt a Mllltoa for Harvest Handa. 7 Last year over $500,000 dollars was paid out to these extra helpers, but Kansas reaped a crop of 90.000 buahela from which was derived a handsome profit. The work to be done in a harvest field is extremely tiresome snd soon tells upon the tenderfoot. There Is no protection from the sun's rays, which often reach the 116 mark, mowing down the harvesters ss their machines cut the yellow grata. The men who come to the wheat belt direct from the cities and who have been used to Inside work sre first set to driving binders. This paya $1.60 per day and as they become more hardened to the rays of the sun, they sre promoted to the carrying of bundles and hocking of wheat or oats, snd later given the Job of hauling, feeding a thresher and such. Those who era unused to ths har vest field generally break down the second or third day. Even if not sunstruck run ning about through the rough stubble car rying heavy bundles tells on them seriously. The work of the harvest band Is weU worth to perform the ceremony. Of all the bishops of her realm only one would con sent to take part In" the coronation, al though moat of them were present aa spec tators. The queen was duly anointed, but she remarked afterward to her maids that the oil was "grease and smelt ill." We begin to feel In a modern atmosphere when we note that the coronation of Oeorge III was delayed by a strike of workmen. The men employed at Westminster hall bad counted on tips from visitors, which the suthorlttea were not disposed to allow. The trouble was settled by an Increase In wages. The earl marshal forgot the sword of state, the royal banquet chairs and the canopy. The lord mayor of London lent his sword and a Jury canopy was rigged. But the bitches and delays provoked the king to remonstrance. The deputy earl marshal tactfully replied: "It 1 true, 'sire, that there has been some delay, but I have taken care that the next coronation shall be reg ulated in the exactest manner possible." The king accepted the excuse with good humor, but took his revenge by living for sixty years longer, by which time the re vised arrangementa for the next coronation were out of date. After the crown had been put on George's head the largest dia mond fell to the ground. Later the poeta found in thla an omen of the loss of the American colonies the brightest Jewel in the crown. It waa said that the young pre tender, Charles Edward, was present on this occasion out of curiosity and that later he ut one of his adherents threw a glove from a gallery of Westminster hall in answer to the challenge of the champion. To George IV, "the first gentleman of Europe," who once achieved the feat of In venting a shoebuckle, a coronation would obviously be Just the sort of thing to call out the full powers of his mind. His coro nation was the most expensive in English history. It eost nearly $1.200,000 to be ex act, 238.238. The nation generally thought George dear at the price, and his successor, William IV, cut down his own coronation bill to 50,000. James II spared no expense or trouble In his coronation. He had a feast of 1,445 dishes, a gorgeous procession and superb trappings. Nevertheless, he could not pre vent a series of mishaps that took on a deadly significance when he was chased from his throne three years later. The crown was shaky on his head, and some body had to stand by him all the time to keep it from falling off. That service was performed by Henry Sidney, brother of Al gernon Sidney, who had been beheaded twa years before. "This is not the first time, your majesty," he observed, "that my fam ily have supported the crown." When the signal was given that James was crowned the flag on the tower was torn by the wind. The canopy of cloth of gold which waa held over the king's head waa rent on the way home from the Abbey. On the same day the royal arms in stained glass fell from a church window, and when the champion, after challenging all corners to dispute the right of James to the throne, dismounted to kiss the king's hand, he fell full length. write; from the earliest days they were kept. Without exception the increases are steady; they run precisely as do the Pres byterian figures Just given. "As a concrete example of progress take the building conditions in New York thla spring. About $1,500,000 Is planned for the Immediate future. This ia, in addition to buildings already uider construction, which are absorbing, thla spring alone, another $1,500,000. "These sums are for churches and parish houses alone. If allied constructions be Included, such, for Instance, as the new St. Bartholomew's clinic, costing $200,000; the Naval Branch Young Men's Christian asso ciation, costing $400,000, and the Roman Catholic Orphan asylum, costing $330,000, the total is immensely swelled. "Then debts are being paid as never be fore. Methodists of the country have raised $16,000,000 within the last two years a performance never before art down to the record of any reltgloua body. The income of Episcopal, United Brethren, Presby terian, Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Reformed and Roman Catholic mission funds steadily Increase, year by year. "Peter'a pence from America this year will equal that from ail the world together in previous yeara. New York province alone aende $475,000. The voluntary contri butions for church purposes in the Church of England for the year ending last Easter were $39,250,000. "Taking New York again in the 'good old times.' when people were said to be giving aa they are not now, churches aban doned the lower part of Manhattan island, all save the Roman Catholic, and It aban doned the well-to-do residence section. The lower part of the Island waa abandoned by Protestant churches becsuse their sup porters moved sway, and, lacking an in come, the churches had to do the same. "In these later times, when It Is claimed people do not give, Protestant churche3 have raised $4,000,000 as anchor funds en dowment!. The Episcopal 'retreat- stopped long ago. One parish, endangered in the minds of some, has received $136,000 within a few weeks to end any possible alarm. ths price paid. It all depends, however, upon previous field experience.and thla la why so many Kansas farm girls can do more work with a binder than a atrong, heslthy man from the city. Every claaa of men imaginable goes to Kansaa during the harvesting season to work tn the wheat fielda. College men anxloua to earn a little extra money in va cation time; men from big city offices, who wiau to improve upon tnoir financial con dition and at the same time take on tan; tramps, day laborers and others, mix in the motley gang that crowd the passenger and freight trains running into the wheat bat the first few weeks In June. The harvest hand can save from $75 to $125 during the harvest season. 1 Before Mr. Blaine Improved upon the labor system in ths wheat holt of tr.n... snd the southwest, there was much trouble every harvest from strikes snd inability to secure a sufficient number of workmen. Even laat year an attemnt form a union, but Mr. Blaine headed it off oy nis importation or 5,000 laborers from eastern cities. Ha has aa unremuneratlve task, except that it Is gaining him dealred political prestige. He haa saved thouaands of dollars annually to the wheat rr.n In aupplylng plenty of labor. W. R. DRAPER. PRATTLE OF TUB YOI NGSTERS. Visitor So you're S years old today. Willie, Yes, sir. Visitor And Just think. I'm nearly 50. Willie My! I wlsht I wss. Then I'd get (0 cents 'stead o" t fur my birthday. Ia Illustrating the vanity of boastfulness our preacher told a good story, which Is worth retelling. Two or three little girls who bad chickens were boasting of the lay Samuel L Moffett in Saturday Even inf Post. upon which the queen remarked: "See you, love, what a weak champion you have." When William and Mary were crowned somebody stole the king's purse, and when Jt became his duty to put a contribution In the offertory he had to borrow the money from Lord Danby. The champion's glove was said to have been stolen on the same occasion. Queen Anne was not able to stand alone to be crowned. She was the only English sovereign that ever had to be held up by others on such an occasion. Her excessive weight was too much for her gouty feet. On thla occasion thieves, as they were rudely called at that time probably they would be called souvenir Bends now cleaned off all the plate, pewter and linen used at the banquet. At the coronation of Victoria the queen attracted general admiration, but hardly anybody else missed a chance to blunder. Grevllle, In his Memoirs, remarks: "The different actors In the ceremonial were very Imperfect in their parts and had neglected to rehearse them. Lord John Tbynne, who officiated for the dean of Westminster, told me that nobody knew what waa to be done except the archbishop and himself (who had rehearsed), Lord Wllloughby (who Is experienced in these matters), and the duke of Wellington, and consequently there was a continual difficulty and embarrassment and the queen never knew what she was to do next. They made her leave her chair and enter St. Edward's chapel before the prayer waa concluded, much to the dis comfiture of the archbishop. She said to John Tbynne, 'Pray, tell me what I am to do, for they don't know,' and at the end, when the orb waa put Into her hand, she said to him: " 'What am I to do with It?' " 'Your majesty is to carry It, If you please. In your hand' " 'Am I?' she said: 'It is very heavy.' " The ruby coronation ring, according to the rubric, should go on the fourth finger. In this case the ring had been made for the little finger, which the queen accord ingly held out when the proper time came. The archbishop refused to put it on that finger and said It must go on the fourth. The queen remonstrated, declaring that she could not get it on, but the archbishop Insisted that it had to go. Accordingly the other rings were taken off and the new one waa forced on with such pain that as soon aa the ceremony was over the queen had to bathe her finger In ice water to get it off. When the coronation medals were thrown about, dignity was forgottoa and the whole crowd, including the maids of honor, scrambled to get them. The venerable Lord Rolle fell down as be was getting up the steps of the throne and when afterward he started to mount again to do homage, the queen said: "May I not get up and meet him?" Rising from the throne, she went down one or two of the steps to prevent him from coming up, an act of kindness which "made a great senBatlon." Study of Church Statistics in I860 and Now. "Presbyterians have, within two yeara, demonstrated their ability forever to pre vent further retreat, and I could easily name a line of what may be called fron tier, or picket, parishes, that are going to stand for all time. "This list could be Increased to weari ness. But two points must be made. One is that while people may be carried off their feet by clever religious beggars these beggars are, by the way, being sup pressed In all churches' as never before people do not give year after year, in increased amounts, to objects in which they are not Interested. If you think they do, try running some charity. "The other point is that, while the fash Ion of the moment there la fashion In giv ing, as In bonnets is to give outside the churches, after the pattern set by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, yet the Income of church causes is not declining. Look at the great gifts to education Just now, to hospitals and the rest. "Thla year Is going to be a record breaker. Mr. Plerpont Morgan gives $1,000, 000 to a Boston hospital, Mr. Rockefeller $1,000,000 to southern education, Miss Helen Gould $1,000,000 this year through the Young Men's Christian association. Be good enough to note that these and almost everybody known aa liberal givers are church people. "Yet I happen to know that the three persona named are given more to strictly church causes than they ever gave before. Mr. Rockefeller has given this year $100,000 to the American Baptist Missionary union, $90,000 to the Baptist Home Mission society, $55,000 to the Baptist Educational society, $150,000 to Brown university and $100,000 to Newton Theological seminary. Speak ing generally, be ia slowly increasing his gifts to Baptist objects. "Speaking of the whole country, about $38,000,000 will go, as I figure it, into new churches, parish homes and manses this year." The alleged spiritual decline ia dis proved, Mr. Camp thinks, by the statistics published above. People will not Join churches snd contribute to them unless they sre Interested, he ssys. . ing qualities of their hens. One laid so many eggs, and another more. Another little girl, the daughter of a bishop, said: "Pshaw, that's nothing. My papa laid two corner-stones yesterday." "Why do we say, 'Give us this day our dally bread?'" asked a Sunday school teacher after the lesson. "Because we want It fresh," answered a little girl. "How la It, my dear," Inquired a school teacher of a little girl, "that you do not understand this simple thing?" "I do not know, Indeed," she answered, with a perplexed look; "but I sometimes think I have ao many things to learn that I have not time to understand." It was a preacher's small boy that got Into a fight with another youngster. As the latter waa going home with one black eye, the minister met him. "My lad," aald the preacher, "you have been fighting." "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Don't you know it Is wicked to fight? I will go home and pray for you." "You had better go home and pray for your own boy," was the Indignant reply. "He has two black eyes." "Whom do you love best?" asked a vis itor of my sister Lillian. 3 years old. "Mamma." .aid ths little one. "God next and then my sister snd brothers." Noticing that she said nothing about ber father, the visitor said. "Why, Lillian, I am surprised at you! Whers does your papa come in?" Lillian raised her lari-e eyea and Inno cently answered: "Papa why, papa comes la through the door." G ive Your Home n touch of modern beauty by occasionally buying a piece of new furniture. No need of extravagance. Our furniture either in suite or single piece is in such handsome patterns and low prices that you will wonder you have not bought before, when you see them. We have reliable furniture for every room in the house. This week we have special values to offer all through our stock. Note a few of the dining room specials. 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