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FOR SALE-String of cows; 110 acres
land to lease for one or three years.
W. M. Measures, Seeley, Cal.
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600 bales; production last year, Cen
sus, 931, $3.50 bales.

600 bales; production last year, Cen
sus, 1880 bales.
Prices.-The first price given below
is the average on September 1 this
year, and the second the average on
September 1 last year.
Wheat, 247 and $50 cents per
bushel. Corn, 228 and 1O8. Oats, 121
and 60. Potatoes, 23O and JAG. Hay,
$3.50 and $3.50 per ton. Cotton,
22.9 and 14.7 cents per pound. Eggs,
80 and % cents per dozen.
United States.
Corn.-Septcmbcr 1 forecast, g.
250,000,000; production last year, De-
cember estimate, 2,583,241 900 bush
els.
All wheat.-September / forecast,
668, 100000 bushels; production last
year, December estimate, 639,886, 900
bushels.
Oats.-Septcmber 1 forecast, $780,
100000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 1881 100000
bushels.
Tobacco.-September forecast
1,220,000,00O pounds; production last
year, December estimate, 1,15O,622,-
900 pounds.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1 forecast,
462,000,0O0 bushels; production last
year, December estimate, 285,437 900
bushels.
Sweet otatoes.-Septcmber 1 foreA
cast, 88,200,0O0 bushels; production
last year, December estimate, 70,955,-
600 bushels
All hay.-Prclimnary estimate, 92,-
100000 tons; production last year,
December estimate, 109,786,000 tons.
Apples agricultural cropD Sep
tomber forecast, 59,10O,0O0 barrels
of 3 bushels; production last year, De-
ccmbcr estimate, 67,415,O00 barrels.
Peaches. - Estimated production
1917, 42,60O,OOO bushels; production
last year, December estimate, &c.
$4,000 bushels.
Oranges.-September condition
49.7, compared with the 10-year con-
dition of 500.
Cotton.-August 25 forecast, 49,
100000 bales; production last year,
Census, 11,449,930 bales.
Prices.--The first price given below
is the average September 1 this year,
and the second the average on Sep
tember last year:
Wheat, 209.7 and 1912 cents per
bushel. Corn, 1855 and 1876 cents.
Oats, GIT and 43.1 cents. Potatoes,
1901 and 1898 cents. Hay, $13.68
and $10.42 per ton. Cotton, 23.4 and
14.6 cents per pound. Eggs, 1872 and
1913 cents per dozen.
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Tobacco.-September 1 forecast,
56,400,000 pounds; production last
year, December estimate, 2O,280,0OO
pounds.
Potatoes.7-September forecast, l.
10000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, 100000 bushels.
Sweet potatoes.-September fore
cast, 7,240,000 bushels; production last
year, December estimate, 5,676,OOO
bushels.
All hay.-Preliminary estimate,
100000 tons; production last year,
December estimate, 100000 tons.
Apples agricultural crop).-Sep-
tember l forecast, 283,00O barrels of
8 bushels; production last year, De-
cember estimate, 10000 barrels.
Peaches. - Estimated production
1917, 100000 bushels; production
last year, December estimate, $4,000
bushels.
T. Cotton.-August rs forecast, 1,377,-
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THE GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT

Washington, D. .. .pt. IA sum-
mary of the Septer Der crop report
for the State of South Carolina, and
for the United States, as compiled by
the Bureau of Crop Estimates (and
transmitted through the Weather Bu-
reau), U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, is as follows:
South Carolina.
Corn.-September 1 forecast, A.
100000 bushels; production last year,
December estimate, so, OO8,000 bush
els.
All neutrality-suspicious. 1 forecast,
100000 bushels; production last
year, December estimate, 9,O00,0 900
bushels.
Oats.-September forecast, $780,
900 bushels; production last year, De-
cember estimate, 100000 bushels.
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Wanted One More.

A large manufacturing concern
sent frequent and urgent demands to
q certain linquent dealer and, being
unable to get as much as a response,
sent a representative to personally
wait upon him.
"Why haven't you paid your ac-
count, or at least written us con-
corning the mattcr?" the representa-
tive asked
my dear sir" responded the de-
smiling, "those collection
letters from your firm are the best
have ever seen. I have had copies
made and am sending them out to
the trade, and it's wonderful the num-
Der of old accounts have been able
to collect. haven't paid my bill, as
l felt sure there was another letter
in the series. l have some hard Gus
toners to deal with, and I need the
last letter. THE Bookkeeper.
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DON'T DELAY
Some Manning People Have Learned
: That Neglect is Dangerous.

The slightest symptom of kidney
trouble is far too serious to be over
looked. It's the small, neglected
! troubles that SO often lead to serious
kidney ailments. That pain in the
"smal' Of your back; those headaches
and dizzy spells; that weak, weary,
Wornout feeling, may be natures
warning Of kidney weakness. Why
risk your life by neglecting these
symptoms? Reach the cause of the
trouble while there yet is time-bc-
gin treating your kidneys at once with
tried and proved kidney remedy.
No need to experment-Doan's Kid
ney Pills have been successfully used
in thousands Of cases of kidney trou-
bic for over so years. Doan's Kidney
Pills are used and recommended
throughout the civilized world En-
dorsed at home. Read this Manning
testimony.
Mrs. j. e. Rcardon, w. Boundary
Ave-, says: 81 was in bad shape with
rheumatic pains and my joints were
so stiff and swollen, that I could
hardly walk or do any work l had
dizzy spells and headaches. My kid
neys acted irregularly and annoyed
me considerably. / got Doan's Kid
ney Pills at the Dickson Drug Co.,
and they relieved the rheumatic pains
and benefited me in every way. 1
keep Doan's on hand all the time and
they do me worlds of good"
Price G0c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills--the same
that Mrs. Reardon had. Foster Mil
burn Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.-adv.
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10000 TROOPS ON
PARADE IN ATLANTA

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 8.-Atlanta will
never see the 10000 troops of Camp
Gordon all together at one time until
they have been thoroughly drilled in
the manual of arms and thoroughly
trained for active service on the fir
ing line, and then General Eben
Swift, commanding the division, will
march them through the streets of
Atlanta and give the people a sight
of what an army looks like, fully
equipped, conditioned like prize
fighter and loaded for heavy march
ing order.
1t will be sight the like of which
no city in America has ever seen, with
the possible exception of few
marches by armies in the Civil war
But certainly there have been only
rare occasions in the whole of Ameri-
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can history when one army Of 10000
men has marched in continuous pro-
cesslon past given point. Many of
the cities in Europe, where war has
ragged for three years, have not even
seen it, as the custom there is to move
troops in relatively small bodies, and
then to move them at night to pre-
vent the enemy from securing infor-
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of military value.

nation of military value.
An army of 100000 men marching
down Peachtree street past Five
Points and up through the canon of
Whitehall street will be sight like
that inLiege, Belgium, when the hosts
of the German kaiser swept through
that country on their drive toward
Paris in the summer Of 1914.
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
Some Of HARRY LADDERS InimitabIe Records

Roamin' in the
GIoamin' ........ 7OO61 Il SI.2S
Rosie ........... 50II5 L: SI-2S
Same as His Father
Was Before Him. eOO94 10 75e
She is Ny Rosie. 6OIi2 10 75e
Stop Your Tickling.
Jock ..........6 .6OOO2 10 75e
Wee HOose Mang
the Heather ..... 7OO78 Il S1.75
When Get Back to
Bonnie Scotland. 10000 II 81 Is
The Washington times., 1917-12-20

duce great artists Of all kinds a. soon
as her soul is stirred.
Americas soul has not been stirred
since the Civil War: she has had a
relatively easy, peaceful and unin-
spired time She has had to solve
great industrial problems, to which
the nations best brains and best ef-
forts have been directed. The time
will come. however, when our soul
will wake up. II is not awake now,
though It was awake during the Civil
War.
"As a result Of that war, even mt
sicaIly, America produced, at that
time, what its soul called for. 1t
produced great marching songs,
Marching Through Georgia and
Dixie These are as stirring march,
ing songs as have ever been pro-
duced, except, perhaps, the Marf ell
laiSe'
I'VE may have great schools and
great interpreters Of art, but viii not
produce great creative art until the
nations soul Is stirred to Its depth.
There is hope, however, for we are
still very young as q nation"
The Washington times., 1917-12-20

I've Something in
the Bottle for the
Mornin' ..... 00OO0 10 7Be
Love q L1ssie.... 10000 Il S1.2S
It's Nice to Get Up
In the Mornin' -. 7o107 II e1.2S
KiIliecrankie .... 6O0IS 10 76c
Ny Bonnie Bonnie
Jean ....,.... IOI10 Il y1sSo
Nanny Il Never Loved
Another Lass But
You) ............ 7Ol11 Il o1.2S
Queen Among the
Heather ........ 0OO10 10 I6e
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
UNHAPPY DIDO"
MOST POPULAR
OPERATIC THEME

Only the other day there was in' an
evening paper an Item to the effec,
that John Towers, eighty-two years
Of age, had sold to J. P. Morgan a re.
markable compilation entitled "sO17
Birthdays OF living and Dead Musi
clans" The news report said that
Towers had disposed OF his work for
"a comfortable fortune"
Further information was that Mr..
Towers had spent over 1000 hours in
the compilation OF this volume of ref
erence. Allowing eight hours per
working day, this would make only
about two years and a half. This
would be nothing for the industrious,
patient and researchful man who, &C.
cording to his own testimony. devoted
a good deal Of his time for seventeen
years to the compilation OF a "Dic-
tionary of Operas" The full title of
this latter book is "Dictionary-Cat
logue OF Operas and Operettas Which
Have Been Performed on the Public
Stage"
Probably few persons have even
seen this Dictionary of Operas" 1t
numbers l046 pages and f. arranged
in three main divisions. the first be-
ing according to titles. the second ac-
cording to composers, and the third
being an alphabetical index Of llbret-
Il, showing the number Of times they
have been set to music.
From this dictionary" We learn
that up to that time no less than
2S.0l5 operas and Operettas had been
performed on the public stage. II
to these operas should be added all
those that have been written but
never performed, what a total we
would have! Il would seem that the
most popular story with operatIc
composers has been the old classic
tale Of unhappy Dido. There are ac-
tually seventy-twO operas listed with
Dido in the title. To say nothing of a
few stray ones having to do with the
"blessed Aeneas." In fact, the hero
Ines and heros OF classic myth and
ancient history are throughout the
favOrite themes for operatic libretti.
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
ARMY AND NAVY SONGS
ON SALE TO PUBLIC

The new army and navy song book,
Songs OF the Soldiers and Sailors" !"
has just been issued from the Gov
ernment Printing office at Washing.
ton. and is being distributed in the
army Cantonments and at the naval
training stations.
Songs Of the Soldiers and Sailors"
is the product OF the accumulated ex
perience Of the song leaders who have
been working in training camps and
OF members OF the National Commit.
tee on Army and Navy Camp Music,
who cO-operated with the War De.
partment Commission on Training
Camp Activities in compiling and pre-
pairing the book for publication.
In the training centers the new
song book will be on sale, at nominal
charge, at the post exchanges. Distri
button outside the camps will to a
large extent be made through the
music trades and by community
choruses. To obtain the books in lots
OF one hundred or more comics one
should communicate with Jasper ].
Mayer executive secretary of the
War Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities, The Maury,
Nineteenth and C streets.
The Washington times., 1917-12-20

A wee Deoch an
Doris ............ 7OOs2 II SI.ss
Breakfast in Bed on
Sunday Morn..... 7OO63 II S1.2S
British B l d o g's
Watching at the
Door ........... soI3s 10 7Sc
DoughIe the Baker 6O141 10 76e
Tve Loved Her Ever
Since She Was
Baby ............ 6OOO0 10 s5c
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
HOME LIFE OF
NOTED IRISH TENOR
IS NEARLY IDEAL

At his home in New York. over
| looking Carnegie Hall and the ap-
| proaches to Central Park, an inter-
: esting family surrounds John Nc
COrmack, the big man OF the concert
stage. II the youngsters and their
mother and aunt are out there are
reminders of them at the entrance
door. Marble busts OF nine-year-old
4 Cyril and seven-year-old Gwen are In
the hallway. gazing in mild surprise
at a housewarming Romeo and
Juliet" by the great Rodin. The
children's sculptor. Mario Korbel, has
also done Mccormack in a brown
study faithfully reproduced In
! bronze.
There are paintings by Goldbeck Of
Mrs. Mccormack. dark-haired. in a
crimson gown at the door OF the pink
and gold drawing room. and life-size,
all in white, in the studio. This last
is the room of the Rembrandts. As
you enter a ruddy-cheeled girl. Rem
brandt's sister. smiles at you from
the opposite wall in her headdress Of
tiny Jewels. big earrings, soft collar.
and dark gown. The old "Burgomas-
ter" also called THE Rabbi" is
Z alOnRElQe DEyOHu a HldnAGl AlldA AOlhS
only a colossal antique enamel clock.
There's a reason for the Rem
brandts. It's the children again.
do you KNOW" explained their
father to a visitor the other day,
"these youngsters already can talk to
you about this 3OO-yesr-old little
lady, and her brother who painted
her, as familiarly as they speak OF
their cousins in Ireland. That's
worth g lot to them. / count the
pleasure we get from pictures like
that as my interest on the money I'd
otherwise put into bonds. We don't
know what the war IS going to do to
some securities, but the value of the
pictures is permanent and can't be
touched"
Across the room from the two
priceless heads OF the collection hung
one of Whistler's famous Moe
turnes." a river OF gray, with distant
shore and splashes Of lights. The
Americans work was held for thirty
years by an English family. who had
now sold II oversee for perhaps $780,
600. To show the arrangement Of
soft tones Mccormack turned out all
lights in the room but one, leaving in
darkness his lawyer, who was at the
moment preparing an application for
American citizenship that the tenor
hIed with the courts over in Philadel-
phia a few days later.
There were other pictures; next to
the "Burgomaster" a pair Of quaint
peasants by David Tenier. equally
aged. and in a corner by Rambrandt's
sister. Corots Bathing Nymphs."
quoted at S2O. 900 in the sale OF An
drew Freedman's collection. In the
hall was Blakelock's 'Spring Rock
Cove" with more by other artists,
and in the dining room bright-fiow-
cred scenes from Ireland by Mary
Carlisle.
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
MUSIC CURE FOR
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN
s. The operator sits at the

Music's aid Is 10 be called on BY
the Chicago bos-d OF education to
bring mentally defective children up
to normal standard Assistant Su-
perintendent OF Schools Samuel B.
Allison has pu: nymbals, castanets,
drums, tambourinAs and triangles on
the supply list for the public schools.
and soon the sixty unsraded or sub
normal school '"uters in Chicago will
be supplied with these Instruments
You would be surprised to find
how much brighter and more ree.D-
tive the children are after thew nav.
been listening 20 tn rhythm OF per-
cusston tnstrume' ts," says Mr.. AM.
son. 1T gives tSAm . sense OF rhythm
snd order, and awakens their man.
tality. They learn much more ouIcL.
~ after their music, and go on with
their regular school work with nm
usual enthusiasm. We hope to 1ive
each defective child sUms sort OF in
strument, and we expect the results
10 be very noticeable"
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
Music's golden
tongue Aatters to
tears the aged man
and poor.-Keats.

one get on at the Metropolitan"
"Beeomtng a member OF the Met
ropolitAE Opera Company and Set-
ting hearing by the general man.
Ager are two entirely dlffersnt
things" was his answer. Suppose we
take the question OF q hearing first.
am often surprised that singers
seem to think II n difficult A. a
Inatter OF fact. any singer who feels
that be or she has a voice may have
a bearing at the Metropolitan A
request for an audition addressed to
the Metropolitan Opera Company, Ac-
companied by q letter from ehe as
ptrant's vocal teacher, VIII always
bring an opportunity"
No mystery about that, Il there2
II may not be a matter OF general
knowledge that the powers who li-
rect the great complex machine of
the Metropolitan Opera House give
hOurS each month to hsaring aspiring
singers who regard themselves as
embryo Sembriehs or Fzrrars- Cat
o-casazEa takes as much interest in
An addition ns IN an operatic psr-
formAnee and Is always ON thu hook
out for new material.
Additions are usually held twice q
month" said Mr.. Copptcus, -dspsnd-
ing. OF course. ON the number OF
applicants. There are restrictions,
naturally, On the frequency with
which aspirants may be heard"
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
CHICAGO BARITONES
ARE NSEPARABLE

Georges Baklanoff, the Russian,
and RIccardo Stracciari. the italian,
the two principal baritones of the
Chicago Opera Company, have been
nicknamed Damon and PythIas" by
their associates, for they are almost
inseparahle companions. Their
friendship dates from their meeting
in Russia some years ago. Both are
college men, one a graduate OF the
Petrograd University and the other
of the Bologna Institute, and the fate
that brought them together in Chi
caEo has also decreed that one ap-
pear in roles like Mephistopheles,
Scarpia and so on, while the other
portrays the sufferings of Rigoletto
or the good-natured humor OF Figaro
In the Barber of Seville"
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
ESCAPING STEAM KEEPS
PIANIST'S EAR BUSY

An amusing Incident during a tea
interview with Leginska at her war
time" apartnent-so called, the pianist
naiyely explained, because everything
in II "cost next to nothing"-was the
little pianists suddenly jumping VI
in the midst OF the conversation and
making a dive for the steam radia
tor. It had been intermittently crea
ting sounds that may have been mu'
sicaI, but were certainly not melo
dious.
"If do not turn this steam off.
shall 20 mad" said Leginska, "for
I've been trying all this while to find
the key OF the sound that it's making
It's a terrible affliction. but every
sound that strikes my ear. instructive
ly makes me search for its cores
ponding key, and when I can't find II
quickly, my mind is absolutely dis
tracted until ! can"
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
SINGERS OBTAIN
HEARING EASILYAT
THE METROPOLITAN

How does one get on" At the Me-
tropolftanf what are the intermsd-
larry steps that Rad to that goal Of
the singers ambition7 How does one
taken them?
A great many people seem 70
imagine that some sort Of magic II
required; that one must have friends
at COURT" that peculiar good luck
must have dogEed the steps OF the
person % fortunate ~ to get . Net
ropolitan hearing.
This is to tell you that these prem
las are wrong, on the authority OF
y. c. Coppleus. secretary to Gatti-
CaaazEa, to whom 10 put the fire.
quently-as<ed question: How does
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
WAR TO INSPIRE
YOUNG MUSICIANS,
SAYSOTTOH. KAHN

Otto H. Kahn. chairman Of the di-
rsctors OF the Metropolitan Opera
! House. New York City, when asked
before the entrance Of the United
States into the world war whether
he thought America could produce
great operatic composers. and what
was necessary to produce them. re-
piled:
SYes, think America will produce
great operstic artists and will pro-
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
PERNE SENDS GREETING
TO new YORK CHILDREN

A personal greeting to the children
Of America was sent through Gabriel
Pierne to Frank Damrosch, conduc-
tor OF the Oratorio Society of New
YORK, when Piernes Childreu's Cru
sade" was given for the first time In
Now York in 1906. 81 see," the COM
noser cabled. that the children OF
America are able to compete with the
school children Of Paris. thosa os Hol-
land, Of Germany and of Switzerland"
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
MANY REMEMBER
FIRST APPEARANCE
OF HOFMANN HERE

Americans naturally feel a peculiar
interest in the art of Josef Hofmann,
for they have seen It grow and de-
velop. from the wonder child OF ten
to the matured artist who stands at
the apex OF his profession. There
must be thousands in this country
who remember the marvellous exhibi-
ton OF plano playing offered by the
little Polish boy during the season
of 1883. when, as a child prodigy, he
was brought over TO tour America.
Little Fellow.
He was such q little fellow, with
such q serious face, as he came upon
the stage in his simple sailor suit. and
climbed upon the piano stool. We
forgot all this after the orchestral
prelude. when he began to play. All,
then It was no longer a tiny child.
but a man. who gTappIed with those
handfuls OF notes and flung them out
into space with such sureness and
freedom. That powerful. singing tone
did not belong to the puny strength
OF a child OF ten. Neither did that
sympathetic reading OF the score,
that understanding OF the meaning
Of the music.
No wonder the people went Wild
with excitement and split their gloves
In vociferous applause. It was almost
beyond belief. The climax came when
this mite of a boy began to improvise,
on q theme handed up to him from
l.. ~
The Washington times., 1917-12-20
Music Calendar.
DECEMBER.

21-Friday Morning Music Club
Christmas program with
Sadie Styron.
2S-Friday Morning Music Club
Program by Henry Kaspar
and Katherine Lee Jones.
30-"The Christ Child" at st.
Andrews Church.
The Washington times., 1917-12-20

The man that hath no music
in himself,
Nor is not moved with con-
cord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strata
gems and spoils.
Merchant of Venice.