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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-20
MISSION Of THE
RURAL CHURCH
SHOULD BE UNIVE RslTY OF RE-
LiGIOUS LEARNING.
Duty of Christianity to EvanseIIze the
World.
BY Rev. Jno. A. Rice, o. D.
Pastor St. John M E. Church. South,
st. Louis. Mo.

Some years ago, the question was
asked: What is a college? The at
tempt to answer it shook the educa-
tional world in America from center
to circumference. Another question is
now beginning to be asked: What is
a church? Without undertaking to
give definition of it, let me ask, in
this initial paper, what the church
is for? The New Testament reveals
three distinct tasks to which 1t is
committed.
First, that of evangelization. The
church is divinely commissioned to
reach for the lowest and the least
man in the least land and offer him
sonship TO the Eternal God; offer him
a divine power which lifts him out
of the bog and places him upon the
highest levels of human life, where
God and the soul are in fellowship.
This alone were an immense priv
ilege.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-20

Consult any o. S. L. Agent
for rates and further details.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-20
School of Religion Needed.

OF course. the Sunday School is the
center for all this work, although the
activities of the church should extend
through the entire week and the Sun
day School should cease to be so
named 1t should be called the School
of Religion or the Church School or
something else that indicates it to be
an all-the-week activity. During this
time various and sundry clubs, classes,
musical organizations, culture courses,
as well as distinctly religious meetings,
should be held Thickly settled neigh
borhoods, as we shall see, offer fine
opportunities for. the development OF
things spiritual
The third task to which the church
is committed is that of Christianizing
the social order; that of infusing the
spirit of Jesus into every nook and
corner of our life. Nothing is foreign
to the interest of the church.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-20
POSTAL SAVINGS

Every person In the United States
ten years old or over may open an
account in postal savings bank after
July 1st, according TO an instructive
leafiet on the Postal Savings System
lust issued by Postmaster General
Burleson. This important extension
OF the service will be made possible
by permitting persons living In com
munities 80 sparsely settled as not TO
justify the designation of their local
post offices as regular postal savings
banks TO open accounts by mail
Governor Dockery, Third Assistant
Postmaster General. who has direct
supervision OF postal savings, was so
impressed by appeals from all over
the country to open postal savings ac-
counts by mail that he took up the
task. some weeks ago of working. out
feasible and safe method for meet
ing a demand we'll illustrated in a
letter from a Saline County Missouri
an. who resides many miles from
postal savings bank.
S. Having few hundred dollars
saved from fifty years of hard and
assiduous labor and skimping econ
omy on the part of my wife and my
self, we concluded to deposit it in the
Postal Savings Bank of --. We
wrote to the postmaster at that place
and received reply to the effect that
none but patrons of that office could
deposit in that Office which IS very
disappointing news to US. Our little
farm is not large enough to support
US and land is so high that it is I'M
possible for us to buy more with what
We and We are 50 old
4. "a now and
" Jaa Sc IA to-ly by at least
4haaen 90 mt US away ia decency."
Under the plan adopted by the
Postms Ter General for opening &C
counts ly mali "A intending deposit
or residing ghere there is no rsgu-
la.s dgalgnated postal savings bank,
WI nply to his local postmaster
HSho 4 soc mat necessary luehtln-
cation data is prepared and forwaI d.
ed to nearby post once authoriztu
to accept deposits. Inc intending
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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-20

1t is an admitted economic fact that
there can be no permanent prosperity
without permanent agriculture.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-20
Teaching the Art of Living.

The church is commissioned also
to teach and train those who are
rich with its evangelistic message.
The term, Religious Education, has
come to mean specific thing in our
country, namely, the training OF the
people in the local church in those
deep matters which pertain to the
art of living. l am not now speaking
of the work of education in schools,
colleges and universities, but the work
of education at our doors, In the con-
gregation. Every agency in reach
should be employed to the utmost In
this important mission. Indeed the
local church could be made sort OF
university for all the people, in which
the simple, practical arts and virtues
of everyday life should be taught and
enforced Only recently has this
special phase of the church's work re-
ceived anything like adequate atten-
ton. The New Testament word Tor
it is Publication.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
POLITICAL EMANCIPATION
TO Be DEMANDED BY jews

New York, Jan. 5.-In declaration
adopted at preliminary meeting Sun
day afternoon of the Jewish Emanci-
patton Committee there is set forth the
purpose of the Jews of this country to
have representatives at the peace nego-
tiations for the European belligerents
to demand on the part of the Jews
world wide political emancipation.
The committee, which is composed of
prominent Jews and Gentiles, hopes to
start similar movements in England,
France, Germany, Russia and other Eu
ropean countries and to cooperate
there with the Jewish and Gentle lead
ers who favor political equality for the
Jews.
The declaration points out that many
hundreds of thousands of Jews are in
the front ranks of the armies engaged
in the European war and adds that cit
is felt that the present war is demon
strating more and more than anything
else in history the justice of the jew s
demand for the same civic privileges
and human rights accorded to his Chris
tian neighbors."
According to figures given out by
the committee, the world movement af
fects 13,052,S45 Jews throughout the
world. Of the number, 1,903,926 are
in the United States, about 100000
having their homes i'll this city.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
TO DARKEN HAIR
APPLY SAGE TEA
A Few Applications of Sage Tea and
Sulphur Brings Back Its Vigor,
Color, Gloss and Thickness

Common garden sage brewed into a
heavy tea with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray, streaked and
faded hair beautifully dark and lux
uriant, remove every bit of dandruff,
stop scalp itching and falling hair
just few applications will prove a
revelation if your hair is fading, gray
or dry, seraggly and thin. Mixing the
Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home,
though, is troublesome. An easier way
is to get the ready-to-use tonic, costing
about 90 cents a large bottle at drug
stores, known as "Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Compound" thus avoiding lot
of muss.
While wispy, gray, faded hair is not
sinful, we all desire to retain our youth.
full appearance and attractiveness. By
darkening your hair with Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it
does so naturally, so evenly. You lust
dampen sponge or soft brush with il
and draw this through your hair, TAX.
ing one small strand at a time: by
morning all gray hairs have disap.
peared, and, after another application or
two, your hair becomes beautifully
dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant.-Adv.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
Makes Stubborn Coughs
Vanish in a Hurry
surprisingly Good Cough Syrup
Easily and CheapIy
Made at Home

If some one in your family has An oh.
stinate cough or bad throat or chest
cold that has been hanging on and rcfuses
10 yleid 10 treatment, get from anv drug
store 2ta ounces of Piney and make II
INTO a pint OF cough syrup, and watch
that cough vanish.
Pour the 21k ounces of Piney f5o
cents worth into a pint bottle and fiil
the bottle with plain gramlated sugar
syrup. he total cost is about 54 cents
and gives. you a full pint-a family
supply-of most effective remedy, at a
saving OF ~. A days. use will usually
overcome hard cough. Easily PREPARED
IN D minutes-full directions with Piney.
Keeps perfectly and has pleasant taste
Children like it.
It's really remarkable how promntlv
ana easily, 1t loosens the dry, hoarse or
llght cough and heals the infiamed mem
branes IN 9. painful cough. 1t also stops
the formation OF phlegm in the throat
and bronchial tubes, thus ending the per
slstent loose cough. A splendid remedy
Tor oronchItls winter coughs, bronchial
asthma and whooping cough.
Plnex is special and highly concen-
trated compound of genuine Norway pine
extract, rich in guaiacol, which is SO
healing to the membranes.
j, Avoid disappointment by asking YOUR
Druggist for ''21a ounces of Pinex." and
do not accept anything else. A guarantee
OF absolute satisfaction goes with this
The Pinex Co., Fl. Wayne, Ind.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
Over Night Goes Chest
Colds and Sore Throat
Just Rub on Gegy's Mustarine. Better
Than All the Pills, Powders,
Syrups on Earth and Quicker.
1t Will Not Blister

Get u big 25-cent box of BEGY'S
YELLOW MUSTARINE in the yellow
box and get rid of cold in chest. coughs.
sore throat, pleurisy, bronchitis and
tonsilitis in few hours.
Keep it OH hand at all times, for with
1t you can end the misery or toothache,
headache, earache, backache and neu-
ralgia in just few minutes when moth.
ing else seems TO do any good.
BEGY'S MUSTARINE is better than
any iniment. plaster, poultice, hot
water bottle or substitute. 1t promptly
reduces the swelling and draws out
agony from rheumatic joints and
muscles. 1t relieves neuritis and in
eases of sprains, strains, bruises, sore
ness, lameness, stiff neck and joints,
cramps in leg and pain anywhere, its
action is little less than magical
Get box at any druggists to-day
use it to draw the agony from sore,
painful feet. corns, bunions, calouses,
chilblains and frosted feet It's the
greatest household remedy in America
to-day. But get the original BEGY'S
MUSTARINE in the yellow box.--Adv.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
Recent WAR news makes
A Cheering IMPRESSION
UPON GERMAN POPULACE

Berlin, Jan. ., By Wireless to Say.
Vile, l.. 1.-Recent war news, accord
ing to the official press bureau, has
made an unusually cheering impression
The bureau refers to the official an.
nouncement that the destruction of the
British battleship Formidable was due
to a German submarine and says this is
further striking evidence as to how
England's supremacy at sea is endan-
gered by Germany's submarine fleet.
The capture of Bor.imow, in Poland,
on the road to Warsaw, is deemed high
ly important, according to the press
bureau. In this connection it says:
''The capture of Borjimow is treat.
ed by the military critics as a highly
important event. The town lies nearly
four miles to the eastward of the con-
Huence of the Rawka and Bzura rivers
and commands the direct highway lead.
ing from LowicZ to Warsaw. The des-
peratc efforts of the Russians to hold
this strongly fortified point and their
repeated attempts to retake it, Indicate
clearly the importance the Russian com
mander attached thereto.
"The position is described as COM
manding. wide sweep of the surround
ing country and the possession thereof
greatly facilitates the German advance
upon Warsaw. The 'Lokal Anzieger IS
military correspondent regards it as
probable that the Germans will succeed
in breaking through the lines here un-
less the Russians forestall this by a
general retreat.
''The general situation south of the
Vistula is regarded as promising more
rapid developments this week
"The Austrian official bulletin is also
more reassuring than previously. 1t
says that repeated efforts of the Rus
slams to break through the Austrian
lines to the west and northwest of Cor
lice, in Galicia near the Carpathians,
has failed with heavy losses for the
Russians. During this fighting the
Austrians took by storm the heights
to the south of Gorlice, capturing $50
prisoners.
"The Turkish bulletin represents
the situation in the Caucasus as pro
crossing favora5ly for the Turks
Heavy fighting at Sari Kamysh has re-
suited in decisive Turkish victory.
The Turks have taken 1900 prisoners,
8 cannon and 13 machine guns since
Christmas, besides large stores of am
munition and provisions.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
SOILS OF SASSAFRAS SERIES
Coastal Plain, Within 100 Miles of
Philadelphia, Important Wheat
Growing Section

Washington. d. c., Jan. Pew
people think OF the Coastal Plain,
within 100 miles of Philadelphia, as
an important wheat growing section,
yet the heavier soils of the SaSSafras
series, including the Sassafras loam
and silt loan of southwestern New
Jersey, northern Delaware and the
northern counties of Maryland cast OF
the Chesapeake Bay are annually pro-
ducing yields of wheat which range
from s to 50 bushels per acre. More
over, these soils are chiefly sown to
wheat which in the northern part of the
Maryland Delaware Peninsula domi-
mates all other crops in total acreage.
These soils make profitable the pro-
duction of an important part of the
bread supply immediately at the gates
OF such important cities as Philadel-
phia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Wash
ington.
The more sandy soils of the Sassa-
fras series are equally important in the
production Of vegetable and fruit
crops. They form considerable part
of the total area given to market gar
den and truck crops ON western Long
Island, in central and southern New
Jersey, throughout the Maryland Della
ware Peninsula, and in Anne Arundel
county, Maryland. More than a score
of different vegetable crops are grown
on these soils. The most important in
acreage and value are early Irish po-
tatees, tomatoes, sweet potatoes. sugar
corn, melons, cantaloupes and aspara-
gus. Even kale spinach, rhubarb and
horse radish constitute important CROPS
upon these soils in certain localities.
The soils of the Sassatras series
We're once extensively occupied for the
production of peaches. At present
pears, fall apples. grapes and small
fruits constitute their most valuable
contributions in the fruit line.
An excellent quality Of pipe-Smoking
tobacco is grown upon some of these
soils in southern Maryland between
Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river.
The greater part Of all of the soils
OF the Sassafras series is nearly level.
the types are well drained, and high
percentage of the total area is under
cultivation
This entire group of soils was named
from Its extensive occurrence along
the Sassafras River in eastern Mary
lani
\ recent Bulletin (No. 159) of the
United STATES Department of Agricul-
ture summarizes these and other i'm.
portant facts concerning Sassafras
soils.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
c. Y. NE WS
IMPROVEMENTS BY Gas Co.
Chambersburg Concern Elects Officers
and Directors and Plans Exten-
sion of It's System

Chamber sbuHg, Jan. 5.-The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Ohanbersburg Gas Company was held
at the Office of the company yesterday.
These directors were elected:
George II. Stewart, Il. M. Nelson,
NJ. C. Kennedy, w. X. Sharpe, Thomas
B. Kennedy, Joseph Buchanan and
Irwin c. Elder. Joseph Buchanan
was the only new director chosen. He
fills the vacancy caused by the death
of his father, the late Andrew Bu-
ehanan.
After the annual meeting the board
organized is follows: President, L. c.
Elder; treasurer, f. B. Reed; secretary,
w. h Sharpe.
Mr.. Sharpe as secretary, succeeds
the late d. o. Gehr, who served in this
position for number of years. Among
business considered by the board yes
terday was the decision to enlarge the
mains on Philadeiphia avenue, Kennedy
street and on Second street.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
LOOK AT ChILD'S
TONGUE If SICK
CROSS, FEYERISh
When Constipated or
Bilious Give "Califor-
MIA Syrup of Figs

Look at the tongue. mother! If
coated, it is a sure sign that your little
ones stomach. liver and bowels need a
gentle, thorough cleansing ut once.
When peevish. cross, listless, pale,
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act nat
urally, or is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad; has stomach-aehe, sore
throat. diarrhoea, full of cold. give a
.teaspoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" and in few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, .Sdigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of its little
bowels without gripping, and you have
a well, playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless fruit laxative;"
they love its delicious taste, and it al
ways MAKES them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a 50-eent bot
tie of California Syrup of Figs"
which has directions for babies, chill
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on the bottle. Beware of eoun-
terfeits sold here. To be sure you get
the genuine. ask to see that it is made
by California Fig Syrup Company"
Refuse any other kind with contempt.
ADV.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
ri Don't Feel Good"
That is what a lot of people tell us.
Usually their bowelsonly need cleansing.
Re1aQQ 4tdetQiea
viii do othe trick and make you feel fine.
We know this positively. Take ono
tonight. Sold only by us, 10 cents. :
George A. Gorgas.

that Turkey was without roads, we re-
treated to our frontier and defended it
successfully
1.-The Turkish invasion near Batum
is explained by the fact that this re-
gion of our boundary is so well pro-
teeted by mountains that it was not
heavily defended. But the forces near
Ardahan, which it is reported Enver
Pasha himself leads, do not really men
ace Tifis, the Turks still being con
siderable distance from the capital and
the passages through the mountains be-
ing now well defended.
"The people became panic.stricken
at the removal of the documents. ar
chives and valuables from the Cauca-
sian capital, but this was merely pre-
caution
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
Cured HisRUPTURE

| was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally | got
hold of something that quickly and
completely cured me. Years have pass
ed and the rupture has never returned,
although | am doing hard work as
carpenter. There was no operation, no
lost time, no trouble. | have nothing
to sell. but will give full information
about how YOU nay find a complete
cure without operation, IL you write to
me, Eugene NJ. Pullen. Carpe S13A
Marcellus Avenue. Manasquan. ~ j.
Better cut out this notice and show it
10 any others who are ruptured--you
may save life or at least stop the
misery OF rupture ana tae worry and
danger of an operation.-Adv.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
HIS BURIED HAND ITCHED
Loser Then Dug I6 Up, Strengthened
Fingers and Had Relief

Georgetown, Del, Jan. 5.-Sufrering
intense pains in hand which had been
amputated and buried, Lewis Jefferson.
of Blades, had no relief until the hand
was uncovered and the fingers straight.
ened out, since when he has felt no
more pain.
The strange stcry\is vouched for bv
Jefferson himself, who had his hand
cut off by a circular saw at the Allen
mills several weeks ago. During the
past week he has been suffering with
severe pains and with an itching SEN
sation in what would have been the
palm of his hand.
unrelieved by physicians, the young
man acted on the advice of friends and
dug up the amputated hand, which
had been buried for nearly six weeks,
The fingers of the hand were found in
a cramped position. After straighten-
ing out the fingers and weighting them
so that they could not again double up.
the hand was reburied. All pain left
Jefferson at once, and he claims that
he has suffered no inconvenience since.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
COMPARISONS BY GARDNER
Tells House Committee All Uncle Sam s
Military Forces Would Just
About Garrison Paris
Bg associated Press,

washington, Jan. 5.-Representative
Gardner, urging his proposal to investi-
gate the military preparedness OF the
nation, told the House Military Com.
mlttee yesterday that the entire field
army, militia. regulars and all. OF the
United States would Just about garrison
Parls, and the United States to-day
owns little mere than half OF the
number of guns Russia had at the bat
tie of Mukden.'
Mr.. Gardner had series of lively
passages with members of the commit
tee, which he arraigned for not sum.
moning Major Generals Wood and Gro.
lier to get their views on prepared
uess.
He quoted figures at length to show
that the cembiacd force of regulars
and national guardsnea would form Il
battle line 65 miles Song, two-thirds Of
the way around Greater New York. and
that, compared with EHropean nations.
the equipment of field gums of the
United States army was negligible.
Mr.. Gardner said he understood a
confidential report at the War Depart
ment from one of the observers in Et,-
rope say some of the French field guns
shot away 500 or coo rounds in day
Eight American field guns, he said
could shoot away ammunition as fast
as government arsenals could make il.
Secretary Garrison, he said, had di-
reeted army officers not to volunteer
any statements and that he deubtlessly
was acting in conjunction with the
"White House ideas
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-05
RELEASE SHIPS AND LOWER
FREIGHT COST. BRIT0NS URGE

London, Jan. 5.-In view of the
high freight rates prevailing, increased
pressure is being brought to bear on
the Government to release a part of
the German tonnage captured since the
outbreak of war and now lying idle
and useless in docks here and abroad.
At the present level of freights the
steamers would earn large profits if
employed in general trading, or they
could be utilized by the Government as
transports and so relieve them of tax
ing up tonnage at the high rates.
In the freight market AIS. 3D.
(s10.44 per ton was paid by ship.
pers to carry grain from the River
Plate to the United Kingdom, against
a normal rate of about $3.