New Richmond Record, Volume 19, Number 38, New Richmond, Montgomery County, 1 April 1915 — Page 3

TIE CHURCH AS ASOCIALCENTER

DRINK, CIGAR OR $50,000 HIS CHOICE

make; money from seaweed

RIGHT TO FULL PARTNERSHIP

ALAS FOR DAYS OF ROMANCE

IAS. L WITHROW

Inhabitants of the Island of Guernsey Have “Farms” Regularly Allotted to Them.

Writer Combats Idea That Women Should Be Looked Upon as Natural Dependents.

One by One the Strongholds of the Novelist Are Being Wrested From Him.

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANT Cattle, Hogs and Sheep. LAFAYETTE UNION STOCK YARDS, LaFayette, Ind.

Wealthy Tobacco Dealer Places Conditions on Bequest to Nephew.

The strangest “farms” are the seaweed farms of the island of Guernsey. Held in common by all the farmers of the neighborhood, a “farmers’ cil” allots to each man making application a strip of the seashore, and all the seaweed that is cast up within these limits belongs to him. Great bowlders mark the boundaries of the farms, which are from 200 to 600 yards of shore, and if any man gathers seaweed from any other man’s farm or moves the bowlders to extend his boundaries the council takes his farm away from him and fines him besides. The seaweed harvest is at its height during the months of July and August, and all that a man need possess to gather it is a two-wheeled cart and one of the sturdy Guernsey ponies, a couple of long-handled pitchforks and a rake.

A woman’s pocketbook, even though she belongs to the wealthiest families, has its distinctive limitation. This fact was brought out in connection with “self-sacrifice” day for the benefit of the National Suffrage association. Women who work for a living and who are economically independent, give more generously than do men. Women of wealth and leisure, on the other hand, from whom naturally most help would be expected, often have little money they can call their own with which to help the causes that appeal to them. Whatever may be said of the unmarried daughter who is treated as a dependent in her father’s house, it is a great injustice when a married woman is not looked upon as a full partner with her husband in all the business of life, but is compelled to occupy the place of a dependent asking favors of her husband. The wife who rears a family of children and who either performs or directs the work of the household ought to be looked upon as a full partner with her husband in everything he does, and be spared the humiliation of being made to feel she is dependent uptTn him for gifts, sometimes grudgingly bestowed. Thete are some husbands, possibly an increasing number, who share their incomes with their wives, or who consider that all their possessions are held jointly, but there are many men still under the spell of the day when, in the eyes of the law, woman was looked upon more as a chattel than a human being.—Leslie’s.

One by one the abodes of romance and mystery—likewise of discomfort and barbarism—get progressive and pass away. The latest place to join the procession appears to be Bangkok, capital of Siam, and home of the sacred white elephant. Perhaps that elephant still trumpets from the royal gardens, but he soon be transferred to a zoo and become a spectacle instead of a holy emblem. For Bangkok not only has installed an electric power station, but is using the surplus current of daylight hours to run rice mills. In the presence of that sort of “efficiency” old-time romance, sickens and dies. Its loss is not without compensation, to be sure. Electric fans, for example, must be handy to a place like Bangkok, whose average temperature throughout the year is about 81 degrees Fahrenheit. But what knight ever waited for an electric fan when rescuing his lady love from a mysterious zenana, and what fun is there in raiding a sultan’s treasure that is guarded by common-place burglar alarms instead of by white cobras? Alas and alack! Romance has departed from Bangkok, and the geographical novelist is driven from one more stronghold of the imagination.

A Broader Sphere for Religion—New

■Watertown, N. Y. —On the condition that Charles Gordon Emery II neither drinks nor smokes until he is thirty years old he will receive $50,000 from the estate of his grandfather, Charles G. Emery, whose will was filed for probate here. Mr. Emery, a tobacco man, spent much of his time at his home on Calumet Island, in the St. Lawrence, near here. The estate is estimated at $4,000,000. A majority is left in trust to relatives. Two servants, Pauline and Nashville Wanner of New York city, each

Field for the Rural Church,

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The social duty of the rural church Is as much a part of its obligations as its spirltual side. In expressing Its

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The seaweed or “varech,” as the Guernsey people call it, is used as fertilizer on the inland farms, or is sold to manufacturing chemists, who extract iodine from it.

In the old days, bul not now, the great Guernsey “harvest home,” which was held usually in May, at the conclusion of the winter season, was the chief festival of that quaint Island. The last load was piled upon the carts, and the men and women in holiday dress marched at the head of their carts with their ponies gayly bedecked, singing old sea songs and dancing to the sound of the women’s tambourines. From village to village they went until darkness came, and then a huge bonfire was lighted on the seashore and the “varech” season was officially declared at an end.

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social interest, the modern rural church does not hesitate to claim that it is expressing a true religious instinct and the old-time idea that the social instincts should he starved while the spiritual nature was overfed with solid theological food, is fast giving way to a broader interpretation of the functions of true religion. We take our place in the succession of those who have sought to make the world a fit habitation for the children of man when we seek to study and understand the social duty of the rural church. The true Christian religion is essentially social —its tenets of faith being love and brotherhood and fellowship. While following after righteousness, the church must challenge and seek to reform that social order in which moral life is expressed. While cherishing ideals of service, the rural church which attains the fullest measure of success is that which enriches as many lives as it can touch, and in no way can the church come in as close contact with its members as through the avenue of social functions.

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SOMETHING OF A PUZZLE

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Question Concerning Femininity Which Is Not At All Easy to Answer.

Experienced AUCTIONEERS.

From a feminine source comes a question which is more easily answered at first than at second thought —a question, that is, which is not quite as simple as it seems. It is this: Does a woman wearing a veil see, when she looks in a mirror, what another person sees who looks at her through her veil? On consideration one realizes that the veiled woman looks through her veil at an image which is itself veiled, and therefore she apparently looks at herself through two veils instead of the one which is all that dims to the vision of the street observer. Then there is the further fact that in a mirror what was right becomes left, and vice versa, so that what one sees there is not a picture of oneself but of somebody who is like oneself only as one of a pair of gloves is like the other.

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NICKNAME STUCK TO SENATOR

Mr. Gloom of the Town of Sniffles Bewails His Inability to Fight Him Off.

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Frontiersman Responsible for Sobriquet by Which Missouri Statesman Was Always Known.

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"Some writer once said, ‘A wise man learns something every time a fool blunders,’ ” grumbled J. Fuller Gloom of Sniffles, Mo. “If there is any truth to the statement why don’t I quit bucking the other fellows’ games as fast as they come to me ? There don’t need to be any new and enticing variations —I go right up against the same old tottering tricks again and again. “I am now the proud possessor of numerous ornate lives of 4he great poets, a five-foot shelf of ponderous piffle, a gilt-topped set of Mrs. Sigourney’s woeful poems, all the secrets of the court of Queen What’s-Her-Name, the deuce knows how many Dickenses and cyclopedias, till the world seems flat with them; and yet, just as , sure as I am a foot high, a few days I after it is Issued I shall be the owner in fee simple of the next work put on ! the market.

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Must Not Drink or Smoke to Get $50,000.

Senator Barton, one of the two first Missouri senators, was known as “Little Red,” He got the name when he delivered a speech which made him famous throughout the country. The senate chamber was crowded. Barton had taken side against the Jackson policies. His arraignment and condemnation of the administration for years ranked as one of the greatest speeches ever heard in the senate. The audience became intensely excited. At the close, while people were crowding out of the gallery, there came a mighty shout; “Hurrah for the little red!”

receive $4,000. Frank W. Emery, son, receives $250,00(1 in trust, and similar amounts in trust are given to the two daughters of Mr. Emery. A nephew, William Francis Emery,' received $20,000 in trust, and a niece, Mabel Tracy Emery, receives $10,000. At the termination of the trusts the estate is to be divided among the three children or their survivors. The sum of $1,000,000 is left in trust to keep and maintain the St. Lawrence property. A large amount of the estate consists of oil producing ranches in the West.

NORTHERN CAFE

W!Vl. ENDICOTT, Prop.

The country town and the rural community need a social center. The church need offer no apology for its ambition to fill this need in the community, if an understanding of Its mission brings this purpose into clear consciousness. The structure of a rural community is exceedingly complex; it contains many social groups, each of which has its own center, but there are many localities which have but one church and although such a church cannot command the interest of all the people, it is relieved from the embarrassment of religiously divided communities.

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That, however, has nothing to do with the question as to the veils, and that is quite complicated enough to stand alone.

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WESTBOUND.

This was repeated again and again in the corridors of the capitol by the Missouri frontiersman who had been a listener. When the man became calm enough to explain he said the original “little red” was a game rooster hp owned which could whip any fighting cock matched against him. When he heard Senator Barton “putting his licks” in the Jackson crowd and “bringing them down every flutter” he couldn’t help thinking of the victories of his "little red.’’ The newspapers took up the story and Barton went by the sobriquet of “Little Red.”

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.2:47 p. m. 2:35 a. m.

“GET DOWN OFF THAT SEAT!”

The Other Fellow.

EASTBOUND,

When Car Conductor Starts to Enforce His Command He Joins Passengers in Laugh.

Give him a kindly, brotherly thought at least once in a while. Make him the center of things occasionally instead of yourself. Get into the habit of seeing a few things from his point of view. As you value the best things for which men were made, do not make all life a competition and all humanity a field for your exploitation. Of course, you can get ahead of the other fellow if you try hard enough, and act meanly enough, but the net result of it all is bound to be terribly disappointing. The money in your pocket that ought justly to be in his may not burn a hole and get out, but it may do something very much worse than that; it may burn and scar and scorch your own soul. It is really a rather serious ' matter living alongside the other fellow. What we do with him may be important from his point of view, but it is very much more important from ours.

No. 4 No. 6

2:47 p. m. I;06 a. m.

“What in the hangnation is the matter with me, anyhow? Is it possible that I am not the wise and sensible person I have been flattering myself I am, but instead merely one of the fools from whom wise men gather wdsdom?”

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Indianapolis.—Car No. 907 on the East Washington street line was crowded to the doors, as usual, recently. It looked as if half the passengers were standing. But when the conductor looked back over the heads of the jammed-in crowd and saw one man’s head far above the others he recalled that passengers are not permitted to stand on the seats and he decided that the man must get down. “Hey, you, get down off that seat!” the conductor yelled. But the passenger paid no attention to the order.

Social Needs Imperative.

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The average country boy and girl have very little opportunity for real enjoyment, and have, as a rule, a vague conception of the meaning of pleasure and recreation. ‘ It is to fill this void in the lives of country youth that the rural church has risen to the necessity of providing entertainment, as well as instruction, to its membership among the young. The children and young people of the church should meet when religion is not even mentioned. It has been found safest for them to meet frequently under the direction and care of the church. To send them into the world with no social training exposes them to grave perils and to try to keep them out of the world with no social privileges is sheer folly. There is a social nature to both old and young, but the social requirements of the young are imperative. The church must provide directly or indirectly some modern equivalent for the husking bee, the quilting bee and the singing schools of the old days. In one way or another the social instincts of our young people must have opportunity for expression, which may take the form of clubs, parties, picnics or other forms of amusement. One thing is certain, and that is that the church cannot take away the dance, the card party and the theatre unless it can offer in its place a satisfying substitute in the form of more pleasing recreation.

Good News for Fat Folk.

Fat folk, take heart. Would you reduce your overample girth lines and return to your former sylphlike selves? It’s easy—likewise pleasant. All you need is moral courage and a—bunch of celery. Sounds reasonable, eh? This was the cheering information which seeped into various show shops and lobsterias today, and caused no end of happiness to some of those who are getting to the point where increasing avoirdupois is greatly endangering their several chances for artistic or financial success. Half a dozen front row girls and several stars have reduced from the heavyweight to the bantam weight class lately. “How did you do it?” is the question asked. And the reply is “celery.” Celery for breakfast, celery for lunch, and celery and a -glass of water for dinner. “If you follow this diet for a month you can take off 25 pounds,” said a Broadway favorite. It is believed that a large number will go to the "moral courage and celery” cure with a rare relish during Lent.

Even Crabs Have Instinct.

Everyone has heard of the'homing instinct of birds and of insects, but it is rather a surprise to be told that animals as low in the scale of nature as crabs have a similar Instinct. The experiment has been tried in England of capturing crabs, marking them for Identification, and releasing them long distances from their homes. The most interesting example was that of a male and female captured together in a trap and carefully marked, and then taken long distances away into another county and released at different places far apart from each other. Later the two were caught together again in a trap in their original home, showing that they had not only returned to their home, but had found each other and had again mated. The homing Instinct had enabled them to go from the county of Lincolnshire back to their original home in Yorkshire.

"Hey, you, I told you to get down off that seat,” came again from the conductor. The passenger paid no more attention to the second order than he did to the first one.

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“I’ll make that guy get down,” the conductor said, and he started through the crowd toward the rear of the car.

A short time ago a servant in Yorkshire gave notice to leave her situation, informing her mistress that she was about to be married.

Good View Dispelled Love.

But the passenger did not get down from the seat. He was 6 feet 7 Vs Inches tall and his head was far above the rest of the crowd. The crowd laughed. So did the conductor.

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As the time drew near for leaving she addressed her mistress thus:

“Please, mum, have you got a girl yet?” “No, Bridget. Why do you ask?” “Because, if you haven’t, X should like to stay.”

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Officer Broke Key and They Were in Cell Room for a Whole Night.

The Friends You Are Fondest Of. The friends you are fondest of are always the kind that rarely call you up or go out of their way to see you or be in your company. They love yod when they are with you, but you have to do all the going and coming. When you reproach them with not telephoning you or letting you know they have come in town they “have been so busy!” Did you ever know it to fail? And the ones you like fairly well but are not enthusiastic about ring you up and ask you to dinner, and send you tickets, and try to borrow money from you, and act just the way you would prefer your dearest friends to do! —James Montgomery Flagg in the American Magazine.

“Why, I thought you were going to marry the sweep!”

Indoor Gardens.

“Oh, yes, mum,” replied Bridget, hesitatingly, “but when I saw him after ’is face was washed I felt I could not love him.” —London Tit-Bits.

Sunbury, Pa. —When more than twenty residents 'of Shamokin, attending court here, procured passes and went to visit the Northumberland county jail, William Neary, the turnkey, took them in a cell room, and, according to custom, locked them in.

Rooms without growing plants are never really perfectly satisfactory in spite of the change of furniture from one place to another, its readjustment with fresh color from time to time. There must always be moments when the inanimate room bores or stifles one, but never a time when a plant lifting up its branches for the blossoming time will not win your response, your desire to aid it, your joy in its triumph. Indeed, a very cold, bare and plain room can be made cozy and inviting by the introduction of a few blossoming plants. In the summer time they connect you with the garden, in the winter they shut you away from chill an# frost, with color and fragrance they welcome your friends. —The Craftsman.

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Universal Instinct for Play.

Ten scrapbooks compiled by Edward Fitzgerald, the poet of “Omar Khayyam,” have been bequeathed to the Ipswich museum by his niece, Miss Eleanor Kerrick, to be added to the relics in the Fitzgerald room in Christ Church mansion. The scrapbooks consist of portraits of all manner of notabilities, kings and pugilists, bishops and murderers being pasted side by side. They contain many original pen-and-ink sketches by Charles Keene of Punch, also drawings by John Constable. Some of the drawings are enriched with comments by the poet.

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When they were ready to get out the turnkey found that his big key had broken off in the lock. For hours local locksmiths tried to release the unwilling prisoners; but their skill was unequal to the resistance of the clogged mechanism. At night Warden Wallace W. Barr passed their suppers between the bars, and then telephoned to Philadelphia for an expert, who opened the door the next morning.

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In providing for enjoyment the church uses one of the greatest methods by which human society has developed. Association is never secure until it is pleasurable; in play the instinctive aversion of one person for another is overcome and the social mood is fostered. Play is the chief educational agency in rural communities and in the play-day of human childhood social sympathy and social habits sare evolved. As individuals come together in social gatherings, their viewpoint is broadened, their ideals are lifted and finally they constitute a cultured and refined society.

Rush to Water Wagon

When you sell a quart, of niilk for seven cents you are giving more food for the money than the buyer can get in most other forms. It is twice as cheap as mutton or fresh fish, six times ns cheap as dried beef, nearly three times as cheap as beef chuck, -10 per cent cheaper than pork loin, three times as cheap as beef sirloin, nearly three times as cheap as eggs. The staples that cost less in proportion to feed value than milk are such things as potatoes, rice, dates, corn meal, prunes, cheese, wheat bread and ->eans. The above figures will hold ood in the average interior regions of the nation.—Farm and Flreridf.

Value of a Quart of Milk.

Gary, Ind. —Topers who looked at a two-headed rattlesnake owned by V. B. Austin hastily boarded the “water wagon.” V. B. Austin of Kalamazoo, Mich., who is visiting his brother, Merrill Austin, of the Gary post office, brought the two-headed reptile to town and the temperance cause has been gaining ever since.

Use New Words.

It is plain, therefore, that the church which aims at a perfected society must use in a refined and exalted way the essential factors in social evolution and must avail itself of the universal instinct for play. If the church surrounds itself with social functions which appeal to the young among its membership, it will fill a large part of the lamentable gap in rural pleasures and will reap the richest reward by promoting a higher and better type of manhood and womanhood.

The words we use every day make up our vocabulary, and it is a very good thing that our vocabulary should be as large as we can possibly make it. The best way to accomplish that is to use as many new words as possible as often as we can. Then we get accustomed to them and they are part of our vocabulary. But we must be sure that we understand their meaning, and that we use them in the right place. It is better to choose short words rather than long OJMffl. , -

Fleet Couriers.

The best runners in the middle ' ages were found among the couriers maintained by monarchs and cities. The runners of Tartary, England, Scotland, Italy and the Basque country all acquired reputations, and the histories of the times are replete with stories of their difficult exploits. The Peichs, or Persian couriers of the Turkish sultans, often ran from Constantinople to Adrianople and back, a distance of 220 miles, in two days 1 and nights. _

The Fool, He Died.

Chaudes-Algues, France. — For a wager of one dollar, M. Falour undertook to eat "50 eggs and a pound of bread at one sitting. At the fortyfifth egg he fell dead.

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