Show I 1 NIA X 7 h ir vv 1 1 A r R I 1 i div I 1 ta of V R pl EAT N Q va WT vre r I 1 I 1 I 1 va I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 jill I 1 or OF PUBLIO PUBLIC PRATER 1 the perils peril besetting uio the offering of ol 01 tf t nr in public P places laces are the th subject I 1 prayer it editorial treatment ont in the standard it chicago in the first place i the standard E thinks that too little ut it immon tion Is paid in the semi teri tries ot of the non liturgical lutui churches tr in I 1 selling candidates for or the ministry how hw hatol to tol lead in public prayer whilo while if i would to be obviously improper to require the offering of prayers OK as mutter matter roi for i criticism it la Is suggested bill rested that the name ani ful end might be reached by sub bub alting ul ting written and original prayers examination of teachers it I 1 Is I 1 far the ao a o that courses might be offered by every T profess or fur for the hie study 0 of models of public pray pra Y r in ancient anil and modern liturgies liturgics and in the prayers ot of modern preachers I 1 ite torning to the more lore general subject the standard says T TB danger Is that the minister tied 1311 don an to a narrow range of petitions pet KIona fir bv lie limitations of 0 I 1 his vocabulary shall hall aas ing either r ihor to express cypress bis big own real desires degrees tind hot or to lo lead the thoughts of 0 tit iliin I 1 i irple pie in general ihrl in rl praise and petition it W biehm g eileent hint that a lock lack of Bilt sEli ablo table word pl li she roost aki t difficulty in such mich a case the iho real look lies back ot of that it Is in a 0 lack ot of of c sympathy mith men 0 if of 0 their individual road needs their ihal their joys and morrow corrown nor rown S tor becomes truly it a shot until mill the p parlor held corf kroning his nock flock and libonn domn of 0 ihei tic he call not lot mOrt worthily hily caulde them ii fk k after alk r week and year artor air year in ihla liili devotions levot devot lon ionn ivin a stronger may free a prayer that mill lead their th ills duparl because burnall neoda floods il utoca hopoi s much tho ilia same romo IT in A ther hut but tile the ideal bordt prayer pray ier 1 a prayer araj or born of music 0 of alio llio lb 0 leopla P Is ins as well a 88 bato fello ship with m I 1 t haeo god 01 and ablat lit higier holter could n man hav that llian to hwik thus ihu to lod cod ir jr hn people I 1 to the public to congregation that some churches churchea hove changed tile or of jact if or ol it hepherd to flat ot of slid anit isle made ilia public prayer an all tho the individual bary y oct act without ramo reach the divine nuell for is I 1 no reason for belittling this highet privilege and nd opportunity ot of tho the pagtor tho the most mont abiding recollections ot of those thoat saintly men whom most moot of us rad remember as having led us ua nearer to G god lire are not net their sermons bennon but bul their prayers 0 no o minister need fear fall failure re in ills work of D shaping human character n m ho he Is able ge i to enter into the ot of those to hit h ministers as 68 to voice their and their penitence anet give elve to in an lies 0 ien and half hak formea formed pur pic p ic the builte n vigor ol of an expressed aire if the public frayer prayer u with ith its many pitfalls alt is let 0 ol 01 nith so 0 o supreme prenie nu it should bo be cultivated not only by pastors pa lor but bv all those who participate lit in roll dotu po nices how barren now bow utterly flat state find and unprofitable are many of the prayers offered by tho the best men in fraler tit 8 they are arc absolutely without arr thou f g a as an expression oather of cf the speakers dully life and character clia racier or oa an a help belp to those nho lie listen jt it Is a a bather h ther goil god bears ln r such prat pra en ej s or heeds them if 11 ile he does doea hear thom aran AS A NAVAL NAVAI POWER tho the western rowers powers are arc beginning to t a low jew japans activity in navy building mth amazement A generation ago aco she f ic hail had totally literally no navy liven even at it the lh beginning of 0 the last var mar with china her ter modern equipment vos mas confined almost exclusively to a halt dozen unar unarmored mord cruisers the best of their clan to be sure and fifteen n gun boata theair the var brought ninny additions to her navy and now she he lias as no less than forty elgha sea going ves 11 in commission ludIng two first eta baits battleships battle ships of trios eath each thefts are not so BO imposing absolutely lol sol considered except as aa an eat vl dence of quick groath but the additional modern war vessels that japan ts li building in england Un gland germany and the united states me fire 0 of such magn I 1 rude and excellent ex cellen t construction that thai clr charles A clamp our famous sh ohp p builder bahder pronounces japans progress to it be more notable than chaff that any other othe r country jn in the wort world d exempt england r from about tho the world in tile the christmas number december ot of lers HAPPINESS A BUTTERFLY full many s maiden in a mast of chite with hand that trembled toward the edding ring tho Thour ht on tier her threshold ihre rose to see lou ou light flying thing fuu full many funny a 3 youth auth with willi passionate pass lonato heart astir ii caming ilia old divine and dream once moro more bui father biiber dreamed joins the bright chase etli her and sets you flash before oki on on forever tiler over bloom and dew ath t h hands thorn born torn reached toward tho the fyon e e a desire their childrens childr eres childrens children follow stig you ou digh and never eigher tot tel on tome some illy bly in cods coda garden carden lit III lou ret perhaps and shall TIO me touch lou OU there not iol sa from height to higher height aou ou flit 1111 still still the ho souls bouts deop pir earah platt plan in tor for THE CAUSES or POVERTY tho the causes of 0 Is II tho the sub aub eject jact ot of a paper by the late francis A walker alker in the december century gen wallicia Walli alker cir mays flays in the first place I 1 should without out hesitation 6 say ay that easily chief chic 11 among the causes of 0 poverty lit Is the hard condition of tile the human lot lilt us as by nature established tin the prime reason why brad must be so s a dear arid and flesh and blood so cheap la Is that the tha ratio of exchange between the alo has been fixed in the ih constitution of 0 tile the earth much to the disadvantage of 0 the latter when it 1 Is ratten n that god cursed the ground and a bade it b be fruitful bringing forth beters aws and thorns thorna that man should only ly tat eat hla hill bread 1 lilt a dripping brow the tl scripture pt to docs as not exceed the truth jiin 0 of tile the unceasing and struggle lor for existence kang taking li it hy by and large it Is a liard hard bild id and cruel cruci zoild of lit in much ach little is to be got except by toll and anguish neulah ti and of 0 that little not all 11 can a be kept hept by my ally degree of nt care card and and epkins pains thero there are indeed ded d ed regions where ahr re the earth carl h spontaneously forth fruit ault enough for T a a small population and d w where h ere a moderate ro lerate effort mill langly lar gly i in e resso that product 1 act allf the tl climate coite I 1 Is 9 so H en that life Is easily protected from exposure 1 fiu but t these are tt not lot the mentions lt n where man eier eer ling has or seem inilla ever can 1 become n noble being ind a e yen here nC Tc in th the a in mid last it of 0 tropical plenty tile 0 brings tile the tig alcer er prows it night abound tile me ane t he hsc and 1 the tornado their frightful kill mischief 1 1 I c bolera era and malaria the ir i r million nalle bile every few ew land gaunt famine tam s tall talks over mer the i th na 1 lt it overlie tul beed red with fill corpis corp Is iia rr byhro b ghost 11 all th e regions elona inhabited Y our own n 1 raw race lle life IS 18 a terribly close 04 BO rt grinding struggle belc from four to ill months a ll 11 tit earth iles locked to 14 broo frost fit 1 l unit its uret chod inhabitants ruall fewer mo over ver the scanty auly lire and try to ih the winter alt adilen offers isit bant it Is to t a hl b arm it 10 1011 that summer the 3 t to 0 wl the means ean scanty buntt at the b i lit 1 barely s preserving vans vl ns I 1 soils Us of sterility Is the t h r u I 1 le e among amon tho the earth M r mountain aln ald alike ike plain tb tho Q velv few f exceptions are a a COM campara plara fertile valleys bayh la 11 which alc are ai or tile productive essences cs mc of the h liti 11 peoples 1110 or primitive I 1 15 ealr telling the iho story etory of 0 this ihla I 1 I 1 4 unceasing asing wrestle with the hard bard conditions of existence find and the same dreary title Js Is abed dov doin n to our om 0 it 1 I ay abern tin the iho greek calls spring tho the season of short fare and less than forty years oo ago 00 the irish peasant of tho the starving season which immediately preceded tile tho harvest of I 1 the he year jr jf then you complain of poverty make your complaint manful ly and squarely against the maker of the earth for poverty la is hla 1118 work tile tho is g simply dishonest when he human misery upon ion society society has hag done vastly imore more to relieve misery than to create it I 1 SAVED br A ZEST JEST amelia wofford oril tells of tho the court jesters of at england in the december diac aber st SL nicholas the author soya says of one of them Arnin armstrong trong was the th well mell be loved jester of king james VI of enc I 1 and and amil thin ihl Is the h traditional story of their introduction one day a shepherd with the carcass of a sheep upon his shoulders was tr tracked nicked to big cottage on net the moorlands moor lands by the officers of justice in tile the eat cot rage they found a vacant faced lad fail seeking rocking a cradle with it ith more attention tb than 11 n a boy is accustomed to rive give that it duly ty this however did not arouse their suspicions they searched the cottage thoroughly but failed to ilia discover CO v or the sheep they were about to de degnit part elicit one of their number accidentally looked into tho the cradle an and d tho the stolen sheep lay jay thore there the lid lad I 1 aho vho was supposed to be the thief was brought brough t beret e king james VL VJ of scotland lie was ivan tried convicted ond and son een fenced to die he began to plead willi tho the king lift was a poor ignorant fellow lie he said ald he had heard of the bible and would like to read it through before he alid led would the kins king respite him 11 ini until so the king readily gave his consent whereupon the culprit immediately raid field then hang me if I 1 ever read it a word ott ot as lane fang as my een are open the witty reply captured the king lie ile pardoned the prisoner and took men him into service as jester in this capacity archee vas as soon scott a prime favorite i 0 BOOKED A shy australian II ajor on an aus australian t ballan liner after tho the first evening very vers late with his friends in III th the e sal saloon tion suddenly turned to them thein of after I 1 er saying goodnight good night and re rc tin interview with the purs purser er ile he was very white there is a lady he said lit in my cabin no 42 ru rubbish exclaimed the purser heres the list your companion la Is capt hig L linson feinson inson nothing will induce me to go into the cabin again said the major majoe well ill co rejoined the other ile he returned with great areat celerity and with a face as white M the majors upon my tire life you are aio right well put you somewhere here else for the nights and see eee about it in the morning with the earliest dom da a they sought tho the steward and demanded tin an explanation its all a mistake gentlemen ho he said its capt all right heres beres ills luggage lue eaF wo we must have this explained pla ined 1 said the purser this ni manteau anteau is unlocked let us see what Is in it it contained a ladys apparel by jingo cried the stew steward ste waid ILI d it a sudden light breaking on lira him tt N hat comes of taking names as dont belong to ua tin she said bald she was waa capt libri ginson but she say as it was only in the salvation army argonaut I 1 THE POPE AND THE VATICAN the catholics are accustomed to r speak peak of the pope as it a prisoner and ill iho protestants to insist that thai this tin im Is a vo voluntary one the olne of tile the catholic standard and times philadelphia writes under date of october 6 5 giving the reasons why from one years end to another the only chango change of residence for the pope Is from the aldo brendt palace of the vatican to the dorala tower of the gardens says the mark twain or somebody pomo body like ilka to film ham told etolil us of a captive who was roil fined lit in it a dungeon for or ilia aleater part of his iii il alio llio lie arid and mho one lie day had the happy halay thought of opening tile the window all and getting out to theme who have nothing or regal or grand ranj for th iho matter of that in their intellectual makeup make up it ban alia alah s seemed that tile ilia popo pope was in n that plight ile he la in uch such a charming charm lm old man wit bin why does docs ho he stav in tile V lean from england and amerrico Am errica aro are sometimes heard to lo say any juet so binco sinan hn he la Is no go charming it ft m mn ribo ho inferred that lit ahli mind to w which h tell reaal go tradition circumstance ex per letice unit und ago have added all pon sible enlightenment c may bo be tile tho best beat to lo deal deallo lo lot it if tho the alpeat to authority he be not KU lilac lory there Is alwast tho the argument mt nt direct tho the body of hla is deco asad narrowly nar romly ly escaped bahur 1 thrown own into the tiber during hla his funeral us an I 1 loarn from members menn bera of the cor livery cry insult way mas offered it ii 19 a live popo botler protected than a dead one the cad are surrounded with honor tile tho ive vo copo Is a tho the s bohol of what tho the revolution atio n US ahna mide made m ide to bo be sedition tho the symbol bol ot protest protest agala lan unit c rim li in in ft a state stale which ts Is formally e antl it clerical and lit in a oil city Y which formally has hi 11 c population of ant I 1 orients coald cou d 11 ho a pass paa through it on hla him way to castel gandolfo tho the only which tho this revo revolution often has left to hima efm aven granting that lif bp could ifa iamo me without ignominy ho he could not do so colbor dignity or nr I 1 may nay may mith noble nola ilia eold lory not appear in the streets of I 1 kama ile his cosel J not go without guards truar dB because licca uno the corao come Is not broadway Ero r 0 a adway d ind because common axy rr e s C I 1 L a the mearing at 0 haag with fal elid annl nol flat to top bets accepting the guards offered to it him in by currie in ilia quirinal ho he would be have ye 0 athor to accept ac pt them under prot aitt or without protest it 1 without protest eat then without dignity or nobleness of soul it I 1 under protest then ahrn lith exposure to indignity 1 I his la Is tho the papal dilemma so no forcible and so 50 inevitable in its action lon that tho the police have preferred twenty seven scars ot of arl privation ot of air to its accept arim deplorable george eliot the great novelist lived for some ol of tier later years in that populous land of 0 artists which lies iles between willey and haslemere Has lemere in surrey her residence was on the overlooking that vast woodland scene which dirtier poster foster ila lias e reproduced in so BO many mamy charming li 11 lust rations with the rural surrey folk I 1 the he novelist was greatly pleased and their dialect scented to her as rich and racy |