1 PAT mt DAY, JANtTAUY 29, 189J. THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE. SATUnDAY, JANUAItY 9, MR. .V V 1 R I ii LUXURY OF MODERN RAILWAY TRAVEL The Cars of a "Limited" on Any (lood Road Worth $125,000. FACTS THAT PEW NOW COMPREHEND Nluoty-llvo Per Cent, ol I'iisioiikiis Do Not Llvo In a Homo Tlml Cost n Much n the Car They Itiilo In. Items oftlio Outlay. From tho Chicago Inti-r-Otenii. "Ninety-live nor cent, of tin' irnvol Inc nulillc do not own In tliolt own flfrlit, or occupy through rent it I, a dwelling houso wlileli, Incltullhu all Itp contents, conta us much a one of the ordinary modern iiassenRcr cats tun on any llrst class railroad " The forcBolnfr ptnlomcnt, which Is calculated to aiouxe the Incredulity ut the average individual, was nuule yes terday by GeorKo J. Charlton, assistant general passenger and ticket iiKcnt oC the Chicago and Alton railroad. "Just let mo give you a few facts to prove that assertion," continued Mr. Charlton. "The cost of the average passenger eat is today from t'i.OOD to $7,000. A rccllnlng-chalr car costs from JJ0.000 to $12,000. These Inures repre sent tho bare cost of the car. When you add to Unit rrom year to year the expense of maintenance, instead of ) figuring, at the ordinary business mor tal will figure, a return in Interest for tho capital invested, you simply aggra vate the situation. 1 once lieaiil a prominent master car builder say that it cost $500 to simply look over a cir after It had srvcd five or sl months on tho road and had been "nt to the car shops to be examined and put into presentable shape f'ir another sis months' run. lie meant that the or dinary 'dressing down' and cleaning of a car would cost over $.'00, anil if you extend your Investigation to general shop repairs perhaps adding upholstering-here and there you could easi ly get away with another $500. COST OF CAll WHEHLS. "Did you ever stop to consider the amrunf of money which may lie ex pended on three or four of the Import ant parts of a iar'.' Take tho paper wheels used in passenger cars. L'ntll within very recent date a single wheel cost from $S0 to $100. lIo&t first-class cars aro run on six-wheel trucks. This would mean twelve wheels of the car. or JD0O to Jl.l'OO for the wheals alone, ".ithout the axles and springs. It is true that today you can get these pas senger car wheels for verv much less, nnd they will a vera no somewhere In the vicinity of $60 n wheel, but most of the railroads entering Chicago are to day running cars th wheels on which cost them from $S0 to $100 npiect. The trucks or running gear of a first-class passenger car, in themtelV'-s and Inde pendent of the car nt all. will c- st from $2,r00 to $3,000. "Then there is the question of car snts. Car seats are made in the lat est Improved style, magnificently up holstered, to suit the taste of the ordi nary traveller, and to nnble the pa teiifrer departments of the dlffeieut railroads to advertise theimelws .is tho 'only first class railroad In the AVest' or the Knt, as the case may be, cost from $.50 to $45 apiece. This i". th'e bare cost of the seats, complete, but does not cover the oxpens? of put ting them Into the car. A ear seat will accommodate two passengeiv. and theio are from twenty-live to thirty seats to the car. "All the passenger cars aie not equip ped with so cheap an article as a car seat at $30 to $1." each. There Is the recllnlng-chnlr car, built a Utile larger, perhaps, a little heavier, cei tainlv than the ordinary modern pas senger car; larger windows, more elaborate upholsterms and furnishing. In this car the railroad companv puts foity or fifty reclining chain, elabo rately and durably upholstered. These chairs cast all the way from J.Mi to $05 each. LOTS OF GLASS. "Take the glass ued In the con struction of a car, the window glazing, the mirror decoration, the deck lights, etc There aie thirty-six to forty win dow 'openings in each passenger car. but you must remember that all first class passenger cars aie fitted villi double windows, so tint each passen ger car will have from seventy to eigh ty window sash frames. The window of the up-to-date pusf-enjjer car must be large to give the passengers a com plete and sutlpfactiivv ev of the so called and thoroughly nilveitis"d 'scen ic rout" of the world, for evciy rall load is a 'scenic lou'te," and spends thousands of dollars advertising that fact The lower sash of,,a cat Indow contains a large, heavy, durable plate glass. The upper sash contains a high ly emlsissed plate glass about throe quartors as large as the lower sash. At a very conservative estimate It corls $S to glaze each car wlndou. Including the doors of the car, at least eighty lights of glass aie used, without taking into consideration the minor decorations in a enr or the deck lights, which are usually highly embossed with some fancy figure. The expense of the glass used In tin- construction of a car will not fall short of $lu0. and will very often run over $500. It co3ts at the very least $25 a month, or $M0 a year, to light a passenger car with gis. To equip a car for gus costs at least $400. It cosih more money each year to light the passenger cars with Plntseh gas on the Chlcouo and Alton railroad than the entire expense for all other illuminating purposes over the entire lliw of the road, and this means all other elsctrlc light, gas, and oil expenses at stations, on the i Ight of way, switch lamp, lantriis. etc., .nnd bear in mind, too, that all passen ger oars on tho Chicago and Alton load are not lighted with gus Tin sleeping cars', the reclining chair iars, the regular passenger cars, the mall FJ -Mri';iT;- ei Cooking; Experts Say "Not a nouml of lard per year is kitchens, and we conscientiously to U9e almost anv other fat." and Christian 'Jerhune Ilerrick, Use GOTTOLENE that pure, wholesome, vegetahlo food product. Setter tbun the bent nnd pureU lard, und In utrougly endorsed hj phynlcians for ft lioaltlifulqiiulltlcn. The Kunulno Cottolene fa sold everywhere In one to ten pound tlim, with our trade-marks "Outtol e ne" und ttrtr't htaii in cotton-plnnt uirtathau ever tlu, Not guaranteed tf told f n any other way, Made only by THE N. K. FAIBBANK COMPANY CniCAQO, BT. LOUIS, iUJtWIMW!UMfJMJ4fJllJllWitiMVir:M cm, run in the more Important local and through train, arc lighted with l'lntsch gas, liut tliT nre very nearly as many passenger ears In other nnd less important trains which nio only operated for u portion of the evening or tho. night, when artificial light Is needed, ami which too lighted with oil. The vestibule" feature of n car la an Improvement anil n vnfoty nimllance; a protection for passengers In pass ing from car to car; a protection in the case of accldentH, nnd It coses over SI. coo per car to put vestibules on a. train, uTHKH HXPKNHHH. "Did you ever figure that when you heat a passenger car, as most passen ger cars are heated, by Improved hot water heaters, that It costs twite as much for hard coal fuel consumed In one of these enrs u year as It costs to heat the houses ol the hotter cl ish of our citizens? "Did you ever look over the Interior IlnMi of a lliFt-class passenger car, and did you notice that the best and most select woods are used and ure brought to a high state of polished ler fectlon'.' Did you ever compare the In terior IlnMi' of the wood work In a paf'engcr car with the Interior finish of the wood work In the magnificent residences of some of Chicago's mil lionaires? AVhy did tJeorge M. Pull man, when he built his magnificent residence, insist that all the finished woodworK on tho Inside should lie han dled and put In by his own car build ers" Simply beemtsj he could get a better article to bo sure, a more ex pensive article but a more durable ar ticle, a better class of .wood, and a higher grade of woikmanshlt) fhan could be had from the builder of even the best of our Chlrasjo residences. "f enn remember some years back when vi thought our passenger cars cost a great ileal If we paid $1,000 or $5,000 apiece for them. We generally carried sixty people veiy comfortably In one of these cars. The total weight of one of these so-called cheap cars of byjone day.' was- about 10.000 pounds, or a very good aerage of a list If a Ion to each passenger In the car when the car was full. There was no such thing In those old ears of by gone days as your separate smoking compartment, with a loss ot five or six eals, or 'seating capacity for twelve or fifteen people, given up to a smoking room. There was a small cubby hole set aside for ladles, another for gen tlemen. Thee were called 'toilet rooms.' If you were to give the trav elling public of today the clas'S of toilet room which' we gave them twenty-five years ago there would be a pe tition to the United States government for the government conttol nC rail ways. MOIW FOD LF.SS. "As we fnereask- the expense of build ing ii cur making it mor solid and heavier, better able to stand the wear and tear of everyday tiavel and the re sult of accidents, which will occasion ally happen on the best regulated rail roads we decrease, by granting addi tional facihtles.such as smoking renins, buffets, elaborate toilet rooms, the seal ing capacity of the car. Instead of Mi.f'to pounds, the modern passenger car weighs fiO.000 to S0.00O pounds. It caulks only nn average of forty per sonsfor the modern traveller must have more room and he railroad com panies are transporting an average of ono ton to the passenger Instead of a hali' a ton in weight to each passen ger, us on the old cats of bygone days. This Inci eased weight makes Increased operating expense. We must ia . a lorgor and better engine an engine that will consuni" in or" coal and all this means additional expense. As you Increase the facilities for comfort of the passenger and endurance and dur ability In tile make-up of a passenger or, you decrease Its carrying capac ity, and necessarily you earn consid erably less In revenue in the modern up-to-date passenger car, which costs from $C,ooo to $7,000, and the reclining cnalr car,' which costs from $10,000 to $12,500, than was earned some twentv five years ago in the so-called cheap cars.' with a carrying rapacity ot fifty to sixty passengers, and which cars onlv cost from $1,000 to $5,000, and twenty-fUe years ago we used to get something like passenger rates. Today wc ar.' carrying passengers at one half the rates we got twenty-five yenis ago, and we are giving them passenger cars which cost us nt leaht tivlce the amount we paid twenty-five years ago. "Where will it end'.' I cannot tell you, and sometimes 1 dislike to think about It. If the oust of material, the cot cf labor, and Increased facilities fni manufacturing passenger carri do not decrease the expense of continued impiuveinents In the construction of passenger cars (and this exepnse con tinues to double eveiv twenty-live year.-) and passenger revenue due", not increase piopoi llonalely, you can, of course, guesn the end as well as I can. "If we go Into the question of spec tnl limited trains, there can be no ques tion in the world but what the limited trains run on the Pennsylvania. Lake Shore, and Michigan Central lines, and the Sunset limited train on the Chicago and Alton, consisting of some five oi six ears in all, rejnesent an actual Investment, Independent of mo tive power, of at least $125,000 to each tiaiu. and probably more. The trains which I have mentioned represent the finest trains run on any rallioad in the world. They nre the par-excellence of the cur-builders' art, and they prob ably average all around In passenger reveni'f very much less per mile than tne ordinary every-day local train of four passenger coaches and a baggage car, which represent an Investment of about $20,000. rui: i.iuEiiJiOi;s Miituuit. It Tails to Itellect Accinalely the. l'. prchtioiis ot the 1 1 a in a n I'nce. No doubt the human race would con sldei It little short of a universal trag edv It there wtro no looking glasses. Yel. in spite of their widespiead use. It Is an ustonlshlng fact thut we have consumed in our ndvise the public Marion Harland page itf, National Cook Hook. HBW YORK, MONTR KAI- n Sunday School Lesson for BY J. E. GILBERT, D. D., LL. D., Secretary of American 5oclety oS Religious Education. (Tho author will publish mi Kxnmliicr containing one hundred questions on the lessons of the quarter. The Kxaiiitilcr will bo mulled In .March to any address In any quantity at 2 cents per copy and may be used In oral or written review in a class or by any individual. Ordeis should be sent to Dr. J. 12, Gilbert, S iixhliiKton, 1). r., not lutcr than Feb. 1. that tho mail ing list may bo piepaied. CONTHXT.lt may be that Jesus did nol attempt any order In Ills sermon on the mount; that He did not Intend to make ono part Involve or strengthen an other part. Hut thero Is, nevertheless, designed or otherwise, a beautiful prog ress In Ills thought, Allowing us the theme of the whole discourse this "Tho Model Man or tho True Christian," we have seven sub-heads, thus: "Ills Lot of messing," "Ills Worth to tfie World." "tils Code of Morals," "Ills Checks In Hcllglon," "Ills Intercourse wth Men," "Ills Purpose in Life," "Ills Secret ot Stability." Tho checks ale ot two kinds avoiding hypocrisy, avoiding worldllness. Our lesson todny Is the second under hy pocrisy, being preceded by alms giving and followed by fasting. With such n context the passage fits In perfectly as a logical section of this Immortal ser mon, a model both In Its structutc ultd thought, which every preacher may study with profit. PI11VACY. The ical motive which led Jesus to speak to Ills disciples on the subject of prayer nppears In verses 5 and 0. Tile greatest blemish In the religious life of that time was hHicrlsy. All men professed to lie tellglous they would have been shocked at the very thought of a uon-profcslnu. Hut their religion was external and formal (Matt, xxlll. 2.ii. a mere pi dense tor the purpose of gaining favor. Jesus endeavored to make men genuine, to make their re ligion a matter primarily of tho fieart. (Mutt, xll, "f.) Hence. In offering prayer, they must not seek public places, where the Pharisees are accustomed to appear (Luke xvlll, 11). who obtain Indeed what they seek human appluuv. but they must enter Into some secret place and speak to Cod alone. (II Kings, lv. 2.'!.) This does not condemn united supplica tion, which Christ pructlced, (John xvll, 11, but ostentatious performance In pub lic, Jesus declares that secret prayer shall be openly rewarded. St.MPLIClTY.-lIypoerlsy prompted the Jew not only to public praer. but to the use of many words. Thereby he pro longed his devotions and exposed himself for a longer time to those who might be near. The same petition was repeat ed many time. (Verso 7.) All this was disapproved us unnecessary, foolish and inappropriate. Indeed, It was a heathen ish practice (I Kings, xvlll. 28-20), Indi cating a lack of genuine faith and there fore offenslvo to Ood. It should bo homo In mind that prayer Is not nn at tempt to inform the Almighty, or even to arrest His attention. Ho knows be fore one begins all the needs (verse S) and can hear the faintest whisper, ut tered In a quiet placo. The fewest words In expressing the heart's desire arc most acceptable to Him. Indeed, the prayer consists not In the words at all, but In the disposition. (James, I, ii.) To Illus trate the simplicity and brevity, as well ns tho scope and order of the true prayer. Jesus gives a form, lie does not mean that tills form and no other shall al ways be used, but that It outlines or in dicates the manner and matter. CHILDLIKE. In this foim the peti tioner Is Instructed In the beginning to nssume tho spirit and attitude of a child. He must not approach as to some never seen ourselves ns others pee us. Tu the first place, the reflection In the mirror does does not portray our like ness with any attempt nt accuracy. The hair Is wrong In ton", the eyes are not correct In color, and our com plexions nre hopelessly libelled by this specious household deceiver. It Is cer tain that if the looking glasses spoke the truth the sale of various com plexion washes would decrease to half, for any fair skin looks gray and pallid In the glass, and numbers of women who have splendid complexions ruin them by trying to Improve them be cause they had looked In the mirror. You may be certain that, however plain your face seems. It Is by no means so plain as It appears In the tell-tale mir ror. Secondl, you cannot assume your natural expression while peering In the looking glass. The eye must be In a. certain position before you can see at all, and the eye, so far as expression Is concerned, governs the luce. The consequence Is thut you can see only one of your expressions In the glass, and that expression Is one of attentive examination. All the other expressions by which vour fi lends kno.i you, fav orable or unfavorable, you have never seen and never will see. champion siu:r,f siiLAitint. Louisiana Cirl Easily Dislnncos All Her .Hale Competitors. From the Chicago Chronicle. Lota Fernnl Is one of the handsomest girls In all St. Tammany parish, Louis iana. Not only that, she has broken the record In the matter of sheep shar ing. This country maiden can shear more sheep in a day than any two men In the parish, catching, tying and wash ing the sheep her own self before shear ing. Lately she sheared eighty sheep In one day. beating the swiftest shearer amung the men by fifteen sheep. She can also hoe two rows of corn to nny man's one. Is an expert rider and never, uses a saddle, preferring to drive cattle "to water" bnrcback. It Is said that a prettier sight could not be seen than, to see her catch a romping horse, jump Upon him "bareback." and, without other reins than the long nuine, drlve the cows home of un evening through the wnvlng pines. She knows how to milk, card nnd weave, and Is paid to excel in housework. With all the rough usage to which she submits her lovely hands In the very hard work that she loves, they are so whit and soft that they uttract the attention of tourists through tho beautiful pine region. The country people account for t,hls by tho. well known fact that the wool of the sheep Is piegnant with oil, which is used ex tensively In almost ull complexion preparations, und Is said to bo an in fallible remedy for th'e removal of wrinkles. Her hands never Hhow to better advantage than when knitting Woolen gloved In the wintw evenings. Again, In this work her skill Is shown In the beautiful dyes she makes and uses from the bark of trees. Naturally this girl is much sought after by the country swain, for she owns her own tract of ground and sev eral hundred head of cattle In her own right. Hut she is Invulnerable to ull the darts of Cupid, shaking her head and averring: "Nary u man can marry me." m Helrayed by Mother. All tho world likes to nee h liar caught in tho lie. Nn one regreU when tho par ent who tries to palm oft u f2-ycur-old January 311 How to Praye Matt. V; 5-H5. mysterious power, or merely ns to tho cm tor, ruler and Judge, but as to u father. (Verse 9.) This was a great advance oVcr heathen and even Jewish thought. Tho Old Testament bud many lofty concep tions of Deity ((Sen. I. 1), including the Idea of mercy iKx. xx, W, but It was re served for Chilsllanlty to inculcate the filial spirit. (Unmans, vlll, 13.) How ever, the Christian must nut degrade, thd Deity by thinking of him as a iiiundano being, the error of many icllfiiotitsts of that time, for He has His homo In henveti. h Hnlrltuul fielnir In tlm realm ot spirits. Aloreover the suppliant must not come alone, but ns a member or tho household ot Cod, desiring for all his brethren what he seeks for himself. Nv cry child must usk for ull the children. Prayer must be In the plural number, not hi tho singular; a united, lint a per sonal request. Individual needs must he expressed In general forms. Hence tho opening words, "Our Father," without which nothing could bo said rightly. SOVKUKiaNTy.-HavIng by this In vocation of two words placed one's seir in right attitude toward Ood and other Christians, what shall be the first and dominant desire, expressed before all others? The establishment of the Di vine sovereignty, (Verso 10.) This Is ab solute In heaven among tho puie spirits who live In bliss. (Psalms, cill, 2U.) Hut alas, among men tho will of Cud Is dis regarded by multitudes nnd sought Im perfectly only by the few. The record of transgression, beginning In Paradise. (Gen. Ill, 11), extends through nil genera tions nnd lands to tho present time. A frightful record It Is. dishonoring to Ood.i destructive of the highest good of man. To every pious heart thero must come Inexpressible pain lis tho worid'ii sin and sorrow are considered, and there must arise an earnest longing to restore what has been lost. To bring back to earth the righteousness of heaven would bring to nil of earth's Inhabitants that tor which thousands struggle In vain. "Thy will bo done" Includes every possible form nnd banishes every known evil that af flicts the race. NKCnSSITircs.-Vh" desire for person nl needs may find expression after rhe desires for the klnKilom.Tno Individual must be less than the whole, and yet he must not wholly forget hln.se r, Jesus inculcates in one short sentence great moderation. "Hiead." that which supports life, unmindful of superfluities or luxuries; dally bread, that portion re quired day by day. with no request lor superabundance; "our dallv bread." that which the good Kather deems to be best; "give us," not. help us to earn It, but bestow It upon us, this Is the prayer to bo offered. (Verse 11. 1 This docs not en courage Idleness, which Is elsewhere con demned (II Thess. III. 10) nor lack of forethought, which Is enjoined (Pro v. vl, 0); neither does It set a premium on pov erty or pronounce against wealth, seeing the latter has come to many saints (Uen. xlll, 2), and Is tho legitimate outcome of a well regulated life. (Matt, vl, Sf.) The intention of Jesus was in this request to subordinate material to spiritual inter ests, to reduce the anxieties concerning temporalities (Matt, vl, 10), to awaken a feeling of child-like dependence, to recognize tho fatherly care of Ood for His children, and cause them to rely upon His favor. (I Tim. vl, 17.) , KOnaiVKNBSS. Through all the fore going there runs n strain of humiliation, implying Imperfection and Ill-desert, which ut lust bleaks out In u single sen tence, crying for forgiveness. "Our debts," our unpaid obligations, are de fined afterward as trespasses. They nre the sins of omission nnd commission that child ns only S, In order to escape paying a full fare, Is corrected by the child him self. In the following case, which a Lon don paper relates. It was the mother her self who betra.ved the truth: It was at the railroad station, and she was trying to buy half-faro tickets for her two child! en. "How old are they?" seller. "Only C." "Hoth of them?" "Yes, they's twins." "Ah! said tho man. moment, and then said: asked the ticket lie eyed them a Pretty children. Where were they born?" "This one In London," answered the proud mother, "and the other In Uil?ht on!" HASELV ltrrilAYKI). English Tourists Overheard in Prais ing Something American. From the San Francisco News Letter. In pardonable admiration of Mayor Phelan's native son statue, E(ouglas Tll den, the sculpter, and Willis Polk, the architect, were gazing nt the finished work of a few days ago, when Polk no ticed two men, plainly tourists from their costumes and customs, discuss ing the merits of Tilden's latest artis tic triumph. The architect edged nearer the critics, nnd at a pause In their admiring com ments of the statue pointed to Tllden, unobserved by the later. "That gentleman Is the sculptor," he remarked. Immediately the manner of the Kng llshmen changed. They were plainly chagrined that they hnd been betrayed Into the expression If such marked ap proval. With a chilling acknowledge ment of Willis' Information they radi cally changed their tune for Tlden'a benefit. Where formerly they had praised, they now found only condem nation, loudly nnd pedantly expressed for the purpose of Impressing Tllden with the apparent Idea that they were heavy-weight connoisseurs. "Wretchedly conceived und imper fectly executed," remarked on of the lJtinshci'3, with an air of administer ing a solar plexus blow by way of quickly finishing matters. TI'den, of course, hear! nothing rf all this tall; ef lum, hue Wilis, by the deaf mute e pknbet, rapq'lv Muelled a few words to his friend. "They say It Is the finest thing they hnve seen In America," was what Polk's fingers said. With an air of delighted apprecia tion the sculptor raised his hat to his cillles, and smilingly bowed ills ac knowledgments. The Londoners were completely taken aback. The expression of as tonishment on their fuces was delic ious. Without anothtr word to or abcut Tllden they hastily hoarded tho first passing "tram" for the pance. Would Follow lllm Anywhere. Oeneral St. Clair Mulholland told tho following wur Ntory ut the Second corps banquet In Washington (ho other day. according to the Posf McCook'H regiment wus in front of the enemy and, expecting 1 make un ut tack tho next morning, ho mounted his iOBfHINl laudanum, ctc. ONLY PERFECT HOME CURE IN THE WORLD. ABSOLUTELY PAINLESS. TRIAL BOTTLE FREE, whitc w it coNnocNcc. ST. PAUL ASSOCIATION, r-ao BHOAUWAV, NEW VOHK. attach to every life. Whoever fulls to do what Ood requires, or does what Ho forbids. Is guilty of a grave misdemeanor, which he cull never cancel, Tor which he ought to sorrow nnd plead p.rdon. There Is no other way of release from con demnation. (I John, I, S.) Hut the cov eted blessing Is conditioned upon this that Hie suppliant shall treat his fellow man with like consideration of mercy. (Verso 12.) One law must prevail, tlod will forgive man on the exorcise of re pentance, and so must man do lo those who sin ngaln.1t him. (Lukn xvll, 3.) llo who prays must ask only what ho grants (verses 14 and IT.), assured that ho will get no more. Hero Is more than a pre cept or prayer there Is beside a deep philosophy, an educational principle, both designed to advance tho kingdom of heaven. TICMPTATION.-Tho closing petition (verse l:i) has perplexed some people. It has been said that Ood would not lead His children Into temptation, nnd that therefore It Is unnecessary and even Im pertinent to nsk lllm not to do so. (I to v. Ill, 10.) An old Scotch writer avoids this difficulty by supposing nn cllpsla and sup plying It thus: "Lend us that we enter not Into temptation" a- recognition of the fact that men nre exposed, nnd that divine guidance Is needed and sufficient, (II Peter, II, !).) Tills doubtless come9 very near to the true meaning, us tho conclusion or this petition shows, "de liver us from evil," help us when wo ii ro likely to be overtaken and ensnared. (John, xvll. 1.".) It Is proper to add that tho word 'hero trnnstnted temptation Is frequently used In the sense of trial, or testing. (Oen. xxll, 1.) Hut In this place It evidently Dignities solicitation to evil. DOXOLOOY. The prayer taught by Jesus ends with an ascription to Ood us If the heart, whatever else for a time It may entertain, ought to ictiirn to Him us the source of all gocd. Men are direct ed to declare that the kingdom, the right ful authority In government belongs to lllm: that lie possesses power suftlclent to administer nnd maintain His authority and that In His person and charctcr He Is altogether glorious; that, Indeed, these three-fold attributes or possessions are forever. ThU . Is the same doxology, slightly abbreviated, as was employed by David. (I Chron. xxlv. It.) It is intend ed as an argument or basis of the prayer n the connective "for," indicates. tVerse 13.) In this men are taught that they must come with reason to tho mercy seat having some ground upon which to rest their requests. (Job xxlll, t.) All prayer must be founded upon those Immutable fncts that underlie the divine nature and administration. CONCLUSION. Note these points: 1. All tho petitions In this prayer except that on forgiveness, had been used by the Jews In their devotions. Oar Lord's part consists in gathering them together, plac ing them In order, and setting His seal upon them. Thus He discounts those ex cessively verbose prayers In common use and covers the broadest ranges ot hu man desire. 2. Dr. Whitby says that tills prayer has been "used by the church In all ages, from the third century, as a compendious and comprehensive pledge of the communion of saints. Probably no part of the New Testament has been more frequently repented or moro great ly admired." 2. And yet, excellent as Is this form, It does not by any means ex haust the Instruction needed by tho Christian on this subject. Our Lord himself opens up one aspect not men tioned here (John xlv, 13), unless as some think, the "Amen," pronounced ut the close, points to Him. (Hev. ill, H.) horse to ride down the picket line and examine the situation. With this purpose In view ho called on a soldier to accom pany him, nr.d the commanding olllcer made a detail. McCook was astonished when a little red-headed fellow rode r.p to him and touched his cap, ready for this service, for bo was a more boy, weighing not more than seventy-tlve pounds and looking scarcely bigger thin the Shnrp's rifle, ho carried. "You going with me?" asked McCook. The lad saluted and replied in the af firmative. "We're going right to the front." said tho olllcer. "Do you know that It Is very dangerous?" "Yes, your honor," said the youth. "Have you been under Hie?" inquired tho olllcer. "I have, your honor." "Do you suppose you have the back bone to keep up with me wherever I go?" "I'll thry, sir; that's why I'm slnt, sir, An' if It's heavy fliln' an' we get among the bullets and we're kilt, you won't lie In h half a mlnlt before 1 come n-tap-pln' at the window." They went to the front. To be idle is the hardest of all tasks. Our grandmothers understood this and even In their leisure moments were never found with out some little task in - their hands, if it were only knitting, tat ting or crochet ing. There was a reason for this that does not ap pear upon the surface. Our grandmothers were healthy wo men, imbued with a spirit of ambi tion and activity that would not Eermit them to e idle. If many modern women are much less active and more given to idleness than the stately dames of yore, it is because they enjoy a smaller measure of good health. A woman who suffers from weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organs, who is racked with pain, and tortured with headaches and nervousness, cannot be ac tive and helpful. Idleness and invalidism are the natural results of suffering of this description. The poor invalid woman is not at fault, save in her ignorance of her own physical make-up or neglect of her womanly health. Thousands of women are neglectful in this way because they shrink from the em barrassing examinations and local treat ment insisted upon by the majority of obscure physicians, Dr. R V. Pierce, for thirty years chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at IlufTnlo, N. Y , has discovered a wonder ful medicine that cures all diseases peculiar to women, in the privacy of the home, with out the necessity of these embarrassing ordeals. This great medicine is known as Dr. Piefce's Favorite Prescription. 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