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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON xIll-DECEMB 90
REVIEW.
Golden Text: Jesus Christ, the Same
Yesterday, and To-day, and Forever
Hebrew XIIl:8.

Introductory. There is no story in
the world that does not grow old and
stale, except the story of Jesus. 1t
is just as interesting to this genera
ton as it was to the first generation
that heard it. Nor does the repeti-
ton of it to individual ears rob it of
its commanding power. The aged
man who has listened to it from his
childhood up still lends an attentive
ear when it is proclaimed. Jesus
Christ is truly, as the Golden Text in
forms us, "the same yesterday, and
to-day, and forever" Let US realize
this fact as we begin our brief review
of the quarters lessons.
Questions /. Whittier did Jesus
90, and what did he do, on the occa-
sion of his return to Nazareth?
,. What particular passage OF Scrip
ture did he read, and what comment
did he make upon it?
;. Tell what followed.
4. Narrate the incident of the
draught of fishes and the calling OF
the apostles.
$. What miracle did Jesus perform
IN the synagogue at Capernaum?
t.. What further miracles did he
perform on the same day?
7. Tell the story Of the healing OF
the paralytic.
s. What fact gave the Pharisees an
opportunity to criticise the conduct
of the disciples of Jesus? What
answers did Jesus give them?
8. BY what other act, performed
upon the Sabbath day, did Jesus
shock their prejudices?
TO- What precaution did Jesus use
when the Pbarisees and Herodians
took counsel against him? Did this
step secure him privacy?
II. Give the names of the twelve
apostles.
II. Repeat the bcatitudes and the
woes of the sermon on the mount
10, In what way did the scribes
from Jerusalem undertake to explain
the marvellous works of Jesus?
IA. How did he refute their evil
suggestions?
Is, Whom did he say were his broth
crs, sisters, mother?
l6 What zsas Christs estimate OF
John the Baptist? @~
Il. BY what figure of speech did he
in the same connection. rebuke the
temper of his generation?
1s. Repeat the substance OF the par
able of the sower, and our Lords ex'
plaration of 1T. ..
10. What general instructions did
Jesus give the twelve when lie sent
them forth.
20. What is. the one great thought
in our Christmas lesson? "" n
We find in these lessons certain vir'
tues inculcated, duties enjoined, quail
tiles of character cultivated, which
help us onward and upward toward
the character Of Christ, which is the
character which makes heaven. The
more we are like Christ the more fit
ted we are for heaven. The way t.
heaven is the best way for this life.
In seeking to be like Christ, and
to attain the heavenly state, we need
continual help from him, or we viii
fail. In these lessons we find some
of the things which he bestows TO-
! our help. We can see in the lesson'
how they helped the disciples, ant
from that we can accept of the hell
which he gives to us also in like man
ner. ...u.. ..~.. -..-s.....
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A Curiou. 1apaness cersmon,,

- It is ''after nightfal on the last
night of the old year. that curious
ceremony called ,oni horai, or devil
expulsion, is performed The head Of
the family with box of roasted beans
goes into every room in the house, and
scattering the beans about the room
and into every corner cricsout: Faku
wa achi, oni VIZ soto Happiness
within. the devil w;thnnt
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Woods are Ckas eed.

Treated birch becomes mahogany
of rare beauty, and "soaked'.. maple
goes into all 'ebony' pianos now. SO
clevcrly is the flake" wood "weight-
cd that nothing shore OF borings
will prove the deception. Maple ma
hogany is soaked through to depth
of four inches, and will polish even
better than the genuine wood.
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very cold but did not take any cold, and
never had any after-pain or any other pain.
It was all due to God and DR.. Pierce's Fa.
vorite Prescription and Compound Extract
Of Smart Weed This is the eighth living
child and the largest of them all. suf-
fered everything that flesh could suffer with
the other babies l always had doctor
and then he could not help me very much,
but this time my mother and my husband
were alone with me. My baby was only
seven days old when I got up and dressed
and left my room and stayed up all day
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Teacher-Johnny, can you tell me
anything You have to be thankful for
In the past year?
Johnny without hesitation)-Y essur.
'ieacher--Well, Johnny, what is it?
.lohnny-Why, when you broke your
arsi you couldn't lick us for two
months.
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Browns Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia,
Malaria, Biliousnsss and General Debility.
Gives strength, aids Digestion, tones tho
nerves-creates appetite. The best tonic
for Nursing Mothers, weak women asd
children. SO sr ss
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man with child, so l
got two bottles last
September, and De-
cember 18th ! had a
twelve pound baby
girl. When I was
confined I 7naS moi
sick IN any zOay. !
did not suffer any
pain, and when the
child was born / walk
ed into another room
and went to bed. l
keep your Extract Of
Smart Weed on hand
all the time. It was
! very cold weather
aud Our room was
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MALARIA cured and eradCated from tho
system by Browns Iron Bitters, which On.
riches the blood, tones the nerves, aids
digestion. Acts like n "harm on persons IN
general i'll health. giving new energy and
RtrenEth.
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Drs. Chiffon & McRsynolds,
,rrrst Building Dallas rex Practice limited TO
EYE EAR NOSE and THROAT
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Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up
chidren's Coughs and Cods.-Mrs. NJ. u.
BLUNT, Sprague, Wash, March 8, @i.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

'rHanson's Magic Corn SaIve."
Warranted to cure or money refunded Ask your
truegist for It, Price Is cents. ..
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A complete medical work. with lCO favorite Pre-
scrptlons for all diseases of man and beast price
1915, and one bottle of DR.. Thurnond's Catarrh
Cure or Blood Syrup sent to any address for &t00.
Address Thurmond Chemical Co., Dallas, Tex
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

The greatest part of whet we say and do
being unnecessary, if man takes this
away, he will have less uneasiness.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

Our habits are stronger than our judg-
ments. or even our passions.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

Our leisure is the time the devil seize
lpon to make us work for him.
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A hen is very superior creature, but
she could never lay corner stone.
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Some men advocate cremation merely
as a method of defying the devil.
1.-THE Baby Cutting Teeth.

BE sure and use that old and welLtried remedy, MIA
WMsLow's SOOTHING SYRUr for Children Teething.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

The bright side of situation is hard to
see when one is underneath it.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

Every one has right to accept justpraise
but no one has right to accept fiattery.
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PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH.

Mrs. FRED HUNT, Of Gk<nville, ~ T.,
says 81 read about Or. Pierce's Fa-
yorite Prescription being so good for wo.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

Ny hope is sun which will pierce she
thickets cloud earth ever stretched.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22
Hope Springs Eternal

The people who have the most to eat are
often the least thankful for it.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

Any man who can read the English Ian
guage has the key to vast stores of learning,
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ton, thus assisting Nature and shortening
Labor" The painful ordeal Of childbirth
is robbed of its terrors, and the dangers
thereof greatly lessened, to both mother and
child. The period of confinement is also
greatly shortened, the mother strengthened
and built up, and al abundant secretion OF
uourishment for the child promoted.
Send 10 cents for large Book (I6S p1ges),
giving all particulars. Address, WORLDS
D,spENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Cog
Main ST., Buffalo, n. Y.
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A Valuable Gif

As long as you set your sins before your
face God will set them behind his back
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-12-22

Keep sweet as a matter OF selt-de'
Tense.
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LIES Mirror.

\ III ! - 1 L II II
winters fiercest
storm, the whit
er's wind. and
rain,
Tie angry ocean
"a, how1s with rage
and shakes his
taWny name,
And leaps against the
beetiing rock s
with energy in
sane
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Tho First Foov.

BONNIE LASSIE
at the ingle sits
The old year is al
most dead;
Nimbly', as by the
blaze she knits,
Her needles throw
off the thread.
The night is cold and
the sky is dark,
And the wind Is
wailing sore;
But It's New Years
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
CONDENSED HER OUTING,

Flucky StcnograpHer'S Pilgrimage to Lon
don and Paris in Three Weeks Time.
1t takes New York girl to overcome
obstacles, says Helen Combes in Kate
Fields Washington. One of them who
is earning her living as a stenographer
has been for a long time saving her
spare money with view to visiting
Europe this year. She had enough
when vacation time came to carry out
her cherished project, but, alas, she
found that not day over three weeks
leave of absence would be granted her.
She did not dare throw up her position,
as she knew from experience that good
places are hard to get.
Right here is where most girls would
have given in to the force of circurn-
stances and spent the vacation in
America. Not so the plucly little
stenographer. She left the Office a
Saturday morning in August. went on
board one of the fast steamers and in
exactly q week landed in Liverpool.
Taking night train she arrived in
London bright and early Sunday
morning and proceeded to ssdo the
town." She saw the tower, West
minister, st. Paul's, houses of parIia
ment, the national gallery and a host
OF other things before leaving on Mon
day night to make her way Parisward
Crossing on the night boat she ar
rived IN Paris Tuesday and spent two
clear days sightseeing Notre Dame.
Versailles, Pere la Chaise, the Louvre.
the morgqe, the Champs Elysees. an
evening at the grand opera and
numerous other diversions occupied to
the full the time she spent in Paris.
Leaving there in time to reach Dieppe
Thursday night she recrossed the
channel, arrived in London Friday.
took the train for Liverpool and had
several hours there before boarding
the Lucania on its maiden westward
trip. She arrived in New York Satur
day, September 9. and after spending
Sunday quietly turned up as bright as
a button at business Monday morning.
The ambitious young woman did not
boast of her flying trip, but Somehow
the facts leaked out on the steamer
and were considered too good to keen.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
A COUNTRY WITHOUT SILVER.
In Italy Private Firms Issue Tokens to
Supply the Demand.

It is a strange story which comes
from Italy by way of the London
Globe. So great is the scarcity of
money that d private firm at Milan,
Messers Gavazzi & Co., has taken to
coming on it's own account, and as the
credit of the house is unimpeachab BILE
the metal tolzens-for of course that is
what they really are-are freely ac-
copied by the shopkeepers.
Italy presents a remarkable eXcep-
ton to most other nations in the mat
planning everywhere else of the super
abundance of silver, the precious metal
is actually at a premium in King Hum
bert's GoniniOns.
Change for a fve-franc piece can only
be obtained on payment of a penny on
the transaction.
The reversion to tokens carries us
back almost to the middle ages. There
was period in the history of England
when such ''promises to pay" con-
stituted almost the only circulating
medium. They were made of lead,
tin, and even leather, and passed as
readily from hand to hand as coins
stamped with the royal image and
superscription.
1t is stated that in the middle of the
seventeenth century as many as
twenty thousand different kinds of
tokens were in circulation in England.
Messrs. Gavazzi's coinage will pass
freely where the issuers :: known
and trusted. but will not be looked at
twenty miles from the Lombard capt.
tai.
The extraordinary action of the
Milan firm has been taken, perhaps,
not only in the interest of it's clients
convenience, but as means of putting
pressure upon the government. Right
ly Or wrongly, it is contended that
something might be done by the au-
thorities to relieve scarcity which
amounts almost to a general calamity.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
LAND BARONS.
They Hold Millions of Acres of Swamp
Land III Louisiana.

They Hold Millions of Acres of Swamp
Land III Louisiana.
The New Orleans Picayune prints a
table OF the land barons of Louisiana
and their holdings of unimproved tim
Der and swamp tracts, from which it
appears that alien syndicates, compa-
MES and individuals own moro than
@,20O,0O0 acres. One syndicate claims
100000 acres, several possess 100000
and more and holdings of from 2O. 900
to 10000 acres are not uncommon
Most of this land is owned in the west
ern states, but to capitalists of New
York and Philadelphia several hundred
thousand acres belong.
The Picayune explains that ORIGIN
ally the United States owned ali of
tne lands IN Louisiana other than those
which at the time of the cession nv
France were held by private persons
or corporations. Subsequently what
We're known as swamp lands, that is to
say lands that were subject to tidal
overflow from the sea or were annu-
ally Hooded by the Mississippi. became
the property of the state. with the pro-
vision that it should sell them for the
purpose of raising a fund to build
levees. A considerable territory, con-
slstlng OF prairie and forest land, was
retained by the United States to be
sold as homesteads. Such DISPOSE
ton was made of this land, but it is
nc largely in possession of syndicates.
Inc Plcayune's table includes the
swamp, homestead and sea-marsh
lands The last named, lions share
OF which has been ACQUIRED bv the
watkins syndicate, must be drained
and dlked like the Holland coast, and
some progress in this work has already
been made.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
A RACE OF TCoTHLESS MEN,.
Coming Generations WIZ Have to Masti-
cate by Artificial Means.

cate by Artificial Means.
There is reason to apprehend that
unless some cataclysm occurs to arrest
the progress of civilization our de-
scendants will be as toothiesS as Eu-
roptolemus, king of Cyprus. described
by the historian .Pliny as reduced to
masticate his food with d structure OF
solid bone. in lieu of teeth. This, at
any rate, in the opinion of the New
Y ork Tribune. is the inference to be
deducted from the statistics recently
published by order of the British par
lament. demonstrating the alarming
ly small number of cases of in any way
sound dentition among the English
people. Of 1000 children attending
the London public schools, there were
only 7O7 who had sound teeth; while
during a period of three months 500 re-
cruits were rejected by the medical de-
partment Of the army for purely den
tai reasons. Of course, part of this
state Of affairs is due to neglect of the
digestion, and of the teeth themselves,
a fact demonstrated by the statement
that all the girls who entered domestic
service ITOlu Tic LOuuOI ouUIiC SCIOOIo
last wear five-siXths had never even
heard of such thing as toothbrush
an assertion that has led the educa-
tional authorities to institute in many
of the metropolitan schools what is
now known as the toothbrush drill"
Decay of teeth has always attended
the advance of civilization and each
barbaric invasion has been followed
by recovery of sound teeth in the
old world. Under the circumstances it
might be worth while to consider
whether the repeal of the Geary law
and the opening up Of the United
States to a pacific invasion on the part
of the Chinese might not go far to i'm
prove the American jaw, which, ac-
cording to medical experts, is in an
UNNECESSARILY worse condition than
that of the English-a fact probably
due to our superior civilization.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
CRIME IN GREAT BRITAIN.
1t Is Decreasing, But the Debtor Lists
Are Largely decreasing.

Are Largely Increasing.
There are some encouraging features
in the report Of the commissioners of
prisons in England and Wales which
has just been printed in London The
statistics ana diagrams which exhibit
the fluctuations of crime during long
series of years demonstrate that their
general course and tendency for many
years past has been in the direction of
diminution;" that this diminution has
taken place particularly in those
classes Of crime which are committed
by habitial criminals, viz: Offenses
against property with violence, forg-
cry. and offcnses against the currency.
and offenses against property without
violence (Which comprise the great
bulk OF crimes committed): also that
this diminutian was concurrent in
point Of time with the development of
various measures intended to bring it
about AID that it occurred in spite of
the great increase in population. which
might have reasonably accounted for
an Increase of crime" It is also
pointed out that the number of first
convictions has fallen gradually from
103.9l6 in 1888 to 95,390 in 1892. which
shows that the criminal ranks arc not
being filled up by fresh recruits. 1t is
further shown that the diminution in
the Younger part of the prison popula-
ton IS four and five times as great as
IN the older portion, which proves that
the younger part Of the community is
not supplying criminals to take the
place OF the older and more incorrigi-
bic. 1t is also demonstrated that
there is no such coincidence between
the variations in the amount of crime
and in the amount of drunkenness as
to establish that connection between
the two which some temperance advo-
Gates too hastily assert. The COM
missioners point out, however, that,
while crime has thus decreased and
the criminal population of the prisons
has diminished, the debtors have in
creased largely and continuously; the
number committed in 1S7S-'79 was g.
964, and in 1S92-'93 it had gradually
risen till it reached 10,O31.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
Remnants, OF Famous Indian Tribe.

A meeting of the surviving members
OF the Narragansett tribe of Indians
has just been called. There are about
one hundred persons to answer. All
the New England tribes who, with
those of New York state, were the
no5test of the red men on the CONT
nent, are fast dwindling away, and
only few pure-blooded braves and
SOU US yet survive. These illustrious
nations in New England are the Penob-
scots OF Maine, the Mohegans and Pc
quods OF Connecticut and the Nara
ganset;s of Rhode Island. The Penob.
scots retain their tribal organization
intact at Ind IN island, in the Penob-
scot river, il the woods, near Old
Town; the Mahegans at Mohegan vii
lagc, on the ,ver bank of the Thames
river. in the woods, three miles soutb
OF Norwich; the Pequods along the
rough hills C North Stonington and
Ledyard, AMI the shores of Lantern
Hlli pond, in southeastern Connections.
and the Narragansetts at Charlestown.
on the shore of the open ocean in
Rhode Island.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-06
DISEASE SPREAD BY DOGS.
Some Startling Statistics from the Frencl
Republic Regarding Consumption.


Republic Regarding Consumption.
Consumption now carries off five per
thousand persons in France, or one
hundred and seventy thousand year,
says the London Dispatch. In Eng
land the mortality has fallen to two
per thousand. The towns where this
scourge is most intense are Paris, where
the mortality from it is one out of five
deaths; Dion and Nancy, where it is
one out of seven. and Marseilles, where
it is one out of six At the Protestant
congress at Havre, held to study spe-
cial questions in practical manner,
DIR. Gilbert, who is cOnsumptive spe-
cialist, said that drunkards are partic-
ularly subject to it. There is drunk
ards phthisis. Now, the habitations
of inebriates are dirty and ill-kept,
and cleanliness is great obstacle to
the spread of contagious diseases. In
La Cite Havraise. or mansions built for
working-class tenants, the mortality
from consumption is very high, not
withstanding the hygienic principles
according to which the architect
worked. There were five out of twelve
deaths from consumption. This might
be explained from the tenants habit
of splitting about. A woman's dress
that swept the spuma of a consumptive
on the stairs picked up the germs,
which she inhaled when brushing the
garment. DIR. Gilbert is, for this rea
son, against tenement houses or man.
sions for the poor. The shaking of
clothes and bedding from the windows
and balconies was another source of
contagion. The subject of dogs as
means of propagating consumption
was also gone into. A report of Prof.
Cabot, sof the veterinary school of
Abort, shows that they must often be
vehicle for spreading it. He had
long treated dogs suffering from tuber-
culosis for cancer, but latterly the mi
croscope showed him what their dis
ease was. Between the 18th of last
March and the 18th of April eight dogs
died at Abort of tuberculosis. From
the 1st of October, 1891, to the 1st of
August, 1903, he made forty post NOR
TENS out of nine thousand, and found
in all the forty cases tuberculosis to be
the cause of death. The disease is
very catching from dog. 1t origin
ates in the intestinal mucus, because
dogs eat bones picked by tubsrcu1ar
patients and lick up what they leave
on plates. They also keep about them
if attached to them and in this way
some get affected through the lungs.
If the dog is often contaminated by
the human patient he in turn spreads
the disease to other human beings.