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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-11-22

His many friends are glad to
hear that Esco Derryberry has been
made assistant manager of a great
plantation at Scott, Miss.,-a good
job deservedly bestowed.
New subscriptions or renewals for
daily newspapers attended to by
Rhoden P. Roper, agent for Com
mercial Appeal. Nashville Banner,
Nashville Tennessean and other
periodicals.. adv.
The first slaughter Of porkers in
Lexington occurred last Saturday.
perhaps few earlier. The price of
lard is enough to make consumer
want to kill anything that will fur
nish enough fat to grease a skillet.
You want to to be posted on cur
rent state. national and, just now of
all times, international affairs. Read
the Daily papers--if no more than
the headlines-and you will have
the sum and substance of the
worlds doings. adv.
W. H. Montgomery and H. H,
Threadgill went Jackson Wednesday
to attend the Memphis conference.
Judge Barham was to remain in
Jackson day or two during con-
ference and j. W. Enochs already
lives in the city.
j. F. Winslow and their daughter,
Mrs. }. F. Logan, made an auto trip
to Jackson and return on Thurs
day OF last week, and Mrs. Logan.
husband and little son left Lexing-
ton on the South bound evening
train Of that day.
The male Duroc Jersey, 3 years
old, shown here last Saturday by
B. W. Walker, of Wildersville, is a
monster, weighing at least 900
pounds in our judgment. The
Walker Boys" are among our most
progressive stock breeders.
To all who have not received an
over seas label for sending Christ
boxes to members Of the A. E. F. in
France by Nov. 10th such labels
will be issued after that time in the
office of W. F. Appleby in Lexing-
ton. Parties will then have until
Nov. 80 to mail the boxes.
James Scott, aged 80 years or
more, died at an early hour Thurs
day night Of last week, in Wilders-
vile. He is survived by his wife
and several children. the latter ali
grown and married. Mr.. Scott join
ed the Christian church a year or
more ago. He was a Federal veteran
Of the civil war Of 1861-65.
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N. E. CHURCH NOTES.

Next Sunday at Poplar Springs
we will have a Thanksgiving Serv-
ice; preaching by the pastor.
Thanksgiving Prayer Meeting Tues
day night at the Lexington church.
All invited. PASTOR.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-11-22

State of Tennessee County of Henderson.
E. c. Rosser Cashier Of the above named bank do sol
EMMY that the above true and gives the act
ua condition of said bank shown by the books on file in said
bank. M. c, ROSSER Cashier
Subscribed and before me- this 18th day of No
yember, 1918. ]. P. PARKER. Notary Public
Correct-Attest: s. W. MURPHY, Director
S.. WALKER. Director.
]. P. PARKER Director
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-11-22

1t was announced from Wash
ington last Monday that President
Wilson will attend the opening
sessions of the Peace Conference in
France. and that he will 90 immed.
lately after opening Of Congress
December I'd. The Presidents trip
will probably keep him out Of the
United States a month. When
President Wilson gets to France he
will be given much more honor
than he has been getting from
Theodore Roosevelt.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-11-22

NOTICE. have for sale a linn
tied amount of half and half cotton
seed, that produced 49 per cent last
year. Good Seed $500 per BUSH
ell. j. M. BRANrLY.
Route l, Huron, Tenn.
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FOR SALE:-Full blooded, req
istered. Poland China male male.
II months OH. Brought from ILL
nois Good size, Good breeder.
7. L. TYLER, Route /, Juno, Tenn.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-11-22

The United States Steel Corpora
ton gave $5,00O,0O0 to the United
War Work campaign, the largest
sum ever donated by any purpose.
The United States Steel Corporation
has been one Of the concerns to
make enormus profits from this war
and it is quite probable that its net
profits are the largest ever made
by any corporation at any time. ~
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
o QUEEN OF PEACE.

o Queen of Peace, / seem to see thee
weeping,
When Nights black pail droops o'e1
the battle-sod,
Where thousands lie in that last sol.
emn sleeping,
Which wakens only at the Voice of
God.
l seem to see thy Mother-Heart all
bleeding,
For Earth's poor mothers who have
borne these sons,
To hear thy tender pleading interced.
ing
Above the laundering menace of the
guns.
Queen of Peace-frst, Queen of bit
ter SORROW
Thy holy tears are DER our dear one
shed,
And are as stars that promise brighter
morrow,
meet, our dead.
They left us in the pride of youth and
beauty,
Our fond eyes watched them go, with
hope and pride;
We trod with humble feet our path OF
duty
The Cross our Rock to cling to, if
they died.
Mother, who knows beyond all earthly
telling,
/ What depths hath anguish, and what
heights hath pain,
Plead for us, then, that in thy Heaven.
ly dwelling,
May rest the souls of those untime.
1y slain!
Not SO long since within our arms we
held them,
AS happy children, knowing naught
of strife,
And, as in Galilee, to Him uphold them
Whose gift to man is everlasting
life!
o Queen of Peace, bring peace by thy
pure praying,
Thy Son will grant thee measure
running DER;
Ask Him to stretch His holy Right
Arm, staying
Wars hideous holocaust from shore
to shore,
Sweet Queen OF peace, and Queen OF
deepest sorrow,
The mothers of the nations cling tc
thee;
Thou art our hope, from thee oul
strength we borrow;
The dove of Peace shall come from
Calvary!
Marion Nil ey KnoUles.
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THE RELIGIOUS TEMPER OF ART

-
Of a truth art is a revelation from
heaven and mighty power for God.
1t is a merciful disclosure to men Of
His more hidden beauty. 1t brings
out things in God which lie too deep
for words, things which words must
needs make heresies, if they try to
speak them. In virtue of it's heaven
ly origin it has a special grace to
purify mems souls, and to unite them
to God by first making them u1earth-
ly. If art debased is the earthliest of
things, true art, not unmindful that
it also, like our Lord, was born in
Bethlehem, and Graded with Him
there, is an influence in the soul so
heavenly that it almost seems akin
to grace. 1t is a worship too, as well
as a theology. From what abyss
arose those marvellous forms upon
the eye of John of Fieso1e, except
from the depths of prayer? Have we
not often seen the Divine Mother
and her. Blessed Child so depicted
that it was plain they never were the
fruit of prayer, and do we not in
|stinctively condemn them even on
the score of art, without directly adj
Ivertising the religious feeling? The
temper of art is the temper of adora-
ton. Only an humble man can paint
divine things grandly. His types are.
delicate and easily missed, shifting
under the least pressure and bending
unless handled softly. An artist who
is not Joined to God may work won
ders of genius with his pencil and
colors; but the heavenly spirit, the
essence of Christian art, will have
eVaporated' from his work. 1t may
remain to future ages as trophy of
anatomy and triumph of peculiar
coloring; but it will not remain as a
source of hottest inspiration to Chris
Etian minds and an eYerfowing foun-
tain to the glory of God. It may be
admired in the gallery; it would Of
fend over the altar Theology and
devotion both owe heavy debt to
art, but it is as parents owe debts to
their loving children. They take as
gifts what came from themselves,
and they love to consider what is
due to them by Justice is rather paid
to them out of the spontaneous gen
crosby of love.
Father Fober.
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JUST A LITTLE NOTE.

A charming woman, who numbers
her friends by legion, gave the assur
ance that the secret of her popularity
lies in pen, ink, and note paper, and
her free use of these.
Whenever I hear of anythine
pleasant happening to one of my
acquaintance" she says, Il straight.
way write note and tell them OF
my pleasure on hearing the good
news. In their trouble I sympathize
with them, and I never let any event
go by without sending them a little
message. It may be only a few
words, and, indeed, I never write lone
letters; but have been surprised to
find how much people seem to appre,
cfate a note of that kind.
1T takes only a few minutes of my
time; yet people seem to think I am
going out of my way to be agreeable
and / have come to believe that a BIZ
of note paper containing message 'of
sympathy or affection is often more
highly priced than a gift
nc W11OCI I1GS0 CHARMING UCIl0
missiVes forgot to mention that he1
.promptness in sending out these little
notes and the delightful way in which
the message was worded, constituted
a pleasure in itself. But the chief
charm lay in the fact that every one
loves to hear of the interest and sym
pathy that others take in his or he1
particular troubles or joys. AS a
rule, people are SO self-engrossed that
they have neither thought not time
for any one but themselves. 1t was
the affectionate thought Of others ma
terialized in the little notes, that
drew friends by the score about the
letter-writer. They felt the interest
that she took in them, and reflected
it back.
The Echo
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EFFICACY AND FRUITS OF MASS

ra
The Mass has a four-fold efficacy
1t is sacrifice:
l. Of worship.
2. Of Precipitation or sin offering
for the remission of sins.
3. Of Importation, or prayer for
spiritual or temporal favors.
4. Of thanksgiving for favors re.
ceived.
That this efficacy was prefigured in
the Sacrifices of the Old Law is quite
clear from the language of the Coun.
Gil of Trent which DEGREES that the
Mass is that oblation which was pre-
figured under the likeness Of the Sacri-
fees of the Law, and, as their con
summation and perfection, embraces
all the efficacy which they signif1ed.'
The efficacy of the Mass means that
power which it has from its dignity
to produce certain effects, both with
reference to God and creatures,
whether in the character of those who
offer it, or those for whom it is of
fered.
The fruits of the Mass are the re-
suits actually obtained through it's
instrumentality Hence, efficacy and
fruits stand to each other in the rela-
ton of cause and effect.
The Sacrifice of the Mass is Of
fered:
l. BY our Lord Himself, who acting
through the ministry of the officiating
priest, is both Priest and Victim.
2. By the Church whose minister
the priest is, and in whose name and
as whose representative, as well as in
the name and as the representative OF
Christ, he officiates at the altar.
3. BY all who are present.
The subject of the fruits Of the
Mass is complicated one, which calls
for more space than is allowed to this
brief and condensed statement of the
liturgy, to which we return each
week, but it may be said in general
that the fruits of the Mass are desig.
mated according as we view the per
son who offers the Holy Sacrifice
There is the fruit which is derived
when we view the Mass as offered by
our Blessed Lord; there is the fruit
derived from the Mass as offered by
the priest in the name of the Church
and there is the fruit, derived by the
priest as an individual and by all who
by a personal act assist at Mass.
The very general fruit of Mass be-
longs to the Church; the very special
fruit belongs to the celebrant; the spe.
cial fruit belongs to the one for whom
it is applied. In addition to the spe
cial intention, which the priest forms
at the beginning of Mass, he may
share with others the most special
fruit at the mementoes.
The Southern Guardian
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THE CATALAN oZA;NAM."

Contardo Ferrini, called the italian
Ozanam," spent the greater part of his
life in a professors chair, says
America" The University of Pavia
looked upon him as it's ablest pro-
fessor, and, thanks to him, saw some,
thing of it's former splendor revived
Like Ozanam, Ferrini had magic
and lasting influence on the hearts OF
his pupils. He was an ideal professor
modern in the best sense, critical
scientific, thoroughly master of every
phase of his intricate subject, keenly
analytical, an indefatigable digger into
hidden sources and records, gifted
with an historical sense seldom sur
passed.
But he was more than a professor
He was the embodiment of truth
sincerity, purity, childlike piety and
faith. :. Like OZanam, Ferrini
loved the poor. He wrote eloauently
and toiled generously and tirelessly in
their behalf. Like Ozanam, he
sought light and guidance at the altar
under the rays of the sanctuary lamp
The modern university professor was
a daily communicate.
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THE STATUE IN THE PARLoR.


Mrs. Eliza S. Pember, telling the
story OF. her conversion, in The Cath
Ollie Convert, recalls an incident of her
first meeting with Catholics. She
says:
When I was sixteen I went to Wor-
cestershire and spent six weeks with
my Catholic relatives 1.-TWO sons of
this family afterwards became
priests. i was impressed by the deyo-
ton they showed to the statue of the
Blessed Virgin on the piano and by
the flowers they daily placed around
it. I was also impressed by the Mass
in the simple village chapel on the
grounds of the squire" | felt proud
when asked to sing 90 Salutaris' on
one occasion at. Benediction, when the
squire was present. Also | was much
struck with the habit of my uncle
every day when he dismounted from
his horse to enter the house for din
ner, of saying E'Deo Gratias. us
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-05
THE NUPTlAL BLESSING.

The nuptial blessing consists of the
prayers said by the priest for the mar
riage couple after the Pater Noster,
and after the tie missa est or Bene-
dicemus Domino at the Nuptial Mass.
If for any reason a Catholic couple
were not married at Mass, and con
sequently did not receive the nuptial
blessing, they may, and should seek to
obtain this blessing, even if they have
lived together in marriage for many
years,
The nuptial blessing is not given in
the closed seasons of Advent and Lent,
but it can be received at other times.
The marriage VOWS are not renewed
nor are witnesses in attendance. II
the couple wishes to avoid all pub
licity, they can arrange to receive the
blessing at a Mass said at an hour
when other persons are not present.
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y, most-deeply impressed with yenera-
ton for the blessed Mother of God.
Besides it is not well--it is worse-it
is very culpable to give a profane
familiarity to the sublime truths be-
longing to the pains and suffering OF
our ever Adorable Redeemer.
Permit me then to hope that you
will not persevere in producing on the
stage that which should be reserved
for the worship of the living God
You are not, well know, at all dis
posed to insult religious feelings or
win religious prejudices, though, OF
course, l. do not impale as prejudice
the most scrupulous veneration for
the blessed Virgin Mary.
Anxiously hoping that you will sub
stitute more suitable amusement for
that which is too awful to be abused, /
have the honor to be, my dear sir,
Your faithful servant,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Mr. C. W. Calecraft.
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citation Cor Hearing on retition 70

Citation for Hearing ON Petition for
Administration.
/ STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
L Ramsey. S. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Bridget
Mclean, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to AL Whom
1t May Concern:
| The petition of Michael u. Mclean
having been filed in. this Court, repre-
senting that Bridget Mclean then a
resident of the County of Ramsey,
State of Minnesota, died intestate on
the 23rd day of December, 1917 and
praying that letters Of administration
of said estate be granted to Catherine
NJ Fleming
1T Is Ordered, That said petition. be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter be and hereby are cited
and required to appear before this
Court on Monday, the 2Sth day of Jam
uary, 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
or as soon thereafter as said matter can
be heard, at the Probate Court Room,
in the Court House in the City of st.
Paul, in said County, and show cause.
if any they have, why petition should
not be granted and that this citation
be served by the publication thereof
in The Catholic Bulletin according to
citation at least IA days before said
day of hearing to each of the heirs of
said ,decedent whose names and adj
dresses are known and appear from the
files Of this Court ~
Witness the Judge of said Court this
29th day Of December, A. d. 1917
f. w. EAZIILE
Judge of Probate.
II lSealof Probate CunFt)
Attest: T.. w. GoseWisch,
T. J. Doyle. Attorney.
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THE EFFECT OF THE ANeELus.

The following touching incident is
told by correspondent from an East
ern paper:
1.-TWO naval surgeons, friends, were
once walking in the streets Of Lima,
when they came upon two men en-
gagged in furious fight. Suddenly
the Angelus bell rang; custom, pre-
vailed over passion, and the combat
ants fell upon their knees. The prayer
nquered. When they rose each
turned and went his way-they could
not finish their fight. One of the wit
nesses was so impressed by this proof
of the power of prayer that his
thoughts took a serious and deVout
turn; he ended by embracing the Cath
Ollie faith. These friends were soon
separated; and after long years had
passed one of them, entering a cathe-
dral in European city, saw his old
comrade partaking of Holy Commun-
ion. His mind at once reverted to the
scene in the streets of Lima and the
Angelus. The thrall of the past, the
influence of the present hour, were
alike mighty, and he, too, became
a convert to the Catholic faith
Both of those naval surgeons are
now with the dead, and when Millets
'Angelus' became world-renowned the
son of one of them bought an engrav-
ing Of it as a sacred relic of a be-
loved parent; through it he, being
dead, yet speaketh. .
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AMONG SAMOAN CATHOLICS.

A contributor to The Bombay Elk
aminer gives some picturesque Incl
dents in connection with lately
paid visit to. Samoa. In telling of
a trip taken with one of the mission
fathers through the native villages, he
writes:
''The priests arrival was announced
far and near by the booming of a
wooden bell i. e., a trough about six
feet long, three feet deep and three
feet wide, followed out OF log.
Whenever the inhabitants have to as
semble for any purpose the trough is
beaten like drum with two big sticks.
BY this means the mission folks were
soon gathered together at the prin-
cipal house. There we seated our
selves on the best mats, in places of
honor marked by special posts around
the open walls"
There is always present, it seems,
the danger of volcanic eruption.
ga few years ago when the active
volcano on the island Of SaVaii was in
eruption, the flow of lava on the north
side of the island came near costing
the lives of the nuns and priests who
were stationed some ten miles south
Of the village of Matauton. Happily
the red-hot avalanche moved slowly.
This red mass of fire, curving with a.
radius of many miles and lighting up
the sky at night, made a wonderful
panorama, said an eyewitness to me.
The missionaries had time to save
their household effects and escape in
open boats to the village Of Matauton.
When the eruption had ceased, they
returned to their mission, only to find
the-church and the convent buried
nearly to the roof in black lava The
entire. village and many square miles
of eocoanut, and banana plantations
were destroyed. This buried mission
and village, which remains deserted,
are now one of the curiosities of the
Island of Savaii."
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AN IRISH PRAYER.


There is familiar old-time wording
in the following prayer for the souls
in purgatory which suggests its Gel
tic origin;
we offer up Pater and Ave in
honor of God and the Virgin Mary
for the poor souls in purgatory, and
especially for the souls of our own
relations; for every poor soul for
whom there is none to pray; for every
soul in great and urgent need; for the
soul that has last departed from this
world, and for every poor soul burden
ed with the guilt of an imperfect con-
fession, a forgotten Mass, or a pen
ance not performed. We include them
all in this prayer, may God release
them tonight.
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PROPER TRAINING or WILL

Is !.
All rejecting men, whether Catholic
or Protestant, are agreed that unless
the will is trained, developed and
strengthened in youth we cannot look
for vigorous manhood or blameless
womanhood, properly trained in the
practice of the fundamental principles
of Christian civilization, says Rt. Rev.
Denis ]. Dougherty. We must not for
get the Importance of having the mind
trained by those teachers whose
philosophy of life. rests for its intellee-
tual basis, upon the teachings which
have the unqualified approval of
moral leaders who are especially COM
missioned by God to safeguard the
spiritual life.
The Almighty Fashioner of the uni
verse has in His wisdom ordained
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that there should existsa complete and
close connection between mans will,
upon which his ethical and spiritual
life largely depends, and his reason,
by which the guiding principles of con
duct are mastered and presented for
active service.
! 1t is, consequently, self-evident that
mans dominating power, the will,
must rely for its choice upon the prin-
ciples proposed to it, and hence the
noble character of ST. Louis of
France cannot be built upon the
Vagaries of Tom Paine; the deep
faith of a Louis Pasteur cannot rest
upon the teachings of a f1ippant In
gersol1; and the sterling virtues of a
Blessed Thomas More cannot spring
from the rawlings Of a Voltaire.
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DEATH.

All, fool! All, fool! IT'S time to go
Thy sun has set It's fading beams
Are lighting up thy years.
There are no flowers, no flash O
wings,
Along thy life of tears.
You spent your days with idle things
The bubbles of the hour.
You had no hearth. No baby face;
No love was thine. No broken heart
Is bleeding, mourning at. thy grave.
You played the thoughtless, clownis1
part
Thou fool! Thou vast slave!
When light Of life is burning low,
Mine eyes are growing dim,
Ispray an honest tear will flow,
Some voice cry, PITY hint
TEAR no death, fear no life,
fear no fears of men,
If / but have friend or wife