The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900 Page: 1 of 10
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VOLUME 4H.
BASTUOP, BASTROP COUNTV, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13,
llioo.
NUMBER 2.
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W. J. MILEY,. .
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DRUGGIST.
Bartkop
te> 4 8. .
Special and careful attention
Ifivttn to the Prescription }>e-
partmeiit. and patrwns waited
on eitliui dav or night. •. A full
line of Patent Mkuicihe*,
pkhkumehy. Toil.kt auth,'-
L*'.s, Station miy, Ltc., Ktc.
The
Pearl Beer.
manufaotikkd i y
SAN ANTONIO
BREWING
ASSOCIATION
UNOLE BILLY'8 LETTER.
MM I) Kit SKVENTEKN.
C* ■**&>'
r-A j: ~-t •
A i-j ~ jHO-.-i>
h on
It* Nourishing qualities. OuciA'rled Always
Used. For Sale in liastrop by
V. SCHILL, Manager.
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PROFESS/ON.-1L CARDS
Lawyers.
1900. [
E.
F.STAHLIS1IKD 1800. ..
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Bastian, Sr.,
U. l>. OEOAITJ.
W.K MAYNAIiD.
QIIGAIN & M AY N A III)
Attorneys at-Law.
Bmttfop, To*a*.
Wttl praollco". In all ll>" ti*Kt or au'l In-
ferior court*.
PAUL 1). PAGK,,
County Attorney and
Attorney-at-Law,
Ilaatrop, Te*a .
Orn«a—Court llouae.
S. C. BKOWS
BitOWN
H M «. A 14 W l 11>
JON ATM AN 1.4 Hit.
LANK At GAKWOOD,...
Lawyers.
La'irailKC
STOVES HARDWARE & TINWARE
All kinds of
TI2ST - WORK
A SPECIALTY.
REPAIRS
*0*
Promptly and
Neatly Done.
' I'() MAKK liOOM for New Orders, I will sell my present stock at
^ Greatly Reduced Prices. It shall i)e my study, in the future, as iD
past, to please my friends and customers, both in quality and price.
Thanking one and all for their very liberal patronage during the 32 years
I have done business here, 1 ask a contluance of same at the "old stand."
E. BASTIAN, Sr.
kii-l Houston
HmiiUiu Oflli* Room* T-H. Camp UM.
frdu-U.* In ail C,nirt . Siati- ami Ki-tora1
JT /KN It INS.
J II MII-EY
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JENKINS & MILKY,
Attorney • s-at-Law,
1900. ~ 1900.
CHAS. brieger,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR.
OLD STjOLISTD,
BASTROP, TEXAS
BAHTitof • TKXA> Now is the time to
Only ooinpluUl <M of Abilracl liook« . '. «
<*;uiitr
!W«r* til
0 *t< -over l«t National Nan*
a. w. jokes.
JONKS At JON KS,
J. S. JONKS.
Attorneys-at Latv.
■Aftriior,
TEXAS.
Orn< a—rpntaUn 1" Krliarl lltllldlnK
J. P. FUW'LKU
Attorney-at Law,
linitrop, Triad.
WIM priwtli'C In all the Wittier a"'1 iu"
forlor Court*. , „
OK Hi i 'K ovei I'lrnt National llank.
C. C. HiGllSMI HI
Attorney-at-J.a w.
BASTROi1, • TEXAS
Will pwtlw' I" all tliu llliclior ami Inferior
G*urt* in the Sin to
At.Bira.iH .it title fiir uihcl 1 "iin« iK'Kotltt
«rf au.I Colluetloii* promptly atuoi livl i
Olii I.aii'l Claim* Hi voatiK'aU'.l lu all part* of
r>« S'.aU.i
ORDER YOUR t
SUMMER WEARS
I
ALL SUITS M AUK IN TIIK
Latest and
Most Approved Styles
Low Prices, Good Work.
Perfect Fits Guaranteed.
GJ.vo Mo a rn"'1 ~1 t
*
1893.
1900.
J. 1L PKICK
County Judge and
Attorney-at /mw.
I'.nstrop TViiuk
Will priu'itro In all the hlghur court*.
Physicians and Surgeons.
COTTON SEED
\kkE will pay the Highest Price, in
Cash, give Honest Weights, and
buy at any time, winter or summer,
ail Cotton Seed offered to us at our
mill.
H. P- LUCKK'lT, M 1>
Physician Cf Surgeon.
OrKUIK-Al w J
llaatrop. 1>ia«.
Mlloy s UruK Store.
•'(
H. H- COMliS, M. I)
County Physuian
and Surgeon.
BAHTKOP. • ■ " 1 KX AS.
Orric* -<'• Kfliar.l A Sot! • l'rua Slore.
Ii8ni m .'i■ ■ Wtillan OotUKB.
Dentists.
J)U. N. G. FOWLKK
Dentist.
orriOK—Otnr Flmt National Hank.
2 AMI! KL C. LUCK KIT
D. D. S., {Dentist.)
iilo IlulldtuK Matonic Floor.
Bagging and Ties
To exchange
for Seed only
We buy and sell
everything for
CASH.
Pouuell Oil JVIill Co.
■Ct
T. A.
WANTS YOU TO PRICE THEIR
Fu.rrritu.re, Carpets,
.... and. ^Matting,
Boforo you buy olsovhoro. Thoy will huvo you
Fifteen to Twenty Five Per Cent.
THE RIVER BRIDGE
LVERl FEED & SALE STABLES,
Union Hotel,
KUIIN, - - TKXAS.
Hie IteKt In tin City, oti'i rf-]"'1 tfully |
4>IU tt««tin- patronage "f Hti^-lr< t I'ountT
I i wl* anpplleil wltli tin* li' -l thi' iiiar* i
W ' *||ord . 'IVrm# rpaM nal>l<*.
CiJA/> 'i i>, i'ko< i |
T. MOKHIS, Puorim.Tou.
.... Near Kitfr Hritlge.
Immtok Auvkutiskic:
There is no telliu how much folks
can help one another iu ^itlin relig-
ion, ami 1 recoil if I hadn't come
hack to Alahamy. I would a dide and
gone to hell wliar 1 desarved to go.
Hut when they sung, "Am 1 a sol-
dier of the cross," I jined the church
and war baptised, and tha give me
Iht hand of fellership, ami went
outen, only I sede Miss Iluygood
and M ry war tremenjous happy ai
tha war shakin my hand, and 1 think
my happy feelins war of the same
kind and I hev them yit, only not so
strong all the time as tha war that
mornin, and I'm now awful set ugiu
dancin, and I war cured of terbaccer
and sjierits, and drinkin a good while
hack, so hevin pade all my dels, ami
confessed ali my past deviltry and
furgive all my enemies 1 feel line and
tha say 1 am lookin a powerful site
handsomer nor I used to, but changin
my close, and shavin and hevin my
hare cut, may be the reason of that.
My new close makes me a new
man on the outen side, and religion
what 1 got, makes me powerful new
inside, and the old dens and places
of vice whar 1 used to be, are not
goin to see me no more, and I wish
all my old friends bed the same kind
of a hlessin what I hev.
I war wantin to put in my best fur
the church and fur religion and war
wantin to begin right to onct, so
when the precher war takin a col-
lection fur missuns I put down *
$100.00 and give him a check on the
sity bank fur the money. And I giv
some more to fix up a room for some
orfati children he war tellin us of,
and the givin made me feel good all
over, but mainly in my hart.
I am gittiu of the idea that religion,
I mean the kiud whatl'v got, is nigh
about all thar is, and nigh ou to ev-
ery thing to a man.
Lots of 'em jined the church erfore
the meetin come to a end, but I
didn't see any of 'em what war happy
as 1 war, and 1 reccou tha bed not
b. n so bad off lis I lied, and bed not
lied such a time to get the blessin as
1 did, and 1 don't feel skeered of
dyiu any now, and if 1 tra*el on the
cars any more, I wont buy auy sort
| of axident polercies agin.
Feelin as how I could live better
here than in Texas, and havin a good
I farm and gittin the advice of all my
friends, and of Miss Haygood npc-
' dally, to stay, I made up my mit.d
that way, and went down to my
place.
I found my house in fine shape,
with new roof and tlores and winders,
and all the other improvements what
1 bed ordered weli erlong to tinishin,
so 1 got a good family to live in the
house, and I will too.
Then while tha war tnovin in 1
went to the sity and got eotue money
and bought a team and new wagon
and plows, and got me a nice new
buggy, and come back and paid off
my hands and begin gettin settled.
At the sity I lemed my ueffu bed
got $.'i<J0 of my money on a garnisher
fruin the court to pay fur him a gittiu
of me outen of that dancin in church.
It war mene of him but it war like
him, and 1 let it go.
I Ivrnt thet my old frends bed
never gone back to the bar room no
more, and I met the edicated one on
the streets and told him it war all
true erbout religion, and told him
how I got it, and how 1 war enjoy'n
of it and so forth.
I got a reglar hand anil bought
200 bushels of corn, and he is now
haulin of it and (lllin up my new
crib, ami the man what lives with
me has ben a helpin and we have ben
setlin outen a lot of fruit trees, and
fixen iip some grape vines aud the
the precher is righi bad erbout fitin
other •hurdles, and the one what I
belong to, specially. 1 hev beam
him onct and he sed some iusultiu
things agin my belief, and sed 't in 1
purty hard too, but erlong of 'em he T
also give us some good gospel and
sed some things what were right
comfortin and 1 took that part aud
come away feelin some edifide, lint
would hev fell more so, if he hadn't
setl the bad and iusultiu things to the
fust.
l'v ben vlsitin of my uabors some,
aud 1 guess tha are all, right nice
folks, and the man what wauled tuy
place and fridc to skere me offen,
don't kuo what I sede that uite, nor
what I tliol of him fur it. I am kind
to him as any one and intend to be,
aud menu to I'kc all my nabers and
make 'em all like me, ami 1 love 'em
nigh onto as well as if ilia war my
own church. 1 give the precher some
and w il every ycre, and help 'em any
way I can. Tha need a jevival and
1 mene to help 'em to git one, and 1
guess th-.; precher needs one too to
cure him of filedn in his sarmints.
I hev subscribed fur a lot of good
papers includiu, as you know, the old
Ai vi.KTisKit, fur I want to here frutu
the old home aud all the uuse of
there.
1 got me two cows what are fresh,
and bought a lot of hens and a rust^r,
and 1 am now well fixed and am go-
ing to try to be satislide and happy.
I'm needin a good buggy boss and
will buy one soon.
I'll go up to Haygood's every
month to meetin. I'm feelin power-
ful well and workiu every day flxin
up the place fur next seasons crop,
and will h' irt to plowin arter Christ-
mas. 1 hev some money yit, and
will pay any (let what may come up,
or fur and chcatin or beaten what 1
may hev forgot.
I ncde a wife some aud hev thot
erbout Ked Kock a time or 2, hut 1
reccon 1 can find one here by lookin
a little.
I may write once and awhile to let
you kno how I am asuceedin, and so
on.
1 love all the Advkutiskk family,
and nigh about everybody I kno in
Texas and would like to come back
powerful and see theui all, but it
would be a long trip fur me to make,
and I'm now along in years, and
guess I had better stay at home and
be a gettin ready fur that long jour-
ney what I wont come backfrtim. So
with a hart full of love fur all my
fiends, and nigh erbout full fur euny
enemies what 1 ever bed back there,
I would now bow myself outen your
company ritin, jist here. Good bye.
Unci.E Biu.r.
P. S. Closed.
i- ■> r- ' * ^"'r'
C. Erhard & Son-.,.
DRUGGISTS
Hasthop,
['kxas. . .
Prescriptions carefully eoni-
pounded at ail hours.... Pat-
If.NT Mkl*l< INKS ol all ttilldS.
VIRGINIA COLLEGE.
Miss Maude May nard who is at-
tending the Virginia College, at
Koanake, Va , sends us a copy of
" 1 he Koanake Times," and an Miss
Maude is very proud of her college,
the following notice of it clipped
from the columns of the limes, we
know will be read with interest by
her many lta*lrop friends.
SI'LENIUO INSTITUTE KOIl TIIK IIIUHEU
KOLt'a HON ol YOU no t.ADIKS.
A half-mile southwest of Uoauoku,
at the terminus of the streel car Hue,
in \ iiginia College for Voung Ladies.
Situated on a spur of Ihe ltluc Kidge,
with Mill Mountain standing boidlyj
to the light, it commands an unsur-
pussiug view of the Valley of Vir-i
giuia, with its broad, fertile acreij
and glorious mountains extending or
every side as far as lue eye ca|
reach. Truly an ideal location, i^
immediate touch with the progreij
of the outer world, yet so secludt
from Its distractions that the sludej
can work unhiu.lered, robust j,
health, amid the inspiring nurrou
ings. Virginia College isessentialli
college for young women. Itscot
of study is elective, is curricu
broad, ils instruction thorough,
influence high toned ano Chris
This session has been one of? eheap *s any of tto*
id the history of
AI
Uotto k*
l.K
/profitably
o us.
le to-day, and
nr. We. can and "]
most Miccfissfii 1
school. Students ara enrolled from
twenty-seven States. All depart-
ments of the school are taught by
specialists, but il is in music, per-
haps, that Virginia College takes
leading rank. This admirable in-
stitution is under the management of
Miss P. Harris and Mrs. Gertrude
Harris Hoatwright, daughters of its
distinguiseed founder. It is to such
institutions the South must look for
the enlightened womanhood of the
coming century. Ils Spring term
opens February 1st.
The niulh case of small pox repor-
ted at Austin. The patient is a col-
ored woman.
f!
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The recent rains seem, from all re-
ports, to have been a regular "down
pour" all over the state.
lis
has
won-
Solicit share of public patronage. I
Horses will be taken care of at low garden ami the walks, and so
rates. Buggies, hacks and good forth. We sode turnips iu the gar-
The century question racked tha
brains of the 18th century as well a*
the l'Jth. Here is a verse written
by Theodore Dwight, which appear-
ed Jiu the Connecticut Courant, of
J anuary 1st, 1S01:
"Precisely 12 o'clock last night
The eighteenth century touk
fiight,
Full mauy a calculating head
Has racked its brains ; its ink
shed
To prove by metaphysics fins
A hundred means but 91).
While at their wisdom others
dered,
Hut took one more to maka a hun-
dred.
Strange at the lHtii century's close
While light in beams effulgent glows,
When bright illumination's ray
Has chased the darkness far away,
Heads tilled with mathetualic lore
Dispute if two and two make four.
Go on ye scientific sages,
! Collect your light a few more ages,
Perhaps as swell* the amount
! A century hence you'll learn
count."
It would seem the 'scientific sages'
have not yet learned to count. At
least, the question is still in doubt.
Within the past few weeks the
M. K. Ac T. R'y company have
ordered twenty-five new locomotives
for use on the Texas svstem.
The city of Austin is again repor-
ted full of bums—non-working tour-
ists, traveling over the state seeking
"whom tney may devour"
At Seuihory, P*., on Ihe .'LI, a la-
year old hoy was hanged for the
murder of his lli-year old sweetheart ,
whom he shot and cut her throat
from ear to ear, through jealousy.
Mr. I). A. Tompkins, an expert
on the subject of cotton mills, esti-
mates thai 2,000,000 spindles—an
increase of 40 per cent—will be
added to the Southern mills during
the year 1900.
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During a heavy rain at Austin early
Tuesday morning, accompanied by
thunder and lightniug, a thunder bolt
jarred the enlire town, extinguishing
street lamps aud knocking electric
and telephone wires from their poles.
The whole town was awakened by
the angry elements.
An Austin special says that an old
10 I confederate soldier, homeless, with-
out means of support, or money to
secure testimony as to his war re-
.•or 1, for admission to the Cou-
stock kept on hand, f.very effort d,.^ Htitl if the winter is not cold I'll " "" ^_ i fednatc Home, presented himself
ill be made to accommodate those; ju,f Krc,,n<, t|H. s) rj,lkr. 1 ?1'>0, •■),< 1:1 is the estimated before the hoard of pardon advisors
Tha hev u ' ' ft fi nigh me here, amount of money spetr. in the I uited and asked to fie sent to ihe peni-
' t.unfi ir (j? 'ifo.
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be
aba i
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for i
Mlt
perlf j
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ie.y
one
favoring me willi their t ustom
-A. T. MORRIS, Prop't.
but it a:■ 11 of auy nomination aud Mule- f 'i L.'iri tn .
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900, newspaper, January 13, 1900; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205477/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.