The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 20, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 45.
BASTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, NOVKMBHK 20, 1807.
NUMBKB 38.
W. J. 1HLBY,. .
DRUGGIST.
Bastrop,
Tkxas. ..
Special will careful attention
given lo the Prescription I>u-
partment. and patrwns waited
on either dayor night...A lull
line of PATKNT MKDICIWKS,
l'KKFl'MKHY. Toll.KT ARTIC-
i.ics, Statiowkut, Etc., Ktc.
gjf-SS^Ci- :i:> "jrti'-g rZr^i-irrilirgY
PR OFE SSI ON A L CARDS
Lawyers.
. D. OKU A IN. H M. U AUWOOl)
QRGAIN & GARWOOD
Attorneys-at-Laiv.
H«*trop, Te *n.
Will pnotice! In all tlie UIk *.t «n<l In-
ferior courts
PAUL I). t'AUK.
K. r. IHUGINS.
pAOK & HIGGINS,
Attomcys-at Law,
Bnntrop, To *«
Will practice In *11 the Court* «f the Stale.
OrriCK—Over Klr t National
The
Pearl Beet
MANU1 AOTURED BY
SAN ANTONIO
BREWING
ASSOCIATION
11taken the Lead in Texa* on account of
Its Nourishing qualities. Once Tried Always
Used. For hale In llacitrop by
V. SCHILL, Manager.
A MORAL 0H08T.
THE RIVER BRIDGE
LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLES.
A. T
MORRIS, Proprietor.
. . . . Near River Bridge.
Solicit share of public pationage.
Horses will lie taken care of at low
rates. Buggies, hacks ami good
stock kept on hand. Every effort
will he made to accommodate those
favoring me with their custom.
A. T. MORRIS, Prop't.
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County Judge an(l
Attorncy-at-Laic.
Uttotrop, Te *.
Will practice In *11 U«e higher court*.
Dentists.
DR. N. O. FOWLER.
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Dentist.
OFFICE—Orer Flr*t S ilon l Il*nk
SAMUEL C. LUCKKT'l,.
D. D. S., (Dentist.)
Omen—Hsjrnle HiiIMIiik. Masonic Floor.
BASTROP LODGE, NO. 11.1,
KNIOI1TS OF I'VTII I A3,
Regular meeting
Friday night of each
week.
I.. \V. llAVNKS,
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l.KO 7,1 K U N,
K. of R. A S.
COTTON SEED
TA/E will pay the Highest Price, in
Cash, give Honest Weights, and
buy at any time, winter or summer,
all Cotton Seed offered to us at our
mill.
Bagging and Ties
To exchange
for SEED ...
We buy and sell
everything for
CASH.
Pocuell Oil jWill Co.
■as
E. Bastian
<s>3> <SSSS> <2S3> <2S23> <3S2>
(Successor to
E. Bastian.& Son.)
okai.F.r in —
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STOVES, TIN & HARDWARE.
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UAMBLK LODGE, NO. 211,
a. k. a A. m.,
Regular meet-
^TvT- ing.lth Saturday
night in each
month,
s. s. Saykhs,
W. M.
A. B. Mi I.avy,
Seet'y.
BA8TH0P CHAPTER, MO. 96,
ii. a. m.,
Regular ineetingon
the First Saturday
Night in each month.
T. C. Cain,
M. K. II. 1'.
T. XV. Cain,
Sec'ty.
BASTROP CAMP, NO. 79,
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Lamps, (iluss, Oil, Paints, Ktc. Ltc.
Thankful to the Public for liberal
patronage bestowed upon the old
firm, I ask a continuance of same.
Bastrop, Texas. March 10. 1*95.
Stoves, Japanned and Stamped Tin
ware. The largest assorlme.it of
Carpenter's Tools, Builder's Hard
ware, Cuttlery, Fence Wire, Ktc.
ym
'£. BASTIAN, SR.
U897
W T. W. Cain, C. C.
J. R. Lester, Clerk.
Wm. Kesskuis,
The Tailor."
SUITS MADE
ACCORDING
TO THE LAT-
EST STYLE.
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Prices to
Su.it tHe
Times,
Everybody cordially invited
^to examine goods and prices.
No trouble to snow goods.
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As before it was a home to which
this linger also pointed, it was a home
and home life upon the sanctity of
which this ghostly iutender was to
break in.
The home, like the other, an hum-
ble one, but the sleeper a young man.
When, by this strange light tilling
the room, 1 was enabled to see tint*
man as I had the other, 1 could but
note a contrast in their appearances.
The face of this one was not marred
by that troubled and haunted expres-
sion characteristic of the other. There
was more of peace in it, anil fewer
wrinkles of Care.
1 noticed the linger did not touch
him, but only lighted up the room
where he slept. Then 1 saw presently
that he too was drcamiug and that
nature of his dream was not pleasant.
His face boou came to look sad
and I saw there were tears in his
eyes. After a little he turned over
and 1 saw that he was awake.
His aged mother uow came in with
a light, and 1 saw she wore a look of
anxiety and fear. Seeing her son
awake, she hastily approached and
addressed him, Jaines, 1 have just had
an awful dream. 1 thought I saw
you helping to kill some one. 1 was
in a road and the poor mans wife was
with him. Tell me, was you ever
guilty of a crime ho dreadful. Have
you, or did you forget that the great
God has said, "Thou shall not kill.'
Tell me all, for 1 cannot sleep till a
know.
Then he arose, and sitting down
by his mother, said, "mother this
thing has scarcely been out of my
mind for years, and to-night, as
often before, some angel from heaven
or devil from hell, has visited my
slumbers, and again have 1 seen in
my troubled dreams the scene, the
bloody, piteous scene which, were it
mine, I would jrivc the world to for-
get—the world lo have it erased from
uiy memory."
I was uot guilty as others, but yet
I was guilty. 1 did not tire the lirsl
shot, yet 1 llred a shot into the body
of our poor helpless victim. I heard
his dying wails, and the plaintive
screams of the wife upon whose lap
his head was resting.
But I was young, mother, and had
been drinking, and the wicked men
with whom 1 then associated led me
into all this wrong. Yet I was guilty
of a great sin, thus to mutilate the
body of the dead, thus lo mar the
temple made for the indwelling crea-
tive Spirit.
I feel guilty and have ever felt so,
ami the aw fill scene of that night will,
1 fear, haunt me to the grave.
1 have prayed God to forgive me,
lint it has never seemed that my re*
pentance was real, or that God re
garded my cries.
Some times 1 have given up to go
to hell for my sin, but when again. I
have remembered how terrible must
be the anguish of that stale, 1 have
fell that I could not bear the thought
even of loosing my soul. Thau again
have 1 prayed, then again, tried to
forget; then again, as to-night, has
come this strange visitor from the
spirit world, and these horrible
dre hui8.
And now, Oh: my mother, if there
have felt that bitter, pungent grief,
and sorrow of heart for this crime,
that i believe should, aud must, be
an element of genuine repentance.
1 have tried to feel this, and have
wanted to feel it, but have become
convinced that of myself, I can never
tiring it about.
"Very true," said the mother, you
cannot of yourself do this for it is
said of Christ, lhat He was exalted
lo give repentance and remission of
sin. Repentance, therefore, is the
gift, of Heaven as well as a duly of
man. If you have not grieved the
Spirit beyond the patience of God,
then He will yet help you, will yet
give you grace to repent."
All this was said in tones of deep-
est feeling and broken by sobs, that
told how a mother only can feel.
All this time the strange linger of
light rested upon the humble home,
and lighted, dimly lighted the room
within, so that I could see all this sad
tragedy of the night. But those who
were so awfully concerned in this
tragedy saw it not and 1 was glad
they did not.
I saw that they read for a long
time from and old worn copy of the
Bible. They read, or rather the mo-
ther read, "Thou shall uot kill,"
and then they talked of what this
command should mean, and of the
great guilt of one who would dare
transgress it. 1 lie mother talked,
not as our preachers often do in in
difference, but as one who would
save a child from the condemnation
of the great God. As one who would
have her beloved sou reprieved from
the sentence already passed upon
him. As only a tender loving mo-
ther could talk. She showed that
God hated only the sin, while he
loved and pitied the guilty sinner.
Then they both bowed in prayer ;
but that prayer; it was too sacred,
the scene too solemn, my pen dare not
alleuipt lo repeat it. ll was only for
the ear of the Almighty Judge of the
generation of men.
My own eyes lllled with tears, aud
my heart burned with the lenderest
sympathy, as, in an awe that was
awful, 1 listened to the tender plead-
ings of that poor mother, as she beg-
ged a righteous God in Heaven to
save her poor boy.
I said, I know God will hear and
in his own time will answer, and I was
comforted.
Then I saw that they talked and
they wondered how it happened that
they had been so strangely troubled,
how they had so strangely dreamed.
And the young man said, "mother
do you think it could have been an
Angle from Heaven that came to our
house to-night?" Aud the mother
replied, "It may have been."
But as 1 turned away from this
sad home, and again looked into the
face of my ghostly captor, I said 1
don't know, either that, or a devil
from hell.
[TO Hi: CONTINt'Kli.]
Cc Erhard & Son
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DRUGGISTS
Rastrop
Texas. .
...Proscription* carefully com-
...pounded at all hour*...l'AT-
...KNT Mkuicinks of all kinds.
St. Louis has one church to 2800
of population, New York one to 2,-
IfiH, Chicago one to 2,081, Boston
one to 1,1100, ami Minneapolis one to
1,054.
The are fifty manufactories in Oer-
mauy engaged in making imitation
butter. A factory in Mannheim is
said to produce 0,000 pounds of the
stuff from cocoanuts.
The reported death of Rev. Wim*
berly, from yellow fever at New
Orleans, the Brcnham Banner notes
the reverened gentleman writing to a
lady in Itrcnhain, that lie is only not
dead, but is "prospering above his
expectations."
It is said in Virginia that the peo-
ple of Kansas believe that the con-
federate notes ought still to be good
money, and are willing to make them
good by accepting them, aud it is
told that at least one Kansaan has
written the Richmond chief of police
asking for all of them that he can get.
An Indiana professor w ho took out
a SJ.'toOO insurance policy in 1850 re-
ceived an offer from the company
twenty yep.rs ago to cash the policy
for 82000 or pay him an annuity of
8110. He elected to take the annuity,
and now, at the age of 90 years, has
drawn from the company more than
$8000.
Many stories are told relative to
the illegibility of the penmanship of
Itufus Choate, the famous lawyer. It
is said that he once openly congratu-
lated himself on the fact that "if he
failed to get a living at the liar, he
could still go to China and support
himself by his pen ; that is, by de-
corating tea chests."
Italian physicians are now feeding
patients too weak to take nourish-
ment in any other way bv injections
of oil beneath the skin, in two cases
of diabetes treated recently at Turin
as much as three ounces of olive oil
were injected, and the increase in
body weight and general well-being
showed that the oil was absorbed by
the tissues rapidly and effectively.
There is only one state in the union
where divorce ij forbidden by civil
law, aud that is South Carolina, says
James R. Randall, in a letter to the
Catholic Mirror; but, he adds, "I
am afrtrid, however, that some South
Carolinians take advantage of their
proximity to Georgia, where the
iug, directly to the subscriber, the operation of (man and wife by a
need of a proof reader is often felt.
For example. In a Missouri ofticc,
In small country newspaper otllces
where the copy goes from the editor
to the compositor, then, after print-
court edict is comparatively facile."
Brides are not the only oues why
seek some lucky token for their uiar-
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Perfect Fit Guaranteed,
a short time ago, the boy in "making
up" the forms got the galleys mixed, j riage habiliments. One of the most
... | ' 'l0 l)arl 0,,iluary aristocratic of bridegrooms of New
IS any re ief or any hope please tell impecunious citizen had been dumped | Vork recentlyjwent to the altar wear-
me. there be mercy and forgive-1 in lllc form9, aml the next handful of | jDR a palr of ^ Uml w,re knitl0ll
.less with the good God whom you! type came fro... a galley in which furly V(!ftrH Bg0t aud which had al-
wasa description of a lire. The agured ia lwo wcd.ling, both
country folks >tere much startled ' 0 for abundant in happiness. The
When they came to the paragraph 1 90ck(J havo gotK! |ut0 uaiuphor rL.tiru.
which reail thus: I lie pallbearers (or t[,e use ofjfiiture gramisons.
lowered the body to the grave. It -
was consigned to the llaincs. There; Basil Haydeu, who was aconfeder-
were few, if any, regrets, for the old soldier, has lived in good health
wreck had been an eyesore to the in his house at Bloomlield. Ivy., since
town for years. Of course, 'here 1803, aud not once in all that time
was individual loss, but that was has he Bet his foot on the ground.
by insurance." Kv- The Lord was not good to him in al-
j lowing his negroes to go Lee, he said.
have always loved and served, then
1 want, with all my heart, that uiy
mother's God shall become mine.
The mother only wept, and none
lint God in Heaven knew the anguish
she felt. Having no words to express
her feelings, and shocked by the aw-
ful confession to which she had just
listened she sat in silence some time.
Then at last the mother's love pre-
vailing she said, "My son, God al- j fully covered
ways forgives the sins of which men change.
really repent. He will pardon you
when in real peniteucc you cotue to
Him."
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aud he vowed never to put foot on
Nearly half a million Knglish peo- the Lord's earth again. Such is the
pie get married] every year, and the story told in connection with a report
"But mother," said he,* there has average annual number of applica- of a mule sale conducted by Haydeu
always been my trouble. 1 never • tioua for divorce ia only 57o. I at his home.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 20, 1897, newspaper, November 20, 1897; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205373/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.