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VOLUME 4 ;. BABTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1898. NUMBER 3.
W. J. MILEY,
DRUGGIST.
Bastrop,
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Special ftiiil careful attention
given to the Prescription I >e-
partmeut. and patrons waited
on either day or night... A full
tine of I'ATK.NTj MKDICINKS.
I'KKKtlMKHV. Toii.kt Auric-
LKS, Htationbkv, Ktc., Etc.
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PROFESSIONAL CARPS
Lawyers.
II M (IARWOOD
. D. OKU A IN
QRG A1N & (J AR WOOD
Attorneys-at-Lazv.
HiKtrop. To.xn.
Will practice' III *11 till- IiIkIivt ini't In-
ferior fourtH.
PAUl. II PAUK
K K HIUUINH.
PACK & HIG GIN S
Attorncys-at Lino,
Haatrop, Toa«
WII5 pr«< tleo In all It c Court* ot I tie stato.
Okkii v nvcr Klrat National Hank
(i. W JON I S
J. 8. JON ICS
JONES & J OMRS
Attorncys-at Laic.
HA8TR0P, - - - TEXAS.
Orrit'*—L'p«t lr In Krhard I<<1II<I111K
J AS. W, MOKU1S,
Attorney-at Law.
bastrop.
T K X A -
All bu tnet. wit! rwwtve careful aud
prompt Attention.
Orririt--Wiib Oounljr Attorney.
J. 1'. FOWLER
/11torn ey-at La zt>,
Hmtrop. I'rxai
Will practice III all the Hlxlicr anil
Iciior < txirlK
OKKH'K—1 Ivor Klriil National Wank
C. c. higiismith,
Attorney-at-Law and
Comity Attorney.
BASTROP. .... T K X A S
Will practice In all the Higher Court".
J, B. PRICE
County Judge and
Attovney-at-Lazv.
Haatrop. Teas
Will practice In all Hip higher oourta.
Physicians and Surgeons.
H. 1' LUCKKl I , M. I)
Physician Cf Surgeon.
Haatrop. Texas.
0CKI1 1 Al W J. Mlleji'* l>rug Store
W. E. FOWLER, M. I>
Physician and Surgeon.
11 an I lop, Torn*
( H JC K.—At W .1 Mile) - Drug *loi<\
H. B. COM US, M. I>
County Physician
and Surgeon.
BAHTROP. • ■ ■ 1 K X A H
O • km v -*<" Ivrlmnl & n * I'ruK sum*
Rhall'KNi K J. h Olive a.
Dentists.
FIGHTING FORCES OF THE WORLD.
jL V 1
Tub
Pearl Beer.
MANITAOTKKD BY
SAX ANTONIO
BUEWIXG
ASSOCIATION
!I:*h taken the Lead in Texas on account of
11 Nourishing qualities. Once Tried Always
Used. For Sale In liastrop by ;
V. SCHILL, Manager.
cotton seed
w? 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 JVIill Co.
*
Best hiked
inhere Best Knouun
When 83,000 Bicyles of one name are
sold in one year by one manufacturer,
the chances are that that make of Bicy-
cle is apt to be well known. It also fol-
lows that it must be a good cne to find
so many purchasers. Buyers are better
posted and more particular than they
used to be. This makes it easier to sell
|crescents
PRICES. $20, $^5, $30 for Juveniles.
$50 for Adults.
$75 forTandem and Chainless
LiEO ZIETEJ4, flgt., -
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For the
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The latest addition to the military
census of the world, presents some
queer figures. At the present time
Europe has .'(,500,000 men under
arms. The following are the figures
of the different armies 011 a peace
footing, says the New York Sun:
Men
10,000
20,000
,"i,000
86.000
47 000
52,000
57,000
NEW YEAR'
wm. k^sselus,
"THE TAILOR,"
Denmark.
Servla
Holland
Greece
Portugal
Itoumanla
Belgium
Sweden and Norway
Spain #0,000
Switzerland 125,000
Turkey 180,000
(Ireat Britain *<100,000
Italy . *240.000
Austiia 300,(Mio
France.. . . 570,000
(iermany 5*0,000
Itussia 81H >,000
The above armies employ 550,000
horses in time of peace.
In Asia there are about 800,000
men under arms, divided as follows:
Persia, 25,000; .Japau, 100,000; In-
dia, 200,000; China, 270,000; and
the remainder in the other Asiatic
countries.
North and South America are set
down as the least protected, consider-
•ig the extent of territory. They
foot up, on a peace footing, of course
only 100,000 regular soldiers, scat-
tered as follows: Mexico, 40,000;
the United Slates, 80,000; and 'JO,-
000 in lira/.il, the Argentine Repub-
lic, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Vene-
zuela, and Columbia.
In Africa and the archipelagoes of
Oceanica there are about 150,000 re-
gulars.
The standing armies of all civilized
nations amount to 4,610,000 soldiers,
with 700,000 horses. The cost of
keeping this military population
amoi'uts to about live billion dollars
a year.
So much for the armies in time of
peace. Now let us take a look al
the figures in war paint. Here thcy
are:
Men.
Turkey 700,000
Spain . . I'.to.ooo
Servla 210,000
Sweden aud Norway 430,000
Koumania ..... 100,000
Denmark.... 00,000
Belgium 107,000
Austria (all reserve forces) . . 2,000,000
Italy 8,000,000
Russia 5.000,000
Wurinany .... 4,600,000
France 4,380,000
hngiand 000,000
Japan 500,000
South American republics 000,000
China 850.0(H)
United States. 200,000
No doubt the statistician, while
wading through the above Hood of
figures, forgot some of the National
! (iuard of the United States, but one
lean easily afford to forgive him. His
discoveries are interesting all the
same.
DEATH RATES oV"THE SPANISH
ARMY IN CUBA.
years' campaign, in spite of number-
less royalist "victories," leaves Cuba
as precarious a Spauish possession
as ever; while a whole generation
must intervene before island and
motherland alike can recover from
the loss of blood, property and |
treasures.
GENERAL TllZHUGH LEE.
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C. Erhard & Son
T"
DRUGGISTS
J)K. N. KOWLKlt
Dentist.
O CK—Over firm National flank
S, IIUEli C. LUCKETT,
V
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Respectfully invites his many Customers, J
Friends and the Public to call and examine
his Mammoth Stock of ths Latest I
F°rei3n a"d I
Domestic Woolens, |
— \
which he will make up as Cheap as any jt
other First-class Tailoring Establishment, y
He calls attention to the so-called "ready i
made" clothing tailors—remember, uthe J1
1/ cheapest is not always the best." All of
5 his clothing are made in Bastrop and guar-
^ anteod to fit, and the cheapest in the end.
(Thanking one and all for their patron-
1 age, and awaiting futher favors, I remain,
i YOURS TO PLEASE,
Inspector-(ieneral Losada, of the
Spanish forces in Cuba,recently issttetl
liis otlicial report, says The Medical
News, 111 which are indicated losses
almost without precedent in modern
times. His report shows that out
of the 200,000 soldier? sent by Spain
to put down the insurrection in the
island from the beginning of Febru-
ary, 18'.i5, to the beginning of Decem-
ber of the year just terminated, not
more than 53,000 (a little over one-
New Orleans Picayune.
The request of the Spanish Gov-
ernment that the President recall
General Fit/.h ugh Lee, llie American
Consul General at Havana, and the
refusal of President Mclvinley to ac-
cede to this request, are the most
sensational developments in the
Cuban problem since the Maine dis-
aster. No specific charges are made
against General Lee, although it is
vaguely intimated that he has offend
ed the Spanish Government by a too
active sympathy with the starving
Cubans. It is clear, however, that
the real cause of the displeasure of
Spain is the firmuess shown by the
Consul (ieneral in protecting Ameri-
can interests.
The people of the United States,
irrespective of party opinion or allll-
iatiou, will applaud the refusal of
President McKinley to recall (ieneral
Lee. In wording his refusal, the
President is quoted as saying that
"he has borne himself throughout
this crisis with judgment, fidelity
and courage, aud to the President's
entire satisfaction." This is a strong
indorsement of General Lee's course,
and if, in the face of such au avowal
of the satisfaction of the YYashiuglou
Government, our Consul General
should be given his passports, it will
then become useless for the United
Slates to be further represented at
Havana.
The fact that General Lee is a
Southerner, and a Confederate Gen«
eral at that, makes the satisfaction
expressed by the Northern press and
by the Republican leaders in Con-
gress. and a Republican administra-
tion, all the more gratifying. We of
the South have always known that
the national honor could be placed
in no safer hands than in those of
the soldiers of the lost cause ; but
our Northern friends have not always
appreciated that fact. This is the
first opportunity a Southern soidicr
of high rank has had to prove his
patriotism and fidelity to the nation-
al interests, and we have President
McKinley's testimony and the satis-
faction of the entire Northern press
to show that he has acquitted himself
brilliantly.
The splendid course of General
Lee at Havana will forever remove
the prejudice which has heretofore
existed against the employment of
Confederate soldiers iu the public
service. It lias always been a bitter
reflection for Southerners, who know
their sterling worth, to see the pa-
triotism of the old Confederate sol-
diers doubted ; hence they can now
rejoice that the very first time a
practical test has been made, this an-
cient prejudice has been dispelled.
There is no Southerner who will not
rejoice at General Lee's triumph,
and who will not feel some personal
interests in any honors that may be
conferred upon him in recognition of
his manly course in Havana. It is
many a day since an
Bastrop,
tkxas. ..
Prescriptions carefully con«-
poumleil Ht all hours... I'at-
If.NT Mkoicink.s of all kinds
8PAIN.
Atlanta !Mctator.
Show us a man who loves human
nature and we will show you a man
who hates, and is hated by Spain.
Kvery man who ever took a step iu
the march of progress has been am-
bushed by Spanish soldiers. If Spdu
ever took oue step forward it was to
enable her to get within gunshot of
some friend of the human race.
Other nations have shed oceans of
blood that some humane beings might
be free. Spain has shed blood that
she might enslave. Follow the path
of civilization back, back, month
after month, year after year, century
after century, back to where the
faint trail is lost iu the sombre shades
of eternity, and at each step of the
way you will find the skeletons of
every man or woman who for one
moment ever lifted up the torch of
reason—murdered by Spain.
The people of other nations built
ships that they might, carry merchan-
dise aud civilisation to distant parts
of the earth; the people of Spaiu
built ships that they might become
pirates. Other nations invented the
spade and shovel; Spain invented
the thumb-screw. The men of other
nations studied anaiomy, that they
might set broken honen with the
least pain to the sufferer ; the men
of Spaiu studied anatomy that they
might, on the rack, break human
bones with the greatest pain to the
victim. Other nations organize "so-
cieties for the prevention of cruelty
to animals;" Spain organizes "so-
cieties for the encouragement of bull-
fights."
Other nations built jails iu which
to incarcerate criminals; Spaiu built
dungeons in which to cast honest
men who interfered with Spanish
criminals. Other nations point with
pride to their schools ; Spain points
witli pride to her inquisition. The
army of no other nation was ever
known to burn a scoool house; the
aimy of Spain was never known to
pans a school house without reducing
it to ashes. A soldier of no other
nation, except when drunk, was ever
kuowu to murder a baby 111 iis cradle ;
a soldier of Spain, except when
drunk, was never kuown to pas.i a
baby in a cradle without murder-
ing it.
I lie men of other nations study
chemistry, that they might distill an-
tidoles; the men of Spain study
chemistry that they might distill
poisou. For every Darwin, Hum-
boldt, Spencer, Stephenson, Fulton
and Edison that the other nations
have given the world, Spain has given
a Lucretia Horgia.
Mo t nations have shed blood
American! ''K'Hiug for the right; Spain has
. , never shed one drop of blood in the
diplomatic or consular representative c#lWM o( ,llimaa |iherty> ()lher na.
has reflected such honor on the re- ti<;>a\ their debts because they
public. | owe them ; Spain pays her debts that
-•••■ she might borrow more. Other na-
Tlie Starkville, (Miss.), Times re- lions say to the weak, come! Spain
fourth) are at this moment fit for I porlH lwo millionaire preachers in says to the oppressed, go! Oilier na-
aclive service. The 117,000 are j Mississippi. One is Rev. 1. w. ''<>D8 saJ to the ignorant, welcome;
the '
i either
Spain says to the learned, stand
D. L). S., {Dentist.)
Uaynlu HulMIng, Mit ouk Fluoi.
V
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TAILOR
WM. KESSELUS,
t < O w% J* . u* - vh wr7 fc* ^ I
.M'J
dead or sent back to llie, Dye, Methodist, who resides on his j>J1(.|v
motherland ill or wounded. 1 lie iurge plantation of hundreds of acres Hi tin
I causes of this unprecedented death j in Tunica county. The other is Rev.
rate and sick list are (besides casu- j, |„ .Johuson, a Baptist minister,
allies iu action) mainly three: (1) who resides near Duck Hill, in a
the inapproprialeness, of the clolh- j magultlcient mansion amid the lux-
ing furnished to the European troops, ,,rjeH ,,f wealth.
(2) fatigue; and (M) lack of food.
The report, which docs not apparent- The powder mill at Santa ('ru/., plow; Spaniards taught him how to
ly err on the score f rcticeucci Cal., are running dav and nitfht, 'n'"' " l'l°w ,u,d make of it a toina-
, . . . . . .... , , hawk. Others taught the Indian
paiuts a lurid picture of military ser- making government powder. 1 he , , ,, . , i
1 1 . ■ how to build a house; the Spaniards
vice in the chief Spanish colony, entire force is being worked even on taught him how to burn one Ad In-
Luder successive generals the three Sunday, which is verj '.itusual. .jUituin.
early history <<f America,
the people from other nations taught
the Indians how to use the ax in
clearing the forests ; Spaniards taught
them how to use the ax in braining
the wife and babies of the colonists.
Others taught the Indians how to
take a scrap of iron and make a
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 19, 1898, newspaper, March 19, 1898; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205388/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.