The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 12, 1902 Page: 8 of 8
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ii.'iIiIi' ll'.,ting
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Mil Mich a I < .ii Ii 11\i'ii Mainii'l
Salv:idc;i, famous a- a hunter ami
11 was ho who killed a
humled w uh hi> knife.
' •:! who swung across
•' m a \ ii o niiil
nr • ' of ' U | eople
fr'on iIn- llouil, .i.i i ii i,.i lie who
when held lip as a lirro > urned flit*
term and asked, "I-, it nut a man's
♦Int v In dn ri *!11 r" So it will ho
him'11 that this Indian was u.mpic
his way, and hi- comradcs ■ • r tho
pooplo of his tribe looked upon him
nilit something akin in reverence.
To secure Salvadca's services was
a guarantee of game or iisli. Yet
for a fisherman he entertained some
f -Miliar idi'lis. ! le nhjoctoil to Ink
11 «; llsli for pleasure ami hud been
k:iown to lift a comrade ami hurl
im into the water for killing a lish
nown as the lia-ar. lie seemed to
ho the self eon titiited champion of
the linnv tribe. Wh\ ? Let him tell
his own storv:
"I protect 1 he I -lies, si nor, be-
cause I hey cared I'm mo when I v.a-
licl j ■' ■ -s. If a an : i, .|| does \ mi a
son ice, you i.in hut return it. I
did iml alwa\ - i In nk so. 11 w is
tin- way: Two year- a o I live,' o:i
the upp r bram-h of tit (,oierfo, 11■<>
little stream which vvi l.clieve rises
smoke, and
were near,
aloud, mi I
lis ho* still
the hours
ie. at I ui "11 I Inok-d
In ll-til) to II IV'W |
I >• h that tiie
• i*i d v. nil i. he.-, all ,
dnw ti I he ill'Y bed of j
nili • erect upon !
•ll ..f Will r. The.
Illhi'd over Ice, I
i\ lace, and I caught |
theni, ate tiielii and piled lliein lip I
*!> i ll t e
" 11 "pC wis r \ i , I Mil < t I
i , 1 no| nn■ i • i i.i .i' '
Mn- l hat some one would Iliul me. I
I >;r. s pas-i d, . i .i I Iri _■ red on. I
had dug ii hole with my Ireo hand, j
and en11 , ;h Hull i' ,„, 'i',| 111mil::h lo 1
<ii-1ii111 iih . wlnle the li-hes that still !
crawled |.\ me provided me with!
food. Il'iw loii'.' ii Mils I know not,
hut one (lav I saw above the tre. a
I knew (hat my people
I w;|s too weak lo i rv
lav and watched. The
went on, and I passi '
by counting them and
I watching their curious ways. Tliev
| Used the two tins like arms or legs,
I sometimes toppling over upon their
j sides, now entering the little pools
i In refresh i' ie im .-I \ i -, 11111 so in leav
| iter tho wiiter to crawl along again.
"While I watched I hem it came to
j me that liny were going to the
I mouth of lliu river to avoid the
drought, and could I not solid a
message to my people? It was an.
easy matter to tear my shirt, and ,
with my tooth I shaped bits of while
cloth until I had a hundred or more.
Then I began to catch the fish. Kv-
erv one that passed me loft with a
hit ol° while cloth pushed upon the!
spine of its upper tin. The next ;
day I did tho same, and f>>r throe
days I sent those messengers to mv
people. The lish wi re black, <onor.
and (he white cloth could be seen
(juito a distance.
"The d v< went bv, how many I
know not, when one night I dream-
ed that i mv mv friends. i ivokfl
to see a great Ii lit ami in the cent, r
medieval preaching.
3'rrror>- r-iiv.r:-d t:i t'ie Vr.-ru:.
an I Pics^rvcJ In Latin.
The I'.nil:.ms w.ro not. as >
hi i i' < >l. .! < inventor
t ^
^ ~ >; ■<> ^ i
it i
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I
tioiarv pi
lovi i: In t. I
of joy. Hut
I inn-*
I lived,
fi
wIlCI'i!
ir away in t.'ie iiji country,
the white peaks reach toward the
heavens. In tho Reason the river
was low, and then we caught turtle,
igiuiiia and the game upon which wo
live I knew of a a rtain place
where game was plenty, and one
day, without saying a word, I left
the camp and paddled down I It" riv-
et .lid, leaving the online lied to a
lin.ie, cut my way a< i country to
the spot. You know, scnor, that
the water is always washing away
the banks ami undermining the
trees. Well, so it was on the little
r r. When I reach, d it, I found
i; lower ti an ever so low that the
sand was bare in places and pools
were left even where alive w ith lish.
"As I unloaded my basket and
not I heard a loud crash and, turn-
ing to see the cause, saw a large
niona tree falling upon mo. It was
too late to escape, so I threw my-
self upon the sands. The next hours
Wore a deep sleep. 1 knew nothing,
a' i when 1 awoke it was dark. I
t is lying partly in the water, and
ever mv log was a branch of the
tree. 1 was powerless and could not
move, and I know a rain would pro-
tl ice .a freshet that would cover me
ton foot deep in as many minutes.
-All this, enor, came over me, a sud-
den dream. It was useless to shout,
I was miles away and had taken
food care to toll no one where I had
ironc. Morning came, and 1 then
law mv condition fully. I was he'd
by inv legs and riiriit arm. My loft
am was free, but I could not reach
the sand at my feet to dig it away.
J was bound a- fast as they say our
1msmen in the north country bound
tie ir victims for sacrifice. At the
end of tho day I was very weak and
■to the leaves.
' The next day I ale the mud and
water and some worms which 1
found. The stream was growing
JoiWer and water about mo evaporat-
ir : in tho Iml sun, and the insects
bade fair to destroy me. At night
the jaguar'.- cry fell upon my car,
ami every rustle of the loaves, tho
► : -hing of the wind, arou.-ed me.
I id vou ever hear the loaves talk,
•cuor? They do, though it i- only
at certain llines that we can inter-
pret them. Our nerves must bo
turned to a limber tension, as ba-
tter Moreno -;iv«: then wo can ro-
ipond to them. I seemed to hear
founds I never hoard before. I ho
leaven ma'lfeb, isic, ; l#«* ml sighed
among the ' Wv's and -oft notes m-<
everywhere, and 1 imagined they
were talking to me.
"Five (lavs had passed, the water
wr's gone, and I was so weak that I
waited for death. As the sun rose
and I was thinking how hard it was
to give up life I felt something
touch inv hand. At first I thought
it .imagination, then by an effort I
tuned my head —Santa Maria! to
ace a miracle. On my outstretched
L.wiJ wii.; u fish we call the hassar.
r - -vjed int > it ii'd lay panting,
and Bbuttimr ii« gilU and
' a in-* with iu dark eves. I
i. • i 1 luiuit be dreaming, but 1 ;
the one
have die
nor." And bore the tall Indian
throw hi- arm about a young girl
whose dark eyes glennu I v.ith lor
ror ;.t the mcmorii - aroiisi d "She,1
my wife, i'liun.l mo, and the m<'.--age
was carried to her by the has-ars. |
So, senor, (he lish saved inv life,
brought me my wife What, would
you have me do? Fnrget tlioin ? I
iliink not."
Such wits the rnmanee and almost
trig. Iv of SalVii'lea. lie had boon
crushed bv tho tree for nearly two
weeks. I lis people had bearelied far
and near without success, iin.l when
the canoe was found it wa- supposed
he had fallen overboard and was
lost. Hut there was one who did not
give up. She wandered farther j
down the stream than the others j
and one day pushed her canoe up a
little stream, rapidly growing dry,
to catch a turtle. Here she was at-
tract"'! by the liassars that were
coming down overland and escaping
into the main water. While she
watched them she noticed one with
a white object upon its fin, then an-
other. Catching the fish, she saw
that it was no accident, but an in-
tentional decoration. Following up,
she saw others and soon recognized
tho fact that it was a message from
some one, possibly the lost one.
I'p the stream she wont, sinking
in the soft mud over which the
fishes had safely passed, crossing)
quicksands, leaping from trunk to
trunk until she finally found her
lover apparently dead so near it.
that it was months before he walk- |
ed. With her hands she dug the
sand and mud away and then boro
his emaciated form, breaking a pas-
sage through the lianes, to the
camp. No wonder ho looked at her
with loving eyes, and no wonder he
protected the liassars.
Salvadea's story might sootn a fic-
tion of the Amazon, but the habit
of the liassars and other cat fishes of
leaving the water and crawling over-
land is a common one and is equally
we!I known m India in the climbing
porch. The lish do not carry wati r
in their giils during tho •• overland
jouriiev-. as is generally supposed,
but breathe air and for the time a re*
true amphibians.
Natural Sand Clasts.
The idea of cutting designs on
glass by forcing sand against the
surface of plates and vo- els of that
material was lir-t suggested !>v one
of nature's freak-, ju.-t as hundreds
of other inventions have been. An
observing young man w ho was «uni
mcring on the c.a.-t of New Kng
land noticed that the windstorms in
that, section frequently gathered up
large loads of sand and hurled it
with much force agaii.-t exposed (
window panes and that tho-o with-
in a very short time were worn
through and had to be replaced. In
daces where they wore protected by •
eaves, vines, mosquito netting, etc., i
the glistening surface was left in-
tact. lie set about utilizing old na-
ture's hint at once, the result being
a machine which does work that |
cannot even be imitated iu any oth
er wuv.
hu g. I iio praet no
It tniiilv inediievnl and was
o time of Kli/ .beth.
11; I We IIH et '"(!'•
Ii \ii ill ios in determine v. hi. It w« v
>ji I .a in ami m In h ill I In conn! ' *
d .,., -I t s nl t! ie i Ii' , \\ 111 11 -o i in 1,1-
1 l' I t 'i'' I'd, ' 1' ' • t' O
i; ,'akirt ami ihe v ritm:r, t i iii it i-
ii n i ■:. r oi « i. ier i •• ' •.
si'iuiiri. - (■"uld in many cum ha>i
don" 'he work tliev are credited
wi;h, unit • \• pr up;,o e on l!,i
part of the ma>-o- a itiuch grc.li ;
ki-o '. led, ' of Latin t hail i i n
inonlv sup|)osed. I !iis, how '\cj',
would seem to he pro .alile name-
ly, that the ".-I'fiuoiK - ad populiim"
of llio eiglilh, niiitli and tenth cen-
turies were generally delivered in
tin vernacular and extemporary and
afterward translated into I.aim oi-
lier by the orator himself or some
hearer.
What will strike the ivorage non-
Oatholie a- so vi "v strange, in view |
oi the current opinion to the oppo- ,
^ite, is (he almost marvelous grasp
of Scripture of tho typical modiicval |
preacher, whether we tonsider the
number of quotations, their variety
or the interpretation of the sinio.
N'eale estimates as ten to one the
ratio between a modiicval serin ui
and that of a modern divine as re-
gards the number of texts custom-
arily cited. The contrast is still
greater when we turn to the manner
of citation, the inedia val preacher
.hing naturally, easily, logically as
■ me sal urate.1 with Scripture frmii
its being his own daily spiritual
food, the modern ill at ease, tacking
on ii quotation hero and there, often
uselessly, altogcth r v illi tho air of
a man who feels rati., r shaky when
treating aa unl'amii ar subject. Tho
one evidently read the Scriptures,
I |,e o; ' r 1 ■ • com u ii.nice and in
de.x. Catholic World
How He Fouivl Cut.
Schoollcai In I - -omctlines ask
their pupils queer questions, if one
tnav believe a story told bv the
younje.-t member ol ,:ie W ithiligtoii
family.
Hi.- mother one morning discov-
ered a shortage in her supplies of
pics, baked tie- d.iv I fore, and Ii r
sui-picioiis fell upon •lohiiny.
".lohimV," she said, "do yn i know
what became of thai cherry pie that
wa- on the second sle !1 in the piin-
try ?"
"Yes, i.i.i'an)."' lie r jdied. "1 ale
it. Hut I had to."
"You had to!" exclaimed his as-
tonished mother. "W hat do you
mean, child?"
"Tin teacher a ked y terdav if
anv of us could loll how nuMiv
stones there are in a cherry pi. , and
I couldn't find out without eating
the whole pie, could I ? There's just
1 15."
She Purchased Then.
She wasn't exactly old, but tlio (
discriminating observer could see
that she hadn't seen tho inside of a
schoolroom for at loa-t ten years.
The shopman throw down piece aft-
er piece of Hooey white material he-
fore iicr critical eves, but none of
them seemed to claim her unreserv-
ed admiration. She y*a.i taking a
groat doiil "f his time, and the ^11k
counter was crowded, so he decided
to play his trump card.
Holding up a length of crepe do
chine so that it fell in a perfect cat-1
araet of shimmering fold-, he re-
marked reflectively as if to himself
alone, "The best thing for graduat-
ing purposed we have had in the
store this year." The e!!'oet was in-
stantaneous, and in another minute
tho tactful salesman was measuring
off ii full pattern for his well pleased
[ait ron.
Ruling Servants (1683).
Nan Newton, for I leaking a Tea-
pot in I'liill's I 'hiinibei, V- '"!.
Hichard Knight, for I'ndc and
Slighting, ','s lid,
William IIctheriirjton, for not
being ready to go to t'hureh three
SundayHK
I ijo I'irdall, for being at Nuneat-
on from morning to night, .ris.
('ook, .Ii ad drunk, lo.-.
Anne Adams, to he va humid at
I.a ly I >av. She went away the 'J!Mh
of dune for being wanton and can -
loss'. She lost five pair- of shoots
and l',yi pillowbeers, [or which inv
wife made Ir r p. 11. I rum liiary
of Sir liiehard N, '.vdigate.
Bo'iqht Up Offending Ctgana.
A story is related of the compos-
er \ cr.li I hiit has to do y\ ith organs.
One time ii friend wiiile visiting
him was shown through tho compos-
er's homo. When tho door was
opened into one room, it was found
to In; filled with barrel organs of all
sizes and patterns.
" Wha { on earth are you doing
with all those?" ii kcd the aston-
ished friend.
"Those arc a few (hat have an-
noyed mo with M.a Miserere,'" an-
swered the great artist, "and they
will iic.cr do so again."
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A L i a^ U i a * : V i i ii:)
The (invit :i in I v icnuiiit- Attraction tor Jiastrop ami county
y (liirimr t!i • ^ww !• [}
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>i tie's Fuvuri
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Vs.a 4.^ W ti j w «. Wi <*4 it Ii ii 4 i>n ti
n- which U known far and w i lo for ii> St^l'AIlK iM']ALLV<iS with i4s patrons
X all over lJa>tio| county. Daring the year I'.hlli, we intend making the ||((
(iLTSK I: LSI'AI 11 AN I' AND UAKKIiV a Greater Attraction than ever.
Call and price our Goods and the low prices will astonish you.
■wacannvmiiiw i,i a i.iic.'mhiiiii iw ——
Dry Goods anduroG^nies
e j>ride our.sehes upon the elecrant I)!IV GOODS and GKOCHR-
IK> carried by our hoti>e, and when it conies to QUALITY" and
I'MCK, we invite the closest inspection. l>elievin^ fair, honest,
square dealings will win golden opinions from the trading puMic.
BEPJR and ICE.
e are also Agents for the celebrated . .
ANHUESER-BUSCH BEER
! ^ d receive regularly Pme and Solid Ice
J BY THE CAR LOAD,
jffy Wo also have the agonoy for the great Health Food,
malt nutrine.
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LOUIS,MO
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Base's Besiaranl aiil Bakery
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ADVERT ISER'S AGENTS.
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General Agent—.J. ii. (iillunpy.
I'nige—J. I'. Kelhim.
McD.ide —1 <eorge Mlltos and w. M
S. Porter. i
Klgin—MisH K. Sheashy. jt?
Cedar Creek—J. I). Alexander.
lied Hock—Uiih Jung, Joe I'rolmt
and 1*. W. Harris. ^
Watterson—C. C. Watterson and j ^
1'. W. Harris. ,
Smithville—Geo. M Gentry. j
THE WORLD'S BEST
THE-
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CHICKERING
PIANO.
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BASTKOf CHAFI KK, NO. !♦«,
K. A. M.,
H 'Kular meeting ^
Tv yr
the staunch old Aiueriean house, Cliiekerinir dt Sons of
^ Boston, established
The New Style
Chickering Grand
the F I r h t Saturday
.J. I" absolutely tho acme of perfection iu I'iano Huihling. It is a
■%: model for all others, none excepted
Night In aacb month.! 7$ ..... r „ |f... . V(, „IAVll.
T. c, CAIN, I 7>
M. K. II. I\
W M. ANi>iiiws,
Sec'ty.
.t. 1 lie C HICK KU1 Nl > 1'I AN()S have received more medals,
' 11 tl' Ii Pi I ^ Ik ■ I , I , >1 ll,,r I k fN k t . . m . . ftl. ...... III! I • i k
ja and others honors, ihun all hi^h ^raih* Pianos combined.
±/ ' here is n,i other I'iano on earth that can eiiual the new style '
BASTROP LOIMiK, NO. 113,
KNIOIITS OK I'TTHIAS,
Regular meeting
Friday ni^ht "f «aeh
week.
K. II. I'KIIKIN.H,
C. C
'I'HOS. II. I'AIIKS,
K. of K. A S
UAMBLK IiOIXiK, No. 2 11>,
A. K. A A. M.,
Ki'ifiiliir mcet-
in>{. ttli Saliinlsy
ri I ti h t In eac
mo ith
('. kihiakii.
W. M.
. M. Amhii.V.
S.'et'y.
BASTROP CAMP, NO. 7i«,
iyJift:
I mil the new style
^ UH KKKINi. ' i K \NI) iii respect Io tone. It im a masterpiece,
^ the result .,f 7s yours oontitnuMi* nciinifaetiire ainl (levelopcinent
j. on sclentitie- principles.
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with priilc in the most critical inieiclmis.
Popular Fa venter pj^g
These :ire not as costly as other high grade 1'ianos, still a
modern Hmersou in the Family circle is something to lie shown
4r u
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THE GOGGAN PIANOS. |
There is iiutliiri/ ("in lie In I eijiial to these f,>r the price. I'hey *%*
are specially :n i Ie to our order for Pox is eliinnto. "
We carry everything in the music line, and have houses in ^
* Galveston Dailas, San Antonio Houston. Austin. Waco. ^
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Thus, Goggan £ Bro.
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A. T. Mokiiis, 0. C
J. R. l.iurau,.C,erk
J. THIELEMANN.
THE GUNSMITH,
Is jii'st in rcccipt of ii largo and complete line of
RIFLE, SHOT and TARGET GUNS, PISTOLS.
We have all sizes and makes of amunition. All kinds
of fishing tackle. In fact, everything carried in tho
sporting line. Call and inspect stock.
J. THIELEMANN.
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