The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 11, 1908 Page: 4 of 6
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ONE OF FIELD'S POEMS.
■f>e Frjme In Which It Wat Set «rd
tne Fun It Produced.
A ille man t!. .^ de-uribra
•n : ■ i i. 11incident wh.ili <>.. itrr<• 1
in New Orle-itm in tin1 r-prunj <..f
IM'i "I Diet Kugoiie 1 ield on one
cf Ids ; il|-nin!i^'« f r • ! hot tit*,
jt tvtir ware arid tin !.l t!..ng mi
tJ.' , ink In.' Soim fri< .'i? of
xnir ititrod , ■«! our j■art\ to Mr.
PU1' . • d Wil* '' imti a m
loxt ! > • j . It. n ; ,i\ ig
11 ji t ...> Si w 1 i: • iii.•
Mr. ] u -rt.111-~t delight m i in
UmsJp • Ml s Mi.llde define*. a Ml."
us* n' ;r 1, t! < n . . <linr udv in
HI.- IV ;rrettV oiupunv. Slu wa
ve i -i !t-.live ..! ih«m1«-m. ami ;t
d( . -cd I i' „t. at.. when lie
n i i piavfullv emhurrasc her.
"t !)• day I found him in la- ro<>tn
bi.,-\ (in the lloor pasting large
! •<:« cf brown pap> r t<^,i.W'v. H?
tiae written h poem to Mi.-.- JetTries
in th enter cf a large sheet cf
tl.i- wrapping paper in i- chanvc-
t* ri*ti. small hand—indeed, nnuli
nn. r than u-;ial. On the cdpe*
of thi- sheet 1 T aid him parting
c 11 • rs of e.juul size, >o that the
v I en pcj>:| !cte made a sin-
gle sheet about i l^ht feet s<] iare.
T!u> :.e . arefuii • t'cided ip o lit
rii aiipnivined envelope about '.be
ti/.y of a Mardi 'tra> souvenir, then
b' nt: distributed about the city.
"W ith tin jovousnesfr of a bojf
ft! t play a prank In eha>« i
d . : tail- nt the noon liour win a
k< k;.iM Mi— .letTries was at luneli
wi n Mr. Barrett in th< cafe cf the
Or !'W:ild. Calling a waiter, lie
went the hup envelope in t<> h«r
t.v it Slit glanced at it a moment
ur.d i'.en gradually drew the pjt k-
uge from its envelope, while Field
and I stood watching behind the
entrance. It spread all over the
table as she continued to unfold
the enormous sheet, and its rustle
attracted the attention of nearly
every one in the room. When it
had spread itself all over Mr. Bar-
rett, who meanwhile was laughing
heartily, Mi?.- Jeffries discovered the
(>oem in Field's hand and, although
jlushing crimson, joined in the
laughter, for she knew he was some-
whore about enjoying her discom-
fiture."
Overmatched.
An amusing incident was wit-
nessed in a cigar store the other aft-
ernoon.
A newsboy, having picked up a
cigar stump, walked in and, ad-
dressing the man behind the coun-
ter, said, "Say, boss, give us a
match." The man behind the coun-
ter. looking down, said, "My young
friend, we are not here for the pur-
pose of giving away matches; w«
Bell them." "How much an dey?"
wa- the question. "<>ne cent u box,"
the clerk announced. The urchin
stuck his hand into his pocket and
firoduced, after a great deal of liunt-
ng, a penny and handed it to the
man. lie received his box of match-
es and, taking one out, lit the
"butt." Returning the box to the
man back of the case, he said, "Say,
put this box on de shelf, and when
• gentleman comes along and asks
you for a match, why, give him one
out of my box."—Cincinnati En-
quirer.
A Long Game of Checkers.
A game of draughts has been
played under very peculiar circum-
stances between two Cornish fami-
lies for the last forty years and v>
not finished yet. Whenever a mem
ber of either house dies the relatives
meet at the deceased's home as soon
Hf the funeral rites are over, where-
upon the two eldest members con-
tinue the game until one of the pay-
ers loses a man. The positions of
the draughtsmen on the board trt>
then recorded and the game p#f
poned until death gives the signal
for reopening the tus.-le. Altogotk
er nine different players have bo f«y
been implicated in the game.—Loi
don Answers.
WAKLS IN JAMAICA.
The Negroes Give Each Corpse Twt
After the Burial.
The i ■ asma- of Ireh
are n>
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"ipse. The practice j? a.-
nu n among tin ui„rot of •baua.e.,,
m the West Indie.-, but the. ..r<
■ iv ei : • - t! an tin Irish. "Ti e,
tlit iii i • (iM tl two wala* in*11 *m1
v 1 • •:, i'.
1 lu lir-t wukc ib In M «iii ihr first
}i\f. .f <i 11«j* il'.'uiL, tli' m i ni,i| on t «*
i i ,..i. when 1 « •! .
| • 1 . r. ,:jJ I lit- LuUftU
and r. i nre pro] ;tlation.
i he wake starts with a procession
t'f tin m ami- to tin gmve, where
a wl.itt ■ k .- -at. i n.i • d to make
tin perturlied spirit rest. Then
thc\ ret .rn to tin lie >-< , lijlit .t
nun;' i i of i andles and fortify tliem-
selx.'s w i:Ii immense i|ua:ititie^ of
r. in ami f 1.
' 'lie after another the mourners
yell at ! lie t> p • f tlie.r \ • ice- to the
ghc t the\ imagint to be present,
t« liing lam how much tin y loved
him ami what an excellent man he
was. Hymns are sung, and then the
spirit is supposed to be placated,
iiiul the mourners are free to have
a g "«il time.
A feast, or "eating n:abli," fol-
low-. and most of the guests get
drunk < mi strong "estate rum,"
which i practically proof spirit.
Boisterous gamcs> are played, and fa-
voriw native songs are sung.
Tin corp-c is not usually present
r.t a Jamaican wake, as it is .it an
Irish one, because in a tropical
country burial almost immediately
follows death. At the "nine night,"
as the in groes call t! . second wake,
four nieii take up t he -licet on whieh
the dead man expired. Holding il
by the conn rs, they shake it violent-
ly, calling out:
"Brcdder Dead Man! Bredder
1'ead Man! Am you dere? Here's
you ole frien's, den, come to talk
wid you. If you love we don' come
out!"
Then follow a few minutes of
terrified silence. Will the ghost ap-
pear and cause trouble? If he doe-
no t the mourners heave a sigh of
relief and conclude that their efforts
have quieted the restless spirit for-
ever. Then they start in to enjoy
themselves again.—New York Her-
ald.
the../ That the Spirit* of Depraved
Men Pa«* Into Beaitt.
Are 'h< bodies of animals inhab-
ited hy the soul* of human v.
• ill - dead and .■ ■ • ne1' >n t suet r
to. ha-t ilv at 1 he .| 'lest n.u, for il t
Hiould be answered 111)11! IV 111 t lit'
negative - n n > i at a les- to a. •
t cu t for t e uttt ! deptavitv of 11
.ii. It is a' narent to the
ihst rver th.it I aub beasts ev
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FOR YOUR
The Largest Pear Traa.
What is 6aid to be the largest ami
oldest pear tree in America is in
Michigan, near Lake Erie. It is
supposed to have !**■ planted by
the French when they first settled
in that section. Five feet al>ove
the ground this tree measures thir-
teen feet in circumference and is
sixty-five feet high. It is said also
to be a prolific bearer that rarely
fails of n full crop. No special ef-
fort has been ma<ie to prolong the
life of the tree, but it has grown
naturally a& the forest treea of sim-
ilar age.
Ha Ought to Kmw,
The late Professor Cohn, tlfc fa-
mous botanist of Breslau, thus
•pencd his course of lectures:
"The four chief constituents t i
plant* are carbon, C; oxygen, 0;
hydrogen, II. and nitrogen, S "
Then, writing dewn these four)
letters with aj parent can leseness
on the blackboard — Colin — he
errMed. observing:
"It i« clear I ought to Lriow sonc>
thinr aUiu'. botany."
Mr. Tree's Dilemma.
Anecdotes of Mr. Tree, a former
lessee of the Haymarket, are nu-
merous. On one occasion, Mr.
Maude tells us, Mr. Tree played at
a matinee some distance out of Lon-
don. Having to return to the me-
trn|ioliR in the evening to fulfill an-
other engagement, he found that
there was nothing for him to do
but to dress and "make up" in the
railway carriage during the return
journey. A railway guard ushered
ban into a carriage, and Mr. Tree
duly transformed himself into a des-
perate villain of a murderous type.
Imagine the guard's surprise on
opening the carriage door at the
London platform when he was con-
fronted by a desperado instead of
the clean shaven, immaculate gen-
tleman he had obsequiously con-
ducted to his seat an hour or two
before. Scenting a ghastly tragedy,
the guard refused to let the villain
pass. "It won't do, my man. You
have got to come along wi' me." M r.
Tree had to use all his powers of
persuasion to get clear of the guard
so that he might hurry on to reach
the Haymarket theater in time for
the play.—London Men and Worn-
en.
Amount of Sleep Required.
"A healthy infant sleeps most of
the time during the iirst few weeks,"
says a medical authority, "and in
early years people are disposed to
let children sleep as they will. But
when six or seven years old, when
school begins, this sensible policy
cornea to un end, and sleep is put ofT
persistently through all the years up
to manhood and womanhood. At
the age of ten or eleven the child is
allowed to sleep only eight or nine
hours, when its parents should in-
sist upon its having what it abso-
lutely needs that is, ten or eleven
at least. Vp to twenty a youth
need- nine hours' sleep, and an adult
should have eight. Insufficient sleep
is the crying harm of the day. The
want of proper rest and normal
conditions of the nervous system,
and especially the brain, produces a
lamentable condition.
'. of ! •' ti'Ul ■ t'l's ruined I'y
u - t' ai liav. iei . ■ 1 over half liii-
!"i p.. - of milk. Ti ink of the n p«
ut.it n- for truth that have been
il -M ived 1 iv t i o it. Think of tho
In in -I ■ that ha- been turiu d into
1' • a by tin hor-e, so that tin v who
tra.!e in that animal are h\words
anion4 their lo-s sorely tempted
bret: rcn. I'lli11a of the indefinite
j :' hi . iti"ti of this list that might
It i:..i.: ami tIn n consider if aiii-
l:,a . He or are Hot animated 11 v the
soil- of human wretches that have
pas-. I awa_\.
> inn sm il theory must be ac-
cepted. and it is not open to douht
that reasonable } pie will accept
tin-: The sou I ^ of the wicked are
condemned to pass into animals and
to -1.iv t;u n until they have discov-
ered ■ re-1itvtive tenants worse tha i
t ll«• | m-e 1X. -
This theory explains everything.
The liars inhabit iisli, the tricksters
horse* and those given to butting
in be omc i.roats. In the attempt to
end their ten.an y by I 'nling suilahlu
successors the evil spirits rc-.>rt t<
temptations, with, a!a>, unfailing
success. The half pound trout
dropping off the hook Haps hi* tail
in ec-tatic cert: .;ty that the angler
will proclaim him a live pounder at
least. And tin- look of human an-
ticipation on the face of a gout
about t'> knock sonic unsuspecting
person into a barbed wire fence can
on!v proceed from the knowledge
that the resultant explosion will
lower another soul into the mire as
a stepping stone for lainsclf.
The theory is irrefutable, and its
general acceptance would help the
world to a higher plane.— Portland
Oregon la n.
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Complete line of *'• nil l'upe1.". i'uint . ()il> mul llr i-!i
btver.s of Ciitton, Hiin - anil Other Farm i'l"' luets.
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I Clearance Sale.
f Another summer has rolled around and we
£ are prepared to offer bargains to our friends,
i Our White Goods, Lawns, Shirt Waists, Skirts, <
I Ladies' Underwear, Embroideries, Ladies
| Vests and Hosiery.
Our Kabo Rust
Proof Corset
Couldn't Forget Hi* Pet Theme.
Down in Virginia there was mi
old darky preacher who had preach-
ed about infant baptism morning
and night until his congregation
couldn't stand it any longer. They
told him to preach something else
or they'd have to lind some one who
would. He promised and the next
Sunday announced his text, "Adam,
where art thou r"
"l>is, brcdern, can be divided into
fouh heads," began the dominie,
"i irst, every man is somevvhar; sec-
ondly, most men am where they
ain't ^<>t no bus'ness to be; thirdly,
you'd better look out or you'll b«
gittin' there you'self; fo'thlv, in-
fant baptism. Now, bredern, 1
guess we might's well pass by the
fust three heads and come imme-
d't'ly to the fo'th, infant baptism."
— New York Tribune.
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\ wear. Come and see what we J «
are doing. j
Miss E. Lister. I
Bastrop, Texas.
TI1K UI'POirrUNITY OF A
LIFE TIME.
One Fcot In the Grave.
"See that man?"
"The one with such a vigorous
nnd healthy look?"
"Yes. You wouldn't think lie
had one foot in the grave, would
you?"
"No. indeed. He IooWb the pic-
ture of health."
"Well, lie is."
"What made you say ho bad one
foot in the grave, then?"
"Because lie has. He lost his for*
in a rail.vav accident, and it was
buried. You'd never thluV ne couM
walk so naturally with a cork foot.''
But the man had gone, and he
whs kft to talk to vnraticv
Wren Wat Small,
Si' Christopher Wren resembled
the smallest of lintirdi birds not in
name only. Staving with Charles
II. at that monarch's Newmarket
hunting lodge,Sir Christopher heard
him complain that the rooms lacked
height. "I'ardon me, sire," he broke
in; "to me they seem high enough."
"Aye, and to me, too, now," replied
the merry monarch, crouching till
he nearly touched the floor, for this
king, who "never said a foolish
thing and never did a wise one,"
would have made two Sir Christo-
pher Wrens.
A Few Word* of Warning.
Two big men, well known fight-
ers, were quarreling, whereupon one
of them said: "I expect we'll fight;
1 don't see any other way out of it.
But I want to tell you one thing I
have false teeth, and if you hit mi
in the mouth and break them I will
get h gun tomorrow and shoot you.
You can hit me anywhere and kick
me anywhere except in the mouth,
but don't you dare break my false
teeth."—Atchison Globe.
Undesirable Job.
A washerwoman applied for help
to a gentleman, who gave her a note
to the manager of a certain club
It read an follows:
"Dear Mr. X.—This woman want-
washing."
Very shortly afterward the an-
ewer came back:
"Dear Sir I dare say she does,
but I don't fancy the job."—London
Tit-Bits.
Followed tha Example.
A Hartford youngster goes to
church w here the concluding "amen"
of the parson's prayer ^ sting by
the choir The other night, after
he had "aid his prayers, he produced
h hannoiacon from beneath his pil-
low and a tonnhed bis mother hv
blowing a bla*t v re the "amen1'
came in. remark..tg, "That's the
rr.iv we do in church."—Hartford
I'ost.
Scholarships an* on t he mat -
kut for ninety days at the low-
est rate everoffered by any high
grade business oollegp in Amer-
ica. Our $100 unlimited schol-
arships in bookkeeping, whole-
saling, banking, penmanship,
business arithmetic, busine>s,
law, letter writing, shorthand
and typewriting, are now .+'!().
Scholarships in all department*,
for six months, heretofore *7.">
—now $50. Scholarships in
business and typewriting, for-
merly $<>.*>—now .f.'it). Regular
$">0 life scholarships in business
and typewriting, now even
Scholarship-- in any department
three months, formerly *4a—
now $125. Scholarship in tele-
graphy and station work, for-
merly m—now if.'la. If you
knew the sort of work we are
doing, you would jump quick at
our propositions. Hill's Busi-
ness Colleges stands at the head
of the list of business colleges
in the south for practical and up
to-date methods and high-grade
work. At Hill's Colleges you
get the very cream of business
education. A .'1 or 4 mouths'
cnurse with u* means mote than
a five or six mont lis' course else
where. Our new short hand sys-
tem is the best, the easiest and
the quickest learned on the mar-
ket. Our teachers are men of
high educational attainments,'
who have wide experience a-
practical bookkeepers in retail
and wholesale houses before
taking up the work of teaching
A course with us means a good
paying position. Address R
H. Hill. I'res. Waco, Texas, or
Memphis, Tenn.
JU8T EXACTLY RIGHT.
"I hava used Dr. KinK'« w Life
Pills for several jears, and find them
Just exactly right,«; y« Mr.A A. Fnlton,
of Harrisville.N. Y. New Lit" Pill* re
lievo without t'lP leapt discomfort. Fie t
rc rofdy for constipation.bilHousness and
umlaria. _'&c, at all drug stores.
Fred Gest,
DEALER IN -
| STAPLtE A^D - - -
FAfiCY GROCERIES.
(FR1JSH AND PCRK),
I am now located in the NVertzncr linild-
intr. south td' Advertiser (Dice, and have in
stork a complete line of STAPLE and
| FANCY (iROCKRIKS. and will Le pleased
| to have my friends and customers call and
f see me.
Fresh and Pure Groceries
2 .
8 only will Ik* carried in stock.
*«r FRKSII LAGKR BKKR on tap at
all times.
BIT AND SELL COl'NTHV RRODl'CK.
VOl'KS TO PLEASE,
FRED|!GEST, Prop'r.
S.A.J0NES,L°ckand *
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2 Walter Brick Building Bastrop. £
#<■ jTf1.."5 Repairing of Bicycles, Sewing Machines and *
^ Stoves, a Specialty. J
Upholstery Work and all Kinds of Furniture repair-
^ ed t y experienced workmer ^
^ Plumbing, Boot and Shoe Repaiting neatly executed.
Your patronage solicited and will be appreciated
X — S. A. JONES.
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