The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 9, 1904 Page: 8 of 8
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CHAPTER XXVII.
The Hill of Dreamt.
VranUin found hitiiM it -wi-jit almm
nh h idIi i>i ufluirx «ith« i than lits
i w I. ('IumikIih Ills UlUt p "Ml the (HIS
ihilillts ;i( tlio iJllilM <!<«>> of tills
In W ( l\ill/Hi lOll llllll lll'I'll Ml lllll mill I
kht«-wil i hat hi- nfrilH uu« Imi in li-t
othiTt- liuild the hulls** u lion fouuda
lion In liuil laid
Yet i'MT a chill struck his aoul iis
he Tlnumiii <>t the It is i bait l * hi th '
llalf*uv Mouse Tlier. *«► no* j:ras>
grown 111 m iii lli** iliist) (rail I hut once
h d up in thi low *'Ht *'<1 hoiiV< Tin1
uroi ii ami riu> of \hiuk «iti -hroml-
Iiil' 1111 m i I > ih«* two I o 111 * I \ ttruvrs of
thos<- who had fought ill*' froiitirr
uinl I ii \ Hni|iilslii-i| in ihui night
«• I terror. when ih<' uhl \\ I'M i I ii i in • *t l
its own l"hc IIhIiwii\ Hons*' ol old
wus lull ;t in•*Int>i \ Vml Mill ) ICIh'li.
ih«* Mutely visitant of his sh < piuu or .
his khIiIdk dream* no longer might
l * st'i-n iii person «' the Halfwa>
lloust*. Ki'ii<ant. ilctVatfil Imi still
reluming aid *he had gotu ItacU to
her land of Mowers It was KianU
Jin's imi' rnthfoi't that s|ii- had ni*vt r
known Into w hus. hand - had panticd
at a priii' tai beyond llii'ir uciual
worth the landp of t h<> Halfway
IIoiisi which had hii rapliil) lunlt tip !
for her a com|M>teiic> which hail
cleared 111• i of |iovi'M\ onl) to n«
I'liforct* hi i In her pride.
ITuli r all ilic faniustlc grimneas,
all thi invsiiclsin all the discredited
and riotous vagaries ol his tnsulioi
illnatt* soul. Kranl lin posses.-ed a suv*
lug coiiiinoii sense \<t n a. mere
freHklshlii sc which led him lo acci (it
a vagrant uiipulse s the coutro.ling
inotivi ai 111* ci itclal mouii-nl ol In
life
To a in') lew i. eu I'Mward Prank-
)Iri lias admitted that he once dream
ed of a hill lopped In a little liri
font of the hill There well no I'ligcl'
hauliers ol dil>l when liie wild gaaic
''pt in. hi i did tin i) *■ i a tch any
line of distatii horsemen It ii an-
other ilk) \'l as dm the catldidati
of old. Ill lilt IllM holsi ill tile foot
ol the hill aud went up <)iiite alone.
It was afiernoon a- In >ai down
The hiImu'i and solitude folded III in
ahoiil. and the Min -auk so tit I) slow
thai li hardlv '.new and tin oleum
iii^lit wept Mitlh cm Then In Iniili
a little fire * * In the ititillt. aftei
main hours he arose and lified up
his hands * * \i the foot of the
hill tile poll) stopped cropping pla -
tinised his heait and looked up in
lent I) ai the summit
It wHi morning Tilt -mi rose calm
and HtrotiK The soliUiry figure u|m>ii
the hill sat motio:iless looking mil
There might have pasHt'd hefori him
a pefspectlvi ol ihe past the l*lniiim
peopled Willi their tortilt I III* the
otieoniiriK of tin white men from lie
low the remnant of the pushing I atin
rai e. t) pilled in the unguidi d giant
who, savage with savage foimht mar
li) om hrutal force un • I inv: another
and lioth passim In-fore one higher
and vet tnore stronc To ilus watcher
It seemed that lit looki d out from the
halfwa) point of tin naiion from Hie
afl. i ti n though with fortune- perhaps
inipulrod as had heen those of man*
Southern faniilles IncludliiK all the
Hi aurlmmp line
To thl-- itrong liaM-n (if refuge ha 1
come Mar> Kllen Beam hanip from
'In far-oft We: ii rn plain*. nfter the
death ol hei other relative* in thai
vi nturc so ill .-tailed. The white
haired old widow who now ri present
eu tin hean of the Clayton family
her kin 4iir-what removed, hut none
the less hei cciixins after tin* coin
pi ehensivi* Southern faahloti had
lukeii Mar) Hlh n to her lioaotn. up
braiding hei for ever dreamlui: ol
Itoinit into tin harliarlan West, and
listening 'nit little to the idea of the
;lrl that (invert) had driven her to
Hie company of thom. who. Ilk<* her-
self. were poor Now, such
the tlirtl of the wlltel, tin
m arls as rich in motic> us
relailv* and ahle to asiinie
He of Mieinl position then
'ii her ambition.
Mar* Klleti was now well past
i wi'nl) si v en a tall, matured, ami
somewhat sad'ai eu woman upon hei
lirow w i it ten something of the sor
halfwa. house of
ildc di'Veloptiient.
a
IIHt oil - il l esipt
tows and uncertainties
It--- woman as well as
a urow jim >eIf reliance
•en were happy or
way. yet surely she
kind, ami uraduall)
Franklin had
small i anteen
HllllkitiU himself
)oiiiik man In
neither ate nor
taken with
of water,
thai as of
needling his
drank in ill
him a
11111 lie
old the
dream
lie had
his deslle. he |Miiired out lh< water lit
Ins side as he '-ill in the dark The
place was covered with small ohjti In. i
hit- of strewn shellf and headH ami j
torn "medicine liumil' pie.- -s of 1
tliln«s otice held ileai in earlier mlml.-
He tejt his hand full liv tin Ident upon
i some small ohjcei ivhuli had Im i
huM smoke dipped and waved and
caught htm in its fold In hrief. he
gut into saddle and journeyed to the
Itiil of Urearns
The Hill of Iireams dominated ih*-
wide and lex el lulidscupe over which
It had looked out through hundreds
of slow unnoted xears Kroin It once
rose thu s(g|j;ti smoker of the red men,
and here it was thai many a sentinel
had stood In times hilig In-fore a white
fa< e wa- ever seen upon the Plains
Here on the Hill of Dreams whence
Hie eye mtghi -we.-ii lo the fringed
sand hills on the aouih east to the
river man) miles awa> and north and
went almost to the s*eli of the cold
steppes thai lead up to the Rocky
Hanye the red men had sometimes
come to la\ their leaders w lien their
da% of hunt lug and of wai was over
Thus Hie place came in have o*tra
ordinal) anl mysterious qualities
ascribed to It on which account, in
times gone by. men who were rest
Jesis. troubled. dlHturbed. difnatisfled
. Hitie thither to fast and pray
Hither the* lion the great dead It
was upon Hh Hill of Dreams that hi* i
pt-opli buried White Calf, Hit last i
^n a' h ader of the Plains tribe? who ,
fell in the combat with tin not l"ss
savage giant who catm with the white
mm to hutii in the countr) near the j
Hill of 11 ream* Since that lime the I
Itower <«f 'he Plains tribes had waned
and they had scat lered and passed
away Thi -warming wiilte men
\lsigoilis S'amUls had found out
thin s poi foi icnturlea held my uteri
ousl) dear to the ttTKt peoples of that
cutiiut > The) tore open the graves ;
mattered fh. childlike embletns. pick ,
ed to Jiiete- the little |iarkages of
I try sno claw jibjtif a' 'he "medl
e|ne which in Us time had lin-ant so '
in'teh to ih* man who had loft It '
Micre
Toward tin II I ol Hi ••am- Frank
Jin Jourm ) ed becauae it hii'l iieeti
written \s tie traveled over the loni; j
miles In miirceiv noted the field" the i
fences the ttia ks and herds now i ling
Ing along t lie pa'h of the iron iails j
Hi crossed the trail- of tin depnrteu
Puftaio ami of Ho vanlshitm cattle
Imi his uiind looked only forwai ! and
lu "aw these records of the p#st but
ditrl) There on Hit lllll of l>t< am
llti knew there was answer foi hilll
If hi miflW lentlj besought thai an
wer not yet b<atni*d in all tin vai>
ing davs. It aeemed surf to Ihui thai
he should ha\< a s'gti
• • • *
Franklin looked out ovei a uesi rted
aud >.olitar> land r„^,. up i(, it,,
Dreams.
wetted b) the wasted water l.atei
in the crude light of the tiny damn
which lie had kindled, this lump of
earth assumed, to Ills exalted fancv
the grim features of an Indian chief
tain wide Jawed belufted with low
brow great mouth and lock of life's
price hanging down the neck All the
fearlessness, the mouriifultiess the
mysticism of the Indian face was
there Franklin alwavs said that he
had win lied at this unconscious!)
kneading the lump between his fin
gers and giving it no thought nthii
than that It felt cooling to bis hand
mid restful i.i his mind Vet hen
born ultimately of the travail of a
hlghei mind wa- a man from another
time in whom nn/e -at tin presclenci
of a coming day Tin past and the
future thus were bridged a- may be
done only by \rt the enduring, the
urn alendared the imperishabb
0 ♦ ♦ • «
I'Mward Franklin a light heari< il
man rode homeward happily The
past lav correlated and for the future
there were no |oug> i any wondeiings
Ills dream, devoutly «ougM had g'v
en peace
CHAPTER XXVIII.
At the Gateway.
Iti a certain old Southern > '} there
stands, as there has stood for many
generations and will no doubt endun
for many inort a Intti mansion whost
architecturi dates back to a distant
day W ale and spacious with lo/tv
stories with deep wings and man)
narrow windows it rests fat I,in I
amoim tin ati' it tit oaks a stately
memorial oi a day when gentlemen
demanded privacy and could afford
it F."obi tin iron pillar- of the great
gateway the whit. Iron! of tin housi
mav lai,i> in seen through avenues
made |,y Ho trunks of He primewt
gt'ovi I'lie iall white columns reach
.ng Iron callriv floor to root without
pails, lot i|ie second lofty floor give
dignity lo inn- old time aianle which
comport well with tin nut t iniuied
patriarchal oak' i'ndet thi • trees
thet'i lb-, even today a deep Idui
. i as* turf whlt'h nevti fiom tin lline
ot Himuii till now has I now n the
tomli ot ploughshare or the too) of
any , ulUv at Ion.
It wai^ Ihe boast ol I ti s o.d lamily
that it could afford to own a portion
of the earth and own it as It came
from tin hand of Nature I'm aught
I>v thi whirl ot things undisturbed
• si ntiaily even by the tide of the
i nil war, this bruin h of an old South
em familv I trd livi.il oi, in tation tin
ol the leadership she had learned in
hei reci ni lite sin slipped into prac
Heal domestic command of this quiet
hut punctilious uicmip Ity reason
ol all equal eve< lltlVi Illness Aunt
I .III ) lose ill tile kitchen IlKo to lllll
enmmai.d The Widow Clayton found
In r loiisin Mary Klleti a stay and
comfort, useful aud practical to a tic
giee unknown in the education ot the
Southern ymiiig lady of the time
'it hei life in tlie West Mary Kllen
-poke Imi little though never with
harshness, and at times almost with
w iiii IuInej.s llii history had seuiued
iimi lull ol change to In reality For
the future s|o made tie plans. It
seemed to tier to lie In r fate ever to
In an alien a IihiIm i on The rosea
drooped a, loss In' lattice, and the
b'.in grass stood i ool and sott and
deep hcyoud 'n r w indow and the kind
ait carried the croon ot the wooing
mocking bird \ • t there persisted in
hct bruin tin- picture oi a wide, gray
land with the -mind ot an urgent
wind singing in the short, tufted
gin- is and the breath ol a summon
evii on the air Hut there upon the
Plains it had been ever morning.
Hep 'iti seemed ever inking toward
its e\ clit lib
This old family and tin family
hoii.-i were accepted uiiMticstionlngly
by the quiet Southern community
now as they had i. v i*i been, as a part
o| the aristocracy ni the land, and as
appurtenances thereto. The way of
life had little change The same
grooms led out the horses from the
stable.- tin same slow figures cut the
liiiis- upon the lawn. Vet no longer
were the doors thrown open n|m>ii a
si a of light and coloi The horses
were gloomed and broken, but tln-y
brought no great carriage ot -late
sweeping up ihe drive between the
lion headed pi I la I of the gateway
When Mrs ('layton feebly sought to
propose brighter waia of life for ttie
vontig woman the latter told her gen
liv that im hei ion life was planned
and done the struggle over, and that
she onl) asked ihat she might rest
and not take up again any questions
foi readjustment
You will i hangt* after a whiie.
honey said hei protectress, but
Mary Kllen only smiled It was enough
to 'est here in tin- haven, safe from
the surging seas of uoubt and hope
and fear, oi love and self-distrust l.et
it be settled l.et It he ended. For
her no cavalier should evei oome rid
ing up the graveled wav nor should
lights ever set dancing again the sha
•lows in the great dining Mail over the
heads of guests assembled in her hon-
or It was dont tin is hed And Mary
Kllen wa- not yet twenty eight
(To In* continued I
JAPS GIVEN TO ATHLETICS.
From Early Infancy They are Train
ed to Develop Their Muscles.
' ousldering then si/.e the laprinese
in undoubtedly the strongest people
in the world Time and again these'
'idle brown men have demons'-ated
Heir ability to endure fatigues that
would break down tin most sinewy
Kuropeans In any Japanese town
• •ni- cannot walk far without being
confronted by attilet'cs in one form or
another In the streets vou < an rare
lv cMtapt the painted and gaudily
dressed lots who turn hah\ hand
- primes em-cute ,-omersaults and do
other infantile stunts in a wheel ling
effort to vcuiethe halt f foreigner's"
wealth \ lapaiiese maisuri wen not
the fall it pur [torts without the be
I angled tightrope performance the
iiamtioo ladder cllmhitu; Youngsters
-tier- tumble!
llie wre>
fencers
So deeply looted
for the strenuous
t lona I sport s of ot In
peat -m n or
|s the native love
life thai the na
'i lands haVI heen
unit in I u pa ti The mikado with
inttnv ot ihi imperial family aticmls
i lie annual tuiiig races in Yokohama,
out nothing n the line ot imported
sport! so appeals to tin lapaiie-, as
• y c'niR and baseball t'veliiig duos
n i e scattered all ovei the empire,
thousands ot Xmerican bicycles spin
across Hie island and tin foreigners
, * | i-rl no difficult) in keeping even a
fi « of tin records and trophies out
of native hand*.
fin* Toklo baseball team is an effl
dent organization ami it frequent I v
drubs the teams from othiu ports and
cities At the Yokohama i ricket
grounds excellent and sharply con
ti ted games may lie witnessed ocea
slonally between the Tukio native
ti am and the Yokohama foreign w
Fammtioa.
Genuine Attraction.
hud been
girl wa-
ller older
what lit
remain*'I
The Great nntl Genuine Attraction for Bastrop and Bustrop Couniy
during the veui 1JHM, is the Peopled Favorite,
Guse's Restaurant and Bakery,
* Which is known far and wide for its SQUARE DEALINGS with its patrons
all over Bastrop county. During the year 1WH, we intend making theGUSE
{igj REST AI KANT AND BAKERY a fii-eater Attraction than ever, iiill and
price our Good* and the low prices will astonish you.
Kl
*r\
oi tin' in>II11
the record of
If Mary El
not none might
was dutiful and
wiili sooiethiuK
Dry Goods and Groceries
[o pride ourselves upon the elegant DRV GOODS and GROCER-
IES carried by our house, and when it comes to Ql'ALlTY and
PRICE, wo invite the closest inspection. Iielieving fair, htmest,
bquare dealings will win golden opinions from the trading public.
Palace Market.-g110^ Beef and
Barbecued Meats. Fresh Sausage*
. t,
feBusCHBrt^
T LO'li J.MO.
BEER and ICE.
We are also Agents for the celebrated . . .
ANHUESER-BUSCH BEER.
And receive regularly Pure and Solid Ice
BY THE CAR LOAD.
We uhu hiive the amenity ft.r the tfreat ilealth Food,
MALT NUTRINE.'
Guse's Restaurant ai Bakery.
\
EARLY RISERS
THE PANOUS LITTLE PILLS.
For quick relief from Biliousness.
Sick Headache Torpid L ver. Jaun-
dice. Dizziness, arid all troubles aris-
ing from an Inactive or sluggisn liver.
DeWut's Little Early Risers aie un-
equalled.
They act promptly and never jrtpe.
They are so dainty that It u a pleasure
to take them. One to two a .t as a
mild laxative, two or four act as a
pleasant and effective cathartic. They
are purely vegetable snd absolutely
harmless They tonic the liver
T0U1 HAltE CAN SUPPLY TM).
rtiroiD IT
E.. C. DaWilt Jc Co.. Chicago
^ ^ -?* & '¥ -b & 4-' vr M
4*
-MUSIC.-
Vocal • and • Instrumental.
MISS MARY LOU MOSBY *
w Is prepared to give Vocal and Instrumen- 2
* tal Music, at home. Terms, $3.00 per m
month. Pupils solicited
*
Sold by W J. Mi ley.
BART BO? CHAPTER. NO. .
a. A. M..
Kc){u)ar tneftli.K on
t h « First Saturilay
Nij;tit in each month.
m K a I-.
A. Kkiiamu,
^ei'ty
1893. — 1904.
COTTON SEED
^jME 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.
¥
BASTKOP lAMtGK. N( . 113
BNIUHTI or PI TIIIAS,
Heguiai mi-etliiK
Friday Di«ht <>f each
week
W B. KavmiMK,
C. C.
Hi oo KI "I I l" ,
K. of H. A 8.
ti AMBLE IiODttK. NO. 244.
a. r. a a. m..
He^ular meet-
Iii|{. 4th Saturday
flight In «ach
mo ith
C. Khiiahu,
W. M.
A. C. Khiiakk
Sect'r. I
Bagging and ties.
To exchange
for Seed only
$
We buy and sell
everything for
CASH.
Pocuell Oil IVIill Co.
*
KNIOHT8 OK HONOR.
Baatrop Lodg*. K ot H.,
Meets firat Monday ni^ht in each
BBOBtb.
J. B PRICE, Dictator.
H. J. KIUBKLl'H P^port«r.
Blaeksmthing.
BEN MARTIN^^gg
Loiati ii at KKHAKI) (>1.1) STAND,
is |ire|iari'ii lo iio all kitnln of Hlackatuith-
inn in thp beat ■tjrle, rarefully anil with
iliapaU'h.
A WOOD SHOP ih connected with uiy eatabllaument wbera
all kinda of CarriaRt* ami Wanon work ia done under atrlol g<iar-
a ttee. Special Attention K>vet> to llorae Shoeing.
Your Patronage Reapectfully Solicited.
| Ben Martin.
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