The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1929 Page: 3 of 8
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TBK BASTROP ADVERTISER. BASTROP. TEXAS THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. IVM
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federation club will
meet january 19
th Ba trop County Federation of
Women's Clubs will meet in Bastrop,
the Uiird Saturday in January, the
lWth Hon. T. H. Etheredge, of San
Antonio will address the meeting.,
ami a good program is assured all.
Every one is urged to be present,
complete program will be given
week.
birthday party
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next
Mrs. J C. Edwards entertained
Thusday aftenoon at three o'clock
with u little birthday party given in
honor of little Miss Doris Turner of
Taylor.
Little Doris was seven years old
Christmas Day. Her Christmas tree
was still in the living room decorated
with colored electric lights and shin-
ing tinsel The little guests brought
their presents in and then Doris show,
ed them the tree with her things on it
that Santa had brought.
The dining room was decorated
with yellow chrysanthemums, and the
table with a white cake in the center
bearing seven pink candles.
After games were played Mrs. Ada
McCice and Mrs. Joe Eskew served
grape punch and cake with pecan
fudge.
Those present were Little J. C.
Edwards Jr. Little Joe Eskew Jr.
James Simmons, Earl Compton,, Val
Ingram, Bobby Griesenbeck, Johnny
Muzney, Nora and Nellie Griffin.
Elaine Ingram, Annie Merle Sim-
mons, Doris Louise Vesulka, Effle
Davis, Mildred Barrow, Hobby Turner.
All reported having a nice time.
Prize Speech Deliver-
ed by Former Bas-
trop Boy
the weight of years, glided into the
cathedral and seated himself at the
mighty organ whose swelling tones
filled that magnificent structure with
their pomp and volume until its m «.
sive walls reeleu nd shook as if from
an earthquake as his long bony
fingers glided slowly o'er the keys
each m llif'uous strain was borne up-
ward until his soul seemed to catch
the sweet strains that echoed the halls
of eternity.
If we might gaze out through the
vaulted dome, out beyond time, be
yond space, through that "gate of
pclden hinges turning," methinks we
might see u great white throne from
whose pedestal myriads of infin-
itessimally small silver chords pass
to the heart of each mortal and along
each chord, ire vibrating the strains
of eternity's grand sweet song.
The old man's soul had just caught
the last faintly-dying echo, when
death "the last forged link in the
chain of human evolution." with his
icy fingers untied his heart strings.
Yet, in that last strain a soul was
borne upward "where no storms ever
beat on that glittering gtrand while
the years of eternity roll." Where
chords lost on earth shall again re-
spond and beat their untiring pinions
upon the "gravestone" of their maker,
where music, the grandest theme
through the ages runs, shall lie caught
by that angelic choir and its «ho shall
ring through the hall of eternity so
long as God Himself shall be, where
there is a harp and a crown awaiting
God's people.
J. W. Young, Medalist.
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Announcement to the Trade—
that we will continue our policy of
selling reputable merchandise at pop-
ular prices. We solicit a continuance
of your patronage pledging courteous
treatment at all times.
Watch Our Window for New Arrivals
The following speech is taken from
"The White Topper," a paper publish-
ed at Emory, Virginia, iuul was given
by one of Bastrop's own hoys, Mr. J.
W. Young, a former student of
Emory and Henry ' oliege. Mr. Noting
was awarded a gold medal tor this
speech which was delivered in lst'b,
and we are sure our readers will be
delighted t'> read a speech given by
one whom we all know and love. I In-
speech is as follows:
111 the city of Madrid in a th serted
room of an old mansion whose hali
echoed the tr.'a.l of :i generation gone,
there stands a gold harp whose broken
strings lie motionles: a, the lingei
that unci set them in vibration.
An historion in his search f r
knowledge, standing in this di.vnal
s«* pestered spot at the close "I an
autumn day a. the la.-t taint lay- ot
the setting -un cast grotesque shad-
ows upon the lloor. gazed upon that
battered, strmgles instrument and
there read of a peoph a history nioie
potent than the most git led pen
cculd transcrilie. That harp told of
whose magic touch could
a gt ntus
onlv Or
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produce such melodies as
pheus might excel, music scarcely
charming than the fabi -d s"iig ot the
Siren. There hns been tin agi ot the
world devoid of music. It even ant
date historic times and began f"t us
when the morning stars sang t> -e:lie>
and the sons of God houted f• r joy at
the birth of creation.
Ii passed not through the watch
ful and pulling stag' . of infancy,
witli its struggle- and contentions;
il nut not with the common adver.
Miry all thing new must encounter
but lik,. Minerva springing full fb-dg
ed from ihe brow of Jove, it came
direct from tin throne of God trans-
port^ by His own angelic choi'.
It is heaven's greatest gift to man
It sets in vibration the chords of
man's upper and higher nature Music
oik, admitted to the soul becomes
sort of spirit and never dies.
It wanders perturbedly through
the halls and galleries of memoiy,
and is often hoard again distinct an I
living as when it first displaced the
wavelets of the air.
Poetry, painting and sculpture deal
with actual forms and the tangible
realities of life. We can watch the
painting grow beneath the artist s
brush as he gives to each flower
seemingly life as he makes a charac-
ter stand upon his canvass in living
form, potraying all the realities of
life. We can stand silently by the
renowned sculptor and follow his
artistic hand as it carves him an en
during name upon tables of stone. Or
follow in our imagination, the weird
flight of the poet's mind. But music
is almost entirely independent of
earthly element in which to clothe and
body forth itself. It does not allow
of a sensuous conception. It is the
very essence of Him who created all
things out of nothing. Music! what Is
it? Its very essence Is veiled in
mystery so great that the genius of
Shakespeare and Milton combined
may not dispel it. It spars into
heights far l>eyond the pinnacle of
man's loftiest achievements. It de-
scends int,, depths immeasurably be.
k>w the prolie of all his facilities
combined. I^et us be content with
merely noting some manifestations
of its potency.
The great Napoleon recognized of
its power when he said that the
author of Marseilles had won mopi
hattles than an Alexander or a Well
ington with all their legions.
The old bruised and battered sol-
dier marching into battle keeping
time to the strain of martial music
seems to be the observer well nigh
transfornnsl into the very god of
war.
Lee's ragged, tired troops on their
last inarch to Appomattox, when the
last star of hope was soon to sot, the
last shot from ther locker soon t<> be
gone, still wol*e th«« mein of victors
and marched as conquerors when th.'
strains of Dixie weir heart! above the
roar of the cannon.
Time would fail us to adequately
speak of the might of sncr*4 muaic;
to pay just, tribute to the part it has
played in the Kingdom of God thu3
far. In all the revival movement.*
that have swept across continents,
transforming generation \ dispelling
the dark clouds of sin, it has proved
the most potent factor. Thousands,
yea millions of souls reeking under
the awful pall of sin and darkns* have
been led into the pangs of nobler,
higher manhood by the power of
sacred music.
Who does not remember an hour
when he sat in the shadows of a great
grief, sighing for the touch of a van-
ished hand, for th< * s* iiitid of a sih nt
voice, and suddenly realized that the
shadows were lifted and gone and
his whole being refreshed by fra-
grance from the very 'anion ,,f God
through the ministry of sacred song .
Hut we have announced music a-
the language of the soul. Hark yon.
it is not the language of the cold,
calculating, mercenary soul, render-
ed such by the workshop of the god
of this world, but of a soul refreshed
clean and open to an influenc, divine.
It is the channel through which the
souls man is in dii'i-ct eomniunie-
tion witii the Great Power,* above.
Go with me for a vvhile into th"
forests to communicate with nature
and listen to her harm- oiotis or,/.
There, as the first rays of th"
morning un I'rov. themselves acros-3
our pathway, can be heard the sweet
carol of the birds a they warble
their weet song. There is a triumph,
ant song in the chattering brooklets
a.s it winds its secret and silent wav
to i( ocean home. \H it wanders int >
the rumblng, roaring cataract, but
souls seem to catch each faintly dying
echo of its sweet song. The wind
betaking itself from the sea, its ac-
customed loitering plao and winging
it flight back to the mountain gorges,
whisper^ its sweet song to hill and
mountain until the entire universe
resounds with its echo. There is a
triumphant song in the roar of the
receding storm that heaves its
mighty bosom of the far off cloud.
Music is caught in the notes of the
mattering thunder dying away in the
bosom of the far off cloud.
There is a mighty song in the roll-
ing billows of the great deep as they
beat their untiring, unceasing crests
upon tie coral gardens of the south-
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Profit Sharing Silverware Coupons
Given With Each Purchase.
Phone 8o
Bastrop, Texas
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important to tin* thousands ] suppose that birds will save all the I the dove
who are using can- | fruit or cat all the insects. But the I but out
the fresh product is | thing to remember i^ that the birds eat some
j Blair, is
of farm families
I ned meat because
• \| en,sive and hard to
j also important in the
n by Texas home
| club women of
dietary disease-
11 he most
1 state."
live mostly on weed s- eds,
some insects. Most birds
of both. A quail caught in
eat a far greater number of in- a Toxn cotton patch showed upon
than they will fruit. All birds, examination that its craw contain- d
urse, do not eat insects and 127 cotton boll weevils. If we e,i-
the prevention o. bugs, but it is reasonable to suppose j courged quail to -day near our cot-
of which pellagra is i that insectivorous birds eat a great I ton ti"ld they would destroy laive
obtain. It. :i will
study under- 1 .-e<-t-
d< moiistration of <
common to all parts of the
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Prejidmt iin,l < n-ial Munujfrr
111 ICK M > / < >K (
I ROIT, Nov. , Praising De-
troit rH-vvspa| rs and oflicialt of
the citv for the • \ campaign which
rcLpntlv iias be i waged against
upci'ilers and r, ' lc*.i drivers hi re,
i . T, Strong, pre* dent of the Hoick
Motor Co., has t pressed the hopr
lb.it a similar p-ogram might h
carried out in evi "V citv. town ai
hamlet in the n i n.
i-«.v tg -s are r>t-ing sent to thi
more than 4,00- H ilcl< dealers
throughout tiic ountrv, cach of
whom will he tit; ed to get behind
such a movement in his district
"'I he fact thai ,ome communitii s
have accompliiilu • so much in the
humanitarian vvor! of avoiding traHi
casualties is corn Itisive proof that
the campaign can he carried to a
successful conclusion evervwhere."
Strong declared, "and the Huick
Motor l'o. pledges tl-.e fullest co-
operation of its giant resources in
working t.i thi* end.
"The aoton.ohile m > longer is a
his iir\ if is a necessirv , and much of
its immense value In th** world is
being p>. rile.I hv thtise « lm te-c the
streets .is sp,%i-i!v\ ,i\s :iful tlio r who
drive w ithout doe i «ri in the crowded
traffic of tin present :*ra."
That the problem is n big one.
Strong is ceiiain, hut lie is ei|uallv
certain that with the proper civ
operation of all concerned 'he streets
anil highway* can be livule safe and
(tie value of tbe autumobile for busi-
ness and pleasure eonseiiuentlv m-
creased.
LOST Two Hay tlorse Mules
about. I t hands high, ft years old, and
out bay mare mule about 14 hands
high and ■< years old. One black
hoise mule about 15 hands high and
ti yeai old. One brown hors,.- mill"
about I I I 'J hands high and ft years
old, all branded " " <>n left shoulder.
Will pay $|t).0ti reward for infor-
•yiation leading to recovery of mules.
\V 'it .lanuir, Bastrop Texas.
number of harmful insects.
A a Nation, we are very can
concerning the welfare of our birds.
We hav- allowed them to b- killed
until it is v -11mated that '.id pe,- er.t
of tin bird life in the Unit I Stati
has been destroyed. The damage doiu?
by insects each year increases be-
cause of the decrease in bird life. So
many persons are indifferent to the
real value of birds. They carol, ly
go into thi woods and kill them, in
weevils. It is aid
.n t valuable bird,
other birds are pro-
sei.-ot!, just tor sport,
two kinds of bird-, tho
and those that iiv<
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Chocolate Walnut Jelly
Chop 1 -
1-'J cozen
: cup
figs.
English walnuts and
Bring pint of milk
to a tj.iiiiiig point, and dissolve flavor
ed gelatin. When beginning to harden
add nuts and
wi'h cream.
fruit. Mold and serve
MtOTKCT HIKDS BY IIOl SINt;
AM) FKEI) THEM ; KAK-
MEK'S Fill ENDS NEED
HELP
ern seas. Yet stop not here. Fol.
lowing me into spa e where the great
planets roil an<l burn as they i-evohi-
about the great center of the universe,
singing the songs of the spheres.
Vet in one pure soul, the poet's
God's greatest musician, we have all
ot these forces combined. To him
then- k music in all things. And to.
day he has given to you the vers es
sence of nature's songs in character-
that shall last as long as time lasts.
Today his soul wanders from place t >
place .like a swift fleeting aerolite,
catching music in all things. To.
morrow, through the fights of his
plumed wings tipped with heavenly
music sailing through the corridors
of time, wandering timid stately halls,
until with -ublime thought it glides
unobstructed down the golden streets
of that city whose builder and maket
is God.
Yet I would not have you to for
over ga/.e upon the sunny side of this
picture. Like all things earthly, the
scene must change from peace, har-
mony and Iwauty to otic o'er which
time's clouded veil has ehasely drawn
itself John Howard l'ayne, the
author of that. "Home Sweot Homo,"
o'er which the angels would drop a
tear, after ;t life spent in wretched
nets and misery died amid degreda
tion and poverty, with no mother's
tender hand to minister to his wants
with no sister's loving voice to soothe
him into repose of death. And thus
the fatality runs with manj of our
greatest musicians. Yet, through
| music's channels God speaks peace to
their souls.
i It wn# midnight's holy hour, and
the congregation had passed down the
aisles of the cathedral through the
archway into the street. An old man
whoAe silvered locks lay v upon his
shoulders, his form dropped beneath
CWNKI) MFAT
HEALTH-
FUL TH KY
S.W
Home canned meat, if properly
processed .retains the vitamin H
found in fresh meat ami is helpful in
preventing pellagra, Miss Lola Blair,
Food Specialist in the A. and M.
College Extension Service, announces
ifter consulting with two eminent
Washington authorities. "Pellagra i
a dietary disease which in on the in
crease in Texas," says Miss Blair.
"and the best way of preventing its
occur,.ii,e is to consume fruits, vege
tables, eggs, lean m<at >nd milk.
We have questioned whether the can-
ned meat put pp. by the thousands of
farm housewives every year is entire wr
ly healthful and whether it can sub
stitute for fresh lean meat in |sd-
Ingra control."
Mr. Cummings of the United States
Public Health Service writes: "The
studies of the Public Health Service |
indicate that canned meat retains
much if not all the pellagra prevent
in.r notency of fresh meat. This is [
all the more probable since tests of
canned salmon have shown that it r- unrestricted
t.'till:- much if not all the protective i gypsy moth
potency of fresh "almon."
I>r. Louise Stanley, Chief of the
Bureau of Home Economics in the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, says:
"1 would my that if the meat is well
canned >t will not interfere seriously
with its nutritive value. Vitimins
A and B. are the ones usually present
iii meat. There is no considerable
areount of A, and B is rather re-
sistant to heat, so I think it would be
retained. I do not believe the time
and temperature >f pr meat
would destroy a.jy ,-ery larg*> amount
of Vitamin B factor and I no
objection to tftarhing the of can-
ned meat." ,
"Thin knowledge," st te- Mis*
By Mrs. J. W. Recknor, Jr. in
The Semi-Weekly Farm News
Most birds are the farmer's fi lends
because their food consists chiefly ot
insicts and gras. seeds. How fortun-
ate we are thi-.t nature has provided
these feathered creatures for us to
, protect our crops and prevent de-
; struction of them. We may need
j firearms to protect our homes from
I the invasion of robbers, but we need |
only to protect the birds and they
j will repay us by protecting our crops.,
Many people seem to think that be-
cause birds fly in the newly plowed '
I furrow they are after the grain the I
farmer is planting. This is seldom
1 ev< r the case. 'They may eat some |
few grains of seed, but they are j
j mostly after the insects which the.
plow uncovers. Birds prefer animal
! food to any other, but when animal !
1 foi d is -carce they will eat grain.
Th. wise farmer will not begrudge
the grain the birds eat because he
knows they are worth many dollars
to him in protecting his crop from in-
sects and nelping to keep down grass
and weedt bv eating the seeds. Young
birds are fed mostly on insects. It
you have ever watched a pair of old
birds feed their young, you know
about how many in-ects they destroy (
in on day Last year a pair of little
n built on my front porch, and
eagerly We watched them feed their
young. It was indeed surprising how
many insect- these little birds brought
t th'-ir no ' in one day.
Rapid Increase ot Iiim-cIs
The number of insect species is far
cr ater than any other living crea-
tures, It has been estimated that a
pair ot potato beetle would increase
their number to tin.oou.iMMi in the son-
| son if they were unmolested. The
increase of a pair of
would lie enough to de
|and out ol
We have
j eating insects and those that
' :* '<«s and w e«l seeds. Of course,
d-eatirig bit Is will eat a few
insects if seadi arc scarce, and they
are very likely to eat some fruit at
times Hut while they are doing this,
let us n member th-.t they destroy
many more noxious weed seeds than
'the fruit they eat amounts to. Black-
! birds
were once thought to be harni-
i ful to corn in New England. An ef-
j fort wa- in.nil to exterminate them,
i and the result was they were found
i to h • useful in destroying an in ect
j that was harmful to a very valuable
grass in the country. With the dim-
inishing of the birds the insects in-
creased, causing great losses to far-
mers because their grass w te destroy -
I numbers of boll
ess | the quail is our
'These and sum*
•e^by law and should novei bo
k' d, Kxaniiiiaiioii of ii quail caught
.mother State -howoij that it had
eaten I'M) potato bugs The stomach
o| a tree wallow contained over
I rly chinch bugs 'The ^t^mach of
,- f ighthawk contained .'100 grass hop*
n rs, fttl buy- and three wasps. This
i. wholesale destruction of insects
that are all harmful Unaided, the
farm could > little or nothing to
on i prot
' lllie-
ed.
Proof in the Craw
The common field or meadow lark
has been known to eat over 70 per
cent of its food in harmful insects.
It will, of course, eat some grain and
weed seeds, but its food consists
mostly of insects. Some birds, like
the scissor-tail and swallow, live al-
most entirely on insects. Others, like
hinisel: igainst these etie-
I- itt\ a more species of birds
feed on i ate p liars, and thirty feed
on plant lice. Kveti hawk and wis
;n "teat destroyers of mice and oth-
er rodent- harmful to the human ; ice.
I eediiu Birds in \N inter
We have some birds that remain
with us through the winter. They
should be fed and cared for during
this time, a he food they are accus-
tomed to eating is scarce. It i a
great joy to me to feed the birds in
the winter. This also is a simple
matter. 1 have nailed some tin
bucket iids to fence posts, just high
enough so dogs can not reach them,
and keep them filled with crumbs.
On cold winter day. the birils come
from miles around and have u feast
in my yard I have counted over a
dozen different kinds of birds at a
time feeding from these pans. A small
concrete trough filled with fresh wa-
ter is an attraction for birds the>
year around. Most birds could be
encouraged to spend their winters
with us if vi-" would build houses f«
them and l.-ed and water them eaf
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This Hank
7 here are no weak
links in Our Chain . ,
STIM)\< 1 S;roiij^in'Soeurity, ("oin'tcsv.
I loncst v and Sorvicc.
as it serve
wav
*tioy all tin- foliage in the United
St tc in i in- year. 'There arc many
cat-rpill.irs that eat twice th '•
weight in leaves each day.
Farmer", truck growers and fruit
growers In--1- millions of dollars an-
ruiully because of insects. Every far-
mer should realize the import#;' c of
saving the birds, because they are
our best means of preventing multi-
plication of these harmful creatures.
We all know that it is next to impos-
sible to grow fruit without spraying
for in ecta. If birds were encouraged
to build their homes in or near or-
chards there would be no need for so
much spraying.
Bird* S#t« M«i« Tkn They De«txo>
Of course, it is preposterous to
Hank stands ready to serve you
many important business houses in town.
We tr ansact business in :t business-li
are modern in every'[respect.
Just come in and consult us we'll tell you ot the
man\ advantages that accrue to letting us handle
finances.
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