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TEXAS MARRIAGES FOR THE WEEK,

II
| Prepared for the Sunday LIGHT
G. g. Thompson and Miss Lulu
| Byron, Una.
G. G. Warner and Miss Mabel
Young, Warren.
William McCombs and Mrs. Liz
zie Blair, Crockett.
r. III. Irion and Miss Matte l..
Baker, Nacogdoches.
Herman Paterson and Miss Eli
"a Hornung, Lexington.
Jesse Scruggs and Miss ID. VIII
son, Timpson.
j. J. Moore and Miss Annie Wea-
yer, Round Rock.
Henry Wood and Miss Della
Hudson, Timpson.
Will. Mari and Miss Edna Lew
is, Rayner.
Theodore Boyer and Miss Louise
Birkman, Ellinger.
J. III. Ray and Miss Fay Hamil-
ton, Groesbeck.
X. Batemam Jr., and Miss Luz
ellie Belle Steele, Georgetown.
Edward Stein and Miss Angela
Keller, New Ulm.
Henry Gutman and M ISIS Elisa
Eehrenkamp, New Ulm.
j. Ernest Douthitt and Miss
Lucy Deahl, Milano.
Mr.. Barker and Miss Mamie Nc
Dade, Chappell Hill.
B. l.. Levison and M ISIS Yetta
Wolfe, Brennan.
Franklin Moses and Mrs. Louisa
Bennett, Grange.
Bernardo Pena and Miss s sophia
Meyers, Corpus Christi.
w. j. Cooper and Miss Ma mie l..
Dain, Denison.
Lee Onstott and Miss Fannie
Cunningham, Hubbard City.
Charles Raglan and Miss Dade
Linney, Refugio.
VIM. Balmgarten and Miss Lula
Simpson, Refugio.
q. w. Baldwin and Miss M aude
Elliot, Hampstead.
John X. Wall and Miss May
Collins, Coleman.
T. B. Marshall and Mrs. Susan
Edmonson, Grand Prairie.
ID. P. Eason and Miss Bertha Beat
ty, Sherwood.
William Mcclure and Miss Ber-
tina Martin, Sherwood.
Kyle Bean and Miss Miriam
Thomas, Magnolia Springs.
J. III. Mulvey and Miss Bedora
Raaucha mn 0ranoa
j. E Yantis and Miss Lilly
Sloan, Temple.
TEXAS DEATHS FOR A WEEK.
Geo. Schwander, 80, Bracket
vile.
Miss Ida Thompson, Jackson
Vile.
Mrs. G.. P. Webb, Sherman.
Mrs. II. Bales, 49,, near Denison.
Mrs. Chas. III. Reanch, Denison.
Mrs. E. P. Yarbrough, 70, Deni-
son.
Mrs. Mary Chandler, SO, Harris.
burg.
S. q. Moore, Moulton.
Gus Ulrich, ST., Schulenberg.
Mrs. Matte Deskin, Tyler.
Mrs. P. Freidrichs, 81, German
town.
Mrs. F. 7. Crowley, so, kaufman.
George Sacoda, 50, Frelsburg.
Mrs Thos. Harris, Hubbard Cy.
j, H. Kyser, near Kaufman.
Mrs. Matilda Johnson, 60, Sabine
pass.
Mrs. p. A. Barksdale, IS, Terrell.
Oscar Manning, %, Rusk.
Henry Rice, %, Rockport.
H. II. Walters, 70, rear Grange.
Mary Marks (col.) 100, Indepen-
dence.
Mrs. Mollie Scale, near Groes-
beck.
M. T. Merideth, Velasco.
Rev. Chas Pierce, Runge.
Mrs. J. M. Kruger, Sinner.
Mrs. Daisy Fuqus, %, near Lu-
ling.
DIR. John Weary, 80, Center.
G. r. Thompson, 81, Leadbetter.
Mrs. VIII. Griffith, ST., near Or
ange.
Israel Baum, Rockdale.
Jack Bullsrd, near Mad isonville.
Frank Cannon, near Madison
Vile.
F. D. Mcclure, "a, Grange.
Mrs. j. F. Nc earthly, Comanche.
Joshua Gorum, 62, Gainesville.
j. NJ. Click, 81, Den1son.
Fred Wilson, 63, Denison.
Mrs. Geo. Harkrider, Carthage.
Captain Schneider, 65, Giddings.
Miss Julia Raube, I6, Giddings.
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02
SIGNIFICANT OF NOTHING.

No particular interest or importance
attaches to the vote in the senate yes
terday. by which the finance commit
tees free silver substitute for the bond
bin was passed. It means nothing.
1t can come to nothing It's only pos
sible effect would be to injure our
credit a little more in the eyes Of the
world, and we doubt If it will effect
even that. 1t was all discounted in
advance. Everybody knew exactly how
winded speeches, We're not listened to.
The whole performance is merely for
political purpose, with a view to the
coming elections. A certain number
OF senators We're anxious to put them
selves on record for free COMA ge, some
were anxious to record themselves to
the contrary, and a few trimmers were
smoked out. But the episode has no
one Of the straw votes taken on a rail-
road train. to ascertain the preferences
of the passengers in the matter of pres
idential candidates.
The result Is, on the whole, rather
encouraging to the friends Of sound
money. Free silver has before this
had the support of the senate That
is no novelty. But this time it wins
by majority Of but seven two of which
votes were those of the newly admitted
members from Utah. The total vote
stood AZ to 50. OF the affirmative votes.
twelve We're cast by senators from the
six states which feel that they have a
direct pecuniary interest in the matter.
as producers of silver bullion These
twelve votes represent no principle of
currency, but a mere matter Of local
business, regardless of the welfare of
the rest of the country. Without them,
counting only the disinterested COM
mun1ties which can express an indie
pendent opinion, the majority would
nave been five the other way. AS to
parties, the vote shows the inroads
that the free silver sentiment has been
making upon the Republican party as
compared with previous records Fiji
teen Of the affirmative votes were con-
tributed by its representatives, twenty
by Democrats, and seven by Populists
In the negative there voted thirteen
Democrats and twenty-five Republic
ans. There is little to choose between
party records in the total vote. Each
organization has caught some Of the
Infection. But, as the senate no longer
really represents either party or peo-
pie, that is of slight consequence. The
one significant line of division indi-
Gated by the vote is that between the
intelligent and progressive sections of
the country and those which are still
far in arrears both as to material and
mental development.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02

nish proofs Of such utility, as well as
detailed statements of their wealth and
the use to which it is put If such
proofs cannot be furnished, the asso-
Citations may be dissolved and their
property confiscated. In any case the
property returns will be used as
basis for taxation.
Whether the information of the
curate or not, it is sufficiently interest
ing in the light it sheds upon their in
depreciation of liberty in republican
France, where they use that sacred
word frequently, but without the
slightest apprehension of its meaning.
Should such bill become a law 1t
would Of course require. more or less
rigid definition of what constitutes pub
lie utidty-a definition which cannot
fail to be of interest to the whole
civilized world. For, after all, 1t is
but step for such hot-headed gentle
men as the French Radicals from con-
liz properly VI ISllSlOuo dSoO-
Citations because they fail of utility to
Selling that Of private individuals on
the same ground. The supposition
that public utility may eventually be
made the test of private wealth is NOT
without a foundation in our modern
tendencies. What else means our doc
tr1ne-for it amounts to that-that a
private fortune is a public trust? At
present 1t Is true that it is ONLY the
possessors of great wealth who are
practically compelled by public opin-
ION to stand and deliver a portion of
their goods, but, the principle once
admitted, who is to say where the line
shall be drawn?
The time was in our forefathers' day
when man who kept himself and his
family from coming on the town." TO
use the New England phrase, could
have pointed to that fact as a demon
stration Of his public utility; but in
the flood Of sentimental altruism which
has overtaken this generation self-sup-
POiI 10 llO lOilStT Il virtue. Inc plan
Of the socialists Is practically to get
everybody ION the town." Industry.
economy and thrift have ceased to be
virtues and it seems probable that the
time Of their denunciation as crime is
not far away. 1t is to be hoped that
there is cycle in the fashion of the
virtues as in wearing apparel, which
will shortly bring them to the fore
again. The folly of supposing that there
Is any such thing as public utility
apart from the good of the individual
citizen, or that the world can make
progress under any other policy than
that of the enlightened selfshness.
which is synonymous with the altruistic
state, Is one of the peculiar
fallacies of our era. The re-
forming of the state by the de-
struction of its component elements re-
sembles the old puzzle of the snake
who swallowed himself until he was all
gone. in that it may be made to look
practicable on paper, but it will be
found to be as little demonstrable in
reality
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02

Nor can we see any reason for the
In the next place, the non-existenee
or nom enforcement OF penalties leaves
the. city, and also the property-holders
who consume gas, practically at the
mercy of the company. 1t appears from
the public records Of Minneap polls that
it has required very active investiga-
ton and a stern exaction Of penalties
to keep the supply up to the require
ments. The bills show for last year
monthly deductions from the aggre-
gate claim running from $500 to $500
a month. This would be an enormous
profit for a company to make If there
were no inspection and it were never
called down. The excellent effect of
enforcing conditions appears in the fact
that last year while $516 was deducted
from the bill in June, as a penalty,
this fell to 1910 in July, s54 in August,
S39 in September and nothing at all in
October. The parties supplying the
light evidently found it to their advan-
tage not to try to evade their agree
ment. If no such system had been in
force, it is clear that the city would
have been the loser through deficient
quality and quantity by many thou
sands of dollars.
This would imply, too, that all pri-
vate citizens who use gas were suffer-
ing at the same time from the same
cause. The great variation in the
quality of the gas in st. Paul has not
escaped any ones attention. 1t is true,
as has been stated by a representative
of the company, that the service at the
present time is excellent. The pres
sure is strong, the quality of the gas
good, and it has abundant lighting
power. But 1t is only a few months
ago that the entire light given by two
burners Of full power was scarcely suf-
ficient to make a hole in the surround
ing darkness. The only way to correct
this and secure a uniform service Is
by continuous, careful and competent
Inspection, ana the steady enforcement
Of severe penalties for falling below the
standard. This is point quite as i'm
portant as it Is to secure reasonable
rates. We hope that it will be guarded
carefully by the council in ali future
arrangements that it may make with
any company or individuals contract
Ing to supply the city or the people
with light.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02
THE TEST OF PUBLIC UTILITY.

The Paris correspondent Of the New
York World processes to have secured
information concerning a bill shortly
to be brought before the French cham
Der Of deputies which aims at Grip
ping the power of the church. It will
define the position of permanent asso-
stations possessing real estate, and will
compel all such organizations to prove
their public utility" Many human
tarian societies and some religious
orders, such as the Little Sisters Of
the Poor, ETC., are already recognized
by the government as possessing these
qualifications, but there are in addi-
ton many other religious associations
in France Of greater or less wealth,
whose public utility it Is claimed is not
evident. These associations will be re-
quired by the forthcoming bill to fur
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02

than that Of one competitor. In
single season, this pavement
has so deteriorated that the con-
tractors are kept busy on repairs.
and it is evident that, after their period
of responsibility ends, the city will have
Dig job on its hands to keep it in
9assable condition. Notwithstanding
this, and in the face of it, it was
proposed that the same material should
De laid on large number of streets
that are to be paved the coming spring,
and an ordinance to that effect, involv-
ing the expenditure of some $3.50. OOO
was passed by the council, and came
within one vote, in the face of denun-
citation by press and people, of pass
ing over the mayors veto.
The moral points itself A single
fact Of this description is worth more
than ton of abstract argument over
the relative legal value of the Bell and
the Howard charters. The best test
OF any system Of government is
the question, how does it work?
Under our present charter, in
complete as 1t is, we are making
economies which bring into sight a re-
duct1on of the tax levy by 20 per cent.
Under the Howard charter in Mime
apods, all the energy of the pub
lie is concentrated in the attempt
10 prevent possible repeti-
ton Of disastrous experiment
Contrast the result Of our present
system of local government with that
reached in Minneapolis under the How
ard charter system. We would not be
SO unjust as to charge upon the lat
ter sole responsibility for what may
have happened contrary to the public
interest when it was in force. We do
say that the fact that such things have
happened and are happening elsewhere
constantly under what is substantially
the Howard charter system ought to
close the mouths of those who yaunt
1t as an agent of municipal economy
and reform
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02

other purchaser appears. In the next
| place. we ask any one to consider what
are the chances that, If this property
should lie actually sold. the finds
would go intact to library purposes?
Would not a hundred other schemes
spring up to absorb them? Finally,
| as we have already said, If this prop
erty should be sold for $3.50, 900 in cash,
that sum would not be one penny too
great to secure another site and put
up such q building as is contemplated.
The city would then be no better off
in dollars and cents than now.
There is certain great and imme-
date advantage in having this prop
erty SO improved as to contribute a
handsome sum to the annual tax re-
ceipts and to raise the value Of all sur
rounding property. Asw have said, we
are not prepared TO urge the adoptie
of any proposition which has not been
put into formal terms. But it is GER
tain that, II the main Idea embodied in
this suggestion is opposed seriously by
any considerable portion of the pub
lie the whole mater will be dropped.
What will then happen is absolutely
sure. The old market house will be
leased for term Of years, to be re-
newed indefinitely; all the financial ad-
vantage will accrue to the lessees; the
city will get nothing out Of 1t; there
will be no library building put up, and
the public will be in no way the gamer.
These are practical conditions. They
should not be zobscured by any specu-
lative theories as to what this prop
erty ought to be worth, when we know
ourselves what can and what cannot
be done with 1T today. 1t is all a
pure matter of business; and we desire
earnestly that 1t may be viewed by our
people in a strictly business light. 1t
Is certainly within our power to secure
public library building superior in
its accommodations to that of Mime
apolis, and scarcely inferior in exter-
nal appearance, without the expendi-
ture OF one dollar of cash, and on a
basis which we believe, If figured out
rigidly. would show that ST Paul would
not be the loser in the long run, as
compared with any other disposition of
the property. either by sale or lease,
at any time in the future, 10 which we
can look forward with reasonable con-
fdence. Perhaps even then it ought not
to be adopted. But it ought at least
to have thorough and unprecedented con-
siderat ton.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02
MYSTERIES OF THE WAR MOOD.

Any incident which raises a conflict
| between the nations to the rank of a
possibility develops some queer char
acteristics. 1t seems to call out all
that is abnormal and all that is patriot
ic; at once the best and the worst that
! lies in human nature. The Venezuelan
message. which was followed by a
approval from the nation. produced,
later, crop Of pestilent remonstrances
| against any defense of national dig
nifty, historic policy or human rights
While one body of men were rejoicing
at the bold yet calm assertion of our
right to work out our destiny on this
continent unhindered, another were
clamoring about the money value of
interrupted commerce, and calling upon
foreign Dotentates and titlekins for
messages of approval The war mood
is heroic, but 1t is also hysteric. Those
are the two extremes, into one or the
other Of which a great emergency
throws men, according as their temper
The latest exhibitions of the mood,
| which has not yet entirely evaporated
are entirely Of the latter character
The grandmothers of our political as
sembltes, and those among the younger
men who would make capital for them
selves and their party out Of national
disaster If they could, seize upon the
opportunity to catch an excited public
ebb. The actual war scare is over.
Nothing more is likely to be done in
the Venezuelan matter before the re-
port Of the commission that has been
appointed. Everybody is confident
that, even afterwards, there will be no
difficulty. Great Britain has seen that
we are in earnest. We know that we
mean no wrong, only the securing of
justice. 1t is not probable that war
will grow out of such a situation. If
it should, time enough to face the sit
uation when it nears. That mans aim
is not steadiest or his endurance best
who sits up all night before the meeting
with his antagonist to discuss the
probabilities Of the encounter, and still
further disturb his excited nerves with
declaiming to the winds about the COM
ing fray.
There is method, however. in much
Of the war madness that still prevails.
The purpose Of it will be discovered
on close examination, to be in almost
every case the expenditure of large
sums of the peoples money for some
selfish purpose. This is the only real
danger In sight; the possibility that.
under pressure of temporary excite
ment, and under cover of an irnag-
mary preparation for the public de-
tense, measures will be carried through
TO saddle the people with vast burden
representing nothing but wanton waste.
There is a host Of such schemes in
the air. A good representative of them
Is Senator Lodges bill to issue 500
100000 Of per cent bonds. the pro-
ceeds to be spent in fortifyinp tbe
seacoast and the great lakes. 1t is
pitiful counterpart of the real devo-
ton Of the people to their countrv,s
cause to find linked with 1t such a
proposition; originating in the desire of
public man to make himself promi-
nent, and supported by all the selfish
interests which hope to be benefited by
the squandering of so immense a sum
Of money.
For example. this preposterous waste
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02

A letter from Cairo, published in
this mornings G 10 e gives a graphic
account of the quaint features and
surroundings of city in which all Of
US have felt a new and closer interest
since the Chicago exposition. These
are the real streets Of Cairo that are
pictured, by young lady of ST Paul
who is spending the winter there. and,
who has seen them with something of
the glamor Of ina gination about them.
yet describes them with the touch OF
reality 1t is an interesting bit Of
foreign correspondence. which we be.
lieve that our readers will appreciate
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02
THE LITERARY FUTURE OF THE
WEST

In the very interesting interview
with F. Marion Crawford. which an
pears in today's Globe, that gen
tleman puts himself upon record as
expecting the great American novel to
be written by a man from the Middle
West 1T will hardly be produced in
New York or New England" says Mr..
Crawford; these are not the centers
Of Americanism"
So brief a time as ten years ago,
such sentiments as these would prob
ably have been received with howls
of derision upon the Atlantic sea-
board; but a decade, which is prac-
t1caIly generation in the literary
life Of man, has wrought wondrous
changes in the tone with which such
pretensions Of the West were received
in the East. True, it was only last
year that Mr.. Garland's prediction Of
the ultimate literary supremacy of the
West was received with lifted eyebrows
in Boston; but they are a little bitter
in Boston, because the westward march
Of literary art has already left them
hopelessly in the rear; and then. too,
Mr.. Garland being a Westerner him
self of the most pronounced type his
assumption Of the prophetic role would
hardly be considered disinterested. Mr.
authority OF Indifference. A prominent
New York publisher recently expressed
himself to the same effect, but a little
more definitely, in saying that the
Western combination of Puritan blood,
with breadth and freedom of life and
thought unknown to the East, had long
seemed to him the amalgamation most
likely to produce the fine flower of
We have no hesitation in proclaim
ing firmly but modestIy our belief in
the good judgment of these gentlemen.
Doubtless in literature, as in the more
surpass the expectations which have
been entertained of her. 1t is way
she has. AS an example of what she
can do in this line on brief notice,
witness the rapid evolution of Chicago
as a literary center. Her claims to
this distinction may be said to have
been established since the fair They
have spread like the mustard tree,
and wholesome one.
What Chicago has done today, Kan
sas City may do tomorrow and Denver
the day after. But we are willing
to make certain concessions to our
Eastern friends. Half of the success
of the triumphant work which we are
willing to assume we are about to do
in literature will be caused by the
fact that it IS Western work and
breathes the brave and wholesome
spirit Of our section; but the other
half will be dependent upon the fact
that literature has become suddenly,
as it seems, a universal necessity, and
the supply can hardly be made to equal
the demand. Books and magazines
are no longer one of life's Iuxuries, as
was demonstrated by the fact that next
to the butcher and the grocer, the pub
Usher. Of all tradespeople, felt the pres
sure of recent hard times least. There
is market for all the good literature
that can be produced, East or West.
Material bigness and breadth does
count, even In the creation of intellect
ual products, and so it is natural that
we should ultimately produce the most
and the best Of them; but we are not
grasping, and we are quite willing
that Boston and New York should do
their more restricted share.