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San Marcos Free Press
I.!H. JULIAN,
'Prove All Things 1 Hold Fast that which Is Good."
PROPRIETOR.
VOL. Vll.
SAN MARCOS, HAYS CO., TEXAS, FEBRUARY 16, 1878.
NO. 15.
Free Press.
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Ory ood imil flrocerlosj.
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JJ Plaza.
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ad Daniel a Drug store.
RS. DKNTON PKNDLRTON, office College
street, nearly opposite Hutchison ACo.'a store.
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tt. J. H. COMBS, offlce North aide of of the
Maiu Plaza.
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JJOTCnMOS,. FRANKLIN, i the Court-house.
g B. McBRIDB, offlc. la the Court House,
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L iml Atent una Notary Public.
ID, JULIAS, olflce F Pbbss Building, next
. door to post office.
Hotel.
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Bearding: lloitae.
Q WISIAN. Weatlde of public square.
millinery Store.
HOFHEINZ, south std. Plata.
WM ana Carriage Maker.
1 H. RAH, rear of Dvlnney A Co.'a Black.
J, smith Shop.
Blacksmith.
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Carpe.ter Jc Hnilder.
CI TOGELS A5G, la. Antonio street.
Llrerr aasl Male Stable.
B. BALIS, kl tstoels street.
Cakla.t'.l.kert.
WARD, cast aids .f Pta a.
VTatcheaakcr dad Jeweler.
H. R0B31XS. t mU plaia.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
ornciAi,.
coxobssbmah 0th DIBTXICT)
Bon. Onslave Schleicher, of DeWItt Co.
sbkatox-31st Birraioi:
Boo. L. J. Storey, of Caldwell Co. .
.XFKISKHTATIVK 04ToDinaiCTI
lion. J. V. Butcblne, of Hays Co.
Bon. W. M. Rust, of GusdaluoeCo.
distbiot ooout 16th distuot.
Bon. L. W. Moor, Presiding Judge, UG range.
tibii or uouiixn oobxt.
Bar. 2d Mondays in March and September,
ootixTi ornoaxa.
Sterling Fisher, Judge Conoly Court,
F. J. Manlove, County Attorney.
Ed. J. L. Green, Clerk.
Jaa. A. Wren, Sheriff. 0. S. Cook, Deputy.
0. W. Grooms, Justice of Ihe Pesos Pre. N. I
1. M. Breedlov,
H.G. Little. " " " " " S
L. Smith, ' 4
U. A. McMeus, County Treasurer.
A. H atou, Assessor.
Ben. C. Hardin, (Surveyor.
D. P. Hopkins, Cosi'r Precinct No. 1.
f). K. Moore " " 1.
J. K. Burleson, ' " " S.
J.L. Baxemore. ' " 4.
Geo. H. Ward, Constable.
Tims or holdiho County a ho Pbioikot Cottars
Criminal County Court 1st Monday In each
month. .
County Court for Civil and Probate business
1st Monday In February April, Juue,Augnst, Oc
tober and December.
Commissioners' Court Id Mondays In February,
May, August and November.
Justice Court Precinct No. I 1st Friday In each
month, San Marcos.
Preclucl No. 1 '2d Friday In each month MtClty.
" 8 3d " Wlmberley'a Mill
4 4th " Dripping Springe.
tows orrictxa.
Mayor A. B. F. Kerr.
Council W.O. Hutchison, W.;b. Fry, L. W. Mitch
ell, D. P. Hopkins, P. U. Turuer.
Marshal A. B. Dalley.
ciii;kciii:s.
METHODIST. Preaching at the Methodist
Church every Sabbath. Hev. J. S.Gillett, Pastor.
CHRISTIAN. Preaching at tbe Christian
Church on the aecond and fourth Sabbaths In each
month by Elder J. J. Williamson.
PRESBYTERIAN. Preaching at the Presbyte
rian Church on tie second and fourth e)ab-
baihin eeb month by the Rev. W. L, Kennedy.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.Servlcea second
Sunday in each month at 10X o'clock, a. at., and
7 p. hi., at at. Mart's uuurcn.j
BAPTIST. Preaching at tbe Christian Church
on the third Sunday tu each montn, Dy Hev, nr.
Wright.
!tIAII.M.
Austin Stage arrives at 12 o'cl'ick H.; San
Antonio Stage arrives at 12 o'olock at. Both
llallv arrivals Mails oloae st 11 ','
Gonzales, arrives Tuesdays and Fridays at 5 r. at.;
leaves at 8 A. u. next morning.
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OX THE OI'IIEU SlIfG.
W go our waya In life too much alone '
W hold ourselves too far from ill our kind ;
Too often we are deaf to sigh sr moan,
Too often to th weak and helpless blind
Too often where distress and want abide,
W turn and past upon th thr side.
JOT COItlHTII I TUB NORil'
Ob, deem not they are bleat alone
Whose lives peaceful tenor keep.
For God, whe pities ma, hath shown
A blessing for th eys that weep .
1 he tight of smiles shall All (gain
Th lid thkt overflow with tears
Ard weary boars of wo and pain
Are promise of happier years.
There I day of tunny rest
For every dsrk and troubled night,
And grief my bid an evening guest,
But Joy shall come with early light.
Nor let th good man'a trust depart,
Though lire It common gifts deny
Though with pieroed and broken heart,
And spurned of men, be goes to die..
For God has marked each sorrowing dsy,
And numbered every secret tear,
And heaven'a long age of bliss shall pay
For all hi: children suffer here.
ITiiat CMm Bryant.
LETTER.
Washington. D. C, )
Feb. 7, 1878.
Slowly the silver bill sppronohes a
final vote in the Senate. It will go
back to the House, amended, within a
week, and probably be speedily noted
on by that body. There is no goodrea'
son why it should not go to Mr. Hayes
for his action sometime during the next
ten days. It ought to be disposed of
soon, for until that is done there is a
disposition not to go on with other im
portant business.
Every appropriation to be recommen
ded by the appropriation Committee of
the House will be less than the sum
expended for the same object last year
If the Democratic House will support
the Democratic Committee there will
be great and needed reductions in the
expenses of Government, but I am
sorry to say the indications of such
support are not many. '
One of the early scandals of this re
form Administration was the evident
puspose to put appointments to office
where they would do the most good.
Sometimes an effort was made bysuoh
distribution to heal a breach in tho
Radical party, sometimes to spite a
Radical Congressman, sometimes to
please a Radical Congressman, and
sometimes, very often, in fact to pro
vide positious for the personal friends
of Mr. Hayes. The small motive was
always apparent, and I don't know of
a single instance in which the Admin
istration, always preaching reform, has
given a high office to a person because
of his eminent fitness for it. There is
no such case. The Federal offices in
Baltimore were the subject for months
of disgusting dicker among the Mary
land politicians, and delegations of
them crowded the White House unti
they became a nuisance and an obstruc
tion to the public business. The places
were finally given to the political hacks
who, as they themselves claimed, could
"electrify the State" with Republi
can victory. Apparently this squab
ble is to be repeated over the Boston
Custom House, now managed by Sim
mons. The two Massachusetts Sena
tors are opposed to to his re-appointment
when his time expires, which will
be soon, and there is also strong par
ty favorablo to him. "Delegations"
are coming here. Wby cannot Mr.
Hayes ascertain whether or not Sim
moos has done his whole duty as Col
lector, and, governing himself by a rule
be himself laid down, re-appoint or re
fuse to re appoint the man solely on
that ground ? It reform is meant that
is what he ought to do.
Tbe House meant well in its late
vote that Ex-Members should not be
allowed to come upon its floor until
they bad certified that tkejr wet "not
nterested in pendiog legislation, bat
it accomplished little. Most lobbyiog
s not done on th. floor of the House
or Senate, bat in Committee Rooms
on the streets, in hotels, at private
houses, or on railroad trains in short,
wherercr the Chairman of Commit-
too or other influential Congressman
can be found or can be induoed to go.
It is said the most aooomplished of lob
byists wus in the habit of losing large
sums of money in gambling with 4 for
mer Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee. He did not dare
to offer a bribe directly, and he gave
the Chairman this way of pooketing the
money of the individuals and corpo
rations to be benefitted by legislation
When either party has a large undis
puted majority in House or Senate
as tbe Republicans had from 1861 to
1873 the Committee presents legisla
tion and the two Houses adopt it. The
Chairman prepares it for the Commit
tee. Unless there is something pro
posed which is too olearly extravagant
or plainly out of the lino of previous
legislation, there is hardly any dissent
on the part of the lay members. Most
likely, if he is disposed to be rebellious,
something for tho benefit of his con
stituents or friends is thrust into the
obnoxious measure, and his consent se.
cured. This control of the Commit
tees is a necessity, if Congress is to
legislate, as it always has done, not
only upon subjeots of general import
ance, but upon nvery concoivable sub
ject of sectional, party and personal in
terest, for there is no time to oonsider
in open House a thousandth part of
tho measures proposed. But it gives a
tremendous power to the Committee
and its Chairman and reduces really
scientific lobbyiug to a comparatively
quiet and unostentatious affair. As I
said before, the late vote of the House
does not touch it, though the guileless
gentleman who introduced the resolu
tion and the members who voted it
through no doubt believed that an era
of legislative purity was at hand.
Rex.
THE I.AKi:SIIE MBItARY.
What It II") AccomplUhed
Wtkl It l'ropoistBH
About three years ago the first num
ber of Tiie Lakeside Library was
presented to the reading public.
It was a novelty io publishing, andi
as is generally the case with novelties,
its receDtion a was rather cool one.
Tbe people had grown accustomed to
connecting unqualified worthlessness
with cheapness in the matter of books,
and could not be expected to at once
examine and understand our "new de
parture." The trashy, pernicious literary slop
served up under the name of "Dime
Novels" and "Ten Cent" novels had
wholly disgusted tho better class of
readers with any thing and every thing
oalled cheap literature.
But in a little while tho merits o1
The Lakeside Library cheap edi
tions of the Best Books of tbe Great
est Authors created a moro extensive
demand, and it continued to increase
aud multiply, until it has now assumed
proportions far beyond our most san
suiue exDCCtations when we modestly
put forth the first experimental issue.
Tbe influence of the Lakeside soon
began to make itself felt in various di
rections.
Readers who had formerly bought
the "Dime Novels" and "Ten Cent
Novels." only because they must have
reading of some kind at a cheap price,
nd there was nothing else to choose
from, now bought The Lakeside in-
i. 1
stead, ror years previously, counueBs
. . , il.t L-..
articles bad appeared in an tne oeiicr
class of newspapers and tuagazinea pro
testing against tbe pernicious and
trashy character of tbe "Dime" and
Ten Cent" Novels, bat their publica
tion continued unabated. Scarcely
minister in all tbe land but act the seal
of bis condemnation upon them from
th. rjulnit. with equal lack of effect.
Tbe cause of failure was very simple.
It was not enough merely to point out
th. barm the trash was doiog ; it was
necessary to furnish a mltfitule.
This The Lakeside Library of
fered. Th. reading public toon dis
covered that oar ten cent editions were
not only of vastly higher order of
literature, bat that for tea cents tbe
purchaser actually obtained from four i
to $ix times the amonnt of reading in
The Lakeside Library that he
would have received in the "Dime"
and "Ton Cent" Novels.
Therefore the' days of "Dime Nov
els" and "Ten Cent Novels" were num
bered. They became as thoroughly
dead as Mark Twain's mummy. Their
publishers no longer found them liter
ally gold mines of profit. Indeed, it
would be a hardy.man who should now
venture to enter their sanotums and of
fer a new "Blood-and-Thunder-Indian-Border-Ruffian-
Wild-Bill-of-the-Prai-ries
Romance', to them for publication.
The stook of useless copies left on their
hands are a fortune to the "old paper
man," and the quantities of dusty elec
trotype plates will supply the "melting
pot" for a long time to come.
There was another discreditable
branch of publishing that soon felt tbo
effeot of Tbe Lakeside Library.
We refer to the horde of miserable
sensational dreary weekly "Story Pa
pers." Similar in the charaoter cf
theirjoontonts to the "Dime Novels,"
they built up enormous oiroulations
upon the principle of advertising ex
tensively, and paying little or nothing
for their literary (?) ooutents, whioh,
indeed, would be dear at any prioe.
How enormously their oiroulations
have fallen off since the publication of
The Lakeside Library is one of
those unoomfortable faots their pub
lishers dislike to to Ik about.
But tbe shrinkage can be imagined
when we remember that, with a single
exception, not one of these weekly
(weakly?) story papers contains the
writing of even one author who pos
sesses the slightest reputation among
literary men. Not one of their "Corps
of Writers" is ever mentioned in liter
ary sooicty. Not one of ebe nanus in
their published "Staff of Contributors"
could be found in the biographical die
tionariea of the day.
In a word, the great mass of tlu ir
articles are by novices end amateurs in
tbe profession of literature. They nre
the product of veritable "penny-a-liners."
And when we add to the worhlesfi
uess of the contents ot these weekly
story papers, another fatal element to
success the continuauce of the "lead
iug stories" from week to week, and
from month to month we find ample
explanation of the rapid and uiurtul
decrease in their patronage.
The whole case may bu Hummed up
in a nu tshull : Literary refuse, dished
up in ''to-bo continued" doses, can not
compete with Good Books publile l
complete in one issue, at a cheap prii e.
How Heecher Joinea tbe Church.
Mr. Beecher told, on last Friday
night, how he was dragged into the
church, and started on the road that
ended in Plymouth pulpit In 1827.
he said a spasmodic movement, culled
a revival, struck Mt. Pleasant, where
he was at school, and ran like fire
thiough tbe students. He thought
that he had cot religion, but yet it seem
ed to be more tha pastor's notion thin
hia In four or five weeks he had for
gotten all aboift it, and was having as
muoh fun as ever. He continued : ' I
then was astounded to get a letter from
hit father telling me that I was expect
ed to come down and join the church
with brother Charles on the next Sun
day. Well, if 1 had been condemned
to be hung, I shouldn't have felt worse.
I went down there, however, and I had
the regulation examination, and was
Dronouoced to be all right. But I re
member aa I went down the aisle that
Sunday how the carpet danced. I was
excited to th. bottom of my shoe. It
was a piteous time. I bad not had a
word of instruction. I waa told that
I count make up my choice, and 1 sup
pose I diJ eboose something, aod I tot
into the ch arch. It was aot my fault.'
W'htn a maa detect a missing but
ton after getting oa a clean shirt, no
oh ia tbe house is aware of th. fact
H. takes off tb. shirt a ad pats oa sr.
other, quietly smiling all tbe while. He
never, never speaks ol it to aoal.