Salt Lake Times | 1890-08-16 | Page 4 | Marriage not Always a Failure

MAKKlAWi NOT ALWAYS A FAILURE. Count Tolstoi is a bearer of false witness. wit-ness. James Brennan would call him a liar, but that would be impolite. However, James has done it, if not in words, in actions. Mr. Brennan is a Nebraska citizen. On the day beforo yesterday he was a bachelor, and was subject to a debt of $"(). Ho wai garuisheed and would have been obliged to pay had not a happy thought struck him.' The bene-licicnt bene-licicnt laws of Nebraska provide that tho head of a family shall be exempted from debt to the amount of $:m, or something like that. James was not a head of a family, but ho was enterprising. enterpris-ing. Whllo tho lawyers were tinkering with his case he withdrew, and shortly after appeared with a marriage license and a girl. The same justice of tha peace before whom the hearing of the other case was set joined tho two iu matrimony, and when the attorney who was trying to best James appeared on the scene it was" to receive a mellow, mocking laugh. Tolstoi says marriago is a bad sort of thing, but this unassuming Nebraskan has shown the fallacy of such an idea. When a man cau save $")(5 by gettiug married ho will come very uear doiug it. Tolstoi may be theoretically right, but when it comes down to tho hard dollars aud sense of the thing, give us the Nebraskan. James Brennan.