Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-12-26
THE BACHELOR HOMES OF KANSAS

Early in the spring, several thousand excel
lent ynung men OF enterprise and talent came TO
Kansas from noble motives. Tbs was jokingly
called the carpet bng emigration. MOI having
the incumbrance of families, they moved readily
to any part of the territory which suied their
fancy, and took claims and settled down. II
troubles came, they were on hand TO suppress
them, so thu Kansas might no logger depend on
Missouri for posse to keep the peace.
We have many pleasant acquantances among
these young men, and have frequently met them
in their Kansas homes One we met in the
road about seventy miles from Lawrence. He
insisted on our visiting his cabin and taking din
ner. We gladly accompanied him. He had a
beautiful claim-part timber and part prairie,
with a creek running through it, and small pole
cabin without fireplace, stove or floor The
bed was a pile of hay in one corner ON the ground
and an Indian blanket, which answered for a
cloak by day and bed cUver by night.
On introducing us into his cabin, he invited
US to sit on his trunk, and excuse him, while he
iran over to .jim's and borrowed little flour for
dinner-l am out" said he. He obtained the
flour and commenced making batter cakes, in the
meantime entertaining us with his new mode of
life, and the pleasures attending it. In the first
place, the people were free and equal, "fat, rag
ged and saucy,' and cared for nobody. He had
not had his clothes off for two weeks, and had
violated no custom or fashion of the nei shbor-
hood lie hid but two cooking uutenss-a
frying pan and cnnee-pot. lie did not know
what else he wanted, for no was perfectly hap
py. SLoud like mails to come once in a while
though" said he, for we have had but one pa
per since we came here, and that is an old ~
Y. Tribune, which we boys have read through
so often that we know it by heart, advertise
ments and ALL"
After eating hearty dinner, made sweet by
hunger, we left, wishing our friend health and
prosperity forever. lie was PRINTER, a schul-
ar and a patriot.
Fifty miles arther on we heard of our ffcnd II.
We hal formerly known him as tall, handsome,
gentlemanly fellow, with dark curly hair, dark
eyes, the manners of Chesterfield the learning
OF a scholar, the skill of an artist. He played the
violin to perfection, and was the center OF attrac-
tion and the soul of enjoyment wherever he went.
We had directions to his cabin, and drove up be-
fore his door, and called tn him by, his name. He
was lying vet rolled up in his blanket, on the
door, which he had taken from its hinges and laid
upon two chunks, for bedstead He reused up
at our call, and on being joked about his bed
stead, he gave US a reason for his economy, that
Ii was warm weather now, and the door was not
needed to SOP the hole in the logs, so he put
II to this use, for the sake oflying up higher from
the ground. We made long AMI pleasant visit
here Seating ourself on the bed we watched
our friend get breakfast lie was cold water
man, so our repast here was even more simple
than the other The only cooking utensil was a
frying pan. The only article of diet was batter
cakes made OF -four and corn meal, with butter