Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-24

yourselves miserable, but those also whom
you ought to make happy and comfortable.
While you eat your own I" potatoe de
bake" darn your own stockings and make
your W prairie-feather beds, when there
are so many that would do all this with
the greatest pleasure, it is no wonder you
are looked upon with a fearless sympathy
il is no wonder that the blooming rose, as
well as the faded flower, toss their conse-
q%uential heads, in a half ~desparing man.
ner, as they exclaim-" good enough for
them" Why is it, gentlemen, that you
blush and blunder, and feel like a fish out
of water, when you are accidently caught
in the company of that class, 10 whom
your mother ~belonged7 The crime is,
you are a bachelor, and the guilt that has
its seat in the heart, under such circum.
stances starts to the face, and is clearly
perceivable. If you would remove the
blush, you must remove the cause. No
man ever yet blushed with a good con-
science. 1t seems to me that those rusty
old bachelors, hardened and s%toical, who
are yet debating their chances, fora sweet
little blooming rose, of sixteen, ought 10
be banished from this Territory, to the
United States. Some of them are dream
ing of angels yet; but if they should be
so fortunate as to get one, they could not
keep her long, unless they should clip her
wings. l speak without fear of your re-
v~olvers, when | tell you, that bachelors
should always unite their interest with
that of old maids; this is natural, this is
just and right. This is the only sure road
to happiness. Great disparity in age, Of
ten begets jealousy and a brood of other
evils. Gentlemen of the bachelor fra.
ternity, if you wish TO emerge from your
present depths of misery, call upon som
of the advanced, spend an afternoon with
them, not the night, ask the little kitten
if you may take home her mistress with
you ? and you will soon hear the response
L" say yes, kittey."
t If bachelors would only compare theil
/ condition, with those who have taken 70
, better or worse" one of Mother Eve
fair daughters, it seems to me they woulc
, soon begin to feel. Why, everything
, about them is clean, neat, and Sweei bu
, with the lone traveller, it is exactly the re
I verse. His red boots need the backing
=. his dirty dickey whitening, his encruste'
teeth securing, his tobacco spittle mout
. s~wabbing, his long dirty nails pairing
and his little selfish heart, all encase
y and hardened, probed to the very bottom
with the sharpest of Cupid's arrow:
Why, Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy
don't half disclose the commotion and &C
d ~itation, that is continually going on, i
| tina, bachelors inner sanctum. His ow
physiog, speaks it out more plainly, an
so conscious is he of the fact, that he a
tempts to cover it up, with tufts of hal
al worn, as Shakspere says,-by goats, fool
is and t~oml-cdtS.
Hear we, a moment, what St. Paul say
Marriage is honorable in ALL" Are J
not then d~is-honorable Perch you
s. selves upon the stool of repentance al
ut read again,-"It is not good for man
vh be alone" This you know by bitter e
III perience. If then, you would better 20
M condition, you must face the music.
CHAUCER.