The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-03-04
BACHELORS BOLD.


NUMBER III.
o. wac some power the giflie gle Us.
To see oursels as other see usi
1t wad frae monte a blunder free US,
And foolish notion.
Thus wrote Burns, Scotia's i'm
mortal bard; and, although the subject
Of the verse was not man, nor even an
admirable creature, the lines ARE most
apropos to bachelors. Suppose they
could see themselves as others see them,
how long, think you, would they refrain
from making some lovely women hap
pyP 1t is not too much to say, perhaps,
that most bachelors would be ashamed
Of themselves at first glance.
Suppose now. that J. c. Horton
were suddenly gifted with the power Of
witnessing himself In a mental mirror
as he stands In the mirror of the public.
He would say "Here l am at forty
probably we have overshot the mark
by fifteen or twenty years. but we are
always liberal with figures-except
when auditing our wash bill and not
married yet. Not rIied-and why?
And echo repeats its tintinnabulary
reveI berations oft and again on the
tympanum, "W-h-yp" Unexpectedly
entombed with the Wondering connun
drum of "Who struck Mr.. VIM. Pat.
tersonp"I
And yet Mr.. Horton looks not like a
man who remains a celibate from
choice. For no man with a huge fund
Of poetic quotation, romance and love
fiction generally, is destined to remain
in the state, the opposite to hat for
which nature designed him. Not to
speak of his charms, Mr.. II. possesses
much that is pleasing to the gentler
and better sex. As a conyersationalist
he ranks A /; and the heart is certainly
o~bdurate, if not adamantine, that could
Withstand the erosive force of his elo'
quence. We bethink us that he could
melt to tears the renovater and pol
Usher Of his linen,- on an error of &C.
count or, what is worse. the confusion
| of raiment.
But all nature carries a compensating
principle. No poison without its anti
dote; no disease without its cure; nc
pleasure without its sorrow; no cloud
without a silver lining. The greal
c~ompensatihg principle in Mr.. Horizons
mental construction is humor. If there
is aught that fails to reach the stand
ard set by men-the most uncharitable
critics of man-Mr. H. compensates
for the same by his delectable and per.
petual frolic Of punning. A thousand
puns in u thousand seconds, is a fail
average of this gentleman's witty ef'
forts-when in training. Approach
this, We who can!
Mr.. II. is Il proficient stenographer,
or short hand writer. His position II;
territorial stenographer affords a short
hand road to wealth; for $1,000 per
annum is an income that brings
wealth into a short focus. 1t may moi
be too much to expect MI. H.. to dem
onstate n short hand trail to matrimo'
ny. But this is u rather delicate sub
ject and we will pursue it no further,
Suffice it that the gentleman is a worthy
ard subsi antial citizen and possesses
the elements that will soon make him
one of the more solid citizens of Wyov
ming territory.
Col. /. w. French Is another bach.
elor who wouldn't need two g~lances in
his mental mirror to assure him that
he is q living mistake; a perennial
error. For no man bears more clearly
than he the imprint OF the Designer:
intention to have in him a man of fami
ly. Physically, intellectually, socially
and financially, and everyway you take
him he is
One OF natures noblemen.
We cannot vouch that the fame OF
passion never burned in his breast; we
are inclined to, and would rather, be.
lieve, that it has. 1t would certainly
be idle to suppose that be has not beer
looked upon
In admiration fond.
But the colonel may one day surprise
both himself and friends by obeying the
great divine command which was issued
in the garden of Eden. He may gel
out of the notion that because Adam
was the original bachelor, he has {