Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-28

Sampson, the great original lion split
ter and jaw bone sWinger, Above,
himself to be shorn of his wool, BIZ
strength. and his glory, and playe,
blind horse for years in Philistin,
tread mill. David had TO steal hi
sweetheart, and bushwhack her dis
tempered old father the rest of hi
life. Solomon's jularky made him
renegade, Mormon and idolator; 70,
3 she darky's sake the Wise Man-th,
builder of that magnificent tempt,
whose golden spires glittering in Ju
dea's evening sunlight for nearly 50l
years, proclaimed the glory of Israel'l
God to all the world-sovereign
songster and sage inspired-forsool
his religion and became a fool, anC
burnt incense in jeweled censers t
stuffed crooodiles and picked toads
In pressing his suit with the star,
eyed Egyptian, sweet sorceress Of the
Nile" who was a mulatto, the fathel
of our distinguished fellsw citizen
Colonel Susan B. Anthony, threw
away the scepter of the world; anC
the grass widower. Napoleon's second
courtship was his first step on tn,
road to Waterloo and Hel>ena. AL
such risks and discomboberations
you have saved me by railroading me
through to marriage, without love Of
cOurtship-but | guess, if the yellow
back scriptures are true, you have cut
me out Of lots of fun.
Married. To be married. Well
hardly. What is married but mis-.
mated, too often marred? Nature
plays many high old quips and quirks
kicks up her venerable heels in count.
less can.can pirouettes and whirligigs;
shakes her omnium gatherum apron
pockets and scatters, here and there
and everywhere, innumerable mon.
strosities, ludicrosities ridiculosities
perpetrates incompatible mad-caI
deliberations, and mental, moral and
physical cranks and curlicues; and
inhicts upon her unfortunate STEP
children unending higgledy piggledy
lususses. She stuffs President with
a peanut peddler's soul, and makes a
hero's heart throb beneath the ragged
waistcoat of scavenger. She Grapes
galvanized oyster wenches, or worse,
in the rich laces and brocades Of
Senator's, Governors and Cabi-
net Ministers wives, and encloses
the spirit of saint or a martyr in the
dingy tatters of a char woman or a
beggar. She wraps courage, gratitude
and affection in the hide of dog, and
swaddles baseness and brutality in
broadcloth and fine linen. She per.
mits two legged donkeys to bray in all
our legislative halls, and dine at ouI
Delmonicos', while their superiors in
every worthy quality and qualification
MUNICH coarse straw in a thousand un.
chinked country stables. She build:
quadrupedal men and bipedal swine
But all her oldest, maddest freaks arc
tame and rational compared with the
wild WITNESSES of love and marriage
Look where you will, what a world Of
taugles and insists. All iumbled
lopsided, i'll assorted and muddlety,
Aummixed. No incongruity is too
crazy, no vagary too monstrous. Eagles
mate with moles, and swans with
hedgehogs. Tom Thumbs pine fol
she Goliaths. Sons of Anak wed hu,
man kumming birds. Mighty Drained
heroes and statesmen rave over insane
little butterflies, puny wax dolls, taffy
faced pigmies; and women who would
grace a court ally themselves will
counter hoppers, numskulls and boo
bies. Kings bow down to ballet dan.
GERS, and queens take refuge in tn,
arms of cooks and coachmen. Who
ever heard of half dozen Presidents
wives2 While Andrew jackson rar
the White House like an emperor. tn,
old wife, for whom he murdered Dick
inson, smoked her cob pipe in tn,
backwoods of Tennessee. Where are
and where have been, all the Mr., He
manses, Mr.. Ristoris, Mr.. Harriet
Reecher Stoves and Mr.. Jenni,
Junes2 Every fellow gets the wron,
woman and no woman gets the RICH
fellow. And in all lands snC
chimes, in every condition and estate
the Cupid-wounded, Hymen bound
gosling and goslingess have a hare
road to travel to a paradise of souasl
an imaginary elysium, whose rose
are too often rue. To love is to b,
ecstatically miserable. TIE court is I,
vibrate between the orthodox and tn,
Japanese hells-from a hell of FIRE I,
q hell Of ice. To marry is to plung,
headlong into both at once, and I,
take the chances Of looking foreve
like one halt of a Carolina chario
team, which usually consists of bin,
jack and muley COW, or a scrub cal
and a knocked kneed jennet. Mar
riage has been likened to the flies Of
a dining room window-all on tn
outside are butting their heads apains
the glass to get in, and all on the in
side are butting their heads against /
to get out; and, go which way the
will, there is always a pane ahead q
them. In view of all the chances
the only wonder is that any flies ar
foolish enough to want to get in.
Married. To be married. Marriae
is that wondrous, mystic ceremonis
which makes two immortals one-bu
in many instances life is spent in try
ing to decide which one. l know Their
is a sentimental side to it. l know Al
the bifalutin stereotyped stuff abou
it. l know, where two congenia
hearts and souls aglow with pure AM
ferVent love nnitn the nnldnn nLa;-.