Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-23
SHALL BACaELoRs BE rAxEDs
Tho DisadVaD tagss of the state OF single
Blsssedness Pictured In a Way to Make
Converts to Mormonism.



Eho DisadvaD tagss Of the state OF single
Blsssedness Pictured In a way to Make
Converts to Mormonism.
Psek's SaH.
There Is q proposition on foot in several
of the Eastern States to have laws passed
taxing bachelors q certain sum each year
The object is two-fold, to raise money from
q non producing class of citizens, ard to
place bachelors under ban and show them
that their manner of living with no object
in view is not believed to be Of value 10 q
community. There are two sides to all
questions, and the Sun does not know
Ghich side to take, consequently it Will,
as usual, straddls the fence. Bachelors
who are such from choice will fight 1t out
on that line and claim that they had rather
pay reasonable tax, or even an exorbit-
ant tax, than to marry. They will Illus
trAte their position by pointing to thoIs-
ands Of married men who would be willing
to paw their last dollar in taxes if they
could be placed back in theranks of bache-
lors. The bachelors will show that on the
average they are happier, and more free
from care, and enjoy themselves better than
the average married man, and on that
ground they ought TO be willing 10 pay
tax. They will show that bachelors are SIS
. rule, rotund and jolly while married men
look as though something was eating
them. There may be certain alleged
beauties about the life of bachelor while
be is young and in his prime, but when he
begins TO get old, aud pains rack his body,
sickness confines him to his lonely bed,
and he has to be assisted by strangers and
hired hello, he will realize what fool he
has made of himself. and what q failure
his life has been. No wife or children to
minister to his wants, the bachelor is q
most forlorn object II is then that ne be-
gins to look careworp, cross, and as
though something was eating him, while
the married man who used to look that
way is happy snd eontented. 1t is better
10 have some cares and discomforts as
married man at the front end of life, when
one can endure them and see q piece OF
clear sky ahead, than to have a care
less picnic in early life with
a prospect OF dark clouds
all the time after the individual becomes
old enough to need kindly Offices from low
ing friends, instead VI hiring somebody to
be sossy fer nam at so much week. The
G6st pitiful object in life is sick old bach
elor Of clearinghouse, hotel or hos
pissl. Il is then that he thinks over his list
of friends, male and female, who have
homes, and he would give the world to be
an inmate of one of those homes. He
thinks of the girls he might and ought to
have married years ago, and as hired
nurse brings him some pills to take he
thinks how much easier he could take
them from the hands of loving wife or
daughter. A bachelor with crick in his
back thinks the hand of the hired nurse
who rubs it is a curry-comb, and he thinks
of some soft hand he has held in his, years
ago, and he would give ten years OF his hfe
if he had given to the owner of that soft
hand the right to Tub the crlck out OF his
back, but it is everlastingly too late. IT be
went searching for q wife now he would
have TO take one who was as old and tooth
less as he is, and her hand would be so
harsh and bony that she would produce two
cricks in the back where only one grew be-
fore. He realizes this when he losses in
pain; and the look on his face plainly
shows remorse. Bachelor friends may
make formal calls on him when he is sick
and wish him o speedy cure, but that kind
Of friendship does not ell the bill. he
dies and the bachelor friends act as bearers
to his funeral, friends Of earlier days ride
in the carriages as mourners, and talk
about the blank life of the deceased, but
there are no tears, unless there is sister
who comes from distance to attend the
faneral and see about probatiug the will
The confirmed bachelor is in hard luck,
and perhaps he ought 10 pay tax or
license, and wear a check on his neck, 80
that all may know he is bachelor.