Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-01

accomplished.
A year from this time Granger led to the
altar the daughter Of a rich merchant, named
Collins, who had enough pride, extravaganza,
and love Of show to ruin any man willing TO
be Influenced by her. Her father gave her a
brilliant wedding party, and a house furnish
ed in the most costly manner. The young
couple started in life with some eclat.
No very long time elapsed after the mar
rage, before Granger discovered that his wife
had few if any domestic qualities; was self
willed, passionate, full of pride, and alarm
ingly extravagant. Such a thing as consult
ing his tastes, pleasures, or preferences, new
er appeared TO cross her mind. In spite of
the effort he made not to do so, he could not
help contrasting these qualities of his wife
with the very opposite ones that were pos
sessed in such gentle and unobtrusive yet
sweet perfection by Emma Riker.
Not more wisely did the young man act
in business. He at once extended all his OPP
erations and entered into new ones, employ
ing every dollar of his capital, and using his
credit to very nearly its Utmost limit. I'M
der this system he found himself, by the end
of a year or two, with a weight upon his
shoulders that was difficult to be borne. Not
wilhstanding this, he boosted Of having made
ten thousand dollars, during the first year,
and twenty thousand in The second year that
followed his improved fortunes and in OPEN
ing the business Of his third year, he sought
to extend still farther all his operations.-
Through the influence Of his father-in-law
Granger got into the direction of a bank that
was managed by a clique of money jobbers,
through which he found no difficulty in pas
sing his father.in-law's note 10 almost any
amount: and Mr.. Collins used the paper of
his son-in-law quite as freely. Thus their
interests and fortunes became ineXtricably
blended.
With such facilities, and the credit of ha-
wing made a great deal of money and being
one Of the most enterprising merchants in
the city, Granger was able to do a very hea-
Wy business; but, from the start, he had
over-tradcd, and was always driven by in
stead of driving and rightly guiding and man
aging his business.
In the meantime Ellis Day was going on
as of old, quietly, carefully and safely. His
operations were never very large but they
always yielded a fair profit, and gradually
extended every year. He had never been
able TO get an advance of capital from any
one; but this, he was inclined to think was
all for the best. More capital might have temp
ted him into water that was beyond his depth.
Some time after Changers marriage, Day,
who had met Emma Riker a year or two pre-
vlous, was again thrown into her company,
and came into nearer association with her
than before. The oftener he met her, the
more he liked her; and it was not long be-
fore an intimacy sprang up between them
that ended in marriage. They went to house.
Keeping in a neat and respectable but not We
ry costly style. Emma made a prudent, To-
wing wife, and grew daily more dear to her
husband. Their home was TO each the pleas
ATTEST place on earth. Different, indeed, was
the home of Felix Granger. All day be was
in the rush, hurry, excitement and anxiety of
business and he came home at night ia
tigued, and with a weight upon his breast
But there was no sweet smile there to fall
upon him, like a sunbeam no loving words
to make him forget the cares of the day. 1t
not unirequently happened that his wife was
out, and remained out the whole evening;
or she was in an ill-humor about something
and hardly answered him civilly if he spoke
TO her; or she buried herself from tea time
until the hour for going to bed in the pages
of Icw novel. To her husband she was,
at no time, a pleasant companion.
The fact was, Mrs. Granger had no true af-
lection for her husband, and did not put her
self out TO assume a virtue She did not nos
sess. Indifference, GOODNESS and sullenness
were not always the only ills which the hus-
band had to bear. He was often made to feel
the worse irritation of direct i'll temper that
fretted him at times beyond endurance and
led to open chickering's usually brief, but vi
client while they lasted. Thus the DAYS of
their welded life passed on; and they were
often bitter days to both of them.
Five years from the period at which the
marriage of Ellis Day took place, he reno
we'd with his little family into a beautiful but
not very costly dwelling, which he had lust
purchased. His business had increased stea-
Oily and safely, for he had applied his mind
diligently, from the first, to the attainment
of a thorough knowledge of every thing that
related in any way to the particular branch
of trade in which he was enpared, Ii was
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