Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-20

oOuJ -Christmas aud New Year too went bv aud
the mistress, instead Of bjing shut out or having
to treat, was surprised to find herself treated. her
desk loaded with presents, and even Jim Stokes,
who had always been called the wors, boy in town,
had headed a surprise party in the evening and al
most filled Miss Logau's littlo room, at Parson
Browns, with pledges OF good will.
Where there's a will there's a way said Kitty.
l knew, Mr. Smith, ! should not have any trouble
with the big boys, they arejust as good as need
be-
'OCcourse they be- answered the blunt old far
mer, who by the revolution Of railroads, had been
brought almost into town. 4 can almost wish l
was a big boy myself, just to show you how good
| could be-
Mr.. Smith laughed and Kitty tripped along to
her task, carrying her little basket Of dinner and
the good will of everybody that knew her, along
with her.
kitty's school house was 10 the country where
the elder Mr.. Gray still lived, having built him.
self n fine house with modern Improvement al
though he did not know exactly what to do with
it, nor his wife either. They still tried to get
along rs comfortable as possible, while Miss Susan
enjoyed it exceedingly and kept the great double
parlors full Of compnny, which her worn aud vea-
ry mother knew well how to cook tor--if she did
not know how to entertain-good cooking is a
great thing in a family. Well. Tommy-or as w
must now call him Mr.. Thomas Gray, Councillor
and attorney at Law fell deeply in love with Mics
Kitty and it is supposed she fell in love with him;
and they were married--now we have really begun
our tale, which we are not writing merely to tell
a love story, 40 you sc but to illustrate q rrinci-
pie as well as relate a fact.
Mr.. Thomas Gray opened his Office in Niles,
and supposed Of course all the world would call
upon him for counsel, and was for setting M in
good style-but shrewd little Kitty insisted thai, a
plain way was best. She did not desire any such
display as had been made by come of their neigh
oors, who had grown suddenly rich. One day as
they we're riding gaily by a miserable hovel, in the
suburbs, with broken windows and doors off the
hinges a mud hole near, and the pigs looking in
through The doors at a besotted mon-ae if they
sympathised with and had a fellow feeling for him
IN his degradation. Mr.. Thomas GRAY said to
his wiie-'how would you like to live In such al
place as that my dear?' Not at all. Of course
was the reply. There is no knowing what NAV
happen said he, my friend there, Mary Bell, was
three years ago to all appearances as well off as
you are to-day; but her husband specialized high.
lost, took to drink and there she is p
l cane help that answered Kitty, no drunkard
can put me into such a place as that
Don't be too sure, deary,' said Thomas GRAY.
Sure ? answered Kitty with spirit, L am ius.
so sure as :his, there is not q man living whose
fortunes l would follow down 80 low as that
What would you do, pray, let us know the Sc
cret p
Gina fh;p. 7 ryo,1I .y 4
matron promptly, Il would not be a drunkard's
wife,
How would you help yourselfT
Where there's q will there's a way,' said Kitty,
but don't let us talk about that, surely / shGll
never have a drunken husband, and with q deep
shadow over her brow, that came like a presonti-
ment of evil, the ride was continued in silence.
Two years went by and Mr.. Thomas Gray grew
more and more easy. Bad bargains we're made,
speculations entered into, convivial companions
drew him from Niles to the Capital. His we'll
filled purse made him everywhere welcome. Kit
ty, good little soul, seeing things going a little out
of the way, would persist in giving music lessons,
and teaching the young girls Of Niles to paint,
and then fitted up q class OF earnest boys in Latin
for college all in her own pretty cottage, add
ing dollar to dollar, like q wise little wife. Then
in the long evenings, when her husband was with
his club or down street, easy fellow that he was,
her fingers grasped a good steel pen and many a
pleasant tale went forth to the world, well paid
Cor, through eaetern journals.
To mako a long story short, the crash of '57
found Mr.. Thomas Gray and his father, the elder,
exactly under it and down they went, so low that
old Billy Fitch the ~draymap declared be could not
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the goods to the auction room. Town lots, big
houses and ali went, went together, and Mr.. Gray
lLe elder was found one morning in October of '57,
suspended from a beam in his own barn-at the
end Of his wife's patent clothes line, aud OF that
~eventful morning Thomas Gray, Jr., lay stretched
his whole length upon the counter of a lager. beer
saloon, if not drunk, so stupid he didn't get home
till morning.
The terrible suicide happened on the very NOR
ming when both families we're leaving the great
house, to move into the very howell which, two
years before, Kitty had declared she could never
be brought to 1.-Two in. Three days before her hus-
band said to her, with n thick tongue, you've got
TO come to 1t, Kitty, after all, you see faint always
so easy to keep out Of hovels,'
Kitty made no reply but with resolute will ~ept
Oh her way. When the funeral was over, she led
the weary heartbrokon mother and wife. and the
proud p~aralyzed daughter to their new shelter,
and the now sO6ertd husband followed.
But what a sight met sheir gaze the howell was
a neat cottage, every wiudow-qane in its place, the
Jors neat and clean. the palings white washed,
the mud hole gone, and the pleasant comforts of a
humble home ON every hand. Into it they walked
mute with establishment to find the ~favorite fur.
niture. even to Susan's piano.
Where there's a will there's a way said Kitty
gravely-I had anticipated trouble, and with thu
money | have been laying up for a few years
have been able by the kind assistance of my hus-
bands partner, to secure this in my own name,
and make it a comfortable home for your mother
and sister; now it remains with you to say whether
| shall be the wife 0! a man; the wife Of a drum