Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-20
Fcon the Cleveland Wool Grower.
WHERE THERE'S \ WILL THERE'S 4
WAY.
By NS3, =. D. GAGE,

There i, a great doll said iu these latter days
about 'afiuities' in the marriage relation; and
about conEeniality and all that sort of thing. But
does not nature always work by contrasts II
ihere is an excess in one placs, is there not sure
to be q want in another ? Extremes meet, and 80
they did when Bob Graz, the easiest man in town,
paid his addresses to Kitty Logan, the young
school marin, who hal agreed to take the village
school in the township OF Niles, where the big
boys always turned the masters out OF doors on
Christmas, or made them treat. Bob Gray had n
rich father, a hard working mother, and one proud
sister, and conll aft I'd to be lazy. Mr.. Gray the
elder, came west in very early times. located near
the town Of Niles, lived in a log cabin ten years,
shook himself out Of joint vith the ague, wore it
OUT and never bad it aflerward. But a poor
neighbor who had a large farm a mile from Mr..
Gray could not wear it out; his wife died, his chill.
dren suffered, he offered his farm very cheap, and
Gray bought him out promising to pay some
time.
A year or so aftcrward, discouraged with his
crops and lie inability to pay for the new farm,
he tried to persuade the former owner to take it
back, whict ne refused to do--a lawsuit ensued
AMI the matter ended by poor Gray being obliged
TO keep the farm and pay the costs. Terrible was
the blow, bat be lived through it; and five Yeas
afterwards, when tho Ohio and Mississippi Rail,
road passed through the same farm and set up a
station house exactly in the centre, he found him
self a rich msn. lie sold town lots q, high figures
sent his son Tommy to jacksonville. t. be educa
ted, and daughter Susan to Monticello. lie dress
ed himself in broad cloIh-wore kid gloves-ac
cep,et the nomination for the Legislature and un
expectedly found himself elected and making law
for his country men ut the capital Of the Prairi,
State. So much in explanation. Bob came homt
from Jacksonville with his sheep-skin properly
tied with blue ribbons, dressed superbly. had tn,
best turu our in town, wore a tremendous pair 0
whiskers, and Of course Kitty Logan felt fattereC
when he offered to wait upon her home frou
church-or called after school 20 take her out rid
ing. Miss Susan Gray touL a litlle pains to fine
ont that Kitty was distontly related to he Summers
and Lincolns OF Mass, bot some how she did no
learn the important met that Kitty had worked a
straw-braiding in the pretty town of Foxboro' un
ill she had earned money enough to educate her
self.
where there's a will there's a way;' said Kitty
ard | know | can paddle my own canoe out Wes
who're they say nothing is wanting but the power
TO do and will to put the power in motion.
So bidding her few friends good bye, for sht
was an orphan. she donned the p~rettiest little
straw hat which her own pretty fogers had plat;
e., sewed md pressed, and trimmed with near
drab ribbon with a blue edgn, which correspOndeL
exactly with her draL travelling dress aud cape
and matched her biae eyes to a I. Thus she star
ted for Illinois where a friend Of hers lived and haC
written to her-Shc thought a school ceald be pro
cured. She was a liule hOme-sick when she ar
rived at Niles and would have given one Of tht
gold pieces hid away in that private pocket o.
hers, for II look oace more Al the rough rocks and
swsmpy hollows, overshadowcd by thin evergreens
that surrounded her native home. She would even
have bounded With Jog at The sound of the old fac
tory bell that used 10 call the merry gi,ls together
for their long evenings toll. Sill she did not say
so, but put on 6 cheerful ~face-sousht out the d.
reotors and made her application. Mr.. Smith, the
main man, looked - If The little blue eyed mink,
with her rosy lips ad insulted his dignity to come
Offering herself to teacb a school, in that n~e:ghbor-
Lo3d. Bat as she offered TO teach for three dollars
q N nth cheaper than the last incumbent and wrote
such a pretty hand, which they could read like