Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-04-20
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modern improvenehts,' although he did
not Know exactly what to do With II nor
his wife either. They still tried 10 get q
long as comfortable as possible, while Su- 80
san enjoyedit exceedingly, and kept th01v
great double parlorfull of company which ,s
! her worn out and weary mother, knew we'll "a
how to cook for--if she did not know how
20 entertain. Good cooking is D great thing y
in family. Well Tommy-or as we must
now call him, Mr.. Thomas Grey CounseIlor
aud Attorney at Law, fell deeply ID. love -
With Miss Kitty, aud it Is Supposed she fell
deeply in love with him aud they mar sai
ried. Now we have really begun our tale b
Whleh we are not writing merely to tell ou
love story as you see, but to illustrate aasg
principle as we'll as relate feet. - s.-,.s,.fr
Mr. Thomas Grey opened bis Office ia,
Niles, and supposed Of course that aIt The
world would call upon him for, eohnsel. and p
was Tor setting up in good styls-but
shrewd little Kitty insisted that a plain 80
way was best. She did not desire any, "a
snch display as bad been made by some Of %
ftbeir Deighbors who had become Suddenly "a
rich. One day as they were riding raily
by a miserable looking boyel in the suburbs. =,
with broken windows and doors of tha
hinges, a mud hole near and the pigs
looking through the door at besotted man.
as if they sympathised with him 10 his deg, .a
radation, Mr. Thomas Grey said 20 bis wife ~
How would you like to live in snch 80
place as that, my dearT -.i OBJ o. b,a Esash
Not at all, ofscourse, was the reply la fal7
There is no knowing what may happen,
said he my fir end there, Mary Bell. vas 40
ihree years ago to all appearances as well =
off as you are to day; but her husband spect- : !,
lated high, lost, took to drink, and there
| she is.' o9a i.1t sou s'I9hsa s1a'5eu 90
i can't help that, answered KITTY, no 'es
Idtuukered can put me into such place as %
| that sfs5ak 7rfsM shr1ssR f5lit' g.,aga'a
Don't be to sure, deary,l said Thomas aBr
Grey, t-, ...s, --.- .,e -,,lr, az, ~ -,
Sure 2 answered Kitty with spirit.
am Just so sure as this, there is no man iV.
ing whose fortunes would follow dovnso
low as this at- coon ~
What would you do; pray let Us Know V
the secret. }laAFoa taaa1 9 i1 Col2pll lea
One thing 1 would not do answered the
young matron promptly. would not be s
a drunkards wife, s5 o5H b4s..,isssT
How could you help yourselfP sl.s{ea
Where there's will there's way said
Kitty, but don't let us talk about that, n
surely shall never have drdnken has.
band' aud with deep shadow over her
brow, that came like presentment Of evil
| ~
| Two years went by, and Mr.. Thomas
| Grey grew more and more easy. Bad bar
gains were made, speculations entered into, 81
| convivaI companions drew him from, Niles
to the capital.lE His well filled pprse made -
him everywhere welcome. Kitty, good
little soul seeing things going little out OF ~
the way, would persist in giving music. les
sons, ard teaching the young girls of Niles ial
bow to paint, and then fitted up q class Of &
earnest boys 10 Latin---for college---all ia -,
her pretty cottage, adding dollar to-, dollar
like wise little wife. Then in the long. %
evenings when her husband was With his
club, or down street, easy fellow that be was. =,
her fugers grasped good steel pen, aud
many O pleasant tale went forth to the
wo, ID we'll paid for through Eastern journals.
To make story short, the crash Of '5T $50
found Mr. Thomas Grey and his father"
| the elder, exactly underit. and down they iss
went so low that old Bill Fitch, the dray- ysb
man, declared he conld not iad enough Of ban
Them TO pay him bfor hapliHg the goods toiirai
the auction rooms. Town lois,Tbig houses
aud all went togetle'. and M. Grey the ,,1
elder was found one morning in Oct, lS5I, -.
suspended from beam in his own barn
at ihe eud Of his WITS patent clothes line s"
and on that evenlful morning Thomas Grey, haA
Jr., lay stretched his whole length upon thes.sA
counter of lager beer 81 Don. il not drunk, 500
stupid that, 'he didn't get home till morning 10
The terrible suicide happened on the very ss-y
morning when both families were rlesEing,
the great house, to move into the hoveE.
which two years before Kitty had declared -.
that she would never be brought to live in.
Three days before he said to her with q ae'
thick tongue, Hyou have got to come 20
Kitty after all You see 'taiut always so easy Asa
TO keep ont of hoyels,. gs,,,,-l -,,r-.,4 ,,.sr
will kent on her way. When the funeraI
was over she led the weary heart broken asH p
mother and wife, and the proud paralyzed 1s
daughter to their new shelter, and the now q
sobered husband folicwea. gd .-EoqCQ, Ebos7
But what sight met their gaze the ssiq
hovel was a cottage, every window. pane ia G
its place, the floors clean and bright thesuon
paliugs whi,evashed the mud hole gone, "a
and the pleasant comforts OF on humble so
home on every hand. Into il they Wake,
mute with astonishpent, 70 hnd lhe iaYorlte
lfurniiure, even to Susans piano
/ Where there's viii there's way. sald p :
I Kitty. grayeIy-'I had anticipated trouble, iam
ma Win fbe money have been Aaying up n1b
for a few Years, have been able by The aos
! Kind asSisiane Of my husbands partner s5f
10 secure Ihi in my own name5 and make s0
lie comfortable home for your mother and
\ and sister Now it remains for you to say ~
when / shall be the wife OF a man; the
wife of drudkard 1 win never be any long. baa
er than the hi~ win compel me? 'afi X9.sgss'ao
| shall hold the deed of this property. IL, Ole
nv hands, If you willawei can DO happy iais
here. Ny school is open for me- eyen from
tbe hoyel ;sour child must not live 70 know IA,
her mothers shame, Forsake your drink, I,
| ing cpmpanIons and viii be faithfni unto !,
| he end !. If YOU 60 on as heretofore, viii
take myself and infant beyond your reach '''
She conquered Just as she did with the 4
big 6oys Thomas Grey has not been in-aoli
1 side of a lager beer saloon since thar ume,soH
tmorable day. Sasahlis riser and better 81.
4 UouaAo than hefore, tha fall The aGed