The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-02-05
WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A
WAY.
BY IKs. y. D. GAGE.

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days about "afiinties" in the marriage rcla
ton; aud ahou; con gcniality and all that sort
of thing. But does not nature always work
by contrasts If there is any excess in one
place, is there not surn TO be want in anoth-
crl Extremes meet, and ms they did when
Bob Cray, The easiest man in town, paid his
addresses TO Kuty Logan, the young school
ma'am, who had agreed 10 take the village
schoo in the township Of Niles; where the
big boys always TUNED the masters out OF
doors on Christmas, or made them treat
Bob GRAY had a ch father, a hard working
mother and ono proud sister, and could afford
to be lazy. Mr.. Gray, the elder, came West
in very early times, located near the town of
Niles, lived IN log cabin ten years, shook
himself out Of joint with the agu", "wore it
oui," aud never had it alterWarl But poor
ueighbor who had large farm milo from
Mr.. Gray, could not wear It out; his wife died,
his chjllrcu sutf rod he offered his farm very
cheap, and GRAY bought him out promising
10 pay some time.
4 year or so a0crward, discouraged with
his crop and the inability to pay fnr hi, new
farm, hc rricd to persuade the former owner
to take it back, which he refused to lo--a
poor Gray being "bIig g"d to keep tho farm aud
yay the cas-. rerribr was the blow, bat h"
lived through it; and five years afterwards
when the Obio and Mississippi Railroad pass.
ed through the farm and set up station
house exactly in The center. lie found hm~rif,
rich an. He SOLE! town Is at high figure.
and sen, his son Tommy TO Jacksonville to hr
educated and daughter to Monlc.llo. ii.
dressed himself IN broad clo,h--wore XII! gloves
ACCEPTED the nomination. for the Legiss-
ture and unexpectedly found himself elected
and making laws for his country men at the
capital o. the Prairie State. So much in eX-
lanaton.
Bob came home from Jacksonv lie with
shoepskin properly tied with blue ribbons,
dressed supcrhly, had the best "turn out IN
town, worc.a tremendous pair Of wh~kors,
and Of course Kt'y Logan felt flsttered when
hr offered to see her homo from church-or
call after school to take her out rid ng.-
Miss Susan GRAY took little pain, ,o inl out
. IN It Kitty was lisran'ly related 70 the Sum
rer- and LncolnS of Massachusetts, but some
/ bow >h, did not lean the important fact that
Kitty had worked at straw hraling IN the
town of Foxhoro until she had camel money
enough to ed cate herself.
"Whcre there's n will there's a way," said
Ki'ty, ''aud know can paddle my own
canoe, out West, where they say nothing il
wanting but the power 10 10 and the viii 10
put the power in otjon.
So bidding her few friends good bye, for
she was n orphan, she donned III" prr,tiest
tie straw hat VII ch her own pretty fingers
had plated scwcd and pressed, aud trim
med with neat drab ribbon with blue edge f,
which corrcspondcd exactly with her dra5
travelling dress and cape; and matched her
blue eyes to n r. Thu, she started off for II
Iinois, where y friend Of hers lived and had
written to her-she thought that the school
could be procured. She WAS little home.
sick vixen she arrived at Niles, aud would
have giveH one Of the god pi ces hid away
in the rvate pocket of hers, for look once
more at the rough rncks and swampy hollow
ovcrshadcd by thin cycrgreens, that surround
ID her native home. She would have bound
ed with Joy at tho sound of the old factory
that u,od TO call the mcrry girls together for
thc long evenings toll. still she did not
say So, but put on cheerful face-sought ou,
the directors and made her application Mr..
Smith. tie mann man, oked as il the little
blue eyed mink, with her ros, lips, half in
suited his dignity tn come offering her eff to
teach school, in that neghborhood. But as
she Offered to teach three dollars month
cheaper than the last incumbent, and wrote
: s1ch pretty hand, which they could real
like print, besides had such "wiuning way, -
they agreed to hire her. To the a,tcnish
mcut ofevcry hody-Chri,tma and New
l., Il. 4
Of being shut out o- having to treat, was sur
prlseh TO find herself treated, her desk loaded
with rcscnts, and even jim Stckes, who had
always b en- called the worst boy n town, ha
headed surprise patty in the evening and
almos, filled Miss Logan's little room at Par
son Browns, with pledges Of good will.
"Whorc rhates will there's way" sai'l
Kitty kn W, Mr. Smith, should not
hayr any trouble with the biz boys, they me
just aS e. o as uerd he."
"Of cuur,r they be- answered tho blunt
, old farmer, who hy the revolution Of railroads
had been brougut most into town. 81 can
. almo i-h WAS big toy myself, Just to
STOW YOU how good | could be-"
Mr.. Smith laughed aud Kty trippcd a.
long to her thsk, carrying her lirtle basket OF
dinner aud the good will Of ycybody that
d knew her, along with or.
Kilty's scho0l house was in the country
whore The ,llcr NJ. Gray still lived. having
built imself fn' house, with the "moiern
= imI royemcul,," although he did not know
E exactly what to 10 with it, nor his wife eth.
cr They still uicd to get along as com(orta.
e ble as possible, while Miss Susan cujoyel il
exceedingly aud kept tire great double parlor'
/. full Of company, Which her worn aud weary
= other knew we'll how to cook fur-if she did
: not know low to cntcrtan-g good cooking is
: a good thing IN family. Well, Tommy
: OF as we must now call him "Mr. Thoma.
Gray Counsellor anG Attorney at law" Tell
deeply il love With Miss Kitty, aud il is sup
posed she fell deeply in love with him and
u they were marricd-now we have really be-
gun our tale, which We are not writing mere
" TO tell a love story, rs you see, but to i'll.
i, lustrate principle as well as TO relate a
fact.
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