Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-06-28
Grit.

The following article from the Humbolt.
Kansas, Union, will apply to thousands of
Ohioans with as much force as to Kentuck-
ans.
This particular quality Of the human
mind, or heart, is in good demand now
a-days. Pluck and back bone are both
essentials for the Kansans of to-day
Texas, Colorado, Utah, and every other
place 6W Ronsds, are being sought after
like the gold of Ophur, and the hoary
.aded are alike on the move In search
Of greener fields and fresher pastures.
In this general muddle consequent,
upon preparation to ''move," and the uf-
innate start for new homes, and consid-
| praise of the New Eldorado which have
stirred up like a swarm of bees, the
whole neighborhood. .
1t is not strange that many who have
been left behind will become restless and
uneasy, and smarting under the pres
sure of "dull times" commence their
efforts in the direction of change of res
! idence.
What the Kansas people therefore
need is 7grit. This. everlasting search
after an earthly paradise is about as fu-
tile an undertaking as the discovery of
angels among the feminine portion of
the community. This has long since
been pronounced an impossibility.
Many people who are well-to-do, have
comfortable homes, good orchards and
conveniences for living which time and
labor have been expended in procuring,
are ready to ''pull up'' and join the pro-
cession of emigrant wagons freighted
with human beings of all ages, bound
for some new region where they can
''grow up with the country"
Some of these will better their con-
dition, perhaps-others will regret the
day when they resolved to change their
! location; and when in advanced years
! too late for retraction of misguided
steps will feel the full force of the express
sion that sit is always better to let we'll
enough alone" There is in the human
, breast perpetual longing for "change"
and when adversely overtakes us, and
: skies hang heavily clouded over US,
the impulse of our natue is, to travel;
to seek a new home; to engage in some
other occupation. Ordinarily, however
he who ''sticks to his brush," originally
!, taken, succeeds best and it. often requires
= es real heroism to do it.
g But this continual moving and shuff-
? ling in this world is non paying in
q vestment. This life is a good deal as
:, we make it after all. We know of GER
tain good old-fashioned people down
= east, who have spent half a century up
i on little nook of ground which Kansas
would hardly think sufficiently product
4 i've to grow beans, and yet they are SC
a costly situated, and withal so happy that
$ we cannot help envying them their good
n fortune.
Some one has said:
\ THAT Lille is short and full of care, the end
is always nigh,
We seldom halt begin to live before we're
III doomed 10 die"
ie And certainly nothing could be more
ie truthful We havn't any spare mo-
ments to go "fooling around" We
= should finally take stand in life, set
u tie down for good, laugh at the stories
. of immense fortunes being elsewhere
J made in the twinkling of an eye, hon
= estly and patiently "paddle your OWE
u canoe" cultivate the spirit of content
81 ment, and show true grit by the mani
ie festation of true sense.