The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1879-07-02
WHICH WAS RIGHT (?
BY LOUIS STOCKTON,

That is most nOnsenslcal thing
to say" Jim remarked, as Belle held
the motto she was working off al
arms length, and gazed refectively
at it. "When there's a will there's
a wayF fit was true, how many
good things | would have!'
perhaps you would" replied his
younger brother Bob, eff the proverb
meant that the way was ready made,
and all you had to, do was to sauntel
down it-up it, l mean"
"If it does not mean that" said
Jim, sit ought to read, when there's
will, go look for the way, and it is
ten chances to one if you find it,"
That is stuff! exclaimed Bob; you
don't fancy the will and the way are
like the Siamese twins, fastened to-
gether, SO if you see one you see the
other? t
1t means, said Belle, who had now
decided upon the color of the silk
she needed, and who spoke with the
air of gravity becoming an elder sis
ter of seventeen, that if yon have
tiIo Suu you must go look Tor the
game. . ue -.------
suppose there is none?" asked
Jim. r-
ais uone!" Bob repeated; there is
always camel There may not be a
buffalo upon your front door steps
waiting for you to come out, but just
take your gun and go 10 The West!
You'll find him there!
That is all very nice to say, and
Jim, who was lying on the lounge,
elasped his hands under his head;
but my experience of this family-it it
may be different in others-is, that
we are always wishing, bat l don't
see that it does any good; we don't
get much. .--
at isn't scishing," Belle said, "it is
aoilling. That is a very different
thing"
ais it?" Jim asked. "Perhaps it is
a step further;'I wish comes first; /
will goes on to the war, and gets the
booty" asa
Exactly so, jim, l have hopes of
you," said Bob. saa
But whatI would like" answered
Jim, is to see the thing. Who is it
who will first will and then find the
'way?'
"As if Yerybody did notl and
Bob looked the picture of determine
Iion, yon doit yourself, often" o7
"Oh, | do not mean in little things.
Something OF Importance, some great
deedl" Dia - -
"Then you must get great people
for them, replied Belle. You dent
suppose great things are done in
Cedar Creek? Now there's Napoleon
Bonaparte-"s
Where said Bob, craning his
head SO as to look out of the win
dow.
"Don't be silly!' aud Belle contin-
ued, don't you suppose he would be
Emperor of France?"
"He was great man, replied Jim.
| mean ordinary peeple-Cedar
Greek heroes"
at is just as true for them, Bob
said, only they must wish for ordin-
ary things. Neither of us, my boy,
will ever be an emperor of France" "
"Well, and Jim set up; now let us
settle this matter. You say where
there's will there's way-you and
Belle. say there isn't, not often.
Now, you make up your mind to do
something particular, and find the
way to do it.. If you succeed, I'll
give up; and if you do not, Belle can
give me that motto for my room; for,
although it isn't true, it's very pref
ty."
"And Bob, I suppose, said Belle,
can pay his forfeit by framing it,"
"You speak words of WISDOM" )"
answered Jim with gravity.
"That is very nice arrangement,
Bob exclaimed; l do all the work, and
if l fail you get all the reward. Sup
pose ! succeed, what will l get?"
"The reward of good conscience"
answered Jim with gravity.
"You must make up your mind to
work for something that itself will
be reward, if you get it, Belle said.
That is the way these great people
do; it isn't getting things for other
people.
"Yes, it is" Bob replied. "Now,