Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-18
A FORTUNATE FAILURE.
How Love Was Put To- Test. aud How "a
Test Ended in - wedding

How Love Was Put to Test. and How the
Test Ended ~ u wedding.
" YOU have n map ut hand giving ten
miles around the city. lpuk carefully
along the outer edgc and yOu will be-
sure To see the village and perhaps the
very street whore Lucy and Rachel
King live.
I'm cnterprising and busy man is
John King. the builder. lie can see
from any window 1T his house one or
another of his operations. Yet he is
not rich. but only ON the way Co become
~ some day. His half dozen ''opcra-
tons are 80 much stock In trade. that
must be sold before he can pay for
them To the material and other men
who are Interested with him.
John Kings family consists Of his
wife, Eliza. their two daughters. Lucy
and Rachel. and son Joe. the bOv-baby
at the family now twenty years old
The family j. wonderfully well con
trastcd. The father Is hustling. busy.
practical man, th" mother both busy
and practical. hut without any bustling
whatever. Tho oldest daughter. Lucy,
- ot light complexion, tall. vtaciuus;
her sister Rachel rather below the av-
eragc height Of the middle complexion
and somewhat sta II ia manner. Bruthcr
Joe young man 1T twenty. tall. slim.
gwen To mimicry anil practical Jokes.
You would never dream, look inc at his
features IN rcpusc there in his last pho
tugraph, that he could play 80 many
pruuks with them, twisting them into
CariCaturcs Of friends aud foes with the
strictcst impartialitv. lie has even
gone 81 far %, to make game of Richard
Stockton. but that was when lac was
angry no Lucy. who had an Increasing
interest in Richard
This Richard stockton was an ambi-
tiOus young driuIhtsman. not vet
twenty-,ight. tail. robust. with n pleas
ant Countenaucc. His was nm inventive
genius. All his thoughts for the past
few years were concentrated upon an
improvement of an agricultural imple-
mcnt, which would be- invaluable To the
cultivator and fortune for Richard.
i would not prctci-l To- describe il for
YOU, even II yuu care tn have me du so.
hut for Richards sake | will say that
the full details and specifications arr to
bc found ON pag' 20. volume NN. Pit
eHt Ohcc Gd.ciir. and is numbered gS7. 20
6ji,32l, from which ycu will see that
invention Is rourislinr business.
An additional in cI.tivc to Richard. if
such We're needed. was Lucy King
This young lady, who was fully as rUt-
bilious rs Richard. tuuk a great interest
IN his plans and praised aud cncuur-
aged him in every way. They were
not formally engaged 10 Ic married.
but they might ~ Welt have been To- all
who knew them; and the only reason
that Induced thCsc di.in,prrStrd third
persons to wait was thi Richard stock
tom was going tu make u fortune out of
patent IN few months aud then an
astOuud NJ wedding would take place.
This was precisely the tacjt under
stand NJ between Lucy and Richard
or rs two daughters John Kinv
thought most ~ Lucy and being OF
that hard-hcadei variety called prnc.
teal hc Il Il not lupk with any favor M.
on the prospect IT Rirhard hccomin,
his sOn-in-law. lie had NJ faith i'm tho
Immediate fortune that was To be-
poured cut To this inventor and he
Knew that two Young people like Lucy
and Richard would eventually marry.
success or M.
Beside that. there wa, a much better
man wanting Lucy "a keen. smart Eel.
low DR. Stone. who owned and edited
the village newspaper. called the H'cek-
IN CrOyS- ErtutOJsr. lie was "A RISING
man. and even now lead and shoulder,
above Stockton The doctor was n
rather oldrr man than he would have
chosen for Lucy. hat foitt i, not ~
very ancient. a'trr all.
An additional Interest WIS created I'm
the doctor from The fact that Joe was
employed upon the li,st'V Cross- ErrH-
uicr. but " this fact helped the doctor
with The father. Il had the reverse cf-
feet With the daughter for Joe thor
uughly dislikcd the doctor. aud some of
Joe's greatest efforts in what might be-
called The dramatic Inc were expended
in making the doctor ridiculous in the
eyes Of the people NJ home.
10 was Saturday afternoon. Scptem-
2, the publication dav IT the He'll,
tr0SS-ErrWiHsr Eichar,l had called
ON Lucy To tell her that at last the any
icty Of the past mouth WIS to be- ended.
On Monday live capitalists were To SEQ
his patent in operation. and il they
were satisfied Of it, merits Of thai
there would be- NO reasonable deubt-a
company would hc immediately formed
TO manufacture his patent upon a large
scale.
Lucy was In high spirits: 50 50 were
her mother and her sister. Rachel
thought great deal IT Richard. and
he In turn showed that his siSter-in-law
might calculate upon being benefited
by the good fortune that was ON IL way
10 him. Lucy often iestingly said to
Rachel that she was jealous Of her and
meant To- bring Richard 10 the point.
for fear that she would find herself his
sister-in-law instead Of his wife.
While the four were talking over the
great event Of Monday Joe camo in,
fresh from the Office Of the Weekly
Cross Examiner, and fresh from the
presence Of Dr. stone
''What Is Il. Joe?'' asked Richard.
'ToothacheP"
The expression Of Joe's face that
called out this banter did not leave IL
~ he replied
Eyes, and headache. earache. govt
and rheumatism, all nc once"
"Oh. tell US all about Il, Joel' said
Lucy. II Just feel like laughing"
Does the doctor overwork YOU,
Joer" asked Richard.
"Oh. nor'
What do you do, generality"
"Well, I'm proof-reader. oflice-boy,
book-kceper. copy-holder, collector. So
licitor. reporter, devil and editor.
think that = al"
"why, then IT'S you who get out the
paper"
"On, MOI There's ten Of us fellows"