The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-11
A FORTUNATE FAILURE.

Test Ended in Wedding.
If you have map at hand giving ten
miles around the city, look carefully
along the outer edge and you will be
sure to see the village and perhaps the
very street where Lucy and Rachel
King live.
An enterprising and busy man is
John King, the builder. He can see
from any window of his house one or
another of his operations Yet he is
not rich, but only on the way to become
so some day. His half dozen "opera-
tions" are 50 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 boy-baby
of the family now twenty years old.
The family is wonderfully well con-
trasted. The father is bustling, busy,
practical man, the mother both busy
and practical, but without any bustling
whatever. The oldest daughter, Lucy,
is of light complexion, tall, vivacious;
her sister Rachel rather below the av-
erage height, of the middle complexion
and somewhatsta d in manner. Brother
Joe, a young man of TWEEN y, yall, slim,
given to mimicry and practical jokes.
You would never dream, looking at his
features in repose there in his last pho
tograph, that he could play so many
pranks with them, twisting them into
caricatures OF friends and foes with the
strictest impartiality. He has even
gone so far as to make game of Richard
Stockton, but that was when he was.
angry at Lucy, who had an increasing
interest in Richard.
This Richard Stockton was an ambi-
tious young draughtsman, not vet
twenty-eight, tall, robust, with pleas
ant countenanee. His was an inventive
genius. All his thoughts for the past
few years were concentrated upon an
Improvement OF an agricultural imple-
ment, which would be invaluable to the
cultivator and fortune for Richard.
/ would not pretend to describe it for
You, even it you care to have me do so.
But for Richards sake | will say that
the full details and specifications are to
be found on page 246, volume Xxx, Pat
emit Office Gazette, and is numbered 987,-
654, S2l, from which you will see that
invention is hourishing business.
An additional incentive to Richard, if
such We're needed, was Lucy King.
This young lady, who was fully as am
bilious as Richard, took great interest
in his plans and praised and encour-
aged him in every way. They were
not formally engaged to be married.
but they might as well have been to all
who knew them; and the only reason
that induced these disinterested third
persons to wait was that Richard Stock
ton was going to make fortune out of
q patent in few months and then an
astounding wedding would take place.
This was precisely the tacit under
standing between Lucy and Richard.
OF his two daughters John King
thought most of Lucy, and being OF
that hard-headed variety called prac-
tical he did not look with any favor up
on the prospect of Richard becoming
his son-in-law He had no faith in the
immediate fortune that was to be
poured out to this inventor and he
knew that two young people like Lucy
and Richard would eventually marry,
success or no.
Beside that, there was much better
man wanting Lucy-a keen, smart fell
low DR.. Stone, who owned and edited
the village newspaper, called the Week
iy Cross Examiner. He was q RISING
man, and even now head and shoulders
above Stockton. The doctor was a
rather older man than he would have
chosen for Lucy, but forty is not so
very ancient, after all.
An additional interest was created in
tho doctor from the fact that Joe was
employed upon the Weekly Cross Erans-
@er. But ii this fact helped the doctor
with the father, it had the reverse eff
feet with the daughter, for Joe thor
oughly disliked the doctor, and some of
Joe's greatest efforts in what might be
called the dramatic line were expended
in making the doctor ridiculous in the
eyes of the people at home.
1t was Saturday afternoon, Septem-
3, the publication day of the Heeblg
CroSS-ETanliRer. Richard had called
on Lucy to tell her that at last the anx-
iety of the past month was to be ended.
On Monday five capitalists were to see
his patent in operation, and if thew
were satisfied of its merits-and of that
there would be no reasonable doubt-a
company would be immediately formed
to manufacture his patent upon large
scale.
Lucy was in high spirits; SO also were
her mother and her sister. Rachel
thought great deal of Richard, and
he in turn showed that his sister-in-law
might calculate upon being benefited
by the good fortune that was on its way
to him. Lucy often jestingly said to
Rachel that she was jealous of her and
meant to bring Richard to 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 came in,
fresh from the office of the Weekly
Cross Eramiaer, and fresh from the
presence of DR.. Stone.
"What is it, Joep" asked Richard.
"Toothachepn
The expression of Joe's face that
called out this banter did not leave it
as he replied:
"Yes, and headache, earache, govt
and rheumatism, all at oncen
"Oh, tell us all about it, Joe!n said
Lucy. 81 just feel like laughing
Does the doctor overwork you,
JoeP" asked Richard.
"Oh, no.
what do you do, generality"
" Well, I'm proof-reader, office-boy,
book-keeper, copy-holder, collector, So
licitor, reporter, devil and editor. l
think that's all. =
"Why, then it's you who get out the
paper.
ION, no. There's ten Of US fellows"