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CHARTER ELECTION.

The following are the correct returns
of the charter election held in this city
April 8:
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMON
COUNCIL.
REGULAR MEETING.

ApfII 2, 1000.
Present-Mayor Stemm; Aid. Rowe,
Reed, Widman, Charles and McGivern.
Minutes of last regular and special
meeting of March 26 read and approved.
The following bills were reported cor
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w. L. DOUGLAS
90 Cu0E FOR
wv OllO-. GENTLEMEN.
KeMOSha, wis.
STATE OF WIsCONsIN-COUNTY COURT
FOR KENOSHA COUNTY-IN PROBATE

STATE OF WISCONSIN-COUNTY COURT
FOR KENOSHA COUNTY-IN PROBATE.
Notice is hereby given that at the regular term
OF the County Court to be held in and for said
County at the County Court room In the city of
Kenosha, In said county, on the first Tuesday, be-
Ing the first day of May A. d. 1888, at 10 O'Clock
A. M. the following matters will be heard and
considered:
Estate of HIRAM HoLBRooK. deceased.
The application of Almina Eliza Holbrook for
the appointment of an administrator of the estate
OF Hiram HolbroOk, late of the town of Somefs, in
said county, deceased.
Estate Of ABBIE ANN VANDERBILT, deceased.
The application of Augustus Haley, for the ap-
pointment OF an administrator of the estate of
Abbie Ann Vanderbilt late of the city of Chicago,
in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, de-
ceased.
BY order of the Court
Dated KenOsha, Wis, April 5th, A. D. 1888.
ANTHONY VAN WICK,
County Judge.
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oBIoAeo 4 NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.

CHICAGO L NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.
fine Of departure Of passenger trains from Keno
+, a. Wis, in effect Nov. q, 1887. ..on ~
Going North-s.6s A. NJ. Ito p. NJ, 4.4o r. ~
1. 40 P. M, e.02 P. M, 1880 P. M. ~
Gota1 SonthA 2s A., M, 100 A. M. 8.35 A, ~,
i2n6 p NJ, 22O P. M, 513 7. NJ, 4 % P NJ.
supdavrsouth +, M and 5.l3 P. ID.
North-lO "a A. NJ, and 4.40 ?. ID.
Kenosha and Rockford Diyision-Train arrives
-, 100 NJ and leaves at 3.l5 P. NJ.
THOMAS GIBBONS, Agent
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PADDoCK ~ VAN WICK

ATT0RNEYS-AT-LAW.
Probate business 9 speciality.
ONCE of District Attorney.
Office over d. Head & Co.'s Bank. Kenosha. WIS.
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al years at Bay View, Wis.,, was recently
stricken with paralysis. He is now at
the residence of his son-in-law, Thomas
Fuller, in Milwaukee.
The entertainment given at the
Methodist Episcopal church last week,
Friday evening. was largely attended
and greatly enjoyed. The elocutionist,
Prof. Cumnock, is thoroughly master Of
his profession, and in personating old
time speakers kept his audience in a
roar of laughter.
Mr.. John Betting has been awarded
the contract for building Messrs. Matthias
Huck's and Michael Craney's new stores
on Main street. The stores will be very
handsome ones. Although the contract
price is 400 each, it is expected that
they will cost, entirely finished, nearly
SIS 900 each. Mr.. Betting is first-class
builder.
Mr.. John G. Rose, who has for some
time conducted q bakery and CONNECTION
cry in Mr.. Jason Lathrop's building, has
moved to Burlington, Racine county,
where he has purchased the bakery OF
AACuly 11diucIotdut. w IlU UAAs AsooO
made the business pay here, he expects
to do better at Burlington. where his
father-in-law resides.
/ The regular meeting of the w. C. T.
U. viii be held Tuesday. April IL, at the
~. M. G. A. rooms at 2:30 P. M. Mrs
, Quarles will read paper upon Our
state laws in regard to the liquor traffic.
The meeting will De one Of much interes,
and importance. We hope every mem
Der will be present.
MRS. E. G. STEVENS, Cor. Sec.
At meeting of the St. MichaeP'
Young Mems Society, last Monda,
evening, the following officers wer'
, elected for the ensuing year: President
! John Pinzger; Vice. President, N. Kleist
! LIST Secretary, Joseph Schultz; I'd Score
tary, John Thome; Treasurer, John ]
: Mayer; LIST Marshal, Math Williams
e I'd Marshal, Ben. Zeitler. The societ..
:. is in fourishing condition, hayin,
lnearly one hundred members.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

Young Tyler took tho matter into court.
He affirmed that his father just before his
death had aroused sufficiently to tell him
that he had paid Marble all he owed him. It
Was proven that Tyler had received suffi-
cient money for that purpose from the sale
OF the mine; but when Marble demanded
evidence OF q receipt, and exhibited the I'M
Cancelled notes, the jury decided in his favor.
The Tyler farm became Marble property.
Cecil became homeless pauper. Gregory
was sued for a deficit of 5000. forced to sell
his outside land, mortgage the homestead.
ana in three years such misery and mis-
fortune grew out of the affair that the farmer
had grown old and broken-spirited.
One year before that Christmas Eve upon
which our story opens. CecilTyler, with the
kiss of his fair betrothed, Janet, warm on
his lips, had bade the farm and Upton and
the Gregorys farewell.
Il am going West to seek my fortune" he
said. Cheer up. farmer. I shall work day
and night to earn the moneyto pay you back
what you have lost through my father.
Watch Marble! He is a scoundrel-a
swindler. He knows my father paid him
that money. There is some plot in it ALL He
has cheated us!"
And then, full of hope and love, away to
the golden West went Cecil. leaving Janet in
anxious tears, Farmer Gregory dubious and
gloomy.
Now Marble began to show his real hand.
In paying his demands Gregory had been
forced to sell every bit of land he owned.
except the homestead. That he had mort.
gagged heavily. Bad crops had come. One
day the crafty usurer drove up to the farm
house. For half an hour he was closeted
in close conversation with Gregory. The
good housewife was amazed shortly to hear
loud, angry voices and the sound of blows.
and she saw Marble rush from the house,
his face scored with blood, and her husband
shouting out wild threats after him.
John. John. what has happened?" she
cried in alarm.
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zones as she glanced through the panes, her

zones as she glanced through the panes. her
heart beating violently.
AN! you re there. ma amp" spoke a gruff
Yoiee' anu man. bearded and uncouth
anu rugged came into view, and q new
Terror oNercame the timid housewife as she
iancled that he looked rough and fierce and
threatening '''N0
what do You want?"
fooo. m nigh starved; shelter, or the
means OF getting it, Don't look so scared.
llllssus. I'm no thief! Old Jerry, the tramp.
am L. and If l don't look civil ana gentle +
am because ANTI"
Mrs. Gregory hesitated; she had reason
to. 1t was Christmas Eve, and she had seen
,he tlme III the happy years agone when,
lief heaft warming to the festive occasion.
sIe would have welcomed a score of hungry
tramps to hospitality; but just now hard
INES had come to the Gregorys, and every
mouthtul counted.
she went to the cupboard, however, keep
ing an anxious eye on the window, and made
up liberal lunch of meat and bread: hest
tated again, with a tear in her eye, and
added piece of pie-her piece of pie for
me sparse Christmas dinner on the morrow.
lhen she approached the window, raised it
slightly, pushed out the package. and said:
I'm sorry we are IA trifle short of pro-
visions, and Mr.. Gregoryis away. and Ihave
no money
Hey? Gregory? Is this Gregory's? I
heerd tell about your trouble with that old
skeezicks, Marble. 1 know him. Say,
mlssus. 1 thank We, and more because l
know ye can't spare the food, and, bless me,
if l gets strength out of it. and a drop or two
to warm me up, I'll seek out old Marble
and give him a couple of good licks just for
expressing such good people as you are.
Ho. no! Marble! How hate him!"
He went off shambling and croaking ere
Mrs. Gregory could say word. A slight
flush Of humiliation crossed her face as,
with a sigh, she sat down again by the
hearth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

Everybody knows our trouble. it seems.
she murmured brokeny; even that old
tramp has heard the gossip. Oh. how the
years have brought misfortune and care.
and bleak, cheerless Christmas, when we
have tried so hard. oh, so hard. to make
life happy for our darling child. Janet"
Yes. a pastoral tragedy was being enacted
in the lonely farmhouse. more pathetic than
those of daily fiction. Here were honest
hearts. bleeding and torn and desolate and
old Jerry. the tramp. had struck the key
note of the cause when he spoke that name
Marble!
Marble. miser, hypocrite. usurer!-how
much of sorrow did the honest Gregorys
owe to him!
Ten years previous the next farmhouse
was owned and occupied by William Tyler.
His wife had died, leaving boy. Cecil
eleven years of age. He and pretty Janet
had become warm friends and playmates.
The lonely widower was frequent guest at
the Gregory home. When the children be-
came sixteen they were lovers.
One day the two farmers did foolish
thing. Mr.. Tyler wished ten thousand dol
lars to speculate in a wonderful mine. dis
covered some distance to the west. He got
Gregory excited about it, He tried to hor-
row the money. and. going to Upton. met
the miserly Gabriel Marble.
Marble agreed to advance the money on
!! conditions. Tyler was to deed his farm to
him us security give his notes. and obtain
as indorser to the same his neighbor. John
Gregory. This was done. Tyler went away
to the mines. He wrote frequently of fail
ure, success, failure. success. and finally,
after a long lapse of silence, that he was
coming back to the old farm to die. He had
been badly injured by an accident at the
mine, had sold it out and. he wrote Greg
ory. would pay Marble. and pass the few
wears the doctor said he might live on the
| farm.
| And now came the strange part OF it. One
dark night Cecil Tyler was awakened by
loud knocking at the door. Arising, he
found there Gabriel Marble and his hired
man, Dobbs. A wagon stood at the gate.
Between them they bore an insensible form
that of William Tyler.
I'VE found him on my doorstep. explained
Marble He had just come to town. ana
I guess wanted to see me on business. but
his strength failed him. and he tainted dead
AWAY. Doctor said he was very ill. and told
us to get him home"
The next day, at eventide. William tyler
died. The farmer had scarcely been buried
when Gabriel Marble seized upon the farm
and all it's belongings for debt. and notified
John Gregory that, us indorser for Tyler. he
should hold him responsible for any deficit.
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Trust in Heaven in adversity. as We die

Trust in Heaven in adversely. as We did
when prosperity was ours!" cried Mrs. Greg
Dry. bravely.
You've got me. father. and can work.
and we cannot utterly fail" spoke Janet.
smiling through her tears, and caressing
detected. despairing John Gregory.
1t was mournful family group. The
farmer had returned homo with white,
hardened face-on foot-from town.
Gabriel Marble had given the screw of
torture another turn. He had seized upon the
team driven by Gregory on writ for debt.
claiming that he intended to leave the
county ard defraud his creditors.
This last misfortune and disgrace drove
John Gregory nearly frantic. He had torn
to ribbons the note the constable placed in
his hands. and we'll it was that Gabriel
Marble did not present it personally in
Gregory's present humor!
Make me your son-in-law," the malevo-
lent schemer wrote insolently, "and the
farm shall be decided back to you, and Janet
moving into my elegant new mansion to-
day. and she shall be its mistress if she
speaks but the word"
"The thieving scoundrel!" murmured
Gregory, as he told his wife of the note.
He drove poor Cecil to become a wanderer;
he has made us beggars. o. when will
such as he be punished?"
I'm Gods good time" interrupted Mrs.
Gregory softly. Come. John. we will not
let it crush us. We have health and hope
and-Janet! We can face life again and win
a new home"
Tap!
There's some one at the door," murmured
the farmer.
He cut short his wife's words by walking
to the door and opening it.
A furry of snow came in. The winding
fiurries beyond half-enveloped muffled
figure.
May come in?"
"A stranger! mo. yes! Come! We can
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at the town tavern primed mo for work.
hung around Marbles old house. He saw
me. and never recognized me. Finally.
ventured to ask him for work"
And got it?"
Yes. He was moving to his new man
sion. on the hill"
Il know"
$50 he gets mo to help him. By and by.
it comes to moving his desk. 1 shouldered
it. Once out of sight, lugged it to Il thicket.
I had a lantern of his with me. For an hour
1 searched over his papers, you bet! I
broke open drawer after drawer. Then
carted the desk to the new house, got a lot
of abuse for delay. and u stingy dime for all
my work; and then to the tavern. and then
-here!"
And the papers?" queried Mr.. Gregory
suspensefully.
They'll fix him." chuckled Dobbs. He
kept every scrap he ever had. I'm going on
to the next town to see Lawyer Roberts. 1t
won't be safe for me when Marble finds the
broken desk. I'm going to get Roberts to
take the papers and prosecute Marble for
forgery and fraud. Oh! I'll have my re-
venge."
Dobbs arose to his feet. He looked quite
serious as he glanced at the farmers wife.
"Missus," he said, you gave me food when
you needed it. I'm glad to be able to show
my gratitude. Among Marbles papers I
found-that!"
That" was a time-worn document around
which the eager quartet crowded.
The receipt for the money paid by my
father to Gabriel Marble, and stolen from
him by Marbe!" cried Cecil Tyler. tumultu-
ously. "Oh! farmer. the old place will be
mine again. All that Marble has defrauded
you of he will have to repay with interest
The dawn has come at last"
Yes. light had come amid darkness: the
receipt proved everything. With Dobbs'
evidence it placed Gabriel Marble in the
dock as Il common swindler and perjurer.
| Upton knew the truth ere the Christmas
sun had crossed the meridian. and when the
county sheriff tapped the Insurer on the
shoulder. and told him that his crimes were
we'll known, Gabriel Marble did not delay in
restoring to GREGORY and Cecil the prop,
erty of which he had robbe them.
The tap of the tramp's hand on the farm
house door had won him charity that he
repaid nobly.
The tap of a friend at that same door later
was welcomed with loves delight. for Cecil
was never to leave Janet again.
The tap of the hands of justice on
Gabriel Marbles shrinking shoulder brought
over wrong.
| And those three taps made the gathering
at the Gregory farm-h house that Christmas
night the happiest and brightest in ali the
broad land.
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at the door. ,,,.
farm was five miles from Upton. and TWO
from any other house. She was alone eS-
pecting her husband and her pretty dausn-
ter, Janet, every moment They had driven
to town with some poultry. and were que
home long since.
That kind of a knock was no nelshporis
tan. It must be stranger. and Mrs. Greg,
,ory remembered how tramp had roppeu
the house once. and stolen horse announcer
time, and instead OF saying Come IN, or
opening it, she nervously barred the heaVS
Mortal and ran to the window.
"Who ia there?" demanded her quaverlhe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-12-21

"Had!" snorted Dobbs: well. with cheat
ing estates by fraud and forgery. shaving
notes ut fifty per cent. and other crimes, he
was just at the doors of the penitentiary,
and one day he come to me and told me
that he wanted me to leave Upton and
never come back again. and he gave me a
thousand dollars, and said if ever told
any one about his shady business he would
make it bad for me, he did"
"How?" queried Gregory.
Il went to New York got drinking. l
lost and squandered every dollar had. I
wrote Marble to send me enough to pay my
fare to California. and I'd never trouble
him again. No answer. 1 wrote again.
threatening to expose his secrets if he
didn't. That brought him. He came. got
up charge of robbery. l was packed off to
States prison for three years.
What dreadful mani" shuddered Janet,
Nesting closer to her lover.
Il kept quiet then: had to-" proceeded
Dobbs. grimly. by and by. freedom came.
I wandered around: time had changed me.
I became IL tramp. and about a month ago I
found Il motive in life"
And that was?"ventured Gregory.
"Revenge!"
"On Gabriel Marble?"
who else? Hadn't he made me thief
and Il convict? 1 worked my way towards
Upton. Yesterday. at the next village. 1
learned the run of town gossip. I was
sort of confused when stopped here for
food. Twas hungry. too. Then I remem-
bered We all and what I'd heard of We. 1t
started me thinking; for if there was one
game for which could put the clamps on
Gabriel Marble. it was for cheating William
TYLER and John GrepOry"
"Ah. at last. the brute!" murmured Cecil
Tyler. expectantly.
Man! man! can you right my wrongs?"
cried Gregory. excitedly.
wait and see Truth was. the night that
Tyler came back to Upton he had $4,000
with him. He came to Marbles. and paid
it to him."
Are you sure?"
Il saw him. Marble pretended the notes
was at the bank. but Tyler said to never
mind. to give him receipt. and the notes
later. Just as he banded it to Tyler he
tainted away. Marble hooked the receipt.
and the next day Tyler died: and Marble
bribed mo to silence and claimed that he
never received the money"
Why Dobbs. your evidence alone would
bring Marble to time!" spoke Gregory.
Trust me trying it on that crafty old fox!
No. wanted tangible evidence. When I
left here to-day I wanders into Upton.
Mrs. Gregory's food and a drink l enjoyed
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shelter you for time"
He is no stranger!"
The words were a scream. In thrilled
amazement Mrs. Gregory gazed on Janet.
Cecil Cecil! I know you! Oh, thank
God! thank God!"
1T ain't!" gasped Gregory. aghast.
Yes. husband, it's him!"
He it was! Cecil-Cecil Tyler! He had
cast aside his wraps as best he could with
those clinging. rapturous arms Of love about
him.
She was crying. sobbing at his knee as
the bluff farmer drew Cecil to the great
armchair. The three lowered about him.
and looked at his sad face and threadbare
attire. and read no story of golden success
there. But he was home again. Oh! life
was not SO bitter. after all.
Farmer have failed I nave come home
poorer than when went away!"
Those were Cecil Tyler's first words.
Have your" cried Gregory. actually smil-
ing. Boy. I'm so glad to see you alive.
rich or poor-so glad to see poor Janets
eyes glow with hope again. that bags of
gold would not better it. You're welcome.
and if two stout hearts can't take care of
two loving ones. why-why. life's all u mis-
take; that's all"
How the fire glowed! How those honest
souls warmed 10 grateful JOY! An! Christ
mas had brought its gifts. 1t was heaven to
hear laughter and mirth under that old roof
once more.
Midnight" spoke Gregory at last aris-
ing to his feet. My! the hours have passed
like magic The winds this way. and we
can Just hear Upton bells"
open the door. husband. I love the
chimes"
Mrs. Gregorys hand rested lovingly on
the farmers shoulder, and IL gentle. far
away look was in his honest eyes as. the
door slightly ajar, they stood and listened.
while Cecl's bronzed cheeks rested against
the soft, white brow of his afflanced love.
Over the snow. mellow and echoing. came
the last runaway chimes of the belfries of
Upton. They died away. John Gregory.
about to close the door. murmured
Peace on earth Yes. it is here!"
Goodwill to men!" softly rejoined his
wife.
Except Gabriel Marble, yes. 1 can't love
that enemy just yet. but won't think of
him"
"Yes. We will"
"Hello!"
The door was pushed back. grotesque
form stood there.
Let me in!"
who are you? You have been drinking!"
"Mebbe, but Missus knows me; don't ye.
Missus?"
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The scoundrel-the villain!'' choked
Gregory. He adds insult to injury. He
has brought us to poverty. He wishes to
disgrace us still lower!'
Speak. John! What do you mean?"
"He has bought the mortgage on the farm
that comes due at New Years"
Then we will lose ALL"
yes, for his cruel heart would never move
him to extend it. He has also claim of
some interest on the old notes Tyler gave.
He says he will seize our stock unless they
are paid"
Can he?"
The law aids the rich!" groaned Greg
Dry. bitterly. but that expected; but when
the crafty. low-natured villain dared to ask
me to force Janet. our Janet. the bonny
darling. to marry him-a price for beauty. a
bride to sell her to live with him-I couldn't
stand it. Istruck him. I told him would
see her dead sooner than his wife,"
Yes. that was the secret. The miser
loved. or fancied he did. He had been re-
pulsed. Revenge now became the ruling
element of his life.
Upon Christmas Eve Mrs. Gregory recalled
how claim after claim had so beggared them
that they had resolved to abandon the farm
a week later. and move as tenants to mis-
cradle swamp farm many miles away
To add to all their misery, Janet had faded
and paed. and the roses fled from her bonny
cheeks. For over six months, dead or alive,
not /. word had been heard from Cecil Tyler
SO Christmas Eve had dnwned with gloomy
shadows over the dear old home. and glunt
haunting wraiths of Il happy past in forlorn
hearts.
With a sigh, Mrs. Gregory arose from her
reverie. lighted Il lamp. and set about pre-
,,oripu tho fruvn1
They'll be here soon," she murmured Il
must be cheerful. to keeppoor Janet in spir-
it's. I declare, John has forgotten his
spectacles."
They lay across an open page of the family
Bible. Mrs. Gregory placed them on I: shelf.
About to close the sacred book. she
glanced down at the open page
Pickering flame from the fireplace
brought out one single line so prominently
that she read it in Il flash:
"Weeping mag endure for a ,eiOht-"
| The flame died down. Then it sprang up
again. brighter. cheerier, and seemed to
fringe with gold the promise sweet that fol-
lowed in the book:
But jog con1eth in the nno,nin0l"
II.
| TAP TWO-AT MIDNIGHT!
Husband! husband! don't complain! It
is wicked"
But what can we dor"
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.aMdSER GNBRdEk.r
Tbs Story Of q Mortgage. in Three
Tops.
BY GEORGE HENRY MORSE.
TAP ONE-AT DUSK.

ed from Il ueepFc
with Il start. For over
an hour she had sat
staring in Il dreamy,
worried sort of way
at the glowing logs
in the old fashioned
! kitchen hre-place.and
did not notice that
dusk had nearly come
until she was startled
by the sharp summons