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DUKE OF RICHMOND
He Was Counterfeit and Tried to
Marry a Rich American
Girl.
to call. and he had replied, and he almost a strar.cer to her, but in anoth- MAKE A HOBBY OF TOBACCO
was looking full at the daughter, that er the friendship had progressed so   
t would make him ihe happiest mac fast that he dared to ask for her London Dealer Has Customers Who
in the world. daughter's hand. That is, he wanted Spend $10,000 a Year—One Titled
Lady Spends $30 a Week.
Yes, he thought of buying a large permission to win the hand if he
estate in America and settling down could. Of course, he had brought
to get married and live out the rest scores of testimonials with him. and , Millionaires are fine customers for
of his days. stood ready to submit a barrel or two J the tobacconists whom they patron-
As the Dinsdale auto went on Mrs. of them at any moment. j ize. j have a customer, a well-known
By JOHN PHILIP ORTH.
It was whispered that Brian Dins
dale, the young lawyer, and Miss June
Temple were engaged. It wasnt true
No young lady on the face of the
earth ever waited over ten minuti•  ti
spread the glHd tidings, and in this
case they hadn't been spread
That Mr. Dinsdale was calling on
Miss Temple, and with hrr mothfi
as chaperon was escorting her to thi
theater and other places, was a plain
fact, and that their attitude toward
each other was all that could be hoped
for, was whispered with other whis
pers.
Then came what they call down in
Texas a "norther " The balmy wine
suddenly shifts into the north, and
those who have been sw inging in ham
mocks and eating ice cream hike intc
the house and build a fire in three
stoves.
It was a "norther" that Mr. Dins
dale got. He had been so successful
at law that he owned an auto. He
had Miss June and her mother out foi
a spin one day, and the pace was
moderate. He was not a your? mat
to take chances with his neck That
day there were two other necks t<
be guarded. Therefore, he hadn t in
structed the chauffeur to jump the
machine over creeks and climb rai
fences.
The party was floating along or
wings of peace when another autr
came tearing up. In it was seated a
pompous mid He aged man and hit-
driver The pompous man ind'cated
by a wave of his hand that he was
going to pass.
•Don't you let him." said Miss June
to Mr. Dinsdale
"Perhaps he's going for a doctor."
"He should have telephoned."
"But Tf are in no hurry "
"But he acts as if the road belonged
to him. and 1 don't like his style. Tell
your mat to hit 'er up."
"But there s a bad turn ahead, and I ;
don't w ant to race around "
"Oh w eli, let him throw a barrel of
Inst ever us."
As the road widened the stranger
whirred by He smiled a lordly and
patroniiing smile as he did it.
"Mother." whispered the girl, "1 feel
hum Mated " .
"But why. dear7"
'Because we let that roan by. Mr
Dinsdale hasn't much pride or cour-
age 1 hope he never comes to the
house again."
"You see what a bad spot it is," said
the lawyer as he reached the turn.
"Yery bad." replied the mother.
"It s as good as the rest of the
read!" sulkily replied the daughter.
Few doctors have enough confidence
In themselves to treat themselves
when ill. and when a lawyer has a
case of his own to plead he is almost
sure to bungle it Here was an exam-
ple of It. Mr Dinsdale rcalired that
Miss June was miffed But he soon
had greater cause than that. They
were passing slowly through a village
when they caught sight of the other
ante at the curb in front of a real
estate off"ce Just then the pompons
iran came out and the real estate man
w ith htrr The latter, as it happened
knew Mrs Temple in a business way.
and he beckoned for her to stop
When he had asked her about a cer
tain piece of property he called to the
pompous man and said to the ladie*
"Mrs s.nd Miss Temple, permit me
tt> introduce the Duke of Richmond
He is thinking of buying five or six
farms of mt and creating a large
estate bete "
Both women gaspe>d for breath, and
Is the confusion Mr. Dinsdale was
overlooked Mrs Temple was a
woaaan * ho doted on titles Here was
a title. Almost before she knew it
she had mvued the Duke of Jtichmooc
millionaire, who spends $18,000 a year
with me. I import a special brand of
cigars for him which costs him about
Temple suddenly exclaimed: ! "I should be proud to be your moth-
"Why—why. Mr. Dinsdale was not er in-law," was the prompt answer re-
introduced to the Duke!" ceived
"Why. mamma!" said the daughter. "And I should certainly be proud to $o.50 apiece, and he takes eight boxes
pretending surprise. call you by that title. As the Duchess 0f these in the year, containing 250
"Oh. that's all right," replied the of Richmond your sweet daughter eacj,
lawyer. "One can run across a duke would have the world at her feet, al j Relieve j,e gives most of them
most."
"How grand!"
"1 should honor her as if she had
or a lord any day in the city."
"Then you know a number of
them?" queried Miss June.
"In a way, yes. Several hotels have been born queen."
sent me bills against them to collect. "I know you would.
I have forgotten whether the Duke of
Richmond is among them or not!"
It was a mean remark and it struck
home. That was the lawyer of it
He was befuddling his own case
There was a cool silence for five min-
"All I ask is a fair chance to win
her."
"I will aid you all I can."
"And there is one more thing, my
dear Mrs. Temple. It is a matter I
must ask you to hold in the strictest
utes following his remark, and then confidence."
'You have my word that I will.
both ladies complained of feeling tired
and the auto w-as turned about. It Duke."
was a very formal parting Three
heads bowed stiffly, and after Mr. send me a hundred thousand dollars a
away to his friends, for he is not a
heavy cigar smoker by any means. He
chiefly smokes a pipe, and some of
the pipes he has purchased are worth
a good deal of money.
I had a pipe made for him last year
which cost him $4,000. It was a long
hookah, with a pure amber bowl en-
cased in gold, beautifully ornamented
with embossed..figures.
I have another enormously rich cus-
tomer who collectB tobacco jars; he
has often paid me $4,000 for an old to-
Dinsdale was a block ahead he trusted week ago. but a letter just received
himself to say to himself: from them says it will be a whole fort-
"If that young lady wants to make night yet before they can comply,
an idiot of herself let her go ahead!" Meanwhile—"
He tried to make himself believe "You need funds?" said Mrs. Tem
that he didn't care a copper for any pie.
one of the female sex. but what a "Ah. what a woman! If you have
sham! He had no looner reached his $3,000 you are not going to use for a
office than he set about tracing the fe-w days
Duke of Richmond.
As Miss June entered the house she it."
turned and said to her mother with An hour later, when Mis? June had
bacco jar. But this customer is not a
My solicitors in London were to ^ heayy Bmoker and hjg tobacco
bill in the vear is not more than that
of any ordinary individual.
I have the custom of a well-known
banker, who uses a new cigar holder
every day. Each costs him $10; they
are made of pureiamber and are gold
mounted.
The late King Edward was a very
god customer to the tobaeco mer-
I will gladly give you a check for | chants who w^ere honored with hiscus-
| tom, but I dd not think he ever paid
more than five dollars for a special
cigar, and. of course, he frequently
great positiveness: returned and been told of the loan. ,
"I think Mr. Dinsdale is the most she went straight to the telephone and smoked cigars >hat cost ar ess
Of late years several wealthy ladies
disagreeable mar. 1 ever met"
"1 am both surprised and shocked,
was the reply.
"1 hope he never calls here again!
So do I. Thomas must be instruct
said to Mr. Dinsdale:
"Come at once with your auto!
Never mind what for, but come!!"
Then she telephoned her mother's
have become rather good customers of
the tobacco merchant. I have the cus-
tom of a titled lady, who is one of
       hank and" stopped payment ob the ^e best known hostesses in society.
ed to say that we are nt>t at home to check, and was at the door when the 'Rho bu>"s a couple of hundred cigar-
auto drove up.
"Where to?" asked the lawyer.
"Fourth National bank."
"What for?"
"To nab the Duke of Richmond!
ettes from me every week, which cost
her $30. They are especially made for
aer from a very expensive brand of
Turkish tobacco, and with each box
of cigarettes she has 100 little gold
On the way down two detectives PaPf'r holders.
were picked up. The duke had taken The la(Jy is not an? means a
him."
Hypocritical June Temple! Within
half an hour she was writing Mr.
Dinsdale a note to say that she had
left her handkerchief in the auto and
"would he be so kind as to bring it
with him when he called again 1" —*• - -•   1 . , . , .
Mr Dinsdale m;£ht have called after a trolley car and got into a block, and heavy cigarette smoker and buys the
a few evenings but the lost handker- had only reached the bank three min- cigarettes for her guests, but 1 know
chief would not have been with h:m ,tes ahead of the others. He was in of Bev^l tedies in .ociety wbo smoke
. , j ii_ - «n nrrcpr t hlfi fhfTk tlUt TD&df & ^0 OT i>0 3 aa> . 1 H3V6 -u©
securely w rapped ia tissue paper and line to present nis cnecK. out ruaae a , _  ,.fc„ ,, . .
. . , v -p. an j,v when he saw the custom of a verj wealthy elderly lady
then in tinfoil outside. The reason it break to get away wnen ne saw me e
who took to cigarette smoking a year
asked Miss June as or so ago, and she now- consumes 300
cigarettes a week.—Tit-Bits, London.
Dick Turner, the greatest confl- | *   
dence man in the country!"
"But he has thirteen trunks at the
Belmont and occupies a parlor suit."
wouldn't was because it was not to detectives.
be found in the auto. It had never "Mho is he
been dropped there. It was right be- Mr Dinsdale was taking her home,
ore the girl as 6he wrote the note.
The lawyer was thinking of calling.
lowever, when he heard that the
Duke of Richmond was on the job, so
to say. If he wasn't calling every few
minute s it was at least every day.
His highness was having a heap to
Home of Juliet Is Guarded.
You read the following words on a
tablet by the side of a tall and slen-
"He has a carpet-bag and occupies jjer gray house in a quiet street in
a room in a cheap lodging house." Yerona:
"Gracious, but how he has fooled
sa^ about his title, his castles and mamma
nis plans for the future. Mrs. Temple " And the real estate men and you
swallowed the words greedily, but and others. ^
Miss Temple found that she didn't rr, rre *
* n J Ti -. T- r. nt n
rare much about titles and vast es
rates and the family jewels of a duch-
ess She was more concerned about
a plain young lawyrr. She had set
. out to make him sorry, and she was
being sorry herself.
One day the duke called when Mrs.
Temple was alone. He seemed to be
glad to find it so. In one way he was
And why notT
"Because I had a feeling—feeling—"
"Well?"
"A feeling that I shouldn't marry
any other man but you, Brian'"
And Mrs. Temple w as the only one
who shed tears and talked of the wick-
edness of the world.
(Copyright, 1S1". by the McOure News-
paper Syndicate.)
"This was the home of Capulets
from whom descended Juliet, for
whom so many kind hearts have wept
and of whom poets have sung."
A few steps farther on the busy
life of the old city is centered in the
market place, and in the one or twe
streets that lead from it. You stand
in front of the lightly-built dwelling
and you look at the slim balcony oi
wood from which bent forward the
foTm of the radiant girl whose undy
ing love story has eche>ed down the
ages.
In order that future generations may
keep looking at this balcony, the coun
cil of Verona has decided that a rail-
Cold Night for Somnambulist. 1 Finally one man with more courage
It was cold, so cold, in fact, that a than the others touched it on the P„ v . , , ,
heavy cvercoat felt comfortable. Ai shoulder There w as an •Wlajnation '
ke en wind kept pedestrians at quick of fright, the figure turned and ran
pace. The hour was 10:30. Massa up the avenue and disappeared in the
and a watchman stationed there day
and night to keep an eye on too ad
chusetts avenue w as brilliantly lighted doorway from which it had emerged a :niring "jurist*
and crowded
few minutes before. It was a man. he
It is almost a case of locking the
Suddenly a strange figure appeared was walking in his sleep and he was sLable r :li,er the Mped has beer
at a stairway door just above New clothed only in a thin shirt.—Indianap
Jersey street and stopped a moment oij® News
Then, as if it had been determined J
that a walk downtown would be re-
freshing at that hour of the night, the
The Better Method.
"De man dat tries to please every
figure, with measured tread, began body." said Uncle Fben. "ain't gine to
the joutney. It passed under the light pit along nigh so well as de man who
at New Jersey street and Masachu squares up to de world an' gits everv-
setts avenue, paused a second and body tryin' to please him "
then continued to walk A young at
torney across the street saw the fig
ure, and exclaimed: "Well, 111 be
darned "
Other persons watched the ftgur#
stolen, because most of the original
woodwork was carried off last sum
mer by parties of Shakespeare-lovinf
Americans, who wanted keepsake*
from Juliet's bower.
Everybody Knew.
At a social gathering a little girl I
| know recited "The Charge of the
\ Light Brigade." Reaching the line
Delftware Again in Favor. | "Into the jaws of death, into the
There is said to be a revival oi mouth of—," she paused and look-
Delft w are and many o 1 pattt rns an I ing around added. "Where papa told
being revived. j uncle to go last night."