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to say nothing Of the creditors at
home. So j have adopted the advance
payment system, which protects me
against frivolous applications and en-
ables me to. settle my bills promptly
a year after presentation"
Suppose the application is ultimate
ly rejected?'i asked what becomes
Of that advance payment 2"
1T is returned-or rather 1 have a
blank form, which I call negotiable
receipt which / return in lieu of the
cash." explained his grace. 1T is made
payable to the applicant, and the lady
is at liberty to negotiate it whenever
and wherever and for whatsoever sum
she sees fit. Is Miss Goldrox prepared
to comply with this formality?"
WELL duke,"-I began again, re-
solved to undeceive him as to my iden-
tity.
"Of course" he interrupted a second
time, tapping his fat fingers together
ref1ectively and glancing at the pho
tograph Of Miss Goldrox on the table,
"of course, If she isn't, onsthe ground
that $1,000 is too high a figure, / might,
in view of her beauty, take $3.50, but if
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though they bit him shameful while
he was maxim a tall platform to set
his machine and battery on. His face
was pretty muchi swelled up when he
got 1t done. Hez never tells us just
how he does things, and no one but
him knows much about the principles
of his machine, but when he started it
up there was some powerful odors
come from it, mostly like deeayed eggs
and anise seed. We didn't know until
the next day that Hez had really
bought half pound of anise Oil and
taken down twelve dozen spoiled eggs
from his electrical incubator.
..Well, sir, when them smells got
spread around the cattails and rushes.
the mosquitoes just left everything
and come aroufidAHez to see about it.
HeZ was mighty pleased and stayed
down there nearly all night listenin' to
the 'skeeters singla' for joy. The next
day he told us4hesh made just enough
feel good and take AN interest in the
experiment, but that the next night he
was goin' to begin .doin' business with
'em in earnest.
.'He took couple of grain bags and
tied ropes to EN- and explained to US that
he was going to drag EN- through the
grass in all directions for miles around
the machine, maxim trails to lead the
mosquitoes to it. We saw him pour in a
lot of anise oil into one bag, but there
didn't seem to be anything in the other,
so Just before 4fezs started out Hank
caught the hired mans pet coon and slip
ped it into the bag when Hez wasn't look
in. Then Hez took the. bags and dragged
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I should wish it regarded as strictly
confidential transaction. 1t would new
er do to have the impression get abroad
that I am one of those cut-rate dukes,
such as you find in the Italian market" !"
There's none of the job lot about
your grace" 1 said.
81 hope not" he replied. Indeed"
he added with a sigh, II am as genuine
as my necessities, and certainly do not
propose to let myself go cheap. though
in your case I am prepared to make
reasonable concession, because like
Miss sGoldrox's s looks. She has all the
piquancy Of what we. call the chorus
girl duchess, without her reputation,
which I think is a very desirable COM
bination.'
'Well, now, see here, my dear duke, !"
I began third time. II don't want to
get anything out of you under false
pretenses, and I've tried to tell you
three times that I am not
You need have no delicacy in COM
ing to that point, my dear fellow" said
the duke, leaning forward in his chair
and patting me pleasantly upon the
knee. "Of course, I know what you
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To saw the truth, as entered the room
in the rather dim light Of the after
noon I, thought at first that he was
the back of heavily upholstered arm
chair, his expansive waistcoat con-
tributing largely to that impression.
The result was that I bumped rather
unceremoniously into him before l
realized the true state of affairs and SO
found myself face to face with an aWk-
ward moment. You can't very well tell
a man that in the dim light, and owing
to the somewhat oyegweighty color
scheme of his centrifugal dimensions
you have mistaken him for plush
backed easyzchaiB, zand was up
against a very difficult proposition as
to how best to excuse myself. Forum
ately. however. the duke was affability
itself.
'How very awkward Of me-" he
cried; when he had recovered his sec
ondsi wind, ito stand where you must
inevitably stumble over me. Fact is,
didn't expect you quite so soon, or I
should have got out of the way. / for
got that your American lifts are so
much faster. than our English ones,
and in consequence I did not really
think you would be up here for e. half
hour yet It would have taken you
quite twenty minutes to get up two
stories in a British hotel"
Don't mention it Your Grace" said
1, resolved not to be outdone in affa-
bility.; "The fault is wholly mine. We
Americans haven't yet learned how to
enter drawing rooms properly-that is,
not more than four hundred of us at
the outside. For the most part we
stick to the old catapult method, which
is indeed awkward in it's results, es-
peeially in these days Of waxed floors
and rugs Only last night / slid
through three cases Of -brac at
the home Of friend of mine, owing to
the impetuous way in which / landed
M Ga As
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would say. Miss >Goldrox desires some
information as to my title, the exact
state of my fortune, my personal car
acter, and all that. Indeed, she said as
much in her letter answering my ad-
yertisement, and stating that you would
call at this afternoon. Why should
she not seek and receive that inferma-
tion?"
mo reason in the world, duke" I
replied. "Only I am not
There is really nothing to be
ashamed of in my career he ran on.
THE title is one Of the oldest in Eng
land, my castle is in an awful state Of
disrepair, and my debts-well, they are
ducal. AS for the title, it was conferred
upon the original duke, Peter Win
tringham, of Wassailbowl, who, at the
battle Of Marston Moor gave William
the Conqueror a good drink of rum at
a time when nothing else could have
saved the day. AS William said, after
he had put Edward the Confessor to
flight, by my faith, an it were not for
that dram, Lord Buckingham, my Lord
of Administer would have sat on the
British throne this night He there
upon summoned my ancestor into his
royal presence and made him Duke OF
Acres. 1t was because of this episode
that we took the whisky jug as a SYM
lister biburdi,' for our family motto.
Three centuries later Queen Elizabeth,
in testimony of her gardsfor the sixth
duke, Henry Charles st. Vincent Win
tringham, who wrote trfolet to her
majesty's eyebrows, built for him at a
cost Of 100000 sterling the present
Castle Wintringham and granted him
an allowance of G10 a year for Its
maintenance, From that day to this
Fri ,crl,o \, Il.
stone around the, :, family, neck. You
can't run a castle very fast on s TO-"
That's a bad place to get a mill
stone,' observed. 90 ''i@ 3'f''H 80
"Quite so" he replied. "Of the sub
sequent dukes ofzAcres- you, of course,
are familiar with English history, SO
tits unnecessary for me to tell you OF
their achievements. 1t is true most OF
these are recorded between the lines,
but, as Kipling says, they also serve
who only stand and wait.
"The title is evidently all right" said
L ''But see here, duke
He Needs the Money.
"And SO is the castle all right, my
friend" continued the duke. '1t is a
superbly massive aggregation of archi-
lecture to which the tourists flock an
nually in great numbers--fact is, toe
great NUMBERS, Iof aStudliy idSl yedi
they took away with 'em about four
thousand bricks from the family chap
ell as souvenirs. The only trouble with
the castle is that it has no roof and
the second story floor has fallen two
flights into the cellar, incidentally car
rying the first floor with it. There is
only one whole pane Of glass In the
whole edifice, and the plumbing
1t was the plumbing that first convinc-
ed me that I owed it alike to my an
cestors and my .posterity to, come over
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upon the rug at the entrance of the
parlor.
ct is one of your very great
charms" suggested the duke. TT is in
deed compliment for a gentleman to
enter his hosts presence with such ev-
ident eagernesS, and l sincerely hope l
shall always find SO cordial manifes-
tation of interest in my poor SELF,
1T was lucky didn't try to sit down
on you," / blurted out, forgetting for
the moment that the true inwardness
of my error was wholly unknown to
the duke.
'Ah-beg pardon?' he answered.
'I-ah-why-what I mean is,"
stammered. that I-er-it was fortu-
nate I didn't bowl you over and fab
on you"
Very" said the duke. Considering
that you must weigh in the neighbor-
hood of fifteen stone, it strikes me as
being eminently fortunate. And now
to business. You are the agent of Miss
Marjorie Goldrox, Of Duluth, / under-
stand Of what, precisely, does Miss
GoldroX's fortune consist? I like her
picture very much-quite a sweet little
thing, and while, of course, not the
conventional type for duchess. she
might make a very successful one on
the mere basis of the difference
well, you see, duke" began, rath-
er disturbed to discover that, after. all,
I had been received by mistake.
A Practical Lover.
IT shall require a certificate in de-
tail Of all the lady's property, of
course said His Grace, interrupting
me, "and an advance Of $1,000 be-
fore can consider her application at
all. You see, it is expensive business
coming all the way, over here to look
up the financial antecedents of your
would-be noblewomen. I should pre-
fer not to ask for an advance, but cir
cumstances over which have little
control seem to make it desirable that
I should. My friend, the Duke of Her
ring, who was over here last year, told
me that he wasted six months running
down bogus applications. and when
finally he was acquired by his present
very charming duchess, who was Miss
Mamie Copperking, Of Arizona, it took
pretty nearly all the first payment to
settle UP his accrued American debts,
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anise oil, and the smells was something
terrible. The dogs smashin' around in the
grass had helped to stir up the mosquitoes
and they come to Hez like snow in bliz-
zard. They got excited and mad, too, /
guess, for they bit Hez awful. But Hez
knowed they couldn't bite like the dogs.
and he stood it bravely.- though he yelled
for help in his best voice.
by the time the hunters and US got In
there the dogs had gnawed the posts OF
the platform about off and 1t fell just as
We got our horses through the canine sea
and alongside Of it.. The dogs was SO
furious they tore up everything, fncludin'
the ozone machine and the battery. They d
have ct Hez up in minute If he hadn't t
fortunately fell across the rump OF the
big dun-colored mule the hired man was
ridin' and the mule went plunging through
the sea of dogs. carryin' 'em both out.
But bull pup or two was clingin to
Hez's long legs when they reached the
barn. 3 z1.4e
"Hez was pretty badly bit up, and II
was a week or two before he could git
around, but he's all right again and hap
pier than ever, for the next day when we
went down to gather up the wreck of the
machine we found the ground a foot deep
with dead mosquitoes. We wasn't quite
sure they hadn't laughed themselves to
death over Hez and the dogs, but Hez
machine that did the business when he
got scared and turned the current full on
after the dogs come. We had to tell him
that it wasn't the machine that attracted
the dogs, too, to keep him from abandon
in his experiment and now he's glad
Hank happened to think of the coon and
the rest of the scheme. for he said he'd
growed cautious about using too much
current, and if he hadn't got scared he'd
never turned it all on and mightn't ever
knowed the full possibilities of his great
discovery. Wait until he brings his ma
chine to Jersey and you'll have to pay
double price for stock in his great elec-
pathological magnetic system of ther.l-
peutics. Newark IN. j. News.
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In return the duke handed me one OK
his negotiable receipts and l departed.
I heard yesterday that somebody at the
Walledoff Castoria had been arrested
for trying to cash bogus draft. but
whether it was the duke or not have
not heard, but I hope it wasn't, for 1
should hate to think of one with so re-
fined taste in fancy waistcoats as His
Grace having to wear the distinctly
unpleasing stripe pattern garments
now in vogue at Ossining. Moreover,
the duke was a good fellow, and 1 am
sure was perfectly sincere in coming to
this country to sell himself in order
to pay his debts and restore his fam
lily grandeur to it's pristine splendor.
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'em all over the country, maxim trails
like wheel, all. leadin' to his machine.
when night came Hez had tramped
about twelve miles, and he knowed all
the mosquitoes in that territory had a
special invitation to come and see him;
but he didn't expect any other visitors.
for he'd kept his experiment pretty Sc
cret But that afternoon several crowds
Of them city fellers come out for fox
hunt, each crowd bringing a pack of over
40 dogs. They found out before they
started to hunt that there wasn't a fox
in 500 miles. but Hank told 'em if they'd
wait till night he'd show them the best
place for coon huntin there was in Amer
lea.
They was only too glad to do It,, and
while they was waiting about 900 dogs got
chance to sniff around where the hired
mans coon had been and git pretty
anxious to go out and find It, They haa
plenty of chance to get acquainted with
the anise smell, too, and powerfully Will
lin to find out more about it.
ssWhen it got dark Hank took the crowd
down to the point where Hez started
maxim his trails, and the dogs was toId
to 60 In about two minutes morn 800
dogs was yellin' along that trail. Their
yelpin' reused the whole country, and
every farmers dog in hearing distance of
that 12-mile trail come and joined In the
chase. i tell you it made tremendous
excitement, and the whole country turned
out to see what was up.
"It took about, an hour for the dogs to
go all over Hez,s trails and end up under
his platform. By that time there were at
least a thousand dogs there, and they
were the widest lot of purps that ever
went yelling crazy. They could see Hez
and knowed the coon and the anise bag
was up there. and they leaped, fought and
howIed to get the whole bunch. -Hez vas
mighty scared. and set his battery goin
full on. maxim ozone compornd in great
gobs. He also threw all his stock of old
eggs at the dogs and poured ont all the
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IS name took up pretty nearly
~ a whole page of the register, SO
3 much of it in fact that Chl-
cago gentleman, who was
glancing over the book in search
of the signature of a friend oo-
served to the clerk ST say, young TEL
Ter, did this chap arrive all at once OF
in sections?" In general, the dlstln-
guished visitors title is the Duke OIL
Acres. Specifically, and in detail ne Is
George Herbert Fitzmarmalade Albert
Henry Hugo Postlethwaite James war
rem Cholmondelly Victor de Smythe
Cavendish Seymour Hicks Wintring-
ham. He is the man of whom famous
Radical in seeing his name for the
first time, observed that he must have
been christened on a windy day, and,
since it was generally understood that
he had come to this country for the
purpose of securing a duchess to re-
store the plumbing of Castle Wintring-
ham to it's ancient splendor, resolved
to call upon him at his apartment in
the Walledoff Castoria and see what
he had to say for himself The Pur"
ehasable Duke is an entertaining de-
yelopment in modern sociology. and
everybody has talked about him but
himself All sides Of his story, save
his own, have been told over and over
again, and it seemed to me that it was
only fair that he should have the op-
oprtunity to be heard.
He did not keep me waiting. Bare
1y five minutes had elapsed since the
sending up of my card through pneu-
matte tube when voice came hurting
down through the pipe:
His graciousness says to show that
feller up"
And up I went.
The duke is a short. squat figured
gentleman, with forid complexion
and tendency to effective waistcoats.
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HSEGGSSSEI

HE existing constitution of Iceland
was conferred upon the island by the
present king of Denmark In 1874, on
the occasion of the celebration of the
millennial anniversary if its settlement.
1t gave to the ancient althing (revived,
with only advisory functions, in 1S45,
after dorlnancy of more than forty
years. full legislative powers, and di-
vided it into two houses. At the head
of the home government was a gov
ernor general Qandshofdingi), who rep
resented the king, and presented and
explained to the althing the govern
ment bills, previously prepared and
sent to him from Copenhagen.
To the king was given an absolute
veto. The minister of justice in the
Danish cabinet bore the supplementary
title of minister for Iceland" and, as
such, presided over a ministerial bu-
reau Differed, in other respects, part
ly by Danes and partly by Icelanders.
No minister for Iceland" so far as is
known, ever visited Iceland either be-
fore or after assuming the title. It is
not denied, however, that he has al
ways availed himself of the best coun-
sci, and that he has treated the affairs
within his province with careful delib
GRAFTON and, in general, with good
judgment But the constitution of 1S47
is now a generation old. For some lit
tie time past a political agitation has
been carried on in the Icelandic par
Lament and press, with the view of
bringing about changes in the islands
administration, the special object
sought being to concentrate. as far as
possible, the various government de-
partments at the islands capital To
effect this an alteration in the funda-
mental law was necessary. The act re-
Quired has now passed the althing Of
1908, having previously been adopted,
as constitutionally demanded, by the
preceding althing. 1t does away with
the governor generalship and creates a
special minister-the title does not
seem to be too happily solely
occupied with Icelandic affairs.
He must sit with the althing, to
which he is responsible, being present,
as necessity may require, in either
house, and must therefore be familiar
with the Icelandic language Ca euphe-
mistic way of saying that he shall al
ways be an Icelander). He is to con-
slider ReykjaVik his residence, though
having for the sake of convenience a
suboffice at Copenhagen. When in the
Danish capital for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the sanction and signature of
the sovereign, who still retains the
veto power, to the measures approved
by the althing. he has a seat in the
council of state. but has therein no
vote, either on matters relating only to
Denmark or on those relating to both
Denmark and Iceland, just as the Dam
1sh members of the council have no
voice in affairs purely Icelandic.
1t should be mentioned in this con-
nectlon that by the existing arrange
ment Iceland contributes nothing TO-
wards the maintenance of the mon
archy, nor is she called upon to furnish
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the chairman Of the finance committee
Of the lower house contrasted the out
lay of the country in the financial
period 1902-19O3 (two years. with that
Of 1882-1SS3. Twenty years ago the
whole amount appropriated at a sin
gle session, or term, Of the althing
was 100000 crowns (about e44,000).
The amount voted at the recent one
was 1,66S,000 crowns. AS to the items.
the largest one-the sum expended for
the development Of the country's re-
sources, principally agriculture (sheep,
cattle, l1orses), and the fisheries-is
twenty times larger now than then;
that assigned to the post, to roads, and
to other means of communication, in.
and around the island, is four times as
great; that to the maintenance Of for
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ty-two district physicians and to sani-
tary purposes is thrice as great; and
that to common schools nearly three
times as large. Novel items are a
small appropriation for the advance
ment of art, in the shape of scholar
ships for study abroad, and a very
liberal one for the planting Of forests,
that is for the continuance of the ex-
periments now being made, both in the
northern and southern provinces, on Il
large scale by foreign experts. Includ-
ing all grades and all classes of schools,
the sums applied, in one shape or an
other, to education and in aid Of vari-
GUS branches of science and letters
Comprising libraries and other col
lections, popular enlightenment and
different subjects of research) now
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lister, who in Iceland becomes the visi-
BILE head of the state, and who is to be
aided by an under secretary, and by
three chiefs Of department bureaus.
By the new constitutional amendments
the two houses of the althing are
slightly enlarged. The people will
hereafter elect thirty four Qnstead Of
thirty members to the lower house,
of which eight are to be selected by
the chamber to sit in the upper house,
thus leaving twenty-six to form the
popular body; to the selected eight the
king adds, by appointment, six others.
SO that the upper chamber consists
of fourteen members formerly twelve,
of whom six were designated by the
CROWN. The althing. as before, will
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either men or means for the support Of
the army and navy. 1t is in considera-
tion of these facts and perhaps in part
owing to her self-imposed lack of rep
resentation in the Danish parliament
that she has so little to say in refer
ence to transactions concerning both
divisions of the kingdom. She pays,
however, the salaries of all her Off
cials, the cost of all her public institu-
tions and public works. and the larger
share of the expenses of the postal
service which connects her with Scot
land, Denmark and the continent. The
former governor generals house in
Reykjavik is to be refltted for gov
ernment Offices, while a new official
mansion is to be erected for the min
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meet every two years, unless called
together in special session by the king.
On the whole. Fhe effect of the recent
measures will be to accentuate, Ice
lands independents of Danish control,
rather than greatly to enhance it.
ProeressEqs Marked.
1t seems nots to- Fbe generally under
stood that Iceland has now entered
upon a period Of marked progress,
the result-perhaps somewhat slow in
coming-of a generation Of self-de-
pendence, which has forever put an
end to the foreign misrule Of which
she was SO long victim. In one Of
the debates on the budget during the
sessions of, theTalthing just closed,
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Duluth, Oct So 1908.
THE NINETEENTH NATIONAL
BANK. DULUTH. S. C.
Pay to the Order of George Herbert, ct
cetra, Wintringham.
Five Hundred .................Do Dollars
MARJORIE GOLDROX,
Per William H. Jones, Atty.
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- "a IS name took up pretty nearly
~ whole page Of the register, SO
E 81 much of it in fact that chi
20 on gentleman who was
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