The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-28
LORD STANLEY.
Bogus Lord With Rare Hypnotic
Powers Courts and WEEDS
Miss Irene Clayton
Within Few Short
Hours.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND LEMON
Twas ever thus in childhood, sour
We see our fondest hopes decay,
While standing meath an orange bower
A lemons sure to drop our way.

| WANG s1duuAuS ueALQ an orange bower
lemons sure to drop our way.
INHE historic old "Brick," now
known as Calvert, in the 9th dis.
| trict, has added another page to
its annals and that locality has been the
scene of front page scarehead feature in
all the city papers for period of whole
week. Things thereabout have been like
the weather this week, sizzling, red hot
and the residents of that hamlet and the
countryside in state of wondernent.
incredulity and general hysteria.
The cause of this general upsetness was
the floating into their midst of a self.
styled lord, duke, baron, prince royal who
claimed riches uncountable and kiuship
to the crowned heads of Europe. Asia and
Africa, with chateaux, castles and cash
located at many points of the Old World.
About ten days ago Joseph Mcvey,
knight of the brush, was identifying the
landscape by applying coat of nile green
with peavine trimmings to a domicile at
Calvert when he was accosted from the
roadside by weary willie whose eye was
struck with the fitness of the color as be-
ing emblematic of some persons he might
meet. The stranger asked for Job and
got it. He applied himself with vigor to
his new task and ere long calmly an.
nounced to his fellow artist that he was
an earl. McVey was little bit hazy on
what that was and stated that his early
education had not included a course in
Burke's Peerage. His earlship then pro-
ceeded to elucidate by explaining that an
earl belonged to that class of genus homo
who was born to >the purple and was
endowed with lucre, lands and heridita-
ments beyond computation. When McVey
had digested this bit of knowledge he was
further informed by his interlocutor that
he was Lord Stanley, Earl of Aberdeen
mot Hartford county,, Baron Munchausen
and Wizard of Or, cousin to King Edward
VII, and thereby related to all the crown
ed heads of Europe, besides being hail
fellow-well-met with the Vanderbilt.
Gould. Belmont chappies. He had been
living in Rochester as plain Harry STAN
ley for several years but his accommodating
riches demanded that he announce him
self and proceed to reduce his surplus to
keep from making his friend Rockefeller
looking like 80 cents. In order to as
sumo his titles and wealth legally it was
necessary to secure fair help-meet and
McVey, junior. was offered one thousand
plunks to act as matrimonial agent, the
said 1000 to be forthcoming as soon as
McVey made good. With such an in
centive the erstwhile landscape beautiier
quickly changed his vocation to agent for
the hot air artist and soon brought about
a meeting between Lord Stanley and Miss
Irene Clayton, an estimable lady of 54
summers, residing in Calvert. The would
be groom was impressed at first sight and
pressed his suit with such ardor that the
maiden succumbed to his Establishments.
The happy sutton met with opposition,
however, at this point from the lady's
brothers. The prince royal took them in
hand singly and collectively and with
promises of an ante-nuptial settlement of
$50, 600 on the bride and like sum to be
distributed among her brothers, with one
exception won them all over.i
A trip to Oxford was taken and lavish
arrangements made for the wedding and
reception, to occur on July 2, in, the Pres
byterian church in that town. Mean
time clouds of doubt commenced to
appear on the horizon and Lord Stanley
persuaded his iancee to drive to Oxford
on Monday evening where they were
quietly married by Rev. J. H. Roger, of
the M. E. church. Returning to Calvert,
the new made groom handed out denials
of the ceremony to the inquiring neigh
bors. but his denials availed naught as
verifcation of the report came from the
officiating clergyman.
The next morning at an early hour
Lord Stanley was seen trudgiug along
the road headed for Rising Sun. The
neighboring farmers asked the whyness
of the pre-sunrise constitutional and were
informed his Lordship was after team
to transport his bride to connect with
some of his riches. He failed to appear
in this metropolis and search parties were
organized during the day.
The missing groom was located towards
evening headed due north and when
questioned said the wanderlust which he
had inherited from some of his royal an
cestors had again come to the surface and
he was going to walk to Rochester where
his LAWYER Senator Raines. would turn