The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-01


the Duke Of Livingstone, is Stranger
Than Fietion--ls Here Today.
from Tuesdays Dailyl
The highest title held by any resi-
dent Of the United States is in Nor.
folk today.
The Marquis Of Eckersley, who will
some day be the Duke of Livingstone,
is in Norfolk stopping at the Oxnard.
The marquis in business life is known
as st. Lawrence Chandler OF Kansas
City. This is the name "he registered
by at the Oxnard but he holds the title
and could with good grace have writ
ten across the hotel register the
words, Marquis OF Eckersley, Deep
Deane, England"
There is as bright a story back Of
the marquis title as any story ever
written in fiction. Mr.. Chandler-for
he calls himself Mr.. Chandler-is n
native of Canada, a true American In
spirit and residence, a successful com
mercial traveller and writer Of some
note.
A Commercial Traveller.
Mr.. Chandler has been on the road
for some eight years. He Is now
general salesman for Armour Il Co.
in the department of their by-pro-
ducts. A year ago last summer he
was in Chcago-and thereby hangs a
story and title.
This man, who is knight of the grip
and a nobleman by title, has spent
much of his life in Chicago He Is an
Episcopalan with high church tenden-
cies and last summer was working as
a layman in connection with the ca
thedral of St. Peter and st. Paul in
Chicago.
In the parish was an old English
man, one "R. A. Pcnley," man of
oighty-odd ye~cs, in poor health pos
sessed of noble birth and the title of
the Duke of Livingstone.
Chandeliers church work brought
him up against the old man and he
cared for the old stranger, nursed
him back to health and did the hun
dred and one things that strong
man with the christian spirit and
broad human impulses can do. The
two became friends.
Adopted by the Duke.
The upshot of the affair was that
the old man legally adopted Chan
dler as his son in the circuit court,
Then he told him that he, Chandler,
was the Marquis Of Eckersley. And
he gave him papers to prove 1t.
Newspaper reporters have pried
into the story and correspondents
have gone to the records to verify or
disprove the story. 1t stands. The
title that Mr.. Chandler will inherit
through his legal adoption is Of
French origin. But the estate is an
English estate. Deep Deane it is
called and it numbers some 1000
acres. 1t is just now heavily encum-
bered with mortgages and hence the
presence of the old nobleman in Oak
Park, a Chicago suburb, where he is
living quietly and trying to recuperate
the old estate.
Is Dukes Only Heir.
The duke is eighty-four. He has
no heirs save his adopted son. There
was a marquis a number Of years ago,
a soldier and man whose extrava-
gance piled up debts against the fam
lily fortune. This marquis, who held
the title before Mr.. Chandler, was
killed in the Boer war.
Thus it is that marquis is in Nor
folk today.
Mr.. Chandler is thirty-nine years
old, is married and lives in Kansas
City. He is a man OF much earnest
ness. He is a heavy set man and in
all about such a man as the titled head
of an old house might wish his son
to be.
viii Always Work.
Il am content to be short-handled
American" Mr.. Chandler admitted in
Norfolk Tuesday afternoon. II will
never leave America for any consider
able length of time. | may some day
receive quite competence from
across the seas but I will always work
not quite as hard as l have been
perhaps-but I will always work be
cause l believe in the doctrine OF
work. l do not expect to stay on the
road because the life of travelling mer
has so many inconvenience of travel
There are two things that ! believe
in thoroughly-work and respect fol
age You see the old pushed aside
everywhere. Watch your theater anc
see the young push out ahead OF the
older people. There is nothing sc
tragic as an old man or woman with
out watchful friends at hand. Tha
was what aroused my instant sympa
thy when | first saw the duke. l was
engaged in church work and won hi'
confidence, without knowing his story
by the straightforward way in which