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Show ELI AS DUDLEY'S FORTUNE. lie Ordered Vlco 1'rotlilent Hannibal Humlln Out of IZIn Store. One of the largest elates In Prcsquo Isle, Minn,r oolongs to the heirs of Ellas Dudley, an old-tlmo merchant of tho town, whoso prosperity was largely duo to the fact that ho onco ordered a vlco president of the United States out of his store. Dudley wna.n old school Quaker who camo here from. Pcnnoyl- wuui.l'i who camo uoie irum. i-cu(juj -vnla years ago and carried on a small .raflo In buying fura from the French-Canadian French-Canadian squatters. Ho Eold a few standard groceries and kept socks, mittens, and cheap' clothing. Though ho could havo made himself rich In a short time by selling liquor nnd tobacco, tobac-co, his consclcncb would not allow him to keep 'cither. So firm was ho In IiIf principles that he would allow no one to use tobacco In his store. In tho eummer of 1801 Hannibal Hamlin of Dangor, who was then vice president camo up hero to enjoy a weok'a fishing in Squaw Pan lake, and called at Dudley's Dud-ley's storo to purchnso the needful sup-, piles for his outing, While waiting for his goods to bo put up, Mr. Hamlin lighted a cigar nnd walked up and down tho tloor. Dudley, who was In tho back store, detected tho o,or of tobacco, and camo out In a towering rage. "Mr. Hamlin," said he, "get out of my fltore at once. Nobody la allowed allow-ed to smoke here. If President Lincoln Lin-coln or Queen Victoria should como Into my store smoking I'd drlvo them out tho enmo way I do you. Go now. and never darken my doora again with tho smell of tobacco about you." Mr. Hamlin threw away his cigar and apologized. apol-ogized. After that ho told tho story to his acquaintances as a good Joke on himself, and before anybody In Presquo Islo was aware of thla fact old man Dudley was famous. Tho prohibitionists prohibition-ists took him up nnd potted him, and 1 nominated him for congress. Meantime Mean-time tlvB anglers of New England, bo-llevlng bo-llevlng that Mr. Hamlin know nil the places where fish would bite, flocked hero by tho stage load, and every one of them fitted out at Dudley's store. When Dudley died In 18S0 ho was the best-known man In Aroostook county and waa worth nearly $100,000. 13x. |