Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14

cles of London. He has often been enter
tanned at William Waldorf Astor's house,
and 1t was there he met Miss Astor. She
is also young, having just completed her
nineteenth year. In appearance she is a
slight graceful figure, with a full olive
complexion, dark brown eyes and chest
nut brown hair, resembling very much
her mother, who was at one time the belle
of New York and Philadelphia society,
after her marriage and before it, when
she was Miss Mary Paul
Since Miss'Astor's debut in English So
clety she has been a pronounced favorite,
her beauty was not her only charm, her
vivaclous sunny nature endearing her to
every one. The fact that she will enjoy a
dowry estimated at twenty millions, did
not decrease her popularity and she was
eagerly sought by a hundred of London's
most eligible young men.
She evlnced early, however, a dislike of
such attentions and while kind to all,
seemed to possess the happy faculty of
discriminating between those that de-
served and those that did not deserve her
care. The young Duke of Roxburghe has
always enjoyed her warm admiration and
frlendliness and their engagement is at
tributed to generally by the very rapt at
tentions which the young nobleman has
been paying her. Miss Aston, with her ia
Their and several friends is now visiting
the dukes ancestral seat just on the bor-
der of Scotland, Floors Castle as it is
called.
Besides Floors, Roxburghe possesses
several other ancestral castles and local
holdings aggregating upwards of 0 1000
acres of land. He is possessed too of a
not inconsiderable wealth amounting to
upward of s., 200, 900. He succeeded his
father in 1892. upon the %latter's death.
The first member of his family to at
a = y, iptoc,, ttnro I n u-nC Sr or
of the Forest of Selkirk. He was prom
inent in affairs of state and was reward
ed in 1917 by a charter from the king to
till lands and tenements in Auldtown-
burn. His descendant, Robert Ker, was
knighted and raised to the peerage in 1900
as Lord Roxburghe and was shortly after
created Baron of Cessford and Claver-
town and Earl of RoXburghe. He was
succeeded in those titles by his grandson.
Sir William Drummond, who afterwards
became secretary of state and a knight of
the Garter. 1t was the fifth earl, how
ever, who won the highest distinction and
was created Duke of Roxburghe.
On his death the title was transferred
to the Scots line. Lord Bellenden, his
kinsman. and on the latter's death again
reverted to a new branch, Sir James
lines Norcliffe. In his son the old line
was r~e-established by marriage and Sir
John Ker. the seventh duke was the Off
spring of the happy union. The dukes
mother is Lady Anna Emily Spencer
Churchill, the aunt Of the present Duke of
Marlborough. The latter's marriage to
Consuelo Vanderbilt has turned out so
happily that Lady Churchill has been
the staunchest friend of Miss Astor and
is doubtless well satisfied with her sons
anticipated matrimonial venture.
Despite all these glowing prospects
which the elder Aston has contemplated
with beaming eyes for the past few
months, Miss Aston may not accept all
the lurid traditions of her illustrious
sutton yet. The governing hand Of Mrs.
Grundy is at the tiller and circumstances
may become such that the dainty little
beauty will consent to link her fate and
fortune with nobility and thus relieve
the distress of her fathers social aspira-
tI0nS