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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-13
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07

hood when he married Malvina Dine
hart and became the pariah of the
family. Before then he had taken
prominent part In the most brilliant
social life both here and abroad He
was immensely fond of travelling and
had made several tours of the world.
Several times he had been reported
engaged to debutantes who were ia
vorites in New York society for their
beauty. He was already several times
a millionaire by his grandfather's viii
and 1t was estimated by calculating
mothers that he would inherit about
$50. 900 900 more from his father. OF
course the calculating mothers never
reckoned that he would stoop to fall
ing in love with a farmers daughter
and comforting upon her the name Of
Astor.
Willingly Gave Up Wealth for Love.
It cost the young scion of the then
richest house in America sac. ZOO, 900
and his social standing for his DISC
bedience. but he paid It willingly and.
he says today. has lived happily ever
after. Unlike the rest of his kin and
his associates among the elect, Henry
Aston was endowed with rather bit
ter cynicism. He had begun to alien
ate himself from his aristocratic ia
Their and brothers by commenting sar-
castically upon the shams and delu-
sions of the world in which he lived
Returning from his second tour around
the world he asked permission OF his
father to manage the big Astor farms
at Red Hook, and It was while en-
gagged In this work that he met and
fell in love with Malvina Dfnehart-
When a very young man John Dine
hart, Malvina's father, had been a farm
hand on the Astor estate He had
risen rapidly to be manager and su-
perintendent and he had invested
shrewdly in several profitable farms.
His rusticity had never worn off and
his place had always been in the serv-
ants hall. His daughter, therefore,
though well educated and talented,
was looked upon as utterly impossible
as a mate for the young millionaire;
that is by his father and brothess.
Had One sympathIzer.
But there was one niece, Margaret
Astor Ward, daughter of Henry Az
tors dead sister, Mrs. Samuel Ward,
who sympathized with Henry in his
romance. She was married four years
later to John Winthrop Chanler and
became the mother of the present gen.
Grafton of CHAMBERS and CHAMBERS.
The Chanler boys, Sheriff Bob" hus-
band of La Cavalieri, and Lewis Stuy-
vesant, are the only blood kin who
have kept in touch with Uncle Henry
Astor during all these years, and it
Is more than likely that they may
share in his millions when he is laid
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Henry copake skesehed by

to rest under the Astor-Dinehart tomb
that he erected several years ago In
the little cemetery of the Reformed
church at West Copake.
No children were born of the Aston
Dfnehart union and there have never
been any children In the household
Nor has the Astor mansion at West
Copake ever known such thing as
retinue of servants For thirty years
Henry Aston and his wife have occu-
pied the big white frame homestead
that faces on the main road running
by West Copake down to the Copake
Iron works. four miles away. Copake
Iron Works Is the railroad station on
the Harlem division of the New York
Central
This entire district has prospered
since the coming of Henry Aston to
Red Hook, for he set a standard for
farming that scores of his neighbors
have profited by. And he bought
thousands of acres and put them un-
der cultivation
Has Lived His Life Apart.
The move to West Copake was made
in order to sever forever the last tie
that might bind him to the Astors of
Red Hook Since then his social circle
has been his own family-his wife. her
seven brothers. the Dinehart boys"
their families and the few farmers
who have been admitted to intimacy
at the Aston mansion
In accepting his exile from the GID
ed society in which his parents moved
Henry Astor adopted a regime of life
that was warranted to blot out for
ever every suggestion of the luxurious
households he had frequented during
his younger days. He accepted the
standards of living of the Dineharts
and never once since his marriage has
he spent a dollar for show or ostenta-
ton. Indeed, he has carried this ideal
of simplicity to the verge OF an almost
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07

savage eccentrfcity- None of the man
servants has ever worn anything that
looked like a livery. There have been
no jangiing chains or SNOWY brass on
the harness of his horses and the equf-
pages he drove or was driven in were
of the most homely design The coats
of-arms and monograms of the Astors
have never had a place in his home
On the Astor estate at West Copake
there Is no running water or pumping
engine. The old man viii not tolerate
anything in the nature of throbbing
machinery in or about his home If
hand pumps are good enough for the
other jewellers on the countryside they
are good enough for him The few
hired men he employs do not fall in
with this ideal Of simplicity. There
are innumerable beds of "posies"
about the simple white frame mansion.
and they must be watered In dry
weather. 1t Is no unusual thing for
the two gardeners who take care OF
the lawns and flower beds to carry
a thousand pots of water to the thirsty
plants in the course of day.
One Peculiar Hobby.
Another Of Uncle Henry's crochets
cient vintage 1t is COMMON rumor in
the village Of West Copake that he has
barrels of them In his cellar and boxes
and baskets of them stuck under beds
and hidden away In the garnet This
eccentricity Is a development of only
recent years. It is a strange fancy
for q man whose income is more than
$1,000 day.
For four decades Henry Aston has
hardly spent weeks income in a
year, and his millions have multiplied
enormously. He owns more than one
hundred valuable parcels of real estate
in New York city and wherever you
happen to roam in Columbia county
you will have an Aston farm pointed
out to you. None of these farms, how
ever, is held in his own name. As
fast as he acquires them he transfers
the title to his wife, and one Of the
Dinehart boys is put in charge of
them.
Some of the Aston property from
which Uncle Henry Aston derives a
large rental will pass in * simple to
his nephews upon his death Had any
children been born to him this would
not be the case. But as for the 9TH
er princely half of his fortune, he has
taken the same pains to keep it away
from the bloodkin as his brother, VIII
liam Aston did. to prevent Uncle Henry
or his Issue from inheriting q dollar of
his estate. In the will of the late VIII
liam Astor there was inserted this
clause:
"It is my Will and intention that
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his parent and brothers were shocked
into fury because he married out of
his caste. Millions came down to him
from his grandfather and he has never
spent a 1.-THE of his income He owns
Blocks and blocks of New York real
estate today. including a share in the
Astor house and a corner on Long
Acre square, not to mention many ex-
tensive and beautiful farms In Colum-
bia county.
But with all these resources he does
mot own an automobile. a yacht or q
racehorse. and never did For As
years he has lived the life of a re-
tired gentleman. forgotten and never
mentioned by his nephews and nieces,
who consider themselves the very
cream Of the American aristocracy.
His unforgivable Crime.
. It was an unforgivable crime that
the now bent and white-haired Astor
committed when he refused to chill
the love that crept into his heart for
the comely Malvina Dinehart, the
daughter of John Dinehart, a simple
Though prosperous farmer of Red
Hook. N. Y. Although his GRANDPA
fher had been a peddler and his uncle
a butcher. old William B. Aston, who
had been admitted to the fnnermost
Icircles of Americas colonial families.
could not brook that his son should
marry a farmers daughter He re-
kgarded such a union as a king would
look upon the mating of a royal prince
and a barmaid and he treated this dis
iobedient son of thirty-five as guilty
of unfilial conduct
This forgotten Henry Aston of West
Copake was as brilliant a young social
light in the early part of his life as
Col John Jacob Astor was during the
years he was happy in the marital
scompanionship OF the beautiful wife
who was Ava Willing. Henry Aston
was in the prime of his young man
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07

A Boston lady talks entertainingIy
made in health by some knowledge on
that line. She says:
AN injury to my spine in early wom-
anhood left me subject to severe sick
headaches which would last three or
four days at a time, and a violent
course Of drugging brought on consti-
patton with all the ills that follow.
MY appetite was always light and
uncertain and many kinds of food dis
tressed me-
Il began to eat Grape-Nuts food two
or three years ago, because liked the
taste of it, and i kept on because I
soon found it was doing me good
81 eat it regularly at breakfast, fro
quently at luncheon, and again before
going to bed-and have no trouble In
sleeping on it 1t has relieved my con-
stipation, my headaches have p<aetf-
cally ceased, and / am in better physi-
cal condition at the age of So than I
was at 40.
Il give Grape-Nuts credit for restor-
ing my health, if not saving my life.
and you can make no claim for 1t ton
strong for me to endorse" Name
given by. Postum Co.. Battle Greek
Mich
Read the little book. 1.-THE Road to
WeIlyille.'' in pkgs. There's reason
Ever read the above letters a new
are Eenuine, true, and full OF hun.a1
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Kansas CITY Theaters.

The regular season of the Shubert
opens the week beginning October 2
with Edith Wynne Matthison in the
New York New Theater's beautiful
and elaborate production of 1.-THE
Piper a charming dramatization of
Robert Browning's tale of The Pied
Piper of Hamelin.''
Hanlon's famous "Fantasma" will
be the attraction at the Grand during
Priests of Pallas week, commencing
Sunday matinee, October 1. This well
known production in a new dress
with new specialties and new Hanlon
tricks is playing only few Of the
larger cities this year and so local
playgoers are to be congratulated at
having the opportunity of seeing it.
Special matinee Tuesday. Tuesday
nights performance starts after pa
rade passes the Grand about $3.50.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07

neither my brother Henry nor his is
sue shall as heirs-at-law or next-of-kfn,
receive any portion of my estate, and
any such portion to which he or they
would In any contingency be entitled
to give to the trustees of the Aston IL
brary for corporate purposes of the
said institution
Scorned to Dispute VIII.
Had Henry Astor been SO inclined
he was advised by his lawyers he
could successfully have attacked this
clause In his kinsman's will. The then
Mrs. Coleman Drayton was referred to
in the same manner In William AS
tors viii. When Henry Aston was In
formed of this he said:
"As for Mrs. Drayton. do not know
her; never saw her In my life- As for
my brothers will, I have absolutely
no interest In It do not intend to
give 1t thought"
An effort was made recently to ques-
ton Uncle Henry Astor concerning
his opinion of the approaching mar
rage Of his nephew Col John Jacob
Aston and twenty one-year-old Made
1eine Talmadge Force. The interview
er. however, failed to reach the thresh-
old of the West Copake mansion He
was held In a wedge Of farm hands
while one OF the Astor gardeners went
up to the house to tell Uncle Henry
that there was a plot on foot to in
terview him Uncle Henry said curt
ly: Wedge him out" and the inter
viewer was wedged out
Notwithstanding the reports that
have long been circulated about old
Henry Astor's remarkable collection
OF half dollars. no effort has ever been
made to rob his house. One or more
of the 'Dinehart boys is always In
the mansion. and any would-be ma
rauder who gets look at one Of the
'.Dinehart boys" suffers q sudden
change of heart-Nsw York World
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
only a Moose.

The modern woman isn't a bIuff."
asserted Mrs. Gobbolink, looking UP
from her newspaper. This suffrage
movement has more in it than mere
ideas. The new woman is brave and
fearless. Here Is a story of a woman
up in Canada who killed a mouse It
seems that she"
'Tmpossiblei" interjected Mr. Cob
bolink. There must be some mis-
take-read 1T again"
Mrs. Gobbolink searched out the
paragraph and then blushed wildly
How stupid of me- she stammered
81 did make a mistake 1t wasn't q
mouse she killed-nothing but .
moose"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Latest Kansas Events.
Would Abolish BRIDGE Toll.

Atchison's committee of 40, an or
ganization of business men, has pre-
pared a petition to the interstate
commerce commission asking the
abolition OF the bridge arbitrary by
the local bridge company. heir &C
ton is based on q recent decision by
the commission against q similar sys-
tenn in the case Of the Washington &
Southern railroad, in which rs cents
was charged for hauling passengers
across q Potomac river bridge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
The Old Love Possible.

Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, at gar
den party at Hampstead, praised the
working girl.
How much nobler," she said, Ito
work than to marry for money. /
know pretty girl who gave up a good
position to marry a man of sixty-efght-
"1 am marrying for love- she told
her chum.
"tAnd the old fellow said the
chum, disgustedly, is worth $1,000
ooo!'
Yes was the reply. It's the
$1,000, 900 I'm In love with"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Dynamite Didn't Hurt Negro.

Although window glass within a
hundred foot radius was shattered,
Clark Wilson, a negro farm hand, was
only slightly injured when basket of
dynamite which he was carrying at
Leavenworth recently, exploded Will
son Vas smoking a cigarette which
accidently fell into the basket The
conclusion tore hole in the pave
ment and rocked buildings, but when
the smoke cleared away the negro
was found smiling and trying to put
out his smoldering clothing. He re-
fused medical treatment
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Cause Of the Excitement.

The sons of the rich were all en-
Enthusiastically following some one
down the street.
Whats up?'' somebody asked
A rather more accommodating
young nabob than the others turned
around.
do you see that tall fellow ur
nont?" he asked
yes"
well" he said, hes discovered .
new way to spend money"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Just a .PoIitieal Club

Answering the telegram sent to
Governor Stubs recently, signed
'.Hunnewen Commercial Club" the
mayoress's party declared that the
telegram was sent to the governor
before any such organization as
signed it existed and that the organi-
cation which was formed under that
name several days later simply is q
political ring banded together to
fight Mayor Wilson and her friends.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Resolution Aims at Wilson.

Seventy prominent business men
at a dry banquet in Lawrence
adopted a resolution to ask President
Taft to obtain the resignation of
James Wilson, secretary of agricul-
ture, from the honorary presidency of
the Liquor Dealers association.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
10 Bar Minor. from Pool.

In response to the demand Of repre-
sentatives of the Winfield churches,
the city council has instructed its at
torney to draft an ordinance prohibit
ing boys under Fl years of age from
frequenting pool halls and making it
a misdemeanor for proprietors of pool
and billiard halls to permit minors to
loaf in their places of business or play
games therein
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Made India a Bible.

Word has just reached Ottawa OF
the completion of a work of 90 years
undertaken by Ola Hanson of Ottawa
when he went to India as a mission
airy. The work is the traslation of
the New Testament into the Kachin
language.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
divorced Kansans Wed.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Roark of juno
ton City and Topeka were remarked
at Junction City. They were d.
vorced five years ago, the father re-
tanning control of the four children.
He took his children to Topeka to
educate. The mother went to visit
the children and was taken danger
ously i'll. Mr.. Roark sent her to
Christ's hospital and visited her often.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Wanted An offcer to Pay.

Secretary H. L. Cook of the Topeka
state fair was arrested on the charge
Of interfering with an officer in the
discharge of his duty. Charles Brad
shaw, a deputy marshal, had a war
rant for the arrest of Henry Ben
nett. a negro doctor, and went to the
fair grounds to get him. Cook re-
fused to let the deputy marshal into
the grounds without pay
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Dawson to sedawiek.

The state temperance union has OBJ
tanned complete list of all persons
who hold government liquor licenses
and IS of these are in Sedgwick coun-
ty. John S. Dawson, attorney general
said: .'Sedgwick county looks bad.
am going down there in a few days
to work with the jointists."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Killed hy Motor Car eack-Eire.

While cranking the engine of
railway motor car at a siding on the
Santa Fee railroad near Wichita,
Beneto Reyes, Mexican, was instant
ly killed. The engine of the motor
car backfired and the crank flew off
striking Reyes in the right temple
Reyes was an educated man and rich,
being exiled from home when Diaz
abdicated.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Lightning Hits Big Chimney.

During a thunderstorm at Winfield
lightning struck the big chimney of
the electric light plannt. The en-
gineer and two other employees who
were in the boiler room were knocked
down by the shock. The damage to
the chimney, which cost $4,000 was
heavy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Ready for IL

young man, have you made any
preparations for the rainy dayT'
"Oh, yes." replied the son of the
prominent millionaire. In addition
TO my roadster. have a corking good
limousine that will easily hold six
girls
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
A Young Kansas Veteran.

er near Ottawa, in discovering that
Mr.. Stall is only SO days younger
than Kansas City's youngest Civil
war veteran have decided to enter
his name in the contest for second
honors-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Orient Road Reduces Rates.

The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railway is the first road to cut pas
senger rates to Wichita. Announce
ment has been made that reduction
of from Is to 25 per cent would be
made in the rate from Oklahoma
points to Wichita during the fall car
niyal and jubilee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Folly of Vain Regrets.

The late John w. Gates, an incur
able optimist, harped continually ON
the futility of pessimism. One of MI
Gates's epigrams. still quoted on the
Chicago Stock Exchange, ran:
HE who nurses foolish hopes may
be an ass, but he is not such an ash
as he who nurses vain regrets"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Most Expensive Hat

The most expensive hat In tho
world is said to be wonderful crear
ton belonging to Princess Mihesou
Bucharest, one of the richest and most
fashionable women in Roumania. The
hat, which is worth easily $1,000. Is Of
black tagal. straw and is very large
It Is lined with silver lace and COW
cred with a number of perfect white
ospreys.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Congressman Madison Dead.

Congressman Edmond H. Madison,
leading tinsurgent'' from the Seventh
Kansas district and who persuaded
President Taft to make his present
western trip, died at Dodge City Of
heart disease.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Hit by Live Wire.

While fighting fire which destroyed
his laundry at Junction City, Charles
Kaufholz was rendered unconscious
by a live wire falling on his head
His condition is not serious Several
employees had narrow escapes. The
loss is $1,000 with no insurance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Plenty of Quail.

Reports from the western counties
say that quail and doves are thicker
this year than ever before. The
young quail are fat. The dry weather
of the past summer has been favor
able to the Matching of the birds
The unusually large number of grass
hoppers have furnished plenty of food
for them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Broken Heads at Dance.

Tom Watts of Rushville, east of
Atchison, is in a st. Joseph hospital
suffering from a fracture of the
skull; John Mckinney of the same
neighborhood probably will lose an
eye, and other persons living in the
Missouri bottoms are injured as the
result of a fight at a dance at Bean
Lake.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Not All Smoked.

L. White Busbey, secretary to for
mer Speaker Cannon, was explaining
that the speaker did not smoke %
much as people thought he did.
my understanding" suggested ons'
of the party, lis that he gets away
with about 20 cigars day"
"Oh, WELL" said Busbey, but h9
eats half of 'em-"-Sunday Magazine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
Will Test Sunday Law.

It Is reported that the case against
T. w. Chatburn, charged with vio-
lating the Sunday labor law at Atchi-
son, will be taken to the supreme
court as test case The case was
dismissed when the county attorney
failed to prove that the operation of
a Sunday picture show is not neces-
sary labor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07

No Beulah Binford pictures will be
shown at any of the fve-cent theaters
at Lawrence. Mayor Bishop an
nounced that he would not permit
moving picture show owners to dis
play these films.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-10-07
TOMMY MURPHY,

The great horseman who is winning
most Of the big races for fast trotter4
With that farm horse. "R 7. c." record
CURE is the best remedy for all forms 81
Distemper and coughs have ever knownr
have used It q number of years" All
druggists or send to manufacturers ga
and 81 q bottle. Spohn Medical Co. Chem
tsts Goshen. Ind, o. s A