ROMANCE UNVEILED
BY A CLAUSE IN WILLIAM
ASTOR'S WILL.
HENRY ASTOK CAST OUT BECAUSE
IIK LOVED
A Rnatlo Mountain Maiden—Home of
the Hermit In the Craggy Mountain*
In Northern New York—A Deadly
Parallel.
Through the death of William Astor,
who expired in Paris recently, the pub
lic are afforded a peep into one of the
Astor closets, which lius heretofore
been closely guarded. In his will the
billionaire expressed in no uncertain
way that neither his brother Henry
nor nny of said brother's issue, receive
nnv nnrtinn of tlw> t.pst ninr'.s liml
JIKNUY ASTOR.
that the sum to which Henry might
have been entitled (several million dol
lars) go to the Astor library
fund. The next paragraph of
the will bequeathed to his daughter,
Mrs. Coleman-Dray ton, the magnificent
sum of 82,000,000. Thus we have a
parallel.
Mrs. Drayton is well known on' two
continents as the principal figure in an
international scandal of much nasti
ness. But of Henry Astor the world
at large knows nothing. Very few
people knew that there was such a per
son in existence. Kven the younger
members of the billionaire family
know nothing of an uncle, nothing
of tho crime against 4he Astor name
for which ho had been disinherited
forever.
Far out among tho mountains of
West Copake, near where tho wild
and craggy Toglianic chain marks the
triangular end of Massachusetts, Con
necticut and New York, there stands
high upon, an eminence and overlook
ing, the serpentine course of the Hud
son many miles away, a lonely dwell
ing of which the accompanying picture
is a fair likeness. It is the only one
for miles around and for almost thirty
years, now, has frowned down upon
the valleys there around, a
mystery of mysteries. There lives a
man of whom the accompanying por
trait is an exact likeness. With him
lives a woman, tall and graceful, dark
eyes and hair, and pleasant features.
They are Henry Astor and wife living
alone in their love and heedless -of a
» world that has no other charms for
them. For nearly thirty years they
have lived this simple country life,
with no other hope, no other ambition
than their love. A romance is
revealed which chapter for chapter
leaves ficton in the shade. It is a ro
mance of innocent love of a rich young
man for a rustic daughter of the moun
tains, a romance punctured again and
again with the unforgiving relatives of
the young man who dared to love a
pure country girl and then marry her.
The story opens twenty-four years
ago when Henry Astor was in his
early -thirties. He was fond of
oonntry life and used to pass most of
bis time on the Astor .farm at Red
Hook in Duchess county. This farm
was Buperinteded by John Dinehart
who had two pretty daughters, Mal
vina and Aurora. With the former
Astor fell in love. The affection was
mutual and they were married in the
l village parsonage at Red Hook. The
before the ceremony. was per
forihvd John Jacob Astor, Sr., came
t down Jfem from New York to prevent
^ it “If yov*> marry her, I’ll disinherit
yon forever, - he said to liis son
v who stood erect with his arms around
the woman he loved. “If you will re
fuse to marry her I will give you a
check for twenty-five millions of dol
- lars. To her 1 will give two millions
ofdoUars. Answer yes now or never,
either of you.”
“For my part you can have the
money; it cannot tempt from my love.
As to her, and he pressed her closer to
him, shp will answer for herself.”
Malvina turned her dark eyes on the
great milUonaire for the first time.
^
ASTOIi’S MOUNTAIN HOME.'
Her cheeks were flushed with the hu
mility of her position. Then she said:
“No money can buy my love for your
son.”
Thus was the money king's offer
spurned. History tells of no greater
sacrifice for love's dear sake.
“Both of you must leave this ,place
to-day for your obstinacy,” was the
father's reply to their devotion to each
other. And so they went, disinherited
forever. They sought the wilds of
[
Copake, where they purchased u little
plat of ground mill erected the house
which still harbors them. This was
done with an allowance Henry Astor
bail been granted in the past. Never
after he refused to sell his love did he
receive a cent from his people. He found
himself completely shut out from the
enjoyment of millions, but his love 1ms
never faltered during all these years.
Ho rarely passes beyond the lines
which mark his 100 acres. Ilo raises
all his own food and makes his own
wines. His wife is seldom seen outside
of her own door. They never read the
papers and are, of course, not aware
of the recent scandal in the Astor
family. Perhaps, if they were, they
would feel it more keenly than those
wiio cast them out for so small a crime
as love. Hut perhaps this pair are hap
py in their retreat among the hills.
Perhaps Henry Astor chose more
wisely than many another rich man’s
son lias done—Coleman Drayton for in
stance. As the mask of hypocrisy is
being burned away by the noon light
of a progressing world such men as
Henry Astor, such women as his wire
become the synonym of nature’s true
nobility, not of its vagaries.
Lkon Dkvkiikaux
THE PARIS MORGUES.
Increase In the Number *f Suicides
lleeomlng Alarming.
Not for years have there been known
so many Biiicidcs in Paris, and the fact
lias been emphasized in a singular
fashion. In France the spring is the
season for them, as with us they are
more numerous in the autumn. Hut
this spring there have been so many
that the elussic little morgueeannot
accommodate all for whom admission
is claimed.
Its founders seem to have thought
that room for twenty should be more
than room enough—for fourteen in the
frigidarium, ami for six on those slabs
that no one who has seen can ever for
get. One shudders to think wliat an
average of , twenty per diem would
amount to in a year, says a correspond
ent.
At this moment there are in the
morgue awaiting identification or re
moval fifty-seven bodies. The authori
ties are puzzled, for there has been no
special occurrence to mark the year as
a fatal one. The winter has not been
^exceptionally severe; there has not been
any widespread want, nor any epidemic
of suicide, as sometimes happens in the
great French centers of population,
and yet the victims of self-slaughter
Increase from day today. In one hour
yesterday three bodies, fished up from
the Seine, were added to the fifty-seven,
and brought the number up to three
times the normal accommodation of
the building.
CREATED A SENSATION.
Moutrcal Society 1'arallzeil Over au
> Ktopement.
John S. Allan, better known as
“Jack" Allan, son and heir of Andrew
A. Allan, one of the millionaire part
ners in the Allan Royal Mail Steamship
company, has eloped with the wife of
R. Y. Ilebden, formerly prominently
connected with the Hank of Montreal
and at present joint manager of the
( New York branch of that institution.
Both belong to the very best society in
Montreal, and Allan leaves a young
and beautiful wife and five children,
while Mrs. 'Ilebden leaves three chil
dren.
The intimacy between Allan and Mrs.
^-n
FOUND THEM TOGETHER.
Hebden has been matter of gossip for a
long time. They have seemed to throw
all restraint to the winds, riding, driv
ing, skating and attending the theater
together openly. Some time ago Mrs.
Allan called her husband up over the
telephone. He said lie was going driv
ing with Mrs. Ilebden; and she said if
he was all relations with him were at
an end and rang oil. Immediately
thereafter she packed up and with her
children left for Europe. A separation
is said to have been agreed to prior to
her departure. Allan has a wild
record. His father is almost prostrated
and his interests in the company have
been cancelled. Mrs. Hebden former
ly lived in Chicago where her husband
managed the Chicago branch of the
Bank of Montreal. She belonged to
Chicago’s $00 up to the time that she
and Allan were found in one of the
parlors of a Chicago hotel.
A Very Blue Lair.
On petition of many women the City
Council of Elizabeth, N. J., recently
passed an ordinance which prohibits
girls urifler IQ years from attending
publie dauees without their parents or
guardians. Penalties of lines and im
prisonment are imposed on o(Vending
girls and societies holding picnics per
mitting violations. Las' week at the
opening picnic of the season the police
raided several public girleus, ejecting
girls. Many were surprise 1 ami will
ingly wont out, but others used ail
sorts of subterfuges. Their names were
taken for investigation. One associa
tion appoiiiied a committee to assist
.the police. The raiils uuused a consid
erable sensation.
▼
CAPITAL NOTES.
The papers in the caseof Commander
F. R. .Smith of the navy have been taken
up by Secretary Tracy and it to likely
tluit something' will be done in the mat
ter in the course of a week. The sec
retary lias expressed the intention of
doing all lie oau in justice to Smith.
Favorable reports were ordered by
the Senate Committee on Commerce on
u Senate bill to establish subports of
entry and delivery at Superior and
Ashland, Wis., and on a public bill
authorizing the Secretary of War to
cause a survey to be made for a ship
canal connecting the waters of Lake
Erie and the Ohio river.
Secretary Blaine, ex-Minister E. J.
Phelps and Gen. J. W. Foster met by
appointment at the executive mansion
and discussed with the President
matters that will be brought
up before the arbitrators when ap
pointed on the questions of differences
that exists between the United States
and Great Britain in Bering sea. The
arbitrators have not yet been selected,
but have been informally discussed.
The members of the Ways and Means
committee have had a conference
in regard to free lumber. They have
been very slow in getting around to it,
and have not yet fully decided what
they will do, though in the end a free
lumber bill is probable. At the con
ference Mr. Lynch of Wisconsin pro
tested against such legislation, while
Babbitt of the same State, Stout of
Michigan, and Butler of Iowa advo
cated it.
Representative Merldith of Virginia
has prepared and will, at his first oppor
tunity, introduce a bill calculated to
play the old Harry with patent medi
cine manufacturers.lt provides that all
manufacturers shall submit'the recipe
for their preparations to a board of ex
aminers to be appointed by the Secre
tary of the Treasury. The recipes
shall be kept secret and if no deleter
ious ingredient is discovered in the
compound a license shall be issued to
the manufacturer for one year upon the
payment of 806. In addition every
package shall have affixed a revenue
stamp valued at 5 per cent of the sell
ing price of the article.
Tsui Kwo Yin is still the accredited
envoy extraordinary and minister plen
ipotentiary from the celestial empire to
the United States. He has not called
at the State department, or indeed sent
there for a copy of the new Chinese
low signed by the President.
Should ho desire it, a copy
of the law duly authenticated and tied
up in the exquisite ribbons used by the
Department of State will be furnished
him, but it was stated this morning
that it was not usual to inform foreign
ministers officially of the passage by
Congress of laws affecting their
countries At the department it is not
considered probable that the minister
will ask for his pussport because of
the passage of the new Chinese law.
LASHED ENGLISH SOCIETY.
The Brave Woman Wl>o Told the Troth
of London Social Circles.
The world never goes wrong in any
particular direction without some one
to ring the tocsin. To-day the warning
note is struck on London society.
Lady Jeuue, whose portrait appears
here, is the eldest daughter of the late
Keith William Stewart Mackenze. Her
first husband, Ahe Hon. J. G. Stanley,
died in 1878, and in 1881 she married
the lion. Sir Francis Jeune, made a
Judge of the High Court of Justice,
Probate and Admiralty Division in 1891.
She has keen instinct in good works,
a woman of active brain and energy of
character, the friend of the cause of
little children, and a willing helper in
the treatment of women. Her indict
V ^
LADV JKIT5JE.
meat in the North American Review of
London society lias made her world
famous. The smart set, she says, is
■ vulgar, idle and vicious; and here come*
the sting of her indictment “Hut so
ciety, as well as the tone of society, is
not governed or influenced by men,
their role in society being a very sec
ondary one, for society in its tone and
composition is created by women, and
as women are virtuous or their reverse,
so is their entourage." Therefore, on
women lies the* onus of the present
state of things.
“Luxury, ease, comfort, are the
watchwords of a large part of society
in London, and they are undermining
our society as surely and as certainly
as they did that of Rome.”
A Sad Drowuiuff.
Dr. Ilarry G. Donovan, a young den
tist of Pontiac, 111., was drowned the
other afternoon at Honder'3 For$. He,
in company with It. C. Haines, a drug
gist, was out driving aud attempted to |
cross the Vermillion river at that
point The river is very high, and
when about the center saw they could
not cross, and while trying to turn
around to drive back the swift current
overturned the cart. Haines swain
ashore. Donovan tried to save the
horse and cart, and both he and the
horse were drowned.
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g W. ADAMS,
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Is also
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