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• THE MELSTONE GRAPHIC R. A. LOCK RIDGE MELSTONE, MONTANA. Farmers are having a glorious pic- nic season. Winter would not be so bad if the cantaloupe would stick around. Speed haa its victims whether of the air, the rail, the race track or fast Speaking of speed recorder there is the bandit who robbed two restau- rants in 20 minutes. The chap who sips his coffee at breakfast behind a newspaper is now classed with the end -seat hog. Atwood says he is not going to fly any more. Maybe there is one man who knows when he has had enough. A St. Louis man committed suicide because his wife was too affectionate. In other words, she loved him to tenth. An Akron (0.) man was found walk- ing in his sleep with baby in his arms. That's our notion of a model husband! A physician thick that there Is an- other standard life prolonger—sauer- kraut. The discovery was made in Cincinnati. A London girl smoked a calabash pipe on the streets of that city. And still they say ,over there that Ameri- can girls are forward. \At tat rice' is the new word for the woman aviator. As there is only one so far we needn't bother our heads about what the plural of \aviatrIcer Is. Forty years ago this fall a co' in Chicago kicked over, a lamp and burned the town down. It has, how- ever, picked up remarkably well ever since. Within ten minutes after landing in New York a Toledo citizen had been robbed twice. New York may keep that record for speed as long as it likes. The samples of ice cream contain- ing 400,000 bacteria to the cubic cen- timeter scent to be minor leaguers compared to those containing 3,. 000.000. Now a physician rises to remark that there Is really no such thing as . seaeickneas. The imitation, however, is so good as to deieive the most ex- perienced. A temperance society In Cleveland Is trying to find out what a highball is. It may bo unnecessary to state that the society in question is a strict- ly feminine one. Amerlean women, according to a German. do not know how' to pose for A photograph. In the art of arriving with both feet, however, they are quite sophisticated. With -the wife of one \model hue- - band\ committing 'suicide and the 1 of another toting for divorce, the corn- ' REAL HEAD OF HOUSE OF ASTOR Uncle Henry, of West Copake, New York, Alone Entitled to That Distinction Romance of John Jacob Astor's Eighty -Year -Old Uncle, Who Was, Disinherited by His Fath- er and Exiled by His Family Because He Married Farmer's Pretty Daughter. AD Col. John Jacob Astor led Madeleine Talmadge Force up the aisle of some church to be wed- ded in the presence of a thousand guests and rela- tives, there is one Astor who would neither attend the wedding nor even read an account of it in the newspa- pers. Yea, and this Astor is by rank df seniority the head of the multi- millionaire family:—Henry Astor, aged eighty, of West Copake, N. Y. Henry Astor is the only kin of Colo- nel Astor - of his father's generation. Ile is the one surviving son of William Astor and a brother of the late John Jacob and William Astor, which makes him Colonel Astor's Uncle Henry. 110w many who ire not intimately acquainted with the Astor family or mon everyday kind of husband may Col. Henry Astor as He Is Today. be better thought of. Drawn, by Cahan From Sketches by Louis Biedermann Made at West it Is reported that Egyptian coats Copake. are the latest in woman's garb. After viewing chromes portraying Cleopatra who do not dwell In Columbia county we gather that a miscroscopo will be among the rolling hills of the Nagh- 'ceded to find the coats. s. 'Wilk range ever heard of Uncle Henry Astor or recall that he was exiled by 'Ilse Pennsylvania man who, while his family, disinherited by his father intoxicatedis took out a marriage and insulted in his brother William's cease, thinking it was a dog license, will, and all because ho married a well deserves the dog's life that his farmer's pretty dasightert marriage in apparently leading him. hut Uncle henry Astor did not suf- fer any great material damage when it . oston has the distinction of having his parent and brothers wore shocked the first mortgaged aeroplane. But, into fury because he married out of then. on an airship it ought to 'be easy his caste. Millions came down to him to raise a mortgage. from his grandfather and he has never spent a tithe of his Income. Ile owns blocks and blocks of New York real ergot° 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. Elated, apparently, at the addition of an \h\ to its name, Pittsburgh is to have a 40 -story bank building. The Hmoky City is feeling the upilfting tendencies of the times. Sandwiches made of finely chopped violets spread over thin slices of but- tered bread are being sold in Now York grill rooms. Evidently cloves are too plebeian for some of the Now Yorkers It is announced that Russian caviar Is a cure for the cholera. Probably It works on the principle that anyone who knows he would . have to eat Rus- sian caviar will refuse to have the cholera. But with all these resources he does not own an automobile, a yacht or a racehorse, and never did. For 46 years he has lived tho life of a re- tired gentleman, forgotten and never mentioned by hie nephews and nieces. Who consider themselves the very Iream 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 Maivina Dinehart, the In a duel between two Hungarian daughter . of John Dinehart, a simple counts the other day the right ear of though prosperous farmer of Red one of thetn was slashed in twr If Hook, N Y Although his grandfa- Hungarian duels are going to ho as titer had been a peddler and his uncle sanguinary as that they will have to a butcher. old William U. Astor, who be stopped. 1 had been admitted to the innermost Oireles of America's colonial families. could not brook that his son should marry a farmer's daughter. He re- garded Inch a union as a king would look upon the mating of a royal Prince and a barmaid and be treated this dis- obedient son of thlity-five as guilty of unfilial conduct This forgotten Henry Astor of Wept Copake was as brilliant a young social light in the early part of his life as Col. John Jacob Astor was durIngatlfe years he was happy In the marital companionship of the beautiful wife who was Ava Willing. Henry Astor was in the prime of his young man- hood when he married Mail/Ina Dine - hart and became the pariah of the Before then he had taken a prolnineit part In the most brilliant social life both here and abroad. He was immensely fond of traveling and had ,made several tours of the world, Several times he had been reported engaged to. debutantes who were fa- vorites In New York society for their beauty He was already several times a millionaire by his grandfather's will and it was estimated by calculating mothers that he would inherit about $30,000.000 more from his father. Of course the calculating mothers never reckoned that he would stoop to fall- ing in love with a farmer's daughter and conferring upon her the name of Astor. WillIngiy Gave Up Wealth for Love. It cost the young scion of the then richest house in America $30,000,000 -and his social standing for his -diso- 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 Astor was endowed with a rather bit- ter cynicism. Ile had begun to alien- ate himself 'from his aristocratic fa- ther 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- gaged in this work that he met and fell in love with Malvina Dinehart. When it'very young man Johlt pine - hart, Maivina's father, had been\a farm hand on the Astor estate. He had risen rapidly to be manager and au - 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- tion. Indeed, he has carried this ideal of simplicity to the verge of an almost savage eccentricity. None of the man servants has ever worn anything that looked like a livery. There have been no jangling chains or showy brass on the harness of his horses and the eqtti- pages he drove or was driven in were of the most homely design. The coats - °Runs 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 will not tolerate anything in the nature of throbbing machinery In or about his home. If hand pumps are good enough for the other dwellers 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. It 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 a day. One Peculiar Hobby. Another of Uncle Henry's crochets is to collect silver half -dollars of an- cient vintage. It 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 garret. This eccentricity Is a development of only recent years. It is a strange fancy for a man whose Income is more th'an $3,000 a day. For four decades henry Astor has hardly spent a week's income in a year, and his millions have multiplied enormously. Ile owns more than one hundred valuable parcels of real estate in New York c.ty and wherever you happen to roam in Columbia county you will have an Astor farin pointed out to you. None of these farms, how - Col. Henry Astor's Home at West Co pake. Sketched by Bledermann. perintendent and he had, Invested shrewdly in several profitable farms. Ille rusticity had never worn off and his place had always been in the serv- ants' hall. 111e daughter, therefore, though well educated and talented, was looked upon as utterly impossible an a mate for the young millionaire; that in by his father and brothers No children were born of the Astor- Dinehart union and there have never been any children in the household. Nor has the Astor mansion at West copako ever known such a thing as a retinue of servants. For thirty years henry Astor and his wife have occu- pied the big t;ihito frame homestead that faces on the main road runnning by West Copake down to the Copake Iron works, four miles away. Copake Iron Worke is the railroad station on the Harlem division of the New York Central This entire district has prospered since the coming cf Henry Astor to Red Rook, for he set a standard for farming that scores of his neighbors have proflted by. And he bought thosiaands 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 hint to the Asters of Red Hook. Since then his social circle hail been his own family—his wife, her seven brothers, \Um .Dinehart boys,\ their families and the few farmers who have been admitted to intimacy at the Astor mansion. In accepting his exile frptn the gild. od society in which his parents mow over, is held in his own mite. Au fast as be acquires them he transfers the title to his wife, and one of the Dinehart boys is put in charge of them. Some of the Astor property from which Uncle henry Astor derives a large rental will pass in f, simple to his nephews upon his death. Had any childred been born to him this would not, be the case. But as for the oth- r princely half of his fortune, beano taken the same pains to keep it away from the bloodkin as his brother, Wil- liam /mot did, to prevent Uncle henry or his issue from inheriting ... doVar of his estate. In the, will of the late Wil- liam Astor there was inserted this clause: \It is my wip and intention that neither my brother Henry nor his Is- sue shall as heirs -at -law or next -of -kin, receive any portion of my estate, and any such portion to which he or they would in any contingency be entitled to I give to the trustees of the Astor li- brary for corporate purposes of the said institution.\ 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 a ipok at one of the \Dinehart boys\ suffers a sudden change of heart.—New York Wovld. Avoid Sedundanoe. Where ten words suMce to express I a thought eleven are too many COOK SOORDAY FOR S.UNDAY Many Diehes may Bo Prepared Thal Will Not Lose Their Savor by Being Kept a Day. in * meats, fillet of beef, roasted, boned breast of veal, cooked in a casserole without liquid and basted with fat acculauallY, brisket of corned beef or a pickled tongue, boll- ed, may be ilerved hot, on Saturday, and the remainder set aside to serve cold, on Sunday. Veal loaf may be cooked on Saturday. At least one hot vegetable should be prepared on Sunday. Spinach cooked on Saturday may be pressed in to it bowl and serv- ed on Sunday with French dressing. Old potatoes, pared and soaked some hours in cold water, ray be cooked on Saturday. What are left may be heated quickly In boiling water, drain- ed, pressed through a ricer, seasoned properly and beaten with a little hot milk and butter to a snowy mass. Tiny. In lesslhan ten minutes, a dish of mashed potatoes can be served. In sweet dishes blane mange, Ba- varian creams, boiled custard with or without snow eggs, floating island, strawberry or apricot tarts, ready for tilling, fruit in jelly, as prune, rhu- barb or lemon jelly; the latter served with sliced bananas, are among the many simple things that will keep In good condition in a cool place over. night. DEVICE FOR BAKING P01 TOES Invention That Seems of Real Value Is the Work of a Tennessee Man. The potato baker I made consisted et two pieces of sheet asbestos, 18 in. long, 1 / 4 in. thick and 4 in. wide. Over these pieces I placed a Piece of tin. 18 In. long. 11 1 / 2 ' In. wide, turning it over from the top and lapping on the bot- tom. Through the pad there were Asbestos Pads with Nails Protruding. driven several nails on the points of which the potatoes could be Impaled. The handle was made by folding a strip of tin over several times and thriving brads through the end of the pad. Potatoes belied on this device cook through and through' amid l are very mealy.—Contributed by Jo eph II. Noyes, Murfreesboro, Tenn, to 'op - War idech_a3t es.. • HINCSWOZT11 KNOWINC ‘Vith the care of the retilgerator the thought must always come that butter and milk take on the flavors of all that they come in contact with and should be kept in the ice chamber alone and covered carefully at thg. The cmam cheeses are susceptible to strong flavors and have to be care- fully protected. Wrapping in paralline !taper Is often an effective protection for delicate 'food from strong odors. If the dry staples used daily In the , iltchen are kept, as far as possible. in glass bottles, they will retain their flavor and freshness twice as long. The wIde-mouthed preserve Jars ate tautly to label and use for the pur- pose in the pint, and even the half - Ant size. the kitchen utensils in the heav- ier I graniteware are placed In a large - eceptaele and boiled in soda water .or five or ten minutea once or twice t week, it will remove every particle of grease front within and without and keep them sweet and wholesome. Retied Dinner. For a family of front four to six. geven pound's of corned beef will be required. Brisket is best. Cut one rarge cabbage Into quarters, slice two turnips an inch thick, then slice six of , -ach carrots, parsnips and potatoes. \ut the bee ever the fire In a large and cock steadily five hours. An our before serving add the vegetable's and cook until tender. Put meat. on large platter and surround with vege- tables Sliced beets in vinegar are nice with this dish. Baked Cream Toast., Toast the required number of slices of two -day -old bread, dip quickly in :tot snit water (one teaspoonful to a nint of water) butter, and lay in a 'lat pan, then pour a little rich milk ver it and place in a hot oven for tbout five minutes. Take up on a plat -. 1 ter and pour two table.poonful tif • 'ream on each slice, place the piP n the oven just long enough to hrough and then serve at Tee of crisp bacon may be a eland the toast This is an e 'n . I renkfast dish. \\ I •e 'Y• , east.'4Weiger. t
