The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-16
Rented Diamond
Wonderful Jewel Which Can
Neither Be Sold Nor Given Away.

like that IN the next Court Chronicle in
the column entieIed The Queens Draw
ing Room
Behind It is the romance of the only
blue diamond in the world The diff
hculties that beset its owner. Lord
Francis Hope. Of England, grew with it's
pricelsssness and yet they were all
monetary.
This sounds like contradiction. But
It isn't It is merely a statement Of
fact.
He owned q priceless treasure which
wasn't worth as much 10 him as an or
binary so Harlem fat
He owned a stone valued al a million
dollars and he couldn't buy the small
necessities of life with IL
He was the possessor OF a gem at
which women gazed with eyes of longing.
gem ext0lled by lapidaries with rapture
gem unparalleled by any in the world.
and yet balanced in the scales il would
not even bring him It's weight in gold.
The celebrated Hope diamond hung
Ike milestone about the pretty neck
Of Lord Francis Hopes American wife
until the Duchess Of Newcastle convert
Cd It into mine by becoming its lessee
At the Hopes hack door clamored The
green grocer, the butcher, the baker and
not the cadIestick maker only bzcauSa
they lived in the age of the electrician
LORD FRANCIS Hope was a bankrupt
IN one hand he could hold his nrfcarese
o'ue diamond IN the other he could not
mold sovereign that he might call his
own
BY the trens Of his zrandmo+ber,s
VII ne might bask in the brilI!ancv Of
oite diamond gaze into its sparkling
uep1As glory in its possession. hang II
On Inc captivating neck Of the burlesgue
actress whom he had made his wife. bur
ne could MT sell it. He could NOT take
II out Of the United Kingdom. He c7uId
llot even pledge it, since its ownership
Is merely a life interest.
IN the course OF the career which land
Cd MIN in bankruptcy Lord Hone has
some through all his assets. excen+ +bs
TOUR contralto notes which made LADY
nope famous when she was Nav y7ba
Inc ouriesque actress. BY the word IF
her press agent these are little u7iro-
paired Everything else shows the rav-
ages Of time.
a rev years ago. for instance Lord
r rancis sold the celebrated Hone col
ie'tlon OF pictures. including works b,-
Huoens. Rembrandt and some of the
sreatest masters Of the Dutcb M
lefnlsh schools. He sold his f11rni-,,r.
and other art treasures. all hafrl,or,g
OF oid and honorable descent His ereo+
estate Of Deepdene he leased 10 az,
william Bereford, formerly Mrs Har,
ersiey Of New York. and later The M
chess Of Marlborough.
The Fnagnidoent million dollar blps 5ia
inond was left him. Il might an+1v- ~,
oeen called the Hope despair A1nrsfza
Il and II meant the wealth and 1l,-,,-,-
OF a Lucullus. Try to purchase a sirg1s
req apple with it and il became Ca.
Of Tantalus
me blue diamond cleaned n1ocLinqr,,
INTO the eyes Of Lord and Lady Hona
They could not eat it.
The ycouId NOT live in II
They could not travel an f.
Ahey could not pay tailors and dress :
makers out Of il.
ne lady could not even wear If NOW
mat she no longer had the gowns >,
give it a proper setting.
ne gentleman could not even gamble
with it at the club. where evsrv ons
knew ii was entaIed
OF what good was II?
MY Lord and Lady viewed f. rraf,,II,-
Bese4ged by creditors they might con
sole themselves BY recalling appra.sa-
rents Of its glory.
In size it is 4l4 carats. and where f.
vas mined no man tell g
" IS set as A medallion. with a harder
y rose cut diamonds and twenty b-i1- c
anus, each Of the purest water and over ?
caret in weight. 3
II IS Of intense sapphire bIya A. an. \
moment the sky in a glory Of sunshine u
revealed there, at the next the sea /.
introuoied. fathonless. floats in its s
epths. Withal 1t has the fire and 5-n- II
fancy Of the true diamond the purs q
iamond. the beautifully cut. rarely v
'roporuoned diamond which Is neither $
90 thick nor vet too widespread II 5
tands unique and aluone auor- m, a
ems Of the world. Next to if comes O.
What is kown as the Brunswick stre- il
pale. pitifuI jewel weighing los. rarsrs il
A blue diamond is almost as rare az D
blue carnation and a million times il
aore valuable q
Yet the Lord and Lady Hone raza5 ~ p.
heir brilliant ruefuIly. In BANKRUPT ewes f
pebble on the beach Is worth more y
han an e2tailed diamond vi
This one recalled the old a1a-a -ba+ 90.
avs Possession is nine points az the :,
Nv"
In despair Lord Francis determines =, o..
st its truth He announced that The ;.
en- might be bought for an even million :.
fe urged that inasmuch as the diamond *
vailed him nothing as an oruamen- r. -
h.,
n that az his heirs than 10 allow II =
lie in a safe for the next forty years (.
This seemed reasonable enough ?, -
.ebeian Judgment But it shocked the =.
-istoCratic sensihilitIes cf the Duke % =,
ewcastie Lord Hopes eldest brother.
nj ot Lady Beatrice LIster-Kaye. his y
dest sister They rushed before The
armed Judge who presided over the
curt Of Chancery and petitiane8 him IN '
-event sach violation of a. family heir
ON 6
Judgment was rendered in favor 81 The -
7ntesta0ts- The learned judge held that &C
would b. unsseuiv 20 barter an heir C
IN thaC had descended through gen W
'ations % Hopes. FartAa-no-e. d, was "a
tailed When the Srandn1other % LORD IN
rsrcis died she walled him she great in
ne stone with the nroviso ths- r he
ed without issue il should revert u +
: elder brother. the DuSe 1f Newcastle
Is interest IN the diamond : merely ~
Efs tenure
Now. happily for the excheque- a. NY
ady Hopes dressraker and my Lord q
7pe.S tail1r-- the Duchess Of Newcastle m
IS Two <a5s one Is q rassi7u f7~ 81
.gs. pre-eminenriy Russian B7rzal =.
funds. the other is passion for