Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-09-15
w. N. STEWART
BEGINS ANEW
AGED FORMER SENATOR FROM
NEVADA Is NOT READY
TO QUIT.


ton as the Santa Claus of the SEN
ate" because of his wondrous white
whiskers, has come to this little town
to begin life anew at the age of Is
years.
Since his retirement from public life
last March, after service in the up
per branch of congress covering more
than forty years, the world has heard
little of Senator Stewart. The news
papers published dispatches to the ef-
feet that he was once more poor
man and that he would make his resi-
dence in the west. Then they forgot
all about him.
To lose fortune is serious enough
misfortune at any period of life, ana
at Senator Stewards age it is almost
without exception crushing oloW.
The fact that it has not proved so III
his case may be because he Is USED
to losing fortunes and making them,
or il NAV be because he IS not Ike
other men.
Not Crushed by Failure.
Whatever may be said about the
senator politically. his bitterest enc
mics will not deny that the physical
makeup of the man is marvellous TO
the last degree and that his courage
is Splendid He is of the type that
cannot conceive defeat but goes right
on fighting in blind ignorance OF the
fact that it is hopelessly worsted in
the battle of life. And the senator has
more than once rehabilitated his for
tunes when his friends believed that
he was at last down and out Those
who know him best are not so sure
that he will not do it again, if he is
nearly four-scOre
Senator Stewart-the title VIII al
ways stick to him-expects to move
into his new home here in a lie"
days. When he started to build 1t
down in the Bullfrog district, the
townspeople. who knew his record fol
gaety in the east, said:
Were glad to have you with us
senator: but what are you doing away
down here in this lonely place.
ooh, I'm just going to get baci
among the boys for awhile, answer
ed the old man. Strengthening ms 81
feet Of stature and throwing BACK III
broad shoulders. The air makes M
feel like a 4-year-old. Ihere NJ
place like Nevada, I tell you, and
figure that III be doing big Law
business here before long. Better L
wear out than to rust out, you know.
Back Among the Boys
His new house cost 100000 Tha
i more than he was believed 10 hay
saved out of the wreck when the 'ao'
81 dairy farm in Virginia put the las
touches on a financial ruin that wa
hepun when he tried to force rec
estate boom in the direction OF SteN
arts Palace" the gorgeous structul
ne put up in Washington al a TIN
when he was one of the Wealthle'
men there.
The new home is a one-story adob
ornamented with red and white stoh
II has ten rooms and is hnlShe
throughout in the finest woods. II
bath room dazzles with tiles and S
Yer trappings and has a genuine sho'
err bath.
~ want to make it as comfortab
as can for my wife and daughter
said the old senator They're not
used to roughing it as | am.
A wide veranda stretched aroul
tho entire house, and the grounds a
being graded and fenced and sodde
There is a pretty stable and qnai
little chicken house, for the sehat
is partial to chickens. he mas p'
chased 200 fowls and in his stable
stead of thoroughbred horses, ne II
a large sleek pair of mules, which
considers more appropriate W
country.
And a Jersey Cow.
One more addition is to be ma
to the stock The senator is II
fnr j
sew. that is warranted to give m
so rich that cream can be nl,ed
the crooks with knife
He is as interested in all these /
variations as though he were 60 we
Younger than he is, and compln
a honeymoon with the first seri'
hattie of life. The mules please i
as much as though he had never
den behind the handsomest tea
and in the most gorgeous carrla
in The capital. The house, pretty
II is compares to his washington
ace about as a penny compares
$40 gold piece, and yet he Is
mensely pleased with it.
When YOU see him laughlnS' d
ferrous and boyish. taking the keef
Measure in all his poor possessi'
and seemingly giving never mo"
TO those that ne mas loSl III ITO
age, YOU have to rub your eyes
say to Yourself ,,.,
"Can this really be Senator VIII
M. stewart, who has had the w
at his feet time and again, the !
who, as leading counsel for the r
Flood Mackay syndicate on the
Gus Comstock lode, received IN
fee 1886, 900, then the largest sum
err received by any lawyer IN
world in a single fee the man
was in his prime when President
coin was assassinated, and who Is
only living person that saw the
administered to Andrew Johnson
the Kirkwood house the man who
always be remembered in New !
cafes as "the gayest old Santa Z
that ever lived" the man whose
litical career has had more ere
and turns than a Boston street,
man who controlled the state OF n
da absolutely; the man who has
even great piety or prescriptions
tegrity to cheer him in his misfor'
and to enable him to look back
pathway of good deeds and n
endeavors-can it be that this ha
vigorous, hopeful septuagenarian is
tually Senator Stewart