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Marvellous Treasures of the Romanoffs

throne of Alexis, studded with 1,22S ru-
bies. $40 diamonds, and other precious
stones; the throne OF Boris, presented
to him by the Shah of Persia, orna-
mented with hundreds of large pearls
and turquoises; the magnificent ivory
throne brought from Constantinople by
Sophia on her marriage with Ivan the
Great in 1872. and many others of i'm
posing design and great historic asso-
Citations
: The array of crowns is bewildering in
number and brilliancy. Among the fifty
two titles OF the Car OF all the Russias
are Gar of Kazan. of Astrakan, of Po-
land, of Siberia, of kherson; and the
crowns of these once separate kingdoms
now repose in the Russian treasury.
The crown OF the Crimea is a plain
gold circlet-a modest violet among the
sunfOwers. The crown of Vladimir Mon
omachus is of special interest. as that
monarch married the daughter of Eng
lands King Harold. succeeding TO the
throne OF I<ieff in 1li3. II is of rare gold
hligree work on sable. surmounted by
a plain cross set with pearls a topaz, a
sapphire and a ruby adorn the dome,
and the lower part is encruSted with
pearls, rubies and diamonds.
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Adorned With goo Diamonds.

The crown of Peter the Great is adorn-
ed with 800 diamonds, surmounted by a
diamond cross rising from the center of
an immense uncut ruby. while that of
the EMPRESS Catherine II is bedizened
by no fewer than 2.535 diamonds and an
enormous ruby, producing a rainbow of
color dazzling in its brilliancy. The
crown Of Michael Romanoff. the founder
of the presey imperial house. is sur
rounded by 100 precious stones and sur
mounted by gigantic emerald. The cor
onet OF the present empress is remaTka-
bic chiefly for the quality OF its Jewels
being bedecked with 100 OF the purest
gems ever brought together in sing
ornament. and is said TO be unequale
in the world
The crown of the present Emperor is
like a patriarchal inter. Its
chief gem is an immense ruby support
ing cross of five very large diamonds,
while its base is ablaze with precious
stones. 1t is strange that at the coro-
nation of Nicholas III the crown OF Peter
the Great was used. and when with
great dignity and elaboration the car
placed the crown on his head it tilted
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Many Plates of Pure Gold.

The ancient practice of presenting
bread and salt to the Gar as a sign Of
submission and fealty is still ceremon-
ious function at each coronation. En-
voys from Khiva, Bokhara, Samarkand,
and far-away Yakutsk have offered their
allegiance to recent Cars on plates of
pure gold. to which has sometimes been
added .as constituent part. a saltcel-
lar of rare design. AT least LEGO of these
plates. with their accompanying saltcei-
lars. are arranged as plaques on the
waits or hidden in recesses by priceless
tapestry. Many OF The plates are en-
bossed with the Emperors' initials in
gems.
The gold plate used at the imperial
banquets is truly regal Its value is
enormous. owing 10 its abundance. the
elegance OF its design. its choice work.
manship. and the quality of It's mate
rial
The bejeweled dresses OF former En-
presses OF Russia are carefully presery-
ed. that Of Catherine II being so long
and heavy with gems that il needed
twelve chamberlains to support It's train.
The wedding dress OF the present En-
press is imperial in texture and price.
costing no less than 500, 600.
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Became a Rich Man.

and the time came when Stewart gave
way to very rich man. That was In
1875. Mr.. Sharon had the doubtful dis
tlnction OF attending fewer sittings of
the Senate than any other man who
was ever on fits roll for a full term. II
was gossip of the period that when the
deputy Sergeant-at-arms waited on him
10 take him to the bar of the Senate
one night when there was a cali of
that BODY, he bade that official tell the
Senate to go to hell. After Sharon came
another very rich man as Senator from
Nevada, man called Fair Both of
them lived in California, and spent
much of their time in Europe, yet they
figured as Senators from Nevada. Fair
was a Democrat. He probably took the
office 10 show that Democratic millions
could talk just as loud as Republican
millions. He stayed In the Senate six
years. and then Stewart having recoup-
ed himself financially. came into his own
again.
He returned to Washington, took up
his residence in Stewart Castle once
more. and until at the close of his last
term he left the Capital for good and
all. lived here, only going back to Ne
vada once In six years or so, when it
was necessary to get himself reelected
Although originally gold standard
man. from the time that currency be-
is credited with being the father OF the
free silver issue in national politics
Stewart was 4 silver man. He talked
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sGzZD46zy R1e6zx,e
Nz4cSZLYCZOW AONE.

fngton needed real genuine unaduIterat-
ed milk for its stomach's sake: and he
undertook to supply the local house
wives with the real article. pure and
fresh from the cow, which. he said, they
had never yet had AS a business propo-
sition his farming was about on a par
with Horace Greeiey's. He could not
compete with the chalk and water
artists Of the suburbs. 1t did not pay,
but he got a whole lot OF fun out of it
Then he took up the pure food hobby.
He Mortified his fellow-lesislators by de-
ciaring that the expensive chickens and
turkeys that they ate at the Capitol
restaurant We're kept for months and
even years after they were killed; that
fresh caught fish was unknown outside
OF the fsherman's cabin. and that what
was served them had been caught many
moons before. AS for steaks. they were
probably years old. and had been mel
lowing In the interim in some refriger-
ating plant. He advanced the theory
that most of the ills that flesh is heir
to are not the result OF collie or heart
disease, to which they are generally
ascribed, but directly due to the keeping
of food particularly animal food, in cold
storage until II was no longer fit for
food.
1t was not collie that carried the Sena-
tor off. though it may have been heart
disease There was an epidemic OF mat
rimony among the older members of the
Senate in 1908. Depew fell victim to it,
and Platt. and finally Stewart. He was
married, without his family's consent or
knowledge. to Mrs. May Agnes Cone.
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at Atlanta. Ga, October q, 1893 Mrs.
Cone was the widow OF Theodore G.
Cone. son of Francis s.. Cone, a distIn-
guished ante-bellum lawyer. She her
self was a Miss Atchison. of Baltimore.
originally and at the time of her mar
rage to the Senator was a comedy
woman. some thirty years his Junior.
They had never met till after the first
Mrs. Stewards death
Soon after this second adventure in
matrimony. the Senator sold his yir-
ginia farm at considerable loss and took
up his residence in Washington apart
ment- He sold also at auction all the
sbric-a-brac and furnishings that his first
wife had collected with such loving care
for Castle Stewart. He even sold some
of her jewels. That caused a bad split
in the Stewart family But the Sena-
tors reply to all his daughters protests
was. Il need the money"
People did not then realize that of
truth the old man did need the money,
that his fortune had dwindled until he
had scarce as many thousands as he had
once had millions But he announced
that he was not candidate FOR re-eiec-
ton. And he has gone back to Nevada
to make home. and build up another
fortune for the bride Of his old age
gone with all the pluck of a boy to be-
gin life over again They say that he
gets younger every year. Certainly he
has the svirility and pugnacity of a man
OF half his age, and Washington can
but uncover to the indomitable spirit
of the kindly old giant whom IL has
known so long. and bid him .hail,' even
as II bids him farewell"
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slightly and appeared too large. an ufnsc
readily seized upon by augurs of evil
The royal orb Is decorated with dia-
monds, set in two bands, encircling 1t
az right angles On its upper surface is
a large sapphire surmounted by a dia-
n1ond cross. while to the orthodox Rus
sian not the least precious of its mate
rails Is piece of the true cross OF
Christ. The imperial scepter has for
its chief ornament the magnificent gem
known as the Orlon diamond. one Of the
largest and most valuable In existence:
and the jeweled collars of the order Of
ST. Andrew, the great sword of state.
the imperial seal. and the insignias of
i1numerable orders blink their anima-
ton in vari-eolored lights.
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Famous Stewart Castle.

Stewart Castle was for years one of
the landmarks Of Washington. When
the Senator built IL some thirty years
ago IL was way out of the residential
section But 1t was undoubtedly the fin
est private residence in the city. And
people used TO trudge out te Dupont
circle to see 1t and wonder why he had
chosen 20 build such fine house In
such an out-of-the-way part of town
Nearly all Of its furniture and furnish
ings were brought from Europe. In fact
the first lot ordered We're lost at sea-
and had to be duplicated before the
great house was finally furnished. Even
then il was Mrs. Stewards pride and de-
light 10 add 10 its beauties every time
she went abroad.
or late years. however. the Senator did
not live in II. For long while IL was
the nome of the Chinese legation here.
while the Nevada Senator and his wife
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Genial But Dominant.

He was known as the Santa Claus of
the Senate. and he loo the part with
out having to make up for it either
and a right royal Santa Claus at that,
with his six feet. three inches in
height. his 240 pounds weight his mas
siye head with It's silver thatch. his
strong face. with it's flowing snowy
beard. and his voice as deep and heavy
as the mythical sea king
HIS face is deeply lined, but there is
little stoop 10 his shoulders, broadened
in early youth by work with the pick
and shovel His cheek is rudy and
his eye is clear. His bearing is genial
but dominant at times TO the verge of
domineering He leans on nobody. He
forms and asserts his own opinions with
raey vigor. He belongs TO the grand
army Of pioneers-of the virgin earth
breakers He is of the Argonauts who
braved the dragon danger in a hundred
forms and won the golden fleece with
pick and pan
The story OF his life is a drama. go
long as he was in Washington he con-
tinued 10 hold the stage as a leading
cid man. but In his zenith he was a
star or the first magnitude Then he
was a State maker-the master mind in
the most marvellous mining ca,np this
world has seen the crest of-tbat mar
vel of nature. the Comstock Lode
In those days Mark Twain WAS an
obscure reporter for the Territorial En-
terprise. of Virginia City. as the camp
on the Comstock was christened while
only = sDrawiing baby. But Mark
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silver in and out OF season. He bored
the Senate to death with silver. He
turned his back on the Republican party
In 1896 and Joined the Bryan forces,
not as a Democrat. but as silver man,
He and Senator Jones furnished most
OF the arguments of that campaign. In
100 he returned to the Republican fold,
not on the silver issue, but on that OF
Imperialism. His Senate speeches dur
ing the last years Of his term were not
on currency so frequently as on colonia!
government The Philippines absorbed
ms attention TO the exclusion of silver
lie no longer harped on the robber
barons- He claimed that the money is
sue was no longer paramount
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Both Miner and Student.

He was miner with pick and shovel
and pan; he was student in a law Of
fee. Not for very long, however, for
within nine months of his deciding to
be lawyer he was a lawyer duly adj
mitted TO the bar of his State-and In
less than year prosecuting attorney.
Two years later, at the age of twenty
seven. he was attorney general of Cali
fornia. and recognized as one of the
most capable lawyers on the coast in
mining litigation
He moved to Nevada in 1860. when the
Comstock lode was discovered. And his
history is the history OF the State of
Nevada. He was a member Of her ter
r1torial council IN 1861. or her constitu
uonal convention In 1863, and her first
Senator chosen in 1864. All that time he
was fighting the legal battles of the
Comstock companies, and drawing from
them for his services a salary of 5000
SO a year. They were undoubtedly
worth ii, for he finally won the battle
Tor the "one lode theory" which con-
nrineo the companies IN the possession
or almost invaluable mining pronertias
on the contention that a number 81
claims on what were claimed as parallel
iodes were all merely outcroppings OF
the original lode and the property O.. the
original stake.
Inc s2Oo,ooo year from the Comstock
companies is not the idle dream of a
yellow journalist; It is the serious state
ment OF no less an authority than HUI
bert Howe Bancroft. the historian. And
stewart himself is authority for the
statement that UP to 1866 the Comstock
lode litigation had cost at least $4,000
200. So that was no small pie for
young man to have a finger in. Ban
croit bears this further testimony: THE
statement that he was not always over
scrupuious was doubtless inspired by the
TACT that he was generally successful"
apparently the historian had found no
sunlcient basis for such statements.
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Full of Confidence in Himself.

row. having spent. he has gone back
TO hustle again-back to the State Of
nevada. TO the Toponah mining dis
irict where he owns some gold proper-
Ties, which during his last wears in the
Senate he tried to sell his fellow sena-
tors stock into Toponah. where he be-
heFSs there IS a good opening for an
energetic. ambitious. hustIing LAWYER
and where he can watch the devotion
nent of his mining properties while he
Is building up law practice once more
And he has gone out there as bright
and clipper TO build up this new for
tune for himself as full OF confidence
in his inevitably striking Il rich'' as
the most hopeful youngster about to
make his first bid for fame and fortune
Truly an inoomitabIe old soul,
stewart is OF the purest Saxon type.
lie was an adventurer in his early
teens. BY the all-conquering qualities
sheer force of will and untiring industry
he acquired an education. In his youth
he cut the foremost swath in the harvest
field and the widest. and there was none
in the Mohawk or Genesee valley 70
compete with him in that athletic labor.
\ student at Yale in 1919. he left COL
lege. and became a "forty-niner' I'm
California. And though he never grad
uated al New Haven. his name in later
years was placed on the rolls of the
class Of 81 and in 1865 his alma mater
made him an n. A. proud thus to en-
phasize her share in the making OF so
vivid an dvital a personality
When he left the Senate last March
he was the oldest in it in point of SER
vice. and one OF the Oldest In point OF
years-and "as q disturbing force he
certainly has had no equal in recent
years" He had the reputation of talk
ing more than any man in the Senate,
and Of usually timing his speeches for
when they were least desired. II the
Senate was on the eve Of an important
vote and everybody eagerly awaiting
the decisive moment. Mr.. Stewart had a
cheerful habit of rising TO speak on the
great crime of 1873. He was frequently
violent IN his personal abuse. and the
two men in the world whom he has ap-
parently diSliked most have been John
Sherman and Grover Cleveland.
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The "Boss of the Bar"

he was, as Mark Twain said. nm
ooupteoy boss Of the bar" of the
state and In that capacity removed in
DAY the entire judiciary of the State
doubtless to its ultimate advantage
In the days when Nevada was str1g-
Cling into Statehood the Union was
hghting for its life in the momentous
years from 1861 to 1865 Stewart was
strong Union man, and had much TO
do with saving both California and Ne
vada to the Union. Out OF the labor of
those days the State of Nevada was
born-born or a political necessity The
Republican party required four more
votes IN the United States Senate. West
Virginia, born into the Union by a po-
litical and revolutionary Caesarean oper-
alton. provided two OF them. But two
more were needed to give the Thirteenth
Amendment the requisite majority in
that body, and so Nevada was made a
State II reminds one OF old Sir Robert
waInole's grim threat when he was
prime minister to make his footman a
peer of England when he needed another
vote in the House of Lords.
So II came about that Stewart, of Vir.
inia CITY, found himself Senator in
Congress at the age of thirty-seven. and
in the pregnant year OF 1854. He par
ticipated in all the debates on recon
struction. He even had a scheme OF re-
construction Of his own-a more lenient
scheme than that adopted. for though
a Union man, Stewart had many South,
ern affiliations through his wife, who
was the daughter OF Senator Henry s.
Foote OF Mississippi. and his sympa-
thies were largely with the South. Ii Is
notable that In 1873 he voted for and ad-
vocated The ''crime OF 49, and unhesi-
tatinsly declared for a gold standard.
James NJ Nye was his colleague In the
Senate--a man of infinite jest, and the
life OF that sedate body. He was a IA
vorite everywhere. and it was hoped
that he would succeed himself In 1873.
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saying, and Ii is 20 the
Kremlin we must go TO see the truly
Oriental opulence of the Russian i'm
periaI house. Few foreigners have been
privileged TO gaze on the magnificent
crown Jewels of the Romanoffs safely
housed in the imperial treasury, adtoin-
ing the great palace Of the Kremlin.
The writer. by special permission, was
recently allowed to examine the price
less treasures-jewels without number.
wonderful specimens of the goldsmith s
art. gems of fabulous value, rubies, dia-
monds, sapphires. emeralds, clustered
together in masses of most exquisite
workmanship.
Lest the incredulous should smile. it
may be stated at the outset that the
Russian state is one of the greatest
economic units on the face of the earth /;
that it draws an annual net profit of
81. O00, 600 from it's forests. mines. and
agricultural property; that It receives
annually $4O,Oo0. 600 from its communities
of ex-serfs; that it owns 1900 miles OF
railway; that the Car is certainly one
of the richest men living, having an Of
fetal annual income of nearly $5.ooo.oo
and a private annual income or from
four to five times this amount.
On entering the imperial treasury the
duly accredited visitor is received by
court officials of charming manners and
dignifled courtesy. whose grace and YER
satility at once reveal Russia's cultured
nobility The first room contains all
kinds of ancient and modern weapons,
arrnor for men and horses. with explana-
tory notes and dates Near by Is the
gorgeous baldachino under which the
Emperor walked at his coronation. 1t
is constructed of ebony and mother-of-
pearl. covered with velvet and cloth OF
gold, surmounted by plumes of ostrich
feathers in three colors-black. white,
and yellow.
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made themselves comfortable in hotel.
Finally, IN 1899. it was sold to Senator
Clark. and the building torn down,
though the Senator from Montana still
holds the property. and doubtless in
tends to build on it some fine day.
In September. 1902, while the Senator
was at The Hague on the business of
the Pious Fund Arbitration, Mrs. Stew
art was killed in an automobile acct
dent at Alameda, Cal After that Sena-
tor Stewart withdrew to his 1,000-acre
farm at Ashburn. Va. and turned
farmer He went in particularly for
dairy farming He contended that Wash
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Thrones Represent Fortunes.

An immense room full Of thrones, each
fortune. Single thrones.
double thrones, and even triple ones!
Specially quaint Is the double throne
made for Ivan and Peter, with an open
ing behind. through which the young
mOnarchs could be secretly advised by
their sister Sophia. Here also Is the
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vEGETARIANISM AND MUSIC,

a vegetarian journal published at
Hamburg appeals to its readers not TO
attend Wagner performances nor play
any of the masters music. 1t describes
Richard Wagner as IA gross flesh feed
er" and man who openly ridiculed
vegetarian principles. - Kansas City
Journal
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why. man, he doth bestride our mar
row range like Colossus, and we petty
men walk under his huge legs and
peep about to find ourselves six feet of
unclaimed ground. Sure 1t is, too, that
he has as much brass In his compost
ton as the famous old statue of Rhodes
ever had"
In the grave and suave old Senator
as the Capital knew him. a passing
glance would see small likeness to the
long-limbed, raw-boned, red-haired adj
venturer, enveloped in a yellow buster,
with flapping skirts. who climbed the
Sierras to seek his fortune in the new
field of the Nevada silver mines and
strobe along the dusty trail across the
valley of the Carson. in the midst of
the motley stream OF prospectors. gam
blers, sailors, merchants, lawyers,
clerks, cowboys. cooks ''tenderfeet" of
ing the files of carts heaped high with
every sort of baggage. while a whirling
din of calls and oaths and jests urged
on the bucking bronchos and plodding
oxen and straining mules with jingling
collar and straps of bells.
But in the burly unkempt adventurer
was the unfiagging energy. the unfalter
ing nerve, the fourteen-hour working
power, the bold ambition, the dashing
insight. the readiness OF adaptation. the
hard sense. the colossal self-assertion
that lifted the man above the muck in
a few months time to the head of the
bar in the turbulent camp and presaged
his grip upon the reins and whip that
guided and dashed the plunging team
of the new, Territory of Nevada.
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!: !: ! !: !:
nj HE days OF our years are
v8S three score and ten: and
E<{SfNH IL by reason Of strength
they be four score years.
x&4NU(M yet is their strength but
labor and sorrow
The days of our years
of yours and mine, perhaps-are three
score years and ten, but ii is evident
that the Psalmist never knew ex-Sena-
tor William NJ. Stewart. of Nevada, or
he would have qualified his statement.
For by reason of strength he is verging
perilously close to the four score and
his strength Is anything but labor and
sorrow. On the contrary word comes
from his Western retreat that though
broken in fortune he is not discouraged,
and at seventy-eight he is beginning life
anew.
He is a wonderful old man, Senator
William Morris Stewart, of Nevada. He
was born in Lyons, n. Y, in 1927, and so
Is considerably past the allotted three
score and ten. All his life long he has
toiled and he is living testimony to the
fact that labor does not kill He might
well say with old Adam in LAS You Like
It.
lhough look old, yet am strong and
lusty,
For in my youth / never did apply
HOT and rebellious liquors in my blood:
Nor did with ulabashful forehead WOO
Inc means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age IS as lusty winter
Frosty but kindly"
He has made and lost several fortunes.
lie has been a prominent and pictur-
esque figure. in Washington for nearly
forty years, having come out of the
west In 1865 as Nevada's first Senator,
and having been Nevada's Senator ever
since except for an interval of twelve
years between 1875 and 1887 when having
lost great deal Of money he decided
mat IT was up to him to get out and
hustle Tor another pile. He hustled. and
got H. and in 1887 came back to Wash
iiiston TO represent his State for another
eighteen Years while he was spending IL
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G2ZNM>6w A5 NAcHzUgu0V
OWN ALZW

Asked about his prospects, he answered:
MY dear fellow. the man who wants
my place IS worth s5,OO0,O00"
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Unddunted by His Loss Of Wealth, the Ven
cradle Statesman Has Undertaken to
Make Another Pile in the State That
Has Given Him Several Fortunes and
Many Political FloRors.

Twafn's eye and humor were in the
unknown reporter as I'm the author of
the "Innocents Abroad" Witness his
original cartoon of Big Bill Stewart,
the boss of the bar
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n - OSCOW is the heart of Rus
M STA and the kremlin is the
VI heart of Moscow" is an old
saving, and Ii is 20 the