The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-08
.STEWA ART BEGINS
HIS LIFE ANEW
Broken in Fortune, Exhibition.
aire Rears Humble Home
in Nevada.

Rhyolite, New, Sept: s.-Apparentlys
half his age, former Senator William
NJ. Stewart, known in Washington as
the ''Santa Claus of the Senate be-
| cause 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 upper
branch of congress covering more than
forty years. the world has heard little
of SSenator Stewart. The newspapers
published dispatches to the effect that |
| he was once more poor man and that !
he would make his residence in the
west. Then they forgot all about him.
| TO lose fortune is a serious enough
misfortune at any period of life. and at
Senator Stewart s age it is almost with |
out exception crushing blow. The
| fact that it has not proved so in his
| case may be because he is used to losing
| fortunes and making them, or it may
be because he is not like other men.
Not Crushed by Failure.
/ Whatever may be said about the SEN
ator politically, his bitterest enemies
will not deny that the physical make
up Of the man is marvellous to the last
degree and that his courage is splend id.
He is of the type that cannot conceive
defeat, but goes right on fighting in
blind ignorance of the fact that it is
lhopelessly worsted in the battle Of life.
And the senator has more than once he
habilitated his fortunes when his
friends believed that he was at last
him best are not so sure that he will
not do it again, if he is nearly four
score.
Senator Stewart-the title will al
ways stick to him-expects to move
into his new home here in a few days.
the Bullfrog district, the townspeople,
who knew his record for gaiety in the
east, said:
"We're glad to have you with us,
senator; but what are you doing way
down here in this lonely place7'
moh I'm nj just g0ing t to get snsw back
the oId M man. nV straightening his six feet
of stature and throwing back his broad
! shoulders. 'This air makes me feel
: like 4-year-old. There s no place like
Nevada, I tell you, and I figure that
| III be doing big law business here
before long. Better to wear out than
to rust out, you KNOW
Back Among the Boys.
His new house cost $4,000. That is
more than he was believed to have
saved out of the wreck when the model
dairy farm in Virginia put the last
touches on financial ruin that was be-
gun when he tried to force real estate
boom in the direction of "Stewart s
Palace,' the gorgeous structure he put
p up in Washington at time when he
, was one of the wealthiest men there.
! The new home is a one-story adobe,
, ornamented with red and white stone.
It has ten rooms and is finished thru
out in the finest woods. The bathroom
dazzles with tiles and silver trappings
and has a genuine shower bath.
II want to make it as. comfortable
as I can for my wife and daughter, -
said the old senator. "They're not
as used to roughing it as I am"
A wide veranda stretched around the
entire house, and the grounds are being
graded and fenced and sodde!d. There
is pretty stable and a quaint little
/ chicken house, for the senator is par
tia1 to chickens. He has purchased
200 fowls and in his stable, instead OF
thorobred horses, he has large, sleek
pair of mules, which he considers more
appropriate to the country.
h And Jersey Cow.
One more addition is to be made to
| the stock. The senator is now nego-
| tiating for a cow, well-bred Jersey
that is warranted to give milk so rich
that cream can be lifted off the crooks
with knife. -
o He is as interested in all these prep,
n arations as tho he were sixty years
g younger than he is, and combining
j. honeymoon with the first serious battle
o of life. The mules please him as much
n as tho he had never ridden behind the
S handsomest teams and in the most gor
Q geous carriages in the capital. The
:, house, pretty as it is, compares to his
q Washington palace about as penny
It compares to a 500 gold piece, and yet
l, he is immensely pleased with it.
d When you see him laughing, bolster
! s Gus and boyish, taking the. keenest
pleasure in all his poor possessions, ant
Il seemingly giving never thought tt
g those that he has lost in his old age
u you have to rub your eyes and say tt
% yourself:
:, "Can this really be Senator William
y his feet time and again, the man who
r. as leading counsel for the Fair-Flood
a Mackay syndicate on the famous Com
At stock lode, received in one fee $3.50, 900
then the largest sum ever received by
any lawyer in the world in single fee
the man who was in his prime whel
President Lincoln was assassinated, AM
who is the only living person that say
the oath administered to Andrew John
son in the Kirkwood house; the NAL
= who will always be remembered in New
York cafes as the gayest old Sant
Claus that ever lived; the man who's
political career has had more crook
and turns than Boston street; tn
man who controlled the state Of Nevad
absolutely; the man who has not eve
great piety or overscrupulous integrit
to cheer him in his misfortune and t
enable him to look back over path
4 way of good deeds and noble endeav
. ors-can it be that this happy, vigo,
4 GUS, hopeful septuagenarian is actual
q Senator Stewart?'
The inhabitants of Rhyolite have az
copied him at face value and KNOWN
A his courage as they do, they see nothin
q anomalous in his declaration that he
now ready to begin all over again.
4 ATTEND RESERVOIR MEET
q Committee from Council Will Partic
n pate in Discussion.
a At the regular meeting of the counc
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