davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

10 the leaves and. like the sapphire, is best by
day and shrinks from artificial light Consecrat
ed to the month of May. it is said to symbolic
the charity that springs from well of goodness
in the heart and its color. natures favorite
speak of hope and spiritual birth.
No other gem holds many fascinating leg
ends or haunting historical memories; they go
back to immemorial time when the Incas wor
SHIPPED the goddess Esmerelda in the person of a
stone as big ostrich egg and offered other
emeralds to consort with it, that the Span
iards were able to seize the votive treasures of
centuries The five emeralds which Cortez stole
from the crown of Montezuma were of enormous
size. rough-cut in the form of sacred symbols of
worship. Even Cortez so enamored of
them that he refused to sell them to the empress
and so lost favor at court
There is still preserved at Rome the emerald
sent to the pope by Peru after the Catholic con-
quest of that country and the name Emerald
Isle" given to Ireland, from magnificent
ring sent by Pope Adrian Henry II when he
took dominion over it,
The orientals have always known how to
handle this wonderful crystal. setting in peacock
toned embroidery of enamel. keeping its irregu-
larlt1es OF form, perhaps simply smoothing the
edges so as to preserve as much color pos
sible Indian princes often wear emerald rings
fully two inches across In the shrine of the
great Tooth temple of Handy, Ceylon there is a
Buddha of fabulous value carved from a single
gem 1 have seen in the treasury of the sultan
of Turkey whole robes encrusted with emeralds
with superb single stones of the purest water set
in the handles of scimitars. There were prayers
in the interior of the Tai Mahal spelled in
eralds before the British soldiers dug them out
with their knives.
We read of Nero viewing the games men
played with death, where death must VIM
through emerald eyelids. Caliyulas consort
leaned from the verd-antique balconies of the
golden hill adorned with two millions of dol
lars worth of emeralds and pearls
Napoleon through some of his bloodiest
battles the great emerald torn from the throat of
Charlemagne when they dared to disturb his
slumber and to this talsman the Man of Destiny
ascribed his power to sleep at will and long
or little as he would When Isabey to paint
the last portrait of Josephine, she said: Paint
me in emeralds to say that my will be
ever green, but surround them with diamonds
portray the undying purity of my love"
OF course royal people hold the finest exam
pies OF this gem, which, in conjunction with
pearls. they prefer to all others Queen Isabella
very proud of her carved emeralds but carv-
ing destroys the greatest beauty of the stone the
perfect lmpidity of its color. Italian princess
possesses the most famous parure in Europe,
HANGING her patrician beauty she stands
against the faded green tapestries. the ormolu
and maachite of her Roman palaee-,a neyer-to-
.be-forgotten picture.