The New York herald., 1873-08-07

IDA LEWIS, NIP AND "HECTOR."
Miss Ida Lewis, whose married name Is Mrs.
Wilson, still lives at Lime Rock almost stone 8
throw from Newport with her mother, younger
sister and two brothers Her father has been dead
for some months and the family are in mourning
for him. Ida, whom saw at her home yesterday
afternoon, and who was kind enough to converse
with me with that freedom and frankness which
are so often the acc0mpaniments OF great cOnsti-
tuti0nal courage, has not recently been In such
good health as usual. She looks thin, and those
who have never seen her Will be interested
in hearing that, though every inch q heroine
In spirit there Is little that Is heroic, and nothing
that Is masculine in her appearance. Time was
when Ida Lewis had 10000 visitors In three
months, and sometimes 500 In one day. Now
her visitors are very few She Is In the unfortunate
position OF an artist with declining reputation,
and unless she Is enabled 10 save another lie very
soon her renown must proportionally dwindle.
order, and people will not come next door to
drowning In order to keep Miss Lewis reputa-
ton "a ahoat And then Miss Lewis has this
philosopher Shopenhauer maintains what
must be the feelings OF "A woman OF generous in
stincts, who. or eleven distinct occasions, has per-
petuated an existence which almost at its last
gasp Let US not pursue the argument. Miss
Lewis is a dauntess woman lnheriting her courage
from her lather. Her excellent mother Is meek
and blue-eyed. The lighthouse home is as clean as
q soul In Paradise. There are two dogs. NIP" and
Hector" Nip Is . little dog, who receives you
with bark and dismsses you with bite, unless
you are careful. Ida says she likes life In the light
house. 1t has the advantage OF not having any
next door neighbor. The boathouse built by the
late James Fisk, Jr., Is In good condition. forgot
to say that Hector is big dog, who treats you
with royal indifference.
THE 'HUsH BE sTILLu HOUSE.
There Is little public house In Newport which
calls Itself hotel, and which will not further
designate than by the above title. The price or
living Is - 30 per day, but ! should think tncy
would let you die there for nothing. You would
think that the majority OF the inmates had been
brought up from early childhood To playing funeral,
The dining room Is darkened to the twilight OF the
tomb and when you learn that the champagne IS
on ice there Is ghastly appropriateness in the
expression. This Is what is called quiet =
hoteL 10 use popular nguIe Oi
speech, 1t Is quiet with a vengeance, II SO demon
strattve noun can Properly be so coupled. There
is delightful degree OF hesitation and uncertainty
IN all the answers given TO questions OF business:
II you want New York newspaper none are sOld
In the house II you desire TO get shaved no bar.
Der exists ON the domain. you ask for lemonade
you are conducted goomlly to locked door
which, being opened, you enter mysterlou
aud dark apartment, where the beverage "
concocted as secretly as though 1t were
a plot. Upstairs and down stairs and IL
my lady's chamber there Is brooding silence
not the kind OF silence that comes before or aite
storm, but the silence Of the tomb and eternity
that never knew what a storm was, and never VIII
know. ddnse,lse paralyscd ia her legs, painte
gone blind. pianist with hands amputated. and (