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high lights of happiness and the shadows of
sorrow, as they must come, dear Asteri5k
to all of US. He wrote on as the sun went
down, and thought not of his hunger and
the homeless. pitiless. scadless night that
was coming on. He wrote while the shad-
ows heightened in the churchyard and the
roar of business along Broadway died down
TO q sort of mercantile purr.
Then he took his copy and went up to
the Bowery to where one may abide all
night for IS cents. There he abode the
night. But he did not care. He was very
happy. He did not have TO sleep there any
more The editor read his little story aloud
till his voice pot husky and then he read it
to himself.
Now, Ambrose is himself a managing
editor, and has engraved visiting cards with
Mister" on them.
You ask if l can cite an instance in regard
to my gaining literary notoriety, and reply
with my hand on my heart that, so far as
know, | cannot.
And now, if have been of service to YOU
or any one who may read these lines, if
there be in this brief note grain of good
ness which you may pick up and file away,
am repaid-that is of course, tiguratively
speaking-and with this. and hoping that
possibly |, too, MAJ be eminent some day,
aud in lieu of this great possibility, will
close, as the opportunity presents.
NerY sinCeralY
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who was performer of miracles. Colonel
Olcott will spend but q short time in this
country. He has been many years in India
whittier he will proceed via Yokohama
Iheosophy is not exactly understood in this
country, but regarding it Colonel Olcott
spoke before the Theosophical society in
Bombay, India, and said 1--WE aim to revive
the study of the Veda, and an inquiry into
the alleged latent powers of the human soul
stated to exist by many thousands Of exper-
lmentallsts In ancient times aud our own
days. We call upon every man of Won and
every lover of India to rally around us
Choose any man here of either of the old
races represented and show Us that he is
the right man to lead in either branch of
TINS retormatory movement and L will most
gladly enlist as a common soldier under
MN. Come leE US labor together like broth
ers Tor the welfare of our motherland-Iu
dls." Colonel Olcott thus looks upon India
as his mother country, instead of America.
he Is the author of a work entitled, Chico
sophy, Religion aud Occult Science He
has delivered several hundred lectures in
India and Ceylon, and wishes it to be under
stood that the Theosophical society has no
use for Nihilists, dynamiters and Commun-
lists. Anything that sounds mysterious or
eastern is agreeable to him. His first lec-
ture on Theosophy and H P. BlavatslSy was
delivered in New York city on Thursday
evening last Admission was free.
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as extensively as DO the other owners of
large estates. Having no grown up chill
dren their interests are less in the gaieties
OF the season, and they find more pleasure
In planning improvements in their already
magnificent es adjustment. They have one
child-a white faced boy, who may be seen
each day driving team of goats along the
hard white roads which characterize the
Westinghouse estate.
Lenox is so beautiful that it bids fair TO
hold its own forever. Sharon is gone past
recovery. Long Branch-well, we all know
ABOUT poor Long Branch. Saratoga is los
ing its hold upon the fashionable world.
Newport is gay during the hot weather, but
Lenox is glorious all the season, and every
body goes there II the fail.
People who have spent q few seasons
there become devotees of the place and are
spoit for all others. 1t is in vain that they
travel hence and 90 to India, TO China or to
Japan. They may climb the Alps, skate
upon the Norway glaciers, or perch upon
the Rock of Gibraltar-yet nothing suits
them. Sadly they gaze around, dolefully
they shake their heads, and then with
Lenox in their mind, they turn away sor-
rowfully.
In their love for the place they have
much the feeling of the Chicagoau who was
taken &c see the Atlantic ocean and who
looked upon it long and earnestly, and then,
| turning his head away with a sign said
Its poorly fine, but faint Lake Michi-
gan" AUGUSTA PREsCoTr.
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JACKS KEEN HOPES
He Asks Bill Nye What He Must
Do to be Eminent.
THE QUERY is GLADLY ANSWERED
william Tells Him Story Of Young Man
Who Suddenly Rose TO
Great Height.

For THE SUNDAY HERALD. BY special ar
rangemert with the authorl
CRAIe-T-Nos, Buncombe County, n. c.,
October !, 1S9l.-The following letter has
been waiting for some time, but other mat
tiers have interferred with prompt reply:
GURDoN, Ark, Aug. Is 1891.
Edgar W. Nye, Asheville, n. c.:
DEAR SIR:-For seversl years have been a
reader Of your excellent bill Nyen articles
and, beng somewhat young and literaryly in
clined, have longed for Dit OF advice from
your pen. Probably, while the delegation are
waiting just outside your door you could drop
few '.Nye" nuggets into my receptacle and
they would never be missed.
have never heard that you encouraged Young
ecribblers to INDUCED in writing to you by an
swering there tiresome sheets by return mail,
as, undoubtedly, you were prompted to do
Unknowingly L make the experiment
How would you advise a young man Of a liter
airy bent. and possessing a keen sense for that
which is unusual or humorous? How shall he
find the market without money or influence? Is
humorous writing remunerative? Can you cite
an instance in regard to your gaining literary
notorietyY
Please don't dispair at this. 1t is NEARLY the
introduction Of what bore can do. Possibly I.
too, shall be eminent some day, and in lieu of
this great impossibility will close as the oppor-
tunity presents. Please comply.
Very sincerely,
The above letter is written by a young
man who needs information about as
severely as any one with whom have ever
met up. / put three asterisks in place Of
his name In order to shield his family. This
Is only specimen OF one kind of CORE
spondent out of list of great many hun
dreds. pause to wonder where they all
come from.
Passing over the first paragraph, which
is kind, fattering and fuiseme, let US come
At once to what Mr.. Asterisk-Mr. Jack
Asterisk, if you please-really wants to
know.
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Mrs. Nelson, you may remember, lost
her husband only few months ago, and by
some strange fate his death occurred just
as Mrs. Nelson obtained a divorce from
him.
"Shall you go in mourning for your hus-
band"' asked someone of Mrs Nelson.
mo indeed, | shall not go in mourning
for him. Him? Why should L! | have
been trying for years TO get rid of that man.
Now, why should l mourn because he is
gomez"
So Mrs. Nelson is as gay as usual and
drives a beautiful little cart, and appears II
anything happier than before she became q
real widow. She has beautiful cottage a
little way up the road, and entertains sump-
tuously on her lawn, giving the dearest lit
tie picnics and outdoor parties imaginable
because her parlors are to small to admit of
very extensive doing indoors.
In spite of disagreeable tales to the con-
trary, "Freddie' Gerhard is not only well
received in society, but is an acknowledged
leader. He is likewise much sought after
by mammas with marriageable daughters,
and the absurd stories to the effect that LIE
is snuobed in drawing rooms sre not cred
tied an Instantly anyone who IS permitted
to take q glimpse into Lenox society.
Freddie Gebhard. has a handsome little
establishment Just opposite his sisters, and
the only woman servant permitted within
its walls is tho deaf old housekeeper, up
wards OF sixty years OF age, who looks after
tho running gear of the household
Mr.. Gebhard is another cottager who
likes to take his meals at the hotel because
1t is SC much more convenient to do SO than
to go to the trouble of managing a chef,
kitchen and staff of servants, which these
entail. Then, too, if you are ''mealer,"
you can drop in at almost any time, to find
good table awaiting you, while if you eat
at home. the chef is intolerant of delay and
goes wild over the possibility of cold soup,
and savory messes Of pottage spoiled by
warming over.
And that is why SO many wealthy peo-
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JUST FoUR HUNpNNp AND 10 MORE.

When you get into the dining room a
surprise awaits you. You did not expect
to find so many well-known people there
You had the idea that Lenox was all cot
tage life, and that, us for the hotel, the
''cottagers" were not init.
Yet II you look around you will see that
they are very much in it, and that they
come here three times day for the re-
freshment which even the inner man of the
select four hundred requires.
At one table is Mrs. Nelson and beside
her sits her brother, the famous Frederick
Gerhard and near by are Mayor Chaplin
and his pretty wife-they who entertained
Mrs. Cleveland few years ego when she
came to LenoX as bride
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superior that he halted himself because he
perspired so. and he knew that even the
elevator boy looked down on him. He felt
homesick, and when he took out his hand
kerchief to wipe his brow he accidentally
pulled out little red pin cushion that his
sister gave him when he started for town.
1t smote on his heart very heavily, Mr..
Asterisk, and he compared the welcome he
generally got at home was the chilly glare
he got when he came to town.
When he mustered the courage, he took a
deep breath and stepped into the elevator
the elevator boy pushed him back and asked
him whom he desired to see. Then it came
over him that he did not know the editor
and that, probably, he never would. The
elevator boy gave him
BLANK REPLEvIN TO FILL OUT,
stating whom he wished to see and also on
what business, whether friendly or other
wise, whether married or single, and if So
how 1t agreed with him
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pie are content to go without pigeon wing
ana willing to dispense with broiled gold
hsh, nightingale iiyers on brochette stuffed
yeDlson garnished with antlers and
Lacriuia Christi punch
Inc happlest man in Leuox is Mavroy-
enl bey, The Turkish minister. He is al
most as dark as the Jack of Spades and
LOOKS so much like that gentleman that you
Keep wondering, if, at some stage of its
existence he has not figured upon q play
ing card. Mavroyeni is happy, because he
loves the iaGles, and, what is still better,
because the ladies love him. He makes
himself agreeable, says such compli-
mentary things in such a distinguished
way, and chances 50 srdently and passion
ateiy out Of his great black eyes, that it is
a mGtter-of-fact girl, indeed, whose heart
is not set fiuttering by the magic of his
LOOKS. He is at ell the hops, balls, parties
and receptions and is said never to enjoy q
comfortable state OF happiness unless he
has petticoat in his near vicinity
Humor hiss ii that the handsome Mavroy-
eni is permitted by the laws of his country
10 have four wives, and so the girls are a
little bit wary of him, for no free born
American woman is gong to share the man
OF her choice with three other women if she
can helpit.
In the floral parade Miss Colby was
accounted
TIRE PRETTIEsT GIRL,
and the picture she made as she reclined
under her umbrella of ferns and hydranges
was one not to be forgotten.
Miss Greenleaf, to whom all the foreign
ministers have been quite attentive, paid q
compliment to foreign powers by yelling
herself as young Egyptian of rank. a
society swell was persuaded TO be the
running sikh, and SO the Greeneaf turnout
was perhaps the most noiiceab q of any in
the annual parade
Lenox is particularly the place for pretty
widows who possess the advantage of being
wealthy also. There are at least dozen oil
them there, whose fortunes range from q
million dollars upwards.
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In the first place, do, as often and az
lucidly and pellucidly as l can with VIII Of
Jew talents may embrace, answer the In
curriers' who have something to INQUIRE for
II l am able to supply the information
First then, Jack, you should know what
you want to inquire for, and, secondly. Won
should know how to spell it. Then a1v On q
would pc glad to drop the information into
your receptacle. Al W
Undoubtedly
NOW comes the query: How would Won
ADVISE young man of literary bent and
possessing keen sense for that which is
unusual or humorous!" -
would advise such an one to avail him
self of 1t and enjoy it. Few people oro
best with keen sense of the unusual II
should be fostered.
You ask next: How shall he find the
market without money and infiuenceli ne
VIII naturally have great difficulty. Tho
market Tor keen sense of the unusual WINS
never more panicky than it is now. With
out money or influence you will have quite
long search before you will get your nr;oa
To tel you the honest and undying truth
Asterisk, there is no market for a kean
sense for the unusual or humorous II ;s -
good thing to have, for your life win he
longer and sweeter for having IL
DON'T MARKET 1T AT ALL
any more than you would market your l,een
relish for what is good or beautiful. yon
oouptiess want to find a market. not for
your keen sense of the unusual bnt for
your ability to describe such things In an
entertaining way, and you cannot deIiver
the goods at present, fear.
Learn hrst TO write good English. Write
at mark for eight or nine years and let nm
on busy people, if you please. l once knew
ayoung man who decided to 90 to Nav
York and to try TO get a job on the metro.
poItan press He had practiced on a coun-
Try paper Tor several years, aud had re-
celved a cyclopeaia and a reversible wall
map as reward for his genius and toll
SO he said TO himself: ~ will go to New
York: This life is killing me. 1t is time
TO call halt" He did not take trunk he
cause be said it would only be burden to
MIN, and one hot day when the sun was
bringing out all the hidden fragrance that a
century has concealed between the heated
paving stones of Newspaper row, he found
tne door which led into the inhospitabe
dwelling of the great newspaper upon
which he had decided to bestow himself.
Everybody about him looked so cool and
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AUTUMN Tn LENOX
Dress and Amusemenls of
fashionable People.
FREDDIE GERHARD AND SISTER
Home Stretch OF the Great Matrimonial
Handicap of the SeasOn-rhe Pretty
Girls Who are in It,
FREDDIE GERHARD AND SISTER
For THE SUNDAY HERALD. /

49,
A trip to Lenox reminds one of a certain
tale in the Arabian Nights.
a hero who was seeking the object of his
love, was directed to sail a stream cross a
country. drive distance by conveyance,
climb hill, climb another hill, go through
woods, then through another woods, GO
on top Of the highest bluff he could find,
and then-iook around.
When youg go to Lenox, you will probably
have to do all these; you will certainly have
to climb q hill after the train leaves you,
and you will be compelled to go through
several woods, and climb several more hills
before you come TO Lerox itself.
Suddenly you find yourself at Curtis
of course you will go there, because every
body else is there-and q curious feeling
comes over you, that after all you must be
in New York. The street in front Of the
hotel is torn up and great stones have been
brought in wagons and the road is blocked
with boulders, steam rollers, gravel
wagons, etc, = exactly as if it were New
York, and the city were being treated to its
annual tear-up.
But it isn't New York, for inside the no
tel parlor fire is burning in the big fire
place and half a dozen chilly matrons are
gathered around its glowing embers, re-
hearsing their ailments and darting lndlg-
nant chances at the frolicsome crowds OF
gay young people, who, regardless of pos
sible coughs, colds and influenza are stand
ing in the open door way or crowding out
on the stuffy little piazza.
Yet it certainly is very like New York
because here are ell the familiar New York
faces.
Aud yet, it isn't like it at all, because
Lenox has not dissgreeabIe element in its
composition, while New York, we'll New
York is charming to be sure-but in New
York one sees people who do not belong tc
the Four Hundred. But at Lenox there
are
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SNAP SHOTs

The proud housewife wants everything
polished until she can see herself in il.
Many young people break off their wits
In laboring continually to sharpen them.
When ministers begin to make denomi-
national fops they never know when ia
stop.
Young man, your safety demands tina,
you should engage in some scrt of regular
employment.
Ii you would persuade the turbulent bag
gage smasher, paste on the bottom of vonr
trunk dynamite" label.
1t is natural for most men to sympathize
with the down dog, provided they are not
Inc upper dog.-GdlUeston Neus.
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COLONEL H. S. OLCOTT.

The Theosophist Who is Now in the United
States.
lFor THE SUNDAY HERALD-Copyrighte I
Colonel Henry S. Olcott is an American
VINO has lived abroad for many years. He
is president of the Theosophical society and
is IN very scornful mood regarding the
excitement over Theosophy coming from
Mrs. Besants conversion in England to the
esoterlc doctrine. Colonel Olcott is of the
opinion that the English do not understand
Theosophy, and his only reason for deliver
Ing an address there was to vindicats the
memory Of his late friend, Nine. Blayatskv
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FANNY n4yENpnRr-

The great American tragedienne has writ.
ten the following note for the benefit of
hef sex. 1t naould prove especially impor-
tant whom il is remem bered that no class il
SO well informed on the subject of which
she writes. as professional women:
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Mr Wisdom
Dear Sir:-Your Robertine was highly
spoken of in San Francisco and lady
friend induced me- to try it. 1t is very fine
and is an excellent application for beauti-
tying and whitening the face and hands
truly, FANNY DAVENPORT.
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LOOK HERE. CRAWLEY.

What kind of meeting is that at the TEN
pie OF Honor hall to morrow evening?
Don't-cher- know. that is gathering of
the Sons OF st. George. All Englishmen
belong TO it,,
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MORTIMER
and
DOROTHY.

mat was all; but he took those two name
ana Wove around them a story of tender
possibility and humanity. He put in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-19
Foreign Topics of Interest.


Mr.. Maurice Healv, one of the members of
parliament from Cork. announces that he ac-
cepts the challenge OF Parnell that they shall
both resign their seats III parliament and pre-
sent themselves for reelection as "a rest of the
popular sentiment i'll favor OF the merits of the
McCarthyite and the Parnellite causes Mr.
Parnell also represents Cork city. which has
two seats in parliament
A London cablegram says that Mr. George de
Reuter-. son of Baron de Renter of Renter
Telegram Company, and Miss Potter, daughter
of the late John Potter Of Philadelphia, will be
married in May.
Col. Mapleson, the English impressario. Was
married Tuesday to Miss Laura Schirmer
Byron at the British embassy in Paris
The body of DIR. Ludwig Windthorst the late
leader of the Catholic party in Germany, was
inferred at Hanover yesterday. Many mem
bern. OF the reichstag were present, as well AS
delegations from various Catholic associations
Of the Rhine provinces and Westphalia.
The coachmnn who was driving Mr.. Glad
stone to the railroad station at Hasting. Eng
land. after the liberal leaders address in that
city Tuesday night was drunk and lost control
OF his horses The animals ran off and were
only stopped with difficulty. The driver was
arrested and fined for drunkenness.
The polling in the parliamentary contest in
North Sligo for the seat made vacant by the
death of Mr.. Peter Mcdonald will take place
OH April 2.
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WILL IGNORE THE ENJOYS.
Requests by Parnell's Delegates for Funds
tn Rn foA

Requests by Parnelis Delegates for Funds
to Be Denied.
Very Rev. P. ]. Donahue, chancellor of the
archdiocese of Baltimore, in his st. Patrick 8
day address, speaking of the ''cruel crisis now
upon Ireland. said: "Often and often we hav We
helped her with our means. We can now best
aid her by Withholding our means request
has been made across the Atlantic for more
funds, to be followed up throughout the land
by personal appeal. 1 believe 1 voice the
views and feelings of vast majority of Irish
Americans when say that their love of Ire
land is too great. their love of peace too great,
their common sense too great to encourage the
embassy just arrived upon these shores. Back
with them, and settle the quarrel where it be-
longs.
Eagerly and long from year to year Irish
Americans have desired for Ireland liberty.
autonomy and peace, yet they desire peace
with honor, victory with clean hands
When the trumpet again rings out for battle
they desire no Sir Launcelot as their champion
| In the fray. but Sir Galahad-
Whose strength is AZ the strength of ten,
'BecauFe his heart Ii pure.
Bishop keane i'll his st. Patrick day address
| in Baltimore said "Ireland's banner will trail
in the dust till clean hands raise it nloft again
The land of purity Of life demands a man OF
pure life to say to her millions. follow me-
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The Rev. Howard MacQueary will preach no
more in Canton. Ohio The verdict Of suspen-
sion would settle that. but he had determined
upon immediate resignation no matter what
the result was, merely waiting for the official
announcement. He has had propositions from
the Church of Messiah OUnitarian) at Chicago,
also from a leading Unitarian church at To-
ronto. Canada; from jamestown, NY, and
other points: Although the verdict has been
reached and Mr.. MacQueary convicted of
heresy, it is not thought that this ends the mat
ter in the church Mr.. MacQueary's mail has
assumed the size of u Congressman's, and his
admirers over the country send hin, sympa-
thenc messages. Although the verdict will
drive him TO Cnitarianism and from the Epis-
eopalisn church. it is thought that the cues
tons raised by this case have raised a discus
sion the end Of which is by no means in sight.
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Erred Evans" Was Wright.

The body of Fred Evans of ESsiand," the
mysterious suicide, who killed himself in the
Aston House. New York. was finally and fully
identified Yesterday as that of Wright. the sup
posed murderer of RuttinSer, whose body was
found near Tottenville, Staten Island, recently
The body WIS exh1Ined about noon from Potter's
Field District Attorney Fitzgerald OF Staten
Island recognized the face. At the morgue
Mr.. Neu and David Hamilton and a number Of
others. who knew Wright in life, at once recog.
nized the BODY.