Show an autograph hunter hard gorki to get letters from bismarck Bin marck tennyson Tenny aon and other famous men when tell in ili en angland gland I 1 served an all tip to the art of autograph 0 mating hunting chich in my be becoming omi inga 0 a proficient yet I 1 blush at times to think of life irai that are arc dark ind and the grickis t that I 1 at arc ara lining vain resorted to by ili an otherwise kinso damsel as it a means to nil an end I 1 suppose I 1 have always din ays been a 1 apro orsan for when a girl not yet in ill wf iffy ai my little allow allo Tanco alwo ot ol pio pill money 17 m bining portraits of C men mid women with which to adorn my al albillo billu to graph letters of celebrities bruties arii arc now hardee larder to obtain than ahin they were a 2 bew few feitis years ago it has a become a w HU bo bc many aliat htiu ne pf af light aig abt and lending leading ire arc deluged loiis for their autographs and a 1 hunter roust must indeed be ingenious and indefatigable who cin can cleif a u reply coply from ghose cali raphy is worth tile the having at first f I 1 hunted exclusively for a autographs uto graphs but it occurred to appia a that 0 alone were of little int crint 0 or r value unless affixed aal itce to a letter and I 1 wilt will ta tela you how I 1 enhanced the value of 0 my collection the ano hardest nuts nails to crack or til ili oti otier other er words the two celebrities who nho are arc icily indifferent to ile he importunities of autograph auto raph griph fongers mongers mon gers are arc bismarck ind and tennyson kven even of their liand hand willing are arc tallied at 10 apiece by baic a brac in ili london letters sent to tho the great chancellor brought uen ei it 1110 i nc in ii response and I 1 t grew sad A k bright tier iden struck roc me why not write to wit hia wife bilici is r reputed el to be belles alenco personified I 1 suited the action to the word anord and by return of mail canic came an all ini imposing posing epistle with the berlin post postmark marE upon it which sot my beating at al a I 1 fearful rite rato and destroyed my appetite for a i whole day it contained a cabinet aholo gracli of k with his liis bold clear clea r signature i V I 1 na nl it the foot and a kind note oil from tile princess saying that she was uns to comply tit my re request idlest It lest oil oh lioni 0 gloated bloated over that portrait it wala was a speaking liken likeness essof of the roan mall ii who ito rules ell europe bope and looked a all 11 the more striking from the fact that hint it him lit in the full glory and tilt maze blaze oi of ili iii i ii ioli lury tuy uniform 1 with ill a 1 I helmet shading the kippur part of his face and leaving the lower part wilia its ironclad iron iroll clad ia jaw cle tily depicted Tenny sons bons altol autol autograph raph was my next desideratum lt it came to me inc unexpectedly but not until 1 I wasted inucci ink and paper lit in appealing to tile laureate himself himsel f I 1 wrote to the late duke uke of wellington 0 ton a 1 little roan mall with willi ii a ilig big bicart t ij 11 liboro 11 lio avore oro cott cotton 0 it gloves loves ind and amiri 46 abla ti tic c IQ ton fa qa q an pini ibus islan asking for 4 a few wor word li acs to a tile the handwriting of tile alic hero of waterloo lie ile boit beit rno me a I 1 chieck yellow ind lil musty listy which had beet been ill ili fly by the iron duke and to my unutterably joy lie he ei enclosed closed a butch batch of letters hoping as lie playfully put I 1 h that athly would be norah worth a place in ili my lay album the babil ot of letters consisted of one from dennyson 1 another from batell victoria and one in ili the lc legible E ible though some lio boyish yih handi I 1 biting of lbert albert edu ednard ard brince of IV us eliere acre others arnin sill smaller a I 1 for fry lit alili r 0 did indeed fonn a place ill ili my album dil a nd 1 I nv ag I 1 lama till 1 I conser vath c they occupy a very prominent position lord naj wa another uti acl et at ible able individual nis ilis tn lary I 1 i would respond to jour first saying thethis clial his lordship never I 1 gau ale iiii to anybody I 1 it t was t useless atele ss to impress upon beld that his hij wis tile only atilo autograph graph necessary to make or coliccho caf alf oil ern celebrities complete you alight wail irl long anxious ay iy for a rejoinder but loll 1011 i 1 gl t it then rilen per linns boll you would write expressing regret or haling aming trespassed so limb on in liis his alile time lime and if yuu were habip you would pend 23 or 50 cents 0 on n nil elegant photograph und and ul urge t arc him just to lu allix liis bis signature there to lo anti and return it lie ile would to do ti cither r and lilly further portraits you lit send him would J lie c gone from your goic forever jut I 1 got his autograph less M my brother cc came ar across tuss nit an impecunious man who lad bad in his heyday spent pent some months of his bis cist nce in writing a laudatory poem on oil the royal I 1 family D in alky and who hall bad ventured to submit the proof to lo 1 I finished the proofs this evenin evening ibid have read them with ith transcendent interest wrote Beacons beaconsfield field in reply A small sum purchased this letter for me and I 1 was made the happy floppy possessor of Beacons fields autograph van moltke is a de dear ar old man ile iio will send his to anybody but lie has this peculiarity that lie he always returns your own comma cation with liis his signature cramped in into I 1 ti corner charles darwin would aarel rarely respond to an application for his auto anto graph but when I 1 broter wrote n asking 3 kill for an elucidation of what to me was 7 is a a complex portion of his origin of species lie he was prompt in replying iiii cali graphy was wretched chedi and oi I 1 felt like asking a aking him to explain his explanation an ali initial letter a dash of the peu nod and it a final letter were made to represent a 11 word ills his reply could only ile be understood by guess work and tile the nid aid of a Z po powerful c r microscope to iro prof tyndall nod prof I 1 wrote asking their opinion with regard to a theory n mch idich had been put forth by a tilte named ton that thai the sun was not a 1 I source 0 of f heat heal or light to the solar system Il I 1 caily believe esteemed me a lunatic but his reply was curt it gave aye me his autograph tyndall wrote at length saying that lie he had heard of mr n theory but bill sir mr 0 ideas were not his and he would advise me to pause before makin making anem my own probably no DO man mail is so iueli im 1111 por tuned as mr gladstone abdun like ho he will when out of office send a person personal d answer to almost every communication lie he receives nud and it if by chance a 1 I request for his autograph should lie be coss one nas lias only to dortlon sonic current political topic to open tile the floodgates flood gates mates of his eloquence slid draw araw from him a torrent of closely written sentences ices cardinal newman is s ever responsive but in ili iline bine cases out gut of ten tell you dont actually get his bis li handwriting nd writing although you think you do we the great theologian has had lithographed lithographer litho graphed a few lines lyleth serve as nit an answer to most af pf p the place communications he receives i a sort of literary panacea for the ailments of autograph hunters it runs thus excuse inc I 1 am in an old man anti and in 1 hand is fee feeble ble 1 I ill 4 JOB ous time getting a letter from fro ni clr lelii ls Lii 1 tt 1 l I 1 it t came at list last from some reas creaso a I 1 cant now nov explain I 1 asket asked his opinion is as to what u ere cre the best theological pol for a boin member of the church of england to I 1 her mind with ilis his reply was wa taij 1 11 I have no time to tile apu ipu oil at any length and I 1 take lake no in interest te rest gitany in any yoking yalang ladies who stud study theology 1 31 in ili new york sun |