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...Rihbany has had a varied and interesting career. A Syrian by birth, of illiterate parents, he gained some education at the American missionary schools in his own country, and later came to America, where he landed in New York almost penniless. Gravitating to the Syrian colony he was able to secure a bookkeeper's job and later became in editor of the Syrian paper. He gained a knowledge of the English language while an itinerant lecturer, and later took up teaching. Some ten years ago he become a minister and has since been pastor of churches in Michigan and Ohio...
...masse", it is generally supposed that if a man works hard enough he will eventually reach the top--either in material or non-material gain. Consequently it is somewhat surprising to learn that the creator of "Nick Carter", having penned forty million words in his lifetime, died practically penniless,--a suicide. America, the builder of physical colossi, might have been expected to reward such industry, if only on the basis of bulk alone; and certainly "Nick" achieved a popularity in his day. But apparently literature and the material world are still things apart...
...outrageous for that; but played as a tremendous joke with a little serio-comic sentimental trimming, it succeeds admirably. No-one could take the adventures of the unsophisticated young American girl, who leaves her aged husband five minutes after marrying him to chase around the world after a penniless Englishmen, too seriously. The rapid geographical movements of the characters--from Hawaii via Japan, China, the North Pole, and Russia to Canada--are in themselves too preposterous for anything more than an amusing outburst of somebody's dramatic imagination. Unfortunately as played at present, the company is inclined to give...
...have been born in Jugo-Slavia, and so of that nationality. His mother and father had lived in this country throughout the war, and had sent for their son at the first opportunity. But the Jugo-Slav quota was full, and the boy was shipped back, homeless and penniless. "A rotten deal" was what the official in charge of the case termed it; but he was helpless. Two young Roumanian girls were deported although their father, in this country, offered a thirty-thousand dollar bond for their release...
Timothy Cole was the master of the art. He was born in London in 1852, but emigrated to the United States when five years old with his father. Burned out in the Chicago fire, he returned to New York penniless. He had been apprenticed to his trade at sixteen and in New York he had little difficulty in finding work with different periodicals. Mr. Cole's connection with the Century Magazine which he has never completely severed, began in 1875 when the late Alexander W. Drake called him into the service of the magazine, then called Scribner's Monthly...