The Arkansas advocate., 1834-05-16
. LITTLE FoCEl, lA.'V3 FRIDAY, MAY Io. lsa1.


 he will, too, if you will go, any time, and camp with him, in his neat house, by his cool spfng-ius under a hill. where the sunshine, the rain and the dew combine to Keep his heart green. But don't tell him about shot gun or q short rifle. Praise the long barrel if you would gain his favor. You may sit and listen to his long and oood stories of war and hunting, sippine a little old liquor now and then-ior he will pour it Tn on hls heart-or you may go and plfer from his bees, or you may fish, or hunt or sit and talk with lis two beautiful daugh- ters, who are well educated girls, and full ot their father's own nnqaenchahle noble ness of spirit. Shall tell you where he lives9 No, not l. Search him out. He Is worth the trouble. Would that the world held more such men than it does.--bold, plain, simple and generous hunters. They are treat even to look upon, to one who comes lourneying from the East, and on he prairies and hills of the West shakes off the fetters of care and toll which bow ed him down in the pent city. I say again, they make one love the West-these old, stern hunters. There am-wanderine away, heaven knows where. We'll. we'll 1 ,eill come back again.
 There Is a certain class of "knowing characters" on whom have not yet touch- ed--young men, clerks, shop-boys, attor- neys' students--who, living anear the tu- mutt of the broad sea, and amid the din of crowded cities, peer out with indistlnct gaze into the far and wide regions of the west. They hear of towns and villages-and hith- CT they come. Herewe find them, through out the extreme west-a crowd of dandies, hail made lawyers, merchants, God forgive ne for abusing the word } trading on cred .t--and here and there an office holder They have come to the West with the idea that Eastern manners and Eastern learning would be prodgies in this barbarous clime-- that the inhabitants of the west are an illite- rate and rude set. In short they think to astonisfi. They fry to become leaders. = Some take to politics-and aflera while they are cast of by both sides. Some to lead in fashion--and they fall out of the pale of so- ciety-sone in literature, and they find others here before them and their borrowed plursage Is plueled from them. Whether the lucuhrations fthe Walking Gentleman will reach to any such, know not-but il they should so do perchancc, l would only say to these mistaken and deluded mel that there is no lack of talent and of know ] ' !. i,- r -' Y, at least sn havn fannf Tt III my walks through 1t and among its people, and so they will find 1t before the, 1 die. The superciious air, the eecentricity of dress, the assumption of importance, tho attempt to lead in any thing without goot claim, will not do in this country or in this place. Merit, pure merit, has tairer bat tie field here, than almost any where.- Foot to foot--shoulder to shoulder-a clear field and no favor--is the rule here. Let him who docs possess merit, 90 on with a stern and a constant resolution that he will succeed-and if he has the mental power he srsH. But wo to the "knowing charac- tersl' The voice of the people, and that no less potent magic, the influence of the women, will thrust down all mere pretend CTS to knowledge or to fashion.
 And, by the by, inasmuch as we-docs not that sound better than s'I," dear reader! sWe the Walking Gentleman!o Upon OUT word, aue shall alter our phraseology. But excuse us-for we really feel buoyant of spirit this evening, like lark out of his cage, winging his way up into the blue and glittering depths of the vibrating heaven among the dissipating clouds-into the clear presence of the sun-wbile the song that rings out of his heart peais round heaven and is even heard among the cottages of the earth which he spurns. We shall not say what causes our lightness of heart because that Is matter of our oWn--but the reader will excuse us an outbreak of joy now and then--snce he already knows that we are no stern and severe mentor, but d lover of humanity. But, as we were say ing--inasmuch as we have mentioned the women of the west, we shall take occasion 10 say that no commentators of ours can add to their charms or their virtues. We are proud of them, and we only wish that we could get any of them to be proud of hscause fl our kettle would boil for two-there it is again. Well, this we will say--that if we had not praised them so lately, even in our last number, we would describe some "knowing characters" among the lades-but trusting to receive many smiles for our last, We mean to bask in thelr radiance awhile, and then we'll even abuse them again-perhaps.
 But let us get through with this subject. 4 knowing character" IS generally but poor cc:.:pa.:y :y-:aeishar ii truth is sny one who is too sensible Of his own importance. What is astonishing 10 me, is not so to all- my feats and my dangers and escapes are no qualification or amusement 10 company. In truth, it should be remembered that so soon as one becomes great man III com-