The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-19
Unacknowledged Sources Of Power.

When a creator of almost anything
gets his early conception of the thing
to be made, he is nearly always desir-
Gus of telling that he can do it, and
that he is about to make the attempt.
The name for this fe ling is "enthus-
iasm." When there is no such feeling
when there is stinginess of prospec-
tus-it is sign of secret knowledge
that the store is small and must be
eked with artificial and theatrical
means.
Now, when the inventor goes forth to
tell his tale, it does not sound Won
drous to many people. This astonishes,
| puzzles, and humiliates him. He is
about to relinquish his undertaking
when he meets another creator, in.
ventor, and 10! everything the first says
to the second is received with approval
and understood very well. When
James Watt told some OF the college
professors his engine would 60, it mys-
tilted them, but when he explained tito
others, they could see it as plainly as
he himself Inasmuch as creators in
| any given half-dozen ways are rare, it
usually happens that such people drift
together for mutual comfort and en-
enlargement. The poet, the painter,
the singer, the musician, the composer,
the sculptor, the true architect, are
seen in little groups, all seemingly nee
essary or abdul, each to the develop
ment of the others Presently the
world, which has despised any single
one Of these peculiar pcople-these
rebels against the royalty of the Pres
ent, these complots in the interest of
that heartily -despised Pretcnder, the
Future-discovers little group Of
them, and conceives, for the first time,
willingness to consort with this group.
But the little republic has its Chinese
wall, and though the world knock
loudly on its gate, but few are admit
ted. So far as the world can see, those
who get in have been made famous by
no invention-have not even, by some
borrowed bon mot, made one secret dis
ciple and lover. There they hold their
places in the coterie, seemingly produc-
ing nothing, and yet tacitly part, an
element, OF each members Impressions,
whereby beautiful poems, paintings,
statues, compositions, rcnditions are
secured to an applauding spiritual vas
salage or constituency without the port
cults.
| 1t is on these silent people-this ele-
ment in art and industrial creation
that l desire the reader to think. A
wonderful painting often shines in their
eyes; the painter sees 1t, paints it, is
famous. An exquisite musical phrase
(the spirit of thought) animates their
races; the composer catches IL, divnes
it, and q city lifts him upon the shout
ders OF its young athletes, and after his
death, keeps his grave blooming with
flowers. A great truth flashed across
their comprehension, andthe poet builds
himself a sarcophagus Of yellow leaves
or mustierpapyrus, These daily, hour
" associates, these living Inspirations,
abide their dumb days and hours and
pass to the deadhouse of oblivion, too
mute to cen bemoan their fate. Now
what Is the painter but an eye, the poe,
but q voice, the musician but sexton
with keyp Poet, painter, musician
are simply elements in the battery OF
genius which happen to have been
named and labeled, There arc build.
ers in the temple whose names are no,
craven under the portico. The Repub
lie OF Letters Is now but an oligarchy
In the swift march Of ideas, commun,
ism spiritual must even precede tina,
communism of food and clothes ant
struttng, Of which the lazy poor mar
dreams and the lazy rich man stands II
fear. Perhaps this law OF progress /,
the dominating force which cxacts th,
remuneration Of all private ambition n
seen in the daily press the taking o
the very ideal Of u literary blackwell
Tho epigrammatic Socialist has, TO
twenty-five years, declared that prop
erty Is robbery. Is fame robbery, too
/ III . mn