The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-10-02

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eti on being taataIizei IS one ideaed
man, that il coming generations shouJd
give him credit tor discovering, and con-
tsinntins 20 the general faE1 Of knowI-
edge, ore orthodox idea, IL world not
feel that lie had lived in vain. Il took
'he poet Gray. six years TO write his
hiegy- Senator Hi, tbat brilliant ora
Tor whose thoughts seemed 70 crystalize
around the most beautiful things in earth
and heaven, declared, thar public speak
ing was the hardest kind of work. For
ne said he must take days and weeks. ~
stnay his sHhjeet matter, then he must
read everything available, that pertafDed
10 IL, and after thoroughly mastering The
subject, he would go ont all alone and
speak TO the wild woods tine aud again.
not cnlY to familiarize himself win the
subject; but, that his gestures and elocu-
ton might be perfect. Campbe!ps 70
chiels Warning, lay az unfinished mann
script, up To The eighth verse, where he
represents the Seer :s SAYING, but man
| cannot cover, what God would reveal. =,
But after vainiy trying for six months to
complete the verse. took i long ride out In
the country one day, and. arriving late ia
the evening, he amused himself bv oh
serving the long shadows; the ..Iow de-
seending sun threw across his ua;h,ra,-.
aud after retiring that night. he awose
fran out refreshing sleep, viii, the re-
mainder of the verse :hat was to become
an inspiration 70 al coming time,
lis the saaset Of lie gives me mystical
lore,
and coming events cast their shadows
before
Lohstei.ow's words are very heaatifn,
and true where he says
Lives Of all great nen remind rs.
we can make cur lives sublime.
And departing, leave behind re.
Footprints on the sand of time,
but would refer yoq to something the
p9et mas forgotten TO mention: that is.
tl'it these footprints are not along pub-
iic highways. where tie stones ara
smooth Tor not Only would there have
been no need to nlentioa it. but ,bev
"ouid have not remained visible. Iuf
we ilnc theia in the deep virgin forest.
where scarcely human foot conis, psss
or h'inian heart could dare, a. ovr,.
ragged mountain heights, where these
beautiful 'sgnshod from the fliuts.v have
lef' their prints, all the palmer IN blood.
let these silent woods and rocks. give
oack no hollow groans, and search as We
may, we find no crystaiized tesrdrop. buf
with an eye single 10 their allotted tasks.
anu heart that was steelei ito bear and
20 bleed" they pressed forward Ioor-n.-
neither p t.le rigI.t, nor lett. David. Fsix-..
inSston said, Those VINO have rerey3 =
carried book through the press. casss g
nave no idea of the viii It involves. The
process has increased my respect for an
'hors, and aufhoresses thousand fold.
think had rather cross the African psr.
tinent again, than undertake to write
another book. Nos o.iiy oo Writers have
10 endure the mechanical Iabor, which is
hs;t she locg strain of men-
t''i toll, aud tie reading Of books. that
have bearing on taeir subjects. Ttis
said that George Eliot read one thousand
volumes before she began one Of her nov
els Aud we are toid by another writer
VINO read twenty thohsand books and
wrote two- John Stuart Afils betrays the
secret OF his success, when be says. 81
never Went on e-y errPnd. even In the
rain, witaeat having my book in nv hand
and learning something By heart. andI
never waited at tie pastoffice withou.
reading" Carlyle. TIE author Of that old
ind powerful style of writing, that took
Us name from him. was refused bv scv
.rai publishers before he could find one.
Who would undertake his FIRST book. and
hough he wrote several during his life
inc it took him fifteen pears of hard Ia
'or to complete his Frederic. the Great.
{ is said, that one of Longfellow's po-
'ms was written in fonr weeks, but he
pent SIC. months in cutting il down, and
correcting It. TRY again." was Gam
'efta's motio.- when in his first speech
fter many efforts the Judge quietly ask
d him to take his seat, and try again, he
id, until he electrified al France. with
is firey eioquence. In the first speech,
benjamin Disraeli, the Earl Of Beacon
eld, made IN public, be was hissed from
he floor, but sinking with Indignation
nd anger, lie hulled these prophetic
lords in the teeth OF his jeering auditors,
TAe time ,ciE eoaae sshen youria hearme.'
nd who viii be able to separate, Bun
ans Pilgrim Progress, Bedford jail. and
nd The hard lsenta. toll by which he
his family, aud made The
relve years g his prison life a aiesssug
lnankinG.
And i'll coaesasic.. gsug,d remind rcu