The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-01

and that he would leave his narA upon the world >emc daNs Didn't I say that Martha. eh 9' and then lac would stick his thumbs under the arms ot his waist coat and look solemuly rNuud with the air ot a man who knew good deal moro than lac chose to say
 There wcrr two other NcrN remark able circumstances which led Ia a great deal af dtscus>jou about this mysterious atiair. and which think ought to mention The one that struck people as most strange Was that Iompklns Was continually changing ht> residence AS surely as hc remained iu a town over q month hls articles would heeln Ia iall oti and show signs otComptctr cessation but on his removal to some othru local
 ty. thcN would recommeuce with uu- ahited fertility and ueor fhc other remarkable ClreumStauc" Wa~ that though Tompklu> was tho arkn"W tCdsvd author ut >onc of the most magnificent poetry and un,le>t lan'~c which had ever been written vet I"mpklnS th" man remained ta all intrut> and pur poses the low. vulgar ant ignorant m dlNi,lual that he had al"aN~ hesu w." have heard a rood dcal et d~,u<>pau and speculation latrlN as |" whether th" poet h, greater than tu~ poem ot whether the poem be greater than the poot but there wasn't much r",m f'r d~,asslan in rampkin>~ sA~e tu-uius great writer has told u~ k something out side ourselves not uur ,svu aud thl~ must have been particularly true ot r,mpklu~ q for h. ScrtaulN G,ju [ got Il about mai when had the rlca~ureo vi meeting him unless naccd he was the exception winch mo>cd tn" rHie. and in hls ease II Was s'netluat its t. which would account tet H. non appear arr.,.=on the ~uttaer Ills lack "t IHt,r est Ill ht> work too rN,ept4uc av a moau> tu the vul ut rouud~ >hllhH> pence. .wa> realh must te'ua1 kthle llr would .rud tn h th, magazines or r,Ntew~ a #lsa'u CT article eloNnE "lth hctN enthusiasm and nrlot and N't when some one whom h~ Nord- A,d toustei would call ta thank hgm tar hls noble uttcfaur,. h. Weuli remark that hc wished to ha,le, leeoPlc "tald mlud thclt oWn taruat1"u sugar null. It," guessed h,.d wit the En.-N tlunF and got the dollars tee and hc dteih want tn h,al po no,y ahout that tltu, h- dldu
 .aIi..- alsa. nl.' s.a.'... tr t,..' h'- ant" graph or in tell htm oi thru rapture tu rradlne his last beautiful poem were unutteiddk hofnh,d h hear thca di vlue singer remark mdllA tha hc wished folk. Wauldn come sluir0iuP round hi- plantation wtth thelr eu-~"d pomes H. ekanrd hed pel euitenk else ta ,la than to ltauer about att"r them all da> However euiei and versatile hls intellectual gifts may hay" been len" they refused apparently l." elaborate themselves except III coInFlct" ~uhtadc ial u=as.-AAs- -7uIueluea. th. ease oulnrut -aNant, called Ia ak hla as-lstaucc upon any particular p"int oi ordinary lndiS riual- to "ht5un ulot mAtIou upon my ilurorttHt ~uhI"ct TompkIu- would appear totally and hclll.-~iy ignorant oi tho whole matt'i III the preliminary conversation aud yet when he understood what wa- wanted hc would rottrc tn las room t"r an hour or tw" and presently rrarf"ar with the information required neatly written out III hi-elrat elctkh htnd
 Ia sjdtc however. pi ru~piolrils and louit~. IompI>lne name and fame ptcw greater dal by day lI- learning wa- not hy my u"ana confined tp literary topics for people 'nm" [" lHru from every pant ot the states for information on all sorts "i snli"cts and providing tArl paII tAe-XpLY- -LeAA 4ce- e-whi,h hc invariably charged m nearly every ctsr the information required wac obtained do not mean to imply that he Was never ni fault or that thc kuowlcdRr hc J,,-..s,pd was tllnllihIr lt wouid some tiiu.z happen that hc would remain m hi- room for hout- nud nothing zaiIr factory result tor Ih spti" "' on" "r tw" failure and rh"ttcomingH all who hnd an opportunity oi testing th" hpundl"7r H!-'l4,n "t th,- extraordinary g"niuS c"uid not h"lp feeling that his gifts rnInc llttlr short ui th" miraculous
 Aud su thu" went on and Ioinpkln~ fam" had spread over every pnrt "t hir native cnuntry. and there IS little doubt that hIs reputation and r"nowu would have hccufn" wptld wId" had II hot been for very important event which came unexpectedly to pns4 aYd thn, wn- that hi- narvolon. ~i.ddNn and lcarniIg yan-h~l one da, AS .udd"nIy
 
 He ehdeaYorcd to d-gul,c the fact bin "Ifby announcing that he had retired from husinc,s but II wns known only too well to he family and ac,tunihtancc- that eyer ~luc" onr ct"ntiul morning when h" had been heard using very bad lauguag. III hi~ own room all hs pow CTS pi intellect .cetncd to have dcsrrtcd hiln l. was In yaiu that editors ~rntr offering en"rtuous fees for fl scries of articles from hi- pen, Il wac iu vain that craled cntii,-a-ts iinplor"d hlm to give them as-i-thucc upon some knotty point
 although he accepted s"tn" "f th" oii"r1. and spent hours days even night., locked up in his own room vel nothing cninr pf il and he was obliged at last to Riy" up th" attempt in despair
 For some month. ali America rang with the story of hIs apparently fniraeu- iOu- power, and of their eif"xtfaDrdinafily sudden requirement and no lees extra ordinarily sudden Iisat,IteaFaHce but