The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-05-14

Bm Sye'. Advice to Member of the

a WOuLC-EE LITERARY LIGHT
bn1 Sye's Advice 70 a Member Of the
The following correspondence Is now
given 20 the press for the first time with
the consent Of the parties -
5.s' WILLIAM NIE, Esq.
cs'DEAE SIR am a young man, twenty
wrars OF age, with faiT education and
e4i8u- Lg-ir. To succeed. / have done
some writing for the press, having
written up very nice article on
prUgresz.,e CuchTe, which was great
success and published in our home paper.
But II was not copied so much in other
papers as would liked 10 have saw II,
ana take my pen In hand az this time to
write and ask YOU what there Is in the
article enclosed that prevents It's being
copied abroad all over our broad land.
write Just as I hope you would feel per
fectly freC.to write me al any time.
think that winters ought 70 aid each other.
Yours with kind rCgIrds ADELUEI.T J..
TEwET.
"P.O box GUI.7
Il have carefully read and pondered
over the dissertation on progressive euchre
which YOU send me, AdeLbeTt and I cannot
see why il should not be ravenOusly seized
and copied BY the press Of the broad land
referred 20 In your letter II you have
90 20 the leading journalists Of our country
and ask them what they mean by It, You
might write till your vertebTJe fell out Of
your clothes on the floor, and II would
not do half SO much good as q personal
conference with the editions of America.
First prepare your article, thGn 20 person
ally to the editors Of the country and call
them one by one cut into the hall IL
current of cold ar and explain the article
aL e. .f-.-.-
ant ecQuamtances and get solid with our
leading journalists.
seriously. AdeIbert I would suggest
that you make a bold dash for success by
writing things that other people are not
writing, thinking and saying things that
other people are not saying. You VIII say
that this advice is easier to give than to
take, and agree with you. But the tend
encv OF the age is 70 wear the same style
OF collar ana coat and hat that every other
man wears and TO talk and write like other
men and, "a be frank with you, Adelbert,
think it is an Internal shame. If YOu
viii look carefully about you You will see
that the preacher who h talking mostly to
dusty pew cushions is also the preacher
who is thinking the thoughts Of other men.
He IS sup-euding' his barrel Of sermons
annuity. and they were made IN the first
place from the sermons OF q man who also
where the preacher is talking to full houses
and you win discover that his sermons are
full Of humanity and originality They
are not written in a library by a man with
terChangeable ideas an aUtOmastc cog
wheel thinker, but they are prepared by
O man who earnestly and honestly studies
the great aching heart Of humanity and,
full of sincerity, originality and old fash
iUued Christianity, appeals 70 your better
impulses
"HOw is 1t with our pOetry2 As a fell
low traveller and seastck tourist across
Efe's tampestuUus tide, ask you, AdeIbert
who is writing the poetry that viii live2
Is il the man who Is saving out and sand
pugering stauZas of the same general di-
raensiCns as some other poets, in which he
bswails the fact that he loved tall well
behaved, accomplished girl, sixteen hands
high, who did not reQuits his lover " All,
no. He Is not the poet whose terra Gotta
stutUe VIII stand in the cemetery, wearing
a laurel wreath and O lumpy brow Show
mo the poet who Is intimate with
nature and studies the little Joys and sor-
rows Of the poor, who smells the clover and
writes about 1--we, healthy people with
ideas and appetites He Is my poet
HI apologize for speaking so earnestly,
Adelbcrt, hut I saw by your letter that
You felt kindly toward me and rather in
vited ~ expression Of opinion on my part.
so I have written more freely, perhaps,
than I otherwise would We are both
writer's. Ne8surably 20 at lgast. NOu
write on prJgrrssiv" cuChrC, mud I write
on anything that I cau get hold Of In
the language Of the late Lydia +. Piullham,
yours for health BILL NYE"-i Boston
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