The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-15
TO JAMES.
[Bnl, Wye, in Cincinnati GraphicNews.


 garding yourself
 In answer to said letter, wish to state on the start that sixteen pages of infor- nation from a total stranger, and relat- ing solely to his own personal affairs, never fail to touch my heart. You go on to state that you are young man, and that you have fitted yourself to fill any station of life, no matter how ex- alted, and yet there has been a painful reluctance on the part of the station. Stations desiring to be filled seemed to have gone elsewhere
 You have not been discovered as yet, and you are getting impatient. You are calmly waiting for some one to come along, and all at once, in a piercing tone of voice, cXclaim, Eureka, Thus far, however, the Eureka man seems to have gone elsewhere You desire to do some thing by which to catch his eye You state that you are willing to do most anything that will at once bring you to tiI" notice of tine American people.
 But James, do you think this is the right spirit? l know t:.at it is being done all the time in way that makes my heart ache Everywhere We go we find the portrait of some man plastered up against the wall He k rndeayoring Some are succeeding Others are still waiting in the throng unrecognized
 But what have you to offer the Ameri- can people James. when you get the public eye? What will you say to them? Will you say: " Fellow-citizcns, this is indeed an unexpected honor, and then sit down? trust not oh, do not wear out your young fife and -trabismus your self scanning the horizon for the man who is to discover and bring you out. Let me take you out into the hall, James. where the band will not disturb Us so much, and whisper into your large, tor toise-shell ear that the man who sue ceeds is his own discoverer. Some time, in the fresh young morning of life he takes in q bosom full of pure air. and with it an inspiration. He sees what other men have done, and he says, !" can dc that myself" He has seen through the tree-tops a fleeting vision of the golden summit, and has to make the ascent. Between him and that gilt tering pinnacle are the swamps of dis appointment and the torrents of pub lie prejudice, the forests of doubt, and the long, dark, blind trail of Uncertainty, but he must not wait in the valley for man to come down and bring him the pinnacle on a large, white plate
 When Archimedes discovered the law of specific gravity, he was taking bath He jumped i'll and displaced quantity of water equivalent to his own weight That was the golden moment for him He had thought upon this question till his head swam, but now he had solved It. Now he could settle the matter of the adulterated crown.
 It was then that Archie left his ward robe on chair in the bathroom and went forth into the streets, making the remark, Eureka" in an earnest man. ner Little did Archimcdes wot, at that time, that as he meandered down the crowded street with crash towel over one arm, making the statement " Flu rcka, while everybody cheertully al lowed him the whole sidewalk, that he was christening new kinds of soap, ball ing powder stove polish, and corn aston isher But Archimedes did not settle down in Bromide, Utah, and wait to be discovered. He discovered himself. He had faith in himself and then he went forth. He did not wait to dress himself. He was excited. He did not realize his condition till he reached for his ticket on the street car and found that he had left his vest in the bathroom. When he sat down on the car seat it gave him a chilly sensation, and he said that We were having rather backward spring Then the police took charge of him. but ba l. ant on o~,loin,;pn E,ral-a V aX-aD in the Bastile, and to-day Archimedes and his justly celebrated Eureka " are remembered and respected wherever the English language is spoken.
 So, James. if l may assume to advise you, and that was what you asked for, would say, do something smart and great, because you ought to, because it will give you satisfaction, not to catch the public eye. That will be an inevta- ble result if you succeed and the public eye will be the very thing that you can not dodge if you hit the mark, but no man ever succeeded in anything but the soap line, whose sole object was to catch the public eye.
 If you are not worthy, James, let me tell you in plain monosyllables, the ex- plorer who hunts up rising young men can not make you eminent, though he take you by the ear and yell Eureka till he is black in the face.
 Think this over, and get yourself rec ognized as great man in Bromide; then you can try it in Zion, and afterward move toward the larger cities Keep right on digging your toe nails into the granite road and moving up the hill, and at last you will die great, and there will be bulletins about you every hour, and the cemetery in New York and the one in Bromide, will quarrel over V,N,,r pr,