The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-03
LITERARY ADVICE.

| l Bill Nye, in Boston Globe
 The following correspondence s how i given to the press for the first time with the consent of the parties: | Vim. Nye, Esq:
 age, with fair education and strong ie,.r. |, succeed have done some writing for the pres. l having written up very nice article on prugrcs- | sive euchre, which was great success and pub. i lished in our home paper. But it wH> moi copied so much in other papers as would i;kc to have SAW it, and take my pen in hand at this tune to write and ask you what there is in the article en- closed that prevents its being copied abroad al. over our broad land. write just us l hope yau would feel perfectly free to write me at any fue. think that writers ought to aid each other lalr, with kind regards, ADELBERr l.. 1KWlA F. 0. Box .T2
 l have carefully read and pondered even the dissertation on progressive ct- chre which you send me, Adelbert. aud l cannot see why it should not be I'll. venously seized and copied by the pres, of the broad, wide land referred to in your letter. If you have time perhaps ! it would be we'll enough to go to the | leading journalists of our country and ask them what they mean by it. You might write till your yertebrg fell out of your clothes on the floor, and it would not do hail SO much good as a persotrai ! conference with the editors of America 1 First prepare your article, then go per sonally to the editors of the country and call them one by one out into the hall | in current of cold air, and explain the article to them. In that way you will form pleasant acquaintances and get solid with our leading journalists You have no idea Adelbert, how lonely and i desolate the life of practical journalist | is
 l ! our fresh young face and your fresh ! young ways and your charming grammat | ieal improvisations, would delight an editor who has nothing to do from year to year but attend to his business.
 Do not try to win the editors of Amer lea by writing poems beginning: Now the merry goatlct jumps
 And the triiing waller dog With the tin can madly humps Like an acrobatic frog.
 At times you will be tempted to write such stuff as this, and mark it with large blue pencil and send it to the pa pers of the country but that is not d 1 good way to do.
 Seriously, Adelbcrt, I would suggest l that you make bold dash for success by writing things that other people are not writing thinking things that other people are not thinking, and saying things that other people are not saving You will say that this advice is easier to give than to take, and agree with you But the tendency of the age is to wear the same style of collar and coat and hat that every other man wears, and to talk and write like other men; and to be frank with you, Adelbert, 1 think it i- an internal shame. If you will look carefully about you, you will see that the preacher, who is talking mostly to dusty pew cushions, Is also the preacher who is thinking the thought of other men. He is up-ending his barrel of sermons annually, and they were made in the first place from the sermons of man who also up,ended his barrel annu ally. Go where the preacher is talking to full houses and you will discover that his sermons are full of humanity and originality. They are not written in q library by man with interchangeable ideas, as automatic cog wheel thinker but they are prepared by man who earnestly and honestly studies the great aching heart of humanity, and full o' sincerity originality and old-fashioned Christianity. appeals to your better i'm pulses.
 How is it with our poetry? As a fcl low-traveler and seasick tourist across lifes tempestuous tide. 1 ask you Adel- bert, who Is writing the poetry that will 1 live? Is 1t the man who is saving out and sand-paperfng stanzas of the same general dimensions as some other poet in which he bewails the fact that h.. loved tall well-behaved accomplished girl, sixteen hands high who did not r,- quite his love?
 An, no. He is not the poet whose terra cotta statue will stand in the cem- etery, wearing a laurel wreath and lumpy brow. Show me the poet who k intimate with nature and who studies the little joys and sorrows of the poor who smells the clover and writes about live, healthy people with ideas and a!- petites. He is my poet
 l apologize for speaking so earnestly Adelbert, but l saw by your latter that you felt kindly toward me. and rather invited an expression of opinion on my part. So l have written more freely perhaps, than l otherwise would. We are both writers Measurablv SO. at least. You write on progressive euchre. and write on anything that can get hold of. So let us agree here and prom ise each other that, whatever we do. We will not think through the thinker of another man. The Great Ruler of the universe has made and placed upon earth good many millions of men. but He never made any two of them exactly alike. We may differ from every one of the countless millions who have prece- ded us, and still be safe Even you and l, Adelbert, may agree in many matters. and yet be very dissimilar At least, I hope so and presume you do also.
 In the language of the late Lydia E. Pinkham, Yours for health,
 BILL ME.