Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-06-08

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pie No I wiil see Vi, In laasmsas
upun your literature. NJ hGznessay
and caasetsnalonsly praise IA ! mssai
titus help 70 lnniei q lingering and
pitiless boEe apOn the public. " I hua'
sstly and coascisnslousay eohasmnsa
il I might thus rub The wpSaa Of q
Dtekens or q Shakespeare.
l. 1 shrink from huAsing ap literary
labor for goa 20 do and receive pay
for IL. whenever your literary pENssa9'
tiOa1s have proved for themselves
that they have . real value you wtli
never have 10 go around hunting for
remuneEaslse literary woFk TO do, Won
viii require more hands than yer
have now. and more brains than yon
probably ever will have, 10 10 essn
haaf IL the sork that xili be offered
you. Now. IN order 20 arrive AZ the
proof Of value. hereinhefore spoken
Of. one media only 70 adopt . very
simple and certainly very cure pro
cess: and that 10 10 ~rite without
pay until somebody oners psy. " M
body offers pAy within three years.
the candidate may look upn this cir
cumstance With the most inpllcit con
idence that saving wood II uhat he
was intended for. n he hAe sny Wis
dom af MI, then he win retire with
dignity and assume his hesvenap
pointed vocation.
In the above remarks have only
offered q course Of action which Mr.,
Dickens and most other successful
literary nen have had 10 follow: but
Il In o course which will and no sym
patty with my clients. perhaps. The
young literary sspirant IN . very
very curious creature. He knows thai
IL he wished to become q timer the
master smith would require him Il
prove the possession Of a good char
acter. and would require him TO prom
Use to stay In the shop three years
possibly four-and would make hin
sweep out and bring water and buils
fires all the first year. and let hin
learn 20 black stoves In the intervals
and for the good. hnest servicel
wouId pay him two suits OF cheaI
clothes and his board: the next yea
he would begin TO receive .~nssructioo,
on hts trade. and a dollar u wee,
would be added to his tnoluments
and two dollars would be added tn
third year and three the fourth: IN,
Oh n. n h. became n frat rate Time
he would get about fifteen % twenty
oT maybe thirty dofa ~ a week, witt
n"rer a possibility ut getting seventy
I'VE while he lived. II he wanted (
- S.rie n mechanic of any other KIN
he would have to UNDERGO this sani'
'e,.i.us, ill-aaid apprenticeship. II h
.ar ted TO tecome u awe or n doc
to, he would have afis times wors.
Cor he would get no'itag at all dur
iai his long apprenticeship. and In nd
dition would have to pay a large sun
for tuition, and have the privilege U
boarding and clothing himself.
t4ardihood Of Aspirants.
The literary aspirant knows al
this, and yet ne has the hardihood b
present himself for reception into tn
literary guild. and ask to share III
high honors and emoInments withou
a single twelse-months' appretieeshi.
to show IN excuse for his presumr
ton. He would smile pleasantly 1
he ere asked to make even so sim
pie a thing as a ten-cent tin dippe
without previous instruction In tn
art: but, all green and ignoran,
wordy. pompously assertive. ungran
NAUTICAL, with a vague distorted know
ledge Of men and the world acquire
In a back country village. he will ~
renely take up so dangerous a wes
pom as a pen and attack the most TO
midabie subject that. finance, con
n.erce,war or politics can furnish mir
withal. Il would be laughable II
we're not sad and pitahla The pna
fellow would not intrude upon th
tin.shop without an Apprenticeship,
but liz willing TO seize and WELD wit
Impractical hand an instrument
which Is able to overthrow dynastie'
change religions and decree tho wes
or woe Of nations.
u II my correspondent will write fire.
of charge for the newspapers Of hi
} neighborhood. II will be one Of tn
, strangest things that ever happene
II he does not get all the empio!
ment he can attend to on those term
And as soon as ever his writings III
worth money, plenty Of people wi
hasten to offer IL.
II And, by the way OF serso IL rnd We
meant encouragement. ! wish to nre
upon him once more the truth thu
acceptable writer's for the press N
so scare that book aud periodical pul
fishers are seeking them constant,
. and with vigilance that never grow
/ needless for a moment.
MARK TWAIN.
Death From LoekJaw.
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