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Show I ettec Writing. New York Ledger. The man who writes agreeable letters about matters that are of no consequence conse-quence to anybody is usually looked upon as a genins; nor can it be denied that the ability to invest nothing with transitory interest is veeuliar gft. But the elajjorator of trifles is seldom good at anytkirT flse. Hid him .descant .des-cant on a weighty subject and he breaks down. His phfcses lack point; his arguments ar-guments back')ue. He may make a sentimental lly sigh, but he will never make stout dispntan6 wince. Trutl. lujika. wears the eiiise of a butterfly but-terfly in a garden, and, though continually contin-ually chasing it through labyrinth of flowers, he is. rarely fortunate enough to put his hat upon It. Our idea of a model letter writer is very different from this. Give us the correspondent who can compress much thought into small compass whose senteuces like the sledgehammer blows delivered in Verdi's "Anvil Chorus," hare a nervous riug aboutithem. The hammer men of thought forges, the men who shape and mold Jreat enterprises enter-prises never write longA rambling, point-no-point letters. Tbtk- have no notion that pen. ink and aper were (jiv en ns to dilnte orr mother's tongue c r that mental gold u a( thj better for Vmg beaten out t hin. Put one of your elegaut scribbler, who boasts that he "can manufacture a delightful epistle without niateral against oue of the ."Sampsons of the .'world of letters." andtwhere is he A sentence of half a dozen lines dou bles him tip. . 'i 4 , ' |