The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-24
POET RILEY BIAS A RIVAL.
Hoosier Laureate is in Danger Of
Being Crowded Out.
tChlcag 50 Inter Ocean.


/ Chicago Inter 0ceanl
! James b. Gilmore, the poet from Ripley
4 township. Morgan county, Indiana has.
/ just issued a new book OF poems and is
/ now engsged in paddling the work about
Gilmore wears a pair Of gum boots. a fur
J cap. and his tout ensemble sis weird and
/ pecuilar- IN spedkAng 10 a cofrespohQenI
4 OF the Sunday Inter Ocean about his
work, he said.
! MY new book is going like hot cakes.
{ People have begun 10 appreciate my ge-
MUS, and 1t is no trouble for me to sell
4 fifty books a day. I tried putting it in
{ handle it right. They didn't understand
7 the good points OF the poetry, but when
/ that 1 have what he wants VIXEN I read
MN rev selections from some Of my
Z ever I read a few poems the hesitatiug
/ customer shells out in hurry Ihese
/ DEFY any. man TO get Out anything as
( good The differences between me and
/ and theB. get SYen-headed and go 10
/ handHng big words ana big IDEAS thar
dos with a bone They mouth it awhile
! is true TO nature. right in sight all the
/ tlOwu talk. Some people think anything
! is poetry that sounds so big that they
cant understand it. But you bet they All
! knock under when they read mine.
] Jim Ahitcomb Riley Is a poeI-dog
Z
i he stuck to nature, bat in late years he
I has been writing a lot of flapdoOdle that
wasn't thai they want ed to be considered
( literary. IL always palmer than pigs
I career writing the stuff he is giving out
( today some editor woulda have shot hint
would have gone to hts funeral. either. /
( am going TO write a poem pretty soon on
I Riley chitter-ehatter. and 7 tell YOU I'll
/
SHOWN up- have named my farm
\ crown Hill because the house stands on.
/ q pretty knoll right in the center of it.
1 The farm is like d trough, and yet is
! not TOO trOughv. It is one of the best
name Ike Crown fiill' VIII help it out.
! as literary folks and fellows who gain
/ fane always name their farms some
I s Mr.. Elmore's latest effUsions are quite
I up to the high standard of his previous
I efforts and the book is redoIent Of clover,
! nay ana maple sugar The foi.lle9Iwing is
dies Athsnian club:
4 They teach the lessons as they. ought,
As mothers fraught with care,
+ And briug from choa-s and from naught
Good blessings everywhere.
a delightfu exposition OF the poet. his
naturas and his province, is made in a
floral bunch beginning:
.
His thoughts are close akin to love
When nature meets his eye.
Mr.. Fillmore keeps a book mark at this
poem, and after he reads II the listener.
never fails to buy one Of the b0Oks-he's
afraid another viii be sprung
+ The poem that viii probably strike the
euohe most IsVora3Iy IS one esltltled Aly
Gilmore descrIoes the social gatherings he
graced in company with the beloved
q q "a nIfG1T a
lions may be imagined from the follow
( ing touching stanzas;
often we would have a party
In the neighbOrhoOd around:
n Every VoungSter in the country
4 Would be there 50 hale and sound.
i We would choose our faYorite lassies
For the tune of 'tENeeVily ~ heat
+ Up ard down the fioortxe tTpbed it.
/ Planting Kisses on their cheeks
( The Miller Boy, was favorite pastirne;
With a pawn above your mead:
The 224,t 2yXp fir must J. some way redeem 1t
Every yard must have a marking
With a stamp of loving bliss
! IS We gave the marking kiss.
I His love affair with Mary began in
school and was ardent from che first. He
/ says:
We would write ON little verses.
I W'htch we passed across, the room;
They We're sweeter than the DAISIES
Or the lilies in full bloom
The loye.-naking was not confined 10
tells US that:
All the kisses that gave her
She would answer Just the same;
From her lips as pure as nectar,
Lake sweet honey dew they came.
Mr EImore assures his reaaers that
their hearts at this time were young ana
tender, and their love continued for
until one evil day z VOlug fellow from
RerrysVille way the is described in the
a village by the seal came along ana
I beat Jim OUT
And his heart was full of glee
And he stole the heart Of Mary
Which ! thought she had for me.
But III always long to see her.
for the dart OF Cupid SHINES
While a spark of life is glowing,
aud the loving heart repines.
Mr.. ElInore IS a believer in the bicycle
girl and pays q compliment to one in
long poem beginning as follows;
Little Jennie rides a bike
Like an arrow down the pike;
she IS bllthe as any roe,
cheeks as sweet as biuet-doux.
One of Mr.. Elmore's first poems and
one mat helped him mount the ladder TO
the present dizzy erninenee which he nov;
wreck on the Nonon raiIr5adz near tins
city several years ago.
She strikes against a broken ran,
When all the cars 1t does deraH
And down they plunge into the deep.
a depIh OF more than sixty feet
But there they lay in crimson snow