The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-24
POET RILEY HAS A RIVAL.
Hoosier Laureate is in Danger of
Being Crowded Out.
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Hoosier Laureate is in Danger of
Being Crowded Out.
Chicago Inter ocean,
James 3. Gilmore. the poet from Ripley
township Morgan county, Indiana has
Just issued a new book OF poems and is
the city and through the country. Mr.
Elmore wears a pair Of gum boots. a tur
peculAaf, IN 5peaking 70 a cQrEesp ohq5Ilt
OF TIE, sunday Inter Ocean about his
My new book is going like hot cakes.
Reople-ha begun to appreciate my ge-
mus, ana u IS no trouble Tor me TO sell
ulty books q day / tried putting y IN
the hands Of agents. but they couldn't
handle = right They didn't understand
the good poIuts OF the poetry. but when
/ sell them myself I soon convince a man
that I have what he wants when / read
him q few selections from some Of my
each night to- get a new supply When
ever 1 read a few poems the hesitating
( last poems OF mine are elegant, and
dety any man 10 get out anything as
the other poets is that / stick to nature
and hey get Swell-headed and go 10
cog with bone They mouth it awhile
and then bury II I keep nay bone Thich
Time They cover theirs up with high
tlown talk. some people think anything
can understand it. But you bet they all
knock under when they-read mine.
Jim Whitcomb Riley is a poet-dog
with bone. III was all right as long as
he stuck to nature, bat in late years he
has been writing a lot Of flapdoodIe that
nobody can get neads or tails pr and that
nobody would .pay any attention 10 II II
WASH that they wanted to be considered
I feet that if Riley had begun his literary
career writing the stuff he is giving out
today some editor would have shot hint
early II me game, and not many Iolk
would have gone to his funeral. either
am going to write a poem pretty soon on
Riley $ chit ger-ehat tier, and tell YOU i il
make it hot Tor him He ought to be
( shown ND; have named my farm
crown HILL because the house stands on
pretty knoll right in the center of it,
The farm Is like a trough, and yet Is
rot too trOughy- It is one OF the best
farms ia the county, and I think a good
AZ literary folks and fellows Who gain
fanne always name their farms some
/ thing.
( Mr.. ElmOTe's latest illusions are quite
] ub TO the high STANDARD Of his previous
4 efforts and the book is redolent Of clover,
/ hay and maple sugar. The following is
/ INTENDED as a compliment TO The La
! dies Athsnian club:
1 They teach the lessons as they ought,
As molners traught with care,
Good blessings everywhere.
/ a delightful exposition Of the poet. his
nature. and his province, is made in a
lloFal bunch beginning;
The nost lives in tbo,,gBts above
The blue ethereal sky;
His thoughts are close akin to love
When nature meets his eye.
air Gilmore keeps a book mark at this
never fails "a I,ti,s one Of the 15oolssEhess
afraid enOther win be sprung.
public most fsTorlI1 f. r,ISs tntifieS Nv
Sweetheart of T.777e- Ago In fhfs Mr.
Gilmore describes the Social gatherings he
MARI ana tbei cI8racttT of Ifese fIrrtl
lions may be imagined from Che follow
( ing -t01Ichins sf5nZas.
often we. would have q Marty
In the neighb6rhood around:
Would be there 50 hale and sound.
For the tune of lvVeetfiv .Itiheat.5.
Up and down the i6or,we Tipped it,
Planting kisses on rbafr checks
Win a pawn above your asad i;''7'-'''.-'
The owner must some way redeem IL
With three yards Of tape Instead
with a stamD of loving bliss
Nothing rOlrId he half 81 folly
As we gave the marking kiss
His love affair win Mary began in
school and was ardent from Che fifst. ne
says:
Vyhieh we psssej across fhS Too,,..
They were sweeteq~ than the dasfes
or the lilies in sun bloom
The love-maIling was not confined to
verse writing, however. Tor Mr. f5Irnore
All the kisses that I gave her
She would answer just the same.
From her lips as pure as nectar
Mr.. EImore assures his reaeers that
their hearts at this time were young ana
tender, and their love continued for
un5II one evil dav a vo5lnr fei1o1[ frr,r,,