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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14
Coates Kinney and His Poetry

ago he struck the chord of popular SYM
pathy with his song of The Rain Upon the
a widespread popularity that, like "Ben
Bolt" 1t has served ever since to obscure
the greater light of his stronger and more
intense poetry. This has seemed hardly fair
to a great. thoughtful poet like Kinney; but
now, in the perfectly fitting and beautiful
robes, in which the last loving touches of
the author hav left il, it is certainly
worthy of the face 10 which il seems to be
heir. and in keeping with the genius OF the
man who also wrote Madonna" Ships
Coming In" The Cry of a Woman"
Sane Emma Stuart" "Old Glory" IN
tervale," THE Heroes of the Pen" Mother
of Glory, - "A Keen. Swift Spirit and other
poems of surprising strength and beauty.
Kinney was greatly interested in those
studies and speculations which most men
dismiss as belonging TO the unknowable,
ana TO these MS long poem, In four parts,
called "Mists of Fire is devoted. When
first appeared. the prevailing pessimism OF
the performance, which seemed TO give
Pessim the better in all his with
Optim. had the effect of leading the public
10 look upon the author as a hopeless pessi-
mist, and to thereby subtract from his rep
utatlon as a poet: But when, later, they
reappeared following "Kupnisma'' i'm 1.-The
Mists of Fire" which concludes with the
glOriously beautiful and hopeful "A Keen.
Swift Spirit the sky was largely cleared
and the poet revealed in his true character,
as a deeply earnest and inspired student and
prophet of the mysteries of the material and
spiritual. But enough. l think the future
may be trusted TO give our greatest of mid
die Western poets his rightful place among
the poets OF the world. a place which ne
narrowly missed in life. because he gave too
much of himself to politics. the law and
ordinary editorial drudgery. He was a
born poet, if ever there was one, and should
never have laid of his singing robes ex-
ccpt for needed rest and recreation /
learn that Colonel Kinney has left much
valuable literary material. in addition 10
that already published. Though not in
formed as 10 the fact. I think il probable
that Prof. Emerson Nenable. of Cincinnati,
may be his literary executor. and i'm that
event the public may look for a most care
full and ~painstalGing rendition of the best
work of one OF the best and most original
poets this country has produced. as Pro-
fessor Venable will be guided not only by
his own learning and skill. but also have
the very valuable aid of his father, DIT. w.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14
What the Girls Findto Talk About
Happenings n the Daily Round that Set Feminine Tongues
to Running
to Running

temper that ever I want to come. I love
TO sew, really, and a girl wants such a lot
of little fancy waists and things like that,
you knOw-and / just can't afford to have
everything made. 1 took to putting my
bodices over a chair-back and pinning the
trimmings on there before trying it on. But
you know I'm not the shape of a chair
back, and when I'd slip the thing on every
inch of trimming would be at right angles
to the way it ought to be.
'"Then / tried using a pillow as a model
figure. Did you ever try stufing a pillow
into one of your bodices. It's the hardest
kind OF work: and always when 1 would
get the thing pummeled into some SEM
blance to shape and start adjusting my
rufhes and trimmings, the pillow would
get topply and tumble over, and then 1
had the pummeling all to do over again.
l was laboring over a dressed-up pillow
one day last week when one of the girls
l know came in. For goodness sake, put
on your things and come down town with
me- she said. I'll show you something
that will give you some comfort. Well,
she piloted me up to the corset section of
one of the stores where l always got my
%corsets, and explained to the woman that
We wanted one of the Forms they fitted
corsets on. She took my size and said she
would send up one of the models that they
use for my particular style of corset-for
81 When the armless wonder arrived il
turned out TO be too long-waisted for me,
so l went down again and told my troubles;
and the shoplady took me up in one of
the storerooms, where all the ghostly forms
OF the corset models were stuffed away.
ana we overhauled them until we found
one that my jacket fitted perfectly: then
they sent that one up and ever since We
been hanging over the thing. cutting and
bastinS and pinning,- and dressmaking has
become a joy
Two or three OF the girls in town who are
fond OF fashioning the simpler items OF
their own nnery possess one OF the adiusta-
bic wire dummies that dTessmakers some
times have; But the corset models have the
advantage over the latter of being less
bulky and of being beside very cheaD. They
may be procured from almost any of the
shops IN town at prices from fifty cents to
one dollar and with "a little attention to
measurements almost any girl can get one
that comes near enough the outlines of her
own figur 10 be, If not invariably a thing of
beauty, at least a 10y forever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

H. Venable. the lifelong personal and liter
airy friend of Col. Coates Kinney.
The following is the poets last version
of The Rain on the Roof the one in
which he was DESTROYS to have it perpet-
uated. While it may not, on a first read
ing, quite please those who nave been IA
miliar with it in it's earlier forms, am
sure a little careful consideration of it will
show that in this form il is one of the most
perfect as well as beautiful among the
many poems of memory and affection:
RAIN ON THE ROOF.
When the lowering humid darkness
over all the starry spheres
Flows and falls like sorrow softly
Breaking into blessed tears,
Then how sweet TO press the pillow
OF a cottage chamber bed
And lie listening 70 the raindrops
On the low roof overhead.
To the pit-pat on the shingles
Answer echoes in the heart;
And dim dreary recollections
Into form and being start,
And the busy fairy Fancy
Weaves her air-threads. warp and wool,
As j listen to the patter
OF the light rain on the roof.
Now in memory comes nv mother
As she used in summers gone.
Taking leave Of little faces
That her loving look shown on:
As I feel the old refrain = "e
Here repeated on the shingles
BY the Datter Of the rain.
Then my little seraph sister
With the wings and waving hair
And her star-eyed clerub brother
\ serene angelic pair
Glide around my wakeful pillow
With sweet praise or milo reprOof.
As / shut my eyes and listen
To the soft rain on the roof.
AND another comes. 10 thrill me
With her eyes bcwitching blue
And ! mind not, musing on her.
That my heart she never knew:
1 remember but TO love her
With a passion kin 70 pain.
Ana my quickened pulses culver
To tie natter of the rain.
Art hath naught Of tone or cadence,
Naught OF music's magic spell.
That can thrill the secret fountain
Whence the tears OF rapture well
Like that weird nOcrturne OF Nature
That subduod. subduing strain
Which Is played upon the shingles
By the patter or the rain.
~ISf9-1S99.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14
There's a pleasant little bayou
In the rivery rush OF life,
Up in beautiful Ohio,
Where L rest me from h strife.

NleIe Il Eit liOAA t"S SNA-F
And now, the language of the little quo
tation is more largely true of the permanent
rest into which he has fallen. His death oc-
CURED of pneumonia, at the Presbyterian
Hospital at Cincinnati on Jan. %, and a few
days later his burial took place in the quiet
country cemetery at Waynesville, o., where
he sleeps by the side of the wife of his
youth. whom he almost adored and who was
probably the Emma Stuart of his rarely
musical poem. beginning
'Oh, the voices of the crickets chirping sad
along the lea,
Are the very tears of music unto melancholy me,
And the k%atydid's responses, up among the To-
Make my spirit very lonesome on these mellow
autumn ewes;
For they MIND me-. Emma stuart, of that happy,
bygone time
When our heart-beats paired together like sweet
~syllables In rhyme.
Coates Kinney had the good fortune TO
live out his seventy-eight years of life
without any apparent diminution in the
power and scope of his genius or any weak
ening of his strong. critical judgment which
directed him so surely in his estimates of
his own work as well as that of contem-
pOrary writers.
a lifelong student of language and liter
allure. he was most enamOred OF the Greek.
and outside of the English. most thoroughly
acquainted with il. | remember that he
then read the Illiad of Homer in the
original Greek for the seventeenth time.
l think his own character and poetry,
while of a clearly and wonderfully original
type. We're modified and cOlored by the far
away life, thought and art of ancient
Greece. He was most successful. however.
in his pictures of the scenes and emotions
common to American life. Fifty-five years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

@1HE home d~ressinakers among the
society girls of Indianapolis-and
- there are a good many of them
I&1gXN be II -known-may cheer up, for
- one girl has found out the way
TO make home ~dressmaking easy-or at
least a good deal easier than it has been
heretofore. Only a few bright girls have as
yet caught on" to the idea, but so soon
as it becomes generally known, the corset
section of the department stores may ex-
pect a deluge of amateur dressmakers in the
search of forms" For the discovery is
simply this-to possess oneself of one of
those familiar forms which every store uses
for the display of its corset models, and
TO use it for the fitting of the waists and
bodices which one fashions at home.
Nobody who has never tried knows the
endless amount of time and energy that is
wasted in the trying-on process when one
is being ones own dressmaker. Nothing
ever fits ut the first trying and the gar
ment has TO be slipped of for each altera-
ton and slipped on again to see if the alter
alton alters satisfactorily-and as in nine
cases out OF ten il does not. the slipping
on-and-on process goes on Indefinitely. Be-
sides, there is the a~nguishing twisting Of
the neck in an effort TO see inaccessible
portions of ones anatomy, and the incalcul-
able wear on the patience and the temper.
Taking it all III all, the fitting and making
of a waist Of any pretensions whatever all
by ones self is n process that might well
try the patience of the meekest and most
Iong-suffering Of saints.
Every woman who frequents the depart
ment s~tores-every person. in fact, that
passes the show windOws-is more or less
familiar with the headless. armless. legless
forms Of symmetrical curves which are
used TO show of the good points of some
featured corset. It is not odd that the idea
OF procuring one of the dummies of modish
curves TO use as a lay figure in her dress
making should have appealed TO one bright
girl. who had been through the various
stages Of enthusiasm. doubt and despair
that the fitting Of a bodice to ones own
person entails. The only wonder is that il
did not occur long before.
Its the biggest comfort ever was" said
one young woman the other day as she
dropped down in the corner OF the street
car seat after an afternoons shopping and
proceeded 10 tell her companion all about
H. Ever try making a waist with trim
mings up and down the back and little bre-
telles and things. and Try the fitting of all
those things yourseif2 Ever try holding a
handglass In one hand so that you could see
the set Of your back. taking up the under
arm seam with the other hand and attempt-
ing 20 pin IL with both? Well. I've done it
all and I've come the nearest 10 dislocation
4 the neck and permanent injury to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

Across the years 7 fly on tireless wing:
No rest / ever know on, on / go.
Nor stay my ordered flight for friend or foe.
once past / never shall return 20 bring
Again my gifts 50 often spurned. for. 10.
Each moment Is a bridge that's burned. I
know
No haste, Yet IN my flight outspeed the light.
While out OF seconds agcless cycles grow.
Who knows ms name and freely will bestov
On me his best OF hand and heart and mind.
III give him true success and clearly show
The secret OF my power 20 bless mankind:
he me enjoys who we employs Alright.
Ny name Is Now, lay hold with all thy might.
-Orville 7. Fietche.. ia Albany Evening Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

A Tribute to the Lately
Deceased Writer by His
Friend and Fellow-Poet.
benjamin =. Parker ~ y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

Fly YEARS AGO, when Coates
Kinney was associated with w. L.
Coggeshall in the editorship OF
that most promising of early
Western magazines, THE Genius
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14
Was 1t Carpenters Ghost?

18TH and Barbara-which is what
they are called for purposes OF
publication. not their names in
the everyday world-are devoted
cb,,ms The combination is one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14
Given in Two Important Art
cred Exclusively Feminine
Practical instruction

he cooking school girl has with
in the last few years furnished
the comic paper humOrists with
an endless chain of jokes relative.
10 undercooked or overdone dain-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

Well. that is all II this We're fiction
il would De easy 10 make a dramatic nding
where Mr.. Carpenter finally succeeded in
giving his message and pointing out EVIL
dence 20 convict the murderer: but as IL
is "A plain story of bare facts. IL must be
stated that the young gady's invincible re-
puugance 90 supernatural experiences pre-
vailed, and Mr.. Carpenter apparently re-
signed an further attempts To
cate with her.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

of the West" he wrote of his home at "
low Springs:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-14

iE home dressmakers among the
society girls OF Indianapolis-and
there are a good many of them
be 1t known-may cheer up, for
nnn nirl he fnr,na an IL -..
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27

Huntsville. Ala, Oct. IS. In q
sermon in the First Methodist
Church Sunday, Rev Frank P.
colver paid his respects to the jury.
men who acquitted the alleged
lynchers in the circuit court two OF
three weeks ago and said
There is a condition of things
prevailing in our midst prophetic Of
the worst. Men are afraid they
dare not speak out. / refer to that
spirit which defes law, tramples
down authority, disrespects civil
magistrates and intrigues against
justice. also refer to that despic-
able spirit of sympathy with law
lessness that venal spirit which,
though too cowardly to imperil it
self by deeds of violence, yet de-
lights to see.it done by others.
"If it IS a lawyers 5 sworn duty to
try to set scot free every client.
whether innocent or guilty. then
before would practice law I would
pick rags. sweep the streets or do
rather than lose my self
respect aud honor Especial to
Times Democrat.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27
Happenings at LOrman.

The Lorman correspondent of the
Fayette Chronicle says:
"Dr. Foster is recovering from
slight injuries received from a run
away buggy horse.
"Over at Cohn Bros. store some
changes have taken place recently :
Mr.. Brown, the bookkepper. has
resigned and returned to Mobile /;
Miss Vivien Martin has accepted
the position of stenographer Mr..
Battle Wade is at work with this
firm, and Mr.. Porter of Louisiana
is a recent addition the force.
Mrs. George Oakman died Tues
day night after only a brief illness.
Mrs. Oakinan was a daughter OF
Rev. John Thompson. formerly pas
tor of the Baptist church here. Be
sides her fathers family. who are
now residents of copiah county,
her grief stricken husband aud three
little children survive her. All have
the sympathy of this entire COM
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27

The Man Who Depredates Upon
the knick-Knacks Greatly
Dreaded.

|
Every groceryman is tormentec
by class of visitors who buy little
but eat much. When one of these
marauders enters the store, the
heart of the proprietor almost sinks
to the floor, for he knows that the
profit made on the last sale will be
consumed. The visitor begins at
the door pricing and tasting each
edible as he goes. He rarely buys
he did not come for that purpose;
he merely wanted to satisfy his ap-
petite at the expense of others. He
IS ansunwelcome visitor. though he
does not seem to know it.
If only one man in town was
guilty of this mode of depreciation
the loss to the groceryman would
not be so great but there are doz-
ems. So numerous are they that all
kinds of contrivances have been in
vented to check their onslaughts
cutters that protect the cheese in
tricate fastenings for cracker boxes
and show cases. and many other
things which, though expensive,
pay for themselves many times.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27
WRECK on LITTLE J.


Natchez, Miss, Oct. z3.-Thre
trainmen were killed and six othe
persons injured in a head-on coils
ion this morning at 4: 80 o'clock a
apoint two and one-haIf miles nortf
of Stampley, Miss, a station on the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Rail
road, sixteen miles from Natchez,
| The dead
| William H. Schesler of Natchez,
white engineer on northbound train.
Emile Mackey of Vicksburg,
white fireman on northboupd train.
John Allen of Natchez, negro
brakeman on northbound train.
OF the six injured only two are
white, and all are trainmen except
one. 1t is believed the injuries are
of fatal character.
Conductor B. J. Iearwood of the
northbound train sustained an in
jury to his back.
Schesler was decapitated, and his
body and those Of the fireman and
the negro brakeman were taken
from beneath the debris near their
posts. The latter two are horribly
mangled.
Engineer G. w. Hatchett of the
southbound train saved himself by
Jumping.
The trains, northbound passen-
ger and a southbound mixed train,
came together at a curve between
two inclines, and the engine and
several cars of each train teIescoped. |
Both engines were completely de-
and six box cars and two
passenger coaches wrecked. The
impact threw the passengers the
antire length of the coaches. Fire
started in Que Of the wrecked coach
IS. but the progress of the flames
vas quickly stayed by energetic ac-
ion on the part of passengers and
rain crews. !
The exact cause of the wreck
aimot be ascertained al this time. /
1 is alleged, however, that orders
we're given for the trains to meet at
These orders were evil
emily misinterpreted by the north
ound train Special to the N. o. :
'icayune.
Mackey, one of the killed, was a
on Of S. H. Mackey of Vicksburg. I
ormerly resident Of Claiborne :
ounty.
1t was reported at Port Gibson =
londay that Mr.. B. F. Chisholm, :
member of the Port Glib
on police force, was among the
illed. but this is not true. It is
ot probable that Mr.. Chisholm S
'as even on either of the trains. {
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27


Hon. L. /. Pollitt, representative
of the Demociatic national cam
paign committee, held conference
this morning with members of the
Parker and Davis club of Jackson,
and a special committee was named
TO assist Mr.. Pollitt In soliciting
contributions to the campaign fund
for use in the doubtful states. He
was escorted around the city by
Messrs. w. II. Potter and r. v.
Rachford, and about 5000 was
raised during the forenoon. Jack
SON Cor. Natchez Democrat.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27

Ordered that the question of a
levy Of a special tax for the pur-
pose of sprinkling the streets be
continued until the next regular
meeting.
Ordered that E. S. & ]. T. & H.
w. M. Drake are hereby appointed
attorneys for the town for three
months from this date, they to re-
ceive for such service the sum Of
$50. E. ]. SMITH, Clerk.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27

You have no idea what pretty
Glassware and Chinaware you can
get at our roc. counter. Come and
look at them.
David Books Department Store.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1904-10-27

You can find new line of Dress
Goods ard Flannels way below the
regular price at David Books De-
partment Store.
The Washington times., 1904-03-06

been superseded by tulle. while even
that favored flower of many genera
tons, the orange blossom. is frequently
nowadays noticeable by its absence.
myrtle or white heather taking its place.
White heather is looked upon as a won
derfully lucky flower. but like the four
leaved shamrock. its scarcity created
It's good fortune. Now it Is said to be
cunningly bleached in order that the
supply may cover the demand.
Simple Garments for Out-of-Doors.
Scotch tweeds and coarse hopsacks arc
In greater demand than ever for out
door costumes, and as goods of this
kind are low in price and r7 extra
wide, the cost of a dress is inl- nsider-
able II made at home. The construction
OF aoleio or a coat is simplicity itself
Tor outdoor garments are ali loose-dt-
ting, and therefore do not need 10 be
accurately fitted 10 the figure. All the
newest shapes in skirts for ordinary
wear are made to clear the ground at
the back. and there is more fuIlness over
the hips; this is much more comforta-
Ole style FOR the Winter than the ordi-
nary right-htring skirt. Loose fitting
flannel blouses are still very popular:
the newest shape is completely closed in
front. and there is no under-arm seam.
as side piece is cut all in one with
the front In order that the blouse may
set to the figure over the hips. the ma
terial will have to be cut and left open
from the waistline TO the hem at the
under-arm each side; the fastening is at
the back. The newest shape sleeve for
blouses is very much fuller at the cuff
end. and can either be left open or gath
cred on TO a velvet band at the wrist.
The Washington times., 1904-03-06
OLD-TLME SILKFN FPOCKS
AND ORANGE BLOSSOMS

N MONG the combinations Of color
17 which are exercising the minds
eI of the great powers in the world
Of fashion Is blue and purple. the blue
being the kind which is known as sea
blue" while the purple takes to itself
a reddish tinge. Truth TO tell. this par
ticular melange is rather daring. but
curious contrasts appear to be so much
in fashion just now that we are bound
TO accept them together with all the
many and various sensations TO which
we have almost grown accustomed Of
late. In the case Of millinery there is a
good deal of yellow 20 be seen. more
especially a mixture OF yellow and
orange, and this is even to be observed
on the newest blouses, the yellow being
of soft primrose hue and the orange
introduced in the form Of velvet trim
ming and buttons. And apropos It
might be added Ihat among the new
linen costumes yellow Is 70 play quite
a leading part, one of the smartest
frOcks Of the kind which was shown z
little while ago at one OF the most ex-
elusive ateliers having been carried out
in linen Of an almost golden shade
adorned with a yoke Of hand-wrought
linen lace 10 match. which was cut low
80 as TO cover the shoulder, the sleeve
being shaped into the irregular edges
OF the lace In this case the gown was
really refreshingly simple medallLens
Of lace figuring at intervals on the
skirt and wee lace buttons being the
only forms OF supplementary adorn-
ment introduced. Pink linen Will like
wise form the groundwork for some
beautiful gowns and white linen will
also be much used.
women were rather amused when
first (sOme little time ago. mankind