Putnam patriot., 1916-07-28

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 The native jingles and sketches took with the home folks from the start. and James Whtcomb Riley was beginning to find himself. He soon got job on the local paper, but So interspersed his items with verse that he received many editorial admoni- tions. What local editor wants jim gles. even if they be of the Riley or der, in place of neighborhood gossip and news? But through the recita- tions and the scribbling he began to attract attention in the outside world and finally landed a job on the Indian apolis Journal Here his contributions under the name of Benjamin F Johnson of Boone" attracted general attention, which was extended into national fame by the appearance of his first book, still ascribed 10 the mythical Johnson. entitled The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems
 Before this sunburst of fame there were long period of struggle and the usual heart rea5ing experience of the young author in having all his offer ings rejected Riley himself has said something about having his stuff sent hack by the magazines for twenty years" magazines which, by the way, would later have been eager 10 buy the very same stuff at a dollar per word or any other price he might have named It is possible that the ''twen- Y years" can be taken i'll iguratlye sense. Perhaps the time seemed thus long to Riley. He himself evolved theory. which has also been held by a few others before and since, that it was the absence of a well known name attached to his verses which made them q drug on the literary mar ket. To bear out his contention he originated the famous hoax or having discovered q lost poem of Poe. This was supposed to have been written in the fyleaf of a book left with some people near Richmond by q young man who showed signs of a dissipated life and signed the electrifying initials F. 4. r." These people. knowing nothing of the value of their treasure. had allowed the book to lie about the house until by the mierations of their descendants il had come to Indiana. The find" was as follows:
 LEoNAINIE
 Ieonainia-angels named her.
 And they took the light
 Of the laughing stars and framed her
 Tn a smile of gshite
 And they made her hair of gloomy
 Midnight and her eyes of bloorny
 Moonshine. and they brought her to me
 In tns solemn night
 h a solemn night of summer.
 When my heart of gloom
 Blossomed up to greet the conner
 Like a rose in bloom
 An foreboding that distressed me
 I forgot as joy earesscd me
 tI.ying joy that caught and pressed me
 IT the arms of doom).
 Only spake the little hsper,
 In the angel tongue.
 Ye, I. listening. heard her whisperi
 Songs are only sung
 Here below that they may grieve you.
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