The Green Forest tribune., 1916-09-08

wanted to get even with him, he wrote his imitation of Poe, and had it published in paper 1n another part of the state with an elaborate story about the discovery of the manuscript.
 At once it made great sensation all over the country. IL made great a sensation that Riley terrified, and feared that he would be accused of literary forgery. Meanwhile the ed tor of 'ile rival paper wrote: No doubt our young frie Riley will belittle this poem and say it is not the work of Poe. But it is Poe and Poe's a24feE ss4s z tr S2 V t2 < <t-; '.E .E9
 rtions that Riley had to confess that he had written the poem. And then the editor of the paper discharged Riley because he had not pub ished it in his paper.
 Then the Indianapolis Journal gave him job, which he held for years He wrote reams of nonsense verse and wrote up in verse the shops of the merchants who advertised in the Journal
 ''Rileys first book was called The Old Swim min Hole and Leven More Poems He pub lished it himself It sold well that it taken over by a publisher. and passed through many editions.
 "Rileys exquisite penmanship showed the care with which he wrote. Originally he wrote less and rather illegble script but he had much difficulty in getting the printers to read his writing, and printing his dialect verse correctly, that he took up the study of penmanship. He was careful always to get the dialect of part of Indiana as distinct from the dialect of any other part.
 " Any mans character, he said is best membered, l suppose by some of his habitual gestures and expressions. l remember Riley as very deliberate In his motions, especially in his last years. Smooth shaven, ruddy, well groomed, he looked like a benign old English bishop more than anything else"
 Mr Don Marquis of the New York Sun aptly considers Riley and his poetry from entirely different angle.
 James Whitcomb Riley" says he, was the companion of fairies in Already; for the Hoosier belongs to a apart. And while are captured and broken to trade, the gentle poet escaped and kept always the vision of hidden things"
 With these predatory remarks the writer goes with his essay:
 "There are two sorts of Indanan--the ordinary lndianan, who is not very different from the Ohoan the Illinosan and the Hoosier
 The HO0Ser belong not merely to a apart. but to separate species. He is human, but with difference; he Is aware of the kinship between humanity and the so-called lower ani- mals (and the plants and streams) on the one side, and on the other side of the kinshp of humanity with the elves.
 "When the moon turns the miStS to silver and the owls vail and the frogs wake up along the creeks and lakes and the fairies saddle and brdle the frelies and mount them and go whrrng and flashing off in search of airy adventures the Hoosiers steal out of the farmhouses and ham, lets and creep down to the bottom lands and dance and sing and cavort under the summer stars. They do secretly lodging the mere hu- mans, for secrecy is the essence of their midnight whimsical revels.
 Tn the daytime they pretend they are just ordinary Indianans; their brothers and mothers may not realize that they are Boosters.
 But in Indiana elsewhere. there is business and the need to attend to it. There must have been even in Arcady-somebody owned the focks and herds of Already and turned them into butchers meat and leather. and the shepherds only piped on the sufferance of their commercial