A Popular Poet

Down in Indiana Borne toika may .lames Wlijteomb Riley as "Denj. F. Jolin-son, of Boone," but the most of us, 1lie country over, know him best as "Jim Riley," and wlien he comes to tm n we tke a nigji off to listen to a poet, for Riley is a poet 11 one lins yet come out of tJie west. Moro thau this thia wlBMOme Hoosier is of the order of poets who are bom. The pure sweet stuff is in him ; and that is wli.y a fellow ivitihout literary culture, and wMfa a iKsitiv penebantfor unpoetical adventure, Bately abandoned tte arts of B sifrn-jKiinter, and by the aid of the home preM prepered the way for hi.s imtional recoguition as a master of rural dialect and a singrer of the way nnd thinjïw that make a city msm's country ori.uin lus most prei'ious pasBion. Kiley was bom in 1858, Hon of a lawyer in Greenfield, Ind. Among itypical poems wtUch have ie kiiiy Mdearod him to the public are "Knee-Decp in June," "The Old Swiniinin'-Hole," onl "Wïnen the Fi-ost Is On the Punkiny' Kiley beautifies Uw ■omnunimirtace. A good üuiy of u cao hcar Nature's whisperings, but only one man now and tben " Ki) writc tlifin down that -v-' cali hto thi' "BurOB of America." Mr. Kiley is fcO "fecture" In Ann Arbor i'rid;iy evening, March 8d.