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16 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1925 .- - -- EE ----------------- 'JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY In Character Sketches Editor's Note--Hoyt King of Wil- mette, one of the best known men in New Trier township by virtue of his many years' service as Township Col- lector, is the author 'of = Character Sketches of James Whitcomb - Riley which will appear frequently in issues of WINNETKA TALK. Myr. King comes by his enthusiasm for Riley quite naturally since he is a native of Indiana and the son of one of the poet's most intimate friends. Mr. King's father was associated with the Indian- apolis Journal--where Riley was a famil- iar figure for many years--and purchased the first volume of the first edition of Riley's poems, a work now in possession of Mr. King. "As a boy I often saw Myr. Riley," says Mr. King, "though I did not know him intimatley. I have al- ways prized his works and have made quite an exhaustive study of his career. I hope these brief character sketches may be of interest to other Riley lovers on the north shore." During the Nye--Riley combination on the road at Macon, Georgia, in the Lanier House, Riley polished up the Old Soldier Story. Riley, being tired, escaped the reception and entertain- ment committee appointed to receive the two authors. He left to Nye the burden of being entertained, seeing the sights of the town, meeting the promi- nent citizens and listening to stories badly told. The man who couldn't tell a funny story, but did, was frequently the bore in the committee. With this in mind, Riley made up his mind when Nye returned, to tell him another stale story. As they went in to dinner, Riley began telling him, with much seriousness, the oldest story he knew. He had first heard a clown tell it in Robinson & Lake's Circus when he was a boy. No one knew how old it was before the clown used it. Riley dragged the story out, told it in the forgetful fashion of an old man with confused memosy,. spoiling the point several times before he came to it. Nye declared it the best thing he had ever heard Riley do and begged him to put it in the program and he did. In outline, the story is like this: "I heerd an awful funny thing the other day. I don't know if I can get it off to you er not. It's a story about a soldier--a soldier in the war. He went to the war when the army broke out-- the soldier did and he was in the army and one day he got into a big fight-- a big battle, you know, and the soldier was in it--" "Well, in the course of the battle the soldier got his leg shot off, but retained his presence of mind and called a com- rade over to carry him off the field, explaining that he had gotten his leg shot off by a cannot ball. 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Ballard an- nounce the birth of a son; Ernest S. Ballard, Jr., July.27. Mr. 'and Mrs. Ballard and their family are at their summer home at Chebeague island, Maine. ex : hanging over his shoulder. Just then a cannon ball came along and took the fellow's head off, sure 'nough, but didn't hit the comrade who was carry- ing him, and so'he knew nothing of it until the captain came riding across the field and said, 'Say, what are you going to do with that thing?' The fellow thought it was a funny ques- tion, but answered his superior officer like a private will, respectful-like, and says, 'Why, this here fellow got his leg shot off by a cannon ball and I was taking him back to the rear.' And the captain says, 'Why,' he says, 'that fel- low's got his head shot off!" And upon that the soldier let the body slide down to the ground and he seen how it was and he says to the captain, 'Why,' he says, 'he--he--told me it was his LEGY" On Sunday, July 23, 1916, the Hoosier world awoke to see the startling head- line in black type across the morning newspaper, "James Whitcomb Riley is dead!" On Saturday morning he had had a severe stroke, but under the ministration of his physician was thought to be in no danger. The fam- ily had retired for the night. At 10:50 Mr. Riley asked the nurse for a glass of water, then reclined upon his pillow and closed his eyes in final sleep. Immediately words of sympathy be- gan to pour in to Mr. Eitel. We quote, in closing, the words of his friend, Wil- bur D. Nesbit: "Where is he gone? The lengthening miles Have lured him' to the afterwhiles, And there he fares down aisles of bloom, That thrill the air with their perfume, Vet still his song forever sings, This man, who sang of common things." light £8¥ 0.H.BERSCH. OD. 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