What to see in America . id considerable number of the old communistic buildings still stand, and the place has•^if^ an attractive air of an-tiquity and peace. In southern Indiana,eight miles from Mill-town, is the extensiveWyandotte Cave, whichhas a good deal of beautyin its adorning of stalac-tites and stalagmites. The highest point in thestate is on its central east-ern border at Carlos, 1210feet. Indiana is called theHoosier State, and thepeople Hoosiers, butthe significance of thenickname is distinguished Hoosierwas Lew Wallace, a gen-eral in the Civil War,
What to see in America . id considerable number of the old communistic buildings still stand, and the place has•^if^ an attractive air of an-tiquity and peace. In southern Indiana,eight miles from Mill-town, is the extensiveWyandotte Cave, whichhas a good deal of beautyin its adorning of stalac-tites and stalagmites. The highest point in thestate is on its central east-ern border at Carlos, 1210feet. Indiana is called theHoosier State, and thepeople Hoosiers, butthe significance of thenickname is distinguished Hoosierwas Lew Wallace, a gen-eral in the Civil War, and author of Ben Hur. He wasborn at Brookville, seventy miles southeast of Indianapolis,in 1827. Edward Eggleston, whose The Hoosier School-master and other novels dealing with Indiana life are stillread, was born in 1837 at Vevay on the Ohio River in thesoutheastern corner of the state. James Whitcomb Rileywas born in 1849 at Greenfield, twenty miles east of thecapital. The realism, humor, and philosophy of his verse. Coming from the Spring-house Indiana 235 have made him the poet laureate of Indiana and belovedthe country over. His home was in Indianapolis in laterlife and he died there in 1916. That prince of contem-porary humorists, George Ade, was born in 1866 at Kent-land, about forty miles northwest of Lafayette. A little tothe south of Lafayette was born, in 1870, near South Raub,John T. McCutcheon, one of the most famous of our news-paper caricaturists.
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