WALT MASON, THE "POETRY IN PROSE" AUTHOR.

Also famous as "The One Wealthy Poet." His home is in Emporia. Kansas has long been known as the "Sunflower State."

K

ANSAS is where Walt Mason lives and William Allen White abides, and it is said that Mason gives a lot of kids long auto rides, and Mason writes a world of ryhmes, run in like prose, the way this is, and thus he earns a pile of dimes, and makes the thing a paying biz.

'Tis good to see a poet win, for mostly they are said to fail, and they are blamed till it's a sin, about their empty dinner pail. And also, William Allen White has done a lot for Kansas kind, yet he don't do a thing but write the things that come into his mind.

But Kansas is a commonwealth, that in the memory of man was only sage brush, plains and health, and, later, folks that also ran. The rain belt went out from the east and irrigation came from west, until the whole thing is a feast and Kansas stands among the best.

This famous frontiersman, with five companions, entered Kentucky in 1769, was captured by the Indians, afterwards escaped, and he and his brother lived a whole winter in a cabin. In 1775 he built a fort where Boonesboro, Ky., is now located. There are about thirty towns in the United States which took their names from this great American Pioneer.

F

ROM where Big Sandy tumbles down
Its sources in the mountains

Of West Virginia, and is fed

By crystal brooks and fountains,
Until it joins the graceful sweep
Of broad Ohio's waters,

That wash the strong and shapely feet
Of three beloved daughters

Of fair Columbia, and join

The great and murky river,
That sweeps old Tennessee's rich banks,
Where water lilies quiver,

I love you, dear Kentucky.

I love your woods and verdant hills,
And every stream and farm-land,
For to your sons, dear mother state,
Your every rood's a charm-land;

No fairer women in the world

Nor braver men are living,

To bless the places whence they go,
Than those that you are giving;
And for your strong and loving ways,
Your happy homes and graces,
Your sons are zealous that your name
Shall hold the highest places,

And love you, dear Kentucky.

Oh, may you live ten thousand years,
In all your strength and beauty,
And may your sons cling close to you
In loyal love and duty;

And may your fields be ever fair,
And all your sorrows lighest,

While all your joys shall grow apace,

The sweetest and the brightest ;

May Peace and Plenty live with you
Through all the coming ages,

And ever pure your history be
In all its shining pages,

As our love, Kentucky.

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TRANSFER OF THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY, AT NEW ORLEANS.

Originally a vast extent of land purchased from France in 1803. Louisiana now comprises 48,720 square miles. It has the largest number of navigable rivers of any State in the Union, and the levees are its noted physical characteristic. Cotton, sugar, rice and corn are the staple crops of the "Pelican State," and there is lumber in abundance.