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Show Kansas Identified. "I crossed the United Statea In July," said the returned partisan. "Did you go through Kansas?" asked the bystander. "1 didn't bear the plnco mentioned," suld the tourist. "Well," aald tao bystander, "you passed pass-ed through a placo where there were leagues upon leagues of corn, didn't you?" "Yes, waa that Kansas?" "It might have been, and It might have been Indiana. Did you go through a stale with miles and miles of prairie?" prai-rie?" "Yen, I remember it well; so that waa Kansas?" "It might have been and It might have been Iowa. What other state of corn and prairie did you sen?" Well," aald the tourist, "one atate we passed through bad lota of prairie and lota of corn, and on that July day It was vory hot, and tn tho evening ever ao far we could aee a house, nut of tho rear chimney of which tntcil a 111 Ho column of smoke, which went up atralght as an arrow for ten mlleB and a half." "That," said tho bystander, with a satisfied air, "was Kausaa." Wichita Eaglo. |