Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — WALT MASON The Poet Philosopher. [ARTICLE]

WALT MASON The Poet Philosopher.

In Europe they are still bombarding and piling up the slain; and over here both field anfi-garden are ruined by the rain. Throughout the spring the western prairies have sodden been soaked; and wheat and corn and huckleberries are swamped and drowned and chocked. I view my patch of Watermelons, my bosom filled by pain, and knock the kings and other felons who keep on making -rauu-Some day the armies, spent and weary, are resting on their arms; and then the sun shines bright and cheery, and starts to dry our farms. We take our rusty cultivators, hope stirring each heart, and try to plow our sweet potatoes, in rows four feet apart. And then the soldiers start a-shooting, afar on Europe’s shore, and down the rain comes, callyhooting, for days, and then some more. Upon the roof the raindrops rattle, they spoil our hay and beans, and when we go to feed the cattle, we go in submarines. Oh, cut it out, ye kings and kaisers, and monarchs high and low! Our spuds-and other early risers don't have a decent show!