Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
AT THE STATE CAPITAL

| Governor Leedy went down to Law
renee and spent Thanksgiving day
with his family.
Private Secretary E. c. Little has
returned from Abilene. It is said that
Mr., Litt1e's Abilene hostess was
heard to exclaim, as Ed boarded the
train for Topeka: ..Give thanks unto
the Lord, oh, ye hosts; for his mercy
endureth forever" An appropriation
is next in order.
F. c. Criner, of the Mcpherson
| Opinion, was a caller at the head
| quarters of the Wrights Publishers
Tuesday. In company with your cor
respondent Mr.. Criner visited the var
ious state offices, and, among other
things, was shown through the state
treasury vaults by Assistant Treasur-
er Williams. Although given ample
opportunity to do so Mr.. Criner did
not get away with bag containing
SoO, 900 in gold, but he fond1ed caress-
ingly small package containing five
nice, smooth $4,000 bills. He was
shown in all about one-quarter million
dollars in cold cash, and must have re-
turned to Mcpherson with a somewhat
more definite idea of the exact proper
ton of recent Republican lies than he
has entertained heretofore.
Grandma Mu1vane has had another
"spel1' of Mysteries through fear that
the Pops are going to do something
to their injury. Ever since Attorney
General Boyle, backed by Governor
Leedy and Uncle Dave Heff1ebower,
has succeeded in reg u1ating the stock
yards and exposing the insurance
scheme, and getting after the insur-
ance combine for reduction in rates,
Grandma has been more or less ner-
vous, and, of course, as is usual in
such cases, imagines great many
things. But we all know that it is
nothing but her solicitude for the sue
cess of the boys, and her doctor SAYS
as soon as the boys get over their fool
ish ways she will probably be ali
right again. Anyway, you know, one
has to make good deal of allow
ance for any one like Grandma.
For so many years she has had
home of her own and every
thing her own way that it can hardly
be expected she could readily accus-
tom herself to living "round" among
the few children left her, and to being
SO entirely dependent. Several of her
fovorite sons, you will remember, have
married, and have moved entirely
away from the old home, leaving
grandma In entire ignorance of what
they are doing or how they are getting
along. This makes grandma nervous,
and she keeps talking and talking,
and saying things and writes pieces
in such peculiar way that anyone
not acquainted with grandma thinks
its really quite funny. But she has
been going on that way so long now
that nerly everyone is getting so that
they just don't notice it, because its
grandma, and we get along with her
so Inuch better than we used to; but
the other night grandma was terribly
nervous, probably more so than usual,
and she thought she wus standing
right on the brink of great yawning
lchasm-about three miles wide and
without any bottom toit-and right in
between Social Democracy and Popu-
Ilism, and when we came down
to breakfast the next morning
tgrandma declared she hadn't slept
wink all night long. OF course
I'VE knew inst what was the mat.
ter in a minute, but we didn't say
anything, just went and got her a
bottle of humphreys No. II and put q
kerosene cloth on the back of her neck
She has been taking six pellets of ths
: No. Il twice daylight and morning
! and she is eased up little, but if sh,
should happen to catch a cold she i,
liable to have another "spe1l" at an,
time. If she should get real bad, how
lever, we will let you know in time.