Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-08
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.

Grandma Mulvane has had another
spell" She would insist the other
day, although it was very raw aud
cold and damp under foot, on going
down town to have a tooth pulled.
She declared that is was a Mckinley
tooth, but was filled with silver, Just as
Nc. was when he owned his own home.
aud now that Nc. had got filled up
with gold standards, and as gold stau-
dards were laid in banks by gold bugs,
she proposed to go down to "your pa's'
bank and get gold standard and
have 1T put in the place of that tooth.
Besides, she insisted, it was nothing
IN the world but the silver in that
tooth that made it hurt so, and the
last few days it had just been jumping
up and down night and day. She had
asked the doctor about it, but he had
explained it in some foreign way she
couldn't understand, but he saiG some
thing about some one fidding millions
OF bushels more wheat than they ex-
pected to find, and that ever since,
wheat had been going down about ten
times day, and he supposed it was
the silver and wheat trying to get to-
gether. Grandma looked incredulous,
and couldn't understand how that
could be, as Mark, or Mack one, had
always said that silver and wheat
never tried to get together, and that
they had medicine of their own for
regulating both. She had written to
Mark sometime ago for a bottle of the
regulator to keep the silver in her
tooth from dropping into the flour bar
rel, but Mark had never answered her
letter. But she supposed, since pros
Gritty was born, Mark was so busy TAX
ing care of the baby that he had over
looked 1T. Said she also wrote to
Mark in the same letter to get "bust"
doctor and have the babies stomach
enlarged, so that she could have more
room to grow, but it seemed to make
Mark mad, and, as usual, he told
Grandma to just go on writing her
pieces and keep still.
But Grandma says she just can't
keep still. In the first place, if she
should, some folks might think She
knew something and embarrass her.
and in the next place, she don't know
how.
But just before she started down
town she was awful nervous. I
suppose it was the excitement think
ing about having the tooth pulled;
but she had visions. You will remem-
ber we hurried1y sent for all of you
editors, and you had nc sooner arrived
than Grandma Informed you that she
could see Republicans going out of the
back door of the state treasury with
bags in their hands, but that it was
all right, as they wanted to keep the
Pops from stealing them; you should
not believe that the last lie gislature
was 100000 cheaper than that of 1895.
the amount was only S999, $40; that
when you did not condemn McNall
for getting after lot of robber in
surance concerns, and, above all, you
had been roasting John Breidenthal
for being a good bank commissioner,
and for getting our banks on a sound
basis. You will remember how sur
prised you were, and how you stood
open-mouthed and wondered how and
when you ever happened to do it.
But you can see from this letter
just about how nervous Grandma was
and how she takes on, and what
trouble she would be if any one paid
any attention to her, as she just keeps
going that way from day to day, until
she either runs out of coal, or her new
ZOO worth of brains gets a sheet on
the roller.
dislike to leave Grandma all week
without having that tooth pulled, as
it is hard to tell what might happen;
but as l said before, if she gets real
bad, 1 will let you know in time.