Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-05-01
CAPTAIN NATION WRITES.
SYCAMORE, INDIANA.

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April %, 1901.
| When left Medicine Lodge a few
days since score or more of the goOl
people of the town made me promise tC
write TO them and as find it impossi
BILE to comply with all these promises
will write this to the INDEX, which
will enable your subscribers to read
what l have to say, as we'll as the PEG.
pie who borrow or steal the INDEX.
arrived at Wellington with no Incl.
J dent worthy of mention;here I changed
cars for Ctanute, via Winfield. On get
ting into the car noticed rather nice
looking young lady with a red dress
and shirt waist and lump of chewing
gum in her mouth about the size of a
Kansas bull-frog. She took her seat just
opposite mine and the way she worked
her under jaw in chewing remided me
of an old fashioned Indiana fiat break.
could not keep from watching her for
fear her jaw would 60 out of place.
This was about six o'clock, and when [
arrived at Chanute the next morning,
her jaw was still performing the same
half circle motion and she did not seem
the least tired or discouraged.
1 arrived at Erie where I met my
brother at about ten o'clock the next
day. 1 found the season about two
weeks behind Medicine Lodge, but lit
tie blowing done and the ground too
wet to pillow. loft Erie the 23rd for
this place by the way of Kansas City
and st. Louis. All the way through
Illinois but little blowing was
done, water was standing over the land
and everything looked gloomy. At En-
ie learned this story: Some years ago
Kansas man and number from other
states were travelling west. The Kan.
sas man would occasioally break forth
as follows. Il have the best improved
farm you ever saw and you will say SO
yourself when you see it. Kansas
ahead" and then, II have the smartest
wife and children you eyer saw and you
will say 30 yourself when you see them.
And L have the best horses, cat
tie and hogs you ever saw and you will
say 30 yourself when you see them.
Kansas still ahead" etc., etc. Fl.
nally his companions succeeded IN get
ting him hog drunk in a western town.
They carried him out CT town and laid
him In valley where they deposited
all dead dogs, hogs, horses, cattle, ETC.,
where the ground was covered with
bleached bones and they hid themselves
and waited for developments. When
he had slept off his debauch he rose up
looked around and exclaimed, 1.-The day
of judgment has come, and 1 am the
first to raise up from the dead, Kansas
Is still ahead" And when I was we'll
up in Illinois saw the old dilapidated
rail fences, the old shacklIng houses,
the backward season, l had to exclaim-
kansas still ahead" But when I
emerged into the forests of Indiana
and saw the old stately beech, ash pop
ular. hickory and oak trees, I almost
felt young again; and when I looked
over the new made fields thick with
similar conditions when l was q boy,
and the jerks, thumps and bruises 1
got in blowing such land and I said:
kansas is still ahead" and then when
out of the cars walked in more black
sticky mud, distance of four blocks
to my brothers., remembered Medi-
cine Lodge and said kansas still
ahead"
This is bright sunny morning and the
farmers are talkingof starting the plows
if this weather continues for few days,
so as to put the ground in condition.
My brother said this morning that he
thought in few days he could plant
his early potatoes. When 1 left home
a week ago today, I expected to remain
away until fall; but fear that Kansas
IS too far ahead to allow me to stay
that long. More anon.
DAVID NATION.