The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-14

horse. J. 81. HAND.
The growth of socialistic ideas
among the farmers of Kansas and
other states where such thing would
be least expected, is curious phase in
the development of political ideas.
The Farmers Alliance of Kansas,
now numbering, it is said, 60, 900 MEM
bers, claim that all railroads, tele-
graphs and telephones should be not
only controlled but owned by the state
and eventually by the general govern
ment, and should be run for the bene-
6t of the whole people of the United
States as is the United States
postal system. So far as coz
porate property is concerned, our farm
sr friends are anxious enough to place
1t in the hands of the government, but
the first farmer is yet to be found who
is DESTROYS of placing all the lands in
the hands of the government, also. If
the farmer would be consistent he
ought to favor government ownership
of the land as well as of the telegraph
and railroads. What is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gauder. When
the farmer is willing to become merely
a tenant of, Uncle Sam, perhaps the
managers of the great railroads will be
willing to turn over the vast system of
roads they have built up to govern
ment bureau. Neither event is likely
to happen soOn.-State Journal.
The knife with which Colonel Good
loe carved Colonel SwOpe last Friday
is thus described. 1t was family relic
that had done similar service in the
hands of Cassius M. Clay befo' de wah;
1t is a spring back hunting knife, with
blade about four inches long and a
half inch wide, its point sharp as a
needle and its edge keen as razor
When it is remembered that Col.
| SwOpels hand was nearly severed at the
wrist, that two of his ribs were cut
| nearly in two by different strokes, and
| that his spinal cord was probably sew
cred by it, the magnificent temper of
the steel can be conceived.
Feet sociaIs now occupy the time
|
OF people of both sexes, of any race OF
condition. get behind curtain, their
feet only being visible. The rest of
the aesthetic crowd bid on the owners
of the feet, judging of their accepta-
bility by the exposed pedal extremities.
One night Gov. Eskridge and Wuong
Lee were the owners of two adjacent
pairs of feet, and the contrast was SO
great that Eskridge was bid on by the
agent of freak" show. The Cover
nor generally gets there with both =
Lawrence Journal.
A small colored boy was arrested by
Officer Dryer Sunday in the act OF
jumping on a train. The boy said he
wanted to see his mother before he was
put in Jail, whereupon the officer accom-
panied the boy to the paternal roof.
The mother seeing the status of affairs
asked that the boy he released this
time and she would attend to his
wants. This was done, and the fond
mother found stout cottonwood CAD
and the way she applied it to the rising
generation woke the echoes for several
blocks around. This will, in ALI prob
ability, succeed ia bringing about the
repentance of the small boy.
all tie fuss made over Annie Jen-
ness-Miller seems to have for its object
the advertising of a new corset patented
1 by Mrs. Miller, and which is known as
q Bodice" The advertisements for
the Bodice" present a cut which
strongly resembles a corset; the ''B I'd
ice" has whalebOne, and it is a corset:
that's the long and short of it. We
are sorry that the AtchisGn people are
SO easily worked by New Workers.
Hundreds of the AtchisOn women paid
an admission To hear a commercial
| traveller talk -Atchison Globe.
Money to loan on chattels in sums Of