Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
KANSAS TOPICS.

verSity societies at Lawrence OH WedneS-
day night. Properly speaking, her per-
Torrance was not a lecture, but a MARIA
tive of sights and incidents. and it was
highly interesting. though perhaps it would
appear better If it contained less of pro-
fanity and coarse language-all credited. of
course. to the rough miners. Speaking of
her personal experience, Miss Kelly said:
1T was the one year that I did not hear
Of hard times. 1t was the happiest one of
my life. There was plenty of money, plenty
of claims. and everything was lovely"
She was not the only representative Of her
sex in Dawson that winter by any means.
She says the tow held 200 women, of
whom fifty were dance hall girls, fifty were
native women and the remainder were
ladies' most of the latter being the wives
of miners. She declared that the dance
hall girls made all kinds of money, each
one often taking in as much as 500 a night
in the form of percentages on drinks sold.
in addition to her regular salary of 500
a week. IT knew one woman" said Miss
Kelly, "a refine English girl. master of
eight languages and very intelligent, who
had put by $1,000 for every week of the
year she was there. and cleaned up besides
$500. 900 on mining ventures. She came out
of the country on the boat will me. and
she had her pile along with her" We
quote as follows from an account of this
lecture as printed by a Lawrence paper:
THE missions were spoken of as the most
demoralizing thing in the whole country,
and Miss Kelly said they taught the native
Indians just enough to give them ideas of
the worst kind Of meanness. and both men
and women soon became scoundrels of the
worst type. after they had become ac-
quainted with the missionaries and their
work"
The Oldest postmaster in the United
States has been a prolific source of dis
course by the newspapers. and the man
who bears that honor has been located in
a dozen different states. We do not know
whether Kansas can take much rank in
this regard among the older states. but
she has a postmaster of such extended
service that he certainly is worthy of men
ton. We refer to Mr.. j. NJ. Mattoon. of
'CAcNd' liz SouhtS, "Io idS teli lilc
place of postmaster continuously for forty
one years. He was appointed under the
administration of President Franklin
Pierce. and his term of service commenced
four years before Kansas was admitted
as a state. To those who hoped that Mr..
Nation would become a record breaker
the news will be regretfully received hat
1n hog orp,a rla ItN r1e;--ntyn- 81 VOL
ington. as he wishes to make a long visit
to his folks in the East.
Speaking of old settlers, the death IS
noted In a Franklin county paper of Fred
erick Tawney, a man who was rapidly
approaching the century mark. Mr.. Taw-
ney had distinct recollection of seeing
the British soldiers at Baltimore in 1872
after they had burned the capitol at Wash
ington. What a singular feeling it is to
know that men are still alive who nave
American capital!
In a letter to his home folks, Captain
Elliott. of the Coffeyville company. at Ma
Mia, recounts the rather surprising fact
that a boy stowaway on the ship which
carried the Kansas troops managed to
reach Manila without being discovered by
any of the ships officers. OF course he
was known to the soldiers. but they kept
his secret and he got through all right.
TIL boy was from Iowa. and he was led
aboard by the spirit of adventure.
Near Sedan. Ray Carr. a 14-year-old boy.
was skating on treacherous ice which
broke and dropped him in the river. He
was a good swimme and coolly pro-
ceeded to break the ice toward the river
bank. assuring his comrades that lie was
in no danger. Just before reaching the
shore he broke off a big chunk of ice
which plunged out of sight in the water.
The next instant the chunk came b%uoyant-
ly to the surface. striking young Carr on
the point Of tine chin and breaking his
neck.
Your Uncle Bent Murdoch lays down the
law of love and matrimony as follows:
Young men. as a rule, prefer clinging girls
to bossy ores. Occasionally a weak mind
ed man want a wife to manage things
for him, but usually the marrying man
likes a wife that respects his Judgment and
Will. Many a girl has missed her oppor-
tunity by being bossy too early in the
game"
How much money do you suppose there
is in a carload of junk. such as old iron,
bottles. rags and the thousand and one
things which go TO make up scrap heaps
about peoples houses? Well, a Kansas
City dealer collected Il carload of such stuff
at Ottawa the other day, and when he had
finished he found that he had paid out
exactly s., 4e5.
The revival OF Jewish literature and the
impetus which has been given to the phil
osophy, history and characteristics of the
Jewish race by Zangwiil and other modern
writer's makes timely a new book just is
sued by a Kansas man. We refer to the
History of the People of Israel by Pro-
fessor Carl Heinrich Cornill, as translated
from the German by w. II. Carruth, pro-
fessor of German in the University OF Kan