The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-26

about in what is known as the Kitchen
gardens" among the fruits and 'vege-
tables, for on show days the kitchen gar
dens are not delivered over 10 tourists for
inspection. Thus the two little locds may
hold high carnival without fear OF public
intrusion and snapshooters. on other
days they are wheeled about where their
nurses viii. within the $50 acres of pri-
vate grounds which are walled of from
Blenheim Park. rrf.
The latest woman's club in London is to
be formed OF nineteenth century Amazons
The first rule of membership of the new
club is that every woman must be six
Feet IN hight Amazonian proportions wll
obtain in the club house. The building is
to be of mammoth size, the suite Of rooms
10 spread out in vast distances. Nowhere
will the gigantic size of the fittings so
strike the eye as in the gymnasium This
Is 10 be unique, with every modern APP
paratus for development of the human
FORM Horizontal bars, rings and vertical
ropes, trapeze and all VIII be one-tenth
larger than those used by athletes OF or
binary proportions. A writer in an Eng-
hsh Journal observes: IA has been only
100 apparent for considerable time chat
our girls were growing taller and our men
shorter"
N"NS bteH many stories come out
OF the Klondike country, says the New
\ ork sun, of the people who have made
fortunes there Some have been of NOV
ing, some of packing. some of gambling.
some of salooning, some of feeding the
hungry, and so on; but none of undertake
ing, 50 far as L have heard. and I know
OF a man and his wife who have cot rich
by burying people" Thus spoke a Seat
tie man who had been at Dawson since
the beginning.
1T was really the wife who did It," he
continued, and her story is interesting
Her husband, whom she greatly admires
and atfectionately calls Jim was a work
ef in an undertaking establishment. and
when the rush began towards the gold
diggings. she hustled him out and came
along to take care of him. At Skaguay,
some friend gave her a lean and lank lii
tie Eskimo dog, broken TO harness. and
apparently broken in health. At least he
could scarcely drag himself around, but
his new owner cuddled him up carefully
and by the time she was ready to go on
the road the dog was able to pull a fair
sled load
so she and her husband and the dog
which she had named Jim as a compli-
ment to her liege, started on their long
hard journey. They got along quite as
well as, or better than, many others on the
trail and when the first tollgate was
reached the woman's wit manifested itself
still more. She was in advance with the
dog and sled, her husband watching the
remainder of the goods some distance
back. The tollgate keeper looked her over
a minute, took a sluint at her measely
little dog, and frankly told her that he
would be darned If a lone woman like that
would have to pay to go through his gate
and he sent her along free of cost. Smil-
ing and thankful she passed on aud I'M
loaded a mile .o4,s 81 furt n or and oar,,a 1a,lr
to her husband after another load Tell
ing him to stay right there till she had
brought everything through free, she fin
ished the job and Jim came sauntering
through the gate unscathed of toll
On another occasion she was ahead
again with the dog, and was beginning to
put up the tent when several gallant fell
lows dropped their packs and took hand
They got the tent up and everything in
shape on short notice, and she thanked
them with a smile and they passed on
Then she went back after jim, and that
worthy came up. grinning and satisfied
And so II was all the way TO Dawson
That woman was a wonder, and Jim was
gladder every minute that she was his
wife.
ARRIVED on the spot, they did not know
just what to do at first, never thinking of
the undertaking business which thew had
run away from, but one day man died
on the creek Where they were, and there
wasn't anybody in particular to bury him
This was the little womans chance, and
she hustled Jim out after fob. He got
it, of course, and in a short time he had
his carpenters tools out and was at work
building a coffin. He turned out very
good one, got everything ready in true
professional style. and the funeral was a
great success Jim got $3.50 for his efforts.
and Jlms wife knew what their mission
was in the Klondike.
"Other funerals followed, and Jim got
them and took in $500 or $500 for each one.
Now and then a man would die whose
friends wished his body sent outside, and
for this kind Jim got $780, In the winter
it was impossible to take bodies out, and
Mrs. Jim arranged a cold corner in their