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

cabin where she had the waiting boxes
piled up, with a portiere drawn over them
10 make them more ornamental, and there
they remained until spring.
Grave digging was hard work in the
winter, and IL required two or three days
OF thawing and digging to get a grave suf-
iicently deep for its purpose. A little in
oident viii show what kind of a business
woman Mrs Jim was when Il was nee
essary, One winter night word came TO
Jim's cabin to come six or seven miles
over the mountain to look after a man
who had died. Jim was not at home but
Mrs. Jim was, and without a word she
hitched her little dog to his sled, took her
lantern and started over the snow and
the mountain, entirely alone in the dark
ness of an Arctic winter. She arrived al
the place without mishap and the live man
waiting with the dead one for Jim thought
il was a ghost when he saw Jim's wife at
his cabin door. He offered TO do anything
he could for her, but she said there was
nothing he could do except TO help her put
the load on her sled, and back she came to
her home leading the way with her Ian
tern for the dog and the dead man 70 fol-
low
'When the spring time came again Mrs.
Jim went down to Seattle. where she laid
in fun supply of funeral hxings except
collins which are all homemade, aud she
and Jim have tirsl-class place and have
made a comfortable fortune, besides own
ing several claims on which they have not
yet realized"
There has been an advertisement rum
ming in different periodicals. newspapers,
etc, for as many years as most people
want to remember of a tonic by means
of which Martha Brown the Woman's
Only Friend agrees to cure all the ills 10
u {ntn Is
always been picture with the advertise
mcnt, showing a motherly looking wo-
man, just the kind who might be supposed
to undertake to benefit mankind al so
much a bottle. The picture, says the New
York Times, has become so familiar that
there is a funny story told about IL which
may or may not be true. This story pre-
supposes that the picture with the adver-
tisement was the authentic likeness of
Mrs. Martha Brown herself, and that no
one who read the papers could fail to
recognize her at sight. So the story goes,
a youth just growing TO manhood, a we'll
bred youth who always treated his elders
and betters with great respect, and who
was "A great favorte with all the old lady
acquaintance of his family, met an ac-
quaintance in the car of a railroad train
one day. Being the youth he was this
young man, passing through the cars and
seeing this nice looking elderly woman
with pleasant face. which was strange
ly familiar to him, hesitated at first, try
ing to recolleet where he had seen her
and who she was. Then he started to go
on, but the face was so very familiar and
the boy so very well bred that he decided
that he must stop and speak TO her. He
raised his hat If the woman saw him
she maintained a frigld composure. But
he was not daunted, strong in the belief
that she was a dear old friend.
name, but your face is so familiar /
know"
well, 1 don't know you, young man."
snapped the woman, and then and not
until then did the young man recall where
he had seen that face, and that It was
the original Of the pictured face of Martha
Brown, the Womans Only Friend.
That, however, is only an incidental.
The point to be made here concerns a
change that has been made in the adver-
tlsement The ong-famlliar picture of
Martha Brown Is gone and that of q
younger and better-looking woman takes
its place. Now, Is there a Martha Brown,
Junior, or has the senior Martha Brown
taken her own remedies and been rejuve-
mated?
grim bachelor remarked the other day:
81 see that a writer in Lippincott says
female mosquitoes are the ones that use
their mouths, for singing and biting. The
males are dumb harmless sort of birds,
and rarely invade indoors. but the same
Water into which scolding women used to
be ducked by our wiser ancestors yields
these pestilent mosquitoes that domesti-
cate themselves only to be nuisances 1
suspect that the water absorbs the vicious
habit of shrews, and that mosquitoes rise
from it by natural evolution. They are
the tangible ghosts of vlragoes, and take
ones blood in order to become ones cous-
ms, as it were, Inc better 20 bother one
under the privilege of kinship. Certain
ly, the human termagants survive in their
spleen, and thus bring serious discomfort
to home. After the gas Is lighted their
winged representatives punctuate CONVEX
saticn with stings, and viciously divert