The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24

Oh utI way SluSluS
Richard" cried Mrs. Morgan l.
her sleeping husband. 81 have seel
Margaret, in those mill children.
heard her voice, her laugh, she smiled
at me-"
Then Mrs. Morgan fell in faint
They could not reason with her. She
got up every morning to see the child
She learned to know its step, and the
child learned to expect the "bcauty
Teddy" One day Mrs. Morgan said
'Dick." (She called him that when a
touch of The sweet waywardness of her
girlbood came back and she strove to
win him TO her willy. "You thought
me under delusion. You fancied
really imagined that child our Marga-
ret never did. You yourself, were
staggered at the likeness. You get up
often to see that winsome face. Oh,
it seems as if our own Meg pleaded
for her We are rich, childless, lonely.
Let us take her from the toll of the
mill, the ignorance and vice, to our
home and hearts"
He reasoned with her, pleading that
the child would inherit the vicious
qualities of her parents, and would be
ungrateful, even bad. She would not
be like their own; but his wife con-
querred and one day the two sought
little Meg's home.
Mixes alley was long, crooked
lane, leading from Lisbon street. Its
architectural adornments were singu-
lar; they are built across the alley,
over the alley on stills, around the
alley and tucked into corners of the
alley, some were portable and were
frequently moved No horse or vehicle
ever invaded the lane and the passage
way in many places was only path
around house. Away at the end of
the alley; built against the big brick
wall of Bartlett's brewery, between
the rear of Billy Flynn's stable and
Mrs. Finnegan's cowyard-where it is
sad to mention, several emaciated
bovines habitually ate swill in abso-
lutte disregard of the health laws and
the capacities of their own stomachs-
was jeremiah Blackman's howell. He
was known as "Shirking Ginny," the
former from his disinclination for
labor, the latter from his
strong propensity for ardent spirits.
Years ago when his father and moth
er, decent, working farm folks,
had turned him out of the home, as a |
irone that ate up their substance, he
had taken a bitter hatred to the world
and to respectable people who work
I'd. To know anything and to labor
we're crimes in his eyes. He endeav-
'red to forget that he knew how to
cad and write. He spent twenty
ears of his life in getting into jail for
BETTY offenses and got food and shelter
Without work in this way. When en-
'loyment was introduced in the iails,
Ie ceased his speculations, and improv-
ng his personal appearance looked
bout for woman to support him.
lean, hatchet-faced keeper of mill
len's boarding house attracted him,
nd she married him only to find a
arnacle with the qualities, in regard
, money, of an octopus. She cooked,
leaned, secured and scolded herself
ut of the world in brief time, leav- !
10 ''Shirking Ginny" to look round
'r an other partner. There was big, |
)sy Welsh girl in one of the mills, {
HON report said was good worker. a
he small sum left by the late Mrs. a
lackman was rapidly dwindling, so .
lie grief-stricken widower married b
lie rosy-cheeked girl, who ,0aS q good y
orkel, She had one bad fault, how )
'er, an ambition to swell the census. b
here was Sam, twelve; Mick, ten;
lien and Almiry the twins, eight; is
eg, six; Tommy, five; Jane, three; @
Id Tony, eighteen months; and one 81
pected the following summer, this
ing in March. Down to Tommy, 81
ey could all work in the mill; that
rs something.
While the family were at work, Mr.. a
took care of the house, 7
lich meant 10 sit on the step smok- te
2 short black pipe, and to cuff sc
'mmy, Jane and Tony at regular W
.ervals, and then to stroll down the
ey TO Mikes saloon (this Mike II
smed to have title to all the prop Lh
y in the vicinity, and drink if he
d money; il this was wanting, to or
ng around until he was treated. II
thought himself a good imam
ger" because he allowed himself W,
nty to eat and drink, saw that his or
nily had barely enough to keep ye
IN alive-''in good workin order Sh
va be glttln lazy eff fed too high" ch
md paying the house-rent. Sh
The afternoon that Mr.. and Mrs. br
Ryan picked their way down the he
~, Mr.. Blackman was summing go
lself on the steps. Tommy and lay
lie were picking up chips in the sh
lber-yard beyond the cow-pen, and :
ny had toddle up to the fence that lie
lrded Mrs. Finnegan's gaunt COWS, he
through the bars was trying in his tel
" way to make friends with a ses
lbre calf that struggled about on ab
r rickety legs. Ye
Strangers. )" soliloquized Mr. Black an
n, IAN rech uns. Wot on airth a |
igs 'em herep'' see
Ie assumed an air of peaceful pow WI
z; his evil blue eye leered respect no
y. even humbly; his tobacco stained ter
ith dropped at the corners. He \
fled to his feet and blinked in lul
'ingly. The pig, the mainstay of int
family, ingnoring the fact that out
place was in the rear, peaked the
md 4 corner of the house. /
What dreadful placei" whispered ter
. Morgan, her face buried in a haC