Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-29

the neighbors. The idiosyncracies of the new family furnished an unfailing source of interest, and nothing went on among the cottagers that keen eyes and ears could not graphically report. Finally the elder lady discovered that from an upstairs window,
 by mounting chair, it was possible to see
 between the blinds opposite. And such sight as was revealed-ludicrous and pathet- ic as well. There they were, the five naked
 boys, scrambling, fighting, sleeping, and eat
 ing as normally as children wearing clothes.
 The living room apparently, not a stick of
 furniture could be seen, neither bed nor
 board, nothing save heap of gunny sacks
 bundled up in one corner. The mentel-
 shelf served for storeroom. Here they ate
 the stuff gotten from milkman and grocer
 sardines. milk, crackers, and cheese, none of it requiring the wood and stove that were
 lacking.
 Three weeks passed, and then the fun be-
 gan. Negotiations for further supplies from
 the groceries up and down the street proved
 futile, and, suspecting some crookedness,
 the merchants demanded instant settlement for provisions already furnished. But the richest part of it was the training of those children. They would be yelling and fight ing like young imps when the door bell would ring, and before 8 new breath was drawn they would rival death itself in still ness. Like shot every one of them would oTUp dt buo 5OuaA Ol o10 SoAdS1 AO 4kh0stO2 how fast or wild their revelry; let knuckles
 thunder on the back gate, and one could hear the crickets in the grass, so deep quiet reigned about the place.
 For nearly two weeks longer the family lived on peaches, pears, watermelons and
 bananas. Then the Dsgo was added to her
 ever-increasing bit of daily callers and she had graduated up to her third milkman. It was after a more than ordinarily trying ,11,o,, bo friekv npoIokhed y0unu- sters had not dared move hand or foot, that during Hull in the storm one of the wagons from big confectionery down town stopped and deposited @ fve-gallon freezer of ice cream and great tray of fancy cakes. Too stunned to take in the situation, the neigh bors saw the cause of all the uproar issue calmly forth in the inevitable blue robe, and taking up cream and waiter relock herself away from annoying attention. When gro cer, Dago, and milkman refused assistance she patronized the ice cream shop. Next morning freezer and waiter were neatly de- posited on the front gallery and the cottage relapsed into it's gloomy reserve.
 Seven weeks had now elapsed, and in that time six people had been we'll fed on the uncooked fat of the land, and not one single penny spent The boys, ss peep through the window showed, were plump as young pigs and the mother unconoernsd. If the wretched men had not been 80 boisterous all might have yet been we'll. Some friends of the widowed landlady notified her of the peculiarities of her new tenants, and she straightway tried to dislodge them. It was
 unavailing till the first month was up, and
 then with an officer she was forced to va- cate. At the last minute the mother begged for grace. Her children were naked, she had not one cent for car fare, and some mode of conveyance must be found. Time was granted, and in quarter of an hour big double carriage drawn by a pair of spanking gray horses, dashed up to the door fresh from the livery stable. One at a time the poor little kids were brought forth, wrapped in the ever3 useful gunny bagging, and wearing in turn the inevitable white sunbonnet. Having no worldly goods but her bare boys, they were all bundled into 1 the fine coach, to the infinite disgust of the | driver. Madame entered last, gave the order | for Carrollton, and the last seen of the paaty ! was lot of rough heads peering up from | the floor of the vehicle, where She lads were l crouehed.
 The lady who told the story concluded by saying that her quondam neighbor was no l ordinary woman. Where ninety-nine others ! would have given up in despair, she indus triously beat her way. Fortune was fouted, luck ignored; she and her boys had to live
 and if the world was grudging they would
 take what they needed without asking leave
 She was honest in the main. She had no
 descended to the lowest vices. She neve her for keeping her fatherless babiess It Ii genius of certain sort, and If she began ! manipulations at the barracks, working I slowly and systematically up to Carrollton
 her eldest boy would be grown before th' | city was therouahly worked.