Arizona daily citizen., 1901-11-06
THE ORMSBY FAMILY.

Ormsby. but of Chicago namesakc.
1t the Chicago Ormsby had reflected
that it is darkest Just before the dawn,
he would not have taken to his heels
and run away from his wife, his quad
ruplcts his twins and the other chud-
rem with whom Providence had blessed I
him
Seven years ago MIR and Mrs Orms-
by were married and went to house
keeping. In the course Of time the
stork came. bringing an infant under
each wing. When Iipah presented
Jacob with a son Leah called his name
Cad. for she said troop comet" Cad
would have been an appropriate name
for the first Of the young Ormsbys for
troop came. Twins followed twins
in rapid succession and Mrs Ormsby
proved herself fruitful tree upon the
walls of the house. perfect forest of
olive branches surrounded the ta",e.
and MIR, and Mrs. Ormsby became quail
fled to speak with their enemies in the
are n gift that cometh of the Lord, but
he was afraid that he would share the
fate of the Covetous Tarpeia and be
crushed under e weights of the
gifts which were showered upon him
in extrayagant profuson. He knew
that the young children are like arrows
in the hands of the giant and tnat the
man is happy who has his culver fun
Of them But what was he to do after
the quiver became full to overtlowing
and the arrows kept on coming and no
culver to put them in?
One bright October afternoon recent
ly, wnen Lake Michigan was coquctting
with the sunbeams and the birds were
singing their sweetest threnodies and
the goldenrod was blooming in the sub
urbs, Mr.. Ormsby came to his home.
where he lived and moved and had
his being, and found that during his
absence at the corner grocery. the
scene of his daily labors. a whole flock
/ If storks settled upon his dwelling
four OF them bringing each baby. This
overwhelming gift of the Lord some
what dazed MIR Ormsby. He was TAX
n hard aback as he entered the door
and there stopped to count up the ex-
tentof his arrows or his olive branches.
whichever they may be termed He
found by careful computation that
he result of seven years of weuued
| bliss was fourteen babies, the oldest
ones 6 years of age Such a welded
life might he aptly termed ''one long
/ Fhe corner grocery did not yielG
| enough to sustain this flock. There
were no forests on the prairies near
Chicago where the young olies could
be lost like Hop-o'- Thumb and his
brothers And what ii this fruitful
tree upon the walls of his house should
do as bravely in each succeeding per
lOd Of seven years life? All these
things entered into the dazed minu Of
Ormsby and he turned and fed-put
his fingers in his ears and fed precipi-
lately like Christian fleeing from the
City of Destruction.
Just here, as Uncle Remus would say,
Ormsby ''drapped his watermillion"
He forgot that 1t is darkest just before
the dawn. He lacked faith and made
the mistake of his ..fe. But some al
What would our Tucson Mr. Ormsby
we wonder. have done with fourteen
babies in the house, the oldest just 6
years old. and all of them crying for
bread or milk. which is worseat The
same time and the fruitful tree still in
Would you, would any
man have stopped to consider the dime
as sheet anchor? Ormsby
did not. He just fe and according
to the latest adyiceS he Is running yet.
Still 1t was a blunder for sac next day
to a sustentation fund
began to come in and the fund became
n little fortune. This was the begin
ming of that tide which, taken at its
food. leads on to fortune. The next
day n dime museum man came along
and contracted with the mother to ex-
habit her and the forest of olive
branches at $500 a week And now Mrs.
Ormsby is going to live in ease and
afiluence at a swell downstGwn ,cl
while Ormsby is fleeing as if from the
wrath to come. Ormsby had never con
bankruptcies as a paying in
vestment.
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The British dispatches report several
small advantages over the Beers, but