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Show ' Aa IuUmnUsg Family." In the western part of North Carolina and about seven miles west of Hot Springs there lives a family by the name of Brooks. The bouse consista of a little lit-tle low log cabin In an unsettled district and Is occupied hj father, mother and twenty exceptionally handsome children. chil-dren. Every one is a blonde, with golden yellow yel-low hair and peachy complexion, and all as ignorant, wild aud untutored aa they are beautiful. In addition to th above family proper the two older girla are married. One la a widow with two children and the other has three children and a husband. Both those little families fam-ilies are living with the old folks at home, making in all a family of twenty-eight twenty-eight when none is mining. The houute, or log cabin, consista of but one room, and that a very small one. On two aides of this are built seven berths, one aljove the other, against the wall, and they were evidently built with the cabin. The father of this family, who has to "hustle" for the beans to fill the twenty-eight twenty-eight hungry mouths, make a high as $18 some mouths, but oftener bis income will not exceed $15 per month, which sum be earns by walking sven mile daily to Hot Springs. The mother, who has a baby in arms, seems contented and happy. Every one is struck with the remarkable re-markable beauty of the children, from the youngest to the oldest. The ptaeoU have found names for all but one. St. Louis G lobe-Democrat., |