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Show TUNANT3 OP DUMPS. Tribe In vVlilii(tiin Mire I Iclurrsciat Then IUki If here. The work uf reclalmlug Hit lowland, low-land, where once ttood famous Kerry's Ker-ry's rowthe despair of inleatonarlct and the nightmare of the polloe roci merrily on and from tbe clty'n watts grort up, like the timed phoenix rising ris-ing from Itt own ashes, the mos unique village ever found by nn on Ibroinloglat . ssys the Washlniioa I'oat. Here on the bare stretch if nshj j waste exhtt a tribe more plcturetiUi by far then the l'erls rnglpckert fame I In story, and the adored model ot ths amateur artist In tbe latin quaiter. Hlght within sight of the cspltol nnJ the historic part of Washington Is the most unique village peopled by tho most unique Inhabitant to bi found on the glob The Digger Indians the Moundbultderk, nor In fact, any uf the queer lieuplt of this or olber couu- trite, ran compere with tbete. TlrJt life And their occupation provo beyoud -, doubt that thero Is a use tor everything , on tho face of the earth, savo the city s foundling A company for tho promotion promo-tion of tenement districts could not drnw a quarter ot a cent dividend oil the tenants of the dumps Ihey pay neither rent nor tax, nor yet It tht v reservation nllotted to them by tht " government They Just pitch their tlrj k"im houses whero they like, and while tht - , t" only signal for Sunday Is tbo ic&aitlon "r of carts and tumbledown wagons hick- Ing up, there la )et n profound respcci ,'"' f shown fur tho rlghtt of each Inhabit- V" nnt There mny be no lock on llio door k i or fence about the nrd, but every man '! can depend upon hit pllo of scrap Iron, old bottles, rags, nnd sa on re- "j malnlng Intnct without n bull dog tied . . . to lu There I nlwiyt n scurry Ilka , t ' unto n football contest over every load S of Hklies but once tho contest It won, , every fellow reaped! tho chomplon' rlghtt. No ono could will calculatn " the revenue from thlt part ot tho city' 3?., waste, but It Is large, men, women an I ; tf children nil plying the trade with u i vengeance. The ram sell nil that they . e.T reeeuo from thlt source, while tho wo- 'Hill' men work to keep their children warm nnd roavbo nlso do laundry The chll- !? drin toll back and forward, tholr llttlo 4 ', backa forever bent under the burden of the bag, or Rroplng and scratching -, nraong tho refuse Many of them warm ' V wholo families In thlt way, whllo nl- most tho rntlro colored population In ,, the vicinity of tho dump depend upon , It for fuel t |