Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-21

quiries are made as to their character or call ing It is sufficient that they say they ar'
 cold and hungry. If they prefer it they re
 ceive hot .grog. Capacious stoves warn
 these places, benches run along the walls
 and newspapers are provided, but mainly or account of their advertisements of help want | ed. The food and drink are given to eacI | person twice evsry day, and at night those
 who need lodgings, which is not the case with all w,lo apply for warmth and nutri
 ment, are enabled to sleep there. The exper.
 iment has proved so satisfactory that another l place of the same kind is about to be opened | large enough to accommodate 800 persons. Since December G. 40, 736 persons were assist | ed at these places with food, lodging, or otherwise, and between the 18th of December and January 20 not single instance of sui 1 eide traceable to poverty was reported al- though self f-murder for that cause was not in- frequent before.
 A Providence youth, who left home about a year ago to try his hand at sheep raising in Montana, writes interestingly concerning the tribulstions of stock raisers in such winter
 as this. He says: The losses in all branch es of the stock business have been large,
 more particularly with the cattle. It seems wicked for men to get thousands upon thou
 sands of cattle together in a country liable to be covered with snow for two months with
 out any preparation at all to feed them
 But they have risked so many times and sue
 ceeded that they put up no hay Almost all
 Sh 1oxy .,, hat how
 feed for spell of bad weather. One of the
 most trying things that we have to do is to
 keep the cattle from our hay. At first we
 had common fence around our hay-stacks,
 and managed to keep the stock away by set
 ting the dogs on it. But soon they got so
 hungry they would pay no attention to the dogs and would pull the fence down with
 barbed wires around This makes wicked fence, and it served to keep them away for some time, but at last, when nearly starved
 even the barbsd wire would not keep them out unless we were on the watch constantly to repair damages Perhaps you have never seen the barbed wire fence. The wires oJ which the fence is made twisted in such a way as to hold pieces of steel, sharp on the outer edges and sticking out like thorns on bush. The barbs would cut the cattle so that we would find pieces of skin, punches of hair, and blood, all over the wires. They must have hurt terribly, but were nothing compared with the bangs of hunger, for the cattle would push with all their force to get through to the hay if they could. Our sheds are covered with brush and hay, and hung low on the back side, and the cattle attacked them. Here we had to stand them off with pitch-fork and shotgun. It was terribly hard to do but it is what is called ground hog" case-if the cattle get away with our hay and sheds, our sheep would die; if we kept the cattle off Ii, tie while they would die. and as we had no interest in the cattle and some in the sheep, we concluded the for mer must go. After while the cattle would give it up, wander off into the brush down the creek, and stand there ss long as they could, then lie down and die. They will stand in clusters of half dozen or so, with their heads all together and their bodies radi- ating out in all directions, drop their heads lower and lower, and after week or ten days, without having had mouthful of food, will give it up. Every COW that dies is loss of about $50, and every steer about $20, so you see the loss counts up where they die by serious as yet, and as it is probable that the worst of the weather is over, we hope it will not be.