The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-01


fields, their backs bumped and turned
towards the eyes of the wind, their
reads near the ground, their names
blowing over their eyes. Ice crusts
their soft noses. The writer asked a
| farmer this morning: ''How will your
horses get through the winter?"
81 don't know" he replied, calmly.
81 amt got nothing to give 'en. 1 got
to turn 'em ont and let 'em russle for
themselves. OF course If they get enough
TO live on, all right, an if they don't,
they'll have to Starve."
And suppose there are a few more
big storms like this one?'
"Well, don't suppose theren be a
horse left round here by plowin' time
then. The people amt got nothin' to
feed 'em up on in the spring. A horse1l
r-ussle for himself in the snow, an then
when tn spring rains come, he'll go ali
to pieces unless he gets good nursin
and feedin'. But we won't have nothin
TO give EN-
Horses are, as a usual thing, cheaper
in this country than good saddles, but
at this time there is fair proportion
of men who would willingly give away
their favorite horses if they could thus
insure the animals good barns and
plenty OF feed.
But the people cannot afford TO think
now of these minor affections of their
hearts.
The writer rode forty miles through
the country, recently. The air turned
the driver dark shade, until he resem-
bled some kind Of a purple Indian from
Brazil. and the team became complete
j. coated with snow and ice. as if their,
little brown bodies were in quaint
ulsters. They became dull and stupid;
in the storm. Under the drivers fog;
cling they barely stirred, holding their
heads deiectedly, with an expression of
unutterable patient WEAKNESS. Six
men were met upon the road. They
strobe along silently with patches of
ice upon their boards. The fields were
for the most part swept bare Of snow,
and there appeared then the short
stumps of the corn, where the hot
winds of the summer gTlawed the stalks
away.
Yet this IS not IN any sense type
OF n Nebraska storm. 1t is phenomenal
1t is typical only OF the misfortunes OF
this part of the state. 1t Is common
surate with other things, that this
tempest should come at precisely the
time when il will be remarkable il GER
tain OF the people endure it.
Eddyville received a consignment Of
aid recently. There were eighty sacks
of four and dozen boxes OF clothing.
For miles about the little village the
farmers came with their old wagons
and their iil-fed horses Some of them
blushed vixen they went before the
local committee to sign their names and
get the charity. They were strong,
fine, sturdy men. not Blended Ike the
eastern farmer but erect and agile.
Their faces occasionally expressed the
subtle inner tragedy which relief OF
TODD and clothing at this time can do
but little 20 tighten The street was
again lively, but there was an element
al mournfulness IN the little crowd
They spoke OF the weather a great
deal
Two DAYS afterward the building
where the remainder OF the relief stores
had been put away burned 70 the
ground
farmer IN Lincoln county recently
said: No. ] didn't zet 10 aid had ter
drive twenty-five miles Z git nv four.
an then drive back agin an didn't
think tn team would stand ., tae-
been poor fed 20 long. BsSldeS- ia had
ter put Up a dollar 70 keep IA team
over night an / didn't have Zone.
hsinr had no AID
How do ron get along
Don't git along. stranger. Who The
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